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		<title>UK Independence Party Is Better &#8212;- But No Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the breakout political party deliver what Britain truly needs? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ukip-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246165" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ukip-2-450x337.jpg" alt="ukip-2" width="351" height="263" /></a>Last Thursday the UK Independence Party (UKIP) gained its <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11244748/Mark-Reckless-of-Ukip-wins-Rochester-by-election-with-2900-majority.html">second seat</a> in Britain&#8217;s House of Commons, the lower House of Parliament, with Mark Reckless elected in the Rochester and Strood constituency, in Kent. The victory was obtained through a comfortable, though not dramatic, majority of 2,930 votes over the Conservative runner-up Kelly Tolhurst.  The majority, many say, may easily be lost again at the May 2015 general election for the UK Parliament.</p>
<p>This election, and especially the election of UKIP&#8217;s <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29549414">first Member of Parliament</a>, Douglas Carswell, with a landslide 60% of the vote, are historical events.</p>
<p>Both seats were won in by-elections necessitated by the fact that Mr. Carswell and Mr. Reckless, already MPs for the Conservative Party, defected to UKIP and left their seats, which they later regained with their new party.</p>
<p>For good or for bad, UKIP, for all its limitations, is changing the British political landscape forever.</p>
<p>UKIP&#8217;s limitations are a lack of long-term clarity about the objectives the party wants to achieve. What needs to be answered is what the party stands for and who does the party represent?</p>
<p>The answer to the latter is obvious: The great number of British people of middle and working classes who have seen their country transformed beyond recognition in the relatively short time of a few decades by unrestricted immigration, multiculturalism and Islamization &#8212; in short, the socio-communist agenda tacitly or overtly accepted and promoted by the misnamed Conservative Party as well as the most obvious culprits, Labour and Liberal Democrats.</p>
<p>The people who are worried by all these recent phenomena and even more scared by the main political parties&#8217; inaction and collusion are absolutely right. What they don&#8217;t necessarily have, after many years of the media&#8217;s and education system&#8217;s propaganda, is a clear idea of what caused the UK&#8217;s problems and where to start if we want to stop, let alone reverse, these momentum-gathering trends.</p>
<p>To know that is the job of politicians. Hence, the question &#8220;what should UKIP stand for&#8221; needs to be answered. It&#8217;s not enough to be against the European Union (EU), mass immigration and the main-party triad &#8220;LibLabCon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here UKIP represents vast numbers of the electorate even too well. Like them, UKIP senses the problems, but doesn&#8217;t grasp the solution.</p>
<p>Irish statesman and political thinker Edmund Burke (1729–1797), himself an MP in the House of Commons for many years, made an important distinction between representatives and delegates.</p>
<p>In his famous &#8220;Speech to the Electors at Bristol at the Conclusion of the Poll&#8221; of 1774, he explained that delegates exclusively carry out the instructions of those who elected them, therefore only reflecting the views and wishes of their constituents.</p>
<p>Representatives, on the other hand, are trustees. Voters have entrusted them to act in their best interests, which doesn&#8217;t necessarily coincide with what the majority of voters want. Moreover, representatives make choices on the basis of the common interest, and not just of those who elected them. Representatives consider constituents&#8217; views, but don&#8217;t have to abide by their wishes. They follow follows their consciences. The representative, thus, having knowledge and experience that his constituents generally lack, uses his judgement to form an opinion on what&#8217;s in the public interest, and acts accordingly.</p>
<p>MPs, Burke said, should be representatives and not delegates.</p>
<p>So, in Bristol he proclaimed (<em>The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke,</em> Volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854, pp. 446–8):</p>
<blockquote><p>[I]t ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. <strong>But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>In these days of rampant populism it&#8217;s important to realize that the old clique of politicians, in Britain as elsewhere in the West, hasn&#8217;t acted wrongly so much because it&#8217;s gone against the people&#8217;s will, as because it&#8217;s gone against the people&#8217;s interests.</p>
<p>In fact, in many cases the political class has given people what they wanted &#8212; an unsustainable welfare state &#8212; in its own interest (which was to get elected), but has gone against the people’s interest by creating an unprecedented national debt of astronomic proportions that may bankrupt the state and will burden future generations.</p>
<p>UKIP doesn&#8217;t seem to be different from the other parties in this respect. It doesn&#8217;t like to tell people uncomfortable truths, as can be seen by the compromises it has already started making. For example UKIP has promised that millions of European immigrants can remain in Britain after an EU exit and taken a soft stance on Islam, and so on.</p>
<p>UKIP wants to appear politically correct.</p>
<p>Its policies are fluid, constantly changed. Its representatives are often caught saying things against party policy. When placed under scrutiny, they often don&#8217;t know what to say.</p>
<p>All this is not unique to UKIP, as it can be found in other parties. But that&#8217;s exactly the problem. Where is the difference? Where is a long-term plan for effective change? If UKIP knew the answer, it wouldn&#8217;t have gone so long without a manifesto, including during the 2014 European election campaign.</p>
<p>In the end, leaving the European Union is not the ultimate solution. What will UKIP change after that? What about the Third World immigrants, who are an immensely greater problem than Bulgarians and Romanians? What about Islamization of Britain? What about the erosion of Christian values? The ideological dominance of the Left?</p>
<p>UKIP is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant political situation of the UK, but air, though essential, is not the only necessity of life.</p>
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		<title>When Progressives Consider Child-Rape Defensible</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's unending excuses for Muslim rape gangs in the U.K. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rotherham-abusers_3018211b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241631" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rotherham-abusers_3018211b-450x280.jpg" alt="Rotherham-abusers_3018211b" width="350" height="218" /></a>The umpteenth case of child sex abuse in Britain perpetrated by Muslims, the <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dennis-prager/1400-english-girls-raped-by-multiculturalism-1/">Rotherham abuse case</a></span>, has understandably left the self-proclaimed “progressives” and multiculturalists in disarray. The Leftist media outlets are on the defensive but still trying to maintain their ground.</p>
<p>Their best weapons are to distract public attention by diverting it to whatever has not been committed by Muslims, and the use of double standards, of which the most shocking example is the differential treatment of Muslims versus the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>The same people, assorted Leftists and secularists, who immediately jumped to the conclusion that all Catholic clergymen are either directly involved in paedophile abuse or in its cover-up are now bending over backwards to deny any connection between the Muslim grooming and sex-slavery gangs and Islam.</p>
<p>An article in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/01/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-difficult-questions"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Guardian</i></span></a> by Slovenian Marxist psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, included by <i>Foreign Policy</i> in its 2012 list of Top 100 Global Thinkers (no less), seems to condemn but in fact displays this behaviour. Deceitfully entitled “Rotherham child sex abuse: it is our duty to ask difficult questions,” it covers just about everything but Rotherham – and generally Muslim &#8212; child sex abuse.</p>
<p>The word “Muslim” appears twice, “Islam” once, “Islamophobic” once, “Catholic” three times (the same number as “priests” and “racism”), plus assorted uses of “Christian” and “Christianity”.</p>
<p>It doesn’t talk about Islam at all, except to briefly mention women’s second place within it, but immediately prevents the reader from dwelling on the subject too much: “Without blaming Islam as such (which is in itself no more misogynistic than Christianity)…”</p>
<p>The most ironic part of the piece is where Žižek blames his comrades for doing the same thing as he does:</p>
<blockquote><p>The left exhibited the worst of political correctness, mostly via generalisations: perpetrators were vaguely designated as “Asians”, claims were made that it was not about ethnicity and religion but about the domination of men over women, plus who are we – with our church paedophilia and Jimmy Savile – to adopt a high moral ground against a victimised minority.</p></blockquote>
<p>The double standard in this kind of coverage and comment is so gigantic that it’s better described as a total reversal of the truth.</p>
<p>We have on one hand Muslim paedophile and sex-slave gangs who act <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/there-is-link-between-islam-paedophilia.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in total accordance with Islam</span></a> on many levels. To begin with, Muhammad, the model man for all Muslims worthy of the name, gave the good example by marrying a 6-year-old, Aisha, and consummating their marriage when she was 9. He also owned sex slaves. Both sex with underage, even pre-menstruating, <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/065-qmt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">girls</span></a> and <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/10382"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex slavery</span></a> – both relevant to the Rotherham case &#8212; are permissible in Islamic Scriptures and law. Even today, child marriage is <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Contemporary_Pedophilic_Islamic_Marriages"><span style="color: #0433ff;">commonly practised</span></a> in the Muslim world.</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/434512/underage-victims-to-stop-child-marriages-state-needs-to-step-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in Pakistan</span></a> – the country of origin of most of the UK child groomers or their families –</p>
<blockquote><p>according to UNICEF, <b>child marriages accounted for 32 per cent of all marriages</b> in the country from 1987 to 2005…</p>
<p>Around 100 million girls are expected to enter into child marriage in the next decade. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Pakistan has or has had the world record for paedophilia-related Internet searches, such as <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/12/data-shows-pakistan-googling-pornographic-material/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;child sex video.&#8221;</span></a> Child molestation in <a href="http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/lahore/30-Jul-2010/paedophilia-in-punjab-reaching-alarming-levels"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Punjab</span></a>, a region of Pakistan where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_(Pakistan)"><span style="color: #0433ff;">97.21%</span></a> of the population is Muslim, has reached alarming levels, and “68 percent [of] girls and 32 percent [of] boys have been the victims of paedophilia.”</p>
<p>Add to all this the contempt which Muslims have for white women, considered as “easy meat” due to the way they dress and their drinking habits, and you can easily see that the disproportionate representation of Muslims among those convicted for child rape, grooming of girls for sex, and child prostitution in the UK – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pge53WOIcrY&amp;ytsession=EhszDM1qfM7jYVMu2LBvv1FhdpQ3mcibbmlAvqgkSWW93HAaDoq3I-ABmSd-pr5nO9_5jZYrWat3b7cIi0MdWRwn6g4x6IJuaOBHRezVaHz3zOK_PZj2MiOBuSbRd2y3cXjjpLvbzNDtkGMduDs1cHw9JtJ93wo86J4I1nfbLJeFGiiHhWl-eIzLrH_JwQ5yuYiMtla6XbbxkAIQkZojMn9ni3cZ0tXX7wtjdKSbn-w6s0-gYB7_yy5paIJUt6WqaS3ugA6VzLfxR_98mRukBJPeT0FEKHgZ_RcjYtHHj37skGo9QKYU9rpzOkrKjICt5op_vkCqfq0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">91%</span></a>, while Muslims are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom"><span style="color: #0433ff;">4-5%</span></a> of the total population – is not coincidental.</p>
<p>The arguments for linking the epidemic of paedophile rings in Britain with its Muslim immigrant population are strong, solidly founded and well-reasoned. The bias and distortion of the facts are on the part of those who deny them, contrary to all evidence.</p>
<p>We then have on the other hand an extensive media treatment, that lasted for a very long time, of the Catholic Church as a hotbed of paedophilia, vigorously connecting it to its preaching, including chastity, whereas in fact the overwhelming majority of sex offenders have wives or girlfriends.</p>
<p>In reality, research on the subject shows exactly the opposite of the Left&#8217;s claims. These are the main findings in the USA: Catholic priests who ever abused minors are less than 2%, the same figure for Protestant clergy is 2-3%, and most of the abusers are not clergy or staff, but Church volunteers; the figure for rabbis within organised Judaism is 2-3%.</p>
<p>In secular institutions the abuse is <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/lies-about-catholic-church-abuse-scandal.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even more widespread</span></a>.</p>
<p>The most reasonable conclusion is that the Catholic Church, far from being especially connected to paedophilia – which it condemns &#8212; has itself partly succumbed to the ethos of our age, although greatly less than other institutions dealing with children.</p>
<p>While the Left was caught unaware, the British political Right and its warnings about the dangers of Islam have been vindicated by the Rotherham outrage. The UK public, in the middle, may be – ever so slightly – waking up to the reality of the “religion of peace”.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29204170"><span style="color: #0433ff;">BBC</span></a> says:</p>
<blockquote><p>Islamic State extremism and the Rotherham abuse scandal are fuelling a far-right backlash in the UK, one of the Home Office&#8217;s most senior advisers on right-wing extremism has said…</p>
<p>But the Institute for Strategic Dialogue claims the government must engage more with the far right.</p></blockquote>
<p>After what former Rotherham MP <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11059643/Denis-MacShane-I-was-too-much-of-a-liberal-leftie-and-should-have-done-more-to-investigate-child-abuse.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Denis MacShane</span></a> admitted:</p>
<blockquote><p>Perhaps yes, as a true Guardian reader, and liberal leftie, I suppose I didn’t want to raise that too hard…</p>
<p>[I] should have done more to investigate child abuse…</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe “liberal leftie,” “Guardian reader” and “multiculturalist” should finally become dirty words, insults of the same grade as “fascist”?</p>
<p>Saturday 20th September the English Defence League (EDL) held a demonstration in Downing Street in front of the Prime Minister’s residence over this scandal, which I attended.</p>
<p>I had never been to an EDL demo before. Yes, they are working class, heavily tattooed, and &#8212; with their flag waving, slogan chanting and raucous singing &#8212; closely resembling beer-drinking football fans in appearance and behaviour. But they are decent folks doing their bit in a legal and peaceful way for their own country and all ours, for the survival of Western civilisation. Their courage and commitment are unfortunately not widely matched in the general population.</p>
<p>The EDL&#8217;s bad reputation in the public perception is largely due to the kind of media reporting we are well used to. In the same way as Christians being slaughtered all over the Islamic world is for the media equally-balanced &#8220;sectarian violence,&#8221; and Israel&#8217;s reaction to Hamas rockets is &#8220;indiscriminate bombing of civilians,&#8221; so the throwing of stones and bottles at EDL crowds by the Leftist thugs of UAF (Unite Against Fascism, an offshoot of the Socialist Workers Party) becomes for the BBC and mainstream press &#8220;clashes between the UAF and the English Defence League.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just witness this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5oXAhA9xCA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ABC News report</span></a> in which the “hate next door” in the title incongruously doesn’t refer to radical Islam, but to the EDL that tries to protect us from it.</p>
<p>The leader of my party, Liberty GB, Paul Weston, looking at some litter from the food and drinks consumed by the 400-500 people attending the demonstration, tidily kept in a corner, pointed out to me how you never see that at events organised by the “liberals,” where garbage is left all over the place.</p>
<p>Liberty GB is considering fielding as a candidate in Rotherham at the 2015 British Parliament elections a former Muslim who converted to Christianity.</p>
<p>Paul Weston gave a brilliant, passionate <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6575-cameron-is-a-traitor-paul-weston-at-downing-street-20-09-2014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">speech</span></a> in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, culminating in “Cameron, you&#8217;re a liar and you&#8217;re a traitor!”</p>
<p>From the pen (a cage would have been better) in which the police wisely kept them, the only contribution to the subject of the Rotherham child-grooming gangs coming from the “counterdemonstration” of the UAF was &#8220;Nazi scum!&#8221; which is more or less their only &#8220;argument&#8221; against the critics of Islam.</p>
<p>*</p>
<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>The Glazov Gang&#8217;s </strong>special 2-part series with <strong>Gavin Boby</strong> of the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/">Law and Freedom Foundation</a> about Muslim rape gangs in the UK and how the Left facilitated their barbaric crimes against helpless young girls:</em></p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Y27t01dx9Wg" width="460" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NWKTTPyK1-o" width="460" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
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		<title>The Fate of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either it will become Christian again or it will become Muslim.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239258" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa-450x281.jpg" alt="burqa" width="264" height="165" /></a>It&#8217;s all very simple. We can&#8217;t fight Islam in the West without fighting the enablers of Islam in the West, namely the Leftists.</p>
<p>And, since the Left has many different and separate aspects, we have to fight against each one of them. Secularism, environmentalism, global warming alarmism, homosexualism, militant feminism, sexual relativism, multiculturalism, anti-Christianity, Islamophilia, post-nationalism, and internationalism are just as important targets to attack as Marxist economics, the expropriation of the capitalist class (or, in its modern reincarnation, redistribution of wealth), and the dictatorship of the proletariat.</p>
<p>Neglecting any of these fronts is like fighting a war leaving a battleground to the enemy, like fighting on the western front and leaving totally undefended the eastern one.</p>
<p>Secularism and atheism are certainly the first lines of important wars.</p>
<p>A secularist West will always lose to Islam, because it will have enough compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence that are the remnants of its Christian heritage, but it will have lost the ideals, the passion and certainty of fighting for a just cause that were once part of Christianity and have disappeared with its erosion.</p>
<p>Two quotes here serve as epigrams. Robert Spencer wrote in his great work &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985151/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596985151&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=VIUQ2BVVVC5BLDYE">Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn&#8217;t</a>&#8220;: “People who are ashamed of their own culture will not defend it.” And Dennis Prager said during one of his radio broadcasts, “Only good religion can counter bad religion.”</p>
<p>Some people claim that there won&#8217;t be a religious revival in Europe because we are past believing in God. That this is not true can be seen by the high &#8211; and increasing – number of Westerners who convert to Islam. Many of them give as a reason for their <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/uk-converts-to-islam-on-rise.html">conversion</a> the need for absolutes, boundaries and well-defined status.</p>
<p>A journalist writing for <em>The Spectator</em> on this subject explained why she is Catholic:</p>
<blockquote><p>But above all, I like the moral certainties. I don’t mind the dogma one bit. I would rather dogma and impossible ideals than confusion and compromise. In that sense, I do identify with those who choose Islam over the way of no faith, or a seemingly uncertain faith, like the woolly old C of E.</p></blockquote>
<p>William Kilpatrick, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158617696X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=158617696X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=IPTTMC4C6AVOIXI3">Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</a> – a book I thoroughly recommend reading &#8211; writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Brian Young&#8217;s friends said he was troubled by the decadence of Western society. David Courtrailler&#8217;s lawyer said, “For David, Islam ordered his life.” These are the sorts of reasons ordinary converts to Islam give. A common refrain from converts is that Islam provides a complete plan for life in contrast to the ruleless and clueless life offered by secular society. As Mary Fallot, a young French convert, explains, “Islam demands a closeness to God. Islam is simpler, more rigorous, and it&#8217;s easier because it is explicit. I was looking for a framework; man needs rules and behavior to follow. Christianity did not give me the same reference points.” If you look at the convert testimonials on Muslim websites, they echo this refrain: Islam brings “peace”, “order”, “discipline”, and a way of life that Christianity and other religions fail to offer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Human beings will never be past the need for believing in something bigger than themselves, because that need is part of the human mind.</p>
<p>Today the Christian religion is being replaced by the worship of the Goddess earth, New Age beliefs, the cult of celebrities (not coincidentally sometimes called &#8220;idols&#8221;), a blind faith in science, in chance as the creator and motor of the universe and in the absence of God.</p>
<p>And, last but not least, by Islam, which is increasingly filling the vacuum left by Christianity.</p>
<p>It is not surprising that Western people who feel a spiritual need may embrace Islam more easily than Christianity, when the latter has been the butt of constant attacks, denigrations and ridicule for a very long time, increasing since the 1960s, while the former is continually &#8212; albeit seriously mistakenly &#8212; praised as a religion of peace, tolerance and great wisdom.</p>
<p>Christian clergy is often criticized, sometimes rightly and sometimes not. But we tend to forget that clergymen are human beings, with all their imperfections. They too have been subjected to many decades of Leftist indoctrination and brainwashing. Even they, by the mere fact of living in this society, have been influenced by its insanity.</p>
<p>We can expect guidance from our leaders, yes, but rather than castigating them we should make the first steps.</p>
<p>A clear direction was given by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy.</p>
<p>As early as 30 September 2000, before 9/11, when very few in the West even thought of worrying about Islam, he delivered a very <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/enza-ferreri-either-europe-will-become-christian-again-or-it-will-become-muslim">forward-looking speech</a>, which included this premonition:</p>
<blockquote><p>In an interview ten years ago, I was asked with great candor and with enviable optimism: “Are You among those who believe that Europe will either be Christian or cease to exist?” I think my answer then may well serve to conclude my speech today.</p>
<p>I think – I said – that either Europe will become Christian again or it will become Muslim. What I see without future is the “culture of nothing”, of freedom without limits and without content, of skepticism boasted as intellectual achievement, which seems to be the attitude largely dominant among European peoples, all more or less rich of means and poor of truths. This “culture of nothingness” (sustained by hedonism and libertarian insatiability) will not be able to withstand the ideological onslaught of Islam, which will not be missing: only the rediscovery of the Christian event as the only salvation for man – and therefore only a strong resurrection of the ancient soul of Europe – will offer a different outcome to this inevitable confrontation.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, neither “secularists” nor “Catholics” seem to have so far realized the tragedy that is looming. “Secularists”, opposing the Church in every way, do not realize that they are fighting against the strongest inspiration and the most effective defense of Western civilization and its values of rationality and freedom: they might realize it too late.</p></blockquote>
<p>An effect of the decline of Christian faith in Europe has been the strong decrease in birth rates, that are now below the population replacement level (the replacing – and then some &#8212; is done by Muslims). Why have babies when you feel that you don’t have anything valuable to pass on to them?</p>
<p>I remember a time when my friends and contemporaries of child-bearing age (but childless) were saying to me things to the effect that there was no point – indeed it was a crime to engage &#8212; in bringing people into this terrible world. This is the talk of faithless despair, no hope in this or another world, lack of belief.</p>
<p>Militant atheists à la Richard Dawkins have not really given enough thought to the long-term consequences of their ideas, which we are beginning to see.</p>
<p>And of which we are reminded whenever, for example, we read in the news of doctors and missionaries who die of Ebola while assisting affected patients for Christian charities. Not many atheist charities are involved in that work.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/4770-90988336.400w.tn_.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-236802" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/4770-90988336.400w.tn_.png" alt="4770-90988336.400w.tn" width="260" height="200" /></a>It&#8217;s Islam&#8217;s holy month of Ramadan, and many advertising boards on the streets of London &#8212; or, more appropriately, Londonistan, as it befits a city with such a large, influential and radical Muslim population &#8212; invite Mohammedans to pay their zakat (Muslim obligatory charity).</p>
<p>Zakat donations in the UK have greatly increased in the last few years, and Ramadan is traditionally a time when zakat giving grows.</p>
<p>The posters portray cute kids and people in distress, reminding Muslims of their duty to help them.</p>
<p>How nice. Are these truthful reflections of the philanthropic nature of the &#8220;religion of peace&#8221;?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see. The problems with zakat are essentially two:</p>
<p>The first is that Islamic charity should benefit only other Muslims. Not exactly a generous spirit embracing all humanity.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/048-qmt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Quran</span></a> teaches:</p>
<blockquote><p>Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other. (48.29)</p></blockquote>
<p>This is after all consistent with the rest of <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/003-qmt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islamic teaching</span></a>, which cautions Muslims against befriending infidels:</p>
<blockquote><p>Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah. (Quran, 3.28)</p></blockquote>
<p>Islamic law forbids zakat from being used to help non-Muslims.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Zakat">WikiIslam</a></span> reiterates:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is scholarly consensus (ijma`) that zakat cannot be given to non-Muslims, as mentioned by Ibn al-Mundhir, Kasani, Ibn Qudama, Buhuti, and others.</p>
<p>Muwaffaq Ibn Qudama, a great Hanbali Imam, says in his Mughni:</p>
<p>&#8216;We do not know of any difference of opinion among the people of knowledge (ahl al-`ilm) that zakat on wealth cannot be given to a kafir&#8217; Ibn al-Mundhir said, &#8216;There is consensus of all those whose positions we know from the people of knowledge that a non-Muslim (dhimmi) cannot be given any zakat.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Christian refugee victims of the flood that devastated Pakistan in 2010 know this part of Islamic doctrine all too well. They were <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7460"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denied aid</span></a> largely donated by the post-Christian West &#8212; which didn&#8217;t seem to care very much about this politically correct form of discrimination &#8212; unless they converted to Islam.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The tireless work of Caritas continues in all directions, in every diocese and without discrimination on the recipients,” said Bishop Max John Rodrigues of Hyderabad. “In the diocese, we help everyone. Many religious and Catholic volunteers are working in the area. I see a lot of solidarity: Muslims, Christians, and Hindus are united in suffering.</p>
<p>“<b>As far as the aid brought by Islamic charity groups, they defend themselves by saying that according to their doctrine, the money from the zakhat (Islamic alms) should go only to Muslims</b>,” he added. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Similarly, the prohibition also explains why the <a href="https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/islamic-charity-to-haiti-helps%e2%80%a6mosques/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">contribution</span></a> from Muslim countries to the Haiti 2010 earthquake relief effort &#8212; since Haiti has almost no Muslims &#8212; was puny, and the aid from one of the US&#8217;s largest Islamic charities, LIFE for Relief and Development, was used just <a href="http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2010/10/04/islamic-charity-uses-earthquake-relief-to-push-mosque-expansion-in-haiti/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to build mosques</span></a> in the Caribbean country.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s not all. Non-Muslims can in some cases be allowed to receive charity donations, but only <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/009-qmt.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to attract them to Islam</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Alms are only for the poor and the needy, and the officials (appointed) over them, and <b>those whose hearts are made to incline (to truth)</b> and the (ransoming of) captives and those in debts and in the way of Allah and the wayfarer; an ordinance from Allah; and Allah is knowing, Wise. (Quran, 9.60) [Emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p>Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/21384"><span style="color: #0433ff;">says</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is permissible to give regular charity – not obligatory charity (i.e., zakaah) to poor kaafirs, and to exhange gifts and with them and treat them well <b>to soften their hearts towards Islam</b>. [Emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a candid peace appeared in the United Arab Emirates’s <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/zakat-fund-to-give-dh1-million-for-100-converts"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The National</i></span></a>, for example:</p>
<blockquote><p>One hundred new converts to Islam will each receive an equal share of Dh1 million donated by the Zakat Fund. Zakat, the third pillar of Islam, is a mandatory tax for every Muslim who is financially able to contribute. It is calculated at 2.5 per cent of financial assets, but has different rates for a variety of other sources of wealth, such as livestock and minerals.</p>
<p>New converts are one of eight broad categories defined as deserving recipients of zakat in Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>The second problem with zakat is even more serious. It&#8217;s not enough that Muslim charity does not do any good to the rest of the human species; it&#8217;s also meant to do it harm.</p>
<p>Of the eight broad categories of recipients of zakat referred to in the above quotation, one merits our close attention.</p>
<p>The Quran&#8217;s verse 9.60 quoted before lists as recipients those &#8220;in the way of Allah.&#8221; And this is <a href="http://www.missionislam.com/knowledge/zakat.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">what it means</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Zakat can be given in the path of Allah. By this is meant to finance a Jihad effort in the path of Allah, not for Jihad for other reasons. The fighter (mujahid) will be given as salary what will be enough for him. If he needs to buy arms or some other supplies related to the war effort, Zakat money should be used provided the effort is to raise the banner of Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>The classic manual of Islamic law <a href="http://www.shafiifiqh.com/maktabah/relianceoftraveller.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Reliance of the Traveller</i></span></a> couldn&#8217;t be clearer:</p>
<blockquote><p>THE EIGHT CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS</p>
<p>h8.7 It is obligatory to distribute one&#8217;s zakat among eight categories of recipients (O: meaning that zakat goes to none besides them), one-eighth of the zakat to each category&#8230;</p>
<p>THOSE FIGHTING FOR ALLAH</p>
<p>h8.17 The seventh category is those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster (O: but who are volunteers for jihad without remuneration). They are given enough to suffice them for the operation, even if affluent; of weapons, mounts, clothing, and expenses (O: for the duration of the journey, round trip, and the time they spend there, even if prolonged. Though nothing has been mentioned here of the expense involved in supporting such people&#8217;s families during this period, it seems clear that they should also be given it).</p></blockquote>
<p>One of the most prominent Islamic scholars, Shaykh Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_of_Muslim_Scholars"><span style="color: #0433ff;">chairman</span></a> of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, currently listed as 31st among the world’s most influential Muslim figures according to <a href="http://themuslim500.com/profile/sheikh-dr-yusuf-al-qaradawi"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The Muslim 500</span></a> (an annual <a href="http://www.5pillarz.com/2013/11/15/al-azhar-grand-sheikh-named-worlds-most-influential-muslim/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">publication compiled</span></a> by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan in cooperation with Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University) was quoted in an article entitled <a href="http://www.onislam.net/english/ask-the-scholar/international-relations-and-jihad/jihad-rulings-and-regulations/174504-spending-zakah-money-on-jihad.html?Regulations="><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;Spending Zakah Money on Jihad&#8221;</span></a> as saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>If war is waged anywhere to achieve this goal, namely to free the occupied lands of the laws and the tyranny of disbelievers, it is undoubtedly a case of Jihad for the sake of Allah. It thus needs to be financed from the money of Zakah&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>During a BBC <i>Panorama</i> program of a few years ago &#8212; whose interesting title <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/5234586.stm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;Faith, hate and charity&#8221;</span></a> left no doubt concerning what faith we were talking about &#8212; Qaradawi was described as &#8220;a favourite of the [then] London Mayor&#8221; Ken Livingstone, who truly welcomed this supporter of jihad to London, &#8220;a city of all faiths&#8221; (and no hope).</p>
<p>Qaradawi&#8217;s followers in London, the BBC reporter John Ware explained, included the fugitive Hamas commander Mohammed Sawalha (no doubt a title of honor), and his following in the Middle East was so big that the good doctor had his own talk show on Al Jazeera. &#8220;He makes no bones about the relationship between charity and politics,&#8221; Ware added.</p>
<p>During the documentary Qaradawi volunteered:</p>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t like this word &#8220;donations.&#8221; I like to call it jihad with money. Because God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and our money.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is the theory. The practice is even more explicit.</p>
<p>Earlier this month it emerged from India’s Intelligence Bureau that the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa has been diverting for terror activities the funds it raises and has used charity money to fund the <a href="http://m.rediff.com/news/report/charity-money-was-used-to-fund-2611-mumbai-attacks/20140701.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mumbai 26/11 attacks</span></a> of 2008, in which over 160 people died. This dossier is even more significant in the light of the recent ban on Jamaat-ud-Dawa imposed by the United States.</p>
<p>Among the recipients of &#8220;jihad charity&#8221; is also <a href="http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2014/06/15/isis-funded-by-donations-crime/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ISIS</span></a>.</p>
<p>Recently, British-based charity <a href="http://www.islamic-relief.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islamic Relief Worldwide</span></a> (IRW) has been <a href="http://www.islamic-relief.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">banned</span></a> from operating in Israel as suspected of funnelling cash to Hamas. According to Israeli officials, IRW activities in the Palestinian territories are run by Hamas operatives.</p>
<p>IRW receives money from institutional donors, government funding, individual zakat donations and affiliates around the world, including Islamic Relief USA (IR-USA), praised by Obama.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not the first time that IR-USA, the largest US Muslim charity and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/israels-fbi-links-islamic-relief-usa-charity-hamas"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sponsored</span></a> by major American corporations like Microsoft and General Electric, has been accused of <a href="https://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/doj-source-implicates-islamic-relief/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">funding Hamas</span></a>.</p>
<p>In America, the majority of the charities that have been investigated for financing terrorism were <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/eric-golub/excuses-for-islamists/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found guilty</span></a>. According to <a href="http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/blog/2014/06/04/islamic-charities-in-great-britain/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Shariah Finance Watch</i></span></a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>The largest Islamic charities in the US were shut down and prosecuted for funding terrorism.</p>
<p>The fact is, Islamic charities fund Jihad through the system of zakat simply because Shariah–Islamic Law–says they must.</p>
<p>It is not unlikely that we’ve just brushed the surface on this activity in the West.</p>
<p>Only recently, for instance, has the British Charity Commission begun to earnestly scrutinize Islamic charities for material support of terrorism.</p>
<p>How widespread might the problem be?</p></blockquote>
<p>How indeed?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the region destabilizes, so does security in Britain. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rHGnnad-360.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234744" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rHGnnad-360.jpg" alt="rHGnnad-360" width="268" height="151" /></a>It&#8217;s always been obvious that the problem of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/enza-ferreri/britains-jihadists-within/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">&#8220;British&#8221; jihadists</span></a> coming back from Syria &#8212; and now Iraq too &#8212; to become terrorists here was not going to go away. The UK government, with its phobia of &#8220;Islamophobia,&#8221; cannot possibly solve it.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">From <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27898724">&#8220;Iraq crisis: ISIS militants threaten UK, says Cameron&#8221;</a>:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>David Cameron has warned of the threat to the UK if an &#8220;extreme Islamist regime&#8221; is created in central Iraq.</p>
<p>He said Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) fighters threatening the government in Baghdad were also plotting terror attacks on the UK.</p>
<p>And Britain could not ignore the security threat the UK now faced from jihadists in Iraq and Syria.</p></blockquote>
<p>Britain may not ignore it, but it&#8217;s not going to do very much about it.</p>
<p>A BBC reporter said today on the TV that this problem is the same all over the world. He should have added &#8212; but didn&#8217;t &#8212; &#8220;wherever there are Muslims.&#8221; Muslim-free countries don&#8217;t experience this problem at all.</p>
<p>The BBC report was about what the government can and cannot do in order to protect British people from this threat, and in general to avoid the &#8220;radicalisation&#8221; of UK Muslims.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that 9 years have passed without another 7/7, the government measures to fight Muslim radicalisation in this country have been a failure, the journalist went on to say.</p>
<p>What a surprise! The only reason there are not more terrorist attacks in the UK, I would say, is the constant surveillance of the &#8220;Muslim community&#8221; by police and intelligence services &#8212; with huge expenses for a gravely cash-strapped Britain &#8212; which is now <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/22/liam-fox-isis-terrorism-surveillance-_n_5519583.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">necessary to increase</span></a>.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, former MI6 director Richard Barrett explained that the security services will <a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/world-news/167520-not-possible-to-monitor-all-uk-syria-fighters"><span style="color: #0433ff;">not be able to monitor</span></a> all the &#8220;British&#8221; jihadists who return to the UK after fighting in Syria.</p>
<p>The implications for UK security of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts due to the &#8220;Britons&#8221; fighting there is a topic dominating the national newspapers.</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664929/Terror-fallout-British-jihadists-fighting-Syria-felt-years-come-Britain-says-Met-Police-officer-warns-new-threat-Islamic-extremism.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490">&#8220;Terror fallout from British jihadists fighting in Syria will be felt for years to come in Britain,&#8221;</a><span style="color: #000000;"> headlines <i>The Daily Mail</i>.</span></p>
<p>This warning came from the top counter-terrorism expert Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s assistant commissioner and head of specialist operations, who said that Britain will feel the repercussions of Syria and the rise of Islamic extremism within its own borders for &#8220;for many, many, many years to come.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added that young &#8220;British&#8221; Muslims who have gone to fight in Syria might commit violence and terrorist acts when they return.</p>
<p>Possible links have been found between three Muslims based in Cardiff, Wales, who were present with other ISIS militants in a propaganda video filmed by the group, and two men from the same part of the city, who are in prison for having planned to blow up London&#8217;s Stock Exchange.</p>
<p>Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan warned that radicalisation in prisons was a big problem. Indeed, this corresponds to the dire predictions of Dr. Peter Hammond in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0980263913/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0980263913&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=354UXL2OPIKSRKFN"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat (Amazon USA)</span></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0958454981/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0958454981&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinemaga"><span style="color: #0433ff;">(Amazon UK)</span></a>.</p>
<p>The book says that, when the Muslim population reaches 2% to 5% of a country, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from jails and street gangs.</p>
<p>According to the the United Kingdom Census 2011, in that year <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/rpt-religion.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslims were 2.7 million</span></a>, 4.8% of the country&#8217;s total population.</p>
<p>Hammond&#8217;s book, which was first published in 2005 and then in a second edition in 2009, says that, when Muslims are above 5%, they exercise an influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/enza-ferreri/halal-a-taste-of-terror/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">halal food</span></a>, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims, and will increase pressure on supermarket chains to sell halal, with threats for failure to comply. They will also try to get the government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia law within their ghettos.</p>
<p>Rings a bell? This is the stage which Britain has already reached. The only prediction that hasn&#8217;t materialised is Muslim threats to supermarkets, only because they are redundant as those companies are all too eager to oblige.</p>
<p>And now look at the next stage: when Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of protest, examples of which are the car-burnings in Paris (and we can now add Sweden) and uprisings and threats for any action which offends Islam, namely any non-Muslim action. The greater the proportion of Muslim population the more frequent these tensions will be, until they become daily occurrences.</p>
<p>How can British people not have noticed that, over the years, their country&#8217;s Muslims &#8212; whose number has steadily increased &#8212; have indeed become more vociferous, oppressive, demanding, aggressive and dangerous?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamization of a nation intensifies. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sharia_law.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234108" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sharia_law.jpg" alt="sharia_law" width="277" height="295" /></a>It&#8217;s not enough that in Britain non-Muslim children in <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/10334813.Halal_meat_served_in_three_quarters_of_council_supported_schools/">publicly-funded schools</a>, Islamic and non-Islamic, are served halal meat &#8212; from animals whose throat is cut without proper stunning, according to the Islamic rite &#8212; often without knowing it. Even <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10895029/Soldiers-not-told-they-are-eating-halal-meat.html">British forces</a> have been discovered to be subjected to the same treatment.</p>
<p>Now schools in the UK are increasingly becoming the battleground of a war between radical Islam and the hopeless, dhimmi British &#8220;authorities,&#8221; if this is the right term to use in the face of inaction.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not the only one to have thought of a military metaphor. In the media, an alleged Islamic plot to take over schools has become a &#8220;Trojan horse.&#8221;</p>
<p>A country in whose capital city the most popular baby name for boys is <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/revealed-londons-top-20-most-popular-names-for-baby-boys-and-girls-9532511.html">Muhammad</a> and the fourth most popular is Mohammed is doomed.</p>
<p>The gradual but inevitable progression of Muslim demographics brings with it the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/as-muslim-population-grows-what-can-happen-to-a-society">equally inexorable</a> advancement of Islamic tactics becoming more and more aggressive and oppressive.</p>
<p>This is not the first time that the ongoing process of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/enza-ferreri/the-battle-of-the-burqa/">Islamization of British schools</a> has found its way into the news. Official inspections, Department of Education involvement, school authorities without answers &#8212; we’ve been here before and, I dare say, we’ll be here again.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s happening in British schools? We have to be clear here. Bear with me, as the saga is still unfolding and murky.</p>
<p>First, there is the current, run-of-the-mill management of many Muslim schools (publicly funded, of course) which <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/12/Gender-Segregation-OK-Says-Ofsted">does nothing wrong</a>, according to the government’s education regulator Ofsted, except segregating boys and girls, “restricting” music and art classes although they are demanded by the national curriculum, requiring girls to wear headscarves &#8212; in short educating children according to the Islamic way of life.</p>
<p>I would contend that this is Islamization of schools through and through. But no, Ofsted says, these are all positive things, expressions of Muslim identity and faith.</p>
<p>So, the brouhaha is just about a number of schools that risk becoming “really” Islamized and are investigated as possible targets of an &#8220;Islamic takeover,&#8221; which goes even further.</p>
<p>“Operation Trojan Horse” has become the nickname of an organized attempt by Islamists to co-opt schools in England and run them according to Muslim beliefs.</p>
<p>It all started with a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2583905/Forced-fanatics-Head-teachers-reveal-theyve-bullied-smeared-driven-jobs-resisting-Islamic-extremists.html">leaked letter</a>, whose authenticity is still in question, discovered in March 2014 and alleged to be from Islamists in Birmingham, central England &#8212; the second largest UK city, home to a great Muslim population &#8212; outlining <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26482599">plans to take control</a> of schools there and possibly in other cities.</p>
<p>A month later Birmingham City Council said it had received hundreds of allegations of similar plots over a period of 20 years.</p>
<p>Investigations by Ofsted and the Education Funding Authority in 21 Birmingham schools did find <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27763113">evidence of an orchestrated Islamist campaign</a> to target particular schools, and that head teachers had been &#8220;marginalised or forced out of their jobs.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10776607/Islamist-plot-six-schools-face-Ofsted-special-measures.html">Six schools</a> were placed in special measures after inspectors found systemic failings, including failure to take adequate steps to safeguard pupils against extremism. Thirteen more were found wanting. Ofsted’s investigations later expanded into schools in East London, Bradford and Luton, all areas with large Muslim populations.</p>
<p>But, typically, only 2 schools had their <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-27775709">funding terminated</a> by the government.</p>
<p>In the aftermath, Education Secretary Michael Gove said that all UK schools must promote &#8220;British values.&#8221;</p>
<p>The question, indeed the problem that has caused this whole crisis to develop, is that nobody seems capable of defining what British values are any more.</p>
<p>My bet is that, if Gove could provide a clear and precise definition of that concept, Birmingham schools would not have been the object of a concerted attempt of turning them into breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists in the first place.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron, with the perfectly straight face of someone who’s taking his own words very seriously, has attempted to list some of these <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100275737/trojan-horse-i-warned-about-this-years-ago/">elusive British values</a>: freedom, tolerance, respect for the rule of law, belief in personal and social responsibility, and respect for British institutions.</p>
<p>I’ll say that Islamic leaders will find no reason to object to any of those.</p>
<p>Cameron suggested &#8220;freedom.&#8221; Muslims see this as, for instance, freedom of religion, which in their case means <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/what-eid-teaches-moderate-muslims-kids.html">freedom to teach kids</a> how to cut fully-conscious animals&#8217; throats during the religious and family festival of Eid, and then progressing to teach them how to become suicide bombers (which is the problem now under investigation).</p>
<p>Another example of freedom is that of Muslim girls to wear what my friend Alex Boot calls <a href="http://alexanderboot.com/content/word-favour-religious-discrimination-schools">&#8220;the traditional Halloween garb”</a> even when it’s not Halloween.</p>
<p>Tolerance is very, very acceptable for Muslims: to them it means that we must tolerate whatever they do and say, without the need for them to reciprocate and tolerate us infidels.</p>
<p>Respect for the rule of law: They mean sharia law, of course, and they do respect it, without a doubt.</p>
<p>Belief in personal and social responsibility: The responsibility towards the Ummah, the wide community of all Muslims, is well understood and accepted by Mohammedans. That’s why Islamic charity is only directed at Muslims. Personal responsibility is also viewed favorably by Muslims, as shown by restraint in dress code, alcohol consumption, dietary limitations and so on.</p>
<p>Respect for British institutions may seem trickier at first sight, but not when you consider that they are planning to take over all these institutions, and they’ve already made a good start with schools. Once the aforementioned “British” institutions become what Muslims want them to be – an outcome that appears to be more certain by the day &#8212; they’ll have no problem in respecting them.</p>
<p>Cameron has fallen here into a little logical trap of circularity: you cannot use the <em>definiendum</em> – the word to be defined – in the <em>definiens</em> – the definition. You cannot explain Britishness with another reference to it.</p>
<p>But never mind. Cameron’s still achieved a remarkable feat: giving a definition of British values so generic and vague that we can all agree with it, in a great multicultural, multireligious (or, not be discriminatory, multi-non-religious), multiethnic feast.</p>
<p>Of course, in order to give flesh and real significance to the concepts he choses, he would have been forced to introduce taboo words, like, off the top of my head, “Christian.”</p>
<p>The reason why &#8220;British values&#8221; has become a concept without meaning is the same why the European Union cannot find a unifying factor for Europe.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve heard endless discussions on how we don&#8217;t know what Britishness is, or Europe for that matter.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s obvious that, if you deny or remove the whole historical process that gave birth to &#8212; and the cultural foundations that sustain &#8212; the identity of a nation or part of the world, you end up with a shapeless, amorphous entity. You should then not be surprised that you cannot define it.</p>
<p>These days the dirty words that we cannot pronounce and therefore can&#8217;t be used to define us are &#8220;Judeo-Christian.&#8221;</p>
<p>Judeo-Christianity is what unifies Europe and what is at the core of Britain.</p>
<p>Britain is Christian. Its history demonstrates it, its Constitution confirms it.</p>
<p>If this had been recognized, Islam in Britain would not have been allowed to make the progress it has made.</p>
<p>The main characteristic and chief function of definitions is that they must be able to exclude as well as include. An all-inclusive definition means nothing.</p>
<p>The Latin word “definire,” from which the English terms with the same root derive, literally means “to delimit, to place a boundary or border around” something.</p>
<p>That’s why in today’s world, in which all must be included – literally <span style="color: #222222;">(haven&#8217;t we de facto abolished all borders?) </span>as well as metaphorically &#8212; to say or think something meaningful has become almost impossible, and when someone does it he risks imprisonment. Even more difficult is to do something that makes sense – as the British government wonderfully exemplifies.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ukip.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226734" alt="ukip" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ukip-450x253.jpg" width="315" height="177" /></a>After an <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/enza-ferreri/earthquake-in-the-u-k/">earthquake</a>, we gather the pieces hurled and scattered all over the place by the magnitude of the event, put them together and reconstruct. This is precisely the situation Britain finds itself in after last week&#8217;s momentous elections.</p>
<p>The big question in British politics now is who is going to win the 2015 General Elections for the British Parliament, which will produce the majority to form the new government.</p>
<p>The local and European elections were much anticipated and the outcome has been analyzed at length. The elections are supposed to give an idea of the next occupant of 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister’s residence.</p>
<p>But the new four-main-party-system that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has introduced by storm makes these predictions much more complicated. UKIP has been the nightmare of pollsters and number crunchers, who admit defeat in appraising the current situation &#8212; and more importantly, admit that predicting the future will be much more difficult.</p>
<p>Without UKIP, it would be relatively easy to forecast next year’s results. If, as is often the case, on May 22 the incumbent party in government had fared badly and the opposition well, it would be seen as a sign that it’s time for the usual reversal of roles between them.</p>
<p>But now the Labour Party in opposition, although electorally performing better than the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in the government coalition, has also hemorrhaged a stream of votes to UKIP. Therefore its percentage in the polls is not much higher than the Tories, which does not indicate a safe Labour victory in 2015.</p>
<p>On the other hand, most votes for UKIP have come from the Conservatives (Prime Minister David Cameron’s party). This means that these two parties of the Right will be forced to share votes in the General Elections as well, thus reducing the Tories’ chances to win. But by how much we don’t know, because a certain number of people who voted for UKIP at the European Elections won’t do so when it comes to electing the UK Parliament and deciding the next Prime Minister.</p>
<p>It may seem appropriate to choose UKIP, a party that is largely one-issue (leaving the European Union) at the Euro polls, but from the national government many voters, albeit sympathetic to party Leader Nigel Farage’s views, want something more. These voters are interested in a wide range of issues that affect their lives, such as the economy, education, health, crime, welfare, housing, employment, and so on. It’s difficult to know how many will desert UKIP for the Tories next year.</p>
<p>The three main parties, Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats &#8212; often placed in the same bracket and derisively called “LibLabCon” to indicate that what they have in common is much more significant than their differences, giving the electorate no real choice – likely do not understand the message of the recent election.</p>
<p>In order to do so they would have to change what they are to become something completely different. All their aims and policies are predicated on carrying on as usual, offering the country more of the same, the only difference being in degree. Yesterday it was recognition of same-sex civil unions, today the law on same-sex marriage. Today it’s <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/6389-winchester-churchill-quotation-gets-liberty-gb-leader-paul-weston-arrested">racist to quote Churchill’s anti-Islam</a> words, tomorrow it will be racist to describe a pet as “a black cat with a bit of white.”</p>
<p>Incidentally, many votes were lost by the Conservatives to UKIP because of the Tory Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s insistence on making homosexual marriage legal.</p>
<p>All the three main parties are egalitarian and strict followers of political correctness. They vilify people for legitimate concerns over where the country is headed, explicitly or implicitly calling them names. They never stop to wonder whether people might be right; at most they express sympathy, understanding and “concern” for how people feel, not so subtly implying that those feelings are irrational and based on false perceptions, whereas reality is what the business of politics is all about so those feelings should be disregarded.</p>
<p>The following voter account sums up the <a href="http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2014/05/ukip-elections-and-messaging.html">reasons why many voted UKIP</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Despite all of this, I will vote UKIP at the Euro-elections, and there are two main reasons for this: first, that I wish to carry the message, very strongly, to the LibLabCon alliance that they do not have a right to be in government, they do not have a right to power—something that Labour and Conservatives have, I think, utterly forgotten (leading inexorably to a corruption almost as total as the Republicans and Democrats in Washington).</p></blockquote>
<p>Some pundits frequently note that UKIP’s voters are mostly men, over 50 and blue collar. Implicit in this announcement is the view that such demographics should say a lot about UKIP, specifically how bad it must be if it attracts predominantly people of this despicable sort.</p>
<p>It’s reminiscent of the media in the US and elsewhere, which at the time of the presidential elections were highlighting how Mitt Romney was disproportionately preferred by men, with the same ominous implications of backwardness and “uncoolness.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/john-cleese-london-is-no-longer-english.html">London is not part of the UK</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> any more, due to its strong immigrant and Muslim presence, and is becoming increasingly so, was confirmed once again by the last vote pattern.</span></p>
<p>London is the only region where UKIP is still struggling, whereas Labour is doing fine. Immigrants in general and Muslims in particular tend to vote for the Labour Party, which has opened wide the doors of the country to them when in government, is overgenerous in its welfare policies for everyone, and is favorable to Islam to the point of distraction.</p>
<p>This is only one of several cases in which the <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/politics-and-islam-in-dhimmi-europe">Muslim vote has shaped European politics</a> in recent times. In some cases it’s proved decisive: the analysis of various groups’ votes showed that, without Muslims in France, former French President Nicholas Sarkozy would have won &#8212; the election of socialist Francois Hollande as President was <a href="http://galliawatch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/is-it-really-end.html">determined by the followers of Islam</a>.</p>
<p>What does the future hold for UKIP and for Britain?</p>
<p>The UKIP will try to get its first Member of the British House of Commons elected this June 5 to fill the seat of <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">MP Patrick Mercer, who recently resigned</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p>European UKIP representatives, including Farage, have said that at the General Elections of 2015 they&#8217;ll target and concentrate their efforts particularly on those constituencies where they already have councillors or have done well in the local elections. They say that this has been the successful strategy of the Lib Dems, who have been in a similar position of being outsiders in the past.</p>
<p>In the long term, Farage aims to repeat the destruction of Canada’s Conservative Party two decades ago, when the rebel Right-wing Reform Party, that many compare to UKIP itself, caused another political earthquake.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638377/Now-I-destroy-Tory-party-In-crowing-interview-Nigel-Farage-reveals-quit-politics-hes-got-UK-EU.html">interview with the <i>Daily Mail</i></a>, Farage said that a Canadian-style Tory meltdown “could happen” in Britain. Canada’s century-old ruling Conservative Party was destroyed overnight in the country’s 1993 election by the populist, low-tax Reform Party, which had been called “racist, sexist and homophobic,” some of the epithets thrown at UKIP, along with the “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” that PM Cameron used for UKIP supporters. According to Farage:</p>
<blockquote><p>The split in Canada’s Centre Right enabled the Liberals, Canada’s equivalent of our Labour Party, to take power.</p>
<p>But after ten years of infighting, the Reform revolution succeeded. The Canadian Alliance, a merger of Reform with the ruins of Canada’s old-style Tories, led to former Reform official Stephen Harper becoming Prime Minister in 2006.</p></blockquote>
<p>Farage compared attacks on himself to those on Reform Party leader:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘They called him a Right-wing extremist, a nutter, away with the fairies, he’ll never get anywhere and what happens? They won one by-election, a schoolmistress way out West, who resisted every bribe and temptation to rejoin the Conservative Party.</p>
<p>‘Now you have a Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who was first elected on a Reform ticket, as were half the Cabinet.</p>
<p>‘Don’t think this can’t happen here. The public want something different. We are catalysing a big change in British politics on fundamental issues that have been brushed under the carpet and ignored by a completely out-of-touch career political class for too long.’</p></blockquote>
<p>In all this euphoria, we mustn’t forget UKIP’s limitation, first of all that the party’s not opposed to Islam. In fact, it even has British parliamentary candidates who openly advocate Sharia law, like <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10221430/UKIP-MP-candidate-supports-sharia-law-including-cutting-off-thieves-hands.html">Dean Perks</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sharia law, in my opinion, works as a prevention. And prevention is better than cure. If you think you&#8217;re going to get your hands chopped off for pinching something, you won&#8217;t pinch it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>A UKIP council candidate who tweeted that Islam is &#8220;evil&#8221; was <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27268747">suspended from the party</a>. Farage distanced himself from his own immigration spokesman, Gerard Batten, who had proposed a special code of conduct in the form of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/05/nigel-farage-ukip-mep-batten-muslim-code-conduct">charter calling on Muslims to accept equality</a>, reject violence and accept the need to modify the Quran, which Muslims had to sign. And in public speeches the UKIP leader is careful to limit his <a href="http://edgar1981.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/nigel-farage-ukip-speaks-to-london-jews.html">comments on Islam</a> to politically correct ones.</p>
<p>Even more tellingly, <a href="http://join.ukip.org/JoinOnline.aspx?type=1">membership of UKIP is forbidden</a> to current or even previous members of the English Defense League and other groups who are outspoken on the Islamisation of Britain and dare hinder it.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/635156-1bc4c180-e478-11e3-b327-fc34ef98ae31.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226273 alignleft" alt="635156-1bc4c180-e478-11e3-b327-fc34ef98ae31" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/635156-1bc4c180-e478-11e3-b327-fc34ef98ae31-450x303.jpg" width="315" height="212" /></a>&#8220;An earthquake&#8221; is how the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) described what happened Thursday May 22 when all Britain voted to elect its share of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and various parts of the country voted to elect local councils.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While the results of the Euro Elections were not announced until Sunday to wait for the results of the whole European Union, where some countries voted later, the local election results were known immediately, and were pretty much as Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, described them: an earthquake.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a country with a three-main-party system (Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats), the UKIP became firmly established as the fourth party. It didn&#8217;t gain overall control of any local council, but that doesn&#8217;t tell the whole story.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Labour won 338 more councillors than it previously had, the Conservatives were down 231 councillors, the Liberal Democrats took a bashing losing 307, as many as 40 percent of their councillors, and UKIP went from two to an astonishing 163 councillors, turning from a fringe, tiny party into a serious contender for government.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But it was last night, at the European Elections, that UKIP got a real triumph. Not only did it top the polls with more votes than all other parties for the first time in its history, but its victory also marked the first time in which a nationally-held election has not been won by either the Conservative Party or the Labour Party since 1906.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This historical event upsets all the current paradigms of British politics. For a start, it makes it much more difficult to predict future election results, including the 2015 general elections for the British Parliament, the &#8220;real&#8221; polls that will decide who&#8217;s going to govern the UK.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A three-party system is easier to understand and forecast than a four-party one. Without UKIP, Labour might have been cast as the next British government, benefiting from the dissatisfaction from the supposed &#8220;cuts&#8221; and &#8220;austerity&#8221; measures that the present coalition of Tories and Lib Dems in government had to enforce to heal at least in part the ruinously irresponsible economy and welfare policies of the past Labour administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Something similar happened in other parts of Europe, hence the BBC&#8217;s headline, &#8220;Eurosceptic &#8216;earthquake&#8217; rocks EU elections,&#8221; in reference to the parallel result of Marine Le Pen&#8217;s Front National which <a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27559714">won</a> a record victory in France. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Back in the UK, the Liberal Democrats were almost wiped out from the European Parliament, being left with just one MEP of the 11 they previously had. This is Catherine Zena Bearder, standing in the South East, the largest region in the UK, where my party, one-year-old Liberty GB, got 2494 votes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These results show a clear shift in public opinion towards a decidedly anti-immigration, anti-European-Union stance.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The reaction of the (previously) three main parties and of the liberal media is interesting because it shows that they simply don&#8217;t get it.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They cling to justifications, rationalizations, excuses, pedantic nitpicking, like &#8220;it hasn&#8217;t been an earthquake because UKIP has no control of a single council&#8221; or &#8220;it&#8217;s just a temporary protest vote. They&#8217;ll come back to us.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Lib Dems project onto the UKIP&#8217;s future what happened to them. The Lib Dems, never genuinely contemplating the possibility of being in government, were ruined by their experience in power, where they didn&#8217;t keep their utopian promises to the electorate. In an act of wishful thinking the Lib Dems predict that the same will happen to UKIP.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">My favorite is the reaction of Labour. Faithful to their Marxist heritage, they explain everything away with the economy. People on the doorstep tell us that they are not concerned about immigration per se, Labour says, but only about its economic consequences for jobs, wages, housing and so on.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We&#8217;ll sort these things out, they continue, the usual Labour way: by wasting more of public money and increasing taxes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They don&#8217;t realize that no people &#8220;on the doorstep&#8221; will tell any Labour representative that they don&#8217;t want immigration for reasons of culture and identity, not just economics, lest they be considered racist by the aforementioned Labour person.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And UKIP took votes from all parties, including Labour, whose traditional base of working-class voters got progressively dissatisfied with it.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">People who until now voted for the mainstream establishment parties &#8212; and people who didn&#8217;t vote at all &#8212; have decided to stop being silent and take action by choosing a party that says many of the things they think but cannot express.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We all take great hope and encouragement from this trend.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It took UKIP 20 years from its foundation to get to this point, and it struggled for recognition for a very long time.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There was a time when a vote for UKIP was considered wasted, but it turned out to be instrumental in putting pressure on the Tories on the issue of leaving the European Union. There will be a time when voting for Liberty GB will put pressure on UKIP on the issue of the threat of Britain&#8217;s Islamization, on which Farage&#8217;s party has so far been persistently silent.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/70976852_019514832-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223420" alt="_70976852_019514832-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/70976852_019514832-2-450x325.jpg" width="315" height="227" /></a>Some of the “freedom fighters” who are at war against the evil tyrant Assad in Syria, the “rebels” whom both U.S. President Obama and British Prime Minister Cameron wanted to help, have now been re-classified as “the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10758623/Syria-is-now-the-biggest-threat-to-Britains-security.html">biggest threat</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Britain&#8217;s security” and a “greater threat than al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.” The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://rt.com/news/returning-british-syria-fighters-804/">British Home Office</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> identifies Syria as “the most significant development in global terrorism.”</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/79a998e0-ab69-11e3-aad9-00144feab7de.html">More than half</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of anti-terror investigations by the UK security service MI5 involve “Britons” who went to fight in Syria. Charles Farr, the Home Office’s counter-terrorism chief, and others warned that the Syrian war is stoking the biggest terror threat to the West since September 11, and this problem is predicted to persist for as long as the hostilities will continue.</span></p>
<p>Syria is much closer to Europe than Afghanistan and Pakistan, making it a particularly easy and dangerous destination for UK Muslims who come back well trained, armed and ready for business: terrorism. And because the security services monitor about half of them, the risk is very high.</p>
<p>Robert Spencer asks some <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/returning-jihadis-from-syria-now-biggest-threat-to-uks-security">pertinent questions</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Why aren’t they monitoring the rest? And why were these men let back into the country in the first place? Simply because they’re citizens? (Are they even all citizens?)</p></blockquote>
<p>In the past three years, from the beginning of the conflict, no fewer than 500 Britons have travelled to Syria to fight, many more than the corresponding number for Iraq. According to French President Francois Hollande, they are actually <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25981278">up to 700</a>.</p>
<p>Between 250 and 400 of them are believed to be back with us, although the number may be higher. Apparently, they found life there <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10644586/British-jihadist-warns-life-is-hard-in-Syria-and-hundreds-return-to-UK.html">“too hard,”</a> so they say. But they may have been encouraged to return “home” in order to carry out attacks in the UK.</p>
<p>Hundreds more are still in Syria, and one of them has posted an Internet video <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10713479/British-jihadist-in-Syria-encourages-others-to-join-war-in-recruitment-video.html">urging his coreligionists</a> in Britain to join them and help their Syrian brothers and sisters, saying: &#8220;The doors of jihad are still open.&#8221; He is a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a group which wants Syria to become an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law and which is considered too extreme even by Al-Qaeda, that officially disowned it. The first provincial capital to be occupied by ISIS was the city of Raqqa, on whose Christian community it has imposed <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26366197">payment of the jizya</a> and other rules associated with dhimmi status.</p>
<p>These are people who know their Islam, no doubt. They’ve forced even the BBC reporters to become familiar with the triple choice: convert, submit, die.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2014/04/10/jihadists-are-embarking-on-final-solution-in-middle-east/">Aymenn al-Tamimi</a>, a University of Oxford expert on Iraqi and Syrian jihadists, said:</p>
<blockquote><p>In case ISIS’s ambitions to a global caliphate were still not apparent to anyone, ISIS’s official Twitter account for Raqqa province had this to say on the imposition of the dhimmi pact: ‘Today in Raqqa and tomorrow in Rome.’</p></blockquote>
<p>ISIS uses British radicalised recruits, like Anil Khalil Raoufi, the University of Liverpool student of engineering who was recently killed in Syria.</p>
<p>The Syrian war is helping to accelerate the “final solution” for Christians in the Middle East.</p>
<p>The rebels’ ruthlessness is not in question. A Facebook video shows a British jihadist in Syria <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/british-jihadists-tortured-and-killed-prisoners-in-syria-9120294.html">torturing and executing</a> another jihadi who had insulted Allah, with the caption: “I can’t wait for feeling you get when U just killed some1.”</p>
<p>“<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24520762">Who are the British jihadists</a> in Syria?” asks the BBC. The answer: “The Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King&#8217;s College London says most British jihadists are <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25893040">university-educated</a> Muslims of British Pakistani origin in their 20s.” Ah! And I thought that, as the Left says, violent jihad and Muslim terrorism are caused by poverty and deprivation. It turns out that, once again, these people are mainly middle class.</p>
<p>UK security services last autumn intercepted a plot by &#8220;British&#8221; jihadists returning from Syria planning a <a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/57382/cameron-must-stop-british-jihadists-returning-syria">Nairobi-style gun attack</a> on civilians in a crowded location, maybe in London.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Al-Qaeda urged “lone wolf” terrorists trained in Syria to <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/royalwedding/article1391102.ece">target the Queen</a> with bomb attacks at British sporting events, including the Derby. Cheltenham races, Wimbledon and Football Association Cup matches are other recommended potential targets that could cause “maximum carnage.”</p>
<p>The recommendations come from<i> Inspire</i>, an English-language online magazine produced by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), that lists Britain as Al Qaeda&#8217;s biggest target after America.</p>
<p>The big question is: what to do?</p>
<p>Robert Spencer is not the only one calling for not letting Syria jihadists back into the UK. <i>The Week</i> has a <a href="http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/57382/cameron-must-stop-british-jihadists-returning-syria">sensible suggestion</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pass a law forbidding any British subject from travelling to Syria &#8211; unless registered with a charity authorised by the Foreign Office&#8230;</p>
<p>But anyone suspected of making an unauthorised trip to Syria would not be re-admitted to the United Kingdom.  Put up posters to that effect at every airport and seaport&#8230;  &#8220;If you travel to Syria illegally, you will not be allowed to return here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Preventing any more of these jihadists coming &#8216;home&#8217; would be the simplest solution.  Dealing with an attack by such men once it kicks off will be difficult.  Terrorists on shooting sprees of this kind inflict damage quickly, relying on a shock effect to cow their intended victims.  No doubt the SAS or SBS will arrive, but even they will be lucky to arrive in time.</p>
<p>The butcher&#8217;s bills have been quite severe.  Mumbai: 153 killed and more than 600 wounded.  Nairobi: 67 dead and 175 wounded.  In both cases hundreds of millions of pounds worth of damage were also caused to property.  Imagine if something similar were to happen in London.</p></blockquote>
<p>The UK’s Home Office, despite tough talking, has let these potential terrorists back into the country. We’ve heard threats to arrest and prosecute them from the Crown Prosecution Service.</p>
<p>There have been arrests: while only 24 people last year, already 20 this year, including Moazzam Begg, a former Guantánamo detainee – yes, one of those innocent souls – whose trial date has been set in October.</p>
<p>But his arrest has caused protests from the Muslim community, claiming that they are being unfairly targeted. What’s new?</p>
<p>That has made government officials even more “aware of the thin line they must tread in dealing with the problem” than they already were.</p>
<p>UK Muslim charities delivering aid in Syria complain that they risk being arrested for terrorism on their volunteers’ return home – as if one eighth of zakat (Islamic charity) were not obliged to finance jihad according to Sharia law.</p>
<p>In fact, ten Muslim charities linked to Syria are under surveillance after Adeel Ali, the head of a UK charity that raised thousands of pounds from the British public for Syria, has been photographed <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5511886/al-fatiha-global-charity-boss-pictured-with-armed-men-in-syria.html">embracing masked fighters</a> brandishing an AK47.</p>
<p>With Islam, you never know where the money supposedly for charity ends up. There’s ample evidence of &#8220;charity workers&#8221; in Syria <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4258/uk-jihadists-charity-workers">supporting jihadi &#8220;martyrs.”</a></p>
<p>The Left, as usual, sides with the Muslim community and blames the government, like George Monbiot in <i>The Guardian</i> making this <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/orwell-hero-terrorism-syria-british-fighters-damned">historical comparison</a>: ‘If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006.”</p>
<p>But a legitimate question has been raised: how can a government, like the British one, which only a few months ago was prepared to join the war against Assad and be allied to the same &#8220;fighters&#8221; on whose side these jihadists are battling, now consider them criminals? Isn’t it a bit inconsistent? This, after all, is the same government that openly supports the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backs the Syrian rebels pursuing this goal, lost a parliamentary vote on military intervention in Syria last year &#8212; and is fully aware that its allies in the Gulf are funding al-Qaeda-affiliated groups in Syria. This inconsistency clearly shows how that pro-rebel stance is a terrible error.</p>
<p>And how likely is it that anything will be done to British-citizen Syrian jihadists now, when in an analogous situation in the case of the NATO-backed uprising in Libya in 2011 no British jihadi fighting in Libya was arrested? After all, to punish them would be “Islamophobic.”</p>
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		<title>Taqiyya and Blasphemy Laws in the UK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain's chilling move to classify Islam criticism as "racism."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/pl.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222807" alt="pl" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/pl.jpg" width="281" height="197" /></a>In British law, race and religion are increasingly becoming deliberately confused for the purpose of accusing critics of Islam of racism.</p>
<p>A soccer fan <a href="http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/police-race-hate-probe-leads-middlesbrough-6525349">was recently arrested </a>on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after allegedly ripping up pages of the Qur&#8217;an and throwing them at a match. While on bail, he was also banned from attending any football games, visiting St Andrew&#8217;s &#8212; the stadium of the incident &#8212; and going to any city where his team, Middlesbrough, was playing.</p>
<p>Insults against Islam are taken very seriously in Britain, and the world of soccer is particularly sensitive to them. After the incident, the Middlesbrough Football Club suspended six more people and vowed to ban anyone convicted of the “crime” from the Riverside Stadium, its home ground, for life.</p>
<p>A Middlesbrough club spokesman said it operates on a &#8220;zero tolerance policy&#8221; towards all forms of discrimination, and supports football&#8217;s pledge to &#8220;eradicate racism in all its forms.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nobody could answer the question of what &#8220;race&#8221; Islam is. Muslims belong to all races, including white. But we know that the word “racism” has lost its original sense, and indeed any sense.</p>
<p>Originally the concept of racism had a place and an important role in both ethical and political discourses.</p>
<p>Now, it’s best avoided because it’s lost its positive characteristics, its usefulness, and has instead become a tool for intolerance, intimidation, restriction of freedom of speech and other freedoms: in short, a means of oppression.</p>
<p>The 19th-century German philosopher Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of modern logic, distinguished between the two dimensions of a concept: its meaning (or reference) and its sense.</p>
<p>The meaning or denotation is the class of objects to which the concept refers, while the sense or connotation is the concept&#8217;s descriptive qualities.</p>
<p>There is an inverse proportion between the two: the larger the meaning, the narrower the sense and vice versa.</p>
<p>A concept like &#8220;universe,&#8221; just because it has as reference an all-including class of objects, has practically no sense, in that it has very little descriptive, or delimitative, power.</p>
<p>Defining a word means exactly that: giving it borders that restrict it and in so doing make it precise.</p>
<p>Since the word &#8220;racism&#8221; has started being used to refer to many attitudes, behaviors and ideas that have little or nothing to do with racism in the strict sense, its meaning has become progressively larger and larger, correspondingly decreasing its sense.</p>
<p>When today I hear about someone or something being called &#8220;racist,&#8221; I hardly ever believe that it’s true. The likeliest explanation, I think to myself, is either yet another case of excessive political correctness or a personal attack. The descriptive capability of the term has gotten lost or at least has dramatically eroded.</p>
<p>There is at the moment a worrying trend: what has for a long time been a common Leftist ploy &#8212; the shouting of “racist” to shut down any criticism of Islam &#8212; is now on its way to being enshrined in British law.</p>
<p>The soccer case is one example of this attempt. Another is what’s happening to Tim Burton, the Radio Officer of the party <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/">Liberty GB</a>, which will contest the May 22 European Parliament Elections for Britain (donations to help with the election campaign are welcome).</p>
<p>Burton will appear at Birmingham Magistrates&#8217; Court, England, on April 8, charged with racially aggravated harassment for a few tweets in which he called prominent British Muslim Fiyaz Mujhal <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/taqiyya-trials-in-europe/">“a mendacious grievance-mongering taqiyya-artist.”</a></p>
<p>Mujhal, founder and director of the organisation Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks), was exposed by <i>The Telegraph</i> newspaper last year for having massaged some facts and figures about “anti-Muslim attacks” following the Woolwich murder of soldier Lee Rigby. For this and other discrepancies between police official figures of anti-Muslim crimes and the inflated ones of Tell MAMA, the organisation, which had received £375,000 from the UK government, had its public funding discontinued.</p>
<p>The obvious paradox here is that Tell MAMA, clearly in desperate search for “Islamophobic” crimes that could justify its requests for public funds, didn’t find a sufficient number of them of a serious enough nature. So, first it exaggerated them both quantitatively and qualitatively, calling “attacks” simple posts on Facebook and other social media. Then, when this manipulation had become well known, it used the same tactic against the people, like Tim, who called the bluff, in a self-perpetuating cycle.</p>
<p>Burton’s trial is very worrying for anyone who holds dear freedom of speech and basic civil liberties. One of the worrisome aspects is the conflating of “religion” with “race.” Tim Burton is accused of racially aggravated harassment for tweets concerning Islam. Not only is Islam clearly not a race and Muslims can and do belong to all races, but also the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service considers those two charges (racially- and religiously-aggravated crimes) as distinct and separate ones.</p>
<p>The Crown Prosecution Service, though, despite officially paying lip service to this distinction, in Tim Burton’s case is trying to conflate the two because it does not have sufficient ground to get a conviction on the “religiously aggravated” charge, which requires stronger evidence, so has decided to prosecute using the easier “racially aggravated” one.</p>
<p>As the CPS&#8217;s own <a href="https://www.cps.gov.uk/publications/prosecution/rrpbcrbook.html">website</a> says, it is “more difficult to prosecute for inciting religious hatred as opposed to racial hatred.”</p>
<p>The attempt to “racialise Muslims” clearly exists but <a href="http://tellmamauk.org/liberty-gb/">not, as Tell MAMA says, on the part of Liberty GB</a>. It exists on the part of British Islam apologists and their allies, the politically correct establishment.</p>
<p>Since there are no blasphemy laws in the UK and criticism of any religion, including Islam, is theoretically tolerated, only two alternatives are left to British Muslims who want to protect Islam from the expression of the uncomfortable truths of its supremacist and violent nature. One is to invoke the introduction of a blasphemy law; the other, subtler and more effective, is to turn existing equality, anti-racist, “hate crime” laws into a sharia-style blasphemy law.</p>
<p>The Macpherson Report, which followed the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993, reached the conclusion that the British police force is “institutionally racist” and, with the alleged intent of redressing the balance, established that absolutely anything perceived by a “victim” as a racist incident is <i>de facto</i> a racist incident: simple perception becomes legal reality, whether it’s true or not.</p>
<p>This makes the endeavor to legally treat anti-Islam criticism as racist even more dangerous, as it may render it subject to the ruling of the Macpherson Report.</p>
<p>An attempt had previously been made by the Labour government, when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_and_Religious_Hatred_Act_2006">Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006</a> was passed, to formulate it in such a way that it could criminalize the criticism of Islam, the Quran and Muhammad. This was made impossible by the opposition of the Catholic Church and the Church of England, as well as various <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/12/religion.immigrationpolicy">evangelical Christian groups which threatened to use this law against the Quran</a>, which is full to the brim with incitements to religious hatred. Therefore the bill had to be amended.</p>
<p>But what went out legally by the door of Parliamentary procedure is now being reintroduced surreptitiously through the window of the politically correct law enforcement and prosecution establishment.</p>
<p>This is why <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/611180575630378/">Liberty GB will hold a public protest outside the courthouse</a> and considers this trial crucially important.</p>
<p>The point of the Liberty GB campaign is, firstly, to show to the British and Western public what taqiyya – lying to infidels for the good of Islam &#8212; is and to show the whole nature of Islam in relation to non-Muslims through it. For this reason, Islam scholar Professor Hans Jansen is scheduled to appear at the trial and give evidence as an expert witness on taqiyya. We’ve christened this a “taqiyya trial.”</p>
<p>Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the goal is to defend free speech and stop the effective use of anti-racist legislation as blasphemy laws.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare: A Word of Warning from Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS: A "remedy" that has become far worse than the illness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nurse_1470102c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212957" alt="nurse_1470102c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nurse_1470102c.jpg" width="291" height="228" /></a>In light of the ongoing ObamaCare debacle, it can be interesting to see how a state-run national health system free for all, like Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) – Obama’s favourite model &#8211; has failed to deliver.</p>
<p>The UK is one of the few countries in the world – mostly concentrated in Europe &#8211; to have completely free universal health. It sounds cuddly and comfy, but, like in all utopias and fairy tales, reality is a different matter.</p>
<p>The NHS is Britain&#8217;s sacred cow. No party, if it wants to be elected, can scrap it or reform it in any real sense. All parties have to recite the mantra: &#8220;The NHS is safe with us. We are ring-fencing the NHS.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2009, British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, interviewed on Fox News (see video below) about the impending Obamacare bill, warned Americans that the NHS is a “60-year-old relic” and claimed he “would not wish it on anyone.” Hannan was then condemned back home as “evil,” “unpatriotric” and “a traitor.”</p>
<p>Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson said that the NHS is “the closest thing that the British have to a religion.”  And Labour politicians have managed to create a climate in which this institution is considered sacrosanct, untouchable by criticism.</p>
<p>But it’s becoming increasingly impossible now to keep that pretence.</p>
<p>The NHS, born on 5 July 1948, is the first system of free universal medical care ever established. The 1942 Beveridge Report, influential in founding the UK’s modern welfare state of which the NHS is part, was conceived and implemented during a special time, when the population was not only ethnically and culturally homogenous, but also feeling like a great family, bound together by the heroic struggle of WW2.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Health_Service_(England)">fundamental principles of the NHS</a>, then as now, have been: 1) services provided free at the point of use; 2) services financed from central taxation; 3) everyone eligible for care (even people temporarily resident or visiting the country).</p>
<p>According to Treasury figures, NHS spending almost doubled in real terms from £57 billion in 2002/03 to £109 billion in 2012/13, and is forecast for £129 billion in 2014.</p>
<p>Britain spends 18.5% of its annual budget on health, the second highest expenditure.</p>
<p>The NHS has always been beleaguered by problems and cash crises, and needing reform.</p>
<p>All “reforms” attempted through the years have only amounted to internal changes and restructurings &#8211; giving similar bodies different names. The current “reform” is no exception. Crisis has always been the NHS’s permanent condition.</p>
<p>Its original ideal is too expensive even in the best conditions and, with health care becoming more costly and population aging, the conditions are going to worsen.</p>
<p>But more money doesn’t mean better care. The Department of Health admits that, despite significant and consistent increases in funding, <a href="http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1011491.pdf">hospital productivity has fallen</a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60355-4/abstract">study in the prestigious <i>Lancet</i></a> of health data over 20 years in 19 countries shows Britain lagging behind in 12<sup>th</sup> place.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21654536">BBC reported on the research</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Many deaths happen because the NHS is not good enough at preventing people getting sick or because treatment does not rival that seen elsewhere in Europe, says Mr Hunt who is responsible for health policy in England.</p></blockquote>
<p>By cancer survival rate comparisons, the NHS is one of the worst health systems in the Western world, even overtaken by former European communist countries.</p>
<p>The remedies are worse than the ills. After having created problems and produced terrible results, governments, to save their face and not risk losing votes, try to find band-aid solutions that make things even worse.</p>
<p>One instance of that is <a href="http://melaniephillips.com/how-the-welfare-state-undermines-altruism">setting targets</a>, which has led to patients being neglected to meet them:</p>
<blockquote><p>Another example occurred at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, where over three years from 2005 between 400 and 1,200 patients died needlessly as managers ruthlessly cut costs — particularly nursing numbers — to meet targets the Labour government laid down to win ‘foundation’ hospital status.</p>
<p>Doctors were diverted from critically-ill patients in order to deal with less serious cases to meet the target of discharging all patients from Accident &amp; Emergency units within four hours of admission.</p>
<p>Vulnerable patients were left starving, in soiled bedsheets or screaming in pain. Some became so dehydrated they drank from flower vases…</p>
<p>Apparently, the [Francis] report will damn not just the Mid-Staffordshire management but a ‘culture of fear’ from Whitehall down to the wards, as managers became fixated on meeting targets and protecting ministers from political criticism.</p>
<p>Countless families in Mid-Staffordshire have been left grieving for loved ones who were, in effect, killed by the National Health Service.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is by no means an exceptional case. Inquiries follow scandals and are followed by new horror stories.</p>
<p>Top public health officials, from the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt down to Medical Director of NHS England Sir Bruce Keogh, have acknowledged that in many cases patients were abused, neglected and bullied, and have expressed serious concerns about the service at some NHS trusts.</p>
<p>In July of this year, 14 trusts were found to have <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3817753.ece">unusually high mortality rates</a>. In August, up to 42,000 deaths a year due to kidney failure were linked to dehydration in <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419563/Thousands-dying-sepsis-poor-NHS-care-Delays-diagnosis-means-chances-save-lives-missed.html">patients who were not given water by NHS staff</a>. In September, it was discovered that 13,000 every year die of sepsis because of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419563/Thousands-dying-sepsis-poor-NHS-care-Delays-diagnosis-means-chances-save-lives-missed.html">delays in diagnosis and treatment</a> – negligence which also costs the NHS more money.</p>
<p>In October: the previous Labour government was accused of a pre-election cover-up about <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/04/labour-covered-up-nhs-hospital-scandal-before-election-4134031/">hospitals with higher-than-normal death rates</a>, “with inspectors finding blood stains on floors and curtains and badly soiled mattresses”; NHS doctors were discovered to have been <a href="http://www.networks.nhs.uk/editors-blog/nhs-doping-scandal-they-were-all-at-it">routinely giving performance-enhancing drugs to patients</a> to “enhance their recovery rates”; and NHS managers getting hundreds of thousands of pounds in redundancy <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10419406/NHS-couple-received-1-million-payoff-before-being-given-new-management-jobs.html">just before being given other NHS jobs</a> – this was due to the latest NHS “reform,” which is simply a reshuffling.</p>
<p>In November, it was found that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2514942/Dementia-patients-left-hungry-hours-scandal-hit-NHS-trust-staff-running-like-headless-chickens.html">NHS dementia patients were left hungry</a> for hours and not given medication at the right time; a <a href="http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/scotland/anger-over-200-million-nhs-fraud-scandal-1.151559">£200 million NHS fraud scandal</a> was uncovered, with patients illegally claiming free services, and dentists, agencies and firms working for the NHS committing fraud and sending false invoices; 19 more <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/29/hospitals-investigated-jimmy-savile-allegations">hospitals were investigated over their links to allegations of sexual abuse</a> by late TV celebrity Jimmy Savile; it was discovered that the NHS spent nearly a fifth of its budget for maternity services on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24863160">clinical negligence insurance</a> in England in 2012, nearly £500m; there was news that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/nov/07/colchester-cancer-scandal-nhs-culture">Colchester hospital has been fiddling with patient records</a> to improve its waiting times for cancer treatment, with potentially life-threatening consequences. In December, it’s been disclosed that up to <a href="http://checklist.co.uk/170-operations-cancelled-each-day-as-nhs-struggles-with-lack-of-beds/">170 operations are cancelled at the last minute each day by NHS hospitals</a> for bed shortages, faulty equipment and lack of staff.</p>
<p>This is just a sample, in no way a complete record. Not bad for less than a half year’s work.</p>
<p>A former London correspondent for <a href="http://business.time.com/2013/10/28/foroohar-what-obamacare-can-learn-from-britains-national-health-service/">Time</a> sounds very reassuring:</p>
<blockquote><p>Health care was more psychically seamless in the U.K. Nobody worried about going bankrupt if they got sick.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nobody goes bankrupt individually, but everybody will go bankrupt with the rest of the country because the NHS and the whole welfare state are taking Britain on the verge of economic collapse, with an unsustainable and growing national debt.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10162848/NHS-is-about-to-run-out-of-cash-top-official-warns.html">Tim Kelsey</a>, a director at NHS England, the central body in charge of the health service, warned in July:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are about to run out of cash in a very serious fashion&#8230;  our analysis will disclose that <b>by 2020 there will be a £30bn funding gap in the healthcare system</b>. [Emphasis added]</p></blockquote>
<p>Senior NHS doctors and managers said that up to 20 hospitals across the country may have to close to save the NHS from financial ruin.</p>
<p>Although the American system of employer-provided medical care is different from the British system, comparisons of the latter with Medicare, Medicaid and Obama’s “vision” for public healthcare can be made. When healthcare is mostly paid by a third party, there’s little incentive to economize on it, and as a consequence expenditures rise dramatically. Late US economist Milton Friedman would call the NHS a plan for the “socialisation of medicine,” flawed like all government programmes to control social fields.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, during a visit to Vladimir Bukovsky, I asked him if he thought that looking after the health of a whole country is a task a government can be efficient at. He replied: &#8220;There are very few things that governments are efficient at.&#8221;</p>
<p>Interestingly, the US has always been used as a bogeyman to scare Europeans into believing that they need universal healthcare. Look at what happens in America, where there is no state-run health system, Leftists and media say.</p>
<p>However, that the question &#8220;Are you insured?&#8221; asked in US hospitals is caused by lack of free healthcare for all, European-style, is far from the truth. It was free medical care provided by employers during the war &#8211; to attract workers at a time of price and wage controls &#8211; that led to the current situation in the US. Most Europeans have never heard of the existence of Medicare and Medicaid, and believe that Americans who can’t afford insurance are practically left to die.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dog_fight.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209937" alt="dog_fight" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/dog_fight-450x255.jpg" width="315" height="179" /></a>In the UK a <a href="http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/Muslim-taxi-driver-refused-disabled-woman-s-dog/story-19976182-detail/story.html#axzz2j5aBXIl1">Muslim taxi driver recently refused to give a lift to a disabled woman&#8217;s dog</a>, alleging that it broke the rules of Ramadan. Despite the fact that by law no taxi driver can refuse to carry a disabled passenger or assistance animal unless he is medically exempt, the man has not lost his taxi licence and has not been fired. The owner of the taxi firm said he would respect the driver&#8217;s religious beliefs.</p>
<p>This is not the first time and won’t be the last that Islamic and Western attitudes to dogs conflict.</p>
<p>There have been many cases, both in Europe and North America, of <a href="http://www.theadvertisergroup.co.uk/Daily-News/Muslim-cab-driver-refuses-guide-dog-in-Letchworth-02022012.htm">Muslim taxi</a> and <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/187711/Muslim-bus-drivers-ban-on-guide-dogs">bus drivers refusing to let dogs in</a> (even guide dogs for the blind); of police not letting dogs near Muslim suspects or prisoners; of <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/65223/Muslim-inmates-get-new-clothes-if-dog-sniffs-cell">Muslim prison inmates being given new clothes and bedding</a> after police sniffer dogs search their cells; of dogs being banned from touching copies of the Quran and other Islamic items in prison cells; of <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/50071/Sniffer-dogs-offend-Muslims">sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists</a> at train stations no longer allowed to come into contact with Muslim passengers and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1032449/Police-sniffer-dogs-wear-bootees-house-searches-avoid-offending-Muslims.html">fitted with leather bootees</a> to cover their paws when searching mosques and Muslim homes; of blind or disabled people accompanied by dogs facing <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295749/Muslim-bus-drivers-refuse-let-guide-dogs-board.html?">Muslim hostility in hospitals, supermarkets and from Muslim bus passengers</a> or <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3775993/Blind-mans-guide-dog-barred-from-restaurant-for-offending-Muslims.html">turned away from restaurants</a>; of Western citizens being <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2012/08/20120821-092859.html">handcuffed and threatened with arrest</a> for walking leashed and well-behaved dogs close to Muslim rallies &#8212; the list could go on.</p>
<p>Pronouncements about dogs are not in the Quran but are numerous in the various hadiths, collections of traditions containing sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad which form the basis of Islamic law.</p>
<p>Dogs for Muslims are &#8220;impure,&#8221; “unclean” and “evil.” For example, the Muslim website <a href="http://islamqa.info/en/ref/69777"><i>Islam Q&amp;A</i></a> says:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is not permissible for a Muslim to keep a dog, unless he needs this dog for hunting, guarding livestock or guarding crops…</p>
<p>With regard to keeping dogs, this is haraam [forbidden by God] and is in fact a major sin, because the one who keeps a dog, except those for which an exception has been made, will have two qiraats [a measure of rewards for good actions] deducted from his reward every day.</p>
<p>It is by the wisdom of Allaah that like calls to like and evil calls to evil. It is said that the kaafirs, Jews, Christians and communists in the east and the west all keep dogs, Allaah forbid. Each one takes his dog with him and cleans it every day with soap and other cleansing agents. But even if he were to clean it with the water of all the seas in the world and all the soap in the world, it would never become pure! Because its impurity is inherent, and inherent impurity cannot be cleansed except by destroying it and erasing it altogether.</p></blockquote>
<p>Another Islamic site, <a href="http://www.albalagh.net/qa/dogs_islam_prayer.shtml"><i>Albalagh</i></a><i>, </i>explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>Jibra&#8217;eel (Álayhi Salaam) said that we, the group of Angels do not enter a house wherein there is a dog or pictures. (Sahih Muslim Hadith no.3928)</p>
<p>In the light of these Ahaadith and other narrations it is not permissible to keep dogs as pets. The household is deprived of the Mercy of Allah Taãla.</p></blockquote>
<p>While this is from <a href="http://www.islamicconcern.com/dogs.asp"><i>Islamic Concern</i></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Religious traditions hold that if a dog &#8211; or woman &#8211; passes in front of you as you prepare to pray, it pollutes your purity and negates your prayer. Dogs are permissible as watchdogs or for other utilitarian purposes but not simply for companionship. Abou El Fadl says this zealous adherence to doctrine led one religious authority to advise a Muslim that his pet dog was evil and should be driven away by cutting off its food and water.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hasan Küçük, a city councillor for the Islam Democrats in the Hague, the Netherland’s third city, even <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2796/muslims-ban-dogs-europe">proposed that the city ban all dogs</a>, which was promptly rebuked by Paul ter Linden, the councillor for Geert Wilders’ PVV party, who told him: “In this country pet ownership is legal. Whoever disagrees with this should move to another country.”</p>
<p>What is interesting is the reaction – or rather lack thereof – of the animal rights movement, too afraid, if it means touching Islamic sensitivities, to speak up even for animals.</p>
<p>The Dutch Party for the Animals started the controversy by proposing to make the Hague more dog-friendly, meeting the strong opposition of Küçük, who in response called for dog ownership in the Hague to be criminalized.</p>
<p>The Dutch Party for the Animals, with 2 of the 150 seats in Holland’s House of Representatives, 1 of the 75 seats in the Senate and 20 seats in provincial and local councils, is the most successful party of its kind in the world.  If you search <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1T4ACAW_en___GB403&amp;q=Islam+site:www.partyfortheanimals.nl">“Islam” on its site</a>, you find the word only in reference to Geert Wilders or his PVV party, to castigate them for “unnecessarily” upsetting Muslims.</p>
<p>“Halal,” “Muslim” and “Islam” do not appear at all on the site of its British equivalent, the Animal Welfare Party (AWP), which describes itself as the &#8220;UK Political Party for People, Animals and the Environment” (but only when it does not offend Muslims).</p>
<p>Even considering only the two areas of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/enza-ferreri/halal-a-taste-of-terror/">halal</a> and treatment of dogs, there is plenty to keep a true political party or association for animal rights well occupied with the problems and threats that Islam generates for creatures. But clearly this does not happen.</p>
<p>A Google search I made on the Animal Welfare Party’s website in 2010 did return a result for “Islam.” The site’s only reference to Islam was on a <a href="http://www.animalscount.org/2010/06/10/dutch-party-for-the-animals-keeps-2-seats-in-parliament/">page, which has now been removed, commenting</a> on the outcome of the Dutch general election held in June that year.</p>
<p>The AWP people were “obviously shocked by the PVV victory” but congratulated the voters because they showed to be</p>
<blockquote><p>fed up with Christian politcs [sic] which only focused on protection of short-term human interests ahead of nature and the environment.</p>
<p>A coalition will be difficult, and fingers crossed it won’t be a coalition of VVD (right wing liberals), PVV (anti-islam party for freedom) and CDA (Christian Democrats) but rather a centrist (with Green Left) coalition.</p></blockquote>
<p>It appeared that for the AWP (which was then called “Animals Count”), being anti-Islam was a no-no, but being anti-Christianity was perfectly kosher.</p>
<p>They were more shocked by the victory of the “anti-islam party for freedom” (which is not its name, its English translation being “Party for Freedom”) than by the way Muslims treat animals in Holland.</p>
<p>The problem here is that both the UK and the Dutch animal parties have a problem in deciding &#8212; or maybe have already wrongly decided &#8212; who their enemies and allies are.</p>
<p>It all depends on what their goals are.</p>
<p>If their goal is political correctness, their friends are the Muslims (including Hasan Küçük, the Turkish-Dutch representative on the Hague city council calling for a ban on all the city&#8217;s dogs) and their enemies are the PVV.</p>
<p>If their goal is improving the animals&#8217; condition, then the exact reverse is the case: not only did Küçük oppose the Party for the Animals&#8217; proposal to make the Hague more dog-friendly by calling instead for the dogs&#8217; extermination (I wonder how else he could have banned them) or at least removal from their homes and human companions, but Paul ter Linden of the PVV told him what the Animals’ Party should have told him: here in Holland we love dogs and, if you don’t like it, leave.</p>
<p>He was the only one who defended the dogs, the only one who had the courage to stand up to the Muslims without fear of being called &#8220;Islamophobe.&#8221;</p>
<p>In substance, the Dutch self-proclaimed Party for the Animals supports the enemies of animals and attacks the protectors of animals.</p>
<p>I think that we&#8217;ll see more and more of these cases, in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Then we&#8217;ll see where the &#8220;animal defenders&#8221; really stand and whether they consider their Leftist ideology more important than the animals&#8217; well-being or not.</p>
<p>Just in the same way as <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/uk-muslim-paedophile-rings-are-epidemic.html">European police, social services</a>, <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/minority-german-children-bullied-by.html">school teachers and even parents are prepared to throw children under the bus</a>, so animal rights people are ready to sacrifice animals: not being considered racist or Islamophobic is more important for all of them.</p>
<p>That this is the case is obvious from the way groups for animal welfare are – and want to remain &#8211; blissfully ignorant of what Islam is, the threat that its growth poses to the West and in particular the danger that Islamization represents for animals.</p>
<p>There’s hardly any point in fighting for the advancement in the status of animals in law and public conscience when in a few decades our countries will regress to being dominated by a 7<sup>th</sup>-century cult replete with superstitions about black dogs and whose “religious” festivals are celebrated by <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/what-eid-teaches-moderate-muslims-kids.html">slaughtering millions of fully-conscious animals in front of children</a> who will quickly learn how to use a butcher’s knife.</p>
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		<title>Green Britain: Energy Blackouts Imminent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 04:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Fuel-Poverty-Action-Group-007.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207284" alt="Fuel-Poverty-Action-Group-007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Fuel-Poverty-Action-Group-007.jpg" width="229" height="163" /></a>The UK is facing its <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449055/Blackout-Britain-National-Grid-warns-risk-power-shortages-winter-highest-decade.html">greatest risk of blackouts since 2007/08</a> in the coming winter. The National Grid, responsible for balancing the country&#8217;s supply and demand of energy, last week has given this warning because Britain’s reserves of electricity have halved in 12 months.</span></b></p>
<p>The UK and the USA are in the same boat here. Both countries have governments that have – or pretend to have &#8212; fallen for the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory hook, line, and sinker.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration’s regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, which <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/us/politics/obama-administration-announces-limits-on-emissions-from-power-plants.html?hp&amp;_r=2&amp;"><i>The New York Times</i></a> has described as “an aggressive move by Mr. Obama to bypass Congress on climate change with executive actions he promised in his inaugural address this year,” have been denounced as part of the president’s “war on coal.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-climate-adviser-war-coal-exactly-what-s-needed_737807.html">White House climate adviser Daniel P. Schrag</a>, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, admitted in an interview with the paper that this is exactly what it is:</p>
<blockquote><p>The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The new rules will be aimed at new gas-fired power plants, but mostly at coal power plants, being the form of energy generation that emits most CO2.</p>
<p>According to a report released earlier this year by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/03/report-epa-rules-to-shut-down-more-than-280-coal-fired-units/#ixzz2hYUFmb25">over 280 coal-fired units are expected to close down</a> partly because of the new, stricter EPA regulations, 5 times more than the number predicted by the EPA itself. One of them is <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/09/epa-regs-shutter-new-englands-largest-coal-pant/#ixzz2hYTHTVaa">New England’s largest coal-fired power plant</a>.</p>
<p>Some say that the rules will kill the future of coal and raise electricity costs.</p>
<p>In Britain, skyrocketing utility bills and “fuel poverty” are already a reality. &#8220;Fuel poverty&#8221; is a new condition, one in which<b> </b>energy bill expenditure makes up 10% or more of the household&#8217;s net income<b>. </b>One in four<b> </b>British households is suffering from it. Some people have to choose to eat less in order to keep warm.</p>
<p>The exceptionally high gas and electricity bills are due to the fact that householders are obliged to subsidize ineffective “renewables,” like the totally useless wind farms that are now blotting the country’s landscape and seascape against the fierce but crushed opposition of the local residents.</p>
<p>The Renewable Obligations Order system, introduced by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 2002, forces companies supplying electricity to buy a proportion of their electricity from non-fossil sources. Since these are highly ineffective, the energy companies have to pay inflated prices, which they pass on to their unfortunate customers through their electricity bills.</p>
<p>In March 2003 the Blair government published an Energy White Paper. In its Section 4.7 it says <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.berr.gov.uk/files/file10719.pdf"><b>explicitly</b></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>We have introduced a Renewables Obligation for England and Wales in April 2002. This will incentivise generators to supply progressively higher levels of renewable energy over time.<b> The cost is met through higher prices to consumers</b>. By 2010, it is estimated that this support and Climate Change Levy (CCL) exemption will be worth <b>around £1 billion a year to the UK renewables industry</b>. [Emphases added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>It also estimated that meeting the CO2 reduction targets would increase household energy bills by up to 15%.</p>
<p>With the Climate Change Act of 2008 the UK government, by its own description, &#8220;passed legislation that introduces the world&#8217;s first long-term legally binding framework to tackle the dangers of climate change.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was an unprecedented piece of legislation, which <i>The Telegraph</i> journalist <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8131383/The-climate-change-scare-is-dying-but-do-our-MPs-notice.html">Christopher Booker</a>, author of books on the global warming scare, described as:</p>
<blockquote><p>by far the most expensive law in history, which commits Britain, uniquely in the world, to reducing its CO2 emissions by 80 per cent in 40 years. By the Government&#8217;s own estimates, this will cost up to £18 billion a year. Any hope that we could begin to meet such a target without closing down most of our economy is as fanciful as the idea that we can meet our EU commitment to generate 30 per cent of our electricity by 2020 from &#8216;renewable&#8217; sources, such as wind and solar.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many want that law scrapped. The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change has taken much more seriously the second part of its name than the first, and now the country is facing the consequences, with the first blackouts of possibly a long series, while fracking is hysterically opposed by environmentalists, who with their celebrity-filled protests, managed to stop it in some locations.</p>
<p>This is the paradox of the AGW theory of man-made climate change. Not only are UK pensioners suffering and dying from <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298246/UKs-coldest-spring-1963-claims-5-000-lives-Pensioners-worst-affected--experts-say-final-toll-horrendous.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">some of the coldest winters on record</a> – which refutes the theory, since temperatures haven’t increased with the risen levels of CO2 in the last 15 years, as the computer models based on the theory predicted &#8212; but they also may not be helped by an efficient energy system, providing the heating that could save their lives, because of policies dictated by the very same theory.</p>
<p>For years energy experts have warned of an impending energy shortage crisis in the UK due to the closure of many coal-based and gas-fired power plants, while new ones have not been built and the reliance on an astronomical number of newly-built wind farms to generate the necessary energy has proven a huge mistake.</p>
<p>The IPPC, the United Nations body responsible for research and policy recommendations on climate change, is a confused mixture of science and politics.</p>
<p>The IPPC comprises scientists and government officials, some of whom are scientists and some are not. There are two main types of IPCC documents: the reports written by scientists and the Summaries for Policy Makers which officials write on the basis of the scientists’ reports often in greatly altered and misrepresented form.</p>
<p>The Summaries for Policy Makers are usually the only IPCC documents that journalists and governments see. Repeatedly the scientists who wrote the original scientific essays referred to have complained that their views had been misunderstood and inaccurately reported in the documents for policy makers, invariably to make them appear more strongly in favour of the AGW theory than they actually are.</p>
<p>Even allowing for the remote possibility that there was some truth in that theory, whatever the reality about climate change, the policies of both the UK and the USA are nothing short of insane.</p>
<p>With China and India, the world’s most populous, fast-developing (and polluting) countries, with 40% of the planet&#8217;s human inhabitants between them, never subscribing to AGW theory &#8212; mainly supported by Western nations &#8212; and never accepting even the minimum restriction to their CO2 emissions because this would have hampered their economic growth, Britain’s and America’s attempt to cut down CO2 will only serve to damage their economies without helping the environment in any way, shape or form.</p>
<p>This is what <a href="http://freebeacon.com/krauthammer-obamas-intention-to-kill-coal-industry-is-nuts/">Columnist Charles Krauthammer</a> has recognized when he called Obama’s proposals “nuts.” A diagnosis which is hard to fault.</p>
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		<title>The Battle of the Burqa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 04:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Enza Ferreri]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the shocking practices in Sharia schools have Brits rethinking tolerance of Islamic attire.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cl.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206151" alt="cl" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cl-450x253.jpg" width="315" height="177" /></a>Britain is reaping the fruits of its multi-decennial multicultural policy. What is euphemistically called “tolerance” &#8211; and realistically “bending over backwards” &#8211; to Islam is showing its unwelcome effects.</p>
<p>If anyone doubts that Muhammadanism is a supremacist doctrine, this doubting Thomas should take a look at what’s happening in an English school currently in the news.</p>
<p>Britain&#8217;s first Muslim “free school” (that is, government-funded but outside local authority control), Al-Madinah School in the city of Derby, underwent a two-day (October 1-2) <a href="http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Derby-Muslim-school-closes-inspectors-visit/story-19873654-detail/story.html">inspection by officials</a> of the government’s education regulator Ofsted. The school has been shut during and after the inspection by its Principal allegedly “owing to a health and safety issue.”</p>
<p>This is how <a href="http://almadinahschool.org.uk/">Al-Madinah</a> describes itself:</p>
<blockquote><p>A strong Muslim ethos will give the school its uniqueness&#8230; At the center of our school is a community of pupils, able to enjoy learning in a caring Islamic environment.</p></blockquote>
<p>The school is said to be <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428958/Muslim-school-banned-pupils-singing-reading-fairy-tales-hardliners-took-control-ousted-headmaster-deputy.html">controlled by Islamic hardliners</a> who ban children from playing stringed instruments (forbidden by Islam), singing, except Islamic faith songs, and reading fairy tales, as these are &#8220;non-Islamic.&#8221;</p>
<p>The school’s former head Andrew Cutts-McKay and former deputy Suzanne Southerland claim they were &#8220;bullied, sidelined&#8221; and forced to leave by members of the school&#8217;s trust, which is predominantly Muslim.</p>
<p>Al-Madinah, established in September 2012, denies it. But only days before those claims, female teachers had alleged that they were told to sign new contracts forcing them to wear the hijab – covering head and neck &#8211; and forbidding jewellery, regardless of their religion. They had expressed concern about other practices, like banning non-halal food and forcing female pupils – even 4-year-olds &#8211; to sit at the back of the class away from boys.</p>
<p>Even devout Christian teachers were compelled to wear Islamic garb, and in the end quit the school.</p>
<p>One woman claimed she was told not to shake hands with male teachers to avoid “insult,” while another said that girls are allowed to have lunch only after boys have finished eating: “It is like being in any school in Pakistan. That is why it was founded, that is the idea,” she added.</p>
<p>An employee told <i>The Sunday Times </i>newspaper: “When teaching children the alphabet, you could not associate the letter &#8216;p&#8217; with pig.”</p>
<p>About half a dozen teachers, who risk their jobs if they don’t comply with the rules, are seeking legal advice from the National Union of Teachers, which commented: “It’s one thing to have a dress code which we can challenge and quite another to build it into a contract.”</p>
<p>The Union’s Sue Arguile explained: “We have always had a number of concerns about this school ever since it was first set up, as essentially they can do what they like.”</p>
<p>The problem with Al-Madinah is its “free school” status, which means that, although it received £1.4 million from the government and is expecting more, it sets its own rules, curriculums, dress codes, teachers&#8217; pay and conditions. In short, a lose-lose situation for the taxpayers, obliged to sign a blank check to the Islamization of their country.</p>
<p>“But,” Arguile points out, “forcing people to agree to contractual changes or face being out of work could breach employment law.”</p>
<p>The Derby school was already under investigation, the Department for Education revealed, before the allegations against it became public, followed by an immediate inspection. “We are waiting for Ofsted&#8217;s final report and considering all legal options,” a spokesman said.</p>
<p>Al-Madinah is not the only case. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437198/Wear-hijabs-class-Pupils-state-Islam-school-forced-cover-Muslim-headscarf.html">Another state-backed school</a>, this time in in Blackburn, has imposed strict rules under which pupils must “wear the hijab outside the school and at home, recite the Koran at least once a week” and not have stationery with “unIslamic images,” like pictures of pop stars.</p>
<p>And it was discovered that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424241/Islamic-schools-Britain-forcing-girls-young-11-wear-face-veils.html">many Islamic schools</a> in Britain force girls as young as 11 to wear burqas covering the whole body and face, sometimes with a mesh screen to see through, as the “desired dress code of a Muslim female,” while many others &#8212; including about a dozen state-funded schools &#8212; demand that female pupils cover their hair.</p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron said the government should back institutions on banning face-covering veils, as in this <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/09/30/Cameron-expresses-support-for-Muslim-veil-ban-in-schools-.html">BBC interview</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are a free country and people should be free to wear whatever clothes they like in public or in private.</p>
<p>But we should support those institutions that need to put in place rules so that those institutions can work properly.</p>
<p>So for instance in a school, if they want that particular dress code, I believe the Government should back them. The same for courts, the same for immigration.</p>
<p>Obviously, in court the jury needs to be able to look at someone&#8217;s face. I&#8217;ve sat on a jury, that&#8217;s part of what you do.</p>
<p>When someone is coming into the country, an immigration officer needs to see someone&#8217;s face.</p>
<p>In a school, it&#8217;s very difficult to teach unless you can look at your pupils in the eye.</p></blockquote>
<p>Cameron was referring to the recent case of a <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1142383/muslim-woman-must-remove-veil-in-court">London judge</a> who ordered a Muslim defendant and witness to remove the niqab &#8211; covering all the face except the eyes &#8211; throughout her evidence, while allowing her to wear it during the rest of the trial. He ruled that it’s crucial for jurors to see a witness&#8217;s face so they can assess her demeanour and expression in order to establish credibility, that some restrictions to Muslim garb are necessary, and that no tradition or practice is above the law.</p>
<p>He ended with a pun, “The niqab has become the elephant in the courtroom,” and called for Parliament or a higher court to provide a definitive statement on it.</p>
<p>Similar public unease has been manifested concerning hospital nurses wearing headscarves and veils.</p>
<p>It’s clear that a certain discontent with Islamic dress is growing in Europe. France in 2011 banned Muslim as well as non-Muslim face-covering clothing because it prevents the identification of a person, on the grounds of both security and social communication.</p>
<p>Ban opponents claim it breaches individual freedoms. It does, and so does having a number plate on your vehicle, so if you want to use your car for a get-away after a bank robbery you can’t. That’s a limitation on personal freedom we all must accept in order to live in a civilized society.</p>
<p>The French concern is totally justified. In June this year <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22811466">six men in burqas</a> raided London&#8217;s Selfridges department store, smashing glass cabinets and stealing high-value watches.</p>
<p>The same ban was attempted in Britain in 2010 with Conservative MP Philip Hollobone’s bill, unsuccessful due to claims that it would breach the Equality Act.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago the Italian Swiss canton of <a href="http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Burka_ban_approved_in_Italian-speaking_Switzerland.html?cid=36951992">Ticino voted in favour of a burqa ban</a>.</p>
<p>It will be a difficult battle, with two steps forward and one step back. In France the ban has caused riots and violence. Back in Britain, the city of Birmingham’s Metropolitan College, which had for some time had a policy forcing students to remove veils, hoodies and hats while on its premises to be identifiable for security reasons, <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-metropolitan-college-drops-controversial-5921560">was made to retract it</a> in September by a planned mass demonstration against “&#8217;Islamophobia” and an online petition signed by 9,000. A prospective student started the row by complaining to her local paper that she was being discriminated against.</p>
<p>While the debate over female Muslim attire has in recent weeks dominated UK headlines, a student in South London’s Bromley College, asked to remove her cap for identification and security reasons, <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/bloga.cfm/blog_id/50484/Student-refuses-to-remove-cap-in-Bromley-College-unless-Muslim-women-remove-their-headdresses">refused to do so</a> unless Muslim women removed their headdresses too, rightly complaining of double standards.</p>
<p>When defending their presumed “right” to act like Muslims, the followers of Muhammad sometimes let their guard down and reveal something about themselves.</p>
<p>Britain’s Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne, pointing out that the government should consider an Islamic dress ban, did something that you don’t see often. Very timidly, he hinted at reciprocity, a thorny issue for Muslim sensitivities, by saying:</p>
<p>That would apply to Christian minorities in the Middle East just as much as religious minorities here in Britain.</p>
<p>The chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation Mohammed Shafiq responded that he was &#8220;disgusted&#8221; by Browne&#8217;s comments.</p>
<p>What disgusted him? The proposed, very mild exception to the kid-glove treatment that Muslims receive over here or the slight indication that Christians should not be massacred over there?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sharia-law.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-201240" alt="sharia-law" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/sharia-law-433x350.jpg" width="260" height="210" /></a>What we insist on calling “immigration” from the Third World to Western European countries like Britain is a historically new phenomenon, for which a case can be made that other, more appropriate terms should be used &#8212; like “colonization” and “invasion.”</p>
<p>The definition of &#8220;colony,&#8221; from which the word “colonization” is derived, is: a) a body of people living in a new territory but maintaining ties with their homeland or b) a number of people coming from the same country, sharing the same ethnic origin or speaking the same language, who reside in a foreign country or city, or a particular section of it.</p>
<p>Either could apply to the people coming to live in Europe from Asia and Africa.</p>
<p>In reference to colonization, dictionaries add &#8220;relating to the developing world,&#8221; but this is only because colonization primarily occurred there in the past. Word meanings have to change to adapt to the new historic realities.</p>
<p>Similarly, the expressions &#8220;native&#8221; and &#8220;indigenous&#8221; previously referred to the original inhabitants of non-European continents, whereas now they are used to describe Germans, French, British, Swedes, Dutch and so on.</p>
<p>“Invasion” has three main meanings: a) the act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer; b) a large-scale onset of something injurious or harmful, such as a disease; c) an intrusion or encroachment, an incursion by a large number of people or things into a place or sphere of activity.</p>
<p>The latter is a perfectly apt description of what is happening in Western Europe.</p>
<p>Even “ethnic cleansing” could be used, since local populations are being replaced by different ethnic groups. London, for instance, is no longer a white-British-majority city, although mainstream media like the BBC and London’s own paper, the <i>Evening Standard</i>, barely mention it, to say nothing of the city mayor Boris Johnson.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The official United Nations definition of ethnic cleansing is &#8220;rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or <a title="Intimidation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation">intimidation</a> to remove from a given area persons of another ethnic or religious group.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Terry Martin has defined ethnic cleansing as &#8220;the forcible removal of an ethnically defined population from a given territory&#8221; and as &#8220;occupying the central part of a continuum between genocide on one end and nonviolent pressured ethnic emigration on the other end.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>European native populations are being replaced because many locals, tired of being colonized, flee their countries, cities or neighborhoods.</p>
<p>The proportion of white British Londoners fell drastically from 60 percent in 2001 to 44.9 per cent in 2011, partly due to the arrival of so many foreign nationals and partly to a mass exodus of white Britons. David Goodhart, director of Demos, writes in <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f475a4a8-4a15-11e2-a7b1-00144feab49a.html#axzz2cGYRSv1g"><i>The Financial Times</i></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Over the decade between the 2001 and 2011 censuses, the number of white British Londoners fell by more than 600,000 (17 per cent). That is about three times the fall over the previous census period, 1991 to 2001.</p>
<p>“Most of the leading academic geographers did not expect London to become a majority minority city for another 20 or 30 years – they underestimated the extent to which white British people have opted to leave an increasingly diverse London,” says Eric Kaufmann, an academic at Birkbeck College who is leading a project on “white flight” at Demos, the think-tank I lead.</p></blockquote>
<p>Six hundred thousand is a big city disappearing in just 10 years.</p>
<p>Are we sure that Londoners have abandoned their city because of this “cultural enrichment”? Looking at the areas where white flight mostly occurs provides reasonable evidence that they do: the most multi-racial districts tend to experience high levels of it.</p>
<p>What the large-scale influx of foreigners to Europe can no longer be called is “immigration.” Immigration is what you have when, for example, small groups of French go to live in Britain or the British in Spain.</p>
<p>What distinguishes invasion from immigration are three things: the volume of people involved in the movement, the span of time and frequency of these movements &#8212; the same number of people moving to live in a country over 4 years as opposed to 400 years &#8212; and the kind of people, in particular how similar or alien to the natives they are, and how easily or improbably they’ll integrate.</p>
<p>The sheer numbers of people who have come to live in the UK in the last few decades have negatively affected the indigenous population’s quality of life in a serious, profound way, even assuming that those people were all law-abiding, upright citizens, which they are not.</p>
<p>There are many areas where this is occurring, including jobs, social services, education and public health – with <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/tb-cases-rise-in-uk-due-to-immigration.html">tuberculosis constantly rising largely due to immigration</a>.</p>
<p>A classic example is the current housing shortage. The UK is suffering its worst housing crisis in modern history. Two or more household units cram into one dwelling, and young people, not being able to afford to move out, live with their parents.</p>
<p>It would be trivializing the issue to say that all housing problems are created by immigration, but it&#8217;s impossible to deny the obvious fact they are exacerbating it.</p>
<p>There are other factors contributing to the housing crisis, including the very low interest rates, which result in fewer forced sellers, and the welfare system that, by underwriting sometimes exorbitant rent bills for people who’ve never worked, indirectly encourage landlords to charge more, thus driving up both rental and purchase prices for those who do work.</p>
<p>But one of the main causes is the high number of immigrants increasing the demand for dwellings, while the supply remains low, therefore pushing up house buying and renting prices.</p>
<p>Liberal commentators say that there is no evidence for that, but the evidence is in the most self-explanatory statistics: the more people are in the country, the more properties are needed.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/migrants-and-housing-uk-experiences-and-impacts">Most immigrants rent, rather than buy, a property in the first 5-10 years since their arrival</a>, which inevitably increases rental prices for everyone, including the indigenous people.</p>
<p>Social housing is also in limited supply. Therefore, the immigrant population that takes a share of it deprives the natives. The percentages are roughly the same: 17 percent of British live in council-rented accommodations, 18 percent of foreigners do.</p>
<p>Leftists and charities would want the government to “build more affordable housing” and “enough homes to meet demand” rather than limit immigration, although it’s difficult to see why the government should act like a construction company in preference to a body that protects and defends the country’s borders.</p>
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		<title>Halal: A Taste of Terror</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/halal-meat-460.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199710" alt="halal-meat-460" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/halal-meat-460.jpg" width="279" height="201" /></a><a href="http://www.restoreaustralia.org.au/beware-halal/">&#8220;Beware! Halal food funds terrorists.” Stickers</a> with this slogan were sold in July by a candidate of the <a href="http://www.caboolturenews.com.au/news/one-nation-candidate-linked-islam-sticker-terroris/1958615/">Australian political party One Nation</a>, and condemned by the country’s Multicultural Affairs Minister Glen Elmes as &#8220;offensive, grotesque and designed to inflame hatred.&#8221; He added: &#8220;People are encouraged to put the stickers on food products in supermarkets, which isn&#8217;t just racial discrimination, it&#8217;s also vandalism.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/can-buying-food-contribute-to-terrorism/">What the sticker says, though, is apparently taking place in the USA</a> and <a href="http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/articles/10002592-muslim-association-of-canada-a-contributor-to-hamas-fund-collector-controls-halal-certification-in-quebec.html">Canada</a> where Campbell’s Soup and other companies have paid the <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/07/isna-nait-admit-ties-to-muslim-brotherhood-hamas.html">Hamas-linked</a> Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) for their halal certification, in <a href="http://www.cbn.com/tv/1397750218001">France,</a> where it is claimed that 60% of halal food is controlled by organizations belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and the so-called <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/halal-tax.html">“halal tax”</a> is the organization&#8217;s main source of funding. In <a href="http://www.boycotthalal.com/boycott-morrisons-for-directly-funding-zakat/">the UK,</a> major supermarket chain Morrisons is not only indirectly but even directly giving money to the Islamic National Zakat Foundation. I’ll explain what that is about in a minute.</p>
<p>“Ritual slaughter” is the slaughter of animals for food following religious prescriptions. The Muslim method to produce halal (“lawful” or “permissible”) meat consists of cutting fully conscious animals’ throat while the name of Allah is uttered and letting them bleed to death. The Jewish method of producing kosher meat shares with the Muslim one the fact that the animal is not stunned before being killed.</p>
<p>Laws of Western countries generally require that animals are stunned to render them unconscious before slaughter, but allow exceptions for both Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter.</p>
<p>Government advisory bodies, like the Farm Animal Welfare Council and the British Veterinary Association in the UK, have produced reports and made declarations saying that ritual slaughter causes ”intolerable cruelty” and have repeatedly demanded that it be banned.</p>
<p>The Muslim Council of Britain claims that most halal meat comes from stunned animals, but in reality a very low voltage is used in their electrocution, resulting in inadequate stunning.</p>
<p>This makes it objectionable to most non-Muslims on animal welfare grounds. Christians and others – Sikhs in Britain currently have an anti-halal petition &#8211; also consider the utterance of Allah’s name at the moment of slaughter as idolatry.</p>
<p>And a major concern is that halal meat is just no longer for Muslim consumption, but is sold to “infidels” in ever greater quantity the world over.</p>
<p>To get an idea of the extent of this phenomenon, one of the most influential halal certification bodies, the Halal Food Authority, now estimates that <a href="http://www.academia.edu/2290093/The_development_of_halal_and_kosher_meat_markets_in_the_UK">a staggering 25% of the entire UK meat market is halal</a>. But Muslims are about 5% of the UK population, therefore there is as much as 5 times more halal meat than Muslims.</p>
<p>In Britain halal meat is routinely served and sold to non-Muslims who don’t even know that they’re eating it, let alone want to do so. Schools, hospitals, hundreds of restaurants and pubs, sporting venues like Wembley football stadium and Ascot race course, all the main supermarkets chains – none excluded &#8211; fast-food and pizza chains have been drawn into what commercially must look like a win-win situation for them: Muslims complain and demand halal, non-Muslims don’t complain, adapt and tolerate. Especially if they’re not informed and food is not properly labelled.</p>
<p>In dhimmi Britain, when pork or other non-halal food is accidentally discovered in school menus, as recently happened,  it causes a fervor, hits headlines, <a href="http://meatinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/15616/Halal_lamb_burgers_removed_from_school_menus.html">the food is immediately removed</a> and the responsible sacked, but it&#8217;s nearly impossible to have halal meat &#8211; which non-Muslims don&#8217;t want &#8211; removed from schools or at least not served to unbelievers. <a href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/10334813.Halal_meat_served_in_three_quarters_of_council_supported_schools/">In an increasing number of schools halal is the only meat served</a>. Is the only way to ban halal food in schools to &#8220;contaminate&#8221; it with pork, as someone suggested?</p>
<p>What’s happening with halal is that we are experiencing for the first time in the West Islamization on a large scale. Great numbers of people are forced to live according to Sharia law whether they like it or not, which is the essence of Islam and its supremacist nature.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/islam/petition-against-halal-meat">Christian Concern</a> reported the words of the Operation Nehemiah Halal Campaign, run by the Barnabas Fund:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is an open campaign by Islamic food agencies to integrate halal into the mainstream market and to extend it to non-Muslims. The World Halal Forum held its annual conference in London earlier this month (November), and has identified the UK as a pilot project for halal in Europe…</p>
<p>The spread of halal is often part of the commitment to Islamic mission (dawa) and the Islamisation of non-Muslim societies. The imposition of sharia practices on non-Muslims may be interpreted as an act of Islamic supremacy.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That it is a question of supremacy and economic profit and not religious compliance is shown by the fact that Islam specifically exempts its faithful from the obligation to eat halal food if none is available:</p>
<blockquote><p>He hath only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful. <a href="http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/verses/002-qmt.php#002.173" target="_blank">Quran (002:173)</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Every time you drive around London you are subjected to the sight of myriad halal signs, a constant reminder of the transformation of Britain into an Islamic country. You can even measure this process of Islamization by the number of halal signs that you see multiply in the same streets and areas.</p>
<p>If women in the hijab and burka are the visible representation of Muslim presence in the West, halal signs are the visible symbol of Muslim supremacism taking hold of it – at least women who veil themselves don’t impose their dress code on others.</p>
<p>We are witnessing a Muslim takeover of an increasing share of the food industry and other industries, with consequences on the job market of Britain, a nation with a high level of unemployment, especially among the young. Halal products include not just meat, but also a long list of goods containing slaughterhouse by-products like gelatin and collagen, which are ingredients in many various foodstuffs – from Easter eggs to cat food &#8211; cosmetics, toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and other products.</p>
<p>It is a multi-billion dollars industry, and growing.</p>
<p>All halal products require certification by a Muslim agency, which the agency is paid for.</p>
<p>The principle of &#8220;zakat&#8221; in Islamic law makes it obligatory for all Muslims to give 2.5% of their income to charity – only in aid of their coreligionists, of course. Zakat has to be distributed among 8 categories of recipients, one of which is the jihadists fighting in Allah’s cause. From <a href="http://www.missionislam.com/knowledge/zakat.htm">Mission Islam</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Zakat can be given in the path of Allah. By this is meant to finance a Jihad effort in the path of Allah, not for Jihad for other reasons. The fighter (mujahid) will be given as salary what will be enough for him. If he needs to buy arms or some other supplies related to the war effort, Zakat money should be used provided the effort is to raise the banner of Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p><span><span>A</span><span style="color: #000000;">ccording to Islamic law, it would not be permissible, or &#8220;halal,&#8221;</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"> <span style="color: #333333;">for Islamic organizations providing halal certification not to pay zakat, which <span style="color: #000000;">under Islamic law </span>is obligatory for all Muslims, on the fees they charge.</span></span></p>
<p>Therefore, whenever you buy one of the many halal-certified products increasingly found in our Western countries, even without your knowledge and against your will, you are indirectly contributing to Islamic terrorists, killers of Christians in the Middle East, al-Qaeda-linked groups and so on. Buy halal and you fund jihad against Israel.</p>
<div><span><span>Many Islamic &#8220;charities&#8221; have known links to terrorism and Islamic extremism. I</span><span style="color: #000000;">n early July the Gatestone Institute published a report documenting the many links discovered between the </span></span><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3792/islamic-relief-worldwide-terrorism" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: #000000;">Islamic Relief Worldwide charity, with headquarters in the UK, and terror groups</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> with an anti-Western agenda. </span><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3792/islamic-relief-worldwide-terrorism" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><span>Islamic Relief Worldwide</span></span></span></a> (IRW) consists of a &#8220;family of fifteen aid agencies&#8221; which &#8220;aim to alleviate the suffering of the world&#8217;s poorest people.&#8221; What looks like an innocuous &#8212; indeed philanthropic &#8212; charity is, according to this report, “an extremist organization with a pro-terror agenda&#8230; [which] has worked with a significant number of organizations linked to terrorism.” Western governments, the United Nations and the European Union should be more careful about whom they donate their money to, since they all gave tens of millions of dollars to IRW, whose most important branches include Islamic Relief UK and Islamic Relief USA. The report says:</div>
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<div>IRW&#8217;s accounts show that it has partnered with a number of organizations linked to terrorism and that some of charity&#8217;s trustees are personally affiliated with extreme Islamist groups that have connections to terror.</div>
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<div>Those organizations and groups, over the years, have included Hamas and Hamas-related bodies like Al Wafa and Al Tzalah; terrorists in Chechnya; al-Qaeda; the Yemeni Al-Eslah organization, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood; terrorist and Muslim Brotherhood groups operating in various European countries; and many more.</div>
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<div>What makes IRW, which is one of the world’s largest and most influential Islamic charities, more dangerous is that it has acquired legitimacy among Western politicians and public figures. Even heir to the British throne Prince Charles has expressed support and appeared at IRW events. But there has been very little scrutiny of IRW and its branches.</div>
<p>In sum, although halal is on its surface an animal cruelty concern, it is also a crucial area of conflict between the West and those who want to force Islam, literally, down our throats. It also empowers Muslims culturally, ideologically, politically and, last but not least, economically, in a terrifying way.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can it turn back the clock on the U.K.'s demise? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ukip.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198481" alt="ukip" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ukip-450x280.jpg" width="315" height="196" /></a>Beside the birth of Prince George, the most significant event to take place in Britain over the last few months has been the incredible rise of a small party opposed to immigration, multiculturalism, the European Union, same-sex marriage &#8212; in short, all the things loved by the main parties and ruining Britain.</p>
<p>Coming almost from nowhere, with support of barely 5% of the population, <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/rotherham-by-election-ukip-2nd-bnp-3rd.html">the UK Independent Party (UKIP) had a historical victory in November 2012</a>, achieving a record second place in the by-election held in the northern town of Rotherham to replace the resigning local Member of Parliament. It was the highest percentage of the vote ever achieved by UKIP in any parliamentary election: 21.8%.</p>
<p>This &#8220;safe seat&#8221; was previously held by Labor, which has provided the town’s MPs since 1933.</p>
<p>Another &#8220;far-right&#8221; party, the British National Party (BNP), came third, following the extreme-left, Islamophile Respect and the Conservatives.</p>
<p>The fact that the Labor-run Rotherham Council had removed children from a foster home only because the foster couple are members of UKIP played a role in the election results. The thought-police behavior of the council nauseated many.</p>
<p>Rotherham was also one of the numerous English towns where Muslim pedophile gangs were allowed to prey on white girls without being disturbed by local police, social services or the media for 20 years.</p>
<p>This shameful neglect of duty and cover-up, recently brought to light, may have won supporters for the BNP, which first alerted the public to the scandal years ago, but was ignored amid accusations of racism.</p>
<p>Then in February, in another by-election, UKIP did even better, <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/eastleigh-most-vote-anti-gay-marriage.html">polling 27.8% of the votes</a>, coming in a close second to the Liberal Democrats, and pushing the not-so-conservative Conservative Party into third place.</p>
<p>In that by-election, in Eastleigh, southern England, 55% of all votes went to candidates who opposed the new same-sex marriage law about to be introduced in Britain. Many blamed the Conservative Party’s third place on its leader, Prime Minister David Cameron, who pushed for that law, the same man who had called UKIP supporters &#8220;closet racists, loonies, nutters and fruitcakes.&#8221;</p>
<p>And finally, in what was described by UKIP leader Nigel Farage as a &#8220;game changer,&#8221; reshaping British politics possibly forever and making it no longer a three-party, but four-party system, the <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/uk-election-triumph-of-real-conservatism.html">UKIP stormed the May local elections</a> throughout England and Wales, getting a quarter of the vote nationally, with an astonishing gain in number of seats from 8 to 147.</p>
<p>While someone described the Conservative Party in the coalition government as being on the left of the U.S. Democrats, there have been comparisons made between UKIP and the Tea Party.</p>
<p>Alas, the UKIP, in its ascent to power, has undergone a transformation. Its policy to put an end to the age of &#8220;mass uncontrolled immigration&#8221; through a 5-year-freeze on immigration and a cap of 50,000 people per annum on future immigration, its main selling point, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/03/ukip-immigration-policy-under-review">is under review</a>.</p>
<p>Its positions on Islam have increasingly shown signs of the same battered wife syndrome that has long affected the British elites vis-à-vis the religion of peace, to the point that UKIP is now indistinguishable on this issue from the three mainstream parties &#8212; Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats.</p>
<p>A revealing example was a <a href="http://www.ukip.org/newsroom/blog/entry/ukip-candidate-visits-mosque-snubbed-by-pupils">UKIP politician’s announced visit to a mosque</a> in Scotland, the destination of a school trip that was opposed by almost a third of the schoolchildren’s parents. The man, Jonathan Stanley, said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I am in no way condemning these parents, but I do not agree with this decision, and so I want to go and reassure the Muslim community.</p></blockquote>
<p>Contrast this with the position of the BNP, whose <a href="http://scotlandsbnp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/ukip-edinburgh-mosque-visit.html">Scottish organiser backed the parents</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unlike UKIP, we fully back the growing number of parents who we feel are saying No to their children being taken to mosques, as if Islam is a part of Scottish heritage and culture, it is not. They are told all about the wonders of Islam, but there is no mention of Islam`s horrific Sharia law, no mention of women being classed as second rate beneath men, as per scriptural understanding. It`s all about cultural conditioning.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem with the BNP, though, is that it’s often been accused of having anti-Semitic and racist elements in its midst and even leadership.</p>
<p>How can UKIP take such a nonchalant approach to mosques, when we know that a high number of them are a hotbeds of Islamism and jihad?</p>
<p>Only Saturday, July 27th, the <a href="http://kafircrusaders.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/east-london-mosque-to-host-terrorist-supporters-fundraiser-sat-27th-july/">East London Mosque</a> hosted a fundraiser for Cageprisoners, an <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/east-london-mosque-to-host-imam-who-supports-jihad-terror.html">Islamic charity for Muslim terrorists</a> in prison, including those held at Guantanamo, calling for them to be freed.</p>
<p>These are busy days for British jihadists and counter-jihadists. This is the same mosque about which George Whale of Liberty GB sent a <a href="http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5941-provocative-street-prayers-outside-the-east-london-mosque">letter of protest to two MPs</a>, which complained about the hundreds of people praying outside the mosque and occupying the pavement, something that has been going on for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/24/multiculturism-hope-secularism-religion">at least the past three years</a>.</p>
<p>Liberty GB – to which I belong – was formed last March to fill the gap in British politics that exists between the UKIP, a clear Islam appeaser, and parties like the BNP with a less-than-clean reputation.</p>
<p>The party stands for Christian civilization, human rights, animal welfare, capitalism, and against jihad, multiculturalism and mass immigration, and it will contest the 2014 European Elections with its chairman Paul Weston as a candidate.</p>
<p>Liberty GB is part of the increasing British resistance to the Left’s imposition of its various politically correct agendas. This movement includes patriotic, nationalist groups and parties misleadingly called “far right.”</p>
<p>Paul Weston told me:</p>
<blockquote><p>The rise of so called “right-wing” parties is logical and inevitable. If the Left control the institutions and the Left carry out the policies of mass immigration and divisive multiculturalism, then they can only realistically expect others to resist this path to national suicide. It is not about “right-wing ideology” to combat the Left on this issue, it is about national, racial and cultural survival – a perfectly natural, moral and civilised reaction to an unnatural, immoral and barbaric process propagated by the wicked and genocidally racist Left.</p></blockquote>
<p>Weston is not new to Americans. He was in the U.S. early last year and made a speech hosted by Act for America in New York, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWv6pT51w8">warning America not to go down the same path Britain has taken</a>. He’s planning another visit to the States in September or October.</p>
<p>Could the softening of UKIP’s positions explain its <a href="http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/7815">sharp decline in opinion polls</a>, already <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/12/ukip-opinion-_n_3424891.html">evident in June</a> and now even more pronounced? It was supported by 18% of respondents in May, 12% in June and now just 7%.</p>
<p>Could UKIP be repeating the mistake the GOP made in choosing half-conservative Romney as a presidential candidate? Maybe people want a clear, uncompromising message and don’t trust U-turns.</p>
<p>There has recently been in Britain a proliferation of nationalist groups and parties.</p>
<p>One of the best-known is the English Defence League (EDL), which is not a party, but a street protest movement. Among the parties, in addition to those already mentioned, are the British Democratic Party and English Democrats, and among the non-party groups are Britain First and England National Resistance.</p>
<p>This fragmentation is a good thing and a bad thing. On one hand, it is a sign of excessive discord and therefore weakness, which may be the result of the difficulty of doing political work when one is constantly accused of the worst thought crimes under the sun.</p>
<p>On the other hand, this mushrooming of truly conservative organizations is a sign of how dissatisfied the British public is with the vast shift of the nation’s politics to the extreme left. Being Christian in the UK is regarded as something to hide, to be ashamed of. The “culture wars” that in America are still being fought are over in Britain, having been won by the “progressives.”</p>
<p>The birth of future the king, Prince George, may indicate that some elements of traditional British culture and institutions are still alive and kicking, the monarchy being the best example.</p>
<p>But we’re not so lucky. Even that is under threat of corruption from the <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/islamic-republic-of-great-britain.html">Islamophile monarch-in-waiting Prince Charles</a>, who doesn’t recognize the primacy, let alone uniqueness, of Christianity, and from the new same-sex marriage law, which would lead to problematic legitimacy of heirs to the throne.</p>
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		<title>An Island in Revolt: A Window into Europe&#8217;s Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2011_Italy_BenEssay.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197396" alt="People fleeing unrest in Tunisia are escorted by Guardia di Finanza police officers as they arrive at the southern Italian island of Lampedusa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2011_Italy_BenEssay-450x325.jpg" width="315" height="227" /></a>One could be justified for being perplexed about Pope Francis’s choice of Lampedusa, a tiny island off the coast of Sicily and Italy&#8217;s &#8212; indeed Europe&#8217;s &#8212; southernmost tip, as the destination of his very first official visit, which took place on July 8. Not a world capital, not a place in some important geopolitical region of the globe.</p>
<p>What is significant, even symbolic, about Lampedusa is its geography: The small island, with a population of 5,000, is positioned in the middle of the Mediterranean, making it close to the Muslim world, even closer to Tunisia than Sicily.</p>
<p>These two conditions explain what’s been happening to Lampedusa for over a decade, and how it could be a miniature model of the whole of Europe in the not-too-distant future.</p>
<p>Since at least 2001, Lampedusa has been a primary entry point into Europe for immigrants, mostly illegal from Africa. Tens of thousands have been landing here over the years, peaking during the &#8220;Arab Spring.&#8221; In 2011, according to a report of the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A-HRC-23-46-Add3_en.pdf">United Nation’s Human Rights Council</a>, “[a]pproximately 60,000 irregular migrants arrived [in Italy] as part of the 2011 influx from North Africa,” mainly from Tunisia and Libya. Around <a href="http://afrocosmopolitan.com/italy-60000-immigrants-received-in-2011">50,000 of these came to Lampedusa</a>.</p>
<p>Over 10,000 received residence permits on humanitarian grounds, because the Italian government declared a state of humanitarian emergency in February 2011, subsequently extended until December 2012.</p>
<p>In Lampedusa, the <a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/07/08/lampedusa:_gateway_to_europe/en1-708563">temporary immigrant reception center</a> where outsiders were accommodated and sent to other facilities where they could request asylum, became so overcrowded that thousands of people had to sleep outdoors and in shelters provided by the local parish and ordinary Lampedusans.</p>
<p>The immigrants, among whom were suspected escaped prisoners, were given temporary visas and then gradually transferred to mainland Italy and other EU countries, but there were many times when the <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/lampedusa-italy-part-i-what-happened-in.html">number of newcomers was higher than that of the locals</a>.</p>
<p>On those occasions, when natives were outnumbered, there were tales of local women having to be accompanied everywhere to protect them from immigrants&#8217; unwanted attention, sacked shops, apartment doors forced open, people returning home to find Tunisians sitting at the dining table eating and, after the intruders&#8217; departure, some householders even discovering faeces inside saucepans.</p>
<p>The island became what one newspaper called &#8220;a huge immigrant camp.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maybe expecting to find a hotel reception and with scarcely a thought about the crisis they were creating on the small island, the illegal immigrants were complaining, as in the video below, describing what they found in Lampedusa as &#8220;shameful&#8221; and pontificating &#8220;the reception is zero&#8221; as if they were giving a hotel review on TripAdvisor:</p>
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<p>This video confirms what Lampedusa Mayor Bernardino De Rubeis said: &#8220;We have here young Tunisians who arrogantly want everything immediately, just like criminals, ready to endanger our lives and theirs.&#8221; He later added: &#8220;We&#8217;re in a war, and the people will react. There are people here who want to go out into the streets armed with clubs.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reception center was burnt down twice by the migrants, during inmate riots in February 2009 and in September 2011. The media blamed everyone for the arson: the Italian government, the provisional Tunisian government, the EU; all except the actual perpetrators. In April 2011 the illegals set fire to a guest house where they were staying at the expense of a charity organization, and threw rocks at the police.</p>
<p>Without the reception center, they had to be accommodated in hotels and tourist villages, which are virtually the place&#8217;s only economic resources.</p>
<p>Aliens overwhelmed the 5,000-inhabitants island and took advantage of their hospitality, subjecting the place to unusually high levels of violence and crime. Lampedusa is a micro-representation of what will happen to Europe if both current Muslim immigration and European demographic trends continue, when the proportion of natives and migrants will be the same in Europe as it’s been in Lampedusa. The islanders’ reaction, a small civil war, could also represent a prediction of future continent-wide events.</p>
<p>At the height of the immigration flux, confronted with an unprecedented crisis and left to their own devices to deal with it, the people of Lampedusa used &#8220;direct action&#8221; methods.</p>
<p>They stopped the Italian Coast Guard patrol boat, loaded with still more &#8220;rescued&#8221; North Africans. Women occupied the harbour and docks, chained themselves, overturned wheelie bins and blocked the road. Fishermen pulled boats to the entrance to the harbour. &#8220;Nobody enters here any more,&#8221; the women shouted from the quay where patriotic flags were flying. To chants of &#8220;freedom!&#8221; they raised a banner: &#8220;We are full.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/lampedusa-tiny-island-migrants-flooded.html">The island descended into chaos</a>. An urban riot occurred, with violent clashes between hundreds of Tunisians, police and locals. Many were injured. Three Lampedusans tried to assault their mayor, who barricaded himself in his office with a baseball bat for self-defence, while outside dozens were protesting against him and the immigrants, who wandered around the streets after having burnt down the reception center.</p>
<p>Islanders attacked journalists and TV crews. Tunisians and Lampedusans threw rocks at each other after illegals had threatened to explode gas cylinders near a petrol pump.</p>
<p>The reality is that this was a pseudo-humanitarian crisis: the illegals overwhelmingly were not refugees but economic migrants. What’s for years been called an &#8220;emergency&#8221; continues. <a href="http://www.corriere.it/cronache/13_luglio_09/lampedusa-riprendono-sbarchi-migranti_6d7e66c8-e868-11e2-ae02-fcb7f9464d39.shtml">Every day there are new arrivals</a>.</p>
<p>The number of immigrants to Italy from the Mediterranean is <a href="http://www.lettera43.it/cronaca/lampedusa-papa-francesco-in-visita-sull-isola_43675101621.htm">growing</a>. In the first 6 months of 2013, 7,800  of them arrived on Italy&#8217;s southern coasts, compared to 3,500 in the first 6 months of 2012. About three quarters landed on Lampedusa from Africa, the rest disembarked on Italy&#8217;s south-eastern coast in Apulia from Greece and Turkey.</p>
<p>The Pope, unfortunately, seems to have gone to Lampedusa in order to make everybody feel guilty for the immigrants, those lost at sea and the survivors. He condemned the “globalisation of indifference”; he talked about &#8220;the frontier of the desperate&#8221; and tragedies of people crossing the sea to seek a better life.</p>
<p>His sermon’s been received with mixed reactions. While Italy’s Prime Minister <a href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2013-07-15/immigrazione-letta-impegno-attuare-150533.shtml?uuid=AbmItQEI">Enrico Letta</a> has promised to put into practice the Holy Father’s appeal through more European co-operation (nothing new here, Italy has unsuccessfully tried for years to pass the buck to Europe), the political Right hasn’t been so keen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lettera43.it/cronaca/chicchitto-correge-il-papa-sull-immigrazione_43675101773.htm">Fabrizio Cicchitto</a>, of Silvio Berlusconi’s party, PDL, pointed out that religious preaching is one thing, but a country’s management of such a complex and even intractable problem as illegal immigration &#8212; further aggravated by the presence of criminal groups &#8212; is another.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lettera43.it/politica/il-leghista-boso-felice-se-i-barconi-affondano_43675101851.htm">Erminio Boso</a> of the secessionist, “far-Right” Northern League has been more outspoken: “I don’t care about what the Pope did. Indeed, I’m asking him to give land and money for the extra-comunitari [immigrants from outside the European Union]. I’m defending my own land.”</p>
<p>The Italian blog <a href="http://diavolineri.net/ospitalieri/immigrazione-in-vaticano-vige-arresto-e-respingimento/">Diavoli Neri</a> has made the interesting observation that the Vatican City State’s law declares that those found in its territory without authorization may be expelled, subject to fine or imprisonment. Further evidence, it concludes, that the Papal sermon, as so often, was beautiful and touching, but government laws are another matter.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.lettera43.it/politica/radio-padania-sul-papa-l-ira-degli-ascoltatori_43675101691.htm">Northern Italian radio</a> phone-in program aired irate messages from its audience: &#8220;I would have expected a few words [from the Pope] for those who are killed and raped by them [the immigrants]&#8220;; “As a Catholic I’m outraged. I&#8217;ve never heard this or another pope worry for the massacres that they commit&#8221;; &#8220;We have to prevent them from coming here. Let&#8217;s shut everything up and start thinking as a macro-region.”</p>
<p>Much of the immigration debate in Italy centers on whether to give <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/politics-and-islam-in-dhimmi-europe.html">citizenship to Italian-born children of immigrants</a>, a worrying prospect considering that one third of the so-called &#8220;new Italians&#8221; are Muslim.</p>
<p>Particularly vociferous in support of the proposal is the Minister for Integration, Congolese <a href="http://www.lettera43.it/politica/cecile-kyenge-esiste-uno-ius-soli-temperato_43675101738.htm">Cecile Kyenge</a>, who claims that this would &#8220;acknowledge a path to integration of the parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Italians should look more closely at the experience of countries with a longer history of Third-World immigration, like Britain, where Muslim immigrants of second and third generation are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540895/Young-British-Muslims-getting-more-radical.html">more devout, orthodox and radicalized</a> <a href="http://dvmx.com/British_Muslim_Youth.pdf">than their parents and grandparents</a>. Something similar happens in <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-growing-following-in-germany-the-dangerous-success-of-radical-young-clerics-a-816642.html">Germany</a>. Rather than a &#8220;path to integration&#8221; we witness a “path to Islamization.”</p>
<p>Either Kyenge doesn’t know what’s going on in the rest of Europe – where the policies she recommends are bringing to ruin entire countries – or she knows it very well, in which case she is a dangerous woman.</p>
<p>It’s already taking place in Italy too: among the hundreds of second- and third-generation immigrants leaving Europe to fight alongside the jihadist rebels in Syria there are 45-50 who <a href="http://diavolineri.net/ospitalieri/siria-con-i-terroristi-oltre-50-immigrati-di-seconda-generazione-italiani/">lived in Italy</a>.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the lesson from the Lampedusa experience is that there’s a limit to what indigenous populations can take. While it’s true that the most common reaction of native Europeans to Third-World non-military invasion so far has been leaving the city or country where this colonization occurs, it may not stay like this forever. There could sooner or later be a breaking point.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sharia-law1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196491" alt="sharia-law1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sharia-law1-450x297.jpg" width="270" height="178" /></a>Over the last weekend there have been two more street attacks on soldiers in Britain, one of which was fatal. </span></b></p>
<p>On Saturday, the Yorkshire town of Barnsley in northern England honored soldiers with parades and celebrations for its Armed Forces Day. One of the soldiers, who had returned from the Falkland Islands just hours before, was <a href="http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/article/6709/soldier-brutally-attacked-in-street">brutally assaulted</a> at around midnight when he was getting home. He was jumped from behind, knocked unconscious and then repeatedly stamped and kicked in the head and face, and left with a concussion, injuries and bruises.</p>
<p>He is a 28-year-old corporal who has <a href="http://www.wearebarnsley.com/news/article/3053/barnsley-soldier-brutally-attacked-hours-after-armed-forces-celebrations">served in Afghanistan and Iraq</a>.</p>
<p>In the early hours of Sunday morning, 26-year-old newlywed ex-soldier <a href="http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/10532976.UPDATED__Three_under_arrest_after_Moreton_soldier_is_killed_in_street_attack/">David Ryding</a> was attacked in the Warwickshire town of Rugby, in central England, suffering head injuries. He died in hospital almost 24 hours later. Three men have been arrested.</p>
<p>What is missing from these reports? Any information about the suspects, except their ages. The word &#8220;Muslim,&#8221; which, in view of the beheading of Drummer Lee Rigby by self-confessed jihadists, may spring to mind, is notably absent, and can only be found in the comments to the articles. Also noteworthy is that these incidents were only reported in local news.</p>
<p>Readers, judging by their comments, are suspicious of the media&#8217;s suppression of information: “If this were an attack by whites on a muslim it would be on BBC news, lead story &#8211; fact.” Another: “I bet it was Muslims who attacked him, but the media have left this part out because of community tensions.”</p>
<p>And:</p>
<blockquote><p>It might be a random attack but the total lack of info in the rest of the media is pretty weird. After Drummer Rigby you&#8217;d think any incident with a soldier attacked the media would want to make sure everybody knew it wasn&#8217;t a jihadist attack if it wasn&#8217;t but this &#8211; total silence.</p></blockquote>
<p>The media may or may not know more about the identities and religious affiliations of the suspects. But it is their reluctance to even mention the elephant in the room, the self-evident similarity with the previous, recent street killing of a soldier, that makes such coverage suspicious and, frankly, surreal.</p>
<p>The common excuse for this kind of censorship is the wish to avoid indirectly inciting <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woolwich-backlash-ten-attacks-on-mosques-since-murder-of-drummer-lee-rigby-8633594.html">anti-Muslim attacks, that have increased</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/28/woolwich-murder-200-islamophobic-incidences">since Lee Rigby’s murder</a>.</p>
<p>A noble intention, I’m sure. It’s a pity that these same media outlets don’t take the same prudential attitude when it comes to trumpeting, say, how &#8220;Islamophobic&#8221; the British government has allegedly been in its unjust wars against Islam in Iraq and Afghanistan, or how racist the UK police and public allegedly are. In those cases the media don’t seem to be so concerned about possible “backlashes” against non-Muslims or whites.</p>
<p>Nor is the mainstream media worried about having in the UK such a large, non-assimilated immigrant population from alien cultures (one of which, Islamic culture, could hardly be more antithetical to British and, indeed, Western civilization), which may at any moment instigate serious, even lethal, conflicts.</p>
<p>There is an increasing polarization between Britons and Muslims. A <a href="http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/fbvrufy6ra/Dr-Matthew-Goodwin-University-of-Nottingham-YouGov-Survey-Results-Extremism-In-Britain-130526.pdf">recent opinion poll</a> compared answers given by respondents in November 2012 with late May 2013.</p>
<p>In 2012, 50 percent agreed that “There will be a &#8216;clash of civilizations&#8217; between British Muslims and native white Britons”; in 2013, 59 percent did.</p>
<p>The number of those who agreed with “British Muslims pose a serious threat to democracy” rose from 30 to 34 percent.</p>
<p>In short, it’s not just the “far-right”  that is “Islamophobic” now in the UK.</p>
<p>Terrorism is not the only problem by any stretch of the imagination. The Brits are not too impressed by the Muslim pedophile rings which have become an <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/uk-muslim-paedophile-rings-are-an-epidemic.html">epidemic</a>, or the way <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/mosques-are-the-battleground-of-the-war-between-islam-and-the-west/">mosques</a> disrupt their own neighbourhoods &#8212; through <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/mosques-are-the-battleground-of-the-war-between-islam-and-the-west/">parking jihad</a>, general harassment, vandalism, etc. &#8212; and drive them to move out, or the <i>de facto</i> imposition of sharia law on them by the selling and serving of <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/halal-meat-first-step-to-islamization.html">halal meat</a> to unsuspecting non-Muslims.</p>
<p>The response of the Establishment to this rise in anti-Muslim feelings has been more of the same with a vengeance, intensifying, if anything, repression of the politically incorrect.</p>
<p>Following the Woolwich beheading, there has been a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330180/Woolwich-attacks-Man-charged-making-racist-anti-religious-Facebook-comments-British-soldier-s-death.html">crackdown on several social network users</a> who have been warned, charged, arrested and released on bail for making “inflammatory” and anti-Muslim comments on Twitter and Facebook. The police said people should be careful about what they write on Twitter as the “consequences could be serious.”</p>
<p>Two of the men detained were organising an anti-Islam protest in Bristol and made racist and “anti-religious” remarks. Anti-religious: I wonder if they would have been arrested for insulting Christianity?</p>
<p>Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are now considered by the British Home Secretary to be public enemies, holders of opinions that are &#8220;not conducive to the public good,&#8221; and banned from even entering the country.</p>
<p>The English Defence League (EDL), an organization demonized under normal circumstances for daring to fight against the Islamization of Britain, has been more than ever targeted by authorities.</p>
<p>Two of its leaders, Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll, <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4989755/edl-leaders-arrested-during-lee-rigby-march.html">have been arrested</a> practically for attempting to walk too close to a mosque, although the official excuse was “for obstructing the police.”</p>
<p>The media, predictably, are doing their bit. The usual suspects, like <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/23/woolwich-attack-anti-muslim-reprisals"><i>The Guardian</i></a>, RT and Sky News, are doing their best to <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1094547/woolwich-edl-protests-as-mosques-targeted">create an association</a> in the mind of the public between EDL peaceful demonstrations, a lawful expression of free speech, and attacks on mosques or Muslims, which are criminal acts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-07-01/channel-4-exec-broadcasting-muslim-call-to-prayer-reflects-how-islam-is-flourishing-in-uk">Channel 4</a>, the UK’s major TV network, has gone even further. It has announced that it’s going to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer throughout Ramadan, which began Tuesday, 9 July.</p>
<p>Channel 4’s head of factual programming, <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4992722/Channel-4-plans-to-screen-Muslim-call-to-prayer-every-day-during-Ramadam-as-its-more-relevant-than-Diamond-Jubilee.html">Ralph Lee</a>, has excellent reasons for doing so. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>And let’s not forget that Islam is one of the few religions that’s flourishing, actually increasing in the UK. Like Channel 4’s target audience, its followers are young. It’s recently been reported that half of British Muslims are under 25.</p></blockquote>
<p>That nice bit of demographic information will cheer us all up, Ralph. He added that the broadcasting is “a deliberate &#8216;provocation&#8217; to all our viewers in the very real sense of the word.” We are all grateful for that.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, Islamist preachers like Anjem Choudary and Abu Zakariyya applaud his decision as a step towards the implementation of sharia law in the UK.</p>
<p>Choudary ventured a prediction: “[B]y some accounts Britain could be a Muslim country by 2015.”</p>
<p>Not so fast. Hubris could be your downfall, Anjem. We may still have something to say on the matter.</p>
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		<title>Christians in Syria: Separating Grim Reality from Islamist Propaganda</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam's religious purification campaign inflicts its horror.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/christians.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-195431" alt="christians" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/christians-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>A recently released video of an <a href="http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/national/exclusive-interview-failed-free-syrian-army-suicide-bomber-islamist-jordanian-palestin">interview</a> with a Syrian rebel &#8212; and would-be-martyr &#8211; gives extraordinary insight into the mentality of the Syrian opposition. Believing that he’s speaking to European jihadist volunteers, the rebel says that Christians must be killed to impose a Sharia state in Syria, after which they will be given the classic choice: pay the jizya, convert or die. He also says that the rebels intend to move on from Syria to attack Europe and America.</p>
<p>Similarly, another rebel clearly explains that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/syrian-rebel-commander-islam-must-be-the-single-source-of-authority-of-the-state.html">Islam must be the sole source of authority of the future Syrian state</a>.  In the meantime, <a href="http://syriareport.net/syria-militants-massacre-christian-village/">Syrian militants just massacred a Christian village’s population</a>. Many Syrian Christians have been <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/352494/shadow-war-against-syrias-christians-nina-shea">kidnapped and killed</a> or never seen again.</p>
<p>Targeting Syrian Christians for kidnapping and attacks on churches is <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/02/christians-in-syria-targeted-for-kidnapping/">condemned by Human Rights Watch</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">.</span>  An <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/01/religious-cleansing-in-the-middle-east-a-growing-threat/">U.N. Independent Inquiry</a> on Syria concludes: “Entire communities are at risk of being forced out of the country or of being killed inside the country”—two cautiously worded reminders of the reality of Christian suffering in Syria at the hands of Islamist militants.  During a recent <a href="http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20130625/101036/HHRG-113-FA16-Wstate-SheaN-20130625.pdf">Congressional hearing on Syria&#8217;s minorities</a>, witnesses rightly testified that Christians are more fearful for their lives than other group, because they are <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/June/Syrian-Christians-Why-Is-America-at-War-with-Us/">targeted for religious cleansing</a>.</p>
<p>Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence concerning the plight of Syria’s Christians, there are those who are not convinced that Syrian Christians are being deliberately targeted in a religious purification campaign.</p>
<p>One of them is Muslim college student, Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, who lives in the UK and authored the report <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/HJS-Christians-in-Syria-Report.pdf"><i>Christians in Syria: Separating Fact from Fiction</i></a>, published by <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/">The Henry Jackson Society</a>, a UK neoconservative think tank.</p>
<p>Through psychological tactics, like his title <i>Fact and Fiction</i>, and the questioning of absolute figures, percentages and details, Al-Tamimi tries to use the conflicting reports regarding some specific events in order to generate doubts about the veracity of Syrian Christians’ persecution.</p>
<p>Among other things, by claiming that the narrative of those concerned about the Christians’ fate is not the only possible one, he subtly and surreptitiously creates suspicions that those people lie or distort the evidence.</p>
<p>The main problem with his report isn’t so much that it disputes specific details of events. Initially the Western media was rehashing the stories created by the insurgents’ anti-Assad propaganda. Later <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Massacres-by-Islamic-extremists-bolster-Bashar-al-Assad-28219.html">it became clear that these reports were one-sided</a> and adjustments were made:</p>
<blockquote><p>For nearly two years, SOHR [Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an organization of Syrian rebels in exile] has reported only acts of violence by the regime against the rebels. Mainstream international media like the BBC, al-Jazeera and al-Arabya, have relied on it as their sole source of news.</p>
<p>In recent months, several experts and Syrians interviewed by AsiaNews accused Western and Gulf State media of selective reporting. More recently, coverage has become more impartial, but SOHR continues to defend Islamic extremists to avoid losing support among rebel forces.</p></blockquote>
<p>The jihadists are particularly ruthless in their hide-and-seek mind games, reminiscent of Hamas in its conflict with Israel.</p>
<p>In these conflicts many media reporters on the ground aren’t dispassionate observers but have a stake in the matter. As in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which several freelancers supplying news materials are under Hamas’ control, Western media&#8217;s flirtation with the Syrian rebels is well-documented.</p>
<p>For example, from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Biased War Photography in Western Media</span>:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he portrayal of the &#8220;Syrian revolution&#8221; is decidedly one-sided… the images taken to supply Western Media all portrayed the Syrian rebels in a way to render sympathy and support.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here are some other examples:</p>
<p>The Vatican&#8217;s news-gathering facilities are a welcome counterbalance to mainstream Western media’s bias.  Of course, there can be a margin of error or doubt concerning the details of some events. Yet what is problematic with the Henry Jackson Report is the arbitrariness with which its author, Al-Tamimi, cherry-picks his favorite sources and rejects those he doesn’t like, without giving reasons or criteria.</p>
<p>This is his account about Qusayr:</p>
<blockquote><p>Modeled on the story of the ethnic cleansing of 90 per cent of Homs’ Christian population, stories began to circulate that 9,000 out-of-a-supposed population of 10,000 Christians had left the city of Qusayr on the basis of an ultimatum issued by a rebel battalion. However, the rebels in Qusayr denied this story. The truth about what happened, most likely, lies in the account given by a couple of reports in the Wall Street Journal.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, reports from <em>Jihad Watch</em> and from the Vatican news agency <em>Fides</em>,<em> </em><em>Vatican Insider</em>, <em>Barnabas Fund</em>, aren’t to be trusted, but the rebels, who are, for all intents and purposes, the suspects of heinous crimes and so naturally deny it, are more trustworthy?</p>
<p>Or the truth, he moderately suggests, is “in the middle”—that is, in places like <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, that<i> </i>supports Obama&#8217;s decision to arm the Syrian rebels and he only regrets Obama didn&#8217;t make this decision sooner, and in <i>The Independent</i>, whose senior Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk had the honor of a personal recommendation from Osama Bin Laden and demonizes Christians for supporting Assad.</p>
<p>Al-Tamimi offers no reason for adopting those two pro-Arab-Spring newspapers&#8217; version of the events.</p>
<p>&#8220;The rebels deny it,&#8221; Al-Tamimi pronounces. Here&#8217;s what the rebels also say:</p>
<blockquote><p>Syrian opposition spokesmen have repeatedly said that Syrian rebels do not target Christians or other minorities and believe in creating a democratic society once Assad is ousted.</p></blockquote>
<p>To which we can add: and pigs might fly. To believe that al-Qaeda-linked Islamists want a democratic society—in the Western sense of giving everyone equal rights, and not in the Muslim Brotherhood’s interpretation of it as a means to impose an Islamic state—is, at best, naïve. That part of the Syrian opposition&#8217;s statement should throw doubt on the other part, that rebels don&#8217;t target Christians.</p>
<p>But Al-Tamimi, who must surely know about <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war">taqiyya</a>—lying to non-believers to advance the cause of Islam—behaves as if he didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The conclusion of Al-Tamimi’s report looks like a highly precarious assembling of statements counterbalancing, if not contradicting, each other to produce a very confused and confusing result.</p>
<p>He writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>The evidence surveyed here does not, as of yet, suggest the existence of an organized campaign of militant Islamic persecution of Christians throughout Syria… Have there been incidents of anti-Christian violence in Syria? Undoubtedly, but one should always be alert to those pro-Assad propaganda outlets which are willing to exploit, for their own ends, what they see as Western concerns about the status of Christians in the country. In addition, analysts should be more nuanced… At the same time, one must avoid complacency: the ever-growing infiltration of Syria by foreign jihadists (e.g. from Jordan to the south) poses an increasing threat to the survival of the various Christian communities of Syria.</p></blockquote>
<p>First, that the evidence doesn’t suggest &#8220;an organized campaign&#8221; is puzzling. What evidence of an &#8220;organized&#8221; campaign would Al-Tamimi accept?</p>
<p>The Syrian opposition has <em>no</em> effective centralized political or military leadership, so how could there be an organized campaign of any sort?</p>
<p>Muslim persecution of Christians doesn’t require central, bureaucratic coordination. Its organization derives from Islamic law and the hostility it breeds for Christians.</p>
<p>Al-Tamimi warns that we should be alert to pro-Assad propaganda exploiting Western concerns about Christians—without bothering to mention that the propaganda war is fought on both fronts. So why should we be more alert to one side of it than the other?</p>
<p>Apparently simply because one source confirms what Al-Tamimi wants to believe and validates his agenda.</p>
<p>In the end, however, after another series of self-limiting statements, his final conclusion is that there’s an increasing threat to the survival of the various Christian communities of Syria.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that enough reason for concern? Why nitpick—why write this convoluted report trying to minimize the persecution of Syrian Christians in the first place—if in the end you must, perhaps begrudgingly, admit that there is “an increasing threat to the survival of the various Christian communities of Syria.”</p>
<p>This research doesn’t lead to a new interpretation of the events. Its conclusion is remarkably similar to that of most counterjihad analysts.</p>
<p>What’s its point then? It&#8217;s not immediately clear until one remembers that it was published by the neoconservative think tank The Henry Jackson Society, calling for Western intervention to assist Syrian rebels. Hence the &#8220;nuances&#8221; that Al-Tamimi mentions, which would help erase any black and white contrast and paint the rebels a uniform, unintelligible gray.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/"><i>Enza Ferreri</i></a><i> is an Italian-born, London-based Philosophy graduate, author and journalist. She has been a London correspondent for several Italian magazines and newspapers, including Panorama, L’Espresso, La Repubblica.</i> <i>She blogs at </i><a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/"><i>www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk</i></a><i>.</i></p>
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