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		<title>Saved by Love from the Islamic State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dutch mother daringly rescues her daughter, and jihad-bride-to-be, from the claws of ISIS. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246671" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nk-450x299.jpg" alt="nk" width="286" height="190" /></a>There is nothing stronger than a mother’s love. And Dutch mother Monique Verbert proved this adage recently when she rescued her 19-year-old daughter from the Islamic State (IS) after traveling there disguised in Muslim dress.</p>
<p>Verbert’s daughter, Sterlina Petalo, had previously gone to Syria to marry a Dutch jihadist, a former member of the Dutch military. Verbert’s safe return to Holland with her child, a feat of bravery in and of itself, also represents the first time that a girl who had voluntarily gone to the Islamic State to marry a jihadist has returned home safely to the West.</p>
<p>“She basically saw him as a sort of Robin Hood …that he was a nice man and fought against Assad,” Verbert said in an interview on Dutch television that was reported in <em>Die Welt</em>. “She said again and again: “Mum, look at that guy. Isn’t it good what he does?”</p>
<p>Petalo’s story is not an unusual one for the dozens of girls from Western countries who have travelled the same path to the Islamic State to wed a jihadist. <em>Die Welt</em> relates the Dutch teenager converted to Islam at age 18 during a spiritual quest and soon became radicalised. She started calling herself ‘Aicha’, covered her hair, shunned friends, and read the Koran and Islamic websites, “hardly leaving her room.” Petalo’s mother, who is separated from her father, said her “greatest scare” occurred when her daughter appeared for the first time completely veiled.</p>
<p>“Then I truly asked myself: ‘girl, what are you doing’?”  Verbert said.</p>
<p>But <em>Die Welt</em> reports that the “decisive day” occurred last January when Petalo saw her future ‘husband’ on a television program. She contacted him via the internet and subsequently decided to travel to him in Syria. Warned by a friend of her daughter’s intended departure, Verbert was able to prevent this first attempt to leave the country by contacting the police, who put Petalo’s name on a list of potential terrorists and took her passport away. Petalo, however, successfully left Holland for Syria on a second try, using different identification.</p>
<p>Finding the police and Dutch authorities powerless to help get her daughter back, Verbert took matters into her own hands, appearing on a television show in an effort to contact her. Later, Verbert discovered her child had separated from the Dutch jihadist and was now together with another IS fighter in Raqqa, the IS’s main city. Verbert then travelled to Turkey, but could not get over the border to Syria and returned home.</p>
<p>After receiving a call for help from her daughter, <em>Die Welt</em> reports Verbert decided to return to Turkey to try and reach her again. After locating her child, she crossed into Syria, completely covered in Islamic dress, and successfully brought her out and back to Holland safely. Details concerning how this was accomplished, however, are unknown, since Dutch authorities are remaining silent. Petalo is currently in custody, as she may still pose a security risk and may also face charges for aiding a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>French anthropologist Dounia Bouzar has studied the phenomenon of young people in France who are suspected of wanting to leave, or have already, like Petalo, left their families and country to join the Islamic State. Last spring, Bouzar set up a center to prevent such departures and was also hired by French police, seeking assistance in this area.</p>
<p>From her work with the 130 families that have contacted her, Bouzar published a book last October titled, “<em>Ils cherchent le paradis, ils ont trouve l’enfer” </em>(<em>They Are Searching For Paradise, They Found Hell)</em>. Of the youths at risk, Bouzar told the French newspaper, <em>Le Figaro</em>, that as many as 80 percent were atheists with many coming from atheistic homes, an astonishing 60 percent of their parents were teachers, and 90 percent came from the middle and upper classes. Bouzar estimates about a dozen females have made it to Syria from France, but French authorities are monitoring 90 families of girls in danger of leaving. About half of these girls are converts and even include Jewish girls among their number.</p>
<p>Also in the <em>Le Figaro </em>interview, Bouzar gave a detailed account of the radicalisation process Petalo probably underwent and what she likely experienced in Syria as a jihadist’s bride. Bouzar related the radicalisation of these girls, some as young as 14, is “like lightening hitting the house.” The majority are not of North African origin, France’s main source of Muslim immigration, and “have nothing to do with Islam.” But they are “passionate.”</p>
<p>“These are brilliant girls, who are getting ready to study medicine, political science or altruistic professions…,” Bouzar stated. “They had the misfortune of talking about this on Facebook. It’s as if the terrorists have psychological head-hunters who locate the personality profiles of those who wish to change the world and fight against injustice. One would say that they are specifically looking for the elite.”</p>
<p>The same holds true for girls of all classes. Even among working class or less privileged sectors of French society, the jihadist “head-hunters” search out only “very good students.” As for the boys, it is just the opposite. Bouzar says recruiters look for unemployed males who have adjustment difficulties in society.</p>
<p>After contact, Bouzar states the girls are then methodically manipulated mentally over a period of time by their recruiters to the point where, almost cult-like, they become the only ones, with whom they communicate. First, all confidence in adults, including parents, and society is removed. Then videos are received, telling the girls that they are being deceived and “secret societies are manoeuvering to kill people in order to hold on to their power.” Societies that only Islam can destroy.</p>
<p>“It’s the theory of conspiracy,” said Bouzar. “They ask them ‘Which side are you on? Are you going to let people be massacred? Wake up?’ They make them reject the real world.”</p>
<p>Next, photos are sent of brutally killed babies, claiming they were murdered by Assad, and the girls are told to leave school and come and rescue them. They are also told their parents are not the “elect of God” and not to watch television any more. Eventually, the girls targeted are cut off from all their former bases of reference and come under the control of the recruiters, or “bearded prince charmings,” as Bouzar calls them. The mothers, Bouzar says, describe their daughters as having been “robotised.”</p>
<p>“When one analyses their telephones, one sees they receive 100 messages a day,” Bouzar told <em>Le Figaro.</em> “This starts at five o’clock in the morning. Sometimes, they don’t sleep anymore.”</p>
<p>Like Petalo, the girls eventually don the niqab or jilbab. Bouzar says the girls call it “my security blanket, my best friend, or my comforter and use it like a cocoon, in a form of regression.” She adds that, when deprogramming girls prevented from leaving France, the most difficult part is getting them to shed the Muslim dress.</p>
<p>“I counsel parents to search under the beds, since these clothes are the first signs of danger,” Bouzar warns.</p>
<p>Also included in the radicalisation process, the French anthropologist says, are promises of marriage. And this promise, Bouzar states, is acted on almost as soon as the girls arrive in the Islamic State. With marriage, a girl becomes her husband’s “inheritance,” living with three or four of his other wives in a house, polygamy apparently the norm. Her only job now is to look after the children under the supervision of a “boss” or older woman who monitors her telephone calls home.</p>
<p>“It’s all an organization,” said Bouzar. “When they are not married, they are herded together. One knows of a house where 17 girls are waiting for ‘distribution’. For some time now, it is worse, since they get them pregnant as soon as possible. They say they will be less tempted to flee, if they have a baby”</p>
<p>But, according to Bouzar, this tactic of quickly impregnating the girls in order to ground them in the Islamic State may sometimes backfire. She told <em>Le Figaro</em> that becoming pregnant is one of the three things that sometimes serve to shake girls out of their cult-like mindset.</p>
<p>“One notices that the moment the baby starts to move, they (the girls) once again have a normal voice on the telephone,” Bouzar says.</p>
<p>The parents’ repeated evoking of childhood memories can also lead to their daughters “de-programming themselves,” and to feeling and thinking again. The third factor that can lead to an awakening from the brainwashing, Bouzar says, concerns the girls having personally witnessed, or heard talk of, “the slitting of a Syrian Muslim’s throat.”</p>
<p>“They begin to cry and want to return (home),” Bouzar says. “It is at this moment that they speak of terrorists and realize the difference between the talk and the reality. But here, it is too late. In truth, no girl has yet succeeded in returning.”</p>
<p>Until ‘Aicha’.</p>
<p>It is not yet known what made the Dutch teenager reach out to her mother and call for help. Like Albert Speer, Hitler’s armaments minister and originator of the following quote, Petalo did not recognise “the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.” Hopefully, she will be allowed to tell her story soon. Petalo’s testimony would serve as a valuable aid to parents and a powerful warning to other suggestible and vulnerable young people, opening their eyes to that hand. But if she is ever permitted, and desires, to help prevent such evil from hijacking other innocent lives, Petalo should always emphasize in her story how love saved hers.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss scholar of Islam <strong>Dr. Mark Christian</strong> discuss <strong>Islam’s Assault on Women’s Sexuality</strong> on <strong>The Glazov Gang:</strong></em></p>
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		<title>How to Confront the Islamic State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time for us to do our duty and enforce the following measures. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/islamic-state.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242474" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/islamic-state.jpg" alt="islamic-state" width="318" height="269" /></a><em><strong>Below is a speech delivered by Geert Wilders in the Dutch Parliament during the recent parliamentary debate about the military mission to fight ISIS in Iraq:</strong></em></p>
<p>Madam Speaker,</p>
<p>The Islamic State is an Islamic cancer. It is a poisonous snake based on the Quran and the life of Muhammad, a criminal who 14 centuries ago went, murdering and decapitating, from Medina to Mecca. His self-appointed successor Caliph Baghdadi is now at the gates of Baghdad and Damascus. He has followers all over the world, including in our country, our cities and streets. Again,people are beheaded according to the Koranic commands such as Sura 47 verse 4: “When ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks and when ye have caused a bloodbath among them bind a bond firmly on them.” Even moderate Muslims cannot escape violence because, according to the Koran and the Sharia, they are apostates.</p>
<p>All the gullible minds who say that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam are committing a serious politically-correct error, whether they are Obama, Cameron, Rutte or Samsom.</p>
<p>We are at war. War has been declared against the free West. Our freedom, our culture, the future of our country and our children are at stake. We must strike back hard,  in the Netherlands, in the rest of the West and also in Iraq and Syria. Hence, my party supports the Government’s decision to deploy Dutch F16s against the Islamic state. We say: Let us bomb them.</p>
<p>But we have no understanding for the fact that we are only going to bomb in Iraq and not in Syria. Is it OK for the Government that people are beheaded, women raped and genocide committed in Syria because a mandate under international law is missing? What a cowardice. The government says it understands the United States when they bomb the Islamic State in Syria, but it does not participate itself. Understanding, but no participation, What a cowardly halfheartedness.</p>
<p>Even more important than fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is fighting Islamic terrorism in the Netherlands. The security of the Netherlands should be priority number 1. Our citizens have to be safe on the train, in the streets, when walking their children to school and shopping. That is what truly matters.  In its letter to Parliament, the Government only devotes two paragraphs to national security. There is even more attention for issues of gender and the position of women in the Arab world. That is a travesty.</p>
<p>Madam Speaker, we must protect the Netherlands. That is why we were elected. To protect our citizens. Not only the citizens of Iraq and Syria, but also and especially our own people here in the Netherlands. Why is the army not deployed to protect our railways stations? And in their uniforms and heavily armed, of course.</p>
<p>And why do we try to stop jihadists when they want to leave our country? Last Sunday, the Minister of Security and Justice proudly said that the passports of 41 jihadists had been canceled so they could not leave to Syria or Iraq. What a stupid act. Now they walk around here, in our streets. People who want to wage jihad elsewhere, decapitate, commit attacks, walk our streets because of the decision of the Minister.</p>
<p>I have been saying it for ten years and I will repeat it once again:</p>
<p>Close the borders to immigrants from Islamic countries. Enough is enough. The Islamic culture of hatred does not belong in the Netherlands. 65 per cent of the Dutch agree with this.</p>
<p>Let jihadists leave the country, but let them never come back. Reintroduce border controls.</p>
<p>Evict everyone who expresses sympathy for the Islamic State, deprive them of their Dutch passports. Let everyone with a passport from an Islamic country to sign an anti-Sharia declaration.</p>
<p>Wake up, I say to the Government. Protect not only the Iraqi people against the Islamic State, protect the Dutch against the Islamic terrorist threat in our own country. That is your job, that is your responsibility. Take that responsibility. Do your duty.</p>
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		<title>So Long, Queen Beatrix</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reign plagued by missed opportunities to defend Dutch culture from Islamic hostility. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ce1b71316511ea03270f6a70670071f1-4_3_r536_c534.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187743" alt="ce1b71316511ea03270f6a70670071f1-4_3_r536_c534" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ce1b71316511ea03270f6a70670071f1-4_3_r536_c534-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>Today is Queen&#8217;s Day in the Netherlands. It&#8217;s also the last day on the job for the reigning monarch, Beatrix, who&#8217;s stepping down after having been on the throne since her own mother, Juliana, abdicated in 1980.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been in every kingdom in Europe, but in none of them, I think it&#8217;s fair to say, are the people as enthusiastic about their sovereign as in the Netherlands. Take Queen&#8217;s Day itself: it&#8217;s the Dutch equivalent to the Fourth of July, but the focus is not on the people and their history but on the head of state, whose birthday it celebrates. Go on a pub crawl in any Dutch town and you&#8217;ll encounter – guaranteed – one framed (and, quite frequently, enormous) portrait after another of Beatrix, usually over the bar, sometimes with a big vase of fresh tulips in front of it. One grows accustomed to hearing Brits complaining about the Windsors&#8217; luxurious lifestyles, and in Norway the levels of cynicism about and indifference to the royals is surprisingly high. But don&#8217;t ever say a critical word about Beatrix to a Dutchman, unless you want to end up with a bicycle frame wrapped around your neck.</p>
<p>This high level of affection for Beatrix is rather surprising, given the fact that her ride hasn&#8217;t always been a smooth one. Start with her 1966 marriage to Claus von Amsberg, who before marrying her was a German diplomat, and, before that, a member of the Hitler Youth and Wehrmacht. In a country where the anti-German sentiment engendered by World War II is still palpable to this day – probably higher than anywhere else in Western Europe – the match didn&#8217;t go over well, and the wedding day was marked by massive protests.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s her wealth. Everyone knows that Queen Elizabeth II is rolling in dough, but so is Beatrix. When <i>Forbes</i> claimed in 1999 that Beatrix (who is exempt from taxes) was worth tens of billions of dollars, scandal erupted in the egalitarian Netherlands – not only over the amount but over the secretiveness surrounding the royal estate. (“She&#8217;s very, very clever at making sure no one can trace her money,” one expert told the <i>Guardian.</i>) More recent estimates of Beatrix&#8217;s wealth have been far lower, but even after reportedly being taken to the cleaners by Bernie Madoff (a claim the palace denied), her family fortune is still said to amount to something in the vicinity of a billion dollars. Last year, with Europe hurting economically, Spain&#8217;s King Juan Carlos, who isn&#8217;t especially rich and lives modestly, voluntarily returned some of his paycheck to the government; when asked if Beatrix would contemplate doing the same with her annual salary, which is in the million-dollar range (she also receives several million a year to cover expenses, and the 300 employees at her various residences, not counting security personnel, cost Dutch taxpayers about $50 million), her spokespeople replied with a quick, succinct <i>nee</i>. Yet the Dutch people still love her.</p>
<p>Fine. But for anyone who sincerely cares about the Netherlands, the defining day of Beatrix&#8217;s reign was November 12, 2004. On November 2, the Dutch movie director, author, and TV personality Theo van Gogh had been slaughtered in open daylight in an Amsterdam street by a Dutch-Moroccan jihadist. The murder was payback for van Gogh&#8217;s forthright criticism of the illiberality of Islam. But it was also a warning to Beatrix and her subjects. A knife thrust into van Gogh&#8217;s corpse held in place a note by the killer, Mohamed Bouyeri, declaring that, just like van Gogh, America, Europe, and the Netherlands would “go down.” It was a time at which any responsible head of state would have felt compelled to make a powerful symbolic statement about her country&#8217;s dedication to its freedoms and its determination not to yield to jihad.</p>
<p>Beatrix failed the test – ignominiously. She turned down the van Gogh family&#8217;s invitation to his funeral, saying she had other plans. Many Dutch people longed for her to speak to the nation about the atrocity, but she rejected that idea, too. What she did instead, apparently on the advice of Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen (a loathsome dhimmi of the first order), was to pay a visit to a Moroccan youth center in Amsterdam. There she spoke with a number of young Dutch-Moroccans, made remarks about the equality of all Dutch citizens, and was presented with a gift book about the history of Morocco. (One wonders how familiar these kids were with Dutch history.)</p>
<p>The center was in the city&#8217;s Oud-West neighborhood, and if Beatrix insisted on going there, it might at least have been useful had she found some way to bring up the tyrannical domination of Muslim families in that part of town by local religious authorities, who are their rulers in a much realer sense than she&#8217;s ever been. She might have expressed some concern about the countless Muslim wives and mothers in the neighborhood who don&#8217;t speak Dutch, rarely if ever get out of the house, and don&#8217;t even know where their children&#8217;s schools are located. She might have tried to acquire insights into the neighborhood&#8217;s sky-high levels of crime, unemployment, and welfare dependency. But no: Beatrix didn&#8217;t want to address reality. Look, after all, where a determination to face up to reality got van Gogh.</p>
<p>In an open letter addressed to Bouyeri, a group of van Gogh&#8217;s friends sarcastically posed as so many perfect dhimmis: “How terrible that everything went as it did. We had no idea that this was such a sensitive issue. We have learned our lesson&#8230;.Could you soon give us guidelines showing us what are allowed and not allowed to say?&#8230;We will make it a point to study your religion to prevent further misunderstandings&#8230;.That we brought you into such a difficult position is surely our own fault.” Alas, Beatrix, in her interactions with the Dutch-Moroccan youths that day, seemed to be following a script that was very much alone those disgraceful dhimmi lines.</p>
<p>As for Beatrix&#8217;s successor – well, let&#8217;s just say there&#8217;s no reason to dance in the streets. Beatrix&#8217;s son Willem-Alexander, who becomes king today, is a colorless dimwit who, in 2007, in an obvious reference to Geert Wilders, criticized politicians who use strong language when speaking of Islam and integration. “Not for nothing,” said the prince, “do we have the saying: &#8216;Speech is silver, silence is golden.” In other words, a guy who was born into a extremely well-paying job – the only requirement of which is that he keep his nose out of public affairs – was putting down a guy whose job, into which he had been placed by the Dutch electorate, obliges him to speak up. Don&#8217;t expect, then, that the new king of the Netherlands will do anything but hinder his most courageous subject&#8217;s efforts to rescue their country from disaster.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leftist silence on the genocidal race hatred of the Marxist government they once supported. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/the-gruesome-reality-of-racist-south-africa/killboer/" rel="attachment wp-att-180801"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-180801" title="KillBoer" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/KillBoer.jpg" alt="" width="285" height="232" /></a>For decades, the country of South Africa was the focus of an international rallying cry against the injustices of apartheid. On June 17, 1991, South Africa&#8217;s Parliament <a href="http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f010906_apartheid">abolished</a> the legal framework for the practice of racial persecution. In 1994, Nelson Mandela and his Marxist African National Congress (ANC) assumed the reins of power. The international community looked away, satisfied that justice had prevailed. They continue to look away, even as South Africa has degenerated into another racist pit, best <a href="http://digitaljournal.com/article/333759">described</a> by an Afrikaner farm owner: &#8220;It&#8217;s politically correct to kill whites these days.&#8221;</p>
<p>In July of 2012, Dr. Gregory Stanton, head of the nonprofit group Genocide Watch, <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/13280-genocide-communism-threaten-south-africa">conducted</a> a fact-finding mission in South Africa. He concluded that there is a coordinated campaign of genocide being conducted against white farmers, known as Boers. “The farm murders, we have become convinced, are not accidental,” Stanton contended. &#8220;It was very clear that the massacres were not common crimes,&#8221; he added &#8212; especially because of the absolute barbarity used against the victims. &#8220;We don’t know exactly who is planning them yet, but what we are calling for is an international investigation,” he added.</p>
<p>The number of farm murders, or &#8220;plaasmoorde&#8221; as it is called in Afrikaans, is staggering. Over the last decade, it is estimated that at least 3000 Boers have been killed. Estimating the number of murders is necessary because the ANC has <a href="http://rense.com/general25/wfrm.htm">banned</a> crime statistics from being compiled, claiming they scare off foreign investment. Moreover, the world knows little about the savagery that accompanies those killings. Many victims, including women and infant children, are raped or tortured before they are killed. Some have boiling water poured down their throats, some are burned with hot pokers, and some are hacked to death with machetes, or disemboweled. Several others have been tied to their own cars and dragged for miles.</p>
<p>The ANC, whose leader Jacob Zuma was <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zuma-reelected-anc-leader/article4214095.ece">reelected</a> with over 75 per cent of the total voting delegates at the ANC National Conference held in Bloemfontein last December, denies that genocide is occurring, insisting that such attacks are part of the larger crime problem. Yet a <a href="http://southafricanews.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/crime-statistics-in-south-africa/">report</a> filed by the South African Institute of Race Relations notes that while crime has ostensibly declined between 1994 and 2011, &#8220;substantial numbers&#8221; of police stations have manipulated their crime statistics. The report sub-headline underscores the corrupt nature of crime statistics in the country: &#8220;Is this a true reflection of the crime statistics in South Africa? Who knows!&#8221; it states.</p>
<p>What is known is that the ANC celebrated in 100th year anniversary with a song <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/white-genocide-in-south-africa/">led</a> by President Zuma himself. <a href="http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/dubula-ibhunu/">“Dubula iBhunu”</a> or &#8220;Shoot the Boer&#8221; was a line in the lyrics of an apartheid-era song, “Ayesaba Amagwala” (“the cowards are scared”) that violates the South Africa constitution prohibiting the “advocacy of hatred that is based on race … and that constitutes incitement to cause harm.”  Yet Zuma apparently felt no compunction to refrain from singing it, because the ANC considers it an integral part of the anti-apartheid movement that is part of their heritage.</p>
<p>In 2010, Julius Malema, then leader of the ANC Youth League, revived the practice of singing the song after many years. After the South Africa High Court ruled it was hate speech, the ANC <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/04/white-genocide-in-south-africa.html">appealed</a>. Last October, the ANC and AfriForum, a lobby group that wanted the song banned from public performance, <a href="http://ewn.co.za/2012/10/31/ANC-AfriForum-reach-Dubula-iBhunu-settlement">reached</a> an out-of-court settlement.</p>
<p>Dr. Stanton concluded that Malema&#8217;s revival of a song advocating murder moved South Africa from the fifth stage on his <a href="http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/8stagesofgenocide.html">genocidal scale</a> to stage six. When the South African judiciary ruled it to be unlawful hate speech, Genocide Watch put South Africa back at stage five. When President Zuma was caught on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fzRSE_p1Ys">tape</a> January 2012 singing, &#8220;We are going to shoot them with the machine gun, they are going to run/You are a Boer, we are going to hit them, and you are going to run/shoot the Boer…&#8221; South Africa was raised to stage six once again.</p>
<p>Stage six is known as Preparation: &#8220;Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved.&#8221;</p>
<p>The sixth stage is followed by stage seven: Extermination.</p>
<p>In December, more than 200 protesters of the Afrikaner civil rights group AfriForum, which included families of murdered farmers and survivors of farm attacks, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9716539/South-African-farmers-fearing-for-their-lives.html">marched</a> in the capital city of Pretoria. They were commemorating the second anniversary of the murders of farm caretaker Attie Potgieter and his family. Potgieter was stabbed and hacked 151 times with a knife, a fork, and a machete, while his wife and two-year-old daughter were forced to watch. They were then executed with shots to the head. &#8220;If you kill a rhinoceros in South Africa, you get more time in jail then if you kill a person,&#8221; said Susan Nortje, 26, Mrs. Potgieter&#8217;s younger sister. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think people understand. We must show people what&#8217;s really happening.&#8221;</p>
<p>The group is calling for attacks on South Africa&#8217;s mostly white farmers to be designated a crime of national priority. They delivered a memorandum to the country&#8217;s police minister, Nathi Mthethwa, urging him to give the murder of farmers the same level of urgency aimed at rhinoceros poachers and copper cable thieves. Mthethwa was not present at the time, but police spokesman Zweli Mnisi accused the protesters of &#8220;grandstanding.&#8221; &#8220;They are only representing people based on their color,&#8221; he contended. &#8220;For us, racializing crime is problematic. You can&#8217;t have a separate category that says, farmers are the special golden boys and girls. You end up saying the life of a white person is more important. You cannot do this,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Yet according to Johan Burger, a senior researcher with the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies&#8217; crime and justice program, white farmers’ concerns <em>are </em>legitimately &#8220;special.&#8221; He reveals that it is now twice as dangerous to be a farmer in South Africa than a police officer. The overall murder rate in the nation is 31.9 per 100,000 people, 30 times that of Great Britain. For police it&#8217;s 51 out of 100,000. For farmers, who are overwhelmingly white, the rate soars to 99 out 100,000. Burger rejects the notion that such a rate constitutes genocide&#8211;even as he concedes that many murderers &#8220;take out their hatred for all those past wrongs, and show who&#8217;s in control now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Like so many societies where demonstrating who’s in control becomes a necessity, disarming the population becomes a priority. In 2010, the ANC-led regime <a href="http://nolstuijt.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/anc-confiscates-whites-guns-arms-black-youths/">changed</a> the Firearms Registration Act, demanding that all legal guns be re-registered by July 31, 2011. In the process of re-registration, more than half the applicants were turned down, and 90 percent were turned down again on appeal. Thus, white farm families were forced to relinquish their last line of defense against the tens of thousands of criminal gangs roaming the countryside&#8211;armed with AK47s. and as Genocide Watch <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/12326-south-africa-facing-white-genocide-total-communist-takeover">noted</a> on its website last July one more step was taken as well. “The government has disbanded the commando units of white farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate the farmers’ weapons,” it reported. “Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.”</p>
<p>There is also a movement, much like the one that occurred in Zimbabwe, to confiscate white farmers&#8217; land. Julius Malema <a href="http://digitaljournal.com/article/326049">led</a> the charge, saying all whites are criminals, and that his ANC Youth League members were going to take all the land back without compensation, unless farmers relinquish 80 percent of it. At a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304887904576397413655326924.html">conference</a> in 2011, Malema reiterated his plans, contending that the nation&#8217;s &#8220;willing buyer, willing seller&#8221; program, aimed at redistributing 30 percent of white-owned land to blacks within the first five years of the country&#8217;s democracy (a deadline later shifted to 2014, and then to 2025), wasn’t working. &#8220;You can never be diplomatic about willing-buyer, willing-seller. It has failed. You have not come with an alternative,&#8221; said Mr. Malema at the time. &#8220;We are giving you an alternative; we must take the land without payment.&#8221;</p>
<p>That is a recipe for famine, as revealed by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti. In 2009, he told Parliament that more than half of the farms <em>purchased</em> for black farmers, at a cost of $891 million in government outlays, had either failed or were &#8220;declining.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet ANC president Zuma <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/world/africa/anc-weighs-how-to-lift-south-africans.html?_r=0">remains</a> undeterred. “The structure of the apartheid economy has remained largely intact,” Mr. Zuma said, in a speech given June 26, 2012 to thousands of delegates at ANC’s policy conference, held every five years, where the party&#8217;s pre-presidential election platform is discussed. “The ownership of the economy is still primarily in the hands of white males, as it has always been.”</p>
<p>Embedded in that platform is the idea that making peace with white South Africans following the end of apartheid has &#8220;hampered&#8221; the transfer of wealth to black South Africans. Thus, a “second transition,” was proposed, which even the see-no-progressive-evil <em>New York Times</em> was forced to concede represents a &#8220;sharp leftward shift for the A.N.C., which despite its roots has largely backed a free-market economy with minimal state intervention.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stanton sees a bigger picture. In a speech in Pretoria, organized by the Transvaal Agricultural Union, Stanton claimed the ANC was demonizing white farmers, who have been in South Africa since the 1600s, by calling them &#8220;settlers.&#8221; A Genocide Watch reports reveals the strategy behind those efforts. “High-ranking ANC government officials who continuously refer to Whites as ‘settlers’ and ‘colonialists of a special type’ are using racial epithets in a campaign of state-sponsored dehumanization of the White population as a whole,” it stated. “They sanction gang-organized hate crimes against Whites, with the goal of terrorizing Whites through fear of genocidal annihilation.&#8221;</p>
<p>ANC President Jacob Zuma continues to fan the flames of racial division. Last December, he <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253822/Jacob-Zuma-says-black-people-buy-dog-walks-just-copying-white-culture.html">admonished</a> black South Africans for being dog owners, saying that doing so amounts to copying white culture. Zuma&#8217;s office contended the message was aimed at &#8220;the need to decolonize the African mind post-liberation.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is a post-liberation effort that remains alarmingly on track to emulate all the other historically blood-soaked efforts by Marxists, who invariably need an enemy at whom to direct their anger. White African farmers are that enemy. Pieter Mulder, leader of political party FF Plus and South Africa&#8217;s deputy agriculture minister, who was focused on the excesses of Julius Malema a year and a half ago, nevertheless offered an inadvertently prescient statement about his country&#8217;s future. After noting that Malema and his ilk were attempting to take the country &#8220;back to the period before 1994 when violence and even the possibility of a civil war was part of the South African debate&#8221; he revealed why such forces remain seemingly unstoppable. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a Mandela that stands up and says: &#8216;This is wrong,&#8217;&#8221; he warned.</p>
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<p>Dutch TV shows Muslim kids praising Hitler and hoping for a new Holocaust:</p>
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		<title>Harlem Then and Now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's painful to realize that youngsters growing up in the same place I did have far less chances for success. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/harlem.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139968" title="harlem" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/harlem.gif" alt="" width="375" height="255" /></a>Books about the history of Harlem have long fascinated me — my favorite being &#8220;When Harlem Was in Vogue&#8221; by David Levering Lewis. However, a more recent book, titled simply &#8220;Harlem&#8221; by Jonathan Gill, presents a more comprehensive history — going all the way back to the time when the Dutch were the first settlers of New York, and named that area for the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Most of us today think of Harlem as a black community, but it was not that for most of its 400-year history. John James Audubon, famed for his studies of birds, was among the many people who at various times organized efforts to keep blacks from moving into Harlem — efforts that, in the long run, met with what might be called very limited success.</p>
<p>Among the many well-known people who were not black who were born in Harlem were Groucho Marx, Milton Berle, Arthur Miller and Bennett Cerf.</p>
<p>Like other communities, Harlem held many very different kinds of people at the same time, both before and after it became predominantly black.</p>
<p>There was an Italian community in East Harlem, but it was not just an undifferentiated Italian community. People from Genoa lived clustered together, as did people from Naples, Sicily and other parts of Italy. Jews from Germany lived separately from Jews who originated in Eastern Europe, who in turn lived in separate enclaves of people from different parts of Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>Harlem had the highest crime rate in New York before blacks moved there, and a photograph in this book, taken a hundred years ago, showed the worst housing conditions I have ever seen in Harlem. In some of the poorer Italian neighborhoods in East Harlem, people went barefoot in the summer and lived on one meal a day, consisting of thin soup.</p>
<p>There were also more upscale areas of Harlem, and different classes of people sorted themselves out, both when Harlem was white and after it became black. During the early era of black Harlem, as author Jonathan Gill notes: &#8220;Observant subway riders could see the porters and domestics get off at West 125th Street, the clerks and secretaries depart at West 135th Street, and the doctors and lawyers leave at West 145th Street.&#8221;</p>
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<p><em>NRC Handelsblad </em>is arguably the most respected newspaper in the Netherlands.  Hans Moll was an editor there for twenty years.  He is now retired, and has a few things to say about what he experienced there.</p>
<p>In his new book, <em>Verzwijgen als of het gedrunkt staat, of Hoe de nuance verdween: NRC Handelsblad over Israël, de Islam en het integratiedebat (How the Nuance Vanished: NRC Handelsblad on Israel, Islam, and the Integration Debate), </em>Moll provides a very valuable document of our time: an insider look at the kind of day-to-day reportorial and editorial decision-making, in matters big and small, that leads a newspaper to convey a less than objective view of the world.</p>
<p>Moll&#8217;s accounts of his professional experiences do not necessarily apply only to his own former employer.  Like many other “newspapers of record” across Europe and in the U.S., <em>NRC Handelsblad </em>leans to the left, and the stories Moll tells about his newspaper provide insight into the mentality of journalists and editors at elite dailies ranging from <em>The New York Times </em>to <em>The Guardian </em>to <em>Le Monde.</em></p>
<p>Moll began as a freelance editor, and then a full-time editor, for <em>NRC</em>&#8216;s book section.  Back then, in the late 1980s, he was proud to work for <em>NRC, </em>which he considered the summit of Dutch journalism.  The newspaper once called itself “a whetstone for the spirit “ and prided itself on its objectivity and nuance.  But no more.  Its coverage, especially of Islam-related issues and of the Middle East conflict, has been increasingly one-sided.  It is now distinctly pro-Hamas and anti-Israel.  “If you&#8217;re seeking news about the misconduct of young Moroccan men,” laments Moll, “you must read something other than the newspaper <em>NRC Handelsblad.” </em></p>
<p>In the offices of <em>NRC</em>&#8216;s book-review section, Moll tells us, there is a bookcase crowded with recently published titles.  Most of them are books that reviewers aren&#8217;t interested in writing about, and that therefore can be taken home by anyone who wants them.  After 9/11 and the 2004 murder of Theo van Gogh, Moll grew increasingly interested in Islam in the West – and discovered many works on the topic in that bookcase full of discards.  He found some of them “very interesting.” But why, he wondered, weren&#8217;t these books by people like Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, Sam Harris, Roger Scruton, and Paul Berman not being reviewed?  The answer soon became clear enough.  These authors, according to his colleagues, were “neocons” – and, therefore, untouchables.  When a fellow <em>NRC </em>reporter saw Moll with a copy of Ayaan Hirsi Ali&#8217;s book <em>My Freedom, </em>he clicked his heels Nazi-style and, rendering the title in German, said, “Good book, huh – <em>Mein Freiheit!” </em></p>
<p>At the other end of the <em>NRC </em>spectrum from “neocon” Nazis like Hirsi Ali are people like John Esposito, who was interviewed for <em>NRC </em>by its Middle East editor, Carolien Roelants, when his book <em>Who Speaks for Islam? </em>came out<em>. </em>Roelants identified Esposito in her piece as a professor of international affairs and Islamic studies at Georgetown University; what she omitted to mention was that he runs Georgetown&#8217;s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center, named for and funded by a member of the Saudi royal family.  Moll notes that some might call Esposito a “&#8217;bought” professor; but Roelants appeared to be at pains to stress his supposed “neutrality.” As Moll points out, Esposito&#8217;s sanguine message about the future of Islam in the West is hard to reconcile with – among much else – 2009 survey results showing that one-third of British Muslim students consider it legitimate to kill in the name of Islam and that forty percent support sharia law in the U.K.  But such information, Moll observes, has yet to make it into in the <em>NRC</em>.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s Israel.  When a new synagogue opened in Amsterdam last year, Israeli Ambassador Harry Kney-Tal gave a speech in which he mentioned Israel&#8217;s shabby treatment by the media.  He had sent a letter to the <em>NRC </em>about an article in which Israel&#8217;s founding was recounted entirely from a Palestinian perspective.  Nowhere in the article, complained Kney-Tal, was there “even the slightest reference to the fact that the newborn Israel in 1948 was dealing with a war of extermination.” <em>NRC </em>never ran the letter.</p>
<p>Nor does one ever read on the front page of <em>NRC </em>about “Palestinian dignitaries, politicians and imams calling for the destruction of Israel.” While Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports almost daily online about anti-Semitic and anti-Israel “TV broadcasts, radio speeches, textbooks, plays, sermons and historical treatises” in the Palestinian territories – which teach “that the <em>Protocols</em> <em>of</em> <em>Zion</em> are authentic,” that “Israel spreads AIDS,” that “Jews are intrinsically bad,” that “Israel has no right to exist,” that “the Holocaust was an exaggeration,” that “terrorist attacks against women and children are warranted,” and that “children may commit terrorist attacks” – such news is not fit to print on the front page of <em>NRC. </em>Yet while it deep-sixes Muslim Jew-hatred, <em>NRC </em>eagerly declares Geert Wilders to be a hater of foreigners and attributes to Israeli parliamentarian Aryeh Eldad the view (which he has never expressed) that Muslims are not human.</p>
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<p><em>It’s the kind of scene one might expect to see in a hard-line Sharia court in Saudi Arabia: a man facing trial for the putative “crime” of insulting Islam. But the defendant in this case is Dutch MP Geert Wilders and the ominous setting for his trial is none other than his native Netherlands. This week, Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) and an outspoken critic of Islam and Islamic extremism, went on trial on politically loaded charges of inciting hatred and discrimination toward Islam. The outcome of the trial, which could yet result in jail time or a financial penalty for Wilders, will reveal just how far Europe’s multicultural enforcers are willing to go to silence free speech in order to appease the continent’s increasingly restive and radicalized Muslim populations. In his remarks from the trial, reprinted below, Wilders offers a powerful statement about the stakes involved: nothing less than freedom itself.</em> – <em>The Editors</em></p>
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<p><strong>Wilders: </strong>Mister Speaker, judges of the court,</p>
<p>I would like to make use of my right to speak for a few minutes.</p>
<p>Freedom is the most precious of all our attainments and the most vulnerable. People have devoted their lives to it and given their lives for it. Our freedom in this country is the outcome of centuries. It is the consequence of a history that knows no equal and has brought us to where we are now.</p>
<p>I believe with all my heart and soul that the freedom in the Netherlands is threatened. That what our heritage is, what generations could only dream about, that this freedom is no longer a given, no longer self-evident.</p>
<p>I devote my life to the defence of our freedom. I know what the risks are and I pay a price for it every day. I do not complain about it; it is my own decision. I see that as my duty and it is why I am standing here.</p>
<p>I know that the words I use are sometimes harsh, but they are never rash. It is not my intention to spare the ideology of conquest and destruction, but I am not any more out to offend people. I have nothing against Muslims. I have a problem with Islam and the Islamization of our country because Islam is at odds with freedom.</p>
<p>Future generations will wonder to themselves how we in 2010, in this place, in this room, earned our most precious attainment. Whether there is freedom in this debate for both parties and thus also for the critics of Islam, or that only one side of the discussion may be heard in the Netherlands? Whether freedom of speech in the Netherlands applies to everyone or only to a few? The answer to this is at once the answer to the question whether freedom still has a home in this country.</p>
<p>Freedom was never the property of a small group, but was always the heritage of us all. We are all blessed by it.</p>
<p>Lady Justice wears a blindfold, but she has splendid hearing. I hope that she hears the following sentences, loud and clear:</p>
<p>It is not only a right, but also the duty of free people to speak against every ideology that threatens freedom. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States was right: The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.</p>
<p>I hope that the freedom of speech shall triumph in this trial.</p>
<p>In conclusion, Mister Speaker, judges of the court.</p>
<p>This trial is obviously about the freedom of speech. But this trial is also about the process of establishing the truth. Are the statements that I have made and the comparisons that I have taken, as cited in the summons, true? If something is true then can it still be punishable? This is why I urge you to not only submit to my request to hear witnesses and experts on the subject of freedom of speech. But I ask you explicitly to honour my request to hear witnesses and experts on the subject of Islam. I refer not only to Mister Jansen and Mister Admiraal, but also to the witness/experts from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Without these witnesses, I cannot defend myself properly and, in my opinion, this would not be an fair trial.</p>
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