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		<title>Is a Country Merely Empty Space?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid immigrant turmoil, Swedish politician reveals what he really thinks of his country. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/article-1351251-053BF13A0000044D-321_634x558.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247229" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/article-1351251-053BF13A0000044D-321_634x558-397x350.jpg" alt="article-1351251-053BF13A0000044D-321_634x558" width="328" height="289" /></a>Fredrik Reinfeldt was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014. His center-right coalition government suffered a defeat in the general elections of September 2014. Allegedly conservative Prime Minister Reinfeldt stated that the native Swedish culture was merely <a href="http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/reinfeldt-det-ursvenska-ar-blott-barbari"><span style="color: #0433ff;">barbarism</span></a>; everything good was imported from abroad. He said this in 2006 following a visit to the town of Södertälje, near Stockholm.</p>
<p>In September 2005 a police station in Södertälje was hit by shots from an automatic weapon, following a confrontation between aggressive immigrant youths and the local police. The trouble started after a Swedish girl was called a “whore” and reacted negatively to the epithet.</p>
<p>If a leading politician had said that African, Asian or Islamic culture was “merely barbarism,” there would have been a huge public outcry and calls for his immediate resignation due to “racism.” His career might have been over. Yet disrespecting and mocking the traditions of Europeans is apparently no problem.</p>
<p>Suburbs in Stockholm and other Swedish cities were rocked by major immigrant riots in the spring of 2013. There are fears that similar riots could return at any moment. The underlying problems have not gone away. Despite this, the ruling elites stubbornly reject any suggestion that mass immigration should be curtailed.</p>
<p>Eleven young men and boys were detained in December 2014 after <a href="http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&amp;artikel=6039140"><span style="color: #0433ff;">rioting</span></a> in a Stockholm suburb. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aac8w14cook&amp;feature=player_detailpage">police were attacked</a> with stones and Molotov cocktails, a park was vandalized and several cars were torched. The eleven are suspected of arson, vandalism, violent rioting and attempted severe assault. &#8220;They are still being questioned,&#8221; police spokeswoman Kia Samrell told news agency TT. Police spokeswoman Elisabeth Wernsten told Swedish Radio News: “A witness saw a large gathering of younger individuals who marched towards the center of Rågsved, where the school is. The witness suspected that the youths were going to smash the school up.” When the police gathered to confront them, they started throwing stones and firebombs. Another police spokeswoman, Eva Nilsson, said that the incident appears to have been premeditated. Police still had no explanation as to why they had been attacked. “This gang simply decided to get together to commit crime. There is no good reason for wanting to attack the police in this way. Nothing provoked the incident,” said Wernsten.</p>
<p>The Rågsved school is one of the poorest performing schools in the country. Just 29 percent of pupils received high enough grades to be admitted to senior high school.</p>
<p>In late 2014, former Prime Minister and outgoing Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt once again ruled out any cooperation with the Sweden Democrats, who want to restrict mass immigration to Sweden. In a major interview with the left-wing daily <a href="http://politiken.dk/magasinet/interview/ECE2476627/de-aabne-svenske-hjerters-far/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Politiken</i></span></a> in Denmark, Reinfeldt rejected the notion that Sweden offers a safe haven for more refugees than the country can cope with, saying that there is plenty of room in the Scandinavian and Nordic countries for more human beings fleeing oppression and war. “<a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20141207/no-home-for-swe-dems-on-centre-right-reinfeldt"><span style="color: #0433ff;">What does</span></a> the word ‘enough’ mean? Sweden is full? The Nordic region is full? Are we too many people? We are 25 million people living in the Nordic region. I often fly over the Swedish countryside and I would advise others to do the same. There are endless fields and forests. There&#8217;s more space than you might imagine. Those who claim that the country is full, they should demonstrate where it is full.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://politik.tv2.dk/2014-12-07-df-om-reinfeldt-interview-en-trussel-mod-danmark">Søren Espersen</a></span> from the Danish People&#8217;s Party (DF) warned that the very liberal Swedish immigration policies now constitute a threat to Denmark and other neighboring countries. The declaration by Sweden’s former Prime Minister Reinfeldt that “there is plenty of space for more refugees” in the Nordic countries was slammed by Danish leaders. “<a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20141207/no-home-for-swe-dems-on-centre-right-reinfeldt"><span style="color: #0433ff;">This is</span></a> the first time I’ve heard that a country’s geographic size should determine how many people from distant lands can fit in. That’s a new one for me. But space is not the problem – the problem is that we have huge economic and cultural challenges,” Martin Geertsen, the integration spokesman for the opposition party Venstre, told Danish media. Mette Reissmann of the ruling Social Democrats also dismissed Reinfeldt’s criticism, adding that Denmark doesn’t share Sweden’s goal of being seen as a “humanitarian superpower.”</p>
<p>Sweden is larger than Germany, but has a much smaller population. <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sw.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Sweden</span></a>’s total land area is about 450,000 square kilometers. <a href="http://www.photius.com/rankings/geography/population_density_persons_per_sq_km_2014_0.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Macau</span></a>’s population density is currently 20,674 persons per square kilometers. If you populate Sweden with the same population density as Macau, you have room for 9.3 billion people. Theoretically, you could move the entire planet’s human population to Sweden. Yet there is even more open space in Antarctica.</p>
<p>Is a country simply empty space, waiting to be filled by shopping and human rights? Are all cultures equal? Can you replace Swedes with Somalis and expect to get the same result? That seems to be the view of transnational and globalist Western elites, although this view is rarely articulated as clearly as Mr. Reinfeldt does.</p>
<p>Much to the annoyance of Western ruling elites, many normal Europeans disagree. They see their countries as the homeland of a distinct nation. They do not believe that all cultures are equal and do not celebrate being gradually displaced in their homeland by foreign tribes. Is a nation merely an idea, or is it an organic unit of people with a shared history and heritage? That is the crucial question underlying the rising tensions over mass immigration throughout the Western world.</p>
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		<title>Ben Shapiro: The Truth About Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Ben Shapiro takes a look at the true story of Thanksgiving &#8211; not the multiculturalism and socialism pushed by leftists every November. See video and transcript below:</strong></p>
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<p>THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING</p>
<p>Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and once again we’ll be treated to the usual dumbed down version of the Thanksgiving story: white Europeans landed in America fleeing religious persecution, were too dumb to farm, and relied on the wise Native Americans to help them. Then they had a meal together and learned to share, after which the white Europeans genocided the Native Americans. Let’s watch some football!</p>
<p>The whole story is much more interesting. And it’s also not particularly friendly to leftists.</p>
<p>The Puritans who came to Massachusetts on the Mayflower weren’t emissaries of religious tolerance. They actually left liberal Holland to push for “the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith,” as it says right in the Mayflower compact. Turns out that Christianity was more important than multiculturalism to the heroes of Plymouth Rock.</p>
<p>And Christianity, not multiculturalism, saved the Puritans. The first winter, half the new settlers died. That was because of drought and plague, and failure to understand the crops. Then Squanto showed up.</p>
<p>Squanto wasn’t just a Native American refugee from the Disney movie Pocahontas. He was a Christian. Apparently, Squanto was just a boy when he met the English for the first time – he was captured and sent back to England for training as a guide. In 1614, he returned to America with John Smith – but he was then kidnapped again by one of Smith’s men, sent back to Spain, and sold into slavery.</p>
<p>Spanish monks bought him and taught him Christianity. He somehow ended up in England, and earned the respect of an Englishman who paid for his passage back to the New World. In 1619, Squanto went home.<br />
But by the time he got back, his entire village had been killed by disease.</p>
<p>One year later, the Pilgrims showed up, settling in Squanto’s devastated village. Governor William Bradford wrote that Squanto “became a special instrument sent of God for [our] good…[he] never left us till he died.”<br />
It was Christian Squanto, not “native Americans” generally, who taught the Pilgrims how to farm.</p>
<p>With Squanto’s help, the Pilgrims survived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in 1621. When he died one year later, he asked Bradford to pray for him so that he could “go to the Englishmen’s God in heaven.”<br />
But that wasn’t the end of the story, either.</p>
<p>The Pilgrims had set up a massive obstacle for themselves: their idea of a religious utopia was a giant commune. And like all communist organizations, it failed spectacularly.</p>
<p>Governor William Bradford wrote: “The failure of that experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men, proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times – that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God…community of property was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit.”</p>
<p>Both men and women refused to work. Stealing became rampant.</p>
<p>So, what did the Puritans do? Bradford described it: in 1623, after the first Thanksgiving, they trashed the system: “The Governor, with the advice of the chief among them, allowed each man to plant corn for his own household…So every family was assigned a parcel of land. This was very successful.”</p>
<p>So successful that more than a century and a half later, George Washington explained the legacy of religious purity in his first Thanksgiving proclamation: “it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” And it is with thanks to God and his principles and the pursuit of his purity that we celebrate this Thanksgiving.</p>
<p><strong><em>Correction:</em></strong> The Puritans and Pilgrims were distinct groups; all references to the Puritans should be to the Pilgrims.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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/mouth-taped-censorship.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223151" alt="mouth-taped-censorship" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mouth-taped-censorship.gif" width="300" height="203" /></a>On April 4 2014, in Malmö District Court in Sweden, the provocative artist Dan Park was sentenced to three months in jail for hate speech (&#8220;hets mot folkgrupp&#8221;) for his works of art. The prosecutor even wanted the artist examined for mental illness, similar to the way </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.d-intl.com/2014/03/31/swedish-prosecutor-takes-a-page-from-the-soviet-manual-2/?lang=en">Communist</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> dictatorships have treated dissidents. The court did not support this suggestion, however. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.d-intl.com/2014/04/04/dan-park-tanker-overklaga-domen/">Park</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and his defense lawyer have indicated that they will appeal the verdict.</span></p>
<p>Ingrid Carlqvist, the editor of the newspaper <i>Dispatch International</i>, <a href="http://www.d-intl.com/2014/04/04/ledare-domen-mot-dan-park-innebar-ett-forbud-mot-satir/">commented </a>that the verdict essentially amounts to a ban on satire in Sweden, at least if the satire involves ideologically protected immigrant groups.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the same time, and with a heavy heart, Carlqvist announced her own decision </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.d-intl.com/2014/03/29/good-bye-sweden-you-wont-get-me-for-insanity/?lang=en">to leave</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> her native Sweden. The repressive and totalitarian atmosphere in the country has simply become intolerable, especially if you happen to be a critic of Islamization, Multiculturalism or mass immigration. You then run a real risk of physical attacks. The level of political violence as well as street crime is only rivaled by the level of ideological censorship and repression. In combination, this has created a society plagued by levels of tension that are growing increasingly dangerous.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city. It is set to become the first Scandinavian town with a Muslim majority population. In recent years, it has achieved a certain notoriety for its crime problems.</span></p>
<p>The wave of robberies the city has witnessed is part of a “<a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/938">war against Swedes</a>.” This was the explanation given by young robbers with immigrant background for why they are robbing native Swedes. The sociologist <a href="http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/invandrare-krigar-mot-svenskar-med-ran/">Petra Åkesson</a> interviewed boys between 15 and 17 years old, both individually and in groups. “When we are in the city and robbing, we are waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes.” This argument was repeated several times. “Power for me means that Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet.” The boys explained, laughingly, that “We rob every single day, as much as we want to, whenever we want to.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet suggesting that the ongoing rise in violent crime might have something to do with mass immigration of alien and aggressive cultures is quite literally banned by law. In March </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/03/free-speech-swedish-style.html">2007</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> during a rally supported by SSU (the Social Democratic Youth League) a man carried a sign reading, “While Swedish girls are being gang raped by immigrant gangs the SSU is fighting racism.” He was promptly arrested and later sentenced to a fine. His crime? He had “expressed disrespect for a group of people with reference to their national or ethnic background.” The local </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thelocal.se/10440/">court</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> rejected the man’s free speech argument because even free speech has its limits, and he had clearly acted in too provocative a manner.</span></p>
<p>So-called “Islamophobia” is treated as a serious offense. In <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/49902/">August 2013</a>, Swedish prosecutors charged a 22-year-old non-Muslim Swedish man for honking his car horn outside the Fittja mosque near Stockholm, citing his intention to disturb the Muslim congregation there during prayers.</p>
<p>Expressing disrespect for ethnic Swedes, whites and European culture seems to be just fine, though. That’s not merely allowed under Multiculturalism, but virtually encouraged. Sweden’s allegedly conservative Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has stated that the original Swedish culture was merely <a href="http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/reinfeldt-det-ursvenska-ar-blott-barbari">barbarism</a>; everything good was imported from abroad. He said this in 2006 following a visit to the town of Södertälje, near Stockholm.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2063">police station</a> in Södertälje was in September 2005 hit by shots from an automatic weapon, following a direct confrontation between aggressive immigrant youths and the local police. The trouble started after a Swedish girl was called a “whore” and reacted negatively to the epithet.</p>
<p>If a leading politician had said that African, Asian or Islamic culture was “merely barbarism,” there would have been a huge public outcry and calls for his immediate resignation due to “racism.” His career might have been over. Yet disrespecting and mocking the traditions of the majority population is apparently no problem.</p>
<p>This phenomenon seems to exist in all Western countries with a white majority population, and only there. Only Europeans are expected to denigrate their own culture and meekly give their country away to outsiders. Multiculturalism is in essence an anti-European ideology. Under the seductive and highly misleading slogans of “diversity” and “tolerance,” it entails unilaterally dissolving European nations and their distinct identities.</p>
<p>Mona Sahlin has held various posts in Social Democratic cabinets, among others as Minister of Democracy, Integration and Gender Equality. In 2007 Sahlin was elected leader of the Social Democratic Party, which has been Sweden’s largest party for generations and often its dominant political force. She stepped down as party leader after losing the 2010 elections, when she was the left-wing candidate for Prime Minister.</p>
<p>The radical organization Expo is – unfortunately – very powerful in Sweden today. It was founded in the mid-1990s by the now-late Marxist activist Stieg Larsson. He ironically went on to sell tens of millions of books of crime fiction after his death.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/expo/pressrelease/view/mona-sahlin-ny-ledamot-i-stiftelsen-expos-styrelse-593633">In 2011</a>, after having been a serious candidate for Prime Minister only a few months earlier, Sahlin joined <a href="http://stiftelsen.expo.se/styrelsen.html">the board</a> of the organization Expo. The journalist and dissident writer Ingrid Carlqvist <a href="http://www.d-intl.com/2013/06/12/how-expo-silenced-debate-in-sweden/?lang=en">has documented how</a> Expo came to have a powerful unofficial influence over the Swedish public debate on immigration, or the total lack of such. Sweden is partially paralyzed by a climate of fear. You risk being fired from your job and socially demonized by the left-leaning press if you say anything remotely critical of mass immigration. As a matter of fact, you risk being fired without saying anything at all in public. It can be enough merely to give a small donation as a private citizen to democratic dissident websites <a href="http://avpixlat.info/2013/10/25/bli-inte-forvanad-om-du-blir-av-med-jobbet-2/">such as Avpixlat</a>.</p>
<p>Expo has contributed negatively to this totalitarian climate. Some of its harshest critics have even compared it to Stasi, the secret police in the Communist dictatorship of East Germany (DDR). The few who dare speak up against mass immigration in Sweden risk being physically attacked as well. Expo has been accused of having too close a relationship with violent left-wing organizations.</p>
<p>In 2007 the leading Expo member Charles Westin was the editor of a book about alleged right-wing extremists. In addition to contributions by radical left-wing academics such as Mattias Gardell, it <a href="http://www.dn.se/ledare/signerat/valdets-politik/">contained a chapter</a> written by the extremely violent left-wing organization Anti-Fascist Action (AFA).</p>
<p>AFA have for years staged very violent attacks on people who dare to question mass immigration or oppose Islamization. Some of their victims have been attacked with axes even in their private homes. AFA often post videos on the Internet where they brag about such attacks. They have done this with near-impunity for many years. The political Establishment looks the other way.</p>
<p>Among AFA’s many targets have been members of a perfectly democratic and legitimate political party, the Sweden Democrats. These attacks have continued even after they earned representation in the Swedish Parliament in 2010. Expo’s board member and spokesman Daniel Poohl, who is not democratically elected himself, has publicly stated that it’s “<a href="http://expo.se/2008/inte-odemokratiskt-att-frysa-ut-sd_2165.html">not undemocratic</a>” to deny the Sweden Democrats access to political influence.</p>
<p>In early 2011 Mona Sahlin went directly from being the national leader of the very powerful Swedish Social Democratic Party to sitting on the board of Expo together with Charles Westin. That a leading politician sits on the board with a person who has cooperated openly with groups beating up members of a legal opposition party might have raised a few eyebrows elsewhere, but not in Sweden.</p>
<p>Bruce Bawer, the author of bestselling books such as <i>While Europe Slept</i>,<i> </i>has previously warned that “<a href="http://www.nysun.com/opinion/while-sweden-slept/44831/">Though</a> two<b>-</b>thirds of Swedes question whether Islam is compatible with Western society, this issue is simply not open for public discussion. To quote Jonathan Friedman, a New Yorker who teaches social anthropology at the University of Lund, ‘no debate about immigration policies is possible’ because Sweden’s ‘political class,’ which controls public debate, simply avoids the topic.”</p>
<p>Dissidents from the Sweden Democrats have been the targets of violent events that recall China’s Cultural Revolution. Protests have been staged by the youth divisions of other parties.</p>
<p>The British historian Roland Huntford warned in his 1971 book <i>The New Totalitarians</i> that Sweden has perfected the methods of suppressing individual dissent while maintaining the outward workings of a democratic system. He feared that similar methods might be adopted elsewhere in the Western world.</p>
<p>That time — the early 1970s — was just before the wave of non-European immigration hit Scandinavia. Huntford’s book therefore does not deal directly with this issue. But he does pinpoint the serious repression of dissent in Sweden and its dangerous lack of intellectual defenses. Perhaps that is the nation’s most damaging flaw. He also noted the extensive Socialist indoctrination, the all-intrusive bureaucracy and the fact that after generations of Social Democratic dominance, the country seems to view itself as an ideological state. It is not hard to see how these factors could become very toxic when combined with mass immigration.</p>
<p>It’s just a 40 minute drive by car across the Øresund Bridge from the troubled town of Malmö in southern Sweden to Denmark’s capital city Copenhagen. Sweden shares a land border with Finland in the north plus a longer sea border across the Baltic Sea. Norway and Sweden share a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%E2%80%93Sweden_border">1,630-kilometer</a> long land border which happens to be one of the least protected national borders in the world.</p>
<p>Sweden is now becoming so repressive, and the problems related to rampant mass immigration so big, that the country could represent a future security threat to neighboring nations.</p>
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		<title>Sweden&#8217;s March Into Oblivion</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sweden.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213607" alt="sweden" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sweden.jpg" width="279" height="187" /></a>Sweden is self-destructing, and more and more people are writing about it – but, with very few exceptions, still not in the mainstream Swedish media, where denial continues to reign supreme. Indeed, even as concerned observers in neighboring Denmark and Norway are sounding the alarm about the fallout of Swedish immigration policies, Sweden&#8217;s own mainstream media – and the rest of its cultural establishment – are laboring overtime to silence the truth-tellers and keep the rabble from openly questioning the wisdom of their betters.</p>
<p>Case in point: recently, in an attempt to win back the nearly 30 percent of male union members between ages 18 and 49 who support the heterodox Sweden Democrat Party, LO, the country&#8217;s powerful confederation of trade unions (think of the AFL-CIO at the height of its powers and multiply by two or three), spent a big chunk of cash to demonize the Sweden Democrats, painting them as a pack of fascists. (Never mind that LO&#8217;s own oppressive, ideologically lockstep alliance with the political establishment is right out of the Mussolini playbook.) One rare recent exception to the Swedish media&#8217;s see-no-evil approach to immigration and its consequences was a fascinating <a href="http://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/karta-tryggheten-i-malmo/">map</a>, published last month in the newspaper <i>Sydsvenskan, </i>showing the relative levels of danger in the various neighborhoods of Malmö, the city that is regarded by many cogent observers as the ninth circle of the Scandinavian inferno.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, as I say, the admonitory essays keep coming. One example: “Sweden&#8217;s Race to the Bottom,” a bracingly frank <a href="http://blogs.jp.dk/setfrahoejre/2013/12/04/sveriges-kurs-mod-bunden/%20">piece</a> that appeared on December 4 on the website of <i>Jyllands-Posten, </i>Denmark&#8217;s biggest newspaper<i>. </i>The author, Morten Uhrskov Jensen, didn&#8217;t mince words. His opening sentence: “Sweden has chosen to break down.” Jensen went on to outline the steady slide in the quality of education in Swedish primary schools over the last decade or so, as detailed in a recent PISA study, and to link that decline to what Jensen bluntly called the country&#8217;s “insane immigration policy.” Sweden, warned Jensen, “will have to pay a very high price for its experiment with permitting excessive immigration from dysfunctional states.” He placed special blame on the media, noting that in an article about the PISA study, <i>Aftonbladet, </i>Sweden&#8217;s largest paper (and, as he put it, “official Sweden&#8217;s mouthpiece”), chose to ignore the real reason for the school crisis and to pretend it&#8217;s all the fault of “the decline in equality in schools,” which, in turn, is a result of “free school choice.” Reacting to this transparent hogwash, Jensen commented: “One doesn&#8217;t know whether to laugh or cry.”</p>
<p>Five days later, <i>Jyllands-Posten </i>offered another grim <a href="http://www.document.no/2013/12/et-land-af-skygger-og-spogelser/%20">report</a>, this one entitled “A Land of Ghosts and Shadows.” In it, Danish author Mikael Jalving recounted the repercussions of a recent advertisement in the newspaper <i>Dagens Nyheter. </i>The ad was for a book – its title might best be translated as <i>The Immigration Cover-Up </i>– that quietly but devastatingly lays bare the suicidal folly of Sweden&#8217;s immigration regime. It&#8217;s a remarkably comprehensive work, providing an informative overview of such topics as asylum smuggling, immigration and crime, sharia law, the costs of immigration, censorship of Islam critics, the wielding of the word “racism” as a weapon, the treachery of such pro-immigration authors as Stefan Jonsson and Mattias Gardell, and feminist fecklesness in the face of Muslim patriarchy. Privately printed by the authors, Karl-Olav Arnstberg (an ethnologist) and Gunnar Sandelin (a former reporter for Swedish television), after they failed to secure a publisher, the book, Jalving wrote, can justifiably be described as a piece of “underground literature” which, like Solzhenitsyn in the USSR, is being read “only behind closed curtains.”</p>
<p>The <i>Dagens Nyheter </i>ad for <i>The Immigration Cover-Up </i>was a rare exception to the Swedish media&#8217;s systematic exclusion of alternate views. According to Jalving, the newspaper&#8217;s editors put Arnstberg and Sandelin through several rewrites, forcing them to tone down their language and make the ad as innocuous as possible, before they finally agreed to print the thing. Nonetheless, anodyne though it was, it thoroughly enraged the <i>crème de la crème</i> of the Swedish left, who gathered in Stockholm to protest what one of them denounced, in a fiery speech, as “racist propaganda” and to demand that the editors of <i>Dagens Nyheter </i>make a public show of contrition. (All this in response to a nearly 400-page scholarly tome that – crammed with statistics and footnotes – is every bit as dry and dispassionate as the left&#8217;s reaction was hot-headed and hysterical.) Jalving didn&#8217;t hide his disgust: calling the PC profs, pols, and pressmen at the demo “spoiled little children in suits,” he contrasted them with the majority of Swedes, whom he characterized as “seasoned and lucid Vikings” who&#8217;ve “had enough of the elites&#8217; lies and careerism.” I hope he&#8217;s right, but I wonder how long these Vikings plan to wait before actually doing anything to try to pull their country back from the precipice.</p>
<p>The day after Jalving&#8217;s piece appeared, <i>Expressen, </i>the Swedish daily, ran a <a href="http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/expressen-avslojar/namn-pa-anonyma-anvandare-knackta/%20%20">story</a> announcing that its editors had hooked up with a Swedish research group, imaginatively named Researchgruppen, to perform a serious, in-depth investigation. Of what? Muslim terrorist cells? Of course not. In good Swedish-media fashion, the goal of <i>Expressen</i>&#8216;s probe was to unearth and expose the names of the readers of three alternative online news sources, <i>Avpixlat</i>, <i>Fria</i> <i>Tider</i>, and <i>Exponerat</i>. I call these sites “alternative” because they run the sorts of stories – about things like, oh, Muslim terrorist cells – that mainstream Swedish media won&#8217;t touch. But <i>Expressen </i>doesn&#8217;t call them “alternative.” It calls them “hate sites.” (I&#8217;ve seen hate sites, and though I haven&#8217;t done a thorough study of these three sites, the material I&#8217;ve read on them from time to time is no more hateful than the typical article at Front Page or PJ Media.) Anyway, Researchgruppen managed to figure out the e-mail addresses of no fewer than 6200 people who had left “hateful comments” at the three “hate sites” – and then managed to figure out whom those addresses belonged to and proceeded to gather “personal data” on them, which, <i>Expressen </i>promised, would be served up in future articles.</p>
<p>Among the individuals exposed by <i>Expressen </i>as a participant in the discussions on these three sites was Anders Dahlberg, a member of both the National Guard and the Sweden Democrat Party. He lives in the southern town of Skåne and is currently running for a local political office. Researchgruppen identified him as the author of a number of anonymous comments at the <i>Avpixlat </i>site<i>. </i>The one <i>Expressen </i>singled out for opprobrium was his suggestion that it might be impossible to end Sweden&#8217;s multicultural society without the use of force, and that ethnic Swedes might want to arm themselves in preparation for that eventuality. Members of the Swedish elite rushed to express their revulsion at this contemptible sentiment – none of them, of course, pausing to ask whether Dahlberg&#8217;s statement is, in fact, more or less contemptible than the roles they themselves have played in the ongoing erasure of the nation that he&#8217;s plainly determined to save.</p>
<p>Then, this past Tuesday evening, somebody threw a <a href="http://www.expressen.se/kvp/bombattentat-hos-sd-politiker-i-arlov/%20">bomb</a> into the mail slot of Dahlberg&#8217;s home. The explosion caused the front door to fly off its hinges and across the living room. Although Dahlberg, his wife, and their children were all home at the time, nobody was hurt. The news of the attack was followed hard upon by a report that Dahlberg had been stripped of his position in the military. “What he has written is not consistent with the values of the Ministry of Defense,” said an armed forces spokesman.</p>
<p>So it goes. On Thursday evening, in reaction to a clash in Stockholm between neo-Nazis and “anti-racists,” thousands of citizens of Uppsala, Gothenberg, and Malmö took to the streets in yet another iteration of that favorite Scandinavian pastime, the torchlight <a href="http://www.expressen.se/gt/goteborgare-samlas-i-protest-mot-rasismen/">procession</a> against racism. Accounts of the preparations for these events noted that in case of any friction, “dialogue police” (<i>dialogpolisen</i>) – a term I have never before encountered – would be on hand. Stockholm anti-racists plan a Sunday demo. Perusing images of the Thursday evening processions, which showed the pious multicultural multitudes flaunting yet again their proud refusal to test their common ideology against reality, I couldn&#8217;t help pondering the melancholy question: are they really unaware that they&#8217;re marching their country into oblivion, or are they consciously embracing extinction in the belief that even self-slaughter is preferable to being called a racist?</p>
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		<title>How Multiculturalism Transformed My College</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A case study in the destruction of American higher education. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Students-on-Campus-6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200148" alt="Students on Campus 6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Students-on-Campus-6-450x330.jpg" width="270" height="198" /></a>Reprinted from the <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2885">John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The historian Polybius famously observed that empires deteriorate either internally or from without.  In some cases, however, they fall apart in both ways. This latter situation applies to American higher education, which has succumbed to numerous corrupting influences all at the same time.</p>
<p>To make my point, I’ll discuss the transformation that befell the college where I was employed between 1989 and 2011. Elizabethtown College, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was for most of its history a sleepy Anabaptist college, affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. When the college offered me a position as a full professor, I accepted, welcoming the opportunity to live in a charming setting and to teach at a socially traditional college.</p>
<p>I also imagined that I would be able to converse with a scholarly community, but my teaching experience at Elizabethtown, with a few notable exceptions, was far from stimulating. Most of the students didn’t seem eager to learn and when given the chance, were happy to disparage me and other equally demanding professors on the compulsory “evals.” Worse than the hostility of the disengaged students was the reaction of antiwar faculty colleagues who disliked my philosophy, despite my own reservations about a militantly interventionist foreign policy. Attempts at civil debate with them proved futile.</p>
<p>A new administration took over in 1996. It was headed by<strong> </strong>a sociologist of religion with Lutheran theological training. He pushed the college in an unmistakably ideological direction from which it would never turn back.</p>
<p>The new president enjoyed going to conferences with other college presidents and schmoozing with the Middle States accreditation agency that the college uses to validate its degrees.  Each time he attended such meetings, he would come back with a new diversity program to implement, or he would decide to increase the responsibilities of the college’s diversity dean in fighting for “tolerance.”</p>
<p>This typically took the form of being more “welcoming” to our modest number of non-Christian, non-white students. For awhile, any mention of Christmas by the faculty and staff was frowned on; and even a “Yule Bowl” celebration was awkwardly renamed Holiday Bowl at the last moment, in case a non-Christian student might take offense at a gathering associated with a Christian holiday.</p>
<p>My wife, who was a bookstore employee, brought up certain facts in a letter to the college newspaper: Yule festivals were a pre-Christian Germanic thing and it was ridiculous for a Protestant college to try to obliterate its specifically Christian roots.</p>
<p>My black student assistant (one of the few non-whites on campus) found it strange that the entire school was celebrating Kwanzaa as a “black religious festival,” when his Baptist family in New Jersey cared only about Christmas. I explained to him that his parents were not politically correct blacks, unlike the white administration at the college.</p>
<p>From my conversations with the president, I found nothing to suggest that he believed any of the multicultural doctrines he so energetically pushed. He was just taking his lead from the presidents of other colleges, and undoubtedly trying to make the increasingly leftist faculty like him.</p>
<p>And the faculty seemed delighted with his initiatives. When the administration came forth with an extensive program to integrate multiculturalism into the curriculum, there was enthusiastic faculty approval.</p>
<p>The multicultural pedagogy would furnish the principles for the orientation of new students, inspire the list of guest speakers who would be invited to campus to edify us, and justify the stress on diversity and social justice that went into the college’s new mission statement.  Even without injecting the righteous odor of PC into every core course, the entire college would emit its fragrance.</p>
<p>In its effort to get the faculty to vote to make diversity the overriding goal of the institution, the administration, aided by the social work and religion faculties, relied upon the supposed need to fight “hate crime.”<strong>  </strong>We were confronted by events that never occurred, but which were said to throw a pall over the college. The administration spoke as if there were torrential outbursts of hate against Hindu, Muslim and Jewish students, based solely on the assertion by one Catholic faculty member who had converted to Hinduism that some students looked at him in a “bigoted way.” (Those looks were better explained by the fact that he wore a pony tail.)</p>
<p>And though the president proposed a solution (recruiting more minorities from inner cities) that had nothing to do with the alleged offenses, that didn’t matter. One after the other, faculty members stood up to proclaim, “It’s time we make a statement.”</p>
<p>To make matters worse, there was a low endowment at Elizabethtown, and the tuition-driven college became heavily dependent on certain cash cows. These were primary education, communications, and social work, which all served as vehicles of leftist indoctrination.</p>
<p>The students and faculty who were associated with those majors hardly distinguished between leftwing activism and traditional college study. They were expected to assume certain political attitudes and to act on the basis of them as part of their college education. Students in certain majors were expected to hear all of the politically correct speakers (such as education radical Jonathan Kozol) who were brought to campus and to write papers on what they learned from the speeches.</p>
<p>Even staying in the dorms required getting along with a dean of students, who imposed her political values on recalcitrant residents. Students of mine were dressed down by this dean and the provost for not being sufficiently sensitive to uncorroborated “hate crimes.” In more than one case, honor students (from the political science department) were threatened with expulsion for disputing the diversity dogma that had been proclaimed for the “college community.”</p>
<p>Note that there was an aspect of the college’s Brethren heritage that worked against maintaining college standards. The school claims to “be educating for service,” and one frequently heard students emphasize the joys of being “hands on.” In primary education, one could be “hands on” by joining the National Education Association and by demonstrating with its members. One had an especially good opportunity to be “hands on” by attending the speech by black communist activist Angela Davis last fall, which was sponsored by the college.</p>
<p>Equally significant were the multiple “hires” that took place during this time. Most of the younger people who came on board have better credentials than the older generation of faculty. Unfortunately, they are not much interested in serious scholarship, but delight in complaining about any hints of sexism and racism they claim to have spotted on campus. The primary effect of the younger faculty has been to radicalize the institution beyond recognition.</p>
<p>Elizabethtown’s pitiable transformation corresponds to a widespread degradation of learning. What bothers me about such glib generalizing, however, is the unwillingness of those of my generation to acknowledge that what they are deploring <em>happened on their watch.</em></p>
<p>This process of change took place in different places and varied contexts, and so when I hear from those who lament what has befallen our college that “it’s really the same all over” I get intensely annoyed. I have no doubt that at Elizabethtown something could have been done to make things less crazy if fewer professors had hidden their heads in the sand. There was rarely a vote on any issue that radicalized the school in which the “nays” could not have won or at least held their own. The critics were just too cowardly or self-centered to let their opposition be known at the appropriate time.</p>
<p>Although this passage from Burke may now be overworked, it seems particularly apt looking back at my college experience: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a nation loses the will to defend itself. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Koran-book1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-195106" alt="Koran-book" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Koran-book1.jpg" width="255" height="186" /></a>America and the democratic West faced the European-based totalitarian ideologies of Nazism (National Socialism), Fascism, and Communism, and triumphed over them all.  Another totalitarian ideology has arisen in recent decades, this time not in Europe, but the Muslim Middle East, called Islamism.  It is a political perversion of Islam, albeit it is rooted in Islamic traditions and scriptures.  What makes this 21<sup>st</sup> Century Islamist totalitarian ideology different from the other destructive ideologies of the 20<sup>th</sup> century is the adoption of multiculturalism and political correctness (PC) in the democratic West that have tied the West’s hands in combatting this evil.</p>
<p>During World War Two, the Western allies did not mince words about the Nazi (German) and Fascist (Italy and Japan) enemies they faced.  American G.I.’s knew exactly who the enemy was, and so did the home front, which supported its fighting men and women. The American government helped define the nature of the enemy to the general public.  The British and Commonwealth governments did the same.</p>
<p>In the cultural sphere, Broadway and Hollywood, as well as the existing media (printed press and radio), supported the war efforts and helped define the enemy America was fighting.  And although the leftist influence in academia was growing as early as the 1940s, the culture in general respected patriotism, religious values, and traditions.</p>
<p>The Cold War that pitted the West against Soviet Communism was fought with similar clarity.  The West rejected the so-called “science” of Communism as a totalitarian tract that destroyed individualism and personal initiative.  It saw Communism as a system that rejected religion and social stability.</p>
<p>President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union “an evil empire” that locked its people up, preventing freedom of movement and thought. Reagan expressed in his March 8, 1983 speech a truth that the Obama administration refuses to accept about Islam.  He said, “I think the refusal of many influential people to accept this elementary fact of Soviet doctrine illustrates an <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganEvilEmpire1983.html">historical reluctance to see totalitarian powers</a> for what they are.  We saw this phenomenon in the 1930s.” What was true about Communism is true about Islamism.</p>
<p>There are those who differentiate between Communism and Islamism by saying that one (Islamism) is a religion, whereas the other is supposedly a political system. In reality, both are totalitarian systems. Both are radical ideologies that divide the world into the select and the profane. Both deny individuality and suppress free will, treat manmade dogma as infallible truth and seek to impose it by force. The ideologies of Communism and Islamism reject commonly perceived morality and insist that right and wrong are determined not in terms of Judeo-Christian values, but rather by the interests of their specific groups.  For the Communists it is the proletariat, and for the Islamists, the <i>ummah</i>.</p>
<p>In recent decades, U.S. administrations have treated the defense of freedom as an alternative to ideology.  Instead, America and the West need to confront Islamism as an insult to sanity. Likewise, we need to emphasize our own beliefs in universal Judeo-Christian values that distinguish between right and wrong.</p>
<p>Today, however, the government (the Obama administration), the sycophantic media and academia do not support the efforts to define and defeat radical Islam or Islamism.</p>
<p>The opposite is true.  The media and academia have employed political correctness and multicultural standards that obscure and obfuscate the dangerous nature of Islamism, hiding behind such “civil society” organizations as CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), MSA (Muslim Students’ Association), etc., that are supporting terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. Many of these organizations have intimidated Americans with concocted charges, including &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; and racism, and have been allowed to “re-educate” U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and the military on “how to deal with Islamism.”  The FBI can no longer talk about Islam, and they can&#8217;t talk about jihad. The U.S. has permitted “the fox to guard the chicken coup.”</p>
<p>Victor Davis Hanson wrote that “Obama operatives suggested that radical Islamists were no more likely than any other groups to commit acts of terrorism. In fact, the very idea of terrorism — not to mention a war against it — was supposedly a Bush administration construct <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/01/the_obama_borg_118181.html">unfairly aimed at Muslims</a>. ” Obama, according to Hanson, “sincerely believed that there was no intrinsic connection between Islamism and terror; or, if there was, Islamic radicalism was no more dangerous than right-wing or supposedly Christian-inspired terror. Or if Islamic radicalism did arise, it might be mitigated by multicultural sympathy and outreach, mostly by contextualizing the violence as an inevitable result of prior Western culpability.”</p>
<p>In his May 1, 2013 article, Hanson ridiculed the Obama administration, pointing out that</p>
<blockquote><p>Vladimir Putin proved more helpful than did our own <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/01/the_obama_borg_118181.html">FBI and CIA </a>directors in the Tsarnaev case. After all, the FBI had interviewed, but not detained, a number of men who later proved to be Islamic terrorists, such as the Tsarnaevs, Nidal Hasan, Anwar al-Awlaki, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, and David Coleman Headley. One wonders what common complaint or malady these subjects shared — anti-abortion zealotry, tax resistance, homophobia, secret tea-party sympathies, several tours in Anbar Province, nativist anger at illegal immigrants, or simple head injuries?</p></blockquote>
<p>A Washington Post editorial (April 25, 2012) slammed the Obama administration. “The notion that there is a legitimate form of Islamism reflects serious intellectual failing on the part of the Obama administration.  President Obama seems to believe the Islamists are legitimized simply by participating in the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/25/obama-embraces-islam/">political process</a>[.]” The editorial goes on to say that</p>
<blockquote><p>No matter what the source of the delusion, no political movement that exalts the Koran can peaceably coexist with the concept of freedom at the root of Western governance. Islamist notions of democracy are constrained by the strictures of their religion. Radical Muslims reject the humanistic values that gave birth to modern Western government; the self-evident truths regarding everyone’s inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are infidel heresy to the Islamists. There are no inalienable rights under political Islam, only submission to the will of Allah.</p></blockquote>
<p>America and the West cannot defeat Islamism and its terrorist components as long as the Obama administration insists on using euphemisms such as “overseas contingency operations.”  Obama rejected George W. Bush’s own euphemism of “War on Terror.”  In both cases, the terms used obscure the enemy we are fighting with nebulous euphemisms.  The Obama administration prefers to avoid using the term &#8220;Long War&#8221; or &#8220;Global War on Terror” so as not to offend Muslims. Words such as “terror” or “war,” let alone adding the word &#8220;Islamic,&#8221; are strictly verboten by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>In December of 2011, the administration released a strategic plan for dealing with domestic terrorism. It made not a single mention of <a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130424/OPINION01/130429657">radical Islamism</a>.  And, in 2010, the Pentagon released an 86-page report on the Fort Hood shooting. Though the perpetrator was a radical Islamist who corresponded directly with top al-Qaida terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, the report labeled the attack &#8220;<a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130424/OPINION01/130429657">workplace violence</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>As long as we in America (and of course in Europe) are shackled by political correctness and an array of misleading euphemisms, we will not be capable of defeating radical Islamism.  We might have to give up our way of life on the altar of multiculturalism and PC because of the cowardly and morally feeble, self-proclaimed “educated classes and political elites” who have lost the will to defend our civilization.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fjordman.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194624" alt="fjordman" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fjordman.jpg" width="239" height="179" /></a>I am currently completing a book about the Anders Behring Breivik case and how I got dragged into it against my will. The working title is <i>Witness to Madness</i>, with the subtitle<i> How I Became Public Enemy Number Two</i>. I was considering dropping the reference to being a “public enemy,” as it might be seen as hyperbole. Yet after the reactions I’ve received since the beginning of June 2013, this title actually seems warranted.</p>
<p>On Friday June 14, I announced on my Twitter account, in Norwegian, that I’d just been awarded a grant of 75,000 kroner to support the completion of my upcoming book about the Breivik case. This grant came from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritt_Ord_%28organization%29#Fjordman_controversy">Fritt Ord</a>, which is Norway’s largest and most well-funded free speech organization by far.</p>
<p>I was quite happy to receive it, as it had not at all been certain that I would get it. The decision was bound to cause some controversy, given how controversial I am in Norway, but the mass media reactions once again exceeded anything I had truly expected. A full week after my tweet, the debate had still not died down. A Member of <a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/belonning-til-ekstremismen-1.11081545">Parliament</a> representing the ruling government coalition blasted the decision and me personally on the state broadcaster NRK. The crux of the debate is: Does freedom of speech apply even to truly loathsome creeps like Fjordman?</p>
<p>The controversy was mentioned in the other Scandinavian countries, too, for instance on Denmark’s public broadcaster <a href="http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2013/06/15/150959.htm">DR</a>, as well as in national newspapers in Sweden such as <a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article16966021.ab"><i>Aftonbladet</i></a> and <a href="http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/fjordman-skriver-bok-om-breivik/"><i>Expressen</i></a>.</p>
<p>The good news is that quite a few individuals have taken a principled stand in favor of free speech. The support that meant the most to me personally was that of the long-time publisher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nygaard#Failed_assassination">William Nygaard</a>. He was the Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie’s novel <i>The Satanic Verses</i> and was nearly killed outside his own home in Oslo in 1993. In other words, this is a man who has personally paid a price for doing what he does, and who probably also genuinely disagrees with many of the things that I write, but who nevertheless supports free speech as a matter of principle. He is also not alone in doing this, which is encouraging.</p>
<p>However, the reactions were a very mixed bag, sometimes bordering on the hysterical. Fritt Ord has previously supported the publishing of books by Communists who supported the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, yet in my all but unique case, the chair of their board, the former Supreme Court Justice Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn, found it necessary to distance himself from me in public while at the same time giving me a grant.</p>
<p>Rieber-Mohn stated to the press that this was one of the most difficult decisions Fritt Ord has ever made, considering my allegedly “extreme” viewpoints, but they saw the value in letting me present my side of the story as well. He further stated that it would be of great value for society to have a debate about what Mr. Peder Jensen stands for, so “<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/samfunn/2013/ekstrem_tildeling">that</a> one gets him out into open terrain and that everybody who wants to attack him has the opportunity to do so.” That’s very thoughtful and considerate of Mr. Rieber-Mohn, who in statements to the mass media has repeatedly labeled my ideas and opinions as “<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/06/14/kultur/bok/litteratur/fjordman/innenriks/27711954/"><i>avskyelige</i></a>,” that is, abominable or loathsome.</p>
<p>Fjordman became a sort of all-purpose bogeyman in Norway, post-Breivik. A man named <a href="http://www.getthepartystarted.co/right-wing-extremism-in-norway-on-fjordman/">Daniel Kalvø</a> in June 2013 published an essay in English comparing me to a cancerous tumor. I’ve previously been compared to toxic waste or a plague epidemic, among many, many other colorful designations.</p>
<p>At the liberal conservative periodical <i>Minerva</i>, the writer Eirik Vatnøy has previously indicated that he is in favor of free speech. <a href="http://www.minervanett.no/den-farlige-retorikken/">Vatnøy</a> thinks that my essays should be taught in high school alongside Adolf Hitler’s autobiography <i>Mein Kampf</i>, so that young people learn to recognize evil when they see it.</p>
<p>The popular author Ingvar Ambjørnsen found it provocative that I had applied for a grant from Fritt Ord at all, but he <a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/nyemeninger/alle_meninger/cat1003/subcat1018/thread273803/#post_273803">recalled</a> that <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/litteratur/article1201314.ece">in 2006</a> they had supported the publishing of a Norwegian translation of the speeches of Osama bin Laden, so supporting me should presumably be OK, too. Yes, that Bin Laden, who led the terrorist network al-Qaida, responsible for the murder of thousands of people around the world in dozens of terror attacks, of which the ones in the USA on September 11, 2001 are simply the deadliest and most spectacular.</p>
<p>Eirik Vatnøy and Ingvar Ambjørnsen thus support freedom of speech even for incredibly evil people such as Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden or me. Which is good, I suppose.</p>
<p>As it turned out, the book by Osama bin Laden which Fritt Ord supported in 2006 did not cause too much controversy. When Fritt Ord decided to give financial support in a similar manner to my book in June 2013, all hell broke loose. This must presumably mean that I am more controversial in Norway than Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>Several newspapers dedicated editorials specifically to the controversy surrounding my yet-unpublished book. The left-wing daily <i>Dagsavisen</i> declared that this support to publish a book by me was “<a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/nyemeninger/alle_meninger/cat1000/subcat1029/thread277527/#post_277527">dangerous</a>.” Dangerous in what way, and to whom? The editorial reminded the readers that this was not the first time Fritt Ord had given support to persons with “radical views.” I initially thought they meant the Muslim terrorist Osama bin Laden, but the newspaper was referring to the Christian philosopher and author Nina Karin Monsen, who has criticized gay marriage.</p>
<p>It should be mentioned in this regard that <i>Dagsavisen</i> received more than <a href="http://www.journalisten.no/node/38455">41 million</a> kroner in direct press support in 2012 alone, sponsored by all of the country’s tax payers whether they want to or not. It’s one of the main reasons why the paper exists today. I’ve paid for this myself for years, against my will. Yet when a private organization decides to award a political opponent 75 thousand kroner in a one-time grant – 0.0018 times as much as they get from the state annually – they complain.</p>
<p>Rune Berglund <a href="http://www.antirasistisk-senter.no/sponsing-av-ekstremisme.5242643-98689.html">Steen</a> of the Norwegian Centre against Racism, which has received millions in state funding for many years and still does, was openly <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/artikkel.php?artid=10104462">critical</a> of this decision by a privately funded organization to give me a grant, although that same organization has supported the Centre against Racism a number of times, too. The Centre got 75,000 kroner in support from Fritt Ord for various “anti-racist” projects in the month of <a href="http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/tildeling/mer/bevilgninger_i_mai_2013_sknader_om_kr_100_000_eller_mindre/">May 2013</a> alone, which is exactly as much as I got in June 2013. And this came on top of their millions in state support.</p>
<p>On June 18, 2013, the major national daily VG in Norway published a <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/artikkel.php?artid=10111205">special editorial</a> entitled “VG believe: Our democracy can withstand Fjordman.” This opinion piece was unsigned, but the paper’s CEO and editor-in-chief is Torry Pedersen, and its political editor is Hanne Skartveit. The newspaper claimed that I do not share the fundamental values of our civilization but instead spread unfounded “hate” against Muslims. In essence, they virtually branded me a public enemy. Nevertheless, in the end the paper came out in favor of the decision by a private foundation to support the publishing of my book. VG gave this justification for their thinking:</p>
<p>“Our main argument in favor of supporting the monetary grant from Fritt Ord is that it illustrates the strength of the Norwegian democracy. A man who clearly despises our society and our values is applying for money to be able to continue denigrating this society. This money he will get, because we as a society are confident that we can meet this hate speech in an open terrain. Our democracy can withstand Fjordman, precisely because we have the strength to beat back hate speech and anti-human attitudes. With words as weapons.”</p>
<p>Please note that at the time this was published, my book wasn’t even fully written yet, let alone published, something which I had told the press. My intention is to have the manuscript for <i>Witness to Madness</i> completed by the end of this summer and hopefully have the book in circulation by late 2013, if that is practically possible.</p>
<p>Moreover, it was also known that I no longer live in Norway since I had to flee the country after being partly blamed for the terror attacks of July 22, 2011 carried out by Anders Behring Breivik, a person I have never once met. I have also not been a member of any political party throughout my adult life. So what this editorial in newspaper VG actually said is that the Norwegian democracy is strong enough to withstand a book that has not yet been published, written by a single individual with no criminal record who no longer lives in Norway. I suppose that’s good. Norwegian democracy must be really, really strong to withstand that kind of pressure.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/swedishflag608.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190018" alt="swedishflag608" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/swedishflag608-450x329.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>Europe is slowly committing suicide, but Sweden is plainly determined to do itself in faster than the rest. Earlier this month, on a visit to Lagos, Nigeria, Sweden&#8217;s Minister of Finance, a fellow named Anders Borg, made one of those staggering <a href="https://www.realisten.se/2013/05/11/anders-borg-sverige-kommer-bli-som-afrika/%20">comments</a>, drenched with contempt for one&#8217;s own nation and culture, of the sort in which Swedish officials excel. Paying tribute to the beauty of Nigerian women&#8217;s colorful attire, Borg couldn&#8217;t just leave it at that; he felt compelled to use the occasion to complain that his own countrywomen too often wear dull, black outfits. Speaking with a reporter for <i>Expressen, </i>he expressed the hope and expectation that in ten years&#8217; time his own country, and Europe generally, will look far more like Africa. It&#8217;ll be more multicultural, he explained, and thus better.</p>
<p>But is Nigeria more multicultural than Sweden? Yes, if you&#8217;re referring to the fact that it has over 250 native ethnic and linguistic groups with a wide range of cultures, from Fula to Hausa to Yoruba. But if you&#8217;re talking about multiculturalism as an ideology that compels public servants to view the establishment of greater and greater ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity as an undivided virtue, regardless of all objective evidence to the contrary, Nigeria has nothing on Sweden. While only a tiny minority of Nigeria&#8217;s population is of foreign origin, over 25% of Sweden&#8217;s inhabitants have a foreign background. And people like Borg are determined to drive that number steadily higher, by hook or by crook – on the insane grounds that a nation like Sweden should look to a nation like Nigeria as a model for its own future development.</p>
<p>Indeed, it&#8217;s a measure of the utter irrationality of the modern religion known as multiculturalism that a Western politician like Borg is able to lavish such praise on an overpopulated, underdeveloped African country whose very name is synonymous with cheesy Internet scams; a country that has a life expectancy of 47 years, a 32% illiteracy rate, a political culture rife with corruption, and a deplorable human-rights record; a country where twelve of the 36 states are governed according to sharia law,  where over a hundred people perished in Muslim riots over the 2002 Miss World pageant, and where jihadist violence has taken hundreds of lives in recent years.</p>
<p>What the hell is up with Sweden? It&#8217;s a question people have been asking for decades, and in a new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Swedish-Story-extreme-experiment/dp/1484873831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1368901086&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+Swedish+Story+Sjunnesson">The Swedish Story</a><i>, </i>Swedish blogger Jon Sjunnesson sets out to answer it. And he does an effective job of it: even for those of us who have paid no small amount of attention to Sweden over the years, Sjunnesson&#8217;s book offers a helpful overview of the Swedish national character and the history of the Swedish welfare state, perceptively singling out the distinctive traits that have made Sweden the “extreme experiment” that it is and succinctly summing up some of the more notorious episodes in modern Swedish history.  But this isn&#8217;t all: he also illuminates socialism and the socialist mind in a way that I think will be useful for Americans – for what he&#8217;s drawn here is a vivid map of the territory into which our president and many of his cronies and supporters wish to lead us.</p>
<p>Take education. Of course, real education means, above all, helping students learn how to think critically. In a country like Sweden, however, schools and universities are primarily sites of indoctrination whose purpose is to create good socialists. If the Swedish system celebrates kids who are great at sports while all but punishing kids who stand out academically (“Excellence of bodies yes, brains no”), part of the reason is a fanatical devotion to equality of result, and part is an awareness that kids with first-rate minds are potential critics of the system. Hence socialism&#8217;s preference for mediocrity over excellence.</p>
<p>And, one might add, for social science over hard science. Yes, Sweden awards Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine, but its educational system discourages an interest in math and science – because, you see, experts in these fields end up serving industry, which exploits workers and produces environmentally hazardous waste. For decades, consequently, Sweden has suffered a deficit of scientists, engineers, doctors, and technicians. Students who choose to enter these fields, furthermore, tend to be so ill-prepared that they “need remedial classes.” There&#8217;s also a lack of plumbers, construction workers, and other laborers – for just as Sweden&#8217;s social engineers distrust science, they look down on vocations involving manual labor.</p>
<p>In Sweden, the brainwashing starts early – not in school, but in day care. No fewer than 85% of Swedish children under age three are in municipal (or municipally administered) day care. This figure is probably the highest percentage in the world. It is, Sjunnesson notes, the kind of experiment in mass, government-controlled child-rearing that Plato envisioned in his <i>Republic </i>and that “was central in Orwell&#8217;s and Huxley&#8217;s dystopias<i>.” </i>If you&#8217;re a Swedish parent who doesn&#8217;t want your kid brought up to be a good little socialist soldier – well, good luck: you have few if any real alternatives. Parents who don&#8217;t put their kids in day care “are often suspect in the eyes of social authority.” As for home schooling, it&#8217;s forbidden under a 2010 law (the only such legislation in the EU aside from a German ban enacted in 1938 because “the Nazi party did not want anyone else to school the young”). In any event, the cause of home schooling hasn&#8217;t gained much traction among Swedes, who have been efficiently trained to view any expression of unease over state-run education as “deranged” and to accept the socialist proposition that children belong not to their parents but to the state.</p>
<p>Sjunnesson makes a crucial point about the high tax rates in Sweden and other Nordic countries. The high taxes are necessary, of course, to fund the welfare state. But they serve another purpose. Socialists recognize members of the middle class, who are all too frequently driven by an ambition to better their circumstances, as a potential threat to the authority of socialists, whose machinations make such ambitions harder to fulfill. How to nip this nuisance in the bud? Easy: impose sky-high taxes on them. For, as Sjunnesson points out, people who have been able to accumulate some savings in the bank are better positioned to “stand up against authority” and “rise with self-confidence”; they&#8217;re not “as servile as if they had nothing.” Sweden&#8217;s tax system, then, is designed to make it extremely hard for Swedes to save money – and it works: compared to other Western countries, “Swedes have unusually small amounts of savings.” And consequently, people who might otherwise be vocal critics of the socialist welfare state are very aware of being dependent on it, knowing that if they get sick or lose their jobs they won&#8217;t have their own resources to fall back on. Confiscatory tax, then, serves not only as a means of enriching and expanding the socialist state, but as a form, itself, of socialist control.</p>
<p>“Meek as sheep”: that&#8217;s how Sjunnesson describes his fellow Swedes. They&#8217;re afflicted with a “silent conformism,” the result of a “spiral of silence” driven by a “fear of exclusion” and a perceived need to maintain a social order founded on perceived consensus views. Whether the perceived consensus views actually <i>are</i> the consensus views doesn&#8217;t matter: “When no opposing views are heard, people do not believe there are any even if they themselves dissent.” Those who do dare to dissent are branded as extreme – even though those “extreme” views may be thoroughly mainstream in other Western countries – and are often targeted for violence by self-styled “anti-fascists” who behave exactly like fascists. Sweden is, note well, a country in which members of the anti-establishment Sweden Democrats Party are demonized for dissenting civilly and peacefully, while certain entertainers are celebrated for singing about their desire to commit acts of violence against Sweden Democrats. Then there&#8217;s the story of how a frank Fox News report on the Islamization of the city of Malmö led an irate member of Parliament to demand that the Swedish counterpart to the FCC close down Fox News&#8217;s operation in Sweden. As Sjunnesson sums it up: “freedom of speech means little in Sweden.”</p>
<p>There&#8217;s much more of interest in this book. About, for example, the inculcation of virulently anti-male attitudes at all levels of the Swedish educational system. (“Boys cry when they hear how bad they and their father are and men have always been.”) About how the system rewards irresponsibility on the part of young unmarried mothers and the men who impregnate them. (“With a baby, a single parent sidesteps all waiting lines and the child may be the only means to an apartment for decades.”) About a national self-hatred so fierce that “schools have asked pupils not to wear [Swedish flag] t-shirts or wave the yellow and blue flag as it could be interpreted as racist.” About a country where adults admire and envy youth beyond all reason, and accordingly exhibit greater levels of hedonism and infantilism than their counterparts anywhere else on the planet. And about levels of anti-Semitism that made international headlines yet again just the other day, when Israel&#8217;s Eurovision delegation was <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/israeli-eurovision-delegation-threatened-in-sweden-1.524399">harassed and threatened</a> on the streets of Malmö.</p>
<p>For an American reader, Sjunnesson&#8217;s book about a supposedly free country where the media march in lockstep and where dissent can be dangerous carries a special resonance in the wake of revelations that the IRS has targeted conservative groups and the Justice Department has snooped on AP and Fox News journalists. To some observers, the depth of the Obama administration&#8217;s hostility toward any hint of criticism in the media has been especially puzzling, given that most news media have in fact been absurdly supportive and protective of Obama throughout his presidency. But to a true socialist government, <i>any </i>dissent is intolerable. In Norway, where the domination of the news market by state-run TV channels and radio stations and by state-subsidized newspapers already give the government a very strong hand in shaping the media message about itself, officials have now gone a step further, proposing that the state award grants to fund journalistic projects of its own choosing – an outrageous suggestion in a democratic country, but a no-brainer for those with a socialist mindset.</p>
<p>In socialist countries, after all, the state doesn&#8217;t exist to serve the people; the people exist to be shaped into unquestioning servants of the state – servants who accept that the state <i>is</i> them and that they are the state. In such countries, it&#8217;s taken for granted that there&#8217;s no need to place any limit on state power or to provide mechanisms to protect citizens from that power, because, by definition, as Sjunnesson puts it, “the state always is good.” We may mock the European Union for banning jugs or bowls of olive oil on restaurant tables, but this is what socialism does: the powers that be need to have their fingers in every pie, need to minimize the number of situations under which freedom may actually be experienced, need to accustom citizens to a society in which their lives are increasingly regulated. They need, in short, to create a country in which the land and the system are, in the minds of the general public, one – a country, that is, in which the people simply cannot imagine the nation itself <i>without </i>the socialist state.</p>
<p>No so-called democracy on earth has gone as far in this direction as Sweden. For the Swedish people, Sjunneson says, “the country is the welfare state&#8230;Swedes have have no home but the welfare state and no identity outside its yarn” – outside, in other words, its narrative about itself. Winston Smith, Orwell&#8217;s narrator in <i>1984, </i>suggests that the only hope of overthrowing the totalitarian government of his native Oceania lies with “the proles”; Sjunneson, for his part, believes that his fellow Swedes are so brainwashed by welfare-state propaganda that the only way Sweden can save itself at this point is by admitting “one million new immigrants from India, China, Africa and Latin America” who have service skills or technical knowhow, who have no truck with jihadism or multiculturalism, who want to move to Sweden not for a handout but to study hard and work hard, and who will, in time, found more rigorous schools and start more vigorous businesses.</p>
<p>A pipe dream, I fear. Yet Sjunneson&#8217;s portrait of his country is a cautionary tale whose lessons the rest of us ignore at our peril.</p>
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		<title>Multicultural Lessons in School Cause Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 18:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children aren't born racist, the barrage of racial awareness, white privilege anti-racist and multicultural programming helps make them racist.]]></description>
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<p>I would call this<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315483/How-anti-racism-lesson-INCREASE-pupil-intolerance-They-cause-animosity-cultures.html#ixzz2Rd7dIfDL"> another case of a liberal policy backfiring</a>, except it isn&#8217;t really. It&#8217;s doing what it&#8217;s meant to do which <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/30/study-children-given-anti-racism-lessons-in-school-more-likely-to-be-intolerant-outside-classroom/">is promote divisiveness and spread resentment</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Children who are given anti-racism lessons in school are more likely to be intolerant outside the classroom, a major study found yesterday.</p>
<p>It said accusing white pupils of racism causes animosity, and discussing sensitive ethnic concerns such as honour killings paints minority group children in a bad light.</p>
<p>Patricia Morgan, an author on  the family and education, said  yesterday: ‘If you rub children’s noses in their supposed racism, they resent it.</p>
<p>‘Pupils are being accused of things they haven’t thought or done. Multiculturalism attempts to manipulate children’s thoughts, beliefs and emotions, it amounts to indoctrination, and it doesn’t work. It is counter-productive.</p>
<p>‘This study shows that when people try to manipulate children’s minds, it bounces back on them.’</p></blockquote>
<p>Children aren&#8217;t born racist, in other words, the barrage of racial awareness, white privilege anti-racist and multicultural programming helps make them racist.</p>
<blockquote><p>The survey said children who live in mixed neighbourhoods are often free of hostility towards other racial groups. But it found that ‘when more attention in class is being paid to the multicultural society, the liberalising effect of positive contact in class on youngsters’ xenophobic attitude decreases’.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because it creates divisiveness. Which is the point. It&#8217;s not supposed to fight racism, it&#8217;s supposed to create racism to fight.</p>
<blockquote><p>It said boys tended to be more intolerant of other groups than girls, and intolerance was greatest among those with strong religious or ethnic identity, among those from Turkish or Moroccan backgrounds, and those with the lowest educational achievements.</p></blockquote>
<p>Surprisingly Muslims are intolerant of others. Supremacist ideologies tend to be so.</p>
<blockquote><p>Education Secretary Michael  Gove has been under fire from Left-wing academics over plans to stop teaching teenagers about topics such as ‘the wide cultural, social and ethnic diversity of Britain from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century and how this has helped shape Britain’s identity’.</p>
<p>Instead, in future pupils will be taught much more British history.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/christianity-islam-and-atheism-the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-the-west/kirk/" rel="attachment wp-att-174220"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-174220" title="kirk" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/kirk-222x350.jpg" alt="" width="222" height="350" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is William Kilpatrick, the author of several books, including <em>Psychological Seduction</em> and <em>Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Tell Right from Wrong</em>. His articles about Islam have appeared in <em>FrontPage Magazine</em>,<em> Investor&#8217;s Business Daily</em>,<em> Catholic World Report</em>, and other publications. His most recent book,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Islam-Atheism-Struggle-Soul/dp/158617696X"> <em>Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</em></a> explores the threat that Islam poses to Christianity and Western civilization. The book also examines the role played by militant secularists in facilitating the expansion of Islam.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>William Kilpatrick, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Let’s begin with you telling us what inspired you to write this book.</p>
<p><strong>Kilpatrick:</strong> In a way it’s a continuation of an earlier book of mine, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Cant-Tell-Right-Wrong/dp/0671870734"><em>Why</em> <em>Johnny Can’t Tell Right From Wrong</em>.</a>  That book looked at the ways in which moral relativism impaired Johnny’s ability to tell right from wrong.  Part of the new book looks at the ways in which cultural relativism, or multiculturalism, impairs his ability to tell friend from foe.  One of the chapters is titled “Why Johnny Can’t Read the Writing on the Wall.”  One of the main reasons Western citizens can’t see the obvious about Islam is that they have been subjected to an educational system that insists on the moral equivalency of all cultures and religions, just as it had previously insisted on the equivalency of all value systems.  So, the initial impulse for writing the book was my realization that the same people who introduced moral chaos into schools and society were now bent on normalizing an alien ideology.  Or, to paraphrase Mark Steyn, the people who brought you <em>Heather Has Two Mommies </em>are about to bring you “Heather has four mommies and a great big bearded daddy.”</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Can you explain the title?</p>
<p><strong>Kilpatrick: </strong>I use the word “atheism” in the title as shorthand for both atheists and militant secularists, most of whom tend to be on the left.  Many Christians have awakened to the fact that they are in a cultural struggle with secular leftists, but far fewer have come to the realization that they are also in a civilizational struggle with Islam.  Fewer, still, are aware that, as you point out in <em>United in Hate</em>, the left has formed a tacit alliance with radical Islam against the West.</p>
<p>Of course, Christians aren’t the only ones who are threatened by Islamic expansion.  All non-Muslims are.  But in the West, Christianity has traditionally been the focal point of resistance to Islamization.  Unfortunately, Christianity in the West has been weakened both by secular attacks and by self-inflicted wounds.  As a result, Christians in the West are failing to stand up for their cultural heritage.  In fact, many fail to realize that their culture is under attack.</p>
<p>But without Christianity you are left mainly with philosophies of relativism, skepticism and materialism—philosophies that have proved themselves incapable of resisting Islamization and, in fact, serve to enable its spread.  You can see this most clearly in Europe where the decline of Christianity has been accompanied not only by the rise of secularism but also by the rise of Islam.  With the loss of faith has come a loss of meaning and the loss of a sense among Europeans that they have anything worth defending.  The loss of faith is also one of the main factors accounting for Europe’s population loss.  In other words, the decline of Christian faith in Europe created a spiritual vacuum and a population vacuum, both of which Islam was quick to fill.</p>
<p>While Muslim leaders and radical secularists are fully engaged in the struggle for the soul of the West, many Christians seem unaware that they are under attack from two sides.  They need to wake up before it’s too late.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>In one of your chapters, you spoke of “Christian enablers of Islam.”  Can you elaborate on that?</p>
<p><strong>Kilpatrick:</strong> Many Christian leaders unwittingly act as enablers of Islam’s totalitarian agenda by focusing on the surface similarities between Christianity and Islam rather than on the profound and irreconcilable differences.  A prime example is the Vatican II document <em>Nostra Aetate</em> which includes a short statement of the Church’s relation to Muslims.  Essentially, it says that Muslims adore the one God, revere Jesus, honor Mary, and value the moral life.  Reading it one could easily jump to the conclusion that the Christian faith and the Islamic faith are very much alike.  One might also conclude that Islam is indeed a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a handful of terrorists who misunderstand their own religion.</p>
<p>However, before jumping to that conclusion one needs to realize that <em>Nostra Aetate </em>was never intended to be the last word on Islam.  Rather, the stated purpose of the declaration was to consider “what men have in common.”  Moreover, it was written at a time—the 1960’s—when the Muslim world was far more moderate than it is now—a time when interreligious dialogue seemed to hold great promise.  Recently Pope Benedict noted that with the passage of time “a weakness” of <em>Nostra Aetate</em> has become apparent:  “it speaks of religion solely in a positive way and it disregards the sick and distorted forms of religion.”  I think it safe to say that he’s referring here to Islam or, at least, to some forms of Islam.</p>
<p>This is a hopeful sign of a new realism about Islam.  For too long, Catholic and Protestant leaders, alike, have been content to fall back on what I call the “common ground thesis”—the comforting belief that the Christian faith and the Islamic faith share much in common.  As a result, a lot of Christians have been lulled into complacency about the threat from Islam.  If they want to avoid the fate of Christians in North Africa, the Middle East, and various other Muslim regions they need to get a better grasp on what Islam really teaches.</p>
<p><strong>FP:  </strong>What do Christians need to understand about the differences between Islam and Christianity?</p>
<p><strong>Kilpatrick:</strong> Islam is built on a rejection of the main tenets of Christianity.  It rejects the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.  There is a Jesus in the Koran but he seems to be there mainly for the purpose of denying the claims of Jesus of Nazareth.  Muhammad seemed to have realized that if the Christian claim about Jesus was true, then there would be no need for a new prophet and a new revelation.  Consequently, in order to buttress his own claim to prophethood it was necessary for him to cut Jesus down to size.  Thus the Koran tells us that “he was but a mortal” and only one in a long line of prophets culminating in Muhammad.</p>
<p>John the Baptist said of Jesus that “He must increase but I must decrease.”  Muhammad preferred it the other way around.  For him to increase it was necessary for Jesus to decrease.  Christians need to realize that Jesus is in the Koran, not because Muhammad thought highly of him but because Muhammad saw him as a rival who needed to be put in his place.  The problem is that in using Jesus for his own purposes, Muhammad neglected to give him any personality.  The Jesus of the Koran is more like a stick figure than a person.  Whether or not one accepts the claims of the Jesus of the Gospels, he is, at least, a recognizable human being who goes fishing with his disciples, attends wedding feasts and gathers children about him.  By contrast, the Jesus of the Koran seems to exist neither in time nor space.  The Koranic account of him is completely lacking in historical or geographical detail.  There is no indication of when he lived, or where he conducted his ministry, or the names of his disciples or his antagonists such as Herod and Pilate.  In other words, he seems to be nothing more than an invention of Muhammad’s—and not a very convincing invention at that.  In this regard it’s instructive to note that the Koran rails constantly against those who claim that “he [Muhammad] invented it himself.”</p>
<p>In sum, Christians who think that Muslims revere the same Jesus as they do need to better acquaint themselves with the Koran.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Why do you think there is so much ignorance in the West about Islam?</p>
<p><strong>Kilpatrick:</strong> Much of the ignorance can be explained in terms of multicultural dogma combined with self-censorship.  In the West the multicultural ideology has attained the status of a religion.  Christians believe that Jesus saves, but multiculturalists believe that diversity saves.  And to question the dogmas of diversity is tantamount to heresy.  Nowadays heretics aren’t burnt at the stake, but they are threatened with loss of reputation and loss of employment, and sometimes, as in the cases of Geert Wilders and Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, they are hauled before courts.</p>
<p>As a result, people learn to engage in self-censorship or what Orwell called “crimestop.”  They won’t allow themselves to think certain thoughts or to explore certain avenues of inquiry.  This is particularly true in regard to Islam.  By now, just about everyone understands which thoughts about Islam are permissible and which are not.  As Andrew McCarthy points out, this results in a kind of “willful blindness” toward Islam.  Like the people in <em>The Emperor’s New Clothes</em> we deny the evidence of our own eyes when it conflicts with the official narrative.  In short, we prefer to remain ignorant.</p>
<p>In addition, elites in government, media, and education actively cover up for Islam.  The media doesn’t report even a hundredth of the negative stories about Islam and it does its best to deny any linkage between Islam and terrorism.  At the same time the media does everything it can to normalize Islam and make it seem as American as apple pie.  For example, a recent <em>Huffington Post</em> article likens Muhammad to George Washington.</p>
<p>The schools are engaged in a similar kind of whitewashing.  High school and college textbooks routinely define <em>jihad </em>as an “interior spiritual struggle” and describe Muslim conquests in the 7<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> centuries simply as “Muslim expansion.”  Moreover, many of these texts have a distinct bias against the West and in favor of Islam.  For example, while the Atlantic slave trade is described at length and in gruesome detail, the Arab slave trade which lasted longer and resulted in more deaths is rarely mentioned.  So, insofar as our children are learning anything about Islam, they are learning a Disneyfied version of it.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What must we do to save our civilization?</p>
<p><strong>Kilpatrick: </strong>We need to realize that we are in a high-stakes struggle similar in nature to the Cold War with Soviet-bloc communism. In this new cold war, our aim should go beyond simply resisting jihad. Our aim should be the defeat of Islam as an idea, because it’s an idea that we are fighting. The driving force behind Islamic aggression is Islamic theology, and if we want to be free of Islamic aggression, we need to discredit Islam as a total system. I disagree with the notion that the religious part of Islam can be separated from the political part. Although individual Muslims might be able to achieve that separation in their personal lives, in the Islamic faith the religious and the political are inextricably bound together.</p>
<p>So our overall aim should be to cast doubts in the minds of Muslims about the words and example of Muhammad. In other words, we should want Muslims to lose faith in Islam just as Soviet-era communists lost faith in communism.</p>
<p>Of course, that seems a tall order. It might be objected that Islamic beliefs are too deeply rooted to ever change. But “deeply rooted” beliefs are not always as deeply rooted as they seem. Forty years ago, the Catholic faith seemed deeply rooted in Ireland—but not so much today. More to the point, the deeply held beliefs of millions of Muslims began to erode under the regimes of secular strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa during the twentieth century. As Ali A. Allawi, a former Iraqi cabinet minister, observes, “It appeared to be only a matter of time before Islam would lose whatever hold it still had on the Muslim world.” The recent reemergence of supremacist Islam is largely a reaction to that loss of faith. We should do what we can to reawaken those doubts.</p>
<p>The other thing to keep in mind is that theologically and intellectually, Islam is a house of cards. It simply can’t stand up to the tests of critical reason and historical evidence that we apply to the Judeo-Christian revelation—which is precisely why we should apply them to an examination of Islam. Instead of engaging in non-challenging, non-offensive dialogue—a type of dialogue that only serves to legitimize Islam—Christian leaders ought instead to be challenging and questioning the tenets of Islam, particularly in view of the fact that Islam is built in part on a rejection of Christianity. Christian leaders can’t afford to delay taking a harder look at Islam because the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation is rapidly moving ahead with its project of imposing anti-blasphemy laws on the West—laws that are intended to prevent just such legitimate criticism.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>William Kilpatrick, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
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		<title>Mexican Mafia Leader Sentenced for Trying to &#8220;Ethnically Cleanse&#8221; Blacks from California City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Multiculturalism is not post-racial. The liberal model of racism stemming from white hegemony has as much to do with the reality of human affairs as the plot of your average soap opera. The decline of one group empowers racism by other groups. Society never really becomes post-racial, instead it becomes more fiercely racially competitive.</p>
<p><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/now-what-liberalism/">Item 1 comes from the</a> New York Times.</p>
<blockquote><p>In addition to the glaring class conflicts between the party’s upscale cultural liberals and the larger body of Democratic voters with pressing material needs, there are a host of potential fissures.</p>
<p>In cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to Houston, African-Americans are competing with Hispanics and others for government jobs, good schools, good neighborhoods, political power and basic resources.</p></blockquote>
<p>Item 2 is the<a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/01/mexican_mafia_who_tried_to_sta.php"> new face of racism</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A vicious, racist, father-and-son thug team tight with the Mexican Mafia, Santiago &#8220;Chico&#8221; Rios and his deaf adult son Louis &#8220;Lil&#8217; Chico&#8221; Rios, have been sentenced to long prison terms for pouring drugs into and out of suburban Azusa &#8212; and making it their No. 1 duty to &#8220;cleans[e] African-Americans out of the city.&#8221;</p>
<p>When he pleaded guilty, the elder Rios admitted that the gang had the goal of the cleansing Azusa of blacks. He also admitted that, in order to drive blacks out of the city, he and other members of the gang threatened, intimidated and attacked blacks at their homes, on the streets, at convenience stores and elsewhere, because of their race.</p>
<p>Will troubled Azusa have a chance, now, to return to some semblance of normalcy, especially for its black residents who never knew when the nasty Rios bunch would descend upon them while they innocently tried to shop and live their lives?</p></blockquote>
<p>Azusa is a majority Latino city with a diminishing black population. That trend has been underway for a while and it&#8217;s not likely to change any time soon. Balkanization is a more natural process than most liberals would like to accept. Their ideal of a mosaic, an artificial equally distributed mix, is unrealistic. Violence is not the most common way that people sort themselves out, but it is one way that the process takes place.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a bunch of new KKK&#8217;s in town. And that&#8217;s multiculturalism too.</p>
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		<title>The Problem With Multiculturalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Solway]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening the gates to seditionists and parasites.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/david-solway/the-problem-with-multiculturalism/dorkhold-sign-freedomgotohell/" rel="attachment wp-att-167127"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-167127" title="dorkhold sign freedomgotohell" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dorkhold-sign-freedomgotohell.jpg" alt="" width="272" height="209" /></a>Most conservative observers are of the opinion that multiculturalism as it has been understood and practiced is nothing short of a social and economic disaster. And it must be said they are largely, if not entirely, correct. The multicultural project in its contemporary form suffers from two grievous flaws: the filter is too wide, allowing into the country unskilled people who are poorly equipped to participate in a modern, technologically oriented economy and who consequently become a financial burden to the nation, disproportionately swelling the welfare rolls; and, no less critical, many of these immigrant groups import the hatreds, prejudices and conflicts of their countries of origin, sequester themselves with official approval into closed or aggressive enclaves, and often cause violence and disruption in the public life of their new home. (Rape and “<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/mi/collateral/victims.html">grooming</a>” statistics <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/50936">compiled</a> in the U.K. give a dataset that leaves in no doubt the ethnic make-up of the great majority of offenders.)</p>
<p>Of course, in those cases where immigrant societies, while preserving their cultural habits and religious beliefs in the private sphere, make every effort to integrate into the public domain, to respect the laws, assumptions and folkways of their host, and to contribute to the economic vitality of their adopted country—in such cases, multiculturalism may be said to have succeeded. We are, after all, a country of immigrants. Nearly everyone has an ancestor who was not born here. But in every Western country, whether in North America, Europe or parts of Australasia, there is one immigrant group whose more radical members refuse to adapt to the heritage culture, insist on the supremacy of their ideas and customs, shamelessly milk the dole, create havoc and mayhem, and pose a serious threat to the security and wellbeing of the larger population.</p>
<p>Not long ago I spent an afternoon at Kingsmere Park, the historic estate of legendary Canadian prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, near the capital city, Ottawa. It was filled with thousands of weekend visitors enjoying the vast landscaped gardens, rustic dwellings and architectural ruins erected by King, who was prone to eccentric visions of grandeur. I was, however, more impressed by the people than by the site itself. They represented a microcosm of the Canadian census, the changing and multi-hued face of the country, brown, black, white and every shade in between, some speaking languages I could not identify, others in languages that I could, and English in a bewildering variety of accents and intonations. Many were garbed in a panoply of exotic costumes. But they were Canadians, experiencing a piece of Canadian history, reading the pamphlets and brochures provided by the service personnel, pointing out objects of interest to their children, and participating in the festive atmosphere of the place.</p>
<p>I spent most of the afternoon strolling about Kingsmere fascinated by the prism of citizenship before me. But I did not see a single hijab, or burka, or abaya, or chador, or niqab, or shalwar. I did not hear a syllable of Arabic. So far as I could tell, or at any rate on that particular day, a certain ethnic cohort seemed to be entirely absent.</p>
<p>A month or so later I attended the November 11 Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa, a profoundly moving event that brought me to tears, as it did many others among a multitude so large it could not be reliably counted. The laying of wreaths, the war veterans parading by, some in wheelchairs, the busby-topped buglers, the multi-denominational speeches, the jets flying at low altitude, the 21-gun salute—all brought to mind the debt of gratitude we owed to our soldiers and relit the candle of patriotism, too often guttering or extinct, for one of the more decent and tolerant countries on the planet. Recalling my earlier experiment at Kingsmere, I began canvassing as much of the crowd as was feasible under the circumstances to determine its composition; and, as at the national site, it seemed no less chequered and comprehensive. I did note one woman in a hijab staring impassively at the proceedings, but apart from this anomaly, even after several hours, I was unable to detect a single one of her congeners. Again, a certain ethnic cohort appeared to be massively un-or under-represented.</p>
<p>The parallel memorial in Toronto, however, featured at least two Muslim women, who made their presence felt not by honoring Canada’s war dead and her living heroes but by <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wild-video-fist-fight-breaks-out-after-anti-war-afghan-women-disrupt-ceremony-honoring-canadas-war-dead/">disrupting the ceremony</a>, screaming obscenities at the crowd. A scuffle then broke out among some of the participants although no arrests were made—probably because this would have been offensive to a certain ethnic group. Food for thought, although not especially appetizing fare.</p>
<p>The fact that Luton in the U.K. saw much greater abuse, the <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3223873/Muslim-mob-burn-giant-poppy-and-disrupt-Remembrance-Day-silence.html">burning of poppies</a> and the jeering at and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242335/Muslims-called-British-soldiers-rapists-cowards-scum-exercising-freedom-speech-court-hears.html">taunting of British soldiers</a> returning from Afghanistan, is no consolation. The point is, to put it bluntly, that such people should not have been welcomed into a democratic country with a history of sacrifice and traditions of loyalty that require respect. They are not genuine citizens but an obstreperous and unproductive fifth column that works against the viability of the country that has taken them in. And many seem to have all the time in the world to attend protests and demonstrations when other people are busy at their jobs—as I recently observed at a vehement pro-Hamas rally before the Israeli embassy—so that it seems clear they are the welfare beneficiaries of the very society they seek to subvert.</p>
<p>Here, once again, we are presented with the problem of multiculturalism as it is currently implemented: we have opened the gates to seditionists on the one hand and parasites on the other, two categories that frequently coalesce. We need not be as strictly exclusionary as, for example, Switzerland, where citizenship is difficult to obtain. (My aunt, who worked for the International Labor Organization in Geneva and has resided there for most of her life, waited for years before citizenship was finally granted.) But if we are to be candid and scorn the travesty of political correctness, we should admit that citizenship is a precious gift and that it needs to be earned and deserved.</p>
<p><em>This does not militate against any race, religion or ethnicity, and we know that there are peaceful, law-abiding, responsible and productive members of any and every immigrant group, without exception</em>. Therefore, the argument I am making for a rational immigration policy is neither “racist” nor “xenophobic,” the favorite slanders of the liberal-left political class that has a vested interest in promoting indiscriminate multiculturalism. On the contrary, as philosopher Roger Scruton, in a speech reported by <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1126"><em>The Brussels Journal</em></a>, has eloquently maintained, “the problem posed by the large-scale immigration of people who do not enter into our own…way of life” affirms the right “of indigenous communities to refuse admission to people who cannot or will not assimilate.” The host society’s failure to sift wisely among aspirants to citizenship leads inevitably to “inter-communal strife” and to the political and cultural trauma of “states that have been irreversibly changed through immigration”—changed by those who refuse allegiance “to a shared home and the people who have built it.”</p>
<p>The principle holds. Immigration policy in general should be louvered toward the proper criteria of admissibility: capacity to contribute to the life and prosperity of the nation, and willingness to integrate. Anything less produces costs in political dissidence, cultural upheaval and fiscal extortion we are increasingly unable to defray.</p>
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		<title>Europe’s Multicultural Nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outbreaks of violence rising to levels rarely seen in the modern era. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1246048009563l.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144493" title="1246048009563l" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1246048009563l.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>“The festival gives expression to our demand for a peaceful coexistence of all humans with their different cultures, languages and traditions.”</em></p>
<p>- Proclamation of the festival’s organizers.</p>
<p>The beautiful, rosy multicultural paradise Europe’s leftists promised in the 1960s and &#8217;70s manifested itself brilliantly again recently at a Kurdish festival in Mannheim, a German city in the south-western state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Almost as soon as the festival began, German police were set upon by hundreds of young Kurds who were encouraged “with words and applause” by thousands of others. When the shocking, hours-long savagery ended, eighty policemen were injured, one seriously, while “more than a dozen vehicles were destroyed” before order could be restored.</p>
<p>Martin Boll, a spokesman for Mannheim’s police, said he had never seen such violence in his 30 years of police service.</p>
<p>“The outbreak of violence by the attackers was enormous,” said Boll, who was described by German newspapers as “visibly shaken” by the events. “Hundreds, if not more than a thousand Kurdish assailants stormed towards the police and threw stones at officials.”</p>
<p>One German newspaper said policemen had to “throw themselves down behind vehicles” in order to avoid the pavement stones, glass bottles, bricks, barricades and even firecrackers that were being thrown at them.</p>
<p>It was estimated 40,000 people, of whom 2,500 were regarded as “violent or violence-prepared,” attended the twentieth holding of this annual “multicultural” event. Most of the previous 19 Kurdish festivals had been held in the German state of Rhineland-Westphalia. An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 Kurds live in Germany, but Kurds had travelled from all over Europe for this year’s festival in Mannheim.</p>
<p>The riot began when officials of a security firm contracted by the festival’s organizers asked two policemen for assistance with a 14-year-old Kurdish youth who was refusing to give up a flag he was carrying of the banned Kurdish terrorist group, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).  Apparently angry at the police intervention, about 100 young Kurds “suddenly attacked the two policemen from behind and kicked them in the back.” The violence escalated from there as more police and thugs were drawn in.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Mannheim riot is not an isolated incident. Germans and other Europeans are becoming more accustomed to seeing their municipal police forces attacked by people who, for the most part, had been allowed into Europe under the multicultural banner or asylum laws.</p>
<p>Last May, for example, three German policemen were injured when Salafists, adherents of a violent, ultra-conservative strain of Islam, attacked police in Solingen with stones. The Salafists were staging a counter-demonstration against a rally by members of the Pro Rhineland-Westphalia Party (PRO NRW), a group that is protesting the Islamization of Germany. The Salafists, some of whom were German converts, said they were provoked by caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad the PRO NRW demonstrators were carrying. But since there were no stones in the demonstration area, police believe the Salafists had brought them, indicating their violent intentions. There were 40 arrests.</p>
<p>Also in May, hundreds of Salafists fought “a brutal street battle” with police in Bonn after PRO NRW demonstrators again held up caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad outside the King Fahd Academy. During the riot, a policewoman and a policeman were seriously injured by a Salafist in a knife attack, suffering “severe cut and stab wounds.”</p>
<p>“The radical Islamists attacked (police) officials with roof laths, stones, steel balls, and even knives,” reported the German newspaper <em>Die Welt </em>of the Bonn violence. “Altogether, 29 policemen were injured and 100 Islamists arrested.”</p>
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		<title>Olympics Opening Ceremony: Liberty Forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socialism takes center stage, while Britain's most important cultural contributions are nowhere to be found.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dancers-perform-in-the-Go-008.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138949" title="Dancers-perform-in-the-Go-008" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dancers-perform-in-the-Go-008.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>The Olympics hadn&#8217;t even started yet when the disgraces began to pile up.  First the International Olympic Committee, plainly loath to offend Muslim governments, ruled out a moment of silence at the opening ceremony for the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich forty years ago.  Then last <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/cameron-korea-olympic-flag-blunder-honest-mistake-130658087--oly.html">Wednesday,</a> when South Korea&#8217;s flag was mistakenly displayed instead of North Korea&#8217;s at a women&#8217;s soccer game, Olympics officials fell all over themselves apologizing to baby tyrant Kim Jung-un&#8217;s henchmen for the error.  On the same day, it emerged that Taiwan&#8217;s flag, which has been barred from Olympic venues since the 1980s for fear of offending Communist China, was also removed, on the advice of the same Olympics officials, from a display on Regent Street in downtown London – that is to say, <em>not</em> at an Olympic venue.  And on <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4261350,00.html">Friday</a>, hours before the opening ceremony, Lebanon&#8217;s judo team refused to share a training space with its Israeli counterpart – so officials, rather than telling the Lebanese to go peddle their papers, obligingly put up some kind of screen to separate them from the offending Jews.</p>
<p>Reading about these disgraceful matters, one found oneself asking: are the Olympics, when you get right down to it, really nothing more than the United Nations with basketball courts and swimming pools – that is, plenty of pretty rhetoric about international brotherhood, and underneath it a craven bureaucracy all too ready to appease Muslims and totalitarians?</p>
<p>Given these unpromising prefatory problems, one scarcely knew what to expect of the opening ceremony, conceived and created by filmmaker Danny Boyle (<em>Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire</em>).  Its first minutes, however, proved auspiciously tuneful, touching, and patriotic: children&#8217;s choirs in the stadium, and in rustic settings in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, sang, respectively, Blake&#8217;s “Jerusalem,” “Flower of Scotland,” Welsh composer Ralph Vaughan Williams&#8217;s stately hymn “Cwm Rhondda,” and “Danny Boy.”  The James Bond bit with the queen was amusing.  As the show in the stadium began to take form, moreover, one could not help being exceedingly impressed by the <em>mise èn</em> <em>scene</em> – the evocative pastoral scene transformed before one&#8217;s eyes into an unforgettably graphic vision of the industrial revolution, complete with a group of capitalists in top hats and –</p>
<p><em>Hey, wait a minute, </em>one started to wonder, <em>what&#8217;s going on here? </em></p>
<p>Eventually it became clear that what we were watching was intended as a brief summary of British history – which, in Boyle&#8217;s retelling, essentially began with capitalists&#8217; transformation of (to quote from Blake&#8217;s “Jerusalem”) “England&#8217;s green and pleasant land” into a country of “dark satanic mills.”  Which raised the question: what happened to 1066, Magna Carta, Henry VIII&#8217;s break with Rome, the Spanish Armada, and Oliver Cromwell – just to name a few random highlights that predate the rise of industry?</p>
<p>In Boyle&#8217;s vision, what followed this grim transformation – and redeemed Britain – was, quite simply (and reductively) protest: by, among others, trade unionists and suffragettes, groups of which we saw on the march.  And also medical care, on which there was an almost exclusive emphasis for the better part of a half hour.  After a small army of nurses and kids in beds made their way into the stadium, some of the lit-up beds spelled out the initials GOSH, which (as most international viewers would have no way of knowing) are the initials of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, an institution for sick children founded in the early 1800s.  J.K. Rowling read aloud from <em>Peter Pan – </em>the royalties from which (as, again, few people outside the U.K. would be likely to know) J.M. Barrie donated to that hospital in 1929.  The apex of this portion of the show was the rearrangement of illuminated beds to spell out NHS, for National Health Service – a glorification, in short, of socialized medicine, and an implication that the NHS is the natural culmination of centuries of advancement resulting from leftist agitation.</p>
<p>After the best segment of the show – the laugh-out-loud contribution by the always hilarious Rowan Atkinson, a.k.a. Mr. Bean – came a long, busy, rather confusing and all-over-the-place tribute to the British youth culture of recent decades, notably rap music, and to contemporary social media, centered largely on the love story of a young black couple and featuring Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, at a laptop.  What Boyle was doing here was painting a picture of demotic life in today&#8217;s U.K., as he apparently sees it, and suggesting that it is the triumphant consummation of everything that went before.</p>
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		<title>Inside the Brussels Conference on Free Speech and Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement to set Europe back on the right path continues to grow. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_138893" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-1-Steyn.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-138893" title="Brussels-1-Steyn" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-1-Steyn.gif" alt="" width="320" height="169" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mark Steyn introduces Lars Hedegaard (photo ©Snaphanen).</p></div>
<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Below is a report of the July 9th International Conference for Free Speech and Human Rights, held in Brussels, Belgium. A video compilation of event highlights follows the report. </em></p>
<p>I had the great pleasure of taking part in the International Conference for Free Speech and Human Rights on July 9, 2012 at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, sponsored by the <a href="http://www.libertiesalliance.org/brusselsconference/">International Civil Liberties Alliance</a>. Representatives of 18 countries, the majority being from Europe but with the participation of Coptic Christians from Egypt as well as former Muslims, met to discuss the ongoing Islamization of Europe and the Western world and how to preserve our basic civil liberties.</p>
<p><a href="http://sabatinajames.com/">Sabatina James</a>, a young woman who left Islam for Christianity, told the audience her story, about how her family threatened to kill her. She now lives under witness protection. The punishment for leaving Islam is death, according to sharia law.</p>
<p>MEP Magdi Allam, an Egyptian apostate who now lives in Italy, converted to Christianity and was baptized during the 2008 Easter Vigil service in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He, too, spoke at the conference.</p>
<div id="attachment_138887" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-5-del-Valle1.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-138887" title="Brussels-5-del-Valle" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-5-del-Valle1.gif" alt="" width="320" height="189" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Author Alexandre del Valle (photo ©Snaphanen).</p></div>
<p>We heard Gavin Boby from the <a href="http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/">Law and Freedom Foundation</a> in Britain, plus such interesting people as Alain Wagner and Alexandre del Valle from France, Conny Axel Meier and Christian Jung from Germany and the Syrian Catholic bishop Father Samuel.</p>
<div id="attachment_138888" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-6-Pere-Samuel.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-138888" title="Brussels-6-Pere-Samuel" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-6-Pere-Samuel.gif" alt="" width="320" height="177" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pére Samuel Bishop in the Syrian-Catholic Church (photo ©Snaphanen).</p></div>
<p>The courageous Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff from Austria has been prosecuted as a criminal for “hate speech” for pointing out that Islam’s founder Muhammad, according to Islamic texts, had sex with a 9-year-old child, Aisha. She <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.at/2012/07/death-throes-of-free-speech-in-europe.html">talked</a> about how free speech is currently under pressure in many European countries.</p>
<div id="attachment_138889" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-7-Declaration.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-138889" title="Brussels-7-Declaration" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-7-Declaration.gif" alt="" width="320" height="177" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ned May and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff read the Brussels Declaration (photo ©Snaphanen).</p></div>
<p>Among the highlights of the conference were the presentation and signing of the 2012 Brussels Declaration, a foundational document to defend freedom of speech and civil liberties, and the presentation of the Defender of Freedom Award by Canadian-born author and political humorist Mark Steyn to Lars Hedegaard, founder of the Danish Free Press Society and the International Free Press Society. Together with Ingrid Carlqvist, President of the newly formed (and desperately needed) Swedish Free Press Society, there was further talk of launching a <a href="http://dispatch-international.com/">new newspaper in multiple languages</a> as an alternative to our deeply flawed mainstream media.</p>
<div id="attachment_138890" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-2-Hedegaard-Wagner.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-138890" title="Brussels-2-Hedegaard-Wagner" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Brussels-2-Hedegaard-Wagner.gif" alt="" width="320" height="178" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Lars Hedegaard and Alain Wagner (photo ©Snaphanen).</p></div>
<p>I was happy to meet Mark Steyn in person for the first time. He is just as funny in real life as he is in writing. Steyn has a special talent for talking about serious subjects with a humorous twist, which has earned him a large audience in a number of countries.</p>
<p>One of the first things he asked me about was whether I had any socks today. This was obviously a reference to the fact that Norwegian police confiscated some of my socks in August 2011 when they ransacked my flat in response to the Breivik case. I don’t know why they needed my terrorist socks, but it’s always a pleasure to help out the police. They were kind enough to give them back to me after 100 days in police custody. I then posted a photo of some of them at the Gates of Vienna website under the heading “<a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/sock-and-awe.html">Sock and Awe</a>.”</p>
<p>It was a positive surprise to see how many people showed up. The last time I was in Brussels was for the Counterjihad conference in October 2007, also held at the European Parliament. It took us a few minutes to locate it again, but you know it’s an EU building because it’s big, expensive, ugly and useless. If I had my way, the entire European Parliament would be dismantled and replaced by Gisèle Littman Square, supplemented by the Eurabia Museum for the victims of 1400 years of Islamic Jihad.</p>
<p>A few blocks away, the Berlaymont building houses the headquarters of the European Commission, the unelected government for half a billion people that is systematically dismantling political liberty and democratic accountability from the Black Sea to the North Sea. It, too, deserves to be dismantled.</p>
<p>Some of the same individuals were present at this conference as well, with others missing, and plenty of new faces added since 2007. Among the familiar faces was Nidra Poller, an American author and journalist who has lived in Paris for forty years, writing for major publications such as <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> or <em>The Jerusalem Post</em>.</p>
<p>One of the voices we missed was David Littman, the husband of Gisèle Littman, or Bat Ye’or. One minute of silence was held to honor the memory of David Littman, who died in May 2012 after a protracted illness.</p>
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		<title>The Great Muslim Cover-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covering up women and the truth about Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/women-burka-sarkozy-debat-001.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138587" title="women-burka-sarkozy-debat-001" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/women-burka-sarkozy-debat-001.gif" alt="" width="375" height="256" /></a>Over in Toronto, a Muslim cleric with the unwieldy name of Al-Hashim Kamena Atangana had a great idea. Al-Hashim&#8217;s idea was for Toronto to pass laws forcing women to wear burkas. &#8220;Cover up or get raped,&#8221; was the implied message. Toronto only has an estimated 5.5 percent Muslim population so the Toronto Taliban probably won&#8217;t be getting their way until they have higher double digit numbers, but they can wait.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in Egypt where the population is 90 percent Muslim and the other 10 percent are running for their lives, a new TV channel represents a brave new frontier in Islamic feminism. Maria TV features women giving lifestyle and makeup tips while wearing full niqab, which covers their faces and leaves only their eyes exposed. According to some Saudi clerics who think that women are only allowed to leave one eye exposed, this makes them either a bold feminist experiment or shameless strumpets.</p>
<p>In a country where Tahrir Square has become synonymous with sexual assault; the Al-Hashim paradigm is taking hold. There are photos of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/how-the-veil-conquered-cairo-university/">female students at Cairo University</a> from the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s that showed them dressing like women did in the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s. But by the time Obama showed up to praise Cairo University as a great representative of Islamic civilization, the cover-up had begun. The question is where will the cover-up end and what will the Cairo University class of 2020 look like? They probably won&#8217;t have faces, but will they even have eyes?</p>
<p>You can attend a university with your head covered, even with your face covered, but it gets harder to attend class when your eyes are covered. If the trend means anything in a decade Muslim feminism will mean fighting for the right to keep one eye open in a creed that wants everyone to keep their eyes shut.</p>
<p>The West has reacted to the Islamic cover-up with its own cover-up. The Western liberal will run through the gamut of his own civilization&#8217;s sins before reluctantly admitting that some parts of the Muslim world may not be an ideal place to be a woman, but he immediately reaches for a rolled up copy of the New York Times and uses Tom Friedman’s latest report from an airport&#8217;s luxury lounge in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur as proof that the reforms are coming.</p>
<p>Indeed if you read anything from Tom Friedman, who is expert at writing books about how the world is becoming a global village because it&#8217;s so ridiculously easy for him to fly anywhere on his frequent flyer miles, that is all he can talk about. Saudi Arabia is constantly being reformed. Why in 1962 it abolished slavery and recently the Saudi king has agreed to let women vote in municipal elections in 2015. This is naturally a big deal in an absolute monarchy that has been ruled by the same family for longer than it had oil companies.</p>
<p>There is no question that King Abdullah is a great feminist. If you doubt that just ask any one of his 13 wives. It may be true that women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive or leave the country without permission from their husband; but so long as Tom Friedman has a comfortable seat and an alcohol-free drink whenever he flies to Saudi Arabia, the reports of reforms will keep on coming about this cheerful outpost in our global village.</p>
<p>We all live in villages. Our village is a place where women are considered human beings, but in the village that is an ocean and a desert away, women are considered property. The problem is that lately our two villages have been overlapping thanks to the heap big magic of the airport. Americans travel to Saudi Arabia, where they are told to cover themselves up and respect the local customs, and Muslims travel to Canada where they tell the city of Toronto that it needs to cover up its women or they won&#8217;t be responsible for the consequences. Our village just can&#8217;t seem to win.</p>
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		<title>A Gypsy Fiasco in Oslo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiculturalist establishment creates yet another fine mess.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Picture-2.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137617" title="Picture-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Picture-2.gif" alt="" width="375" height="246" /></a>A few years ago the residents of Oslo, like their counterparts in many other Western European cities, began to notice the growing presence among them of people, apparently gypsies, who were not only begging on their streets – in the summer months, anyway – but were often extremely aggressive about it.</p>
<p>Before long it was reported that these people had come from Romania – and, one sometimes read, Bulgaria.  Many of them were, it was further reported, being shipped to Oslo by the busload for no other purpose than to beg.  Well, that&#8217;s not precisely true: the more able-bodied and fleet-footed among them were also doing quite a bit of stealing.  Eventually there were also reports about the flats these people were living in. Dozens of them, apparently, were crowding into a few small rooms, where they left the remnants of their meals on the floor and, in addition, used the floor as a toilet.</p>
<p>While some Norwegians expressed concerned about this unpleasant new state of affairs, others mounted the barricades on behalf of this new wave of potential welfare clients.  “&#8217;Gypsies treated as garbage,&#8217;” thundered an October 2011 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/--Romfolk-behandles-som-sppel-6682707.html">headline</a> in <em>Aftenposten, </em>quoting the head of the Anti-Racist Center (a curious claim, given that the new arrivals seemed to specialize in turning every place they inhabited for any length of time into a rubbish tip).</p>
<p>This summer, according to <em>Aftenposten, </em>about two thousand gypsies have made their way to Oslo, a city of about half a million.  “Even though many have rap sheets,” the same newspaper informs us, “the police cannot send them out of the country unless they are arrested for criminal offenses in Norway.”  Many of them, to be sure, have been interviewed by the police in connection with various transgressions – and have been quick to accuse the cops of harassment.</p>
<p>In response to this “harassment,” the gypsy community sought “refuge” earlier this month at Sofienberg Church, which is set in a mid-sized park in a middle-class neighborhood near downtown Oslo.  At this time of year, the park is generally the setting for family barbecues, frisbee-playing, and the like.  As of July 9, however, it was a huge tent camp inhabited by a couple of hundred gypsies.  One of them, Opra Costica, defiantly <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/ostlandssendingen/1.8241261">spelled</a> things out to reporters: “If you give me 100,000 kroner I&#8217;ll go.  But not without it.  You should give a million kroner to each of the families who are here in Sofienberg.  A million kroner is nothing in Norway.”  (At the moment, a million Norwegian kroner is equivalent to about $163,000.)</p>
<p>The establishment of this camp in Sofienberg Park gave the usual journalistic hacks the opportunity to spew out the usual inane <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/Europas-utstotte-6940969.html">rhetoric</a>: “The gypsies&#8217; situation can only be understood in a larger political perspective, and against the background of a history full of discrimination, oppression, and marginalization.  They live among us, and we are being put to the test.  Can we treat gypsies, too, as people?”  Those lines were penned by Ingrid Brekke, <em>Aftenposten</em>&#8216;s correspondent in Berlin, who – noting that that city, too, is a summer destination for a great many gypsy beggars – found it appropriate to imply a connection between the Nazis&#8217; murder of gypsies and the reluctance of many Western Europeans to roll out the red carpet for these summertime tourists.</p>
<p>Anyway, the gypsy camp in Sofienberg made huge headlines – and put Norwegian officialdom in a pickle.  After all, it was almost exactly a year since Anders Behring Breivik, motivated by a hostility to mass Muslim immigration, murdered 69 people – an atrocity which led virtually every public figure in the country to piously reaffirm Norway&#8217;s love of diversity and its unbounded respect for other cultures.  Now this.  What to do?  There were murmurs here and there that hinted at buck-passing: this isn&#8217;t the church&#8217;s problem, but the police department&#8217;s.  Or: this is a matter for the national government, not local officials, to deal with.  On July 12, the acting bishop of Oslo <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/--Jeg-foler-at-noen-forsoker-a-bruke-kirken-6942013.html">said</a> he felt the church was being “used.”  “This Is Foreign Policy, Not Local Politics,” read the headline on a July 13 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Dette-er-utenrikspolitikk_-ikke-kommunepolitikk-6942585.html">op-ed</a> by the head of Oslo&#8217;s city council.</p>
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		<title>Anarchy in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How multiculturalism allowed a child rape ring to flourish. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/british-police-go-to-hell.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134741" title="british-police-go-to-hell" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/british-police-go-to-hell.gif" alt="" width="375" height="257" /></a>Amid the pomp and ceremony of England’s recent <a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/TheQueenandspecialanniversaries/TheQueensDiamondJubilee2012/TheDiamondJubileeCentralWeekend.aspx">Diamond Jubilee</a>, marking sixty years of the Queen’s reign, a grim truth was being glossed over: England is gradually capitulating to the law of the jungle.</p>
<p>Last month, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141279/Rochdale-child-sex-trial-As-9-men-face-jail-grooming-girls-did-listen-victim.html">nine Muslim men were convicted</a> for organized sex crimes ranging from rape to sex trafficking over more than two decades of sexual violence against underage white girls in the north of England. The gang passed the victims around to have sex with several men a day, several times a week in houses, cars, taxis and kebab shops. One thirteen-year-old was forced to have sex with twenty men in one night.</p>
<p>The kicker is that authorities had evidence of it as far back as 1991 and could have prevented years of abuse to dozens of young girls. But complaints to the police and social workers were ignored.</p>
<p>Why? Former Member of Parliament Ann Cryer declared that the authorities were “petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness.” As journalist <a href="http://www.melaniephillips.com/the-horrific-consequences-of-the-islamophobia-witch-hunt">Melanie Phillips puts it</a>, in politically correct Britain, no criticism of religious or ethnic identities is allowed: “And so the child rape industry proceeded with repeated failures to prosecute.”</p>
<p>Who are the British authorities <em>not</em> reluctant to punish? A 42-year-old white secretary who complained, in <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2133/Liberty-Lost.aspx">an expletive-filled rant caught</a> on video, about the decaying effects of immigration and multiculturalism on British civilization. For that verbal explosion, which no doubt represented a collective sense of her countrymen’s frustration, she received 21 weeks in jail. The Islamist enemies within Britain can openly express their desire to destroy the country and yet still stay on the government dole; but a peaceful white working-class citizen who is fed up with watching her country go down the drain is sentenced to jail.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141817/U-S-martial-arts-expert-banned-entering-Britain--kill-killed-teachings-incite-vigilante-violence.html">a seemingly unrelated incident</a>, American martial arts expert Tim Larkin was banned from entering the UK by Home Secretary Theresa May, who feared his “kill or be killed” self-defense philosophy could encourage “vigilante violence.” Former military intelligence officer Larkin believes that one’s life could depend on being prepared to inflict “crippling pain,” if not actual death, on an attacker. He teaches students how, for example, to break the spine and elbow of an attacker, or disable one by rupturing his testicles.</p>
<p>He had planned to teach his self-defense method in UK areas that had been hit hardest during <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21525891">last year’s riots</a>. Instead, he was told that his presence in the UK was not “conducive to the public good.” Member of Parliament Rosie Cooper had warned the government about Larkin’s plans. “I’m grateful to the Home Secretary for taking the appropriate action and not allowing this man into our country,” she said. “He teaches extreme and violent self-defense that is unwelcome here.” Presumably Cooper and the Home Secretary believe that British citizens should be taught only <em>non</em>-violent self-defense, such as politely asking one’s attacker(s) to talk things out over tea and crumpets. “The decision to bar Mr. Larkin from the UK,” crowed MP Cooper, “demonstrates the value of constant alertness when it comes to border controls.”</p>
<p>Actually it demonstrates that England’s suicidally tolerant, high-minded authorities are betraying its citizens, just like its law enforcement betrayed those victims of the Muslim gangs, by abandoning them to increasingly violent criminality. British citizens can no longer depend on the police, who are too paralyzed by political correctness to even protect little girls from gang rape and sexual slavery; nor can they look to the government, which doesn’t even want them to learn how to defend <em>themselves</em> from violent assault.</p>
<p>MP Cooper’s pride in “constant border alertness” would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. If the authorities were truly “alert” about border control, for example, they would have prevented Islamic extremists from streaming into the country for decades and creating an aggressively <em>uni</em>cultural underclass that is now expanding <em>sharia</em> throughout the country and violently asserting its supremacism. Instead, the authorities pat themselves on the back for protecting England’s shores from such vile threats as <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CFYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wnd.com%2F2009%2F05%2F97127%2F&amp;ei=sj_UT8zXGenW2gXh5aG9Dw&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2agBj4ZbUYUHM1Rc_axG7UNJf6A">American talk show host</a>s, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CFMQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2F7884891.stm&amp;ei=jT_UT7rfIIXw2gWMsLy6Dw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFD5cixO4Hb_3lnvCL4F2p6jveJXw">European politicians who dare to speak out against jihad</a>, and now, self-defense instructors.</p>
<p>England is wrestling with cultural –even literal – civil war with an unassimilated, radicalized Muslim element that openly desires to bring down the country. Combine this with <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/16/learning-from-britains-moral-rot/">“Occupy” movement riots</a>, ethnic gangs, increasing <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/12/dhimmitude-in-the-uk-muslims-freed-after-race-attack/">racial assaults</a> both spontaneous and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147730/Father-56-critical-condition-stabbed-trying-shield-dying-son-frenzied-attack-hoodie-gang-outside-pub.html">otherwise</a>, and a government that has civilized itself into impotence, and you have growing anarchy in the UK, as The Sex Pistols once sang.</p>
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		<title>Schools of Education: The Academic Slums</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the failing education system is directly related to left-wing orthodoxy infecting teaching colleges. ]]></description>
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<p>Larry Sand&#8217;s article &#8220;No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can&#8217;t Read&#8221; — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America&#8217;s education. Education professors drum into students that they should not &#8220;drill and kill&#8221; or be the &#8220;sage on the stage&#8221; but instead be the &#8220;guide on the side&#8221; who &#8220;facilitates student discovery.&#8221; This kind of harebrained thinking, coupled with multicultural nonsense, explains today&#8217;s education. During his teacher education, Sand says, &#8220;teachers-to-be were forced to learn about this ethnic group, that impoverished group, this sexually anomalous group, that under-represented group, etc. — all under the rubric of &#8216;Culturally Responsive Education.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Education majors are woefully lacking in academic skills. Here are some sample test questions for you to answer. Question 1: Which of the following is equal to a quarter-million? a) 40,000, b) 250,000, c) 2,500,000, d) 1/4,000,000 or e) 4/1,000,000. Question 2: Martin Luther King Jr. (insert the correct choice) for the poor of all races. a) spoke out passionately, b) spoke out passionate, c) did spoke out passionately, d) has spoke out passionately or e) had spoken out passionate. Question 3: What would you do if your student sprained an ankle? a) Put a Band-Aid on it, b) Ice it or c) Rinse it with water.</p>
<p>Guess whether these questions were on a sixth-grade, ninth-grade or 12th-grade test. I bet the average reader would guess that it&#8217;s a sixth-grade test. Wrong. How about ninth-grade? Wrong again. You say, &#8220;OK, Williams, so they&#8217;re 12th-grade test questions!&#8221; Still wrong. According to a Heartland Institute-published School Reform News (September 2001) article titled &#8220;Who Tells Teachers They Can Teach?&#8221;, those test questions came from prospective teacher tests. The first two questions are samples from the Praxis I test for teachers, and the third is from the 1999 teacher certification test in Illinois. According to the Chicago Sun-Times (9/6/01), 5,243 Illinois teachers failed their teacher certification tests.</p>
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		<title>Postcard From Islamic London</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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<p>I’ve been spending my Christmas vacation with my wife in Rome and London. We arrived in London on Christmas Eve.  It’s truly an amazing city – everywhere you look, there’s history, from the Tower of London to the Churchill Museum.  But everywhere you look, there is a more ominous presence: Islam.</p>
<p>Now, no less a personage than Prime Minister David Cameron has already admitted that the integration of Muslims into British society has failed dramatically.  In February 2011, Cameron stated,</p>
<blockquote><p>Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream.  We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values.</p></blockquote>
<p>That failure of integration is clear from the get-go.  There are official signs translated into Arabic for those who do not wish to speak or read English.  The chatter of Islamic languages is as prevalent as the mother tongue. The hijab is omnipresent.</p>
<p>Perhaps all this might be a charming byproduct of multiculturalism if it weren’t for the fact that so much of the Islamic population of Great Britain is radicalized.  That radicalization is not difficult to spot.</p>
<p>With all the major official sites closed the day after Christmas, my wife and I headed over to Madame Tussaud’s to take in the famed tourist trap.  As we strolled the halls filled with famous cultural figures, most from the 20th century, we came across the wax doll for Albert Einstein.  And there, crowded around the figure, stood five young Muslims – two male, three female.  While other guests stood next to the model and smiled, or put an arm around it, these Muslim worthies stood next to the wax model – and put their hands around its throat, simulating strangling it.  At first, I couldn’t believe what I was watching – did Einstein do something to offend these people? – but then it dawned on me that they were doing this because Einstein was a Jew.  In fact, Einstein was the only prominent Jew in Tussaud’s.  And who wouldn’t want to strangle a prominent Jew, after all?</p>
<p>That suspicion was confirmed a few minutes later when we reached the wax statue of Adolf Hitler.  Britons and Americans tried to choke the figure, or pointed their fingers at it in imaginary guns, or yelled at it.  These young Muslims happily stood next to it, and took smiling photographs with it as though they’d stumbled upon a friendly uncle. Which, in a way, they had.</p>
<p>And, of course, nobody said anything to these delightfully diverse young people. Mustn’t show evidence of that old, imperialist spirit, you know.</p>
<p>But that old imperialist spirit hides beneath the surface nonetheless. While visiting the Tower of London, my wife and I followed a Beefeater on a tour.  He was former British military, and acted it. Great Britain, he announced, was the greatest country on earth.  It had civilized half the globe. There was a reason, he said, that Great Britain was the only country to preface its name with the word “Great.”  When an Australian audience member asked about the Great Barrier Reef, he answered slyly, “You only know about it because we bumped into it on the way to founding your country.”  These comments were accompanied by a slightly uncomfortable laughter amongst the natives – but it was good to hear that somewhere, deep down, the British are still British.</p>
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