Geert Wilders, the Dutch far-right politician, has won his appeal against the Government’s refusal to let him enter Britain.
Wilders challenged the decision by then home secretary Jacqui Smith which led to him being turned back at Heathrow Airport.
The ruling by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal means the head of the Freedom Party, who is accused of Islamophobia, could now be allowed into the country. [...]
Islamophobia as a term and as a phenomena gained currency in part due to the popular thesis developed by Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington that argued about an impending clash of civilization between Islam and the West. When 9-11 happened, the people already predisposed to viewing Islam with suspicion jumped on this bandwagon and through a multitude of primarily right wing outlets have been successful in creating a climate of extreme prejudice, suspicion and fear against Muslims. This sentiment has also been aided by many pro-Israeli commentators such as Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Judith Miller, and Bernard Lewis among many others.
Islamophobia has resulted in the general and unquestioned acceptance of the following:
Islam is monolithic and cannot adapt to new realities. √
Islam does not share common values with other major faiths. √
Islam as a religion is inferior to the West. It is archaic, barbaric and irrational. √
Islam is a religion of violence and supports terrorism. √
Islam is a violent political ideology. √
It may be just me. But I do not see where they have an argument.
“The increasingly negative political and media discourse targeting Muslims and Islam in the United States and Europe has made things all the more difficult,” the foreign ministers said. “Islamophobia became a source of concern, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but the phenomenon was already there in Western societies in one form or the other,” they pointed out. “It gained further momentum after the Madrid and London bombings. The killing of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh in 2004 was used in a wicked manner by certain quarters to stir up a frenzy against Muslims,” the ministers pointed out. Van Gogh had made a controversial film about Muslim culture.
Am I off base by stating that violent islamic terrorism is a much larger concern?
Islamophobe (is-slahm-o-fohb) – A non-Muslim who knows too much about Islam.
Islamophobia is a fear of losing life or liberty to Islamic rule merely because the laws, sacred texts, and modern practices of Islam demand the submission of culture, politics, religion and all social expression. It tends to afflict those most familiar with the religion, while sparing the more gullible.
In Muhammad’s day, Islamophobia was treated with a practice known as beheading. Since this is now impractical outside of the Muslim world, the condition is best addressed by means of prevention. Such preventive measures include willful ignorance helped along with a strong dose of taqiyya.
The fact is that when Islam checks in, a lot of folks wind up checking out… permanently. Therefore Islamophobes are a pretty broad group known to include:
Hindus, Christians, and Jews who don’t want to be forced into a political system in which they are treated as third-class citizens.
(Islamic teaching)
Atheists who want the freedom to live openly as such and publicly challenge religious orthodoxy.
(Islamic teaching)
Feminists who believe that women should not be made subordinate to men by a religion that openly insists that females are the intellectual and legal inferior of males.
(Islamic teaching)
Anyone else who objects to a religion in which a woman’s identity is defined by her relationship to a man.
(Islamic teaching)
Conservatives who believe in preserving the Western heritage that generates the civil freedom, political liberty and economic success which has attracted the flood of immigrants from Muslim nations, where such values are conspicuously lacking.
(Islamic teaching)
Muslims who would like the freedom to leave Islam.
(Islamic teaching)
And many more…
by Robert Spencer
CAIR could go a long way toward doing so by answering a few questions itself:
1. What steps have you taken to keep jihad terrorists from “characterizing Islam and its revealed text as promoting terrorism”? In light of the fact that many Muslims advocate jihad as warfare against unbelievers, and base their arguments on the Qur’an and Sunnah, it isn’t as if Tefft invented this connection himself. So what are you doing to refute it at its actual source, which is within the Islamic community worldwide?
2. Do you deny that there was any actual connection between Islam and September 11? What, then, do you make of Osama bin Laden’s own statements to the contrary? Please provide, for the reassurance of the American people, a detailed refutation of Osama’s Islamic arguments, showing us how you keep such ideas from spreading among American Muslims.
3. Please explain the difference that you see between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. Please explain how you intend to stop the spread of Qur’anic literalism in the Islamic community, and how you intend to blunt the force among Muslims of such verses as 9:29, 9:5, and many others.
The term presents several problems, however. First, what exactly constitutes an “undue fear of Islam” when Muslims acting in the name of Islam today make up the premier source of worldwide aggression, both verbal and physical, versus non-Muslims and Muslims alike? What, one wonders, is the proper amount of fear?
Accusations of Islamophobia, Mr. Malik adds, are intended “to silence critics of Islam, or even Muslims fighting for reform of their communities.” Another British Muslim, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, discerns an even more ambitious goal: “all too often Islamophobia is used to blackmail society.”
Muslims should dispense with this discredited term and instead engage in some earnest introspection. Rather than blame the potential victim for fearing his would-be executioner, they would do better to ponder how Islamists have transformed their faith into an ideology celebrating murder (Al-Qaeda: “You love life, we love death”) and develop strategies to redeem their religion by combating this morbid totalitarianism.
What have we here? Jesse Jackson supping with the ‘British Muslim Initiative‘? Has he ran out of race baiting crap to stir up in the states? How can anyone take him serious? He is a joke. But to be found mingling amongst the British Muslim Initiative he perhaps has gone to far. Has he gone from anti-white racism moving once again towards anti-Semitism? Farces like Jackson and various Afro-centrist individuals are clueless to the threat of Islam. Somebody slap somesense into them. Please! (lighten up it’s an expression)
BMI (British Muslim Initiative) hosts renowned US civil rights leader The British Muslim Initiative yesterday hosted a dinner for the leading civil rights campaigner and one of America’s foremost political figures Rev Jesse Jackson during his tour of nine cities across the UK.
Welcoming Rev Jackson, Ismail Patel spokesperson of BMI, acknowledged his legacy, stating, “He has was the conscience of America and the great unifier, challenging America to establish just and humane priorities“. He further added and called for Rev Jackson to “help guide the Muslim counter Islamophobia and call for justice in the Holy Land” Simon Woolley, coordinator of Operation Black Vote, said: ‘We are taking the next project forward for educating and empowering Britain that will serve notice on every political party bar none, and will link the Diaspora in a global movement that makes a difference.’
Lee Jasper, chair of Operation Black Vote, also highlighted the important issue of voter registration, urging all ethnic communities to use their voter power to maximize their representation and ensure far-right parties are kept out in the forthcoming elections
Israel’s attacks on civilian areas in both Lebanon and Palestine have been sickening and shocking. The lack of response by the UK Government has amounted to an endorsement of Israeli war-crimes.
British Muslim Initiative
What good is an anti-war protest without a few…raggedy socialists joining the mob? We must not leave them out.
(Note the black islamic flag being flown in photo taken at the protest.)
In the contemporary Islamist movement, the black flag is used to symbolize both offensive jihad and the proponents of reestablishing the Islamic Caliphate.
They are the back bone of such protests. Which has become an un-holy alliance between radical islamics and commie bastards, pining for the downfall of the west. The common ground they both share.
Getting down to the crux of the matter. Why do I make an issue out of Jackson’s new found friendship?
The British Muslim Initiative [BMI] has recently been propagating such a deception – loudly condemning the recent foiled plots in the UK in newspaper ads.
However a closer look at the group reveals that it and its membership advocate the same jihadist agenda as those who were arrested for the failed plots.
BMI is neither mainstream nor is it moderate.
Oh oh! Is Jesse aware of this? Or is he spellbound by the ego-tripping he is experiencing, in being revered as the second coming who will lend clout to battle islamophobia?
Islam-is-Peace launches national media campaign on buses, trains, airports and tube network reaching out to the wider community during the holy month of Ramadan
Praising the initiative, MCB Secretary General Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said: “The silent majority of Muslims are coming forward and now challenging the misleading and negative assumptions of our faith that exist in sections of our media. It is a brave undertaking “.
Not brave enough for my taste. The renowned Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and my friend the profound Ginro (who lives in the UK) have a few thoughts they would like to share. Concerning the newly launched Islam-is-Peace campaign in Britain.
I find this campaign and its stated aims highly offensive and extremely arrogant. Eradicate Islamophobia? They’d be better off trying to eradicate kuffarophobia in Islamic states as the problem is provably greater, and thousands upon thousands of people have been and are being slaughtered, tortured, and mutilated simply because they are not muslims. Tell me again, what exactly have muslims to fear in this country? And what do non-muslims have to fear in Islamic countries? Maybe the muslims in the UK should just shut up being cry babies and grow a set of bollocks for a change.
Can’t say I could add much to those nail on the head thoughts. I will add this though, if you do anything while browsing through this article, view the Spencer video and then go and read this, Fitzgerald: The “Islam Is Peace” campaign!
The British Muslim Initiative, together with the Greater London Authority and a host of human rights, faith and anti-racism organizations, has launched a new project to address attacks on freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
Goody goody, they are for freedom of thought and conscience! That blows their cries of islamophobia the hell out of the water. Now doesn’t it? Score! They have killed islamophobia dead in it’s tracks with one little sentence.
Let us learn more…
This “good Islamist – bad Islamist” dichotomy is part of a wider strategy, as Dutch Islam specialist Hans Janssen states, “moderate Muslims too, strive after an Islamic society, “they intentionally make use of radicals to enforce their wishes.”
Janssen’s analysis cogently sums up BMI’s strategy.
The group’s spokesman Ishtiham Hibatullah boasted that “doctors made up the bulk of those who joined the PR campaign and noted that the government appears to be showing dhimmitude towards Muslims, gloating over new PM Gordon Brown’s handling of events, “There have been no draconian laws rushed through or raids. The general perception in the Muslim community is that things have changed.”
Significantly, BMI’s assertion of “Islamophobia” ignores the obvious connection between Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.
Such tactics allow BMI – and other Islamist groups – to cynically exploit terror attacks, intending to create a smokescreen where allegations of discrimination serve to shield their own radicalism.
“Why, if it is so glorious and honourable to do this, why don’t you do it?” asked the interviewer. “If I have the opportunity I would do it,” Tamimi, who was born in Hebron, answered. “If I can go to Palestine and sacrifice myself, I would do it. “Why not? You see, sacrificing myself for Palestine is a noble cause. It is the straight way to pleasing my God and I would do it if I had the opportunity.”
More insidious words spewed forth from the mouth of Azzam Tamimi
Excerpts:
Al-Tamimi told the Guardian Unlimited (December 2003) that he “was a friend of Mr. [Khaled] Meshal, the chief political officer of Hamas… There is a personal relationship with some of them,” he added, “because of that I am sometimes asked to advise them.
“I have been asked, ‘What do you think of how we present ourselves to the world?’ I can be of use both to Hamas and people in the West who know nothing of what Hamas is about.”
Al-Tamimi describes himself as a “sympathiser and supporter” of Hamas. “I know some of the senior figures in Hamas,” he said. “Some were my friends, my classmates…”
In an interview titled ‘David versus Goliath’ on Al-Jazeera television in October 2003, Al-Tamimi described the Hamas tactic of using human bombs:
“Don’t forget, in the long-term the outcome of this conflict isn’t about how many Palestinians die, it is about how many Israelis die. The Israelis can’t fight or match the willingness of the Palestinian people to sacrifice their lives.”
In an article titled ‘Hizbullah’s Gift to Palestine’ published in mid-2000, Al-Tamimi explained the religious roots of suicide/martyrdom operations:
“A person that chooses, and comes forward willingly, to die by exploding himself in the face of his oppressors is neither desperate nor hopeless. Almost in every case… the Israelis are dealing with individuals who are most hopeful. They are aspiring to what they alone seem to have known with certainty to be the truth. To them, the eventual destiny of their short trip to Tel Aviv, Netanya, or other Zionist-infested Palestinian towns is eternal life in a world of divine bliss…”
Jesse Jackson breaks bread with a Muslim group, who are connected to radical islamists. Lovely. Especially when one considers his holier than thou attitude.
Also when discussing Jackson, we must not forget his love affair with Yasser Arafat
“He led a people out of darkness into the light of identity. He altered the world. Against the odds, he built a people from identify crisis to a state, much like George Washington and Mandela.”
..and the kissing up and passing of his hat to the PLO.
The money quote,
“By October 1, there will be no black leader left willing to come to the aid of the Palestinian cause, if there is not an immediate infusion of funds into the black community from the Arab states.”
Hmm…was Jackson filling more than his belly? Was his presence at the B.M.I. dinner table to show support, sell his soul, & fill coffers(?)
Conservative girl next door. I am a pissed off red head.
Fear my wrath, or come along for the ride. Choose your side.
Free will, truth and the freedom of speech are my weapons of choice.
"...But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy."
- Flemming Rose
"lan astaslem"
I will not submit.
I will not surrender.
A Refresher Course...For Those In Denial
"Above all, the devil cannot stand to be mocked" - C.S.Lewis
The British Muslim Initiative yesterday hosted a dinner for the leading civil rights campaigner and one of America’s foremost political figures Rev Jesse Jackson during his tour of nine cities across the UK.
Simon Woolley, coordinator of Operation Black Vote, said: ‘We are taking the next project forward for educating and empowering Britain that will serve notice on every political party bar none, and will link the 
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