A very long article by Christopher Hitchens, but well worth the read
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?
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BRUSSELS JOURNAL > article on seedy morass of the British underclasses and life in Socialist Britain, and why Radical Islam, etc attracts the angry youth. QUADROPHENIA???
For the British mainstream, multiculturalism has been the official civic religion for so long that any criticism of any minority group has become the equivalent of profanity. And Islamic extremists have long understood that they need only suggest a racial biasor a hint of the newly invented and meaningless term "Islamophobia"in order to make the British cough and shuffle with embarrassment.
One would think that the blush was off the rose by now. With assholes like abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary openly calling for the deaths of Britons, the Pope and anyone else they damn well please, you'd think the limeys would have finally gotten wise.
Prince Charles himself, the heir to the throne and thus the heir to the headship of the Church of England, has announced his sympathy for Islam and his wish to be the head of all faiths and not just one. This may sound good, if absurd (a chinless prince who becomes head of a church because his mother dies?), but only if you forget that it was Prince Charles who encouraged the late King Fahd, of Saudi Arabia, to contribute more than a million pounds to build the Finsbury Park Mosque!
Chuck has well outlived his usefulness in this world.
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Sadly, England is no longer the same country that I used to respect. With its slavish adherence to self-hating multiculturalism and its substantial jihadist subpopulace, it bears a strong resemblance to France circa 2006.
Personally, I found their public's reaction to Iran's taking their sailors hostage embarrassing, and Tony Blair's recent apologetic 'I did what I thought was right' speech was no better.
Hopefully the day will come when they rediscover their sense of national pride before their identity is effaced as part of the EU superstructure.
Is the British problem with terrorism different from ours?
Most of our [British] Muslim population is Pakistani. If that population was Indonesian or Tunisian the situation would not be the same. Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
While he identifies the British jihadi problem as being Pakistani origin, his explanation is off the mark.
Other immigrant minorities, even other muslim ones have similar low educational levels.
The reason why Pakistanis are a problem is due to the unique nature of Indian Islam.
This is the only large muslim society where muslims were not a majority. This results in an enormous number of fatwas preoccupied with separateness, with existing as a muslim surrounded by unclean kufr. Combined with the sense of grievance over the loss of political and economic power, this produced something quite unique. It is also a template for the radicalization of other muslim minorities in the west where muslims again are in a minority and have this sense of grievance. It is not simply Wahabism that radicalizes. It is Wahabism combined with Deobandi sm.
The Pak maulana Maududi had enormous influence over Qutb and the muslim brotherhood.
You don't have islamo-fascism without Maududi and Qutb.. they fused elements of western fascism and the concept of the state with traditional fundamentalist islam.
There is a video of Osama in front of a bookcase, with an AK-74 propped against it. The books on the shelves - by Maududi and Qutb show the influence.
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Most of our [British] Muslim population is Pakistani. If that population was Indonesian or Tunisian the situation would not be the same.
Here we go again: the famous "Good Muslims vs Bad Muslims".
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Great analysis, John Frum. The British seem incapable of admitting that one of their prior colonies is responsible for unleashing upon our world some of the most vicious and uncivilized Philistines imaginable. Lack of edumahcation has absolutely nothing to do with it. Islam is the core of this issue and shall remain so until it is reformed or catastrophically dismantled. My bets aren't on reformation.
Here we go again: the famous "Good Muslims vs Bad Muslims".
While I am not yet at the "The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim" stage, it is now clear that Islam's complete and total lack of any redeeming features makes all Muslims bad by default. While some Muslims may well be peaceable folk, their intrinsic support of Koranic doctrine disqualifies them from modern civilization. Sharia law is a flagrant and egregious affront to all polite society. Muslims simply have no place in it so long as they hoist their bloodstained Koranic banner.
Another straw on the back of the proverbial American camel.
by Victor Davis Hansen
RTWT.
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NORTH KOREA > KCNA - "LIQUIDATION" of pro-US Conservatives urged in South Korea. Commie ultra-Conservatives - you know, Libertarians, PLuralists, etal - wierdly and mysteriously want to get rid of their SOKOR moderate or anti-NK pro-US-Western comrades, plus anyone else. THE LOVE AND MARITAL BLISS BETWEEN FASCIST = LIMITED COMMIE, + FULL COMMIES GOES ON.
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Six Imams acting suspiciously won a lawsuit in our court system that may prevent others from saying anything.
WTF? Does anyone have a link on this abortion of justice?
Personally, I cannot bring myself to watch all of the 9-11 videos posted at the blog. My blood pressure skyrockets and I find myself wishing that the enite MME (Muslim Middle East) was a smoking, glow-in-the-dark parking lot.
Islam should already have been destroyed by now. The shrines at Mecca and Medina blasted to smithereens and its indoctrination centers, like Cairo's al-Hazar University, demolished. It is only by the grace of Western civilization's inherent decency that we have not gone Medieval on these worthless murderous rotters.
Islam must go. It no longers serves any worthy purpose if it ever even did so in the past. It is a remnant of a barbarous and Neanderthal culture that has no place in the modern world. I don't give damn how many people practice it or how esteemed it is by them, it is a savage creed that breeds up the very worst sort of human scum.
I believe that war is not the only answer, but that sometimes, it is the only answer that will work. I believe that war is sometimes a necessary thing. I believe that peace at all costs is not peace - it is subservience. It is cowardice.
Peace at all costs come with one forbidden price tag and that is human dignity. There can be no peace with Islam, ever. Knowing this, total war must be started against it without delay. There is no other alternative but to endure further destruction of our world by these villanous cretins. That option is totally unacceptable.
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Hi all - thanks to all of you for our comments. Frank G, you are correct (I've since added a correction to the post); they have not won yet, but have reportedly investigated an out-of-court settlement. The fact remains that the whole thing leads to the possibility that others will not come forward.
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thanks Pam, one thing these doofuses never think about before suing is that discovery goes both ways. CAIR is constantly dropping nuisance/SLAPP suits once they realize they will have to pony up funding sources, names, etc. Good post, though!
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Pam, I know that you probably wouldn't, but never give up even on your worst days.
That's why we're so much stronger now than ever before, not only do we have our individual resolve we have each other's collective resolve to recharge us and inspire us to be even better, stronger more enduring soldiers in this war for our Grand Children's future.
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Too right, RD! Rantburg is a shining beacon of hope that America will not fail us or the world when the moment of truth arrives. I simply cannot sufficiently thank Fred or this board's moderators for the personal enlightenment and opportunity of free speech as we discuss these vital issues. Then there's the snark ...
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Pam, RD is right -- and you mustn't despair, truly. Though the moonbats cry loudly, magnified by the media, with every incident more people realize that this is real... and for all the marbles. The pizza business owned by the father of one of the Fort Dix plotters has had almost no business since the arrests, according to the ever-truthy New York Times, because people will not give over their money even to the relative of such a man. A small gesture, a tiny sacrifice, but indicative. Stronger yet, his chef walked out, telling the newspapers that, with a son fighting in Iraq, there was no way he could work for the father of the enemy. The man gave up a secure livelihood to make that point! With all the play that has gotten in the papers, think you everyone will say to himself, "Oh, that Abdul is such a joker, talking about bombing people who make him mad"? It takes only one each time, to start clearing away the bloody-minded, and sifting out those Muslims who -- by their actions -- show they're no longer willing to stand with them.
And come visit us more often, my dear. Rantburg's snark and nuggets of truth -- both good and bad -- will stiffen you to face your own battles, even as your rant did the same for us.
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