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The following op-ed by Hanne Nabintu Herland concerns the Norwegian government’s persistent soft spot for the Palestinians. It was originally published in Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper, on January 15th, 2013, and has been translated by the author.
Naïve Checkbook Diplomacy
by Hanne Nabintu Herland
Torgeir Larsen, a junior minister for the Norwegian Labor Party, admits in Norway’s largest newspaper Aftenposten on December 28, 2012, that Norwegian authorities closed their eyes to the realities of the Middle East. Too often they thought they were in the service of stability, but later found out that was not the case.
Regardless, this acknowledgement of Norwegian naïveté must lead to tangible changes in foreign policy in order to be of real value.
The junior minister asked me what I meant by my leading article on December the 20th (“In bed with the enemy”) in which I stated that Norwegian checkbook diplomacy is de facto supportive of terrorist organizations that display significant intolerance towards Christians, Jews, gays or other minorities who are not considered “sufficiently Islamic”.
Let’s take a look at the statistics: Norway is one of the smallest countries in the world, and one of the largest contributors to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and others, with annual donations of over 700 Million NOK. Especially since the current left-wing Labor government took office in 2005, the donations have exploded. What are these sums spent on?
Recently the remuneration for suicide bombers was tripled. The Hamas terrorist who killed 30 Israelis in 2002 by now receives 20,000 NOK a month, according to The Times of Israel last September the 9th. Those who have carried out the worst attacks against innocent civilians receive the highest pay.
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center figures from 2005 show that Palestinians have conducted 25,770 terrorist attacks, 147 suicide attacks leading to 1,100 dead Israelis and 7,500 wounded between 2000 and 2005. Fatah conducted 214 acts of terrorism in 2003-2004 alone, according to 2005 Terrorism Review.
Gross corruption charges have for a long time been directed at the PLO, which already by 1993 was the richest terrorist organization in the world, according to the British National Criminal Intelligence Service, having assets of ten billion dollars and an annual income of approximately two billion dollars. The Daily Telegraph reported in 1999 that the PLO had secretly invested over 50 billion dollars around the world. Still, Norway has continuously broken bread with these people.
The Norwegian taxpayers’ money has amongst other things financed a number of visits from the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Fatah, not to forget the PLO, coming to Oslo. Not to mention the intense activities of Norway’s previous Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr-Store, as he has travelled extensively between different Islamist groups in the Middle East, having secret meetings in 2007 with Hamas’ leader, Khaled Meshaal, which shocked the West. Having publicly denied these meetings, the Norwegian TV station, TV2 forced him to admit to lying about this in 2010, an incident which is referred to in Aftenposten.
The PA Minister Faisal Husseini said to Al-Safir in 2001 that “Our eyes will continue to aspire to the strategic goal, namely, to Palestine from the river [Jordan] to the sea. Whatever we get now cannot make us forget this supreme truth.” And Hamas’ message from the internet: “We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that no blood is better than the Jews’.” In this perspective it is interesting to note that the pluralist liberal democracy of Israel is the only country in the Middle East where gays are protected legally, having annual gay pride parades and religious liberty, and where Christian minorities are growing and the nation enjoys a free press and an active public debate. But these we do not support in Norway.
As recently as 1996, Yasser Arafat stated in Stockholm — three years after his Nobel Peace Prize — that the Palestinian plan still was to annihilate Israel, establish a pure Palestinian state and make the Middle East so horrible that the Jewish minority could not stand to live there anymore, according to Arutz-7.Arafat said this three years after having received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1993.The PLO’s decision on genocide against the Jews had still not been removed from its charter. As we all know, one of the reasons for Oslo II 1995 was that Arafat was to denounce terrorism and remove from the PLO’s charter the quest for Jewish genocide.
The current Norwegian Labor government has been far too gullibly influenced by Palestinian propaganda. Hoping to become an internationally renowned peace mediator and content seeing the effects of our checkbook diplomacy, we have closed our eyes to what we actually finance. No wonder our role as a peace mediator in the Middle East seems to be over.
Hanne Nabintu Herland is a Norwegian historian of comparative religions and a bestselling author.
In other news, the latest figures from Angola indicate that at least 250,000 Chinese nationals have migrated to the country. The Angolan government says that work permits were issued for the Chinese to assist with development projects.
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As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about the majority-minority public schools in Oslo, the following brief account reports the latest statistics on the cultural enrichment of schools in Austria. Vienna is the most fully enriched location, and seems to be in roughly the same situation as Oslo.
Many thanks to Hermes for the translation from Unzensuriert.at:
Austria — The number of German-speaking primary school students has declined dramatically
The number of pupils with a first language other than German has doubled from 1995 to 2011. This is what the recently-issued “National Report on Education” shows. During this time, the percentage of “monolingual German” children at primary schools dropped from 88% to 76%.
The doubling in the number of multilingual students is evident in virtually all provinces in Austria. In Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the rise is a little lower, in Upper Austria is a bit higher, and in Burgenland it remained on average. The Styrian province is the only outlier, where the number of children with a different native language has tripled from about 5,000 to 16,000.
Barely any students with German as mother tongue in Vienna
The nationwide statistics conceals the dramatic developments in Vienna, because German is hardly spoken in the primary schools of the federal capital. The district in Vienna where this is most blatantly visible is Margareten, where the proportion of immigrant children has risen to 89 % — that is, 924 out of 1038 children have as their mother tongue something other than German. The districts Rudolf Fünfhaus and Ottakring have a proportion of 80%, Brigittenau 79% and Meidling at least 70%.
For a complete listing of previous enrichment news, see The Cultural Enrichment Archives.
Note: The following post accompanies Takuan Seiyo’s latest piece. Both are being kept “sticky” until tonight. Scroll down for other posts that have appeared since Wednesday.
Certain posts at Gates of Vienna, among them those by Takuan Seiyo, tend to attract the attention and comments of people who are preoccupied with the Jews. They frequently refer to “Holohoax” in World War Two, often supplementing their scornful references with obscenities or derogatory epithets.
I generally delete such comments without publishing them. One of them came in this morning, the second or third such screed submitted on Takuan Seiyo’s latest post. Before I deleted it, I sent it to Takuan, just to show him what was coming in. He suggested that I go ahead and post it, followed by his response.
So here’s the comment by “Anonymous” [typos in the original]:
Some interesting points, a lot of waffle and some errors. Your stated view that the WW2 ‘Holocaust’ resulted in the old 6 million dead Jews is well past its sell-by date. Top class, modern historians now regard that figure as grotesquely disproportionate. The Red Cross AND the German Government counted less than 150,000 for ALL deaths in ALL camps other than those behind Russian lines. It’s now commonly called the HOLOHOAX. It is one of the most successful internationsal businesses of all time.
A response from Takuan Seiyo:
You have the temerity to post this kind of Nazi apologist garbage in a comments thread of an article by a writer whose gentile grandparents had been murdered in a concentration camp and whose gentile mother spent two years in a labor-extermination camp, was a state witness in the post-war trial of its commandant, and relayed her wartime experiences to this writer directly. Moreover, a writer who was born and grew up one hour by car from Auschwitz and three kilometers from the plant where the firm Hoch und Tiefbau AG had built the crematoria for that camp. In which, alone, 2.5 million people were murdered, 1 million of them Jews. And that’s according to the testimony its commandant Rudolf Hoess, based on data from SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann.
Moreover, you desecrate the memory of Witold Pilecki plus other Polish officer escapees from Auschwitz who produced written reports, e.g. Jerzy Tabeau and Kazimierz Piechowski — all of them of impeccable “white” credentials way beyond what you and other White Nat lunatics may ever aspire to. I am omitting here reports by Jewish escapees, for example the Vrba-Wetzler report, as well as the fate of the Jewish part of my family during the war, so as to skirt the whole specious Joooos-tainted-it aspect of your comment.
It’s true that legitimate modern-day attempts to calculate the number of the Holocausts’ victims produce a range of numbers. The lowest for Auschwitz, for instance (by the Polish historian Franciszek Piper), cites 1.1 million victims, in contrast to the 2.5 million estimate — interesting, however, that even in that much-reduced number the Jewish victims component remains the same 1 million as in the bigger total-victim figures. The highest figure cited for Auschwitz is 4 million.
The lowest legitimate estimate of victims of the Jewish Holocaust cites 5.1 million instead of the accepted meme “6 million”. There is room for different methodologies and re-evaluations; there are difficulties, including the fact that much of the physical plant was erased by the Germans. For instance, the Belzec Extermination Camp, where 600,000 Jews were murdered plus some 2,000 Poles in punishment for sheltering or aiding Jews, was entirely plowed under by its German operators before they fled the advancing Soviet Army.
By the way — Belzec too had many direct witnesses from non-Jewish sources, including the famous Jan Karski who snuck in and out, and this writer’s mother who saw freight trains packed with people sardine-style, some of them acquaintances and one a family member, leaving for Belzec, and those “passengers” never returning, with the Polish train conductors telling Polish and Ukrainians bystanders at the station that what they had seen just from the gates of Belzec was Hell on Earth.
Also by the way — here too there are legitimate differences of interpretation, assessment of evidence etc. The lowest valid estimate of Belzec victims is not 600,000 but 500,000.
To erase by a stroke of the pen the best-documented event in history in order to produce the 150,000 number you cite is an act of supreme evil. Please do Gates of Vienna readers a favor and post elsewhere.
I will deal in a later chapter with the issue of White Nats’ desperate massaging of Holocaust history as an attempt to wrest Western history from what, to them, should have been the losers, in order to place the skein of narrative back in the hands of what ought to have been the winners, that is, “white people.” They don’t quite get that WW2 is a story of the ultimate triumph of Western Civilization and of Whites, and that there is no need at all to lie or fall prey to wishful delusions. The losers who wrested the skein of history are not “the Jews” or “the coloreds” but white Marxists-Socialist professors in the 1960s. What they lost is their faith in the infallibility of Marxist dialectics, in view of how prosperous and content the Western proletariat had become.
That quite a few key figures among them were Jews is another matter — but that has nothing to do with historical facts of the Holocaust which, by then, had been firmly documented, catalogued and established for what all but a few Nazis in hiding thought would be all time.
Yet, here we go again.
— Takuan Seiyo
Note: Takuan’s post (which was originally published last night) is to remain at the top for a while, so I made it “sticky”. However, much has happened since it went up, including the Blogger outage. Scroll down for a report on that.
See also: Two forthrightly anti-Semitic Islamic leaders in Norway, Judicial coddling in Germany, and Part 3 of the Imran Firasat interview.
More new posts will be added below this one. Oh, and don’t mess around with JIM.
The essay below is the conclusion of the ninth part in a series by Takuan Seiyo. See the list at the bottom of this post for links to the previous installments.
Left: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876
Right: George Grosz, Metropolis, 1916/17
The Bee and the Lamb
Part 9 (continued)
By Takuan Seiyo
A Whole New Road to Serfdom
That Which is Not Seen (continued)
For over 60 years, White mea-culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting: education high and low; paper media, then electronic, then digital media; all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory (e.g. K-12) and discretionary (e.g. television) self-flaying on account of long-ago Slavery, Colonialism, Imperialism, Male Supremacism, Racism, Antisemitism, and so on.
It’s the evils of the Iberian Inquisition — which were evil — but not the evils of the Japanese equivalent in which, in the 40 years up to 1597, 50,000 Christians were publicly crucified, burned or beheaded. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 16th century but now, in the 21st, condemns Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. It’s America’s destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanism’s destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre-Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa.
It’s the evils of feudalism and industrial workers’ exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next season’s seed.
Feminism, Socialism and anti-Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed (except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody). American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you don’t know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL.
One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another people’s territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim “No Thanks for Thanksgiving” as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too.
Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one-third of America. The self-defined “Feminist-Tauist-NeoPagan-Post-Structuralist-Deconstructionist-Socialist” useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2013 Dear White People by “wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same.”
Yet the Magyars don’t seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair-haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, don’t agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 38 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about “Cortez the Killer”, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed.
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996) is a book by Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique “eliminationist antisemitism” in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization — the Holocausts — stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 21 million civilian Slavs, and that’s counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone.
In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non-German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 50 million victims of the Bolsheviks in Russia, or Mao’s 70 million in China, or the Mughal-Muslim genocide of Hindus — the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 14.
In relative numbers, in just one year, 1994, the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. 75% of the Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B?
The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979: one quarter of the population, by a conservative count. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser?
Inscription on the back (in German): “Ukraine 1942, Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod.”
There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 20 th century Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time.
And that includes the here and now. Unaware that history that occurs first as tragedy repeats itself as farce, the Rulers of the West have cooked up a potion with similar ingredients to those of 1930s Germany, complete with an imported Semito-Turkic minority that Europeans have far fewer reasons to like than they did the previous, semi-indigenous Semitic minority once living among them. What’s missing are hyperinflation and the evil genius. But not to worry — they are working hard on “quantitatively easing” and “prime pumping” the hyperinflation into being. And hyperinflations have a way of unearthing evil geniuses too.
All that while thinking that they have run away from Hitler as far and as fast as is humanly possible, having roiled from Berlin to Brisbane 24/7 for 50 years to find the fascist in every White and the evil in every facet of Western tradition.
Hence the loud guffaw reverberating through the cosmos.
De mortalitate
The early Church Father and martyr, Cyprian of Carthage, was witness to the smallpox pandemic that devastated the Roman Empire in the second half of the third century. The pandemic is known as the Plague of Cyprian, because he described it in the consoling missive to his congregation, De mortalitate, i.e. “On the Plague.” At its height, the plague killed 5,000 people a day in Rome alone and, according to Cyprian, no house in Carthage was without its victims.
It’s the irony of recurring human folly that the powers that be and the mob in Carthage blamed the Christians for the plague and unleashed murderous persecutions against them, just as the Christians would blame the Jews for the bubonic plague a millennium later, and kill them by the hundreds of thousands across the continent, from Spain to Lithuania. [1]
The task of science in epidemic etiology is to find and isolate the cause. Only then can the cure be devised. With respect to the Western brain rot that I call acute cognitive spongiform encephalitis, a small group of academics in the 1950s-60s was “patient zero.” What the homosexual Canadian flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas was with respect to the spread of AIDS, they were with respect to multiculturalism, “diversity,” demonizing the white race, extolling the barbaric and inferior as long as non-white, rewriting history, white population replacement, Islamization, “justice and equity” (with mutations such as “environmental justice”), celebration of loose sex and of deviant sexuality, demonization of men and masculinization of women, sabotage of the West camouflaged as love of Gaia, and the conversion of the entire Western gestalt from amalgamated Christianity and Enlightenment rationalism to a fanatical secular religion replete with totems and taboos, manifest lies, forbidden truths, hallucinatory mandates revealed to chosen prophets, and persecution of apostates.
The American philosopher Stephen Hicks has traced this causal chain superbly in his Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.[2]
Hicks traces the roots of postmodernism to Rousseau, Kant and Heidegger, but we shall examine just five of the post-1950 main branches: all university professors of major renown. Of the four academics whom Hicks credits with originating postmodernism — Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty — we shall look next at Foucault and Derrida. Then, the father of the postmodern New Left, Herbert Marcuse, whom Hicks also covers in his book. Finally, two chief Anglophone spreaders of the pox in the realms of history and literary criticism: Howard Zinn and Edward Said.
All of that, and all of these, have been mutations of Marxism, just as the successful virus absorbs and adapts to the body’s defenses and then finds a new avenue of attack that circumvents the body’s immune system.
This perception is of significant operational implication. To cite just one of some twenty major plagues now bedeviling the West, it implies that the advanced Islamization of Western Europe and the creeping one of the Anglophonic diaspora cannot be combated by arguing about the history of Islamic imperialism, the wiles of taqiyyah or the evils of sharia.
Islam and Muslims are not the lethal disease. It’s the West’s postmodern Marxism-soaked universities that are the lethal disease, and the generations of their programmed graduates who are now the Ruling Class of the West. Without them, Muslims would have been back where they were in 1955 — in Sanaa and Fallujah, Islamabad and Jawhar, but not in Houston, Melbourne, Amsterdam and Cologne. Islam would have still had its supremacist dreams, but dormant and subdued — for Muslims, in their own native milieus and dealing with a self-confident, rational West, would have had other things to worry about than how to make the World Khalifate come true. In fact, a sort of tenuous friendship could have existed between the West and Dar-al-Islam, the way it existed between mid 19 th and mid 20 th centuries.
If only the West’s nouveau-Marxists had not shot their host society in the head…
Picture on the left by permission of D.T. Devareaux; picture on the right, popular icon, creator unknown
Notes:
| 1. | It’s important to keep track of such things in a civilization that’s dying by its own hand. For what is taking place is bad karma accumulated from horrific stupidity in the past, acting to produce a countervailing horrific stupidity in the present. The chain of stupidity could be broken if people were able to see the pattern. You cannot and should not atone for the murder of six million Jews by self-kneecapping through the import of 25 million profoundly alien Muslims three generations later. | |
| 2. | Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, Ockham’s Razor, August 2011. |
Takuan Seiyo is a European-born American writer living in exile in Japan.
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Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends his translation of an article and interview with two respectable high-profile Muslim leaders in Oslo, who have strongly negative opinions about Jews and the worldwide Jewish conspiracy. The Observer notes:
A new trend seems to have developed in the Islamic community in Norway: grab hold of a journalist and speak your mind on issues such as stoning, adultery, apostasy and Jews — and don’t hold back.
This article deals with the twisted views of the imam and the chairman of Norway’s largest mosque. It should also be pointed out that this is the same mosque that the Norwegian police apologized so profusely to last year for the fact that we have freedom of speech in Norway.
The translated article from Dagsavisen:
Imam blames Jews for media coverage
Controversial: Many Norwegians have a negative view on Islam due to Jewish domination of the media. This accusation is made by the imam and by the chairman of Norway’s largest mosque.
We are visiting Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat, the mosque with the largest member base in Norway, to talk to its spiritual leader. The mosque was founded in 1977 and currently has more than 5,000 members. The Cultural Center in Grønland in Oslo can accommodate 2500 people during prayers. The spiritual leader, Imam Nehmat Ali Shah is not fluent in Norwegian, so every now and then Chairman, Ghulam Sarwar has to translate from Punjabi.
“But we have the same opinions,” says Sarwar while the imam nods and smiles — he looks both stern and benign at the same time.
The subject of the interview is the relationship between the major religions and Norwegians’ attitudes toward Islam. The Imam begins by explaining that all three heavenly religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are sacred to them. Many people are unaware of this fact, says Sarwar.
Then a statement is made that many will find far more problematic.
“The Jews ruin things”
“Schoolchildren visit the mosque regularly and some of the students may think that we are against Christianity,” says Sarwar. Both of them believe that the school visits confirms their views that Norwegians in general have an inaccurate impression of Islam and Muslims.
“Students, journalists and people like you ask the same questions over and over again — about forced marriage, hijab and whether females can become imams.
“No one can be forcefully compelled to marry in Islam, but parents can assist in finding the right partner, and no, women cannot become imams. People are ignorant because they get their information from the media, and the media only write negatively about Islam. Judaism has a better grip on the media,” says Sarwar.
“Why do the media only write negatively about Islam?”
“Because the media has Jewish roots. The Jews control the media and that’s detrimental. Only a handful of people were behind the movie about Mohammed in the U.S. and they didn’t have a lot of money. So who was financing them, who was backing them?” asks Sarwar, referring to the anti-Islamic film The Innocence of Muslims, produced by a Christian Egyptian Copt living in the USA.
“Anxious people”
“Who are the Jews behind this in your opinion?”
“I couldn’t say. I don’t know exactly who, but there aren’t that many Jews. I read that seven million of them were killed in WW2, so there aren’t that many of them today, because there weren’t that many around back then either.”
“How did the Jews manage to attain such media power?”
“Because of education and business.”
Sarwar translates the question to Nehmat Ali Shah.
“Jews have immense commercial power that stretches around the world,” repeats the Imam through Sarwar.
“What is the relationship generally between Jews and Muslims?”
“It has never been good.”
“Why not?”
“Why did the Germans kill them? One reason is that they are anxious people,” says Sarwar.
Wants dialogue
“But at the same time you do say positive things about Judaism, that it is sacred?”
“Yes, we’re not saying that Jews should be killed or anything to that effect. Moses is our prophet, but some people only want to ruin things,” says Sarwar.
“The Quran says that we should accept all the prophets of Judaism, Christianity and Islam — from Moses to Jesus. If we speak ill of the prophets we would be contradicting our own books, but it’s not like that for Jews and Christians,” adds Al Shah.
“What do the media want to achieve by writing negatively about Islam?”
“They want to prevent Islam from growing.”
The Imam confirms what Sarwar is saying
“Dialogue is very important to us. You may find disagreements, but that doesn’t mean that we should stop talking to each other. Dialogue is the only way,” says Chairman Ghulam Sarwar while Imam Ali Shah Nehmat nods affirmatively.
Reacts sharply
Rune Ottosen, a professor of journalism from the University College of Oslo, reacts strongly when he hears about the remarks made by the two leaders of the Mosque:
“This sounds like anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the worst kind,” he says.
He points out that the Norwegian media landscape is dominated by NRK, TV 2, Schibsted and A-pressen.
“The fact that they can actually think in such terms is so far removed from reality that I find it difficult to take them seriously. It is impossible to debate on such a basis,” says Ottosen.
He is willing to admit that the media coverage can be skewed and refers to own research about media coverage of Islam and Muslims.
“Of course prejudices exist, and yes, let’s talk about it. But the debate needs to be based on an actual knowledge of the Norwegian media landscape. These allegations are something entirely different. When such prominent figures say things like that, it just reaffirms that there are fundamental anti-Semitic sentiments within the Muslim community.”
A big tip of the Bodissey pickelhaube to our commenter Jolie Rouge, who has provided us with a brand new acronym. The occasion was an observation about BBC 17/01/2013 This Week (the link only works in the UK):
Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo are joined by former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and Alastair Campbell.
Interesting conversation — acknowledging the geopolitical threat to the West.
Note the aggressor is not named other than by geographical location (e.g.) North Africa, Afghanistan and surprisingly the inclusion of Turkey.
Amazingly they manage to avoid the JIM words — Jihad, Islam and Muslim.
I think JIM could have great utility for our enterprise: it’s concise, pronounceable, handy to use, and easy to propagate.
Who will be the first major Western politician (not counting Geert Wilders) to break the greatest cultural taboo of our time, and mess around with JIM?
Yesterday a group of Al Qaeda terrorists assaulted a natural gas plant in Algeria and killed two foreigners while taking 41 other hostage. Today Algerian special forces staged a helicopter raid on the plant, killing a number of the hostages — between six and 34, depending on whose figures you believe — in the process of taking out the terrorists. Among the foreign hostages were American, British, French, and Japanese nationals.
In other news, Germany has begun repatriating its foreign gold reserves, which are stored in vaults in Paris, London, and the United States.
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The following article tells a brief tale about immigrant-on-immigrant violence in Cologne, with Muslims of immigrant background dealing it out and Russian immigrants as victims.
JLH, who translated the piece, sends this brief note:
It shows the attempts by a Turk to protect a Russian family and being killed for his trouble. An example of what happens to the good guys among the immigrants if they don’t toe the line.
The translated article from Quotenqueen:
Dead Thanks to Judicial Coddling
The unwillingness of German judges to lock up unsocialized walking time-bombs already known to the police has claimed a victim in Cologne on New Year’s Eve. Two criminal foreigners, free to terrorize their neighbors despite drug-related and violent crimes, killed a Turkish husband and father who tried to get them to behave. It happened in a sector of the city called Bickendorf — a district notorious for years for immigrant violence and bordering on the thoroughly Islamized Ehrenfeld. There was also knife-play at night in the immigrant milieu of right-bank Cologne-Vingst, where “Antifa” pastor Meurer is collecting for the building of a mosque and reading masses against Pro-Köln. But no one was killed.
The Kölner Express reports:
Ferhat and Cihad are both known to the police. And to the neighborhood of Ossendorfer Weg. “They are always toking, drinking, fighting,” says one resident.
Several days before the New Year, they were seen with a little wagon, loaded down with New Year’s Eve fireworks. They used them to terrorize neighbors, throwing firecrackers up on balconies all day.”
Imran Firasat is a Pakistani ex-Muslim who collaborated with Terry Jones on the movie The Innocent Prophet (watch it here). The Spanish government recently revoked his status as a political refugee in Spain, and he is due to be deported to Pakistan, where he will face the death penalty for blasphemy. There is currently a push to persuade the Canadian government to grant him and his family political asylum.
Mr. Firasat was interviewed recently on Alerta Digital TV. The video below shows the third part of the interview, and includes segments in English of a statement by Terry Jones. Previously: Part 1, Part 2.
Many thanks to our Spanish correspondent Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:01 | So I want to say that I don’t understand why refugee status was once granted to me | |
| 00:07 | and has now been revoked for the same reason: for criticizing Islam, and I assure readers of | |
| 00:13 | Alerta Digital, those watching the program, that I have never done anything illegal | |
| 00:19 | against Islam; I have always told the government about my activities | |
| 00:25 | through legal petitions, and I have all official papers about that, | |
| 00:31 | about the film I was intending to make. So I told them about all this 3 months in advance, | |
| 00:37 | by email, that I would like to make a film in order to show everybody the real face of | |
| 00:43 | Mohammed, and I humbly called for an appointment to show them the film, | |
| 00:49 | for them to tell me whether there’s something offensive to anyone in the film, | |
| 00:55 | and all is in conformity with the Spanish laws, but I received no answer, | |
| 01:01 | but in the end, when an Islamic organization in Madrid filed a complaint, | |
| 01:07 | they became active, and they told me that my film | |
| 01:13 | can be dangerous to Spain. — Now Imran, from Florida, we have a connection | |
| 01:19 | through YouTube with a person who wanted to appear tonight in order | |
| 01:25 | to give you his support. He is a friend of yours, Pastor Terry Jones, another symbol of | |
| 01:31 | the fight against Islamic fanaticism in the world, a pastor who was banned | |
| 01:37 | from entering Spain by the same Interior Minister who wants to expel you. | |
| 01:43 | Pastor Jones was very interested in appearing on this program, which he usually follows, | |
| 01:50 | as you told me — Yes. Mr. Terry Jones | |
| 01:55 | is a very good fellow, no matter what is said about him, but for me he is a brave fellow, | |
| 02:01 | who speaks the truth, fights for the truth. Maybe some of you do not agree with some of his | |
| 02:07 | views, but regarding Islam, I agree 100% with him, and | |
| 02:13 | he is also grateful to Alerta Digital for drawing attention to my case… | |
| 02:19 | - So here is his direct testimony through YouTube. | |
| 02:24 | ||
| 02:53 | What Mr. Terry Jones is saying is that if they stop us in this way, | |
| 02:59 | then we lose our fundamental liberties, our human rights, | |
| 03:06 | but first and foremost our freedom of speech, and if we lose that, | |
| 03:12 | then we find ourselves in a dictatorship, so | |
| 03:18 | they must make clear whether this country is under dictatorship, or give us total liberty, | |
| 03:24 | but double moral, double standard, that is not fair. Well, they tell me that | |
| 03:30 | I am a danger to Spain for criticizing Islam, and not because of having committed a crime, | |
| 03:36 | but if it had been a Spaniard… — Excuse me, let | |
| 03:42 | us watch the video. Let’s watch it in full… | |
| 03:48 | It would be good if people could see the video of the Pastor in full. | |
| 03:54 | Now let’s watch it, and then we’ll comment on it. | |
| 04:00 | ||
| 07:07 | Pastor Jones speaks clearly: it is not just about Imran Firasat’s freedom, but that of us all; | |
| 07:12 | if today it is taken away from him, then tomorrow | |
| 07:16 | it will be taken away from us. There’s a lot at stake. | |
| 07:20 | As I said before, I am a foreigner, so it is easy for them to | |
| 07:25 | deport me, revoke my status, but what would have happened if I had been a Spaniard? | |
| 07:30 | Would they take away his citizenship? Would they | |
| 07:34 | persecute him? No, he would be put on trial. So let them | |
| 07:37 | put me on trial. They will not find anything about my having violated Spanish law, | |
| 07:43 | and if they stop me now, well, it is not about me, but about everybody. If they stop me | |
| 07:49 | from criticizing Islam, tomorrow they will stop you from criticizing President Rajoy, | |
| 07:55 | or the king, and nothing will be allowed to be | |
| 07:58 | criticized. But Jesus is allowed to be criticized, | |
| 08:01 | everybody is allowed to insult our God, but Mohammed cannot be criticized. Is this justice? | |
| 08:07 | - Yes, we’ll talk later about Mohammed, but in order for you to know | |
| 08:12 | that hundreds of thousands of euros of tax money, | |
| 08:16 | which thanks to this Partido Popular government, | |
| 08:19 | that self-proclaimed ‘Christian’, are made to flow to the mosques of this country, | |
| 08:25 | I’ll reveal some data as an exclusive info for all readers of Alerta Digital. The money | |
| 08:31 | which is taken away from impoverished Spaniards, and which these villains in Rajoy’s gang | |
| 08:37 | give to the mosques, so that there the believers can be indoctrinated | |
| 08:43 | into hatred, crime, and to hate anybody who does not share their way of thinking | |
| 08:49 | This is a short list of the funds which Rajoy’s government gives to some Islamic centers | |
| 08:55 | in our country. I assure you that the following is not even 10% of | |
| 09:01 | all funds being given to Islamic centers. Now listen: | |
| 09:07 | Islamic Center of Torrent — Valencia County: 3000 euros | |
| 09:13 | Islamic Board of Madrid — Collado Villalba: 2200 euros | |
| 09:19 | Islamic Center of Albacete: 2000 euros. Again: money given by the | |
| 09:25 | Partido Popular government from all of your pockets. | |
| 09:31 | Aval Islamic Center: 4500 euros | |
| 09:37 | Muslim Women’s Association of Vall D’uxó — Valencia county: 4500 euros | |
| 09:44 | Religious Islamic Center of Asturias — Altahuí mosque: 1500 euros | |
| 09:53 | Islamic Center Colonia Sant Jordi: 1500 euros | |
| 09:58 | Almassora Islamic Center: 1680 euros | |
| 10:04 | Islamic Community of Prat de Llobregat: 3000 euros | |
| 10:08 | Islamic Community Al-Ándalus in Altura (town): 3000 euros | |
| 10:13 | Islamic Community of Onda — Valencia county: 2000 euros | |
| 10:20 | Islamic Community ‘Villanueva de Castellón’ brotherhood: 3000 euros | |
| 10:25 | Islamic Community ‘Noor’: 1950 euros | |
| 10:28 | Islamic Community of Alaquás: 1680 euros | |
| 10:33 | Again, data referring to subsidies give | |
| 10:39 | by the Partido Popular government, official subsidies | |
| 10:45 | which are not even the 10% of all subsidies, and meanwhile Spaniards are committing suicide, | |
| 10:51 | over not being able to pay their mortgages, and 6 million jobless, | |
| 10:57 | and meanwhile our most talented ones have to look for a job | |
| 11:03 | in other countries of the EU. And this villain Mariano Rajoy taking away | |
| 11:09 | money from our pockets, the money which goes to the Islamic associations of our country. | |
| 11:15 | An absolutely clear picture of what happens in this country. | |
| 11:21 | Of what the Spanish democracy is. Of what we have been turned into by the | |
| 11:27 | state represented by these genuine criminals, a true moral sewer. | |
| 11:33 | What can these Islamic associations contribute to the | |
| 11:38 | Spanish community, to the social and economic | |
| 11:42 | progress, to the cultural and spiritual development | |
| 11:45 | of the Spaniards that could justify the handover of these funds by part of the government | |
| 11:51 | of Mariano Rajoy? This is an outrage! You told me before that | |
| 11:57 | they are preparing to build in Barcelona the biggest mosque | |
| 12:03 | of Europe . — Yes, the Muslims of Barcelona are planning to build | |
| 12:09 | a mosque more huge and nicer than the Sagrada Familia, | |
| 12:15 | but… I… I am not against Muslims, | |
| 12:21 | I’ve never said that Muslims are bad, or criminals. I’ve said that | |
| 12:27 | it is the ideology they follow which is bad, and this has to be taught to them, | |
| 12:33 | any they must be asked to change it. Their ideology | |
| 12:39 | is to fight, to make jihad, or to use any | |
| 12:45 | trick to take over the world. I’ve seen in many newspapers where Muslims | |
| 12:51 | leave comments, that they will soon conquer Spain again, | |
| 12:57 | we will turn Spain again into Al-Ándalus. So please understand | |
| 13:03 | that not all Muslims, but many of them are planning to conquer Spain again, | |
| 13:09 | join the political life of the country, and after that persecute | |
| 13:15 | those who talk about Islam. — They are succeeding | |
| 13:18 | with the help of these treasonous politicians. | |
| 13:21 | Yes, why do they have to give thousands of euros in funds to those Islamic centers? | |
| 13:27 | How do they contribute to society? Here we have almost no food, | |
| 13:33 | we cannot pay our mortgages, but those Islamic associations | |
| 13:39 | receive so much in funds. — The worst is that they are using our laws, in Spain, | |
| 13:45 | and in Europe, in order to enforce theirs upon us, when the demographic factor turns decisive, | |
| 13:51 | in order not to depend on us. — Yes, applying Sharia in order to punish anybody who | |
| 13:57 | goes against Islam. So we are losing the Europe we had, | |
| 14:03 | our values, our rights. So I repeat again that | |
| 14:08 | I don’t know whether I will be killed after leaving | |
| 14:12 | the studios, because I receive so many threats, | |
| 14:16 | that Islamists will kill me and my family, but please, do you think of your future? |
We are in the midst of a Winter Weather Warning (also known as Crystallized Climate Change) here at Schloss Bodissey. That means I am watching big, fat flakes accumulating on everything — though the driveway is still clear. Prior to that, we awoke this morning to heavy rains. It is our good fortune that there was never any period of transitional ice. Thank heavens!
Why am I talking about the weather, you ask? Because this heavy wet snow may well eventuate in a power outage. Should that happen we would have no way to tell you why when, once again, no one seems to be home.
If the power does go out, I’m confident it won’t be for long. Our rural electric cooperative is exceptionally good at handling these kinds of weather ‘events’; if we do go out, it won’t be for long. And thanks to the generosity of our donors several years ago, we installed a gas cook stove so we can cook and have — thank heavens, again — hot coffee during the outage.
Yes, we are careful regarding the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning if we were to use the stove for heat. However, given how leaky our storm windows are, I’m not worried.
Here’s what NOAA says:
... Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 1 am EST Friday...
- Hazard types... heavy wet snow.
- Accumulations... snow accumulation of 3 to 6 inches.
- Timing... late this afternoon and evening.
- Impacts... hazardous driving conditions due to snowfall.
- Power outages also possible due to the heavy snow.
- Winds... north 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
- Temperatures... falling into the lower 30s by evening.
This Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow will
cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for slippery roads and
limited visibilities... and use caution while driving.The public is encouraged to report snowfall amounts to the
National Weather Service via email at rnk.Skywarn@noaa.Gov
Oh me. I do wish there were a way to magically bring back my grown-up children to the time when they were all about ten years old. What excitement! Lashings of hot cocoa. Wet snow suits and parkas everywhere! Loud laughter at the recall of sleds bouncing over the hidden bumps.
Somehow I’ll bet mothers with children of a certain age aren’t in any such fantasy land as I’ve just constructed. Instead, they’re wondering how long it will be before the roads are plowed and everyone is safely on the road back to their regular routines. And they would be right — I really only want that trip in The Way Back Machine to last for a few hours. I don’t want the extra laundry or the bored bickering, or the wet drippings all over the front hall…yet the memories remain…
Yesterday we reported on a group of young Muslim men who accost pedestrians in certain parts of east London. They insist that their turf is a “Muslim area”, and require that non-Muslims observe the appropriate dress code and the Islamic proscription on alcohol while they are there. The original post included an embedded video taken by the group and posted on their YouTube account.
Since then YouTube has yanked the video, on the grounds that it was “intended to harass, bully and threaten.” However, for the sake of the historical record of these dire times, Vlad Tepes has preserved a (slightly augmented) copy at MRC TV:
As you all know by now, our blog was suddenly removed last night between 8 and 9pm EST for no apparent reason. Blogger never provided any explanation before, during, or after the outage. I assume it was an internal technical problem at Google.
Below is a portion of a mass email I sent out earlier today to dozens of people who had written to us to ask what happened:
Blogger “removed” our blog suddenly last night. One second it was there; the next it was gone. If we had violated their terms of service, we should have received an email, according to their own established procedure. But we received no email.
I retain my “dashboard” account, as does Dymphna. And, as you can see, I still have the gmail account.
There is no “deleted blogs” link on our dashboards, as there should be if the blog had been deleted deliberately through a normal procedure.
Late last night I began the process that one always goes through with Blogger: we posted requests on the help forum. That’s really all that can be done; you can’t talk to human beings where Google is concerned. We actually received a response, which is unusual with Google. Based on the replies, there seems to have been a major problem with Blogger last night. Many other blogs disappeared in the same fashion.
I anticipate that this is most likely a technical glitch on Google’s part, based on the number and types of blogs that had the same thing happen to them last night. But we should know for certain within another day or two.
It’s also possible (but far less likely, in my estimation) that we were taken down for political reasons. If it was a deliberate take-down, we will migrate to another platform with our own domain. We back up the entire blog frequently, so only a few posts will be missing when we restore.
This is all that we know at present. I’ll send out more emails if I find out anything else. Dymphna will also send out Twitter messages.
Thank you all for your concern and support.
Now the blog has reappeared just as mysteriously as it disappeared. No message, no explanation.
All indications are that this was a technical glitch at Google, given how many other blogs were affected, including lots of non-political ones.
It seems extremely unlikely that there was any political component to the outage. Nevertheless, we will continue with our “disaster preparedness” policy, with an eye towards an eventual migration to a secure platform, one that we have complete control over.
Thanks to everyone for all the emails, skype messages, blog posts, Facebook posts, and tweets. It’s gratifying to know how many friends we have!
Prompted by yesterday’s translation about the cultural enrichment of public schools in Oslo, our Austrian correspondent AMT has written a call for her fellow Austrians to take back their country from the Multiculturalists who are leading it to destruction.
Managing Diversity
by AMT
As usual, it’s all about diversity management, integration, and migration background. That’s all it’s ever about. German president Joachim Gauck has recently appealed to Germans to show more enthusiasm towards migrants, to welcome them. Germans should also be aware of the enrichment emanating from migrants, “if only Germans would allow it.” Does this include allowing sharia law? As one commentator put it, “I am still of the opinion that I have the right to believe that some migrants are welcome and other are dangerous to our country and our freedom. This is my damned right, at least it was up until now. Or will our brains soon be implanted with chips?”
We, the people of our different nations in the realm of democracy, are supposed to be the ones making decisions via our elected officials. But we aren’t. We are merely riding shotgun in a car that is driving down the road to hell, a hell that is fast turning the majority into the minority. That is, the minority is reaping the rewards of the majority without returning much, if anything, to the majority. That’s what it should be all about, right? A give-and-take, solidarity, friendship. But if there are only a few givers and many takers, the so-called solidarity is nowhere to be found.
It is obvious that we, the soon-to-be minority, are no longer making any decisions, for if we were in fact in charge, we would have been asked if we agreed with the policies of uncontrolled immigration. We were not asked. Ever.
If we were in charge, we would be able to speak out about the pitfalls and dangers of some groups that are obviously are not interested in the values of Western liberal democracies, the equality of men and women before the law, or the principles of universal human rights. We are no longer able to discuss the negative aspects of the immigration of certain groups. We are immediately branded as “Nazis”, “racists”, “right-wing extremists”. We lose our jobs, our income, our livelihoods, sometimes, tragically, even our families.
If we, the majority, were in charge, we would not have to fund unlimited language studies for those migrants who are not even remotely interested in teaching their children rudimentary language skills, whose neglect thereby limits their children from participating in school and setting the stage for school drop-outs. Many of those children then go on to a career in thuggery, thievery and worse. The point here is that it is the parents, of whatever or no migration background, who still bear the primary responsibility for their children. They are the ones who are in charge of ensuring their children’s language skills. They should also be compelled to pay for their kids’ acquisition of these skills.
If we were truly in charge, we would not allow the judiciary to exhibit leniency towards criminals and murderers “with a migration background” due to “cultural sensitivities.” Men and women, regardless of background, religion, economic status, are to be dealt with according to the law. But in many instances we cannot even criticize the decisions of the courts without being called derogatory names.
If we were truly in charge, we would make sure that primary schools, such as those in Vienna and Oslo and elsewhere, would not have to deal with the consequences of having more than 50% of students with immigrant background. Most of those students do not have the necessary language skills, which thus limits those students who do and who are able to follow the curriculum.
But we are no longer allowed to criticize this situation, for all of this is subsumed in “diversity”. It is diversity for the majority to be left behind as the minority struggles to keep up.
We, the taxpayers, have the privilege of funding those migrants who refuse to do their part. We are not asked whether we agree with all of this.
The goodies are mind-boggling:
Day after day, we are told that our countries would cease to function without migrants, that they are subjected to nonstop discrimination, and that their lives are hell.
If their lives in their new country are indeed hell, as they claim, then why on earth are they here? Could there be an ulterior motive?
Let us reclaim the driver’s seat. Let us speak up and call a spade a spade.
We do not want sharia law in our freedom-loving societies. Never.
We do not want our children to be held back by those who refuse to learn German.
We do not want uncontrolled immigration.
Our countries offer opportunities. We, the majority, reject the exploitation of opportunities, for they come at a cost.
To our elected officials: Do not tell us that diversity and migrants are just great when reality shows us that this is far from true. Stop humiliating those migrants who are well-integrated, who pay taxes and whose children and grandchildren speak fluent German and who feel, who are Austrian or German. In short, those migrants who are no longer migrants but hardworking and loyal additions to Austria or Germany.
This is actually a no-brainer.
Let us reclaim our brains. Let’s wake up.
A group of aggressive Muslim vigilantes in London is harassing non-Muslims for their dress, alcohol consumption, and other “non-Islamic” behavior in what it designates as Muslim areas of the city. The video below, which was posted on the group’s YouTube channel, shows the sharia patrols in action:
As the Commentator points out, YouTube has already taken some of the videos down for violating its policies:
So far, the group has posted two videos to its new YouTube account which was set up in December 2012. The first video shows the destruction of advertising and vandalising of bus shelters, both displaying images of H&M push-up bras. The second video sees the ‘vigilantes’ approaching and harassing members of the public for either consuming alcohol, dressing ‘inappropriately’, or being inebriated near a mosque.
Several of the videos uploaded to the account have already been removed as they violated YouTube’s terms and conditions. One specifically states that YouTube deemed it intentionally “designed to bully, harass and threaten”.
The footage is likely to have come from East London, where ‘Shariah zones’ were set up last year. The new tactic of intimidation is said to appall local residents, who will likely find the ‘patrols’ disconcerting.
In the videos, the ‘Muslim Patrol’ is heard to say, “Alcohol banned. This is a Muslim area. Muslims patrol the area.”
Vlad Tepes has this to say about the situation:
The ‘Balkanization’ of England and Western nations, and the cost of Islamic immigration “A Muslim patrol”
So what does it mean to have millions of Muslims in a nation, especially in an era of political correctness and moral and cultural relativism? Well here is a pretty good example of the latter stages of ‘No Go Zone’ creation, where the state cedes all sovereignty to hostiles and accepts the moderately paced erosion of the nation state, selectively applying all of its own laws only against the indigenous Western minded people to the advantage of the violent invaders. Why? Because governments prefer the illusion of peace and security even temporarily to the application of force on its own streets. Partially because of the ideology of those in charge, but likely just as much because of how the media will present it if the West fights back to enforce its own values on its own jurisdictions.
It could be added that the class with influence in England especially does not live anywhere near these “Muslim areas” and the class that does, is widely viewed as the great unwashed by the non-working class. And any attempt to even sound the alarm by the indigenous British who live in these areas are met with force due to the perversion of the constabulary from an organization that enforces British law, to one that guarantees political hegemony at the cost of British law.
In other news, a Coptic center for social services, which contained a kindergarten and a reception hall, was attacked and destroyed by a mob of Egyptian Muslims. The crowd had been aroused by area mosques after rumors went around that local Christians were building a church.
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As a follow-up to the previous post, below is the presentation of the Imran Firasat case to the European Parliament yesterday in Strasbourg by MEP Gerard Batten of UKIP:
From the notes accompanying the video:
The EU legislation responsible for Spain’s actions, namely Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA, was exposed in the Strasbourg European Parliament yesterday, by Gerard Batten MEP, London Region representative of the UK Independence Party (EFD Group).
This terrifying document, in force in EU states since 2010, even goes so far as sanctioning terminating, through criminal law, the employment of those accused of speech and thought crimes. [Article 6(1.)(b)]
The document may be read in full here (pdf).
Mr Batten is a long-standing and respected member of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
Imran Firasat is a Pakistani ex-Muslim who collaborated with Terry Jones on the movie The Innocent Prophet (watch it here). The Spanish government recently revoked his status as a political refugee in Spain, and he is due to be deported to Pakistan, where he will face the death penalty for blasphemy. There is currently a push to persuade the Canadian government to grant him and his family political asylum.
Mr. Firasat was interviewed recently on Alerta Digital TV. The video below shows the second part of the interview; the first part is available here.
Many thanks to our Spanish correspondent Hermes for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 01:29 | Well, we were talking about your arrival in Spain | |
| 01:32 | with your wife, and you begin to study the Koran | |
| 01:36 | in a minute and detailed way… - Yes, in order to make everybody know | |
| 01:43 | what is the Koran, what is Islam, but | |
| 01:49 | not to outrage anybody. I understand that in Pakistan, In India, In Bangladesh, in Sri-Lanka, | |
| 01:55 | in these countries Arabic is not the mother tongue, but it is used while praying, | |
| 02:01 | we read the Koran in Arabic, we prayed to Allah in Arabic, | |
| 02:04 | so we had no direct relation with Allah, | |
| 02:07 | we did not know who Allah is, all we had to do is to repeat the suras in Arabic | |
| 02:13 | as they taught us, so, with the purpose to show the truth, what the Koran tells, | |
| 02:19 | I tried to learn, and I found lots of things I did not know before, | |
| 02:25 | Something important: What does the Koran say that we do not know? Well, there are thousands of | |
| 02:31 | verses, I cannot cite them all, but the Koran says clearly, and I have no intention to upset | |
| 02:37 | anybody, I tell the reality, and you yourselves can see it by reading the Koran, | |
| 02:43 | the Koran says clearly: ‘kill them wherever you find them. - Kill the infidel, | |
| 02:49 | - The infidel, those who are not Muslims. And regarding the discrimination of women, | |
| 02:55 | hit them if they do not obey you, so the Koran teaches men that | |
| 03:01 | they are allowed to hit women, and this happened when some months ago an Imam was | |
| 03:07 | teaching Muslims in Catalonia… - The imam of Mataró. - Yes, the thing is that | |
| 03:13 | all they do is written in the Koran. They don’t do it | |
| 03:16 | by themselves, but because the Koran says it. | |
| 03:19 | The Koran says clearly not to make friends with infidels. They must be persecuted and tortured | |
| 03:25 | until they convert to Islam. Jihad must be practiced till the entire world is ruled by Allah… | |
| 03:30 | Wait a moment, this is important: you got refugee status | |
| 03:34 | in Spain because of your fight against | |
| 03:37 | Islam. - Yes. - Because the Spanish Government had knowledge that you were in danger, and | |
| 03:42 | you were granted the status. - Yes, no doubt. | |
| 03:45 | The day I applied for the refugee status, the officer | |
| 03:49 | asked me: ‘Are you writing a book about Islam called Islam: Religion or Punishment’? | |
| 03:55 | I answered yes, and they told me to give them articles about me | |
| 04:01 | from the press, videos of TV interviews in which I appear talking about Islam. | |
| 04:07 | They had 100% knowledge about my activities regarding Islam, and they told me that | |
| 04:13 | it was my freedom of speech. - In what year was this? | |
| 04:16 | - 2006, with Zapatero (Socialist) in power. | |
| 04:19 | Yes, with Zapatero in power, and they didn’t tell me | |
| 04:22 | that here one cannot criticise Islam, or that | |
| 04:25 | my activities can spark danger coming from Islam, so I assure you, and I can prove it, that | |
| 04:31 | I was granted political refugee status because of talking about Islam. | |
| 04:37 | - And what changed between then and now, Imran, that they wants t | |
| 04:43 | take it away from you? - Change of government. - So the PP (Right wing) is worse? | |
| 04:49 | It is the same. Well, you know why they want to revoke my status, but | |
| 04:55 | the only I want to say is that in the repeal of my refugee status decision, | |
| 05:01 | it appears nowhere that I might have committed any crime or violation of Spanish law. | |
| 05:07 | There’s nothing about it, for I did not breach any law, | |
| 05:10 | I haven’t - will never have any criminal record. | |
| 05:13 | So, all they say in this resolution is that my activities | |
| 05:19 | about Islam provoke Muslims and offend their religious feelings, | |
| 05:25 | and they could commit violence, but hey, if they commit unjustified | |
| 05:31 | violence, so why do we have to fear them? Why can’t we tell them that what they do is illegal? | |
| 05:37 | But no, instead of halting them, they halt me if I speak (out). | |
| 05:43 | - Like criminalizing the old lady who carries her bag, | |
| 05:46 | in this way tempting the thief to steal it. - Yes. | |
| 05:49 | So now we’ll try to talk with your lawyer, so that he can explain us your situation | |
| 05:55 | Let us connect with Claudio Lobo Villanueva, Imran Firasat’s lawyer, | |
| 06:01 | We’ll talk about the support you received. Is Alerta Digital mentioned somewhere by some | |
| 06:07 | of the Spanish authorities? Yes, the police asked me about my links with | |
| 06:13 | Alerta Digital, that so much is talked there about you? So I told them that apart from… | |
| 06:19 | - The police of Madrid? - Right. Apart from | |
| 06:22 | the fact that we are friends, they speak the truth, | |
| 06:25 | they talk about thing nobody dare to, about controversial issues, | |
| 06:31 | that is why Alerta Digital talks about my case, not because they are my friends, but | |
| 06:37 | because we have a mutual respect, I have | |
| 06:40 | great respect for AD, and I am grateful that they talk | |
| 06:43 | about those issues which no other media want to discuss, that’s what I told the police. | |
| 06:49 | - Excuse me, your wife is in Indonesia? - Yes, she is in Indonesia. | |
| 06:55 | - She is not allowed to enter the country? - In spite of having the right to get all papers | |
| 07:01 | in order to return to Spain, because my kids were born in Spain, my family has refugee status, | |
| 07:07 | but they are not given the papers due to pressure | |
| 07:10 | from the Islamic state. - Due to pressure from | |
| 07:13 | the Islamic state of Indonesia? - Yes, I have been | |
| 07:16 | requesting the papers for them for more than two years, | |
| 07:19 | in spite of being in danger. But I am not given any reason, nor right to appeal. | |
| 07:25 | It is very complicated. But I have no more hope that they will be allowed to come | |
| 07:31 | - Do you have more family in Europe? - I have a sister in the UK. | |
| 07:37 | She refuses to stay in contact with me because she says that I am an infidel, | |
| 07:43 | for Muslims, contacts come after religion. First comes Islam, | |
| 07:46 | and only after that come brothers, parents. | |
| 07:49 | So I spent the last 3-4 years trying to convince her that ‘look, my opinion about Islam | |
| 07:55 | is my personal opinion, it is not about you and our relationship’, but she refuses because | |
| 08:01 | she says that she will be my sister again until the day I reconvert to Islam. Otherwise not. | |
| 08:07 | - We have on the phone your lawyer, C.L.V., a renowned lawyer from Madrid. Welcome Claudio! | |
| 08:13 | - Hello. - How are you? - Fine , thanks. - Imran’s testimony is spine-chilling, | |
| 08:19 | which reveals the double standard, not only by part of the Spanish authorities, | |
| 08:25 | but also of the national media. Just imagine what would be if instead of Imran’s case, | |
| 08:31 | with his video which clearly shows to the public opinion the reality of Islam, | |
| 08:37 | if instead of being an anti Islamic activist, he would be a Moroccan journalist | |
| 08:43 | rebelling against king Mohammed VI. What would be the Spanish media saying, | |
| 08:49 | all those NGOs, civil organizations, and all those religious good-will people | |
| 08:55 | if the Spanish Government would have dared | |
| 08:58 | to threaten that journalist with deporting him back. | |
| 09:01 | But in the case of Imran Firasat, no one but AD raises a voice | |
| 09:07 | about this, which is another scandal of the many taking place in the Spanish public life. | |
| 09:13 | - Yes, I fully agree with that, about the regrettable double standard | |
| 09:19 | in the reality of Spanish political life, and in the case of Imran this is | |
| 09:25 | blatantly visible, this actual double standard. | |
| 09:31 | Claudio, what is the legal situation now of Imran Firasat’s case? | |
| 09:37 | It is unfortunate, he is in an extremely bad situation | |
| 09:43 | in Spain, because his status as a political refugee has been revoked, | |
| 09:49 | and plainly stated, he is in a limbo, | |
| 09:55 | in a legal limbo, he has no papers, but he cannot be expelled | |
| 10:01 | from the country. - The case is now being dealt with in the national court, right Claudio? | |
| 10:07 | No, we are considering going to the national court, but | |
| 10:13 | what is suitable now is an administrative appeal against the decision of the administration, | |
| 10:19 | but we are considering going directly to the national court, | |
| 10:25 | regarding his civil rights, what might this revocation mean | |
| 10:31 | to his condition as a refugee in our country, of Imran Firasat? | |
| 10:37 | Well, I can feel what he is passing through, it is a Dantesque situation, | |
| 10:43 | - He can be detained at any time. - He has no papers at all in Spain, | |
| 10:49 | and he has entered a vicious circle, in which he will hardly get legal residence | |
| 10:55 | in Spain, but neither can he leave the country. | |
| 11:01 | I would not like to be in that situation, the (sense of) abandonment is overwhelming, | |
| 11:07 | and speaking again about the double standard, the administration | |
| 11:13 | does not understand the situation of the other person, that returning to his homeland | |
| 11:19 | would clearly mean the death sentence for him. - But this is beyond judgement, | |
| 11:25 | but what options dose the government see as viable, Claudio? Extradition to Pakistan? | |
| 11:31 | No, I don’t think so, because of the asylum rights themselves, it must consider | |
| 11:37 | sending him to a third country willing to admit him, | |
| 11:43 | in which he receives guarantees that his rights will be respected. | |
| 11:49 | But nowadays I don’t think that (the government) would do it. - Claudio, do you think | |
| 11:55 | that there is pressure being exerted by some Arab countries? | |
| 12:01 | I don’t think so, I would not like to think that, sincerely. | |
| 12:07 | I find it difficult to think about this. - Claudio, do you feel optimistic | |
| 12:13 | regarding the resolution of the case? - Yes I am, no doubt. | |
| 12:19 | Imran is a good fellow, he deserves to have rights respected, | |
| 12:25 | that his right to voice his opinions be respected, and it is simply that | |
| 12:31 | what he is doing is just criticising, showing the | |
| 12:37 | real behavior of those extremist Muslims who rely on their religion. | |
| 12:43 | If this is a sin, then it would be regrettable to understand it in this way. | |
| 12:49 | - And first and foremost, Claudio, our astonishment that these events | |
| 12:55 | and threats come from a government of which some members see themselves as Catholics. | |
| 13:01 | - Yes, it is regrettable, no doubt about that. | |
| 13:07 | - Well, Claudio… | |
| 13:13 | (this was) the testimony of Claudio Lobos Villanueva, the lawyer for Imran Firasat. | |
| 13:19 | It was clear enough to know a bit more of all | |
| 13:25 | the legal context of this case. Your lawyer says he is moderately optimistic, | |
| 13:31 | regarding the outcome of this case. - Yes, I trust Spanish justice. | |
| 13:37 | The administration can make abusive use of its power, but Spanish justice | |
| 13:43 | will not leave me in a limbo, or in danger. I am optimistic, and my lawyer too, that | |
| 13:49 | we go to Spanish justice to ask for my rights and my freedom, | |
| 13:55 | and they will rule in our favor, because one thing is that if they | |
| 14:01 | give me refugee status for one reason, they cannot revoke it for the same reason, | |
| 14:07 | and if in this country criticising Islam is a crime, then this must be | |
| 14:13 | ratified in the Spanish constitution, and that if Islam is already something | |
| 14:19 | valuable which cannot be criticised, | |
| 14:25 | this has to be clearly said by the law. | |
| 14:28 | But the double standard, on the one hand, everybody has | |
| 14:31 | the right to freedom of speech, but if one uses this freedom of speech for talking | |
| 14:37 | about Islam, then there is pressure, persecution, abuse of power, and all that. |
