Do we want to offend Muzzies?
Silly question! Of course not.
So please do not be surprised that Becta, the British government’s educational technology agency’s panel rejected a story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale from the schools program as offensive to Muslims.
I have to say that the panel’s decision is perfectly consistent with everything that good old Europe does these days.
A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned by a government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims.
The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that “the use of pigs raises cultural issues”.
Becta, the government’s educational technology agency, is a leading partner in the annual Bett Award for schools.
The judges also attacked Three Little Cowboy Builders for offending builders.
The book’s creative director, Anne Curtis, said the idea that including pigs in a story could be interpreted as racism was “like a slap in the face”. (Full Story)
The terrible news about the upcoming arrest of Lionheart UK reached my inbox in the wee hours of Friday, January 4, 2008:
Hi AOW I just wanted to let you know that I am being arrested by the British police because of my blog.
As Pamela stated in her post on the topic at Atlas Shrugs,
[Lionheart] has been a warrior on the war on the jihad in the UK and exposed the drug running that funded Islamic jihad in Britain and posted on the tsunami of sharia enveloping his beloved country. The Brits have submitted to Islam and they mean to shut down anyone who speaks for freedom, justice and liberty. Silencing the daring truth tellers….“Hate speech” legislation is the club the political elites will wield to club us into submission.
From Lionheart’s first post on the charges against him: I am currently out of the Country and on my return home to England I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of Stirring up Racial Hatred by displaying written material” contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986. This charge if found guilty carries a lengthy prison sentence, more than what most paedophiles and rapists receive, and all for writing words of truth about the barbarity that is living in the midst of our children, which threatens the very future of our Country. What has become of my homeland, the land my forefathers fought and died for on the battlefields of the world when one of their children is forced into the position of facing years in prison for standing up for what is right and just within British society. […] This arrest and potential imprisonment is what now awaits me at the start of 2008, and this is what now awaits every other blogger in Great Britain who writes the truth about the modern war that is now unfolding against us, our children and the British homeland by the State (Labour government) sanctioned and protected enemy that is living in our midst - The Islamic Kingdom. Go read it all. And, for as long as Lionheart can continue to post, read the subsequent posts as well by visiting new posts at the top of his home page. COPY THIS POST AND/OR LINK BACK TO IT. SEND OUT EMAILS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTENANCES. GET THE WORD OUT AS TO WHAT’S HAPPENING TO LION HEART UK! Additional information: The Gathering Storm Radio Show’s interview with Lion Heart UK (first half hour). We plan another interview with Lion Heart on January 11, 2008. Listen to the voice which is about to be silenced! NOTE: Lionheart will be the guest for the full hour on the January 11, 2008 edition of The Gathering Storm Radio Show. CLICK HERE for the details.
The original danish Muhammed cartoons are for sale.
But several estimated danish auction houses dare not put them on auction.
“It would be stupid to provoke the muslims again they say.”
One dane bought one of the cartoons in november 2005 for 15.000 DKR (=USD 3.000)
A Danish court handed down jail sentences of four to 11 years on Friday to two Danish Muslims and an Iraqi Kurd for planning a bomb attack in Denmark.
The Copenhagen court acquitted a fourth man.
The men were accused of planning to bomb Copenhagen’s City Hall Square or the Tivoli amusement park to protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that were published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, and the presence of Danish soldiers in Iraq.
A panel of three judges sentenced Mohammad Zaher, 34, a Dane of Palestinian origin, and Ahmad Khaldhahi, 22, an Iraqi Kurd, to 11 years’ jail. Abdallah Andersen, 32, a Danish convert to Islam, was sentenced to four years while Riad Amwar Daabas, 19, a Dane of Palestinian descent, was acquitted.
As you can see - all were muslims. Khaldhahi also is to be expelled from Denmark forever.
Tuesday november 13th there was a general election in Denmark.
The election was won by premier Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s Liberalist party, the Conservatives and Pia Kjaersgaards Danish Peoples Party by a narrow margin.
The left side of parliament raised a massive and aggressive election campaign against ‘the inhumane’ government and especially against its supporting party The Danish Peoples Party.
A new party ‘New Alliance’ had been formed, which intended to shift the governement away from its stern policies on immigration and asylum. All means were used, but id didn’t work. This party was created by muslim Naser Khader, one of the only muslims who stood by Denmarks side during the Muhammed-crisis.
The leftist and liberal parties lost, the Social Democrats had the worst election in almost 100 years. The most immigrant and asylum loving party - The Radical Left lost half of their voters.
The much spoken of islamist hijab-clad TV-speaker Assmaa ran for a marxist parti, which was almost wiped out of parliament because of her, didn’t make it.
Thje real winners of the election were The Danish Peoples Party. In spite of massive media lies, comparison to nazies, the usual accusations of racism, fascistoids and so forth - they gained one extra member in the parliament ‘The Folketing’.
There’s a lot about it on Hodjas Blog - but it’s in danish
AN UNASSUMING HERO STANDING UP FOR TRUTH
”We simply cannot trust Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian media. We know too much about the fake staging of events, the doctoring of footage, the documentation of fake massacres.”
Or the Australian media, might I add.
(with thanks to) - Phyllis Chesler Jewish Press, October 24, 2007
Written by Cassandra, Friday, 02 November 2007
I’m nearing the end of my stay in this once fair city. After only a few days I realised there’s only one newspaper that is readable - The Times. The Guardian and The Independent are so far off the lunar left planet that they are mere parodies, and the tabloids are just sport and titillation, with the emphasis on the first syllable of the last word.Jonathan Sacks Last Saturday’s Times had an interesting article by Jonathan Sacks, which shows some people realise the parlous state into which once-Great Britain has descended.
The title caught my eye:
Multiculturalism is a disaster (More at Australian Islamist Monitor)
“Hillary’s Going to Wellesley Tommorrow. Where Does She Stand on the Veiling of Muslim Students at Wellesley?”
On May 31st, 1969, Hillary Rodham delivered the Commencement address at Wellesley. I have just read her speech and in my view, it says very little about a great deal. You just can’t pin her down—not then, not now. She tries to include everyone, offend no one, and she does so in an even-tempered, non-passionate way. She says:
“Part of the problem with empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn’t do us anything. We’ve had lots of empathy; we’ve had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”
dhimmitude.html”>this photo posted by Reliapundit at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and by others elsewhere, showing First Lady Laura Bush sitting between two black sacks:
Little consolation, of course, but at least our First Lady wasn’t wearing the abaya.
Um, not exactly. (more…)
Despite the best laid plans of the Revolutionary Communist Party, we blessed three (Ibn Warraq, Christina Hoff-Sommers, and myself) quietly triumphed at Columbia during Islamo-fascism week. But you’d never know it if you read The Nation’s online coverage. Esther Kaplan, author of “With God on their Side: George Bush and the Christian Right, ” led with her bias showing.
In her article, Kaplan spends ten paragraphs demonizing David Horowitz and then dismisses us as fellow travelers in only a mere two paragraphs. I am not complaining. If she had written about us at greater length, she would only have misquoted us or taken our words out of context even more.
For example, she sidesteps my points about the Islamist persecution of homosexuals and only notes that I “sounded an alarm against an epidemic of homosexual pederasty in the Muslim world”—and then likens me to Gary Bauer in his denunciation of gay marriage. Kaplan utterly fails to describe the “violent oppression of women under Islam” (which is also the title of a pamphlet I co-authored for David Horowitz) and fails to mention the heroic feminist struggles in the Muslim world which both Christina Hoff-Sommers and myself discussed.
Kaplan reduces the learned and brilliant Ibn Warraq to just one sentence—yes, the same Ibn Warraq who recently defeated Tariq Ramadan in a battle of ideas in London. I highly recommend Ibn Warraq’s new book, “Defending the West. A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism.”
BY: FERN SIDMAN
The voices of truth can never be diminished or drowned out, be it by the rain that fell in New York City or by the zealousness of truth’s adversaries. On Wednesday evening, October 24th, the electricity in the air was palpable on the campus of Columbia University. In a packed classroom in the mathematics building, a panel discussion was held as part of an ongoing series of lectures in a weeklong event being held on over 100 university and college campuses. This nationwide event is entitled Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and is the brainchild of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
David Horowitz is a former left-wing academic whose politics have now taken a giant step to the right. As one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s, he was also the editor of its most influential magazine, Ramparts. He is the author, with Peter Collier, of a number of best-selling dynastic biographies on the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the Fords, and the Roosevelts. With Collier he also wrote Destructive Generation (1989), a chronicle of their break with the 1960s Left, that has been compared to Whittaker Chambers’ Witness and other classic works documenting a break from totalitarianism. On his web site, www.frontpagemag.com, Mr. Horowitz champions an array of causes including the defense of the principles of individual freedom as well as defending free societies in the war against their enemies, and the reestablishment of academic freedom in American schools.
My friend Mustang of Social Sense has written what I consider an excellent and important essay. Excerpt from the end of the essay:
…It is amazing to me that President Bush and other leaders in the Western World refuse to acknowledge the truth of what is happening. Indeed, Mr. Bush is prancing around the Saudis like a little girl in a tutu — and the greatest evidence of this is our government’s refusal to demand closure of Wahhabist madrassahs in Northern Virginia and other locations from one end of this country to the other. I can assure you that if anyone opened a Christian academy that taught students to hate and seek out Muslims and mutilate them, the entire weight of the U. S. government would descend upon them in short order….
Read Mustang’s entire essay. Worth your time and consideration.
We lack effective political leadership, leaders who are not dhimmis, leaders with guts enough to get past political correctness. Where are those leaders?
And what is it going to take for the West to wake up–to really wake up? Thinking about that something casts a pall across my life every day.
By: Phyllis Chesler
It has been said–and I agree–that it is the better part of wisdom to both understand views with which one strongly disagrees and to support the right of one’s political opponents to speak freely. However, these noble sentiments are not exactly useful when one’s opponent is a gargantuan liar and engages in evil.
Still, I mourn the loss of civilized dialogue among presumably civilized people who no longer exchange views but only insults masquerading as views for which they are applauded, lauded and often well-paid.Everyone’s mind remains firmly closed. Dialogue is increasingly impossible among people who will only talk to those who agree with them 100% on each and every issue.
In the West, Talking Heads are meant to destroy their opponents, not to communicate with them. Civilized audiences consider this entertainment much as our ancestors once experienced public hangings or lynchings–indeed, as many non-Western Islamist mobs still do today. (more…)
(All emphases by Always On Watch)
Two recent stories, both involving medical professionals, from the UK:
News from and about England is always of particular interest to me, not least of all because my son, daughter-in-law and 2 grandchildren live there. Seeing as how they persist in remaining Ba’hai, and knowing of Shi’ite Islam’s …”interest”….in Ba’hais, I have personal reasons to pay great attention to what happens in the Old Dart.
More than that purely self-serving interest, however, is my conviction that England is our European canary in the coal mine - the “we” I allude to being the various outlying branches of the Anglosphere. News from England has not been good for a long time, as these snippets will attest. The indigenous, individual Pom is aware of his plight but….who is listening? See article on the Brown Govts. brave new approach to curbing islamism, #5 below.
Finally, there’s the cricket. Australia v. England is more than a game. So, to cheer up my Pommie readers, a cricket “how’s that” to remind you of the ulimate justice of a level pitch, before we start.
Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik on making the Twenty20 final: “We will try to win the final and give this gift to the nation in the holy month of Ramadan, which is blessed with showers from the Almighty.” They lost.
Why? Because of his fellow travellers. It’s the shit that sticks on your shoes.
(From americansagainsthate.org.)
FORMER CAIR INTERN SAYS NO PROBLEM WITH DESTRUCTION OF STATE OF ISRAEL
AAH CALLS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT TO “TAKE ACTION” WITH REGARD TO THREAT AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH
(Coral Springs, FL) (Coral Springs, FL) On Monday, September 24th, Zahra Billoo, a former governmental relations intern for the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-California), posted on a blog that she is affiliated with her thoughts about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University. In her post, she questioned Israel’s existence and stated that President Bush has “blood on his hands.”
In her piece, entitled, ‘Ahmadinejad Visits Columbia,’ speaking about the President of Iran’s call for the destruction of Israel, she wrote, “Wiping other countries off the map? Apartheid Israel is not a country, it was created by wiping Palestine off the map - isn’t all fair in love and war?” She then remarked, “Do we really have the right to be upset at Ahmadinejad for talking about wiping an apartheid ‘state’ off the map?”
Later, Billoo took umbrage with a City Councilman who said that Ahmadinejad had American blood on his hands. She wrote, “Iran has the blood of [sic] Ameircan soldiers on his hands? Way to pass the buck! The blood of those soldiers is squarely on the hands of Bush and Co.! Excuse the Iraqis for attempting to defend themselves in the midst of an illegal war!”
This is not the first time Billoo has made outrageous remarks on the internet. In January of this year, Billoo said on her personal blog that, after seeing what she called “Zionist propaganda” on a San Francisco train, she had thoughts about committing suicide.
Billoo’s belligerent statements regarding the state of Israel and President Bush follow similar inflammatory actions taken by others affiliated with CAIR-California, also known as CAIR-Los Angeles. The organization’s Executive Director, Hussam Ayloush, on August 27th, posted a threat against President Bush on his personal blog, which stated, “Bush, beware.” And CAIR-California’s Civil Rights Coordinator, Affad Shaikh, on September 4th, on his personal blog, referred to Americans in Iraq as “Crusaders.”
Americans Against Hate (AAH) calls on the California media to question why this CAIR office attracts so many radicals to its organization. As of now, the California media has given CAIR a pass.
As well, concerning the previous statements, AAH calls on law enforcement to investigate the California office of CAIR for possible ties to extremist activity and to take action with regard to the threat against President Bush made on Hussam Ayloush’s blog. Under U.S. Code, making or distributing threats against the President of the United States carries a fine and/or imprisonment.
Russell — when you’ve read this, get back to me.
From Amil Imami. A primer on one of the most dangerous men on the planet, posted for those coming late to the game. Amil argues that Ahmadinejad, far from being “insane”, actually exhibits very consistent and predictable behavior, not the hallmark of the insane. I agree but make one observation Amil does not. The condition of his heart means he is a Psychopath. Give me run of the mill insane anyday!
…in being interviewed on the Internet radio show which I co-host? Gravelrash had a turn a while back, and he can have another if he likes. I’m extneding an invitation to others too.
Go to the above link to find out about the show. If interested, you can contact me at AlwaysOnWatch@aol.com
We are presently booking for November on.
According to an article in the September 26, 2007 edition of Telegraph.co.uk, other races and cultures should be included in historical accounts, starting with the role played by the Turks in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Read the article.
Did Allah send the storm, too, in answer to pleas from the Turks, thus making Great Britain a land rightfully belonging to Muslims?
…The Armada was blown north up the east coast of England and attempted a return to Spain by sailing around Scotland and out into the Atlantic, past Ireland. But very severe weather destroyed a portion of the fleet, and more than 24 vessels were wrecked on the north and western coasts of Ireland…
Will the next call be for a change to the British flag, which prominently features a cross at its center? After all, according to Trevor Philips, chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, the Turks played an important role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Perhaps a crescent and star should be added so that Muslims feel more included. Or perhaps replacing the cross on the flag will make them feel even better. Sure, let’s take that step in the name of inclusionism — never mind historical realities.
Multiculturalists desire to rewrite history so that the new account subverts and denies Western culture. What I don’t understand is why it’s just fine for any culture other than our Western one something to be proud of. For example, speaking of the realities of Islamic history elicits cries of “Racist!” and “Islamophobe!” Perhaps a commenter can explain that conundrum to me?
Why is it that, in Australia, no-one in power is asking, or answering, some patently obvious questions?
- Why are we having this “debate” about Muslims at all?
- Who decided to allow them in in droves?
- How did Islam become an Australian issue in the first place?
Given the climate Muslims created during the 1980’s and 90’s, culminating in the outrages of 9/11, Bali 1 & 2, Beslan, Madrid and London, etc,
which ushered in the 21st Century “Age of Islam”, what possesed “the powers that be” in Australia to think that we would somehow be immune to the incessant demands and beligerent attitudes of Islam and Muslims? More and more, across Australia, a word we never thought would be uttered here, is being voiced - treason.
There is overwhelming evidence of antipathy towards increased Muslim migration to Australia, evidence that comes from the mouths of Muslim leaders themselves (see Waleed Aly below) as well as from the wider Australian community, yet there are in place DIMA policies that increase Muslim migration, not limit or halt it outright. Who is setting these targets? Who are the faceless men and women defying the obvious will of the people?
It is becomming aparent, they have no love of this country in them.Here is more evidence of the games being played at high levels, from “Muslim integration - Final Report of Australia Deliberates - Muslims and Non-Muslims in Australia”. (Thanks to JS)
