Tuesday, February 17, 2009

British government capitulates again






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British Government
Sacrifices Free Speech

On the Altar of Islamist
Appeasement



Dear Solsticewitch13 ,


Every time one thinks that surely, the British government will not
go
another step backward in surrendering to the demands of Islamists,
our heads spin as we watch them take one more step backward.
The latest is the outrageous detention of Dutch parliamentarian
Geert Wilders when he entered London’s Heathrow Airport, after
which British authorities deported Wilders back to Holland.
Why? Wilders flew to London after being invited to show his
documentary Fitna in Britain’s House of Lords, in spite of being
warned by the British Home Office that his presence in the UK
would “threaten community harmony and therefore public security.”
In other words, Islamists were protesting and there were those in
the British government who were afraid that Wilders’ visit would
set off Muslim rioting or, worse yet, terrorist attacks. What’s more,
as the article below notes, the UK is now deeply entrenched in
Shariah-Compliant Finance – which means Islamists not only
have demonstrations, riots and terrorism with which to threaten
the Brits. They also have the power of money.

As we have pointed out many times before, Britain has shown us
the path we cannot take if we want to roll back the rising tide of the
supremacist ideology known as Islamofascism. Every capitulation
emboldens and empowers the Islamists, who predictably ratchet
up their demands. Concerned Brits, far too many of whom have
been silent during the past 30 years as Islamist demands and
British appeasement have escalated, are no doubt wondering
today what has happened to their country – and if there’s still
time to win it back.

Ironically, it was the great British statesman Edmund Burke
who
stated “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good
men do nothing.”
No society or culture – including ours – is exempt from the truth
of
Burke’s words. If the travesty of what has happened in Britain
can occur there, it can occur anywhere – including here – unless
informed men and women of conscience and concern choose to act.



A Chamberlain Moment

By Stephen Brown

FrontPageMagazine.com 2/13/2009



It was a watershed moment of capitulation. On Thursday, February 12,
visiting Dutch politician Geert Wilders was humiliatingly
bundled back
on to a plane to his native Holland shortly after arriving in London.

Wilders had been invited to show his controversial, 17-minute
documentary film, Fitna, in Britain’s House of Lords but was warned
in a letter from the British Home Office last Tuesday he would be denied
entry to the country. As reasons for his being declared persona non grata,
Wilders was told in the letter he would “threaten community harmony and
therefore public security.” The directive never stated, however, that the
statements Wilders made in Fitna are false or misleading in any way.

A Muslim lord, Nazir Ahmed, and other Muslim leaders had vigorously
protested Wilders’ visit, causing an initial invitation to be rescinded.
It was reported that Ahmed had even threatened to mobilize
10,000
fellow Muslims to block Wilders from entering Westminster,
a report
Ahmed now denies. A cooler-headed peer, Lord Pearson,
appalled
at this attack on free speech, reissued the invitation to
Wilders.

Daring the British government to put him in handcuffs,
Wilders defiantly
flew to Heathrow airport with the new invitation in his
pocket. During the
flight, Wilders expressed his opinion of Britain’s Labour
government and
its attempt to block his entry, telling the TimesOnline
that it was now “more Chamberlain than Churchill.”

“I am a democrat, I am serving free speech,” said Wilders. “They are
not only being nasty to me, they are being nasty to freedom of speech.”
But even Chamberlain would have been dismayed to see an elected
democrat like Wilders, the leader of Holland’s liberal Freedom Party
and the first European Union politician ever denied access to Great Britain,
escorted by two plain-clothed guards across the tarmac to the border
agency office. According to the Times story, the British security men were
holding Wilders so tightly, one of Wilders’ personal bodyguards asked
them to relax their grips. Wilders was subsequently put into a detention
center for two hours before being unceremoniously deported back to Holland.

Many people in Britain, among them those who disagree with Fitna, are
outraged that a democratically elected member of European parliament
was refused admittance to their country after having been invited by the
House of Lords. If free speech does not exist there, in Britain’s highest
democratic institution, some have asked, then where does it exist in
Great Britain?

Those opposing the Labour government’s decision to ban Wilders also
believe it is not the Dutch politician who represents a threat to “community
harmony” and “public safety” in Great Britain. Wilders, after all, is a
peaceful man who never has broken any laws but instead must have
24-hour protection himself due to death threats from Muslim radicals.

Rather, the danger to “public safety” exists in the crowd(s) that would
take to the streets in response to Wilders’ presence. As a result, the
Dutch politician’s supporters regard his banning as rewarding the thugs
and aggressors like Lord Ahmed and others of his ilk and punishing
those who would stand up for free speech and democracy.

What disturbs Wilders supporters even more is the hypocrisy
surrounding the Dutch filmmaker’s expulsion. In the past,
Great Britain has allowed in true preachers of hate like Muslim
Brotherhood personage Yusuf al-Qaradawi, invited by London
mayor Ken Livingstone in 2004. Al-Qaradawi has justified suicide
bombings and condoned the killing of Israeli women and children
because they are “militarised.” A more recent example is Ibrahim
Moussawi, who was allowed to enter England last November despite
his describing suicide bombers as martyrs and his having broadcast a
30-part series on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the television
station he heads.

British columnist
Melanie Phillips also points out the British
government
also allows huge, pro-Hamas demonstrations and does not
prevent Hizb
ut Tahrir from recruiting on British campuses for the
jihad against the West.

Many in Britain are disheartened and angry at their government’s
unwillingness to stand up to the Muslim extremists who threaten mass,
anti-democratic intimidation. Rather than stare down that threat, the
Labour government has tried to appease it, causing one British
observer to comment he now knows what it was like in the mid-1930s
when Nazism was on the rise.

One reason for such disgraceful appeasement is that London is
regarded as the headquarters for Europe’s jihadists. The Labour Party’s
Home Secretary, whose department issued Wilders the persona non grata
letter last Tuesday, said there are so many Islamist terrorist plots in
preparation in Great Britain, the security services are having difficulties
in keeping tabs on them all. It is feared a Wilders visit would have
provoked the extremists at a time the Labour government is trying to
“reach out” to Muslims to the point where it is even running television ads
in Pakistan, essentially asking young Muslims not to hate Britain and the West.

Another is that Muslim voters now form large constituencies in Labour ridings.
Few politicians, as everyone knows, are willing to take tough stands when votes
are at stake. And besides losing votes, it is believed the British government is
also afraid of losing Muslim money. Great Britain now has five “sharia-compliant”
banks that contain $18 billion in assets, more than Muslim states like Pakistan.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown once said his goal was to make London the
center of world Islamic banking. Allowing Wilders into the country would not
have helped in this respect.

By banning Wilders from England, the Labour government has sent a clear
message that Islam cannot be criticized. But by stifling free speech, the
cornerstone of freedom and democracy, in this manner and appeasing
a thuggish minority, it has set itself up for far worse consequences. But
hopefully by then, the British people will have decided to take action
themselves, reverse this trend towards humiliation and disaster, and
re-establish the great legacy of their ancestors.



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