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In this mailing:
- Douglas Murray: Europe's
"Arab Street" Rises Up
- Bruce Bawer: Britain: The
"Islamophobia" Industry Strikes Again
- Lawrence A.
Franklin: Rampant Pedophilia in Pakistani Madrassas
- Alan M. Dershowitz: The Trump's Camp
Strategy with Regard to Mueller
by Douglas Murray • December 20,
2017 at 5:00 am
- Hamas called for a
"Day of Rage" -- as opposed to the days of peace and
harmony the terrorist group ordinarily calls for -- but this
did not spill out very far.
- In Stockholm,
meanwhile, the new "locals" contented themselves
with setting light to the Star of David rather than to real
live Jews as their compatriots in Gothenburg had tried to do.
- The fabled
"Arab Street" had been meant to rise up. And it did
rise up. But not in the Arab world... instead it lit up in
Europe.
Following
President Trump's announcement about the status of Jerusalem, the
fabled "Arab Street" rose up in Europe. In Germany,
crowds of people recently imported into the country burned the Star
of David. Pictured: Several thousand, mostly Muslim, protesters in
Berlin, on December 8, 2017. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
It is now a fortnight since President Trump made his
historic announcement about the status of Jerusalem. The speech
which announced that America would drop the pretence that Jerusalem
is not the capital of the State of Israel was relayed live around
the world. Across the major networks and the world's front pages
the response was almost unanimous. They proclaimed this a major
foreign policy blunder which would lead to any number of problems
including -- many predicted -- an immediate "third
intifada."
by Bruce Bawer • December 20,
2017 at 4:30 am
- The Runnymede Trust
report's solitary reference to the fatwa against Salman
Rushdie states: "In Britain... many Muslims felt
unsupported in their reaction to Salman Rushdie's The
Satanic Verses and faced a backlash from those who they
felt prioritized freedom of speech above respect for
minorities." Apparently, Britons who stood up for
Rushdie's right not to be slaughtered for writing a novel were
guilty of Islamophobia.
- Much of Runnymede's
report is devoted to the high levels of Muslim poverty and
unemployment in the U.K. -- but instead of seeking reasons for
this problem in Islam itself, it blames this problem primarily
on "institutional racism," while avoiding the
ticklish question of why Hindus, whom one would also expect to
be victims of "institutional racism" in Britain, are
economically more successful than any other group in that
nation, including ethnic British Christians.
- The Runnymede report
points out that domestic violence and child abuse are also
committed by Westerners; the difference, needless to say, is
that while FGM and honor violence enjoy widespread approval in
Muslim societies and communities, where they are viewed as
justifiable (if not compulsory) under Islam, domestic violence
and child abuse are universally condemned in Western society
and are never defended on cultural or religious grounds.
In the
town of Rotherham, England, in accordance with orthodox Islamic
attitudes toward "uncovered" or "immodest"
infidel females, over 1400 non-Muslim girls are known to have been
sexually abused by so-called Muslim "grooming" gangs in
recent years. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
Founded in 1968, the Runnymede Trust describes
itself as "the UK's leading independent race equality think
tank." Its chair is Clive Jones CBE, a former executive at
Britain's ITV; its director is Omar Khan, a Governor of the
University of East London and member of a variety of advisory
groups involving ethnicity and integration. Runnymede's reports are
taken extremely seriously, and its recommendations heeded, at the
highest levels of the British government.
by Lawrence A. Franklin •
December 20, 2017 at 4:00 am
- A recent Associated
Press probe provided accounts of the rampant pedophilia,
allowed to go unchecked due to a combination of factors, among
them the fact that most of the victims are from poor and
vulnerable families. Those who do try to complain are often
bribed or threatened into silence.
- Islamic judicial
officials, and even civil court judges, usually urge those
accused of sexual abuse to offer "blood money" to
the victim or the family in exchange for withdrawing the
complaint and "forgiving" the perpetrator.
- Well-connected
violators reach out to community leaders, particularly in
rural areas, and persuade them to pressure parents of victims
into keeping silent by accusing them of bringing shame to
their villages or warning them that they will be subject to
counter-charges of blasphemy.
Students
at the Jamia Binoria Madrassa in Karachi. Picture is for
illustrative purposes only. (Image source: United States
Journalists Exchange/Flickr)
Sexual abuse of young boys and girls in Pakistan's
madrassas (Islamic schools) continues to be both pervasive and
suppressed, according to the latest "Cruel Numbers"
annual report by Sahil, a child-protection NGO operating in four of
the country's main provinces.
A recent Associated Press (AP) probe provided
accounts of the rampant pedophilia, allowed to go unchecked due to
a combination of factors, among them the fact that most of the
victims are from poor and vulnerable families. Those who do try to
complain are often bribed or threatened into silence. As a result,
the head of Sahil said, the 359 cases reported by the media over
the past decade are "barely the tip of the iceberg."
by Alan M. Dershowitz • December
20, 2017 at 3:00 am
(Image
source: Kit Fox/Medill/Flickr)
The Trump team is probably not going to seek to fire
Special Counsel Robert Mueller. To do so would be to provoke
Trump's crucial supporters in Congress. Instead, they seem to be
seeking to discredit him and his investigation. This is apparently
designed to achieve two possible results: the first is to put
pressure on the Special Prosecutor to lean over backwards in order
to avoid any accusation of bias against Trump and his team. Mueller
cares deeply about his reputation for integrity and will want to
emerge from this process with that reputation intact. Accordingly,
he may err – consciously or unconsciously – in favor of Trump in
close cases so that the public will regard him as unbiased and
fair-minded.
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