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- Soeren Kern: Britain Ruled by Political Correctness
- Christine Williams: Iran Infiltrates Canada, Calls to Attack America
- Irfan Al-Alawi: Wahhabi Vandalism Reaches Timbuktu
Britain Ruled by Political Correctness
by Soeren Kern
July 11, 2012 at 5:00 am
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Nine Muslim
men were found guilty of raping dozens of British children. The three month
trial revealed that police and social workers had repeatedly refused to
investigate; they were afraid of being called racist.
A three-month
trial that recently ended in Liverpool, where nine Muslim men were found
guilty of raping dozens of British children, revealed that police and social
workers in northern England repeatedly refuse to investigate Muslim paedophile
gangs: they said they are afraid of being called racist.
The disturbing details that emerged during the
trial have opened yet another chapter in a long-running debate about
multiculturalism in Britain, where many say that political correctness has gone
too far.
Less than a month after the trial in Liverpool
ended on May 9, it emerged that social workers in the City
of Rotherham, also in northern England, had known for six years that a
teenage mother (identified as Child S) who was murdered for bringing shame on
the families of two Pakistani men who had used her for sex, was at clear risk
from predatory Muslim gangs.
On May 29, Rotherham Council's Safeguarding
Children Board published a so-called Serious Case Review,
but key politically incorrect passages which reveal that they had known she was
at particular risk from "Asian men" (Muslim men) were blocked out
with black lines.
The council went to court in an attempt to
suppress the hidden information after an uncensored copy of the report was
leaked to a British newspaper, but the legal action was eventually abandoned.
The uncensored report confirmed that Child S had pursued dealings with 15
different agencies, and identified "numerous missed opportunities" to
protect her; observers believe the agencies failed to do so because they did
not want to be branded as racist.
Other cases of political correctness abound in
Britain, where the enforcement of multiculturalism is endangering the exercise
of free speech, threatening public order and undermining British culture.
In Leicester,
a gang of Somali Muslim women, who assaulted and nearly killed a non-Muslim
passer-by in the city center, walked free after a politically correct judge
decided that as Muslims, the women were "not used to being drunk."
In London,
two Muslims, who laughed as they repeatedly raped a 24-year-old woman, had
their sentences slashed after politically correct judges at an appeals court
ruled that the men were not "dangerous."
In Wiltshire,
police pulled over an 18-year-old driver for a routine spot check. The driver
was stunned when a police officer ordered him to remove the Flag of England from
his car; apparently they said the flag could be deemed racist and offensive to
Muslim immigrants. The driver thought the officer was joking until he was
threatened with a £30 fine if he refused to remove it from view. Tory MP Philip
Davies, who campaigns against political correctness, said: "How on earth
can it be racist to fly your own flag in your own country?"
In Southampton,
a racism row broke out after taxi passengers complained that foreign drivers
could not understand English. A group of drivers responded by placing stickers
in their taxis with the Flag of England, reading "English Speaking
Driver" (photo
here). The signs, however, were branded as "racist and offensive"
by Town Hall officials, who threatened to strip the drivers of their operating
license -- and their livelihood -- if they refused to remove them.
In Manchester,
a 14-year-old girl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with
a group of five Asian students who did not speak English. The incident happened
after the girl asked her teacher if she could switch groups because the Asian
students were talking in Urdu, a language she did not understand. The teacher
apparently responded by shouting at her, "It's racist, you're going to get
done by the police." After being fingerprinted and photographed, the girl
was forced to spend three-and-a-half hours in a police cell on suspicion of
committing a "section five racial public order offense."
In Irlam,
Greater Manchester, a ten-year-old boy was brought before a court for allegedly
calling an 11-year-old mixed-race pupil a "Paki" and "Bin
Laden" in a playground argument at a primary school. When the case came
before District Judge Jonathan Finestein, he said: "Have we really got to
the stage where we are prosecuting 10-year-old boys because of political
correctness? There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to
prosecute." Finestein also said the decision to prosecute, which cost
taxpayers £25,000 in legal fees, showed "how stupid the whole system is
getting."
In London,
social workers have been accused of "misguided political correctness"
after they considered sending a boy in their care to the Democratic Republic of
Congo for an exorcism. Officials at Islington Council in north London
considered sending the African boy to the Congo when his mother claimed he was
possessed by evil spirits and needed "deliverance." City officials
paid Dr. Richard Hoskins, an expert in African religion, over £4,000 to travel
to Africa to investigate the possibility of an exorcism; evidently they were
worried the family's "sensibilities might be affected." Hoskins
completed the trip and advised the council against have the boy exorcised
because the rituals can be "violent...deeply disturbing and
traumatizing."
In Kent,
a Christian doctor is fighting for his job after he told a suicidal patient
that Christianity may offer help. According to the doctor, "The man was
depressed, and had left his own faith. So I told him, 'You may find that
Christianity offers you something that your own faith did not.'" The
General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates standards among medical
professionals, issued the doctor a warning, claiming he had "overstepped
the line." The GMC, which allows doctors to promote the healing effects of
homoeopathy, chiropractic and reiki, also known as palm healing -- all of which
are unsupported by Western, evidence-based medicine but are backed by belief
systems -- has banned the mention of faith and prayer in a consultation.
The British
Navy, which has been forced to downsize its fleet due to military budget
cuts, was obliged by diktats of political correctness to install a special
Satanist chapel onboard one of its warships to accommodate the religious
requirements of a Satanist crewman.
In London,
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) -- a key promoter of
multiculturalism -- recently announced that it would drop the terms BC (Before
Christ) and AD (which translates from the Latin "Anno Domini" to
" in the year of our Lord") and replaced them with the
"religiously-neutral" Before the Common Era, BCE, and Common Era, CE.
The BBC justified its move this way: "As the BBC is committed to impartiality
it is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend or alienate
non-Christians."
Anglican Bishop Michael
Nazir-Ali, who resigned as the Bishop of Rochester amid death threats from
Muslim extremists in Britain, says the BBC's move "amounts to the dumbing
down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history."
The BBC has also refused
to broadcast a screenplay about the threat that Islam poses to freedom of
speech. The BBC's director general, Mark Thompson, said he would not air a play
the National Theatre called "Can
We Talk About This?" which examines multiculturalism and how it has
resulted in Britain being more divided than ever.
According to Thompson, there is "a
growing nervousness about discussion about Islam." He also claims that
because Muslims are a religious minority in Britain, their faith should be
given different coverage than that of more established groups.
In 2005, Thompson famously ordered BBC Two to
air an anti-Christian musical called "Jerry Springer: The Opera,"
which mocked God and presented Jesus Christ as a homosexual. At least 45,000
people contacted the BBC to complain about the show, which contained an
estimated 8,000 obscenities. According to one observer:
"If this show portrayed Mohammed or Vishnu as homosexual, ridiculous and
ineffectual, it would never have seen the light of day."
Soeren
Kern is Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based
Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.
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Iran Infiltrates Canada, Calls to Attack America
by Christine Williams
July 11, 2012 at 3:30 am
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Mohammadi's
message drew the attention of U.S. terrorist experts, who noted that Canadians
do not need visas to cross the border into the U.S.
Iran is expanding a "fifth column" in
Canada. This warning, articulated by David Harris, former head of operations
for the Canadian Intelligence Service and now a strategic intelligence expert,
highlights some disturbing facts: many expatriates have been warning of the
threat of Iranian diplomats conspiring in Canada; of the stealth workings of
the Hezbollah terrorist organization, and there is evidence of Iranian
infiltration in the school system.
Recent evidence bears out Harris's warning, as
does the news that Iran is using its embassy in Canada to mobilize loyalists of
the Islamic Republic to infiltrate the Canadian Government and attack the
United States.
The Toronto District school Board recently
suspended the operating permit of an Islamic school that had been using
teaching materials to encourage boys to keep fit for jihad and for disparaging
Jews. Upon being exposed, the Islamic Shia Study Centre, which operated the
East End Madrassah out of a Toronto high school, issued a public statement:
" Our curriculum is not intended to promote hatred towards any individual
or group of people; rather, the children are taught to respect and value other
faiths and beliefs, and to uphold Canada's basic values of decency and
tolerance".
The school curriculum, however, referred to
Jews as being: "crafty" and "treacherous," with
"plots" and "conspiracies," while contrasting Islam to
"the Jews and the Nazis." These passages came from two books
published by Iranian foundations, which also taught children about
"unclean things," including pigs, dogs and "a person who does
not believe in Allah."
So here one can see plainly the covert nature
of how the Iranian "Fifth Column" manipulates diversity,
multiculturalism, tolerance and even decency in a feeble attempt to cover up
its agenda.
The York Region Police hate crimes unit
launched an investigation, based on a complaint from Friends of the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre.
The cleric affiliated with the Islamic Shia
Study Centre, Imam Moulana Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, tried to cover up the
now-public scandal by stating that the passages were wrongly copied from two
websites; however further investigation revealed that the passages were
excerpts from two books published by the Al Balagh Foundation in Tehran, as
well as by the Mostazafan Foundation of New York, which the FBI indicated was a
front organization controlled by the Iranian regime, currently the leading
sponsor of worldwide terrorism, and the president of which, Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad, is not only outspokenly anti-West, but prominently threatens to
wipe Israel off the map.
This material understandably alarmed Jewish
groups, who responded that they were dismayed that such material had made its
way into the Toronto District School Board. Such textbooks have also made their
way into the Ottawa Carlton Public School Board, where Iranian hate literature
glorifies a 13-year old child soldier who, under an Iraqi tank during the
Iran-Iraq war, strapped on a grenade and blew himself up. In addition, it
depicts Jews as the "sons of Apes."
Moulana Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, the Imam
affiliated with the Toronto Madrasah, is also the Imam of the Islamic Shia
Ithna Asheri Jamaat of Toronto; he recently participated at Carleton University
in Ottawa. as a speaker in the 2012 Imam Khomeini Conference, entitled,
"The Contemporary Awakening and Imam Khomeini's Thoughts."
Although presented as an Iranian cultural
event, Carleton drew a sharp letter of rebuke from ten Iranian-Canadian
academics for hosting a conference honoring the "founding dictator of the
Islamic Republic of Iran." The signatories of the letter pointed out that
Khomeini had ordered in a fatwa the mass execution of thousands of political
prisoners in 1988; that he had shut down Iranian Universities for two years,
and that he had ordered the imprisonment, torture and the execution of
dissidents.
The pro-Khomeini conference was jointly
organized by the Iranian embassy in Ottawa and the student group, the Iranian
Cultural Association of Carleton University, headed by Ehsan Mohammadi, the son
of Hamid Mohammadi, the cultural counselor at the Iranian embassy in Ottawa.
An alarming article just released by Fox News
revealed that Iran is using its embassy in Canada to mobilize Islamic Republic
loyalists to infiltrate the Canadian Government and attack the United States,
as can be seen in a chilling interview with Hamid Mohammadi and shown on an
Iran-based website. In his interview, Mohammadi speaks of Iran's plan to win
the hearts and minds of Iranians living in Canada. He projects that by 2031,
the total immigrant population of Canada will grow by 64%, and that, due to
their birthrate, the number of Iranians should substantially increase.
His message drew the attention of U.S.
terrorist experts, who noted that Canadians do not need visas to cross the
border into the U.S.. Mohammadi also urged all Iranian-Canadians to
"resist being melted into the dominant Canadian culture," to aspire
to "occupy high-level key positions," and to "be of service to
our beloved Iran."
The Iranian Embassy in Canada, under its
"education advisory" section, had also planned on sponsoring a
three-day Iranian Students Convention in Cornwall, Ontario, from July
13th-15th; following more pressure from Iranian-Canadian academics, the
conference has now been "postponed."
A tight, organized network of Iranian
terrorists seems to be using elementary schools, universities and government
institutions -- not to mention manipulating the multicultural system -- to
promote its messages of propaganda and hate, apparently with the ultimate goal
of conquering the "infidel." According to Shabnam Assadollahi, an
Iranian-Canadian and anti-Iranian Regime activist, who helped translate the
Mohammadi interview, "Multiculturalism is killing Canada. I am sick and
tired of political correctness in this country."
The good news is, this group has been
identified by watchful eyes of its freedom-loving Iranian-Canadians and the
diligence of security specialists.
The bad news is that there is a level of
brazenness and sophistication from a terrorist regime that has the monetary
backing and an apparent wish to hijack our institutions. Once such materials
become discovered on elementary school premises, it is easily dealt with; the
greatest threat remains on our campuses and in government institutions, which
would do well to become more aware that multiculturalism and tolerance require
a plan of implementation if we are to preserve our democracy.
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Wahhabi Vandalism Reaches Timbuktu
by Irfan Al-Alawi
July 11, 2012 at 3:00 am
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Now the
extremist rage has reached sub-Saharan Africa.
At the beginning of July, Ansar Al-Dine
(Volunteers of Faith), a Wahhabi Islamist group previously allied with Tuareg
(a Berber group) rebels in Timbuktu, Mali, began systematically demolishing
centuries-old Sufi shrines and mosques.
Timbuktu is known as the "City of 333
Muslim Saints," and has been the depository of hundreds of thousands of
manuscripts and documents in libraries and private collections.
In 1988, the United Nations added the three
main mosques in the city, and 16 cemeteries and mausoleums, to its World
Heritage registry.
Wahhabi ideology, however – the official
interpretation of Islam in Saudi Arabia – is destructive of Islamic heritage.
Wahhabi doctrine holds that the preservation of sacred funeral monuments and
prayers at them are a dilution of Islamic monotheism and a prohibited form of
idol worship.
In Saudi Arabia, Islamic heritage, including
houses and mosques associated with the prophet Muhammad, have been destroyed or
damaged.
Elsewhere, Wahhabi devastation was mainly seen
in raids on Shia holy sites in Iraq during eighteenth and nineteenth-century
Wahhabi forays into that country, as well as in the recent Iraq war.
Fundamentalist assaults on Sufi sanctuaries then spread in Pakistan. Wahhabi
violence against Sufi installations also appeared in the Muslim Balkans. With
the political changes in Egypt and Libya, Sufi shrines have been targeted by
so-called "Salafis" (a cover term for Wahhabis).
Now the extremist rage has reached sub-Saharan
Africa.
In March, in reaction to mishandling of a
Tuareg rebellion in the country's north, the Malian government was overthrown
by a military clique. With the recent Libyan overthrow and the spread of
weapons throughout the region, Tuareg inhabitants, whose culture is non-Arab
and whose Islam is mainly conventional and Sufi, rose up and attempted to
establish their own independent state in northern Mali. Their struggle has been
overtaken by Wahhabi aggression, in the form of Ansar Al-Dine.
"Ansar Al-Dine" ["Sunni Group
for Preaching and Jihad"] is aligned with Al-Qa'eda and with the so-called
"Boko Haram" ["Western Education is Forbidden"]
fundamentalist terrorists in Nigeria. Ansar Al-Dine is led by a Tuareg figure,
Iyad Ag Ghaly, who went to Saudi Arabia in 2008 as a Malian diplomat and there
adopted Wahhabism.
Mali was left with three competing armed
forces. One represents the "revolutionary" government, led by a
soldier, Captain Amadou Sanogo, who overthrew president Amadou Toumani Toure.
The post-coup regime is unrecognized by the rest of the African states. A
second armed force is the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
(MNLA), composed of Tuareg rebels. The third is Ansar Al-Dine. While MNLA
favors Tuareg independence from Mali, Ansar Al-Dine supports the establishment
of a strict Wahhabi state throughout Mali. William Wallis of the London Financial
Times warned on July 6 that radical Islamists in sub-Saharan Africa
have developed links with the global trade in drugs and high-ransom hostages.
Ansar Al-Dine is said to command a small number
of troops compared to those of the MNLA. But when Ansar Al-Dine entered the
MNLA "liberated zone," local and foreign residents of Timbuktu fled
the city.
In April, word came of arson and other
destruction by Ansar Al-Dine at the fifteenth-century C.E. Sufi complex of Sidi
Mahmoud Ben Amar in Timbuktu. The Baba Ahmed library in the city was closed by
Ansar Al-Dine to the public.
After a brief alliance with the Tuareg MNLA,
the Wahhabis split from the coalition and began to realize their main intent:
to eliminate the Islamic architectural legacy of Timbuktu.
Ansar Al-Dine's recent orgy of demolition began
with complete leveling of the shrine of Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar, and the
obliteration of at least six more tombs, including those of Alfa Moya Lamtouni
and Cheikh Sidi El Mokhtar Ben Sidi Mohammed. The Wahhabis also descended on
the Sidi Yahya mosque, built more than six hundred years ago, and about which
it was said that its gate to the Sidi Yahya mosque graveyard would be opened
only at the end of time. The Wahhabis tore the door off the structure.
The terrorist group may have sought by its
actions to defy a declaration by the United Nations Educational, Scientific,
and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in May warning that Timbuktu was endangered.
The Wahhabis in Timbuktu have also been told by
the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Brussels that armed attacks on
undefended civilian structures that have no military purpose is a violation of
the rules of war.
Ansar Al-Dine apparently seeks to express its
contempt to UNESCO and the ICC, just as a similar disregard for international
agencies and world opinion motivated Al-Qa'eda and the Taliban to destroy the
Bamiyan Buddhist statues in Afghanistan in 2001.
International organizations may protest against
the Wahhabi rampage in Mali, but similar foreign challenges failed to prevent
the loss of hundreds of historic mosques during the Balkan wars of the 1990s,
and have had little effect in ending the bloodshed in Syria.
Timbuktu, as a target of sectarian violence, is
even more disadvantaged than were Sarajevo and the Syrian city of Homs.
Timbuktu has long symbolized, for Westerners, the remote and exotic. Its Muslim
heritage is too far away, it seems, to justify foreign intervention to preserve
it. The effort to save Timbuktu must be undertaken by Malian traditional
Muslims, Sufis, and other people of conscience.
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