Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Life in Gaza
Three Palestinian women have been murdered in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, Palestinian Authority security officials and local residents said.
The bodies of the women were discovered early Tuesday in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The motive for the killings remained unclear. One of the victims, a 35-year-old mother of four, was found near the beach. She had been shot at least 13 times in different parts of her body, said a PA security official.
The other two women were killed separately and their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered late Monday.
The security official said he did not rule out the possibility that the three women were killed by male relatives in the context of what is known as “honor killings.” Such killings are not unusual among Palestinians and many Arab countries. At least 25 women are murdered every year in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for “bringing shame” on their male relatives.
Meanwhile, the Ma’an news service is whitewashing the English versions of their reports for consumption by gullible foreigners, while peddling genocide and incitement to murder in Arabic: Hate terminology in Arabic sanitized in English translations by Palestinian news service.
Hey Mel! Jesus was buried down the road!?
Is this Christian belief of Christ's empty tomb and his ascent to Heaven precluded by scientific evidence?
Click here for a video clip...and be prepared to endure a dumb little ad)
AFP photo of press NY Press conference to kick off Discovery Channel's Sunday broadcast based on "The Jesus Family Tomb"
Out of all the news updates following Cameron's high profile press conference in New York's Public Library about the discovery of a Jesus Family Tomb,
Time Magazine's seems to be the least hysterical, weighing up evidence as well as motive.No librarian dared to shush James Cameron and his cohorts at the New York City Public Library on Monday when they unveiled two of their ancient ossuaries to a rapt crowd of mostly show-biz journalists, along with a few more staid religious reporters.
The setting lent a rather academic feel to the presentation, which in a more standard press conference room would have been unmistakable as Hollywood heavy-hitting aimed for a ratings war.
Cross CSI NY with Tomb Raider, Da Vinci Code, and a bit of 'Holy' Ghost, and you have a guaranteed audience of Bible belt viewers and cynics alike.
It is interesting to note that archaeologists in Jerusalem are rolling their eyes at the crypt craze just unleashed in the US, and even the British tabloid press has been rather lukewarm.
After all, the same evidence was examined on the BBC eleven years ago.
The hypothesis was dismissed as conjecture by Amos Kloner, a top Israeli scholar who pointed out that a poor family from Nazareth would be very unlikely to be buried in this style. These compelling New Testament names were so popular at the time of burial that the Israeli Antiquities Authority suggests that this cluster is only "coincidence", rather like finding Tom, Dick, and Harry together in an American family tomb of the 1940s.
Cameron countered this assertion at his press conference by quipping:
"If you found a John, a Paul and a George, you're not going to leap to any conclusions... unless you found a Ringo."
The sticking point is whether this purported Mary Magdalene bone box is equivalent to finding a Ringo. The show will be broadcast on Sunday if you want to look at the "evidence" for yourself.
The authorities in Jerusalem are mulling over opening the tomb up to visitors, according to the Jerusalem Post. Newsweek posts a preview clip from the show.
Click here
Via Israely bites
Monday, February 26, 2007
The Real Tomb of Jesus?
Ossuary with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus"
(Link Updated 2/25/07: Is the ossuary a fake? Link [wiki] )
James Cameron (yes, that guy who directed Titanic)
James Cameron (yes, that guy who directed Titanic)
an award winning documentary director, sure are stirring up a controversy:
they’re making a documentary about the (supposedly) real tomb of Jesus.
From Time Magazine:
Let’s go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem.
The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets.
Archologists were summoned, and the stone caskets carted away for examination.
It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs.
They were:
Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua.
Not that this whole controversy is new:
there are many supposed tombs of Jesus,
besides the Church of the Holy Sepulchre [wiki] on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried according to most scholars,
the Garden Tomb outside of Jerusalem, Roza Bal shrine in Kashmir,
and Shingo, Aomori [wiki] in Japan where Jesus supposedly fled after the crucifixion.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Pub
Le mot "poireau" selon qu'il est vocalisé par Bush, l'ange Gabriel, PPDA ou marina ne sonne pas du tout pareil, et pourtant il s'agît toujours du symbole des Gallois, d'un terme argotique pour désigner l'organe génital masculin et accessoirement d'un des composants de la Vichyssoise.Mais, prononcé par des gens envers qui on éprouve des sentiments aussi divers que contrastés, ce mot provoque un spectre de réactions qui laisseront ce légume de marbre.Le mot Vichyssoise nous renvoit d'ailleurs a des choses plus ou moins savoureuses selon qu'on pense à la soupe, à l'épouse du Maréchal Pétain, à une patisserie Congolaise ou à un motif de tissu. Si l'on s'arrête à deux mots, cinq syllabes, dix-huit lettres, combien de sens? Plus on connaît de sens à deux simples mots, plus on peut supposer que notre culture est grande, riche, admirable, générale, et que le roi n'est pas notre cousin.Plus on peut également constater qu'on en a dans le ciboulot.Plus on en a dans le ciboulot suppose t'il qu'il nous reste moins de choses à y caser ou au contraire que nous nous trouvons en présence (si j'ose écrire) d'un espace complice, qui voit croître son volume d'autant plus qu'on y fout de l'immatériel?
La suite ici:
Repentez vous lecteurs, car le royaume des cieux est proche ! Et dans sa magnificence, l'incrée envoya au révérend Larry G. Deitch la 666ème révélation : "ton office, en plein air tu dispenseras, tes serments sur 88,5 FM tu diffuseras, et les fidèles par milliers tu recevras". Et Larry G. Deitch, révérend de la paroisse de Daytona Beach, fallait pas lui en chuchotter plus
La suite ici:
Enfin une nouvelle qui peut redonner un peu d’espoir à la Madone du Poitou ! Malgré les gaffes à répétition et les fessées quotidiennes infligées par les sondages, Ségo peut encore gagner en mai. Prédiction de Madame Soleil ? Pas du tout ! Logique historique. Elle peut gagner car son rival Sarko présente maintenant une réelle fragilité : il bénéficie du soutien franc et massif du quotidien Le Monde ! Et comme Balladur l’a expérimenté en 1995, être le candidat préféré du quotidien vespéral constitue peut-être un atout dans le Tout-Paris des médias…mais semble conduire aussi à la défaite dans les urnes.
La suite ici:
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Réquisitoire décapant contre le maire gauchiste de Londres
1 Taxi Bill
'Yesterday morning, for the second time in a month, Ken Livingstone took a 234-mile taxi trip home from Blackpool to London. The journey took more than four hours and the fare was £260, charged to council-tax payers through the Greater London Authority (GLA).’
'Yesterday morning, for the second time in a month, Ken Livingstone took a 234-mile taxi trip home from Blackpool to London. The journey took more than four hours and the fare was £260, charged to council-tax payers through the Greater London Authority (GLA).’
2 Share of Council Tax up
‘In 2000/01, the average cost of the Mayor to a Band D council Taxpayer was £123 a year for each household. This year, it is £289 (an increase in cash terms of 135%). Next year, it will be over £300.’
Other sources including the London Evening Standard suggest an even higher increase of 147%.
3 Traffic speeds static and cost up
‘When it comes to road user charging, the essential trade off for motorists is that a charge is paid in exchange for a quicker journey. Unfortunately, the Mayor has dropped his side of the bargain, with the average speed in central London the second lowest on record since 1968.’ SOURCE HERE
4 London is now less safe than New York According to the survey of 18 of the EU’s 25 countries, London was more dangerous than Istanbul or New York.
5 Not visited London’s 10 borough’s since re-election: This was revealed when Andrew Pelling, a member of the London Assembly asked him about his visits to London boroughs.
6 Trip to Cuba ‘Ken Livingstone's botched trip to Latin America cost Londoners more than £35,000, he has admitted. It cost £19,051 in flights and hotel bills for the Mayor and four aides to spend six days in Cuba, during which he spent around 30 minutes at an Olympic conference.’
7 Party to celebrate 50 years of Cuban revolution ‘Ken Livingstone is planning a "massive festival" across London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution. Although the Mayor's office refused to provide budget estimates, it could cost up to £2 million.’
8 Al-Qaradawi is the strongest force for the modernisation of Islam “Unbelievably, Mayor Livingstone asserted in the question period that Yusuf al Qaradawi was the “strongest force for modernization of Islam - he is the future of Islam.”
9 Qaradawi describes suicide bombing against Israel as duty ‘Recently he told Al-Jazeera that he was not alone in believing that suicide bombings in Palestinian territories were a legitimate form of self defence for people who have no aircraft or tanks. He said hundreds of other Islamic scholars are of the same opinion. In this respect, he is very much in tune with what the vast majority of people in the Arab world believe. Defending suicide bombings that target Israeli civilians Sheikh A-Qaradawi told the BBC programme Newsnight that "an Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.’
10 Qaradawi supports severe punishment for homosexuals
"Almighty Allah has prohibited illegal sexual intercourse and homosexuality and all means that lead to either of them. This perverted act is a reversal of the natural order, a corruption of man's sexuality, and a crime against the rights of females. Muslim jurists hold different opinions concerning the punishment for this abominable practice. Should it be the same as the punishment for fornication, or should both the active and passive participants be put to death? While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements."
"Almighty Allah has prohibited illegal sexual intercourse and homosexuality and all means that lead to either of them. This perverted act is a reversal of the natural order, a corruption of man's sexuality, and a crime against the rights of females. Muslim jurists hold different opinions concerning the punishment for this abominable practice. Should it be the same as the punishment for fornication, or should both the active and passive participants be put to death? While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements."
11 Bob Crow’s support for a Communist party candidate. ‘RMT rail union leader Bob Crow praised the Communist Party's candidate in Pontypridd, Robert Griffiths, as 'a champion of workers' rights and an internationalist who is implacably opposed to Blair's wars' last night (Tuesday).’
12 Invited him to the board of TFL ‘Both Steve Norris, the Tory candidate for Mayor, and Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes said they would remove Mr Crow from the TfL board if elected to power. He was only backed in the post by Mr Livingstone.’
13 Has spent £100 million of Londoner’s money on self publicity and policy propaganda. ‘There is already much evidence of waste: spending on publicity by the Mayor and his various quangos has been estimated at over £100 million a Year (nearly as much as was spent by the Labour Government in its first Year in office); staffing costs at City Hall have nearly trebled from £12 Million in 2000/01 to £33 million in 2005/06.’
Nearing the Iceberg?
I'm indebted to a reader for the idea of a sinking ship.
The S. S. Ségo may not be in Davy Jones Locker yet,
but she is running into stormy weather from France's most influential media "philosophers": André Glucksmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut.
The same reader sent this link to an article in the Telegraph that exposes the serious questions these "philosophers" are raising.
The least serious of the three is Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL) who insists a philosopher should "ask questions not express preferences",
but since it has been reported that at one time he actively supported the Lady,
we can only presume that he'd like to forget about that:
his reputation as a philosopher could sink along with the battered ship.
I would like to turn to Alain Finkielkraut.Alain Finkielkraut is known to all Frenchmen. Writer, philosopher, social critic, he made rather turbulent waves during the November 2005 riots when he granted an interview with the Israeli journal Haaretz.
In the interview he made the mistake of calling a spade a spade and had to atone for his sins in another interview with high-profile journalist and French media mogul Jean-Pierre Elkkabach.
With Haaretz he spoke frankly about the racial problems besetting France, the immigration that was really an invasion and the deep-rooted cultural problem of a country that was no longer proud of its heritage.
And he made it clear that he had broken with his left-wing background - he had been one of many radicals of the disastrous decade of the 1960's who sought to change the whole world.
If you are interested in the English version of this interview from 2005, and the self-defense he made to Elkkabach click here.
Finkielkraut severely criticizes Ségolène Royal .
He says, in substance, of the candidate:
I'll tell you why it is impossible to support Ségolène Royal.
Her faux pas reveal an abysmal incompetence.
Everything in the posturings of Ségolène Royal worries me... everything worries me because it reveals her incompetence,
BUT ALSO because it reveals the deteriorated state of a Left that has been debased by Mitterandism and its posturing, dumbed down by the search for a social science based entirely on ideology and intimidated by an extreme-Left that is ever more radical and ever more violent, at least in its words.
Finkielkraut's voting plans aren't clear.
He seemed to favor Sarkozy, then denied it. Now he talks about voting for François Bayrou.
I think it's best for "wise men" to keep their choice a secret, or rather, to reveal it after the election, when they have a much better chance of being right.
Via GalliaWatch
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Mardi vert
Petit jeu : qui voyez-vous sur cette photo du carnaval de Düsseldorf ?
A) Des musulmans
B) Des terroristes
C) Des chars de Carnaval
Le Conseil des musulmans d'Allemagne a répondu par le point A) alors que toute personne sensée répondrait par le B) voire C).
Après les amalgames faits par le secrétaire du Conseil musulman de Grande-Bretagne, puis par la Grande Mosquée de Paris au procès de Charlie Hebdo, puis des états musulmans au sujet d'un numéro d'Historia consacré à l'intégrisme, voilà le Conseil central des musulmans d'Allemagne qui voit cette représentation de terroristes islamistes "une provocation pour le plaisir de la provocation", un "prejugé" et un "mensonge".
Le terrorisme ? Une mensonge ? C'est du révisionnisme. Condamnable par la loi.
Le terrorisme ? Un préjugé ? Sur qui ? Les terroristes eux-mêmes ?
Représenter le terrorisme ? Une provocation ? C'est une plaisanterie ?
De qui le Conseil central des musulmans d'Allemagne se moque-t-il ?
A l'évidence, l'élite de l'islam traditionnel est corrompue à l'extrême. Il faut se reporter aux voix lucides qui proposent de faire entrer cette religion dans la modernité. Notamment les amis de la liberté comme ceux de Secular Islam aux Etats-Unis, Nouvel Islam et le blog de Mohamed Sifaoui en France, ainsi que la myriade de sites en Angleterre, en Espagne, en Allemagne et dans les pays scandinaves
A) Des musulmans
B) Des terroristes
C) Des chars de Carnaval
Le Conseil des musulmans d'Allemagne a répondu par le point A) alors que toute personne sensée répondrait par le B) voire C).
Après les amalgames faits par le secrétaire du Conseil musulman de Grande-Bretagne, puis par la Grande Mosquée de Paris au procès de Charlie Hebdo, puis des états musulmans au sujet d'un numéro d'Historia consacré à l'intégrisme, voilà le Conseil central des musulmans d'Allemagne qui voit cette représentation de terroristes islamistes "une provocation pour le plaisir de la provocation", un "prejugé" et un "mensonge".
Le terrorisme ? Une mensonge ? C'est du révisionnisme. Condamnable par la loi.
Le terrorisme ? Un préjugé ? Sur qui ? Les terroristes eux-mêmes ?
Représenter le terrorisme ? Une provocation ? C'est une plaisanterie ?
De qui le Conseil central des musulmans d'Allemagne se moque-t-il ?
A l'évidence, l'élite de l'islam traditionnel est corrompue à l'extrême. Il faut se reporter aux voix lucides qui proposent de faire entrer cette religion dans la modernité. Notamment les amis de la liberté comme ceux de Secular Islam aux Etats-Unis, Nouvel Islam et le blog de Mohamed Sifaoui en France, ainsi que la myriade de sites en Angleterre, en Espagne, en Allemagne et dans les pays scandinaves
Via DRZZ
al-Guardian & the Brotherhood
Over the last couple of days there's been a huge surge of traffic to this blog, thanks in large part to kind words over at LGF and Jihad Watch. A couple of essays restored from the archive have subsequently reached a much wider audience and have apparently struck a chord with readers. With that in mind, I'm posting another offering from the vaults which may also be of interest. First published over at Butterflies & Wheels, the following article outlines how the mainstream organ of the British left has given a sanitised promotional platform to the Muslim Brotherhood.
At the time this piece was written, the Guardian's comment editor was Seumas Milne. When not promoting obnoxious Islamist mouthpieces and calling 9/11 a "self-inflicted wound", Milne felt obliged to praise Stalinism for, among other things, its "genuine idealism." However, as noted over at Harry's Place: "the real source of Milne's disgrace is that he... is responsible for making fascism respectable on the left." Milne was replaced in December by Georgina Henry. It'll be interesting to see whether Ms Henry will steer a saner course and perhaps undo some of the damage done by her predecessor. Watch this space.
"One has to wonder how contempt for pluralism and free speech, along with the theological mandate of arbitrary murder, have become such obvious causes for a 'progressive' newspaper. Granted, the Brotherhood shares with much of the left a hatred of U.S. ‘imperialism’, which is, allegedly, the cause of all evil in the world. Though, again, I’m not sure how these anti-imperial credentials sit with the slogan that still adorns the Brotherhood’s literature and website: 'Islam will dominate the world'..."
In his Guardian columns, Faisal Bodi, a news editor of the Islam Channel TV station, has said many strange and wonderful things. In March, during the Abdul Rahman apostasy case, Bodi championed the orthodox punishment for those who leave the Religion of Peace™ – despite it being rather permanent and involving ritual murder: “It is an understandable response from people who cherish the religious basis of their societies to protect them… from the damage that an inferior worldview can wreak.” In a climate of cultural equivalence, it’s somewhat refreshing to hear a Guardian columnist openly refer to an “inferior worldview.” Though I suspect one might disagree with Bodi’s estimation of which worldview is less enlightened.
Taken in isolation, Bodi’s advocacy of Islam Taliban-style might seem little more than an attempt to be contentious. But in matters of Islamist zeal a remarkable pattern of endorsement runs throughout the Guardian’s commentary. It began, more or less, in January 2004, when the paper published a speech by Osama bin Laden in the form of a regular opinion piece, prompting waggish comments about the al-Qaeda figurehead being “recruited as a Guardian columnist.” Dubious humour aside, at least readers were clear about the author’s political affiliation. However, the Guardian has subsequently published no fewer than 14 opinion pieces by members of, or advocates of, the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical group whose militant ideas directly inspired bin Laden. Curiously, the commentators’ links with the group were not disclosed to readers.
One recent example, a piece by the Brotherhood’s Egyptian vice-president, Khairat el-Shatir, is the first to acknowledge the writer’s membership of this illegal organisation. In Shatir’s article, titled No Need to be Afraid of Us, we were, improbably, told: “The success of the Muslim Brotherhood should not frighten anybody: we respect the rights of all religious and political groups.” Shatir’s reassurances are at odds with comments by the Brotherhood’s president, Muhammad Mehdi Akef, who last year told the Egyptian newspaper al-Arabi: “Islam will invade Europe and America because Islam has a mission.” Speaking in December, Mehdi described the Holocaust as “a myth” and insisted that, when in power, the Brotherhood would not recognise Israel, whose demise he “expected soon.” Mehdi views "martyrdom operations" in Palestine and Iraq as a religious duty and has described all Israelis – including children - as “enemies of Islam.” And yet Guardian readers are assured that the Brotherhood “has long espoused non-violence.”
In January, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusouf invited Ragab Hilal Hamida, a Brotherhood MP and former member of the jihadist group Jama'at al-Takfir Wa al-Hijra, to clarify earlier comments expressing support for bin Laden. Hamida promptly obliged: “'Terrorism' is not a curse when given its true [religious] meaning. From my point of view, bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and al-Zarqawi are not terrorists... I support all their activities.” When asked if such statements might reflect badly on the public perception of Islam, Hamida replied, “Islam does not need improvement of its image.”
The Guardian’s comment editor, Seumas Milne, is apparently unfamiliar with the Brotherhood’s less conciliatory statements to non-Western journalists, including the group’s ambitions for “the widespread implementation of Islam as a way of life; no longer to be sidelined as merely a religion.” Nor, it seems, is Milne aware that the Egyptian Brotherhood’s own website directs young Muslims to a website for children that celebrates jihad, racism and homicidal ‘martyrdom’, albeit with child-friendly cartoons.
It isn’t clear why Milne continues to give a platform to the Brotherhood and its affiliates. Like many other refugees from the Communist Party of Great Britain, Milne may be vicariously titillated by the revolutionary intent of Islamic fundamentalism. Though one has to wonder how contempt for pluralism and free speech along with the theological mandate of arbitrary murder have become such obvious causes for a “progressive” newspaper. Granted, the Brotherhood shares with much of the left a hatred of U.S. ‘imperialism’, which is, allegedly, the cause of all evil in the world. Though, again, I’m not sure how these anti-imperial credentials sit with the slogan that still adorns the Brotherhood’s literature and website: “Islam will dominate the world.”
Guardian readers are, however, spared such troublesome details. It’s not entirely obvious whether these omissions are a result of Milne’s ignorance, or of some deeper sympathy with delusional bigots. Either way, I’m inclined to wonder if the Guardian would publish a regular series of propaganda pieces by members of Stormfront or the BNP, championing the benign ambitions of white supremacist groups, without reference to the writers’ membership of those groups, and without any subsequent challenge or contrary point of view.
Here’s a small taste of the views that go unchallenged in the Guardian’s comment pages. In July 2004, Sohaib Saeed, a spokesman for the Brotherhood affiliate, the Muslim Association of Britain, generously suggested that criticism of Islam could be raised “in appropriate times and places.” Alas, Saeed neglected to specify which times and places might be permissible. We were, however, informed that the Brotherhood's foremost cleric, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is a “shining example of moderation” and asked whom British Muslims should follow if not the Brotherhood’s “esteemed” spiritual leader.
The following month, Anas Altikriti - whose father happens to be the head of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood - warned of “catastrophic consequences” if the right continued to “smear and demonise” Islam. That these “smears” are very often statements of fact passed without comment. And labelling as “rightwing” anyone who asks inconvenient questions is itself a form of demonisation, if only to Guardian readers.
And let’s not forget the Guardian’s former trainee journalist, Dilpazier Aslam, whose youthful exuberance for radical Islam will, of course, be sorely missed. Readers may recall that Aslam is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a supremacist movement banned in Germany and much of the Middle East – chiefly for circulating the kind of xenophobic literature that one would think is at odds with the Guardian’s multicultural ethos. The Hizb newsletter proclaims a “clash of civilisations is not only inevitable but imperative” and in October 2002 the group’s Danish representative, Fadi Abdelatif, was prosecuted for distributing an anti-Semitic leaflet titled And Kill Them Wherever You Find Them.
Many of the Guardian’s non-Muslim contributors also seem determined to sanitise Islamic radicalism for purposes of their own. Last September, Natasha Walter downplayed Hizb’s anti-Semitic hysteria and stressed the group’s “espousal of decent things like women’s rights.” But according to Hizb’s own on-line draft constitution, those “women’s rights” would involve compulsory segregation of the sexes, limited voting and enforced “modesty.” Evidently, Ms Walter was too busy describing Hizb as an “alternative to capitalism” to actually read what these anti-capitalist revolutionaries wish to bring about.
One month later, Madeleine Bunting conducted a bizarre Hello-style interview with the Brotherhood’s moral compass, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In it, she enthused about his “horror of immorality and materialism”, his “independence of mind” and his mastery of the internet. However, Bunting was careful to skip over the actual content of Qaradawi’s website, which propagates the cleric’s “problematic” endorsement of suicide bombing, executing homosexuals and the beating of disobedient women. One wonders if Ms Bunting chose not to question Qaradawi’s beliefs for fear of receiving similar chastisement.
Elsewhere in the Guardian, Milne has argued that extremists should be given a voice within the media, rather than being driven underground. Well, a public testing of ideas is one of the virtues of democracy, and even the most poisonous views can be countered with contrary facts and a healthy dose of ridicule. But a public testing of Islamist ideology is precisely what is missing from the left-leaning press and from the Guardian in particular. What we see instead is an unchallenged platform for those who don’t wish their ideas to be tested at all.
This unilateral concession and failure of courage should concern everyone, irrespective of their politics and religion. As Islamic zealots invariably claim to speak on behalf of “all Muslims”, it’s imperative that their beliefs are challenged unapologetically. Yet what we find in the Guardian is a non-debate between advocates of the Brotherhood like Azzam Tamimi, who defends suicide bombing as a measure of pious “desperation”, and those, like Iqbal Sacranie and Karen Armstrong, who disingenuously deny terrorism has anything to do with conceptions of Islam and the teachings of its prophet.
Unfortunately, this denial of reality sidelines Muslim reformers and serves the cause of extremists. Whether through ignorance or embarrassment, moderate believers say 'Oh, terrorism is nothing to do with Islam.' Then the jihadists prove them wrong by pointing out the relevant verses from the Qur’an and Sunnah, using Muhammad’s own instructions and example as their mandate. Consequently, it is the jihadists who gain kudos as more knowledgeable and "authentic." As Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote in her book, The Caged Virgin: “The central figure in this struggle is not bin Laden… or Sayyid Qutb, but Muhammad.”
Any realistic response to the Brotherhood and its affiliates must include a frank discussion of the theology from which they claim legitimacy. Yet the prevailing climate remains one of deference, evasion and blatant double standards. Islamists may well react to any questioning of their beliefs with umbrage, threats or howls of impropriety. But what is more troubling is that the mainstream organ of the British left is giving a preferential platform to fascistic ideas, shielded from any meaningful opposition or factual correction, at least in its print form. Perhaps this bias and timidity is part of an attempt by the Guardian to siphon readers from Q News or the Muslim Weekly. But a fear of offending any strand of Muslim opinion – no matter how bigoted and grievous it may be - has left the Guardian critically hamstrung on a defining issue of our time.
© David Thompson 2007 http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2007/02/alguardian_the_.html
A version of this piece was published by Butterflies & Wheels, July 24, 2006
With thanks to the Daily Ablution and Harry’s Place for archived links
Brave New World
BELGIQUE Un député polonais du Parlement Européen a publié une brochure antisémite subventionnée par l'UE. (merci à capdevielle)
Vous voulez tout savoir sur la «civilisation juive» ? Sur les «différences biologiques» entre les Juifs et les «gentils» ? Sur l'impossibilité de cohabiter avec la «civilisation juive» en Europe ? Lisez le petit livre Civilisations at War in Europe, que vient de publier, avec les fonds du Parlement de Strasbourg, le député européen Maciej Giertych, l'un des leaders de la Ligue des familles polonaises (LPR, non-inscrits).
Logo du Parlement. Ce chef-d'oeuvre d'antisémitisme a été présenté, mercredi, à Strasbourg, par son auteur. La lecture de cet opuscule où figure le logo du Parlement, obligatoire pour toutes les publications qu'il finance ramène directement à l'avant-guerre. Maciej Giertych dont le fils Roman, président de la LPR, est vice-Premier ministre du gouvernement polonais explique comment les Juifs, qui n'ont pas de caractères raciaux distinctifs (on peut les confondre avec des Polonais, souligne au passage l'auteur), passent d'un pays à l'autre et adoptent la langue locale tout en refusant de se fondre dans le pays d'accueil. Le «peuple élu» préfère rester entre lui, dans des «ghettos» : «Ils préfèrent volontairement vivre séparés des communautés qui les entourent. Ils se gouvernent eux-mêmes selon leurs propres règles et prennent garde de maintenir une séparation spatiale. Ils forment eux-mêmes des ghettos [...]. Seul Hitler a créé le concept de séparation forcée et de ghettos fermés d'où les Juifs n'avaient pas le droit de partir.»
«Eux» et «nous». Mieux : si les Juifs ne sont pas une race, «le fait qu'ils restent entre eux, qu'ils aient leur propre civilisation, qu'ils vivent séparément, a eu pour résultat qu'ils ont développé des différences biologiques». Bref, on ne peut pas les reconnaître, mais en faisant un petit effort, on peut y arriver. Giertych, pour bien nous faire comprendre que les Juifs sont prêts à trahir leur pays, explique que, lors des guerres, les Juifs sont présents dans les deux camps. Mais le Juif qui appartient au camp des vainqueurs veille à ce que le Juif appartenant au camp des vaincus soit bien traité. «C'est un mode de survie qu'ils ont développé en vivant parmi les gentils.» Les Juifs s'aident entre eux parce qu'ils sont juifs, alors que «nous», les chrétiens, nous nous battons pour nos valeurs, clame-t-il. «Cela démontre qu'il n'y a pas d'entente possible entre ces civilisations.»
Cette littérature d'une autre époque a laissé sans voix le président du Parlement européen, le chrétien-démocrate allemand, Hans-Gert Pöttering. «Il n'y a pas de censure a priori des publications éditées par les députés européens», reconnaît-on dans son entourage. Certes, «c'est contraire aux valeurs de l'Europe», mais il n'est pas sûr que le Parlement puisse faire quelque chose...
Vous voulez tout savoir sur la «civilisation juive» ? Sur les «différences biologiques» entre les Juifs et les «gentils» ? Sur l'impossibilité de cohabiter avec la «civilisation juive» en Europe ? Lisez le petit livre Civilisations at War in Europe, que vient de publier, avec les fonds du Parlement de Strasbourg, le député européen Maciej Giertych, l'un des leaders de la Ligue des familles polonaises (LPR, non-inscrits).
Logo du Parlement. Ce chef-d'oeuvre d'antisémitisme a été présenté, mercredi, à Strasbourg, par son auteur. La lecture de cet opuscule où figure le logo du Parlement, obligatoire pour toutes les publications qu'il finance ramène directement à l'avant-guerre. Maciej Giertych dont le fils Roman, président de la LPR, est vice-Premier ministre du gouvernement polonais explique comment les Juifs, qui n'ont pas de caractères raciaux distinctifs (on peut les confondre avec des Polonais, souligne au passage l'auteur), passent d'un pays à l'autre et adoptent la langue locale tout en refusant de se fondre dans le pays d'accueil. Le «peuple élu» préfère rester entre lui, dans des «ghettos» : «Ils préfèrent volontairement vivre séparés des communautés qui les entourent. Ils se gouvernent eux-mêmes selon leurs propres règles et prennent garde de maintenir une séparation spatiale. Ils forment eux-mêmes des ghettos [...]. Seul Hitler a créé le concept de séparation forcée et de ghettos fermés d'où les Juifs n'avaient pas le droit de partir.»
«Eux» et «nous». Mieux : si les Juifs ne sont pas une race, «le fait qu'ils restent entre eux, qu'ils aient leur propre civilisation, qu'ils vivent séparément, a eu pour résultat qu'ils ont développé des différences biologiques». Bref, on ne peut pas les reconnaître, mais en faisant un petit effort, on peut y arriver. Giertych, pour bien nous faire comprendre que les Juifs sont prêts à trahir leur pays, explique que, lors des guerres, les Juifs sont présents dans les deux camps. Mais le Juif qui appartient au camp des vainqueurs veille à ce que le Juif appartenant au camp des vaincus soit bien traité. «C'est un mode de survie qu'ils ont développé en vivant parmi les gentils.» Les Juifs s'aident entre eux parce qu'ils sont juifs, alors que «nous», les chrétiens, nous nous battons pour nos valeurs, clame-t-il. «Cela démontre qu'il n'y a pas d'entente possible entre ces civilisations.»
Cette littérature d'une autre époque a laissé sans voix le président du Parlement européen, le chrétien-démocrate allemand, Hans-Gert Pöttering. «Il n'y a pas de censure a priori des publications éditées par les députés européens», reconnaît-on dans son entourage. Certes, «c'est contraire aux valeurs de l'Europe», mais il n'est pas sûr que le Parlement puisse faire quelque chose...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Who To Believe? France Or Those Lying Jews?
Je tiens à dire clairement qu'il n'y a pas de poussée d'antisémitisme en France, que rien ne permet d'étayer ces affirmations.
[I make a point of saying clearly, there is no surge of anti-semitism in France, that nothing supports these assertions.]
Jack,president of Jew-friendly France,explaining why news reports, police blotters, and French Jews cannot be believed
February 27, 2002 (People's Daily Online)
By the end of the year France saw a rise in anti-Semitic violence and threats from 219 in 2001 to 936 in 2002. Imagine had there been a surge.
Non, la France n'est pas un pays antisémite. ...
Non, la France n'est pas un pays antisémite. ...
La France n'accepte pas l'antisémitisme ;
elle le combat. Mais elle n'accepte pas non plus les accusations qui touchent à son honneur.
[No, France is not an anti-Semitic country. ... France does not accept anti-Semiticism; she fights it. But neither does she accept charges that wound her honor.]
Jack,president of anti-Semite-free France,explaining how France while battling French anti-Semitism non-stop,as a point of honor, cannot acknowledge claims of anti-Semiticsm in France
[No, France is not an anti-Semitic country. ... France does not accept anti-Semiticism; she fights it. But neither does she accept charges that wound her honor.]
Jack,president of anti-Semite-free France,explaining how France while battling French anti-Semitism non-stop,as a point of honor, cannot acknowledge claims of anti-Semiticsm in France
PALAIS DE L'ÉLYSEE February 13, 2004 (Élysée/Yedioth Aharonoth)
The French head of state insists that France is not anti-Semtic.*
The French head of state insists that France is not anti-Semtic.*
France is a super special place where problems just melt away. Or go away.
So what's with these sensitive plants, the Jews?
FRENCH JEWS FEEL 'PANDEMIC OF ANTI-SEMITISM'
TEL AVIV February 12, 2007 (AFP) -
FRENCH JEWS FEEL 'PANDEMIC OF ANTI-SEMITISM'
TEL AVIV February 12, 2007 (AFP) -
The archbishop of Paris and head of the Roman Catholic Church in France, Andre Vingt-Trois, said Monday that French Jews feel they are enduring a "pandemic of anti-Semitism" on his first visit to Israel.
"The Jewish community feel they are living through a pandemic of anti-Semitism,"
he told AFP, clarifying comments made earlier at a news conference in Tel Aviv with Israeli Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog.
"It is a feeling felt by the Jewish community," he added.
A feeling felt. And a good deal more, your Holiness.
To grasp what France does not about the nature of French anti-Semitism, we recommend revisiting Christopher Caldwell's June 2002 article, Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie.
What is surprising and confusing in all of this is that the "new antisemitism" in France is a phenomenon of the left. It has practically nothing to do with Le Pen.
"It is a feeling felt by the Jewish community," he added.
A feeling felt. And a good deal more, your Holiness.
To grasp what France does not about the nature of French anti-Semitism, we recommend revisiting Christopher Caldwell's June 2002 article, Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie.
What is surprising and confusing in all of this is that the "new antisemitism" in France is a phenomenon of the left. It has practically nothing to do with Le Pen.
In fact, its most dangerous practitioners are to be found among the very crowds that thronged the streets to protest him.
... "Traditionally," Alain Finkielkraut wrote in the Jewish monthly L’Arche, "antisemites are those French who worship their identity and love one another against the Jews.
... "Traditionally," Alain Finkielkraut wrote in the Jewish monthly L’Arche, "antisemites are those French who worship their identity and love one another against the Jews.
Contemporary antisemitism involves French people who don’t like themselves, who have a post-national perspective, who are shedding their 'Frenchness', the better to identify with the poor of the world.
They use Israel to place the Jews in the camp of the oppressors. You have a sort of league between antisemitic Islamism and self-disparagement."
... Elisabeth Schemla, a longtime editor at France’s centre-left opinion weekly Le Nouvel Observateur says, "The antisemitism of the left is more dangerous than that of the right.
... Elisabeth Schemla, a longtime editor at France’s centre-left opinion weekly Le Nouvel Observateur says, "The antisemitism of the left is more dangerous than that of the right.
They have power in the media, the universities, the associations, the political class."
Worth the full read.
Then there is this telling anecdote from Carole Raphaelle Davis:
Sadly, but not surprisingly, if one speaks in support of Israel at French dinner parties, one is shouted down.
Worth the full read.
Then there is this telling anecdote from Carole Raphaelle Davis:
Sadly, but not surprisingly, if one speaks in support of Israel at French dinner parties, one is shouted down.
Even at my own dinner table, when I told a guest of my fears about living in Paris in such a climate of anti-Semitism, he insisted,
"There is no anti-Semitism in France, don’t be ridiculous."
When I told him about everything I had read about the rising tide of anti-Jewish hatred, he told me I was being "influenced by the Jew lobby" and that whatever I was reading was "Jewish propaganda."
When I told him that among other papers, I was reading The New York Times, he said, "You know, The New York Times is a Jewish paper and Jews control all the media."
He said it with a smile, even knowing that I am a Jew. What made his comments especially chilling is that he is on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris.**
No anti-Semites on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris. And as goes the board of ed, so goes another French generation of anti-Semites.
When I told him that among other papers, I was reading The New York Times, he said, "You know, The New York Times is a Jewish paper and Jews control all the media."
He said it with a smile, even knowing that I am a Jew. What made his comments especially chilling is that he is on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris.**
No anti-Semites on the Catholic Board of Education of Paris. And as goes the board of ed, so goes another French generation of anti-Semites.
* Elsewhere Jack seriously argued that reports of French anti-Semiticism are a Jewish media plot (ninth item). It's those crazy Jews!
Via Pave France
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Must-See TV
The Secular Islam Summit will be held in St. Petersburg, Fla., on March 4-5. Speakers include notable experts Ibn Warraq, Walid Phares, Amir Taheri, Nonie Darwish, and Irshad Manji, among many others. From the press release:
Where are the secular voices of the Muslim world? Until now, they have been largely stifled and silenced. Now, bold critics of orthodoxy are calling for sweeping reforms from inside Muslim societies. With the intent of catalyzing a global movement for reason, humanist values, and freedom of conscience, delegates from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Bangladesh will assemble March 4-5 in St. Petersburg, Florida for an unprecedented Secular Islam Summit (see http://www.secularislam.org/blog/SI_Blog.php).
According the chair of the meeting, the rationalist critic of Islam and acclaimed author Ibn Warraq, "What we need now is an Age of Enlightenment in the Islamic world, of the Islamic mind-set or worldview. Without critical examination of Islam, it will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth."
Said one summit delegate, Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today, "This summit is proof positive that reform-minded Muslims are creating a movement. We no longer exist in isolation. Those who hate our message of free thought in Islam will keep trying to pick us off individually, but collectively we're not going anywhere except forward."
Glenn Beck along with others in the media will be covering the conference, which is being held in conjunction with The Intelligence Summit.
Hats off to our friend Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi who has helped organize this important event.
Where are the secular voices of the Muslim world? Until now, they have been largely stifled and silenced. Now, bold critics of orthodoxy are calling for sweeping reforms from inside Muslim societies. With the intent of catalyzing a global movement for reason, humanist values, and freedom of conscience, delegates from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Bangladesh will assemble March 4-5 in St. Petersburg, Florida for an unprecedented Secular Islam Summit (see http://www.secularislam.org/blog/SI_Blog.php).
According the chair of the meeting, the rationalist critic of Islam and acclaimed author Ibn Warraq, "What we need now is an Age of Enlightenment in the Islamic world, of the Islamic mind-set or worldview. Without critical examination of Islam, it will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth."
Said one summit delegate, Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today, "This summit is proof positive that reform-minded Muslims are creating a movement. We no longer exist in isolation. Those who hate our message of free thought in Islam will keep trying to pick us off individually, but collectively we're not going anywhere except forward."
Glenn Beck along with others in the media will be covering the conference, which is being held in conjunction with The Intelligence Summit.
Hats off to our friend Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi who has helped organize this important event.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
science-fiction française...
Denis Guiot, directeur de la collection de science-fiction jeunesse “Autres Mondes” des éditions Mango - racheté par Fleurus en juin 2003 - se plaint de la non-publication d’un roman antichrétien par la direction de Fleurus.
Il menace de démissioner...
Le roman de propagande antichrétienne “Les Orphelins de Naja” de Nathalie Le Gendre, aurait pour thème central la pédophilie au sein d’une église du futur (sic).
Le roman de propagande antichrétienne “Les Orphelins de Naja” de Nathalie Le Gendre, aurait pour thème central la pédophilie au sein d’une église du futur (sic).
Quelle imagination débordante!.
Il ne faut pas s’étonner si personne, personne dans le monde ne lit de science-fiction française (excepté celle du métaprophète)
Vous savez ce qu’est la science fiction française.
Du Lyssenkisme littéraire. Stupide, chiant, et déprimant.
Une production dont la seule valeur réside dans son utilité pour la dictature social-démocrate, soit la justification de l’idéologie officielle.
Que Denis Guiot et Nathalie Le Gendre prenne donc leur liberté et aille publier ce brillant ouvrage de subversion bobogauchiste chez une autre maison d’édition, Du genre “Réseau Voltaire Imprimerie” ou encore “Editions Libre pensée“.
Que Denis Guiot et Nathalie Le Gendre prenne donc leur liberté et aille publier ce brillant ouvrage de subversion bobogauchiste chez une autre maison d’édition, Du genre “Réseau Voltaire Imprimerie” ou encore “Editions Libre pensée“.
LFN :
Considérerez-vous toujours vos romans comme des moyens de véhiculer un peu d’humanité, ou en tout cas de prévenir contre les dangers que l’Homme est capable de faire subir à l’Homme ?
Nathalie Le Gendre :
Sans hésitation, oui. L’Homme est stupide et a la mémoire bien courte ! Il suffit de prendre l’exemple des guerres ou des génocides… Mais encore une fois, ce n’est pas moi qui changerais la face du monde uniquement en quelques pages.
LFN :
Vous utilisez des mondes où s’opposent une élite et des “inférieurs”. Des envies de dénonciations ?Nathalie Le Gendre : Malheureusement, ces mondes ne sont pas si loin du nôtre. Donc, oui, une façon de dénoncer notre société où des fossés profonds se creusent.
Sursinge Babile
Entretien avec Nathalie Le Gendre, Le Fantastique
(phrases après phrases, elle enfile idées reçues sur idées reçues, conformisme après conformise, en pensant visiblement relever de la plus haute originalité!..De la pure merde en boîte.)
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Meme hors de France la gauche nous enmerde!!
Mission accomplie pour Dominique Strauss Kahn. L’ancien ministre de l’Economie, chargé par Ségolène Royal d’un rapport sur la fiscalité, a remis vendredi matin ses conclusions. Epaulé par le député Didier Migaud et le sénateur François Marc, le candidat malheureux à l’investiture socialiste préconise la création d’un “impôt citoyen” payé par tout Français établi à l’étranger et ne payant pas d’impôt en France. Objectif du PS : lutter “contre cette manière de se désintéresser de ce qu’est la France quand on est français”. Une manière de répondre à la polémique lancée par le départ du chanteur Johnny Hallyday en Suisse pour des raisons fiscales. Précision samedi, cette “contribution citoyenne” ne toucherait qu’autour de 50.000 expatriés, selon DSK.
C’est quand même marrant cette manière que les socialistes ont de vouloir entraîner tout le monde de force dans la ruine qui est le résultat invariable de leur répugnante idéologie collectiviste.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Are you blocked out of the internet ?
Use these proxies
Certain countries don't allow surfers to access some web sites which according to them are deemed to be inappropriate. And so is the case is some offices, colleges & universities also. Here is an exhaustive list of proxies, which let you surf any web site anonymously. Its Norman Roberts way of opening the w.w.w to all its earth citizens without the interference of big brother.
thanks to:[crooked brains]
Docteur Chirac et Sidi Jacques
L’heure est au bilan, et il est sévère pour Jacques Chirac. Dans un excellent livre, Chirac d’Arabie, Eric Aeschimann et Christophe Boltanski, journalistes à Libération, nous livrent le portrait d’un chef d’Etat dont l’ambivalence aura largement contribué à l’échec de sa grande politique arabe...
a lire sur le tres bon:
http://www.bakchich.info/article475.html
a lire sur le tres bon:
http://www.bakchich.info/article475.html
La France ! Réveillez ! Votez anti-américain !
The broadsheet reads:
See how this man loves France when away!
With Sarkozy, France will no longer be arrogant abroad…
but at home, he is as much as ever
Beginning May 6, France after L'UMP
Meet with GWB, ho! You don't love France.
They meet with the forces for good in the world [Brief pause.] like Ali Ammar.
La traîtrise de la France
Par Guy Millière, http://www.menapress.com/, 31 janvier 2007
David Pryce-Jones, rédacteur au magazine américain National Review, avait publié, il y a quelques mois, dans la revue Commentary, un article remarquablement documenté sur la diplomatie française et sur l’antisémitisme et les rêves arabes qui l’habitent depuis toujours, ainsi que sur les conséquences qui en découlent jusqu’à ce jour. Il vient de donner une suite à son article, sous la forme d’un livre éminent, publié aux Etats-Unis : « Betrayal : France, the Arabs, and the Jews » [1].
Pryce-Jones démontre comment, depuis deux siècles, la diplomatie française est aux mains d’une sorte de clan qui fonctionne par cooptation et qui évolue dans un univers mental où se mêlent une mégalomanie, une idée boursouflée de la « grandeur de la France » et de sa « mission civilisatrice », une condescendance antiaméricaine, un antisémitisme qui n’attend jamais très longtemps pour dire son nom, et l’idée que, pour maintenir sa « grandeur », la France doit s’affirmer en tant que « puissance musulmane ».
La montée du sionisme et l’avancée vers la création de l’Etat d’Israël va donner à l’ensemble ainsi constitué des dimensions carrément pathologiques.
Jusqu’à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, la France a tenté de représenter la « puissance protectrice » des chrétiens du Proche-Orient et l’interlocuteur privilégié des autorités islamiques.
Jusqu’à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, la France a tenté de représenter la « puissance protectrice » des chrétiens du Proche-Orient et l’interlocuteur privilégié des autorités islamiques.
A partir de la Première Guerre Mondiale, l’objectif a été de s’associer aussi étroitement que possible avec le nationalisme arabe et de favoriser sa cristallisation. Quand, après l’épisode pétainiste et l’indépendance que la France dut concéder au Liban, puis à la Syrie, il apparut impossible de s’opposer à la création d’Israël, une période de coopération franco-israélienne s’ouvrit, dictée par des considérations de circonstances et la situation en Algérie, mais sans que les préjugés antijuifs les plus immondes ne disparaissent pour autant.
Dès le retour du général de Gaulle au pouvoir, la coopération cessa, l’hostilité recouvra pleinement sa place, la « politique arabe de la France » reprit et se déploya jusqu’aujourd’hui. Israël fut soumise à un embargo de toute livraison d’armes et à une interruption de toute coopération militaire.
Dès le retour du général de Gaulle au pouvoir, la coopération cessa, l’hostilité recouvra pleinement sa place, la « politique arabe de la France » reprit et se déploya jusqu’aujourd’hui. Israël fut soumise à un embargo de toute livraison d’armes et à une interruption de toute coopération militaire.
Les liens avec le nationalisme arabe s’intensifièrent sans que la France ne fût jamais regardante sur la violence ou les penchants génocidaires dont ce nationalisme pouvait se faire porteur. Le discours du général sur le « peuple dominateur et sûr de lui » ouvrit, comme le nota Raymond Aron à l’époque, « une nouvelle ère de l’histoire de l’antisémitisme ».
Ce discours trouva divers prolongements, dont les propos de l’été 2006 sur les réactions « disproportionnées » d’Israël aux actions du Hezbollah ou du terrorisme palestinien et les paroles d’Alliot-Marie sur les provocations intolérables par Tsahal contre la souveraineté du Liban ne sont que les plus récentes illustrations.
La France, au cours des quarante dernières années, a ainsi soutenu Hafez El-Assad, Saddam Hussein et le colonel Khadafi, et ne s’est jamais brouillée avec les uns ou les autres, que lorsque ses intérêts financiers étaient en jeu et qu’il n’y avait strictement plus d’autre issue. Elle a joué un rôle considérable dans la légitimation internationale d’Arafat, comme elle a favorisé l’arrivée au pouvoir de Khomeiny en Iran.
La France, au cours des quarante dernières années, a ainsi soutenu Hafez El-Assad, Saddam Hussein et le colonel Khadafi, et ne s’est jamais brouillée avec les uns ou les autres, que lorsque ses intérêts financiers étaient en jeu et qu’il n’y avait strictement plus d’autre issue. Elle a joué un rôle considérable dans la légitimation internationale d’Arafat, comme elle a favorisé l’arrivée au pouvoir de Khomeiny en Iran.
Elle a accueilli sur son sol des terroristes arabes et islamistes de divers ordres et obédiences, en fermant le plus souvent les yeux sur leurs actions et leurs capacités de nuisance.
Elle a, en parallèle, mené les politiques de rapprochement que Bat Ye’or a décrites sous le nom d’ « Eurabia » et est devenue, en Europe, la principale terre d’accueil et d’installation de populations musulmanes, le pays le plus ouvert à une implantation de la culture arabe et l’interlocuteur privilégié des dirigeants arabes.
Là où il y a, outre la mégalomanie, du cynisme, de la corruption, un mépris certain de l’être humain et peu de choses qui justifieraient la prétention de la France à être le « pays des droits de l’homme », les résultats ne peuvent qu’apparaître fort peu glorieux, et même, pour tout dire, saumâtres.
La France n’a pu sauver ni Saddam Hussein ni son régime, mais elle a été suffisamment nuisible pour que le changement de régime en Irak ne s’opère pas de façon optimale, que l’action américaine soit entravée, que l’Occident et l’Europe soient divisés, et que cette division apparaisse aux yeux du reste du monde comme une marque de faiblesse.
Certes, le gouvernement français est en froid avec le régime Assad en Syrie, mais il a été à la pointe, dans ses discours et ses actes, d’apaisement envers le régime des mollahs en Iran et de sa tentative de se doter de l’arme nucléaire, avec les finalités avouées que l’on sait.
Elle a, en parallèle, mené les politiques de rapprochement que Bat Ye’or a décrites sous le nom d’ « Eurabia » et est devenue, en Europe, la principale terre d’accueil et d’installation de populations musulmanes, le pays le plus ouvert à une implantation de la culture arabe et l’interlocuteur privilégié des dirigeants arabes.
Là où il y a, outre la mégalomanie, du cynisme, de la corruption, un mépris certain de l’être humain et peu de choses qui justifieraient la prétention de la France à être le « pays des droits de l’homme », les résultats ne peuvent qu’apparaître fort peu glorieux, et même, pour tout dire, saumâtres.
La France n’a pu sauver ni Saddam Hussein ni son régime, mais elle a été suffisamment nuisible pour que le changement de régime en Irak ne s’opère pas de façon optimale, que l’action américaine soit entravée, que l’Occident et l’Europe soient divisés, et que cette division apparaisse aux yeux du reste du monde comme une marque de faiblesse.
Certes, le gouvernement français est en froid avec le régime Assad en Syrie, mais il a été à la pointe, dans ses discours et ses actes, d’apaisement envers le régime des mollahs en Iran et de sa tentative de se doter de l’arme nucléaire, avec les finalités avouées que l’on sait.
La France se positionne de facto en protectrice du Hezbollah et de ses installations militaires au Liban.
Elle est, au sein de l’Europe, le fer de lance du soutien aux instances palestiniennes, et de la pusillanimité européenne vis-à-vis des massacres au Darfour et des menées islamistes en Somalie.
La France paie ses attitudes troubles dans le monde musulman sur son propre sol.
La France paie ses attitudes troubles dans le monde musulman sur son propre sol.
Une proportion notable des populations musulmanes installées en France continue à souffrir du racisme, de l’exclusion, de la marginalisation et se trouve en même temps incitée à s’identifier avec les « résistants » palestiniens ou irakiens, bien davantage qu’avec les valeurs de la civilisation occidentale.
Les zones de non droit et de guerre civile froide persistent.
Les autorités s’inquiètent sporadiquement de l’antisémitisme, feignant de ne pas s’apercevoir qu’elles ont tout fait ou presque pour qu’il s’installe, pour que le pays devienne l’otage de tout un ensemble de décisions dont nul ne semble avoir discerné qu’elle pouvaient finir par constituer un engrenage délétère.
Si Pryce-Jones ne propose pas de remèdes, il nous présente un diagnostic de l’étendue et de la profondeur du mal.
Si Pryce-Jones ne propose pas de remèdes, il nous présente un diagnostic de l’étendue et de la profondeur du mal.
Pendant ce temps, à Paris, on disserte sur l’athéisme ou la volonté masochiste des Français de se repentir et de s’accuser de tout.
On aborde l’islam dans l’abstrait.
On glose sur la relance d’un « processus de paix » où, c’est Israël, bien sûr, qui devrait faire toujours davantage de concessions.
On considère que la situation en Irak aurait été bien meilleure si l’on avait laissé Saddam Hussein tranquille.
Un dictateur avec qui on peut s’entendre, une « stabilité » qui condamne à la misère des millions de gens mais qui permet de signer de lucratifs contrats. Si cette « stabilité » menace un pays dont on pense qu’il n’est qu’une « parenthèse de l’histoire », ce n’est pas grave.
Des diplomates du Quai d’Orsay vous le diraient aisément :
les Arabes sont faits pour la dictature, les diplomates français sont faits pour s’entendre avec les dictateurs, et les parenthèses sont faites pour être refermées.
Ce que le Quai d’Orsay ne dit pas, c’est si la dignité de la France, et la France tout court, ont des chances de survivre longtemps en ces conditions.
J’aurais tendance à en douter. Nous saurons de toutes façons, très bientôt, si un changement de cap est encore possible.
Note :
[1] David Pryce-Jones : Betrayal :
Note :
[1] David Pryce-Jones : Betrayal :
France, the Arabs, and the Jews, Encounter Books, 2006, 185 p.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Peace at last
Hey, go figure. I’m as surprised as you are. After the love fest at the Qaaba,
I fully expected Hamas and Fatah to recognize Israel, put aside their weapons, dismantle the propaganda apparati, and start building a viable society for their children.
Silly me. New Palestinian govt won’t recognize Israel: Hamas.
I fully expected Hamas and Fatah to recognize Israel, put aside their weapons, dismantle the propaganda apparati, and start building a viable society for their children.
Silly me. New Palestinian govt won’t recognize Israel: Hamas.
Friday, February 09, 2007
Who Goes There
Lebanese army troops fired Wednesday on Israeli troops hunting for explosives along the Israel-Lebanon border, Lebanese army and Israeli military sources said. ...
Lebanese army sources said their troops fired at an Israeli bulldozer that had crossed the Blue Line into Lebanese territory in Maroun a-Rus about 10:30 p.m. There was an exchange of fire, they said, but there were no casualties on the Lebanese side.
The situation on the border is "very tense," the Lebanese sources said.
So the Israelis are trying to protect themselves from Hezbollah only to be fired at by the Lebanese army. Meanwhile, another report indicates that there are border violations that the Lebanese army doesn't mind. From FOX News: Israeli Official: Foreign Sources Arming Hezbollah, Hamas at Alarming Rate.
Hezbollah is presently receiving a "constant stream of armaments" from Syria, Iran and other foreign sources, senior Israeli officials said Tuesday, and the terror group is "preparing for violence" in an increasingly radicalized Middle East.
"They are getting all kinds of rockets, advanced anti-tank missiles, command-and-control systems, training, finance," an Israeli official said. Asked if the group has fully reconstituted back to where it was before the war in terms of military capability, the official said: "They are certainly on their way." ...
Enabling Hezbollah's rearmament, the official said, is the "open border" Lebanon shares with Syria, and the lack of "real teeth for enforcement" in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, which established a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hezbollah war last August.
Lebanese army sources said their troops fired at an Israeli bulldozer that had crossed the Blue Line into Lebanese territory in Maroun a-Rus about 10:30 p.m. There was an exchange of fire, they said, but there were no casualties on the Lebanese side.
The situation on the border is "very tense," the Lebanese sources said.
So the Israelis are trying to protect themselves from Hezbollah only to be fired at by the Lebanese army. Meanwhile, another report indicates that there are border violations that the Lebanese army doesn't mind. From FOX News: Israeli Official: Foreign Sources Arming Hezbollah, Hamas at Alarming Rate.
Hezbollah is presently receiving a "constant stream of armaments" from Syria, Iran and other foreign sources, senior Israeli officials said Tuesday, and the terror group is "preparing for violence" in an increasingly radicalized Middle East.
"They are getting all kinds of rockets, advanced anti-tank missiles, command-and-control systems, training, finance," an Israeli official said. Asked if the group has fully reconstituted back to where it was before the war in terms of military capability, the official said: "They are certainly on their way." ...
Enabling Hezbollah's rearmament, the official said, is the "open border" Lebanon shares with Syria, and the lack of "real teeth for enforcement" in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, which established a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hezbollah war last August.
Polite Request...
Masked Palestinian militants from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades ask a shop keeper to close his store as part of a general strike to protest against Israeli excavations near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the West Bank city of Hebron February 7, 2007. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK)
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Media Francais...
the post below (Sego/CPE) was put online 5 minutes ago on LE MONDE's Forum,
guess what,
it has just been removed...
guess what,
it has just been removed...
Pour Ségolène Royal, les émeutes de 2005 auraient pour cause le CPE
Le journal Asharq Alawsat, basé à Londres et propriété de Salman bin Abdul Aziz ( un des frères du Roi d'Arabie Saoudite et proche des Frères Musulmans), a publié un entretien explosif avec Ségolène Royal. L'intégralité de cette discussion est disponible ici.
Figurez-vous que Ségolène Royal vient une fois encore d'en pondre un bien bonne:
en effet, selon elle, le CPE a été le facteur déclenchant des émeutes de 2005.
en effet, selon elle, le CPE a été le facteur déclenchant des émeutes de 2005.
Dominique de Villepin ayant décidé, en grand solitaire, de proposer cette mesure...
Journaliste:
Last year, there were riots in France.
Can you tell us more about these riots?
Why did they take place?
Segolene Royal:
I think that it is a rebellion from the young people who cannot stand that the Republic does not integrate them.
This rebellion started also from a refusal of a government reform.
The right wing government tried to impose a reform, the "C.P.E." which was an insecure working contract, specifically for the young people.
The youth who have already suffered from unemployment would not accept their position getting worse.
Evidemment, la presse hexagonale n'en parle pas...
Mais poussons le raisonnement un peu plus loin:
Il devient désormais clair qu'une des seules chances pour que cette dame soit élue a la Presidence de la République est celle d'un scénario a l'espagnol, les salafistes algériens jouant le triste rôle du matador!
The lethal al-Aqsa plot hoax
A century-long campaign of unfounded claims of a Jewish 'plot' against the mosque continues unabated
As the Israel Antiquities Authority begins construction work at the Mugrabi Gate in Jerusalem in order to make the area structurally sound and safe for visitors, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on Muslims "to defend the al-Aqsa Mosque." Hamas has also charged Israel with "demolishing parts of the Aqsa mosque" on its website.
Although the works are not taking place on the Temple Mount , the Hamas website accused "the Israeli occupation government of conspiring to finally destroy the Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest Muslim shrine world-wide, and to install the alleged Third Temple on its ruins."
"The Aqsa Mosque is in real danger and needs Muslim support to defend and spare it the rancorous Israeli conspiracies", Palestinian Chief Justice Tayseer al-Tamimi declared, calling on Muslim masses to assemble to "protect" the site.
And the Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, claims to have "documents and photos" proving that "the demolition of the pathway and the two rooms under the Buraq Mosque will expose both the Aqsa Mosque and Buraq Mosque inside Al-Haram Al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to extreme danger as Israeli settlers will easily access both of them," the Hamas website added on Tuesday.
Calls have been issued for Palestinians to "unite their guns in defense of al-Aqsa," while the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have threatened terrorist attacks if the work continue.
Certainly, small, far-Right fringe groups exist within Israel that have set their sights on the mosque, and on rebuilding the Temple using physical force - but the State of Israel has devoted considerable resources of its security arms to keeping such extreme elements in check.
Why do Palestinian leaders continue to insist that the al-Aqsa mosque is "in danger?" The answer may lie in the shiny gold covering of the Dome of the Rock itself.
A history of false charges
Since the 1920s, Palestinian leaders have used the site as a rallying cry to wage war against the Jewish presence in Israel, and to try and gain support from Muslims abroad. The Palestinian prime minister today is continuing a 90-year tradition of incitement, which began with the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
Husseini, who is widely seen as the father of Palestinian nationalism, used the al-Nabi festival, which commemorates the defeat of the Crusaders, and conquest of Jerusalem by the Islamic general Sala'ah al-Din, to instigate anti-Jewish riots in April 1920, even before he became a mufti. His message was simple: Jews are the new Crusaders, and Islam must re-invade Jerusalem.
After being elected mufti (through dubious strong-arm tactics, according to some sources,) and becoming head of the Supreme Muslim Council, Haj Amin embarked on an ambitious project of restoring the al-Haram (Dome of the Rock) and the al-Sharif (al-Aqsa Mosque).
By doing so, Haj Amin hoped to draw the attention of millions of Muslims to the Palestinian cause, and to gain material and financial support so that he could fight the growing Zionist Jewish community in Israel.
Members of the Islamic Council traveled around Muslim countries in the 1920s to gain support, with one delegation to Mecca stating: "The Islamic Palestine Nation, which has been guarding al-Aqsa and (the) Holy Rock ever since 1300 years, declares to the Muslim world that the Holy Places are in great danger on account of the horrible Zionist aggressions."
Like clockwork
These missions resulted in a successful fund-raising drive, which led to the gold covering of the Dome of the Rock.
One British official in Mandatory Palestine noted at the time a "remarkable psychological change..." and a "stirring of a new feeling in the Muslims of this country" following the restoration.
Haj Amin also had photos with the Star of David superimposed on the Dome of the Rock distributed widely, in order to convince Muslims of a "Jewish plot" against the site.
In April 1929, Haj Amin helped stoke riots by issuing a Friday afternoon sermon at the al-Aqsa Mosque, reemphasizing the charge of a Jewish bid to take over the Islamic holy sites.
The incitement continued right through into the 1990s, when in 1997, Yasser Arafat declared: "I am ringing the bell of danger to warn against the Jewish plan to build the Temple of Solomon in the place where today stands Al Aqsa Mosque, after removing the mosque."
Similar incitement flooded the airwaves of the Palestinian Authority following Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in September 2000, launching what has now become known as the al-Aqsa Intifada.
Like clockwork, warnings of an Israeli plot to destroy the mosque are issued by the Hamas government every few days, ensuring that the flames of unfounded paranoia and incitement against Israel remain lit.
"The Aqsa Mosque is in real danger and needs Muslim support to defend and spare it the rancorous Israeli conspiracies", Palestinian Chief Justice Tayseer al-Tamimi declared, calling on Muslim masses to assemble to "protect" the site.
And the Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, claims to have "documents and photos" proving that "the demolition of the pathway and the two rooms under the Buraq Mosque will expose both the Aqsa Mosque and Buraq Mosque inside Al-Haram Al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) to extreme danger as Israeli settlers will easily access both of them," the Hamas website added on Tuesday.
Calls have been issued for Palestinians to "unite their guns in defense of al-Aqsa," while the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades have threatened terrorist attacks if the work continue.
Certainly, small, far-Right fringe groups exist within Israel that have set their sights on the mosque, and on rebuilding the Temple using physical force - but the State of Israel has devoted considerable resources of its security arms to keeping such extreme elements in check.
Why do Palestinian leaders continue to insist that the al-Aqsa mosque is "in danger?" The answer may lie in the shiny gold covering of the Dome of the Rock itself.
A history of false charges
Since the 1920s, Palestinian leaders have used the site as a rallying cry to wage war against the Jewish presence in Israel, and to try and gain support from Muslims abroad. The Palestinian prime minister today is continuing a 90-year tradition of incitement, which began with the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
Husseini, who is widely seen as the father of Palestinian nationalism, used the al-Nabi festival, which commemorates the defeat of the Crusaders, and conquest of Jerusalem by the Islamic general Sala'ah al-Din, to instigate anti-Jewish riots in April 1920, even before he became a mufti. His message was simple: Jews are the new Crusaders, and Islam must re-invade Jerusalem.
After being elected mufti (through dubious strong-arm tactics, according to some sources,) and becoming head of the Supreme Muslim Council, Haj Amin embarked on an ambitious project of restoring the al-Haram (Dome of the Rock) and the al-Sharif (al-Aqsa Mosque).
By doing so, Haj Amin hoped to draw the attention of millions of Muslims to the Palestinian cause, and to gain material and financial support so that he could fight the growing Zionist Jewish community in Israel.
Members of the Islamic Council traveled around Muslim countries in the 1920s to gain support, with one delegation to Mecca stating: "The Islamic Palestine Nation, which has been guarding al-Aqsa and (the) Holy Rock ever since 1300 years, declares to the Muslim world that the Holy Places are in great danger on account of the horrible Zionist aggressions."
Like clockwork
These missions resulted in a successful fund-raising drive, which led to the gold covering of the Dome of the Rock.
One British official in Mandatory Palestine noted at the time a "remarkable psychological change..." and a "stirring of a new feeling in the Muslims of this country" following the restoration.
Haj Amin also had photos with the Star of David superimposed on the Dome of the Rock distributed widely, in order to convince Muslims of a "Jewish plot" against the site.
In April 1929, Haj Amin helped stoke riots by issuing a Friday afternoon sermon at the al-Aqsa Mosque, reemphasizing the charge of a Jewish bid to take over the Islamic holy sites.
The incitement continued right through into the 1990s, when in 1997, Yasser Arafat declared: "I am ringing the bell of danger to warn against the Jewish plan to build the Temple of Solomon in the place where today stands Al Aqsa Mosque, after removing the mosque."
Similar incitement flooded the airwaves of the Palestinian Authority following Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in September 2000, launching what has now become known as the al-Aqsa Intifada.
Like clockwork, warnings of an Israeli plot to destroy the mosque are issued by the Hamas government every few days, ensuring that the flames of unfounded paranoia and incitement against Israel remain lit.
Also:
In September of 2000, Arik Sharon visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. A place "Holy to Christians, Moslems, and Jews". The visit seemed to spark wild rumors of an attack on Al Aksa. Al Aksa is the Mosque built (between 709-715 C.E.) over the ruins of the temple built by Solomon almost 3,000 years ago and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E., and later of the second temple, razed by the Romans in 70 C.E..
The irrational hysteria built, rioting spread, and ballooned into the grotesque violence called "the Al Aksa Intifada."
Months later that we discovered that the whole operation had been carefully planned in advance.
As I write this commentary, in February of 2007, wild rumors of an attack on Al Aksa are once again being spread. The hysteria is, once again, building rapidly.
The irrational hysteria built, rioting spread, and ballooned into the grotesque violence called "the Al Aksa Intifada."
Months later that we discovered that the whole operation had been carefully planned in advance.
As I write this commentary, in February of 2007, wild rumors of an attack on Al Aksa are once again being spread. The hysteria is, once again, building rapidly.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
THEATRE DES OPERATIONS
An other on stolen from casablancasylum.blogspot!
http://casablancasylum.blogspot.com/2006/12/theatre-des-operations.html
http://casablancasylum.blogspot.com/2006/12/theatre-des-operations.html
UK Islamic School Teaching Infidelophobia ?
Via LGF operative kasper, here’s a British TV report on the Saudi-funded King Fahad Academy in Acton, where the schoolbooks teach that Jews are monkeys and pigs, and Christians and Jews will burn in hellfire.
The director of the school is interviewed, and she says the translations are inaccurate, taken out of context, etc.
The director of the school is interviewed, and she says the translations are inaccurate, taken out of context, etc.
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