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Islamic “peace,” Imam Obama and multiculturalism

January 13, 2015

Islamic “peace,” Imam Obama and multiculturalism, Dan Miller’s Blog, January 13, 2015

(The views expressed here are mine, and do not necessarily reflect those of Warsclerotic or of its other editors. — DM)

Multiculturalism fosters and perpetuates myths that Islam is the religion of peace, not death; that it is benign like other world religions and improves Western civilization. In Obama’s world, such fantasies are reality. They are principal bases of His foreign policies.

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I argued here and here that adherents to Islam, not to “radical” or “extremist” Islam, but to Islam, are the perpetrators and supporters of the Islamic slaughter of those with whose ideologies and actions they disagree. They demand submission and will tolerate nothing less.

In His January 4, 2009 address in Cairo, Obama proclaimed:

America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. [Emphasis added.]

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[P]artnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. [Emphasis added.[

He continues to “fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear,” but who elected Him to do that? Despite massive evidence contrary to Obama’s perceptions of Islam as benign and slandered, He continues to base His perceptions and policies on what Islam is not, not on what it is. Bridget Gabriel, who also lived in Islamic countries, would disagree with many of Obama’s theses:

Here is Ms. Gabriel’s response to a Muslim-American citizen:

As goes Europe so goes the Obama Nation?

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is the largest Islamic body in the world.

The OIC is comprised of the 57 Muslim-majority nations and the Palestinian Authority. They are the largest bloc at the UN, and when they meet on the head-of-state level, they literally speak for the Muslim world. [Emphasis added.]

Contemporaneously with the attack on Charlie Hedbo and a kosher supermarket in France, it sought

more implementation of the OIC-sponsored UN Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 and the follow-up Rabat Plan of Action that would criminalize the very type of speech that Charlie Hebdo engaged in.

Such laws — similar to Sharia’s prohibition of “insulting” Islam — would criminalize our once free speech. Western nations, presumably, would jail rather than execute those who “insult” Islam. Although brute governmental force might largely displace Islamic slaughter of those who “insult” Islam, it would be more pervasive and hence probably more effective. It would also contravene what’s left of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Muslim leaders from around the Obama Nation recently assembled in Texas to stand with the murdering, antisemitic pedophile worshiped by billions of Muslims “Prophet”

in Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message,” according to event information.

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Organizers of the event place the blame for Islam’s bad reputation on the media and so-called American Islamophobes who have “invested at least $160 million dollars to attack our Prophet and Islam,” according to the conference web page.

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“This is not an event. It is the beginning of a movement,” organizers write on their website, which blames Americans for giving Islam a bad name. “A movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message.”

All these accusations were invented by Islamophobes in America,” the group claims. “As we celebrate the Prophet in our now annual, nationwide event: Stand with the Prophet, we recommit ourselves to rectify his image, peace be upon him.” [Emphasis added.]

Hirsi Ali, an apostate from Islam and an indomitable (other than by her own eventual murder) voice for freedom, was recently interviewed by several media. Here are videos of three of her interviews:

 

 

 

The thrust of her remarks is that Islamic ideology, including reverence for all of the vile things that Mohamed did and encouraged, is the root of the problem. However, the Western tendency to absolve all other Mohamed worshipers of blame for the acts of their coreligionists — which they often support — is prevalent in multicultural societies. Similarly, it is the position of our “leaders” and “betters” that attacks such as those on Charlie Hedbo have nothing to do with Islam, or even “radical” Islam.

 

“We” are, therefore, not at war with Islam or “radical” Islam but with those who would “corrupt” it by committing acts of “senseless” terror. That’s comparable to saying that, in the 1940s, we were not at war with Nazism, but with those who corrupted the beautiful Nazi ideology.

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While denigrating the Western culture of life, multiculturalism and its advocates promote ignorance and fallacies about the Islamic culture of death. Those who accept the fallacy that Islam is a benign religion thereby join a “cult” of cultural suicide which takes advantage of the ignorance, or worse, of many within Western cultures.

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According to Victor Davis Hanson, in an article titled Multicultural Suicide,

For the multiculturalist, the sins of the non-West are mostly ignored or attributed to Western influence, while those of the West are peculiar to Western civilization. In terms of the challenge of radical Islam, multiculturalism manifests itself in the abstract with the notion that Islamists are simply the fundamentalist counterparts to any other religion. Islamic extremists are no different from Christian extremists, as the isolated examples of David Koresh or the Rev. Jim Jones are cited ad nauseam as the morally and numerically equivalent bookends to thousands of radical Islamic terrorist acts that plague the world each month. We are not to assess other religions by any absolute standard, given that such judgmentalism would inevitably be prejudiced by endemic Western privilege. There is nothing in the Sermon on the Mount that differs much from what is found in the Koran. And on and on and on. [Emphasis added.]

In the concrete, multiculturalism seeks to use language and politics to mask reality. The slaughter at Ford Hood becomes “workplace violence,” not a case of a radical Islamist, Major Nidal Hasan, screaming “Allahu Akbar” as he butchered the innocent. After the Paris violence, the administration envisions a “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism,” apparently in reaction to Buddhists who are filming beheadings, skinheads storming Paris media offices, and lone-wolf anti-abortionists who slaughtered the innocent in Australia, Canada, and France. [Emphasis added.]

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If the Western establishment were truly moral, it would reject multiculturalism as a deductive, anti-empirical, and illiberal creed. It would demand that critics abroad first put their own house in order before blaming others for their own failures, and remind Western elites that their multicultural fantasies are cheap nostrums designed to deal with their own neuroses. [Emphasis added.]

Finally, it would also not welcome in newcomers who seek to destroy the very institutions that make the West so unlike the homelands they have voted with their feet to utterly abandon. [Emphasis added.]

Unfortunately, Islamists now resident in the United States or in other Western nations did not vote “with their feet to utterly abandon” the hellholes they left; they brought them with them and seek to impose their ideology wherever they go.

No Islamic nation is multicultural. None (with the possible exception of Egypt under President Sisi) welcome those who oppose their Islamic values or otherwise seek to change their ways. Were a Saudi citizen or visiting foreigner to blame the Islamic principles in which Saudi Arabia is grounded for the ills of the Middle East or the evils of Islam, his stay there, if not his life, would be abbreviated, promptly.

Islam is the principal enemy, but the multiculturalists who inflict it upon Western civilization aid and abet it. They attempt to dull our senses of right and wrong by sanitizing and promoting Islam as good.

Perhaps, and I hope that, the very substantial attention paid by the media to the recent Islamic slaughters in France will do as few other such incidents have done: bring about the rejection of Islam, multiculturalism and their advocates.

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Anti-Islamist PEGIDA Movement Expands Across Europe

January 13, 2015

Anti-Islamist PEGIDA Movement Expands Across Europe

via Anti-Islamist PEGIDA Movement Expands Across Europe – Breitbart.

AP Photo/Jens Meyer

The German anti-Islamist group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) organized the largest rally in its history Monday, with official crowd size estimates at about 25,000. As the movement grows in Germany, fueled by anger at radical Islam for the deaths of 12 during last week’s massacre at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, other countries are beginning to establish their own PEGIDA branches.

In Switzerland, reports Al Arabiya, the group has been organized under the same name by the leader of the Swiss Direct Democratic Party, Ignaz Bearth. The group, which currently has more than 3,000 “likes” on Facebook, despite being relatively news, aspires to organize a rally similar to the ones in Dresden on February 16–providing enough time to find willing participants to join the rally. The Facebook “likes” are especially important because of the origins of Germany PEGIDA, which also began as a Facebook group. In addition to organizing rallies, Swiss PEGIDA is making demands, including, according to Al Arabiya, “calling for a ban on wearing full-face and body covering burkas in Switzerland and on imam visits to schools.”

Austrians have also established their own national branch of PEGIDA. Daily Sabah reports that the Austrians are calling for their first rally to be held on February 2nd, also to give time for people to hear about the movement and join the rally. Organizers on Facebook emphasized the inclusiveness of the rally, writing, “We want to stress clearly that everyone is welcome – no matter which party, movement, organization or nationality – everyone who is against radical Islamism and sharia law and who wants to make a peaceful statement.” This, presumably, also includes moderate Muslims.

Meanwhile, in Norway, PEGIDA rallies have already begun. In solidarity with Monday night’s rallies in Germany, a group of supporters in Oslo took to the streets, with organizers telling Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet that they expected, at most, 200 to attend, though official estimates have not been released. Norwegian PEGIDA also has more than 3,000 “likes” on Facebook.

European branches of PEGIDA have been established in Spain, with a Facebook group surfacing in December and movement organizers calling for a rally in Madrid, though they have not yet established a date. The Facebook group has more than 2,500 “likes” and shares mostly images from rallies in Germany. It announced its intentions to organize a rally in the Spanish capital on its Twitter account.

Supporters of the movement have put together a Google map with the names and social media information of every known PEGIDA branch, spanning from Spain and the UK all the way east to Bulgaria. France and Germany appear to have the most separate branches and information to join the movement.

 

Click on a dot on the map.

Netanyahu in Paris: ‘Our Common Enemy Is Extreme Islam

January 13, 2015

Netanyahu in Paris: ‘Our Common Enemy Is Extreme Islam’

via Netanyahu in Paris: ‘Our Common Enemy Is Extreme Islam’ – Breitbart.

 

by John Hayward12 Jan 20150
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defied any number of weak, equivocal political narratives underfoot this Sunday in his statements at the Grand Synagogue, clearly stating: “The truth and righteousness are with us. Our common enemy is extreme Islam – not Islam, not regular extremists, but extreme Islam.”

The Jerusalem Post reports that when Netanyahu took the podium, “the cavernous sanctuary resonated with shouts of his nickname, ‘Bibi, Bibi.’” His biggest applause came when he mentioned both the blessing of Jews being able to live in France… or relocate to Israel:

I want to say to you what I say to all our Jewish brothers, that you have a full right to live secure and peaceful lives with equal rights wherever you desire, including here in France. […]

…these days we are blessed with another privilege, a privilege that didn’t exist for generations of Jews – the privilege to join their brothers and sisters in their historic homeland of Israel.

The full text of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech is available in English here. He saluted the bravery of all those who stood up against the terrorist cell that attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine:

Today I marched through the streets of Paris, in one line with leaders from around the world, in order to say that terror must end. It is time that we fight against terror together. And I would like to use this opportunity to salute the French security forces who acted with remarkable bravery, as well as to express my appreciation to the Malian, who is a Muslim, who helped save seven Jews.

My dear brothers and sisters, I came here from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel, to share in your pain over the murders of Francois-Michel, Philippe, Yoav and of Yohan, who bravely tried to grab the terrorist’s gun and was fatally wounded. The memory of our four holy brothers will be forever engraved on the hearts of our people.

Netanyahu expounded on his point about the unified threat of Islamism, and the need for a unified response:

Today we bow our heads in memory of the victims in Paris. However, as representatives of an ancient and proud people, we stand tall against evil because we can overcome it. “The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread” – because truth and justice are on our side. And here is the truth: Our shared enemy is radical Islam, not Islam and not just radicals – radical Islam. This form of Islam has many names: ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, al-Shabab, Hezbollah; but they are all branches from the same poison tree.

Although the various factions of radical Islam are given to local bloody conflicts, including amongst themselves, they all share the same aspiration: To impose a dark tyranny on the world, to return humanity one thousand years to the past. They trample anyone who does not share their path, first and foremost their Muslim brothers, but their greatest hatred is saved for Western culture, that same culture that respects freedom and equal rights – all the things they so despise.

For this reason it is not a coincidence that radical Islam has sought to destroy Israel from the very day it declared its independence: Because Israel is the only Western democracy in the Middle East, because Israel is the only place that is truly safe for Christians, women, minorities, that respects all human rights.

He stressed that the entire civilized world is under attack, pointedly refuting the notion – fashionable in many Western political circles – that all of the West’s problems with Islamist terror would vanish if Israel went away:

Well, here is another truth: Radical Islam does not hate the West because of Israel. It hates Israel because it is an organic part of the West. It rightly views Israel as an island of Western democracy and tolerance in an ocean of fanaticism and violence that it wishes to impose on the Middle East, Europe and the entire world.

Israel is not under attack because of this or that detail of its policies, but rather because of its very existence and nature. But we are not the only ones under attack. Look around you: The entire world is under attack, the entire world – the Twin Towers in New York, the subways in London and Madrid, tourists in Bali, students at schools in Russia and Pakistan, a hotel in Mumbai, the mall in Nairobi.

A very short path connects the issuing of the fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie, the murder of Theo van Gogh in Holland and the attacks on Jews in Israel and around the world – it is a short distance from this to the murderous attacks in Paris on the office of Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket not far from here. These are not isolated actions and we must see what they have in common. Otherwise we will not be able to fight against terror in methodical and consistent manner.

We must recognize that there is a global network of radical Islam at work – a network of hatred, fanaticism and murder. I believe that this threat will only grow larger when thousands of terrorists come to Europe from the killing fields of the Middle East. The danger will grow much greater and will become a serious threat to humanity at large if radical Islam gains control over nuclear weapons, and therefore we must use all means to prevent Iran from acquiring an atomic weapon. We must support each other in this fateful struggle against radical Islamic fanatics wherever they are.

Israel stands with Europe and Europe must stand with Israel. As the civilized world today stands with France against terror, so must it stand with Israel against terror. It is the exact same terror. Those who slaughtered Jews in the synagogue in Jerusalem and those who slaughtered Jews and journalists in Paris belong to the same murderous terrorist movement. They should be condemned in the same measure and they must be fought in the same manner.

Netanyahu repeated this message during a visit to the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store where an associate of the Charlie Hebdo shooters took women and children hostage, murdered several of his captives, and was ultimately shot down by the police. “There is a direct line between the attacks of the Islamic extremists around the world, and the attack here at the kosher grocery in the center of Paris,” he said.

The Jerusalem Post quotes Netanyahu warning French Jewish community leaders, “If the world doesn’t unite against terror, the plague of terror that we saw here will increase in a way people cannot imagine.” He listed the evidence for his belief in one universal threat, which will prevail unless it meets an unflinching unified response from the civilized world, including Muslims who want no part of Islamist terror. Is there any evidence that could be introduced to disprove his diagnosis, any political theory or moral argument that could displace his recommended solution? No problem has ever been solved by refusing to see it clearly, and evil has never been routed by those who were afraid to call it by name.

His statements this weekend echoed a theme he has repeated several times over the past year, in which he ties various agents of Islamic extremism into a unified threat the Western world must confront directly. As he put it to the United Nations General Assembly in September, “ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree. When it comes to their ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas. And what they share in common, all militant Islamists share in common.”

Dhimmitude by Weapon of Musical Defense

January 13, 2015

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Pelosi to name first Muslim lawmaker to House intelligence committee

January 13, 2015

Pelosi to name first Muslim lawmaker to House intelligence committee

By Lauren French1/13/15 10:32 AM EST

via Pelosi to name first Muslim lawmaker to House intelligence committee – Lauren French – POLITICO.

Pelosi to name first Muslim lawmaker to House intelligence committee

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced in a closed-door meeting Tuesday she would name the first Muslim lawmaker to the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

A senior Democratic aide said Rep. André Carson of Indiana would be named in the “coming days” to the key national security-focused panel. The California Democrat told lawmakers of the appointment during the members’ weekly caucus meeting.

Carson would be the first Muslim to serve on the committee and was the second Muslim to be elected to Congress. He already serves on the House Armed Services Committee and worked for the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center — the clearinghouse established by the federal government to streamline data sharing between the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice and the military.

(Also on POLITICO: GOP set to strengthen committee chairmen’s subpoena power)

The intelligence committee will most likely tackle a series of high-profile international crises during the 114th Congress, including the threat of Islamic militants and Ukraine.

Carson’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

The announcement comes in the wake of a terrorist attack in Paris by Islamic extremists that left 12 people dead. World leaders gathered on Sunday for a 1 million person “solidarity” protest against the violence that targeted French Jews and journalists.

Reprinting the Charlie Hebdo Mohammed Cartoons is the Best Way to Defy Islamic Cartoonophobia

January 13, 2015

Reprinting the Charlie Hebdo Mohammed Cartoons is the Best Way to Defy Islamic CartoonophobiaJanuary 7, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield

via Reprinting the Charlie Hebdo Mohammed Cartoons is the Best Way to Defy Islamic Cartoonophobia | FrontPage Magazine.

 

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The goal of  Islamic Cartoonophobic terror is to intimidate critics of Islamic ideology. The right way to respond to the terror attack against Charlie Hedbo is to fight the Islamic/Leftist attempt to isolate critics by reposting the Hebdo Mohammed cartoons.

We stand up for freedom of speech by practicing controversial speech in defiance of those who would censor us. Mere sympathy is not solidarity.

Standing up to the Jihadists takes more than a hashtag. It demands that we practice the freedom they hate so much.

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Muslim Leaders to Hold ‘Stand with the Prophet’ Rally in Texas

January 13, 2015

Muslim Leaders to Hold ‘Stand with the Prophet’ Rally in Texas, Washington Free Beacon, January 12, 2015

(How about “stand with the murdering, antisemitic pedophile worshiped by billions of Muslims?” Unfortunately, Obama’s multiculturalism-based foreign policies vis a vis Islam and opposition to Islamic terror seem to reflect the sentiments of the “Muslim leaders.”  — DM)

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Organizers of the conference claim that the media and Islamophobes in America are the main reason why Islam and its prophet have such a bad reputation in the Western world.

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Muslim leaders from across America will gather in Texas this weekend to hold the annual Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message,” according to event information.

The Saturday event, which seeks to combat “Islamophobes in America” who have turned the Islamic Prophet Muhammad “into an object of hate,” according to organizers, comes just a week after radicalized Islamists in France killed 17 people.

The victims died in events that began with the shooting attack on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo for its satirical cartoons that skewered the prophet.

Organizers of the event place the blame for Islam’s bad reputation on the media and so-called American Islamophobes who have “invested at least $160 million dollars to attack our Prophet and Islam,” according to the conference web page.

Keynote speakers at the event will include Georgetown University professor John Esposito, founding director of the school’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which has come under fire for, among other things, hosting 9/11 Truthers and a member of Egypt’s Nazi Party.

Also scheduled to attend the forum is controversial New York-based Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings trial. Wahhaj has called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists” and expressed a desire for all Americans to become Muslim, according to the New York Post.

Organizers of the conference claim that the media and Islamophobes in America are the main reason why Islam and its prophet have such a bad reputation in the Western world.

“This is not an event. It is the beginning of a movement,” organizers write on their website, which blames Americans for giving Islam a bad name. “A movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message.”

“All these accusations were invented by Islamophobes in America,” the group claims. “As we celebrate the Prophet in our now annual, nationwide event: Stand with the Prophet, we recommit ourselves to rectify his image, peace be upon him.”

The event seeks to capitalize on outrage over cartoons and other materials mocking Mohammed in popular culture.

“Frustrated with Islamophobes defaming the Prophet?” the event materials ask. “Fuming over extremists like ISIS who give a bad name to Islam? Remember the Danish cartoons defaming the Prophet? Or the anti-Islam film, ‘Innocence of Muslims’?”

The event is being backed by several Muslim groups, including SoundVision, an Illinois-based website that provides advice and products to Muslims; RadioIslam, an AM radio station based in Chicago; and MuslimFest.

It will take place Saturday evening at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas.

The goal of the forum, which costs $20 to attend, is to raise money to fund a “Strategic Communication Center for the Muslim community, which will develop effective responses to anti-Islamic attacks, as well as to train young Muslims in media.”

This center will be equipped to respond to insults to the prophet, such as when publications run cartoons critical of Mohammed.

“When real events warrant, like the Danish Cartoon controversy, Sharia ban, Quran burning, Boko Haram kidnappings. [Islamic State] brutality, etc., we articulate fresh talking points and content quickly, and in a timely manner, working with professionals to disseminate it through community spokespersons and our allies,” organizers state on their website.

Meanwhile, a German newspaper that re-ran Charlie Hebdo satirical cartoons of Mohammed was firebombed over the weekend, according to reports.

The Muslim groups hosting the Stand with the Prophet event blame the media for fomenting the wrong ideas about Muslims. The site promoting the forum includes a Pew survey finding that the media is the largest influence on the public’s opinion about Muslims.

“Media is making the life of Muslims difficult by turning our neighbors against us,” the website states.

Martin Kramer, a Middle East expert and president of the Shalem College in Jerusalem, criticized Georgetown’s Esposito for participating the Stand with the Prophet forum.

“John Esposito favors ‘incitement to hatred’ legislation, under the rubric of religious freedom, that would effectively trump freedom of expression,” Kramer said. “‘Belief as well as unbelief needs to be protected,’ he has written. ‘Freedom of religion in a pluralistic society ought to mean that some things are sacred and treated as such.’”

“Rallies such as the one Esposito will address have one purpose: granting Islam a protected status, and denying that protection to its critics,” Kramer said.

Esposito did not respond to an email seeking comment about his participation in the event. A Georgetown University spokesman also did not respond to an email request for comment.

Phone calls to SoundVision, the group sponsoring the event and hosting information about it online, were not answered or returned. An email to the site’s informational address also was not returned.

Patrick Poole, a terrorism expert and national security reporter, said the conference is part of larger campaign to blame some in America for the negative impression of Muslims in the West.

“This is a yet another manifestation of ‘Islamophobia’-phobia,” Poole said. “The conference organizers invoke an ‘Islamophobia hate machine’ based in the U.S. that is responsible for defaming Muslims worldwide but the events of the past week and other recent attacks have done more to damage the image of Islam than any other factor.”

The Muslim community must take responsibility and stop blaming the West for Islam’s faltering image, Poole said.

“What this conference makes clear is that the Muslim community needs to find better leadership. The jig is up on Islamic leaders who rush to the microphones to denounce terrorism, only to find they justify and support terrorism when speaking inside their mosques or conferences,” Poole said.

“The standard message that any terrorist yelling ‘Allahu Akhbar’ has nothing to do with the Muslim community while any graffiti on a mosque is a sign of widespread ‘Islamophobia’ just isn’t selling any more,” he added. “Rather than revising their talking points, they’re doubling down on their narrative and it will only serve to isolate the Muslim community even further.”

PEGIDA Shows no Sign of Slowing as 25,000 March Against Islamisation

January 13, 2015

PEGIDA Shows no Sign of Slowing as 25,000 March Against Islamisation

via PEGIDA Shows no Sign of Slowing as 25,000 March Against Islamisation – Breitbart.

 

Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) have ‘strolled’ again, but despite a week of Islamist terror in France and the fire-bombing of a German news paper which printed Mohammed cartoons, the German establishment has continued to condemn the movement.

The group has continued its apparently unstoppable growth, leaping from 20,000 last week to 25,000 on the streets of Dresden yesterday, with 30,000 strolling nationwide. The group, which is dedicated to non-violent resistance in the style of the East German protesters who opposed the former hard-line communist regime with weekly ‘strolls’ in the 1980s, this week called upon its supporters to not bring placards depicting Mohammed cartoons.

Some German politicians accused PEGIDA of taking advantage of the tense situation after the France shootings, but the group insisted the attacks proved the point they had been making all along. PEGIDA said: “The Islamists, which PEGIDA has been warning about for 12 weeks, showed France that they are not capable of democracy but rather look to violence and death as an answer”.

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After roundly criticising PEGIDA in her new year’s address, German chancellor Angela Merkel again made clear moves to signal her disdain for the popular movement while hosting the prime minister of predominantly Muslim Turkey.

Sharing a platform with prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is thought to be instrumental in Turkey’s slide towards institutional Islam after nearly a century of peaceful secularism, and has been criticised worldwide for his policy of inaction towards the jihadist Islamic State, chancellor Merkel said “Islam belongs to Germany”.

Merkel has announced her intention to march with a Muslim, anti-PEGIDA march today.

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The concerted campaign against the anti-Islamisation rallies appears to be having some effect, as the counter-protest movement continues to grow in strength. Some reports suggest up to 100,000 gathered across the country to oppose PEGIDA yesterday.

In recent weeks major landmarks and municipal power companies have turned out the lights during PEGIDA marches to signal their opposition, and children’s ‘propaganda’ cartoons have been broadcast by a taxpayer-funded television station criticising the movement.

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The German justice minister called on the organisers to abandon the organisation, calling the movement “simply disgusting”. Despite his position within the government, the Social Democrat politician has been repeatedly seen marching with counter-PEGIDA protest movements.

Despite this, the movement continues to grow, going from 200 to 25,000 supporters strolling over the course twelve demonstrations.

The PEGIDA leadership, headed by self declared apolitical, working-class orator Lutz Bachmann are aware the marches tread a fine line with the state police, who allow the strolls to assemble every week and clear the way of counter-protesting groups. TheLocal reports the remarks of one local Christian Democratic Union politician, who said: “As long as there is no outright racism and xenophobia, they have the right to march”.

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Despite the events of last week and a global call for freedom of expression and speech in reaction to the slaying of journalists in France, the overt display of Mohammad within the Dresden stroll could give the authorities the pretext needed to shut the movement down.

The City of Leipzig, where PEGIDA marched for the first time yesterday, initially stated they would enforce a ban on showing images of Mohammad, but later backed down and allowed images at the rally. Commenting on the U-turn, mayor Burkhard Jung said: “Freedom of opinion is a very worthy cause, and against the backdrop of the attacks in Paris it cannot be valued highly enough”.

For many Germans, the terrorist assault against journalism and freedom of speech did not end in Paris on Friday. A handful of European newspapers chose to publish cartoons of Mohammed in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, with some being on the receiving end of retaliatory attacks for their editorial decision.

Three were arrested after a car pursuit on Sunday as they were spotted outside Danish newspaper the Jyllands-Posten carrying assault rifles and pistols in a “suspicious” vehicle.

Although the weapons turned out to be imitation firearms, and the incident was dismissed as a “prank”, members of the staff at the Jyllands-Posten have had multiple attempts made on their lives since they published cartoons of Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban in 2005. Along with Charlie Hebdo it was the first mainstream publication in Europe to print such images in the modern age, and many staff members still receive round-the-clock police protection.

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The Hamburger Morgenpost was less fortunate this weekend, as its offices were fire-bombed in the early hours of Sunday morning in an apparent retaliation for publishing images of Mohammed last week. The images of piles of charred papers and office equipment piled up in the street outside the gutted office were highly redolent of the fire-bombing of the Charlie Hebdo Paris office in 2011.

PEGIDA have pledged to meet again next week.

How can we side in the fight against the islamic barbarians.

January 13, 2015

BIBI ask the whole world to side with Israel against the islamic terrorist who are trying to enforce their will upon us.

While the Israeli digital News sites Jerusalem post and Israel News do not allow this cartoon posted at their comment part of their site.


All links and my comments are deleted, even the links to the site of the author of this cartoon.

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Not even with a comment why.

 

Perhaps i have to rethink my efforts in this battle for freedom of information and expression, if even the people who hurting the much under this terrorism are not willing to side and  bending over to the will of the terrorist.

What will be the world opinion about this coward attitude ?

Special after the scream of BIBI to side with Israel .

 

Update :

For The Canadian Free press and  Israel News the same, just lip service , a cartoon is to much !

 

 

 

 

 

The abandonment of French Jewry

January 13, 2015

Israel Hayom | The abandonment of French Jewry.

Matti Tuchfield

Sometimes things take place before your eyes that are difficult to describe by means of a pen or a keyboard. These are rare sublime moments, full of sensitivity, in which one is moved to tears. Such a moment happened on Sunday evening in Paris, when a boy, perhaps 14 or 15 years old, approached Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately after his speech at the Grand Synagogue and sobbed against his chest.

The boy, whose family requested that he remain unnamed, lost a brother in the attack at the kosher supermarket on Friday. Netanyahu gave him a warm paternal embrace and patted his head for several long minutes. The boy, whose father was standing next to him, could not find the words to thank Netanyahu for his decision to visit Paris during the toughest time the French Jewish community has experienced in the past generation.

Those who do not understand why Netanyahu had to make the quick trip to Paris, those who wonder if he was “forced” to go there after two ministers in his government announced they were going, and those who question the “waste” of money on the trip — it would have been enough for them to take one fleeting glance at the eyes of the French Jews in attendance at the Grand Synagogue during Netanyahu’s speech to realize instantly why he was there.

The bitter truth is that French Jews have been abandoned. Despite the nice and flowery words of French President Francois Hollande and other government ministers, French Jews feel that their government has left them on their own. Even the French people are not eager to identify with them. At the mass rally in Paris on Sunday, the Jewish issue was on the farthest margins. All the signs and shirts said, “We are Charlie.” None said, “We are Hyper Cacher” [the name of the kosher supermarket that was attacked].

This was no coincidence. For the French people and their leaders, it is comfortable to talk about what happened last week as an attack against freedom of expression and democracy and portray the struggle taking place as one between “radicalism” and “liberty.”

But this is not the truth. What is happening is nothing more than a continuation of Europe’s traditional policy of burying its head in the sand. So it is no wonder that Netanyahu’s visit did not sit easy with the French government. They did not want the headache caused by someone coming to mess with their truth.

European Jews were the first to understand the situation. For years, they have suffered from the Islamic terrorism that has run rampant in their cities, particularly in Paris. They have already become used to hiding their identities, going out without their kippot and fortifying their children’s educational institutions as if they are military installations.

It appears that the feeling of abandonment by the French government after the kosher supermarket attack is the straw that has broken the camel’s back for French Jews. While Netanyahu was only able to bring small consolation to French Jews, he delivered a strong message that there is a country that has not abandoned them. The French may have disappointed us, but the Jews will always remain united.