Encounter with an angry Muslim academic

Richard L. Rubenstein – an "expert" on the dreadful threat to Europe posed by Muslim migrants –  recounts a confrontation with Professor Mohamad Al-Khadry at an academic conference in Krakow. "His worst spleen was reserved for Bat Ye'or and MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute). He labeled Bat Ye'or a bigot, a racist, and an 'Islamophobe' and attacked MEMRI as a 'pro-Israel propagandist website'.”

Front Page Magazine, 7 September 2005

Spleen could hardly be put to more appropriate use, I would suggest.

Man 'killed by Islamic zealots'

"It's a chilling story: A man was shot five times in the head at close range in an 'execution' plotted by a group who had failed to convert him to Islam, a jury has heard. Where did this happen? Saudi Arabia? Iran? Egypt? Pakistan? Nope. Try Great Britain. Islamic intimidation and contempt for those who reject Islam comes to the sceptered isle." Thus Robert Spencer on a new Islamic threat to western civilisation.

Dhimmi Watch, 7 September 2005

What Spencer doesn't bother to mention is that the group concerned is a criminal gang of Afro-Caribbean youths who have adopted the name of the "Muslim boys". They present a serious problem from the standpoint of gun crime in South London's black community. But the idea that they have anything to do with Islam in any meaningful sense of the term is an absurdity.

Outrage! in ignorant attack on Islam shock

"Human rights campaigners and refugees from Islamist persecution will protest against the introduction of Sharia law in Canada, outside the Canadian High Commission, in London on Thursday 8 September 2005 from 12 noon – 2 PM. The protest is being supported by gay human rights group OutRage! and one of the keynote speakers will be OutRage! organiser, Peter Tatchell."

Outrage! append articles by Maryam Namazie, Azar Majedi and Homa Arjomand – all central committee members of the Worker Communist Party of Iran. Namazie attributes the Canadian proposal to "the racist concepts of multi-culturalism and cultural relativism. It promotes tolerance and respect for so-called minority opinions and beliefs". Well, we can't be having that, can we?

Outrage! press release, 7 September 2005

In fact, as anyone who has studied the subject will be aware, the proposal is not to introduce Sharia law but to amend Ontario's Arbitration Act, which already allows Jews and Christians to choose religious arbitration if they like, in order to extend the same opportunity to Muslims. Oddly enough, I can't remember Tatchell protesting outside the Canadian High Commission when Jews and Christians in Ontario were accorded that right. But then, I was forgetting, for Tatchell and Outrage! Islam is a uniquely evil religion.

Opposition to Sharia courts goes global

An upcoming international demonstration designed to pressure Queen's Park [home of the Ontario Legislature] into rejecting shariah courts continued to grow yesterday, even as the premier promised any decision on a faith-based court system will not jeopardize women's rights.

Critics say Ontario has become the target of an international political movement by extremists to entrench Islamic law in Western democracies. "This has nothing to do with the faith of Islam. It's political Islam," said Homa Arjomand, founder of the International Campaign against Shariah Court in Canada [and central committee member of the Worker Communist Party of Iran]. "Ontario is an easy target because we have multiculturalism."

Though no western country has recognized a Muslim court, Jewish and Christian-based arbitration already exists in Ontario.

National Post, 7 September 2005

Karen Hughes – pawn of Wahhabism

"One of President Bush's closest confidants, Karen Hughes, on Friday addressed the annual conference of an organization whose primary purpose is the propagation of Saudi-sponsored Wahhabist Islam – and which has praised suicide bombers, whose president has publicly denied that al Qaeda was behind 9/11, and whose web site to this day sells a book that lavishes praise on Osama bin Laden."

The "Muslim outreach" strategy comes in for some stick at Townhall.com, 6 September 2005

See also Frank Gaffney in the Washington Times, 30 August 2005

'Muslim opinion' be damned

"Every attempt to appease 'Muslim opinion' preserves, promotes, and emboldens our enemies. Every concession to angry Muslim mobs gives hope to the Islamist cause. Every day we allow terrorist regimes to exist gives their minions time to execute the next Sept. 11. America needs honest leadership with the courage to identify and defeat our enemies – 'Muslim opinion' be damned."

Another commentator unconvinced by the Bush administration's "Muslim outreach" strategy.

Mens News Daily, 6 September 2005 

Mad Mel and Robert Spencer denounce FO memo on Qaradawi

Melanie Phillips has a rant at the Foreign Office memorandum recommending that Yusuf al-Qaradawi should not be banned from Britain, as Mel and her mates have been demanding.

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Radical Muslims meet to discuss ban

"A radical Islamic group drew 1,000 delegates to a London conference as it debated how to fend off Prime Minister Tony Blair's plans to ban it in Britain. Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders also used the forum to react angrily to new claims that the organisation – already barred from operating in universities – is engaged in a secret campaign to recruit students to its cause."

Evening Standard, 5 September 2005

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Outraged Europeans take dimmer view of diversity

It was less than genteel, not the kind of thing a Londoner liked to admit, but Matthew Pickard couldn't help himself when drawn into a discussion about the recent bombings on the city's transit system. There is an "undertow", he said, a feeling of resentment toward ethnic communities that had long been welcomed.

"My friends, who are all educated and professionals, they're saying, 'What gives those people the right to come up from other countries and set up homes and set up families and then start bombing and maiming people?'," the 33-year-old engineering consultant said. "They just don't move in and integrate with society. They move in and take over. I just think enough's enough."

Los Angeles Times, 5 September 2005

Immigration control advocate rallies GOP activists

US congressman Tom "nuke Mecca" Tancredo continues his anti-migrant campaign, the East Valley Tribune reports.

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