From The Brussels Journal

By A. MILLAR

David Cameron has made it clear that the Conservative party, of which he is the head, has changed. Win or lose the upcoming election, there is no going back. The Tory “dinosaurs” are out. The party is now “progressive,” “bold” and “radical” – a party of “ideas.”

Yet, its ideas were mostly thought up by Tony Blair’s New Labour party. Issues of importance are off the table:

- In his Spring conference speech on Feb. 28, Cameron failed to mention uncontrolled immigration even though the island nation (smaller then the state of Oregon) is on track to hit 70 million by 2030.

- There was no mention of the damage done to society by political correctness.

- No mention of the European Union, which makes 75-80 percent of laws enacted in Britain.

- And the “bold” and “radical” Cameron did not address the issue of political Islam in Britain – an issue that is hardly out of the news these days.

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The campus of UCI, an anti-Semitic hotbed?

By PAUL SCHNEE

On February 8th. Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, was invited to speak on the campus of UCI. His speech was disrupted by eight UCI students and three students from the University of California at Riverside. All of the students were removed by the police, and no charges have been filed.

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From The Brussels Journal

By A. MILLAR

Top Conservative Party members have donated thousands of pounds to an organization that has hosted speakers known for their hard line Islamic views.

In August, and Lord Sheikh, chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum (CMF), and Mohammed Amin, the CMF’s vice chairman, attended the launch of Iqra TV, founded by Al-Khair. According to the CMF website, after he had had made a presentation, Lord Sheikh gave a check for 5,000 pounds (approximately 8,000 US dollars) to Al-Khair for the establishment a library. Al-Khair runs Islamic schools (in Britain and Kashmir), a prison outreach program, and hosts speaking and cultural events, including some that are “interfaith.”

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Geert Wilders: On Trial for Having an Opinion

From The Brussels Journal

By A. MILLAR

A few years ago Britain’s Channel 4 TV broadcast a documentary exposing a number of hate preachers. These were shown variously praising Osama bin Laden, denouncing non-Muslims, or “kuffar,” calling women “deficient,” and inciting violence, including the murder of Jews and homosexuals. Much of what was said, and broadcast in Undercover Mosque, was patently illegal under British law. Instead of acting against the preachers, the police filed a complaint against the filmmakers, who they accused of taking things “out of context” – it’s just that easy to do, when imams call for murder, apparently.

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By PAUL SCHNEE

ATTENTION, JUDGE RICHARD GOLDSTONE & THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL:

As of last Friday Israel’s relief efforts to Haiti included the following: a field hospital, the only hospital in operation, with 40 doctors, 25 nurses, paramedics, a pharmacy, a children’s ward, a radiology department, an intensive care unit, an emergency room, two operating rooms, a surgical department, an internal medicine department and a maternity ward. The hospital can treat approximately 500 patients each day, and in addition will perform preliminary surgeries.

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From The Brussels Journal

By A. MILLAR

What is the future of the Western democracy? A look at Britain over the last 12 months seems to provide some clues. In one way or another Islamism was a constant theme, though party politics were volatile by almost any standards. Having long ignored the will of the people in every area – from law and order to immigration – and demonizing those brave enough to raise uncomfortable, but important issues, the political class began to feel the heat of the nation’s boiling anger. Pressure from the top had kept a lid on things, but in 2009 politics began to spill onto the streets, with “anti-Islamization” protests emerging up and down the country. The response was to give more money to tackling the “far-Right.” However, most of the protestors appear to have been ordinary citizens.

Anti-Israel protests have been held over the last few years, though these exploded across Britain in January. In September a London march in support of terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah attracted a few thousand, though it did not attract any condemnation from the political class or mainstream media. But, then, double standards and contradiction was a theme in itself in 2009. David Miliband condemned Geert Wilders’ film Fitna as “hate-filled,” but he had not seen it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer – responsible for the nation’s taxes – claimed for assistance with his tax return. Sir John Chilcot said the legality of the Iraq war would be central to his investigation, though the investigating committee would have no legal expert. And so on, and so on.

Truth itself seems a casualty of modern Britain. Instead an ideology, a zeitgeist, is apparent, with politicians and the cultural “elite” seeming merely to repackage, in more sober language, the prejudices of a fascistic-Left: Take, for example, the support for Hamas by socialist street protestors, and the interview of Hamas’ leader in the New Statesman; or George Galloway’s call for protestors to “shut down Israel shops” and the Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs new labeling guidelines for Israeli products that would make them easier to boycott, and the open political propaganda that accompanied its labeling advice.

Below we have listed some of the most important events of the year, with particular attention paid to Islamism (and the backlash against it) and to party politics. Although I have listed events by month, some, such as protests, naturally reemerge at different time.

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Welcome to the USA!

By ROBERT STARK

The shooting at Ft. Hood by an American Muslim of Palestinian descent has sparked up much of the usual rhetoric about “Islamo-fascism.” Since 9/11 many Americans consider America at war with radical Islam and to some even the entire Muslim world. Some are even calling for banning Muslims from the military, which is unconstitutional.

There were many suspicious signs that the shooter Nidal Malik Hassan had radical beliefs, but political correctness kept those in positions of authority from taking action. Hassan had stated that he wanted out of the military and was even willing to offer financial compensation to leave. Hasan was set to be deployed to Iraq and did not want to go and kill fellow Muslims.

It is easy to take a knee-jerk reaction toward these type of tragedies, but much like 9/11 they are a product of our government’s policies. While some political hacks say we are hated for our freedom, the reality is that we are engaging in wars against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, unconditionally supporting Israel over the Palestinians, and continue to have our troops in Saudi Arabia, which Muslims consider Holy Land to protect oil interests. All of these along with the promotion of decadent immoral culture by Hollywood in the Muslim world are reasons that there is a rising tide of Islamic extremists who are willing to sacrifice their lives and freedom to kill Americans.

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By ROBERT STARK

In England, Justice Secretary Jack Straw of the Labour Party took on BNP leader Nick Griffin in a televised debate called Question Time that was watched by millions. Straw said he was “delighted to make the argument for people against the BNP.” Straw attacked Griffin as a racist, xenophobe, and a neo-Nazi. Straw said that any party that bases itself on race is wrong and beyond the pale and falsely accused Griffin of being a Holocaust denier. The Labour party has gone out of its way to vilify the BNP as a racist and fascist party.

During the debate Straw said, “There isn’t a constitutional obligation to appear on Question Time. That gives the BNP a legitimacy they do not deserve. These people believe in the things that the fascists believed in the Second World War, they believe in what the National Front believe in. They believe in the purity of the Aryan race. It is a foul and despicable party.”

While Griffin has views that some may find objectionable, unlike Straw he has never caused the direct loss of innocent life through his policies. Jack Straw is a major leader of the Labour Party and was foreign secretary under Tony Blair. He oversaw Britain’s role in the pre-emptive Iraq War, which some estimated put the loss of lives at up to a million Iraqi civilians. Even though Nick Griffin is anti-Muslim in the sense that he does not want Muslims immigrating to England, Straw is directly responsible for the deaths of up to a million Muslim civilians in Iraq.

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By DALE

What a difference a few months make.  During the election season Obama denied any link to Islam, blaming references to it on the Repulblican smear machine.  With the election safely behind him, now he lauds his Muslim roots.  What we didn’t know if how deep those roots really are.  Get the big picture here.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Appearing briefly on Fox’s Glenn Beck show Feb 23, 2009, Dutch Freedom Party MP, Geert Wilders said “we should throw out every bit of hate crime legislation that is ever proposed.” Why would he say this and why should we take him seriously?

Besides being asked to leave Great Britain on his arrival there, outcast Wilders is also slated for trial for his recent video production of his anti-Koran piece called “Fitna.” Wilders is a common sense kind of man with a strong heart for the principles of free speech and an eye for anything that smacks of the strangling of freedom under the feigned hypocrisy of political correctness.

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