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The UK’s Islamic Warning to the World

February 2, 2009
By Christopher Logan
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Chris blogs at islaminaction08.blogspot.com
For years many people have been saying that the people of the U.S. should look to Europe to see what is coming our way in regards to Islam and Muslim immigration. The reason being that the Muslim population is higher there, but we are not far behind.  Many Muslims see that they can use the freedoms of the West against us to slowly get the West to suit Islam. While most of Europe is having problems with their Islamic communities, the island of the UK has it the worst.

Over the years the Islamic community of the UK has had an endless list of demands, some of them were store workers not wanting to touch a Bible because it is “filthy” or cigarettes because they are un-Islamic to suing supermarkets because a Muslim worker had to handle closed bottles of alcohol. Some Muslim cab drivers even refused to allow passengers into their cabs because they were accompanied by a seeing-eye dog.
In acts of appeasement the Muslims of the UK were given special housing that catered to the dietary needs of Muslims. Banks implemented Sharia banking, toilets in the prisons were rearranged to accommodate Islam as Muslims cannot face Mecca while going to the bathroom and some public schools started serving only halal meat. A cemetery was even built under Islamic tradition with no concerns for the beliefs of the Christians and Jews being buried there.
Unfortunately for the UK none of this was enough, as the demands from the Islamic community got even more outrageous.  Examples of these demands ranged from the baning of un-Islamic activities in school such as dance classes, co-ed swimming, co-ed school trips, and art classes which include the drawing of human figures. They also wanted their own Sharia Courts. The school demands were not yet met, but the Sharia Courts were. As usual that was not enough as Muslim leaders are now calling for Sharia law to be enforced on all non-Muslims there. In many parts of the UK Muslims clearly control the streets.                 
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In Europe this problem is not exclusive to the UK as pointed out in this video interview with Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
A Powerful Message from Geert Wilders, Must See

Nor it is exclusive to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean as the demands of Muslims are being met here also. They have been given foot-washing basins Muslim only pool times, and extra break times given at work so that they can pray. Calls to prayers are being broadcast on loudspeakers outside of Mosques in several states, and they even have their first Sharia Court which is stationed in Texas.
The call for Sharia law has started in Phoenix, and a leading DC Imam has stated that North America will fall to Islam by 2050 the latest. Will we awaken to the similarities of the UK and US, and more importantly are we willing to stand up for life as we know it for our families future generations? Time will tell.
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Christopher Logan runs his own blog, Islam in Action updated daily the latest news following Islam and the very real threat to Western civilization and our freedoms. 

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By Spengler
“My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives,” United States President Barack Obama told an Arabic television channel on January 26. Really? What are their names? Word has come to the West of no extraordinary Muslim thinker since the 12th century. There is one first-rank Arab writer working today who tries to explain why there are no extraordinary Muslims - but on that more below.
By “extraordinary”, to be sure, Obama means no more than Garrison Keillor meant in saying that the children of Lake Wobegon all are above average. There is no “there” in Obama’s “patchwork”, as he characterized America in his inaugural

address. America is all patches and no quilt, arranged in no particular order, as in his remark in the same interview that America is “a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers”. Everyone is ordinary, or maybe extraordinary - whatever. If Obama had said that “the Muslim world is filled with ordinary people, etc”, his meaning would have been clearer.
It’s worth holding Obama to his words, though. In the real world, the ordinary depends on the extraordinary, for it is the extraordinary citizens of a nation who set a mark for the aspirations of ordinary people. Cultures that can’t produce extraordinary individuals can’t survive. That bears on the other half of the president’s assertion. It is true that most Muslims simply want a better life, and the two or three million American Muslims mostly are well-educated economic immigrants who value prosperity over tradition.
But it also is true that among the 1.4 billion Muslims in the world there are tens of millions who would rather kill and die than endure what they perceive as an intolerable humiliation. The majority of Muslims will be content to eat crumbs from the table of the West and conform to the misery of their circumstances. It is the substantial minority that will not be content that should worry Obama.
The failsafe definition of an “extraordinary person” is what an ambitious mother will tell her feckless children, “Work hard and you might grow up to be like him (or her).” Successful cultures produce people whose contributions resonate through the world - scientists, poets, musicians, entrepreneurs, or philosophers. Just one great individual can transform a nation, by setting an example for ambitious youth. Thanks to the composer Jan Sibelius, Finland with just 5 million people became a force in the world of classical music. But woe unto cultures whence comes no contribution to the rest of humanity. Where are the Muslim scientists, novelists, entrepreneurs, athletes and musicians?
Apart from political leaders, a reasonably diligent reader of a quality newspaper in the West will not be able to name a single Muslim distinguished in any field of human endeavor. Excluding the politically awarded Peace Prize, Muslims have won only three Nobel prizes since their inception more than a century ago, or one for every 450 million Muslims alive today. By contrast, there have been 169 Jewish Nobel Laureates (excluding the Peace Prize), or about one for every 89,000 Jews alive today. During the past century, a Jew was 5,000 times more likely to win the Nobel than a Muslim.
The last native of a Muslim country to receive the Nobel was the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, a secular critic of his native country now living in New York City in virtual exile, unable to return to Istanbul in safety. I favorably reviewed his last novel Snow. Only one Muslim writer today is mentioned as a frontrunner for the literature prize today: the Syrian poet Adonis (the pen-name of Ali Ahmad Sa’id), whom I profiled (Are the Arabs already extinct? Asia Times Online, May 8, 2007).
Adonis is a man whom the world should know better. Almost singlehanded, he created a modernist poetic style in Arabic that vividly conveys the terror of the Muslim encounter with the modern world.
Adonis calls his work an obituary for the Arabs. “We have become extinct,” he told Dubai television on March 11, 2007. “We have the masses of people, but a people becomes extinct when it no longer has a creative capacity, and the capacity to change its world … The great Sumerians became extinct, the great Greeks became extinct, and the Pharaohs became extinct.”
Islam itself destroys the creative of Muslims, Adonis argues: “Because Islam - the last message sent by God to mankind - has placed the final seal on the Divine Word, successive words are incapable of bringing humankind anything new. A new message would imply that the Islamic message did not say everything, that it is imperfect.” The most melancholy Slav sounds like Jerry Seinfeld next to this poet of despair.
The blame for Islamic backwardness, Adonis claims, lies in the concept of “oneness,” or tawhid, of Allah. “Oneness” conveys not just monotheism, but exclusionary comprehensiveness; it refers more to totality than to unity. As the leading European Islamist Tariq Ramadan explains tawhid, for a right-thinking Muslim, it is literally inconceivable to raise doubts about God. A Muslim, Ramadan explains, might forget, but he cannot doubt.
The trouble with a religion that permits no doubt - unlike Christianity, of which Pope Benedict XVI said that “doubt is the handmaiden of faith” - is that it becomes an all-or-nothing proposition. Either Islam regulates the totality of life and thought, such that questioning may intrude within its magic circle, or it becomes nothing. Islam is inseparable from the traditional life of subject peoples; it cannot find roots in the thin soil of modernity.
Measuring modernity is difficult, especially because its onset in the Muslim world is sudden, but there is one unerring gauge of social transformation that shows how quickly Muslim societies are changing. That is population.
Thrust into the modern world, Muslims are overtaking the West only in one dimension: they are aging, and aging faster than any other part of the world. Iran is the fastest-aging country on the globe. The developed world today has a median age of almost 40, the sad result of two generations of demographic decline, while the largest Muslim countries have a median age of 25. But by the middle of the century, according to United Nations projections, the average age of the largest Muslim countries will be 47, converging on the aging industrial world.

Only with extreme difficulty will the developed countries manage the burden of a rapidly aging population. It is hard to envisage how the much-poorer Muslim world will manage it at all. The potential for civil as well as regional instability will continue to rise. Increasingly, the Muslims find themselves with the worst of both worlds, that is, with the same dependency profile as the populations of the West, but without the wealth or the capacity to generate wealth that gives the West some wiggle room.
Japan may have a declining population, but it is a wealthy land with enormous inventiveness and the capacity to substitute capital for labor. Excepting Turkey, no Muslim country has a single industrial company that can compete on world markets. The Muslim world thus far has failed to produce the sort of extraordinary men and women who can innovate and adapt.
Shrinking resources and growing need are a formula for social and regional instability. Iran’s insistence on acquiring nuclear weapons stems from more than a paranoid antipathy to the state of Israel. Iran looks wistfully towards the far shore of the Persian Gulf where Saudi Shi’ites dominate the monarchy’s main oil-producing regions. Fifty million aging Persians, for that matter, might be more concerned about 175 million young Pakistanis to their east than about Israel.
Most Muslims want to better their lives, as Obama said, but their lives are getting worse rather than better, and nothing they know can make things better. In theory, there might be a future state of the world in which the Islamic world could live in peace and prosperity, but today’s Muslims cannot get there from here.
In dozens of essays during the past five years, I excoriated former president George W Bush for imaging that he could fix the problems of the Muslim world by promoting American-style democracy. If Obama spends more time reassuring, and less time trying to fix the Muslim world, he will do better, by default. America’s policy towards the incurables should be to live and let die.
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Dr. Sami Alrabaa

Prosecuting Geert Wilders, member of the Dutch Parliament, is a welcome opportunity to expose fascist Islam and radical Muslims. Wilders and his lawyers do not need to go far away to fetch crystal clear evidence that Islam, i.e. the Koran and Hadeeth, incite to violence and hatred, and radical Muslims are behind numerous crimes against humanity.

A summary of quotations from the Koran which clearly incite to hatred and violence can be found here.

There is an abundance of fatwas (religious edicts) by Muslim authorities inciting to genocide and suicide attacks against Christians and Jews. All these fatwas are based on the Koran and Hadeeth.

Ali Gom’a, the grand mufti of Egypt, the highest Muslim religious authority in the world, supports murdering non-Muslims. In the daily Al Ahram (April 7, 2008), he says, “Muslims must kill non-believers wherever they are unless they convert to Islam.” He also compares non-Muslims to apes and pigs, not only the Jews.

Muhammad Sayyid Al Tantawi, president of Al Azhar University also approves of killing and maiming Christians, Jews, and other infidels. He added, “This is not my personal view. This what the Shari’a Law says, the law of Allah, the only valid law on the earth.”

Yousef Al Qaradhawi, the spiritual leader of the fundamentalist organization, the Muslim Brothers, urged on Al Jazeera TV (Jan. 9, 2009) Muslims to kill the Jews, not only in Israel but also worldwide. He added, “No peace can be made between us (Muslims) and the non-believers. This what our holy book says. This what Allah says.”  

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Bin Mohammed al Sheikh said on Iqra’ TV channel, “Killing producers who show women unveiled is legal.” 

The Saudi Sheikh Saleh Al-Lehadan, head of the Supreme Judiciary Council, told Al Watan daily, (March 25, 2008) “After getting rid of the Jews in our Arab land, we must turn to the Christians. They have three options: either they convert to Islam, or leave, or pay Jizia (protection taxes). Further, there is not such a thing as Shiites, Sufis, etc. There are only Sunnis. All these sects must renounce their pagan beliefs and return to Sunna, the right path of Islam.”

Most recently, demonstrators in Berlin and Munich, and elsewhere in Germany, raised banners reading, “Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the gas.” The police did not arrest any one of them and nobody filed a court case against them for inciting to murder, which according to German law is punishable.

German apologists like Claudia Roth and Cem Ozdemir (a Muslim of a Turkish decent), chairpersons of the German Green Party, said in a press conference in Berlin (January 20, 2009), “Wilders’ film “Fitna” has contributed to worsening our relations with the Muslims around the globe. Geert Wilders is hurting the feelings of Muslims.”

I said in the conference, “This is not true. I know many Muslims who approve of Wilders’ critique of Islam. They do not feel offended. Only fascist Muslims feel so.” Roth and Ozdemir ignored my remark.  

The truth of the matter is Fitna is simply reflecting how radical Muslims think and act, inspired and encouraged by the Koran.

Wilders’ comparison of the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and describing it as a fascist book is not inappropriate. Hitler referred to the Jews as “rats and vermin” and the Koran and fascist Muslims call the Jews “The descendants of apes and pigs.”  

It is not Wilders who should be prosecuted, but people like Gom’s, Al Qaradhawi and their peers. They must be brought to justice before the International Tribunal. Inciting to genocide is an egregious crime.

Many Westerners are intimidated by fascist Muslims and that is what the latter want to achieve at the end of the day. Ahmed Marcouch, a prominent member of the Dutch Labor Party, of Moroccan descent, asked in 2008 an Amsterdam court to bring Muslim fascists to the Netherlands and prosecute them. His petition was turned down.  

Marcouch told ARD, German TV (December 19, 2008), “Not only many Westerners approve of Fitna, but also many decent Muslims like me, but they dare not say that openly. Fascist Islam is a virus that is not only infecting Western societies, but also Muslim societies. This virus must be exposed and dealt with by all means.”

Wilders is simply warning the West and moderate Muslims that fascist Islam is a devastating threat to humanity. This virus was born in the Arabian Peninsula and is spreading across the world.  

Wilders’ prosecution is a defining point in the clash between fascist Muslims and the rest of the world. Regardless whether he is convicted or not, he must be thanked for his courage. He is simply disseminating the truth about a violent and hate-inciting “religion.” His message is very clear: “Westerners, wake up before it is too late.”

Zaghlul Al Najjar rejoices in the rise and spread of Islam across the globe. He writes in the Egyptian daily Al Ahram (November 14, 2008), “Islam now is everywhere. Gorgeous mosques are build everywhere in the heart of Europe, in Rome and Cologne. The number of Muslims all over the world is also rising. More than 20 million Muslims live now in Europe. Alone in Germany there are 3.5. Demographers estimate that the majority of citizens in Germany will be Muslims in the year 2050. Two decades ago very few women wore the Hijab (headscarf). Now you can see them everywhere. Sooner or later, Islam will be in control of the whole world. This time, we don’t need to fight the infidel West with our troops as we did at the gates of Vienna. This time we’ll infiltrate the West and convert it to Islam, willy-nilly.”

Tarek Ramadan visited the Islamic Center in Bilelefeld, Germany (May 21, 2008) and gave a speech. Before he began his speech, he asked if there were any journalists in audience. As the answer was negative, he said, “OK, now I feel free to say what I really want.” Ramadan is well-known for telling his infidel audience something and his Muslim audience another thing. 

Ramadan said, “My brothers and sisters, we must exploit the so-called democracy and freedom of speech here in the West to reach our goals. Our Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the Koran teach us that we must use every conceivable means and opportunity to defeat the enemies of Allah. Tell the infidels in public, we respect your laws and your constitutions, which we Muslims believe that these are as worthless as the paper they are written on. The only law we must respect and apply is the Shari’s.”

Ramadan added, “The Germans claim that they want to integrate you in their society. We tell them we are going to integrate them in our Umma (Muslim world) after converting them to Islam.”

If Wilders wins his case, it will not be only his own triumph, but also one for all peace-loving people all over the world.

If Wilders loses then fascist Muslims have managed to silence Islam’s critics and consequently a “Dutch court has imported Saudi blasphemy norms to Europe,” as the Wall Street Journal put it.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a professor of Sociology  and an Arab-Muslim culture specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University.

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Oh, the niqab – that veil that covers everything but a woman’s eyes – how you are held up to be everything to everyone at all times.

Feb 03, 2009 04:30 AM

Iain Marlow

Like the  hijab , its more liberal cousin, the  niqab  arouses controversy at every turn in modern democratic states – especially when it jars cherished institutions such as Parliament, the courts, or schools.

In Toronto, in a case currently before the courts, a judge has ordered a woman testifying in a sexual assault case to do so without her niqab.

She protested, saying it was an issue of modesty and comfort – of Islam.

But Ontario Court Justice Norris Weisman ruled that it was more an issue of comfort than religious freedom, and that she must show her face.

THE REALIST

Saira Zuberi
Toronto-based minority rights activist

“This is one of those contentious things, because most people don’t actually believe it’s a requirement and there are those who actually believe that they have to do it.

“It’s like the case in the election (with voters having to unveil).

“It really ends up being a little bit of a tempest in a teacup. You’ve got this tiny percentage of people that it applies to; it’s minuscule. You’re talking about Muslim women voters who happen to also wear niqab who would actually refuse to identify themselves. This tiny percentage.

“And they’re not actually contravening the law, because there are thousands of people who vote by mail, who are not required to show ID.

“It just ends up being a lightning rod for those people who get angry because, `Oh, we’re making too many concessions for all these people …’ You know?

“I don’t think it’s a huge number of people who are asking for this.”

THE PRAGMATIST

Shahina Siddiqui
President of the Islamic Social Services Association

“There’s a law of necessity in Islam, where you can relax what your understanding of the requirements are.” If there are reasons of security or law, exceptions can be made, “and that’s why they (unveil) for driver’s licence, for passports and for crossing borders.”

“I’ve travelled with women who wear niqab and at airports they do remove it. And some will say, `Oh, can I do it in front of a woman attendant?’ And some don’t bother with that either … It can be done, even in Muslim countries. When they’re required to, they do it.”

Since the case on trial was a sexual assault, “For her, it’s her security blanket … I would say the judge should take that into account. And I don’t know if she’s an immigrant or a new refugee … As a social worker I always try to look at all the variables.

“I mean, it is a religious obligation, but in this case it’s also an added question of how secure she feels. But generally speaking, exceptions can be made. The issue is, is this that case?”

THE ETHICIST

Alia Hogben
Executive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women

“It is not a religious requirement to cover your face. That’s put very simply. Some women do this because they think it’s more modest.

“It’s about modesty for both women and men – don’t flaunt yourself, dress modestly, etc.

“But the emphasis seems to have shifted, to focus on women rather than men. And a lot of women are interpreting it, or are having it interpreted for them, that modesty means covering yourself. That’s a personal choice a Muslim woman makes. It is not a religious directive.

“The judge sounds like he carefully considered it all and felt that it was important that her face be seen in court.

“When there’s been some sensitivity … they have done (testimony) in other rooms, particularly for children, instead of having to face the whole court….

“If this woman is frightened … then that’s another question … And that should be addressed, absolutely. But covering her face in an open court is not necessary.”

OTHER CASES

In the U.K., one magistrate stormed out of a Manchester court when faced with a veiled defendant and another judge adjourned because he said he could not hear a veiled Muslim lawyer’s muffled voice.

Soon after, in 2007, a judges’ advisory panel said judges should use discretion, and could choose other options – such as a live link or clearing the public gallery – instead of forcing a woman to unveil.

In Canada, without any veiled Muslim woman contesting election regulations, the niqab became an issue in 2007 among politicians, election officials and the media.

It surfaced again briefly in the election of 2008, when Canada’s chief electoral officer said a veiled voter would have to swear a special oath if she didn’t remove her veil.

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