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Mohammed: No 2 in Britain
2007-06-06
Posted in WOT, because maternity wards are a battlefront among others.
From the desk of The Brussels Journal
A quote from The [London] Times, 6 June 2007

Muhammad is now second only to Jack as the most popular name for baby boys in Britain and is likely to rise to No 1 by next year, a study by The Times has found. The name, if all 14 different spellings are included, was shared by 5,991 newborn boys last year, beating Thomas into third place, followed by Joshua and Oliver.
Posted by:anonymous5089

#9  Mohammed: No 2 in Britain

With a bullet?
Posted by: mojo   2007-06-06 15:43  

#8  not everyone named mohammed is someone with whom we are at war - see mohammed Karzai, for ex.

You mean the same Mohammed Karzai whose people we liberated and managed to help get elected president of Afghanistan? The same Mohammed Karzai who then signed the UN Charter? The same Mohammed Karzai whose nation has Articles 6 and 7 in its Constitution that say:
Article 6
The state is obliged to create a prosperous and progressive society based on social justice, protection of human dignity, protection of human rights, realization of democracy, and to ensure national unity and equality among all ethnic groups and tribes and to provide for balanced development in all areas of the country.

Article 7
(1) The state shall abide by the UN charter, international treaties, international conventions that Afghanistan has signed, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
[emphasis added]
You remember the Universal Declaration of Human rights, don't you? You know, the one with a certain Article 18 (which the current Afghan government even incorporated into its constitution). Article 18 reads:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
[emphasis added]

So, you mean the same Mohammed Karzai that did not face down remnant Taliban clerics in his judicial system while Abdul Rahman was threatened with beheading for converting from Islam to Christianity? Despite affirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

If you can't tell by now, Mohammed Karzai is no friend of the West. He may appear to be one right now, but that is no promise for the future. Like every other Muslim, his allegiance is to Islam first and always. That makes him our enemy. If you fail to comprehend this, there really isn't much hope.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-06 15:31  

#7  > Muhammed

The sooner the better.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-06-06 15:22  

#6  just to clarify - I did not above mean there are no people named mohammed we are at war with. Just that not everyone named mohammed is someone with whom we are at war - see mohammed Karzai, for ex.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-06-06 13:48  

#5  Since we are not at war with anyone named mohammed, this is quite off topic for WOT.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-06-06 13:17  

#4  Must be some crazy basketball region that Flanders (Vlammse)- since Kobe is now number 2. I wonder if the Lakers would consider trading him to the Antwerp Giants?
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-06-06 11:37  

#3  Its just going to be tougher to tell them apart. So, the only answer will be to kill them all. Wait, isnt't that what Herod, Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot tried? If anything, Europe will do what it always does when there is an internal threat to their homogony - become fascists. Its going to be either that or Muslim - I for one see no gray-middle-ground, unfortunately.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-06-06 11:24  

#2  Muhammad in Brussels
Submitted by Xavier Meulders on Wed, 2007-06-06 11:07.
One of the few advantages of the "federal system" in the baffling country of Belgium, is that the national statistic service (Statbel) also possesses regional data (not only for the whole kingdom, but also for Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels's region). And if you visit the website of statbel (see http://www.statbel.fgov.be/figures/d22a_nl.asp?r=8), one can clearly observate the fact that Muhammad (in Belgium often spelled as 'Mohamed') is the most popular name in Brussels since the very year 2000! The latest data available (concerning boys born in 2005) show us that the five most popular names in Brussels are Mohamed, Adam (a name which also appears in the Qur'an), Ayoub, Rayan and Mehdi. Quite impressive for "the capital of Europe", isn't it? However, I've got more the impression that Brussels is more becoming the new capital of a resurrected Ottoman Empire.

And if you look at the data for the whole Belgian empire, it's very obvious that Mohamed is ranking high. Whereas Mohamed ranked only 32rd in 2000, it's the 8th most popular first name in 2005!

I do not doubt that parents are free to choose the names for their children. However, the fact that 'Mohamed' (in all it's different ways of spelling) is becoming increasingly popular across Europe marks something. To our ruling elite to find out what...
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-06-06 10:56  

#1  They breed like rabbits and claim every benefit they can.Part of their Masterplan to takeover and bankrupt the West!!!!
Posted by: Paul   2007-06-06 10:56  

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