From the desk of Fjordman
In March this year, native Dutch residents of the city of Utrecht rioted to protest against harassment by Muslim youths and government inaction to stop this. The authorities immediately suppressed the riots by sealing off the area and installing surveillance cameras to control Dutch non-Muslims, but they have done virtually nothing to address the underlying problem of Muslim violence. And this is far from unique to the Netherlands.
Sweden experienced a quadrupling in the number of rape charges in the space of a single generation. Yet Sweden's largest newspaper Aftonbladet recently indicated that the spike in rape numbers was due to the "warm weather," which would presumably mean that these rapes are caused by global warming. The fact that many of the suspects have a Muslim background is purely coincidental, no doubt.
The Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander is worried about the "sharp tone" of the debate surrounding Muslim immigration, and reminds his countrymen that "speech is silver, silence is golden." Apparently, the rest of the Dutch political class shares this view, relieved that Pim Fortuyn was silenced and Ayaan Hirsi Ali was driven out of the country.
I hear some observers say that the political elites in Western Europe are "powerless" to stop Jihad street violence. But they are extremely aggressive in suppressing criticism of continued Muslim immigration, which indicates that they are not powerless, they are actively hostile to native non-Muslims. It's time Europeans realize that, and act accordingly.
This is from yesterdays Dutch press:
Dozens of boys and girls have been systematically abused, intimidated and molested by a group of older boys in the Utrecht neighbourhood of Overvecht for almost a year, the Telegraaf reports. Municipal council member Bouchra Dibi (Labour PvdA) investigated the incidents taking place at the playground near the Neckardreef in Overvecht.
Children aged 8, 9 and 10 were dragged into the bushes and coerced into performing sexual acts on boys a few years older. Most of the children involved are of Moroccan background, the newspaper reports. The municipal council member told the Telegraaf that the problems are not being addressed. "This has been going on for almost a year. People just talk and talk and talk. And nothing is done," she said.
Social workers, police and the municipality do not know how to approach the parents, Dibi says. "These sorts of things are taboo to talk about in the Moroccan community." Utrecht Mayor Annie Brouwer-Korf (PvdA) acknowledges that there have been problems among children since the end of last year. "Intimidation, threats and fights, and, since the beginning of this year we have seen signals of sexual abuse. A report of sexual molestation by children has been passed on to the public prosecution department," the mayor says.
Brouwer says it is difficult to get an idea of how widespread the abuses are because there is no concrete information on suspects, victims and locations. Council member Dibi says this is mainly due to parents' hesitance to report incidents. "Parents do not dare say anything because they are afraid of the perpetrators. There is a great deal of fear. That is why they don't always report these things."
Meanwhile the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) tries to silence Ehsan Jami, a Muslim apostate who is a local Labour politician in Leidschendam-Voorburg. The 22 year old Jami intends to establish an international organization of ex-Muslims. An internal memo [pdf], sent to Labour parliamentarians and ministers, shows that the party fears that Jamis campaign will cause it electoral damage and enrage Muslims. The party wants Jami to consider the fact that his initiative will go down badly with the PvdAs immigrant following. The Dutch press revealed that Jami received hate mail from PvdA executives.
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As Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Death may become Sir Salman Rushdie, but that certainly doesn't mean he's in any hurry to get there.
Voltaire also wrote "Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet".
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I tried several times to post the review here, but keep getting the Roadside America crapola. There is also a video at YouTube, headlined Salman Rushdie zapped by divine retribution Lollywood style.
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Sometimes I wonder if that fat, lying, sleazy criminal POS Kennedy isn't TRYING to piss someone off badly enough to shoot him
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The Donks see endless Mexican voters thankful for their amnesty and handouts. The Prez (via Rovian analysis) sees Mexican voters AND cheap labor for greedy businesses, but both the Donks and teh Prez assume we, the public, won't notice the school taxes, hospital bills, et al, WE are paying because that's one thing Americans do that illegals won't do.
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The Mexicans and other Central American people are living a socialist life in America. They work, but healthcare, education, etc. is free, and they don't have to pay taxes, since they are "illegal".
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Moreover, it has been estimated that about 190,000 illegal immigrants from countries that sponsor terrorism have melted into our U.S. population in 2004 alone.
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Gawd I am sick and tired of the MSM's never-ending sound loop of "this will anger Hispanic voters". Bull shit. I live in San Antonio, which of course has a HUGE Hispanic population. Except for LULAC, the typical latino-liberal groups, and the illegals on the south side, most Hispanics here are glad to see amnesty go down in flames.
Besides, if it's all the same to you Mr. Bush, I'm not quite ready for the the entire culture of my country to change just yet.
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Hmm... It seems that the USA has it's own version of a EU constitution problem. How to ignore all the "little people" while you plan to shake them down for more loot.
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Sorry, but the last paragraph in the article cracks me up. Ol' Teddy would never get around to where the little people live, drunk or sober. And if he ever did end up there by mistake, he could care less what happens to the great unwashed.
Rudy Giuliani says he's ready to head down to Capitol Hill and testify before Rep. Jerrold Nadler's (D-Manhattan) pack of legislative hyenas about what the city did and didn't do at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following 9/11.
Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman was raked over the coals last week by Nadler and his fellow Democrats on a House subcommittee looking into public-health issues arising from the terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) tried to goad the former New Jersey governor into indicting Giuliani for failing to follow her advice that Ground Zero workers wear protective gear. But Giuliani himself hasn't been asked to appear - and likely won't be. Why not?
It's not as if the former mayor is reluctant to testify - far from it. "I would tell people the truth if I were called, and I'd tell them what I know," Giuliani said when asked if he would appear.
A Nadler spokesman claims Giuliani hasn't been invited to testify because the hearing's "focus is on the federal government's response." In other words, it's another Bush-bashing exercise - long on angry denunciation, short on investigation - and testimony by Giuliani might mess up the plan.
Then again, there may be another reason why no one is anxious for Giuliani to appear: Namely, that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't want her fellow presidential candidate to have a platform to talk about 9/11. Clinton, after all, held her own congressional hearing back in March on the health of 9/11 workers - and Giuliani was notably absent from that one, too.
To hear Nadler & Co. tell it, Downtown New York should have been shut down and sealed tight for months, maybe even years, until there was zero chance of any toxicity in the air. (Unlike, say, any day that traffic backs up into West Street from the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel - which is to say, just about every day.) As Nicole Gelinas rightly noted on these pages Wednesday, such a decision would have forced thousands of residents and businesses to relocate - devastating Downtown.
As mayor, Giuliani was responsible for demonstrating to the world that the city would rebound from 9/11 - that it would rebuild. (Compare what he accomplished to the pitiful efforts of post-Katrina New Orleans and its mayor.)
Was the city at fault for failing to force rescue workers to wear respirators and other protective gear? It's a legitimate question for Giuliani. But before it can be asked, he'll need to be invited to testify. Whatever is Jerry Nadler waiting for, anyway?
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If he isn't already, I hope this puts this asswipe on the FBI watchlist. Should be monitoring his mail, email, phone, bank accounts, any personal contacts, etc. This f**kup stuck his head out, so I hope they chop it off.
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CAIR's evolving tactics... After 9/11, we heard the "religion" was "hijacked" and was a religion of peace. We were "invited" to learn about islam and build bridges. Many in the civilized world took the advice...we learned and discovered the truth about this "religion". Now, the tactics change yet again and we're told that the death and destruction reigned upon the world by the religion of peace is our fault because of our "politics".
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Islamists have always said, throughout the centuries, that if infidels fail to subject themselves to Allah, the war Muslims bring against the infidel was the infidel's fault.
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"the main cause of suicide terrorism is the presence of U.S. and Western combat forces on the Arabian Peninsula."
And their objection to foreign presence is motivated by what, exactly? And which religion do they exploit to build on this otherwise unfounded objection the necessary hate to create a suicide bomber?
And I've always wondered why Christian arabs don't get involved in this kind of thing with western countries.
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The problem is that islam is both a religion and a political ideology. The religion and the ideology are inextricably intertwined. I don't know that one can be separated from the other. We need to determine whether or not the ideology and the religion can be amputated. There is no First Amendment control and they certainly don't care about such notions.
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Considering that 90% of CAIR's members have bailed on them since 9/11, I'm not sure he speaks for anyone but himself and a dozen of his closest friends.
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As usual, the Lal Masjid vigilantes stole the media spotlight this week as well by challenging the state writ and then escaping unpunished. This time, Chinese nationals running a massage centre in the posh F-8 locality were the target. After getting it confirmed from their own sources that the place was being used as a brothel, the self-styled Sharia enforcers brandishing batons and weapons raided the massage centre in the dark hours of Saturday.
Unmindful of the fallout of their action on the countrys decades long relations with China, the male and female vigilantes forced their way into the building, seized the prostitutes and their clients by the lock and dragged them out in the open. With no police and Rangers in sight, the young seminarians thrashed the sinful folk to their hearts content. The cries of the victims pulled in many from the neighbourhood including security guards, but seeing the situation they preferred to stay away. The drama of punishing people with bad morals on the spot lasted for almost half an hour before they were bundled into vehicles and taken to Lal Masjid.
After listening to the moral lessons for more than 12 hours, the hostages were set free. However, the Chinese women were wearing burqas when they got out of the seminary.
The incident horrified the foreigners based in Islamabad prompting their governments to push Islamabad for an action against the students of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa. In order to satisfy the governments of the friendly countries, especially of China, the city police booked the top cleric of the mosque and his deputy for kidnapping the Chinese and a few Pakistanis. But neither the clerics nor their students faced any action for reasons not explained by the government.
This is not for the first time that the Jamia Fareedia and Jamia Hafsa students have flouted laws. However, the foreigners have become their targets for the first time in the last six months of their drive to Talibanise Islamabad.
The officials of the capital police dread to pass by the Lal Masjid and prefer to go to police lines rather than serve at Aabpara police station. Police sources said that the total strength of Aabpara police station is 195 and majority of them want to be transferred somewhere else. On Thursday, the students of Lal Masjid reportedly made an attempt to raid yet another massage centre in G-6/4 run by an influential personality. Fortunately, the city police rushed to the spot forcing the vigilantes to flee.
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Two facts about the coming century are agreed on by almost everyone. Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Biology is also more important than physics, as measured by its economic consequences, by its ethical implications, or by its effects on human welfare.
These facts raise an interesting question. Will the domestication of high technology, which we have seen marching from triumph to triumph with the advent of personal computers and GPS receivers and digital cameras, soon be extended from physical technology to biotechnology? I believe that the answer to this question is yes. Here I am bold enough to make a definite prediction. I predict that the domestication of biotechnology will dominate our lives during the next fifty years at least as much as the domestication of computers has dominated our lives during the previous fifty years.....
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Dyson was a great physicist, but this article is driven by a utopian, socialistic POV. His bioscience predictions seem faulty to me, but they are so far off base that I'm not going to bother to take the time to critic them.
Playing 'biotech' games instead of 'computer' games?? Whatever is he talking about? "The kid whose egg hatches the cutest dinosar"?? He's losing it.
Via Instapundit.
Al Qaeda operations continue to decline, as the number of al Qaeda members, and leaders killed or captured, goes up. . . . Al Qaeda is having some success in the Western media, and among Moslems living in Europe. But those expatriate Moslems are handicapped by many of their brethren who are not enthusiastic about Islamic terrorism. The police get tips, make arrests, and al Qaeda loses a few more true believers. Al Qaeda is desperate for another highly visible attack in the West. Many such operations are apparently being planned, but by amateurs who can get no help from al Qaeda experts. Most of al Qaeda's traveling experts are dead or in prison. In my inexpert opinion, I've thought Strategy Page analyses like this run hot and cold, but many of you have a much better understanding of such things. Wouldn't it be lovely if S.P. are right!
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From the article: "According to the new post-Christian creed, we are told to feel vaguely guilty all the time for some unnamed sins. This makes us weak to resist attacks from outside because we will always feel that any act of aggression is justified. This guilt complex is destroying us, leaving us mentally disarmed in front of every enemy."
This is due to a widespread Western drive towards cultural suicide & is only peripherally related to Christianity. The Islamist drive to raise hell in the Dar al-Harb is also tending toward suicide of that culture but by a different mechanism.
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As usual, the Lal Masjid vigilantes stole the media spotlight this week as well by challenging the state writ and then escaping unpunished. This time, Chinese nationals running a massage centre in the posh F-8 locality were the target. After getting it confirmed from their own sources that the place was being used as a brothel, the self-styled Sharia enforcers brandishing batons and weapons raided the massage centre in the dark hours of Saturday. 
