Stop apologising for being Christian
(23Dec05)“…Most Muslims I know enjoy our Christmas just as much as atheists such as I do, and they understand, as intelligent people, the place of the festival in our history, our culture and our way of life. No: the offence they are alleged to take about it is, instead, taken on their behalf by politically motivated wreckers, who do so without actually asking Muslims, or Jews, or atheists, whether they mind this sort of prejudice being promulgated in their names…” Stop apologising for being Christian by Simon Heffer Daily Telegraph “..The modern Left exercises a militant anti-Christianity not so much because of a cultural cringe in the face of immigrant minorities, but because of its general wish to dismantle history. Once you have erased Christianity, you have erased (or at least made appear irrelevant) much of the past 1,400 years…”
(21Dec05) “..Perhaps now after the revelations last Friday at a bail hearing in Melbourne , those that were railing against the anti-terror laws in recent months finally get it… Put simply, it would seem that there are some living among us who mean us harm… Serious, devastating harm” Jim Ball's Ben Brika Bail Hearing editorial “…Would the high-minded prefer to keep stumbling around in their fog of denial and delusion and wait for a bomb to go off before “bringing them to justice.” Unfortunately terrorism is not quite that neat and tidy…
The Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo
(21Dec05)“…Now for the first time, a key Pentagon intelligence agency involved in homeland security is delving into Islam's holy texts to answer whether Islam is being radicalized by the terrorists or is already radical….Are the terrorists really driven by self-serving politics and personal demons? Or are they driven by religion? And if it's religion, are they following a manual of war contained in their scripture?... The Pentagon Breaks the Islam Taboo By Paul Sperry in FrontPageMagazine.com “… Right now political leaders don't understand the true nature of the threat, it says, because the intelligence community has yet to educate them. They still think Muslim terrorists, even suicide bombers, are mindless "criminals" motivated by "hatred of our freedoms," rather than religious zealots motivated by their faith…”
(20Dec05) “.. defectors from Islam … are invaluable for those wishing to understand what some can't quite bring themselves to believe. In the same way, in the 1930s, some were content to dismiss and mock Hitler, to see him as a clown incapable of doing real damage.” The caliphate fantasy by Hugh Fitzgerald. “…And how could Imperial Japan ever think it might be able to attack and swallow, like a cobra, all of vast, undigestable China ?... Reading history had given Churchill an understanding that came not only from his own immediate experience, which was far beyond anything White House advisers, or think-tank "experts" or Fellows in thisandthat, have experienced today….”
Ban Asian marriages of cousins, says MP
(20Dec05) Marriages between cousins should be banned after research showed alarming rates in defective births among Asian communities in Britain, a Labour MP said last night…."We address problems of smoking, drinking, obesity and we say it's a public health issue, therefore we have to get involved with persuading people to adopt a different lifestyle," Ban Asian marriages of cousins, says MP from the UK Telegraph “..It is estimated that more than 55 per cent of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins, resulting in an increasing rate of genetic defects and high rates of infant mortality. The likelihood of unrelated couples having the same variant genes that cause recessive disorders are estimated to be 100-1. Between first cousins, the odds increase to as much as one in eight…”
Ghetto youth a multiculturalist legacy
(17Dec05)“..It wasn't the youths at Cronulla beach who decided that all Lebanese constitute an ethnic group. That was done for them by politicians, bureaucrats and academics in the name of constructing ethnic communities… Former Labor Government minister Barry Jones has admitted, immigration became ‘a tremendously important element' in building up a long-term, non-English-speaking political constituency for his party..” Ghetto youth a multiculturalist legacy by Keith Windschuttle The Australian . “ In the 1980s immigration policy switched from national interest to ethnic preference, from demographic and labour market need to family reunion. In the name of cultural diversity, the bureaucrats in charge used welfare and housing policy to promote ethnic community building…Ghetto culture for young men everywhere is characterised by interpersonal violence, sexual irresponsibility, incomplete education, substandard speech, a hypersensitivity about being disrespected and a feckless attitude towards work.”
A great divide takes some great understanding
(17Dec05) “..Understanding traditional social structures of the Lebanese would go a long way toward avoiding the racial clashes seen at Cronulla this week,” writes Paul Sheehan in A great divide takes some great understanding from the Sydney Morning Herald . “According to the last census, the Lebanese community in Sydney was 114,491 in 2001, so would be about 120,000 today, or 3 per cent of Sydney's population. About a third are Muslim. Ninety per cent were born overseas or have at least one foreign-born parent….Kennedy believes the social gulf has drifted to the point of social danger: The mismanagement of this situation by politicians, lawyers and police has taken us to the point where we could see violent civil disorder on a scale we have not seen before.”
(15Dec05) “…Middle Eastern immigrants have brought with them a religion that too often preaches rejection of the very society they've joined and too often glorifies violence….They also brought with them radical preachers, such as the Egyptian Hilali, the Lebanese Sheik Abdul Salam Zoud, the Jordanian Sheik Mohammed Omran and the Algerian Abdul Nacer Benbrika, the last now arrested, who spoke little English, but much hate..” It's time to think by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun “..Add the elements. A local surfing tribe. Beach invasions by another, more violent tribe. Weak policing. Handwringing politicians. A lookaway media. Feeble loyalties to authority. Beer. A particularly outrageous bashing. Fear….”
Jim Ball's Cronulla Gangs Editorial
(14Dec05)“..Make no mistake…we are beginning to reap the whirlwind of years, decades, of political and police timidity, of political and police inaction and inertia with far too greater emphasis on cultural sensitivity' Cronulla Gangs Editorial ‘…These jumped up punks are nothing less than the shock troops in a social and cultural Jihad…In the past it's been street by street, suburb by suburb, shopping centers and malls, then movie theatre strips…and now the beaches…”
Jim Ball's Culture and Race Editorial
(13Dec05) “..I'm becoming increasingly irritated and annoyed by the constant references to racism that continues to swirl around the events of last Sunday. It was grog fuelled yob behavior nothing less..” Culture and Race Editorial December 13 th 2005 . “..The reference to racism is for the intellectually lazy….A one-size-fits-all catch cry of convenience.
The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia
(13Dec05) “It was about 1995 to 1996 that the emergence of Middle Eastern crime groups was first observed in New South Wales. Before then they had been largely known for individual acts of anti-social behaviour and loose family structures involved in heroin importation and supply as well as motor vehicle theft and conversion….When the Middle Eastern crime groups emerged in the mid-to-late 1990s no alarms were set off. The Crime Intelligence unit was asleep. I know personally that operational police in south-west Sydney compiled enormous amounts of good intelligence on the formation of Lebanese groups such as the Telopea Street Boys and others in the Campsie, Lakemba, Fairfield and Punchbowl areas..” The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia by Tim Priest …
An example of the confrontations police nearly always experienced in Muslim-dominated areas when confronting even the most minor of crimes is an incident that occurred in 2001 in Auburn . Two uniformed officers stopped a motor vehicle containing three well known male offenders of Middle Eastern origin, on credible information via the police radio that indicated that the occupants of the vehicle had been involved in a series of break-and-enters. What occurred during the next few hours can only be described as frightening.
Israel wiped off the map at the UN
(5Dec05) If there were any doubt as to where the UN stands vis a vis wiping Israel off the map, the maps on display at the November 29, 2005 UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People should lay those doubts to rest.
Sinking into the past: A desperate nation living on the scrap heap
(5Dec05) “…Across Zimbabwe the scene is the same: townships that were once models for Africa have become stinking health hazards. The big cities are not much better. Some parts of Bulawayo have not had water for seven weeks. Refuse collection in Harare is sporadic. Power failures are routine….agricultural output — the mainstay of the economy — has dropped 80 per cent. Without dollars the Government cannot buy the £70,000 worth of parts it needs to fix the sewerage plant in Chitungwiza, where dozens of people have already contracted dysentery. It also cannot buy fuel….Air Zimbabwe cancelled all its flights for a day last week because of a lack of jet fuel..” Sinking into the past: A desperate nation living on the scrap heap from the TimesOnLine “…Prices have doubled in the past month. Annual inflation reached 411 per cent in October, according to official numbers. But, a supermarket chain, estimated that it was closer to 700 per cent, based on a typical shopping basket…Only 15 of the country's 175 railway locomotives are in running order… The hardship is tearing at the social fabric of a country where the life expectancy is now just 37… The IMF has refused credit unless urgent economic reform takes place. Donor countries have long closed their wallets…”
Belgian waitress turned Baghdad bomber
(4Dec05) This is beyond brainwashing…This is an infection, a disease
“..She came from an ordinary family in an industrial Belgian town. She used to sell baguettes in a bakery and worked as a waiter in a cafe…. As a teenager, Muriel was difficult…. As an adolescent, she dabbled in drugs, smoked, drank heavily and ran away from home…. She married and divorced a Turkish man and had a long relationship with an Algerian, who persuaded her to convert to Islam in 2001…” Belgian waitress turned Baghdad bomber by Anthony Browne and Rory Watson, The Australian “… Three years ago she met and married Issam Goris, who was born in Belgium to Moroccan parents, and followed him to Morocco …. She had become "more Muslim than Muslim, The religion was totally ingrained in her. She only lived for that…. According to conflicting reports, Muriel killed either only herself or six people in a suicide bombing in Baghdad on November 9. The same day, in a separate incident, her husband was shot dead by US troops before he could detonate his belt-bomb…."
(4Dec05) One of the most frequent charges is that President George W. Bush hyped a non-existent link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida…In 1998, for example, when the Clinton Justice Department indicted bin Laden, the writ read: "In addition, al-Qaida reached an understanding with the Government of Iraq that al-Qaida would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al-Qaida would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq." Terrorist and Tyrants by Victor Davis Hanson “…Then in October 2002, George Tenet — the Clinton-appointed CIA director — warned the Senate in similar terms: "We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida going back a decade…. Saddam worried little over the agendas of these diverse terrorist groups, only that they shared his own generic hatred of Western governments. This kind of support from leaders such as Saddam has proven crucial to radical, violent Islamicists' efforts..”
Multiculturalism and Its Discontents
(4Dec05)“..Having accepted the questionable ideals of multiculturalism, British policy for years has nurtured and even financially subsidized a separatist identity politics predicated on the crimes, guilt, and cultural inferiority of the West…. that in fact is what multiculturalism is really about — not respecting or celebrating cultural diversity, but indicting Western civilization for its imperial, colonial, racist, and sexist sins… Having voted with his feet for the superiority of America , the immigrant was required to become American, to learn the language, history, political principles, and civic customs that identified an American as American…” Multiculturalism and Its Discontents by Bruce Thonton “…That meant that if some custom, value, or belief of the old country conflicted with those core values, then that old way had to be modified or discarded. The immigrant had to adjust, not the larger culture, and no one demanded the reverse: that the majority culture modify its values to accommodate the immigrant… But something has happened in the last forty years to compromise this process. The ideology of multiculturalism colonized the schools and popular culture, and its message is precisely the wrong one for those trying to forge a common national identity out of a multitude of cultures…”
(2Dec05) “…You'd think a sensible man would realise these laws, (religious vilification) introduced in 2001, should be scrapped, given the strife they've caused in what was a wonderfully tolerant state…Most notoriously, these laws caused two Christian pastors to be punished for, in large part, simply quoting the Koran to their followers in a way the judge found got "a response from the audience at various times in the form laughter…" More Weasel Words by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun “…Let's go through the Government's (recent) proposals so you can see what it has in store for those who speak frankly….The Government's proposed change might save some defendants the cost of a full VCAT hearing, but the crank still gets two free whacks at you…As I said, Steve Bracks has broken his promise to make his laws less sinister. But worse, he has made it even more dangerous for us to speak our mind on some of the most pressing issues before us – religion and culture. How oppressive. How divisive. How deceitful…”
The Left's Secret Pact: Subverting the War on Terror
(2Dec05)“…The Left's dislike of capitalism naturally extends to the whole of Western civilization as the two are indelibly and inextricably tied….In the Left's worldview, then, the two great villains on this earth are capitalism and the West. As such, they need to be brought down and taken out of existence, which is precisely what the western Left has been trying to accomplish for the past one hundred years or so….Never in doubt where they stood, the Left tried to tip the scales in the Soviets' favor by weakening the West from within. Their strategy was twofold: To dull the West's fighting spirit and to undercut its military power….To render us ineffective militarily, they strenuously opposed any effort to increase our strength or preparedness. Claiming it would only provoke the other side to an all-out nuclear confrontation, they eagerly advocated military cuts in order to demonstrate good will…This changed dramatically on September 11, 2001 when Islamic radicals burst on the scene in a spectacular fashion….” The Left's Secret Pact: Subverting the War on Terror from The American Thinker. “…Their attack and subsequent statements left no doubt about their goal – the annihilation of Western civilization. And like communists before them, they see capitalism as the source of our evil which is something their choice of target made painfully clear…Sensing the opportunity, the Left immediately sprang to action. The first order of business was to dampen the retaliatory wrath of the United States…Since then the Left has done everything it could to undermine our efforts in the War on Terror…Pacifism in the face of a determined adversary is always fatal. The Left knows it, which is why it advocates it…The Left's treachery accounts for why four years after September 11 most western nations are not only unwilling to confront the enemy who openly calls for their destruction, but impugn the one country disposed to do something about it…The depth and extent of the Left's deceit will become clear once it is understood how their shared views on our society make them a stealth ally of Islamic radicals…”
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