Jihadi Du Jour

Friday, October 13, 2006

Ruth Kelly Speaks on Islam

An analysis of Communtities Secretary Ruth Kelly's speech (read text) is presented here.

Also from the Muslim Council of Britain's website:

Ruth Kelly's speech yesterday to an invited Muslim audience contained much that was sensible. On the contentious issue of the niqab (face-veil), for example, she said: "This is ultimately an issue of informed personal choice. No-one is suggesting that in a free and democratic country the state should decide what its citizens can and cannot wear..."

She was also half-right, in my view, in reminding her listeners that: "Britain is a good place to be a Muslim. British Muslims are central to our political, business and social life. There are an increasing number of Muslims in the armed forces, in the police and in parliament."

I say only half-right, because as the secretary of state for communities and local government, it is of no little concern that she did not take this opportunity to also express her thoughts on the worrying anti-Muslim climate being deliberately stoked by some sections of the British media. Just recall some of the ridiculous stories that have qualified as national news in recent weeks and the harmful impact they will have had on perceptions of, and attitudes towards, ordinary British Muslims.

However, her speech will primarily be remembered for her pledge to financially support those groups which were actively committed to tackling extremism and her not so veiled criticism of the Muslim Council of Britain for its stance over the Holocaust Memorial Day.

The fact that the Muslim Council will not recognize the Holocaust IS cause for alarm. So is this...Talk about anti-Muslim climate and perceptions of Islam!

You tell me...what should the British Government should do?

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Danish wake-up call on Islam

COPENHAGEN On Sept. 5, the day Danish police arrested nine Muslim suspects in connection with a foiled terrorist plot, a slender book warning of conquest by Islamic fundamentalists in Europe appeared in bookstores here.

"Islamists and Naivists," by Karen Jespersen and Ralf Pittelkow, has since risen to the top of the best-seller list and is causing a sensation in Denmark - in part because the authors are establishment figures previously known for their progressive attitudes toward Islam and integration.

The book is also gaining notice because Denmark, a country celebrated for its fairy tales, is on the front line of the culture wars between Islam and the West following publication in a Danish newspaper late last year of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.

The book's main argument is that Europeans who ignore the threat posed by Islamists belong to a new and dangerous tribe of "naivists," a term coined by the authors. This may not sound so radical at a time when the pope has upset the Islamic world by quoting a medieval passage calling Islam "evil and inhuman" and when Islamic terrorist plots have put Europe on edge.

But the book also equates Islamic fundamentalists with Nazis and Communists - a provocative stand on the heels of the cartoon crisis, which strengthened a backlash against immigrants that was already brewing here.

Pittelkow says the new book's publication on the day of the terror arrests, while a coincidence, was a prescient reminder.

"The threat is that the Islamists and their values are gaining ground in Europe, especially among the younger generation," he said in an interview. "They try to interfere in people's lives, telling them what to wear, what to eat, what to think and what to believe. They warn Muslims to create their own societies within Europe or risk disappearing like salt in water."

It's already happening in Britain... Why else could Abu Izzadeen tell the Home Defense Minister, John Reid, "how dare you come into a Muslim area...", with a straight face?

Muslim leaders here have denounced the book, accusing Pittelkow and Jespersen of giving Muslim-bashing a respectable face in Denmark, a country that views itself as a tolerant and open society.

Naturally....

Danish analysts say the book reflects the extent to which skepticism about Islam has invaded the European political mainstream.

"The book is significant because it shows how attacks against Islam are no longer limited to people on the right, but have become acceptable, even fashionable, among people close to the establishment," said Jakob Nielsen, a commentator for the left-leaning newspaper Politiken, which Pittelkow labels "naivist" for underestimating the threat of the Islamists. "The reality is that nobody in Denmark bats an eye anymore when people talk about the threat that Islam poses to Danish values because this is viewed, however wrongly, as a fact of life."

Sad but true. This may soon be said about places like Baltimorabia and Dearbornistan.

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Big Ben Laden

Police to brief Muslims before terror raids.

I can understand this is an attempt to sooth the fears of Muslims regarding profiling and Islamophobia. But I still dont know if this is such a good idea. Especially when they listen to guys like Abu Izzadeen.

In a recent video he told his audience:

“In the UK no fighting takes place yet, but don’t be fooled, the time will come to you brothers . . . fighting is so close at hand.”

He adds: “You prepare yourself now and when the hard time comes you are ready to defend yourself; you are ready to die for the sake of Allah.”

Does anyone remember “Taqiyya”?

An example of “Taqiyya” would be the insistence of a Muslim apologist that “of course” there is freedom of conscience in Islam, and then quoting that Qur’anic verse -- “There shall be no compulsion in religion.” But the impression given will be false, for there has been no mention of the Muslim doctrine of abrogation, or naskh, whereby such an early verse as that about “no compulsion in religion” has been cancelled out by later, far more intolerant and malevolent verses. In any case, history shows that within Islam there is, and always has been, “compulsion in religion” for Muslims, and for non-Muslims. The “compulsion” for Muslims comes from the treatment of apostasy as an act punishable by death. And though “dhimmis” are allowed to practice their religion, they do so under conditions of such burdens and restrictions that many, not as an act of conscience but rather as a response to inexorable Muslim pressure, have converted (or “reverted”) to Islam.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Muslim Hecklers Target John Reid

"There is no nice way of saying this. These fanatics are looking to groom and brainwash children, including your children, for suicide bombings, grooming them to kill themselves in order to murder others," John Reid said in his first speech to Muslims.

John Reid, Britain's Home Secretary, was yesterday publicly harangued by members of a banned Islamic group.

As Mr. Reid addressed Muslim community leaders in London about the need to alert the authorities to signs of young Muslims being radicalised, he was repeatedly shouted at by two men associated with the al- Mujaharoun and al-Ghurabaa groups, which have been proscribed by the Home Office.

Mr. Reid was addressing about 30 British Muslims, when one man stood and yelled: "You are an enemy of Islam and Muslims, you are a tyrant." He was identified as Abu Izzadeen.

Mr Reid was listing past terrorist attacks around the world when Mr Izzadeen began shouting, asking Mr Reid how he could "dare" come to a Muslim area after so many had been arrested under the new terror legislation. "Shame on all of us for sitting down and listening to him," he said.

Referring to the increased police powers, he added:

"They are going to come in the morning to your house... they are going to kick your door down when you're in bed with your wife, then drag you from your own bed."

It later transpired that Mr. Izzadeen has been investigated over controversial comments about the London suicide bombings, after describing the attacks as "mujahideen activity" which would make people " wake up and smell the coffee", during a BBC Newsnight interview last year.

Reid was then interrupted by Anjem Choudary...

"Muslims do not need British values," he shouted. "We believe Islam is superior, we believe Islam will be implemented one day. It is very rich for you to come here and say we need to monitor our children when your government is murdering people in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Mr. Reid had been speaking about how the community and religious leaders could play a key role in the fight against terrorism. He said that "our fight is not with Muslims generally" but that there was a " struggle against extremism".

Extremism such as this?