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John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the Washington sniper spree of 2002, is due to be executed in Virginia at 9pm on Tuesday after the state's governor refused his clemency request.
Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia, a Democrat, declined to stay the execution of Muhammad, 48, a former US soldier, following the United States Supreme Court's similar decision on Monday.
Muhammad has no further avenues of appeal and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection at 9pm local time at Greensville Correctional Center near Jarrett, Virginia.
He and his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, now 24, terrorised the Washington area, killing 10 people in a three-week period before they were arrested. Using a battered car as a firing platform, they selected their targets at random and shot them at long rage.
Under Virginia law, a condemned man may select whether to die by the electric chair or lethal election. Muhammad, who was born John Allen Williams but changed his name when he converted to Islam, declined to choose and officials therefore decided on the injection method.
His execution is for the single murder of Dean Meyers, 58, shot while buying petrol. Officials said Muhammad would be injected with thipental sodium to put him to sleep, pancuronium bromide to stop him breathing, and potassium chloride to stop his heart.
The Tundra Tabloids is going to find it mighty hard to celebrate Finnish Independence day come Dec 6, we have signed away our state rights, and no longer have a government that answers directly to the people. We have been stripped of our sovereignty and it all happened without a fight or a whimper, there were no blows struck or boycotts threatened, no massive letter writing campaigns with talk radio all a buzz with state rights vs. Brussels darker intentions.
Our Finnish democracy has become no more than a mere rubber stamp for faceless people in a bureaucracy that exists to serve its own self interests, and totally unaswerable to the average Finnish citizen, and it all happened without a shot being fired. Those of who warned, were only to be ignored as miscontents, spoil-joys and "rabble rousers". Welcome to the Orwellian nightmare of Brussels, you've all earned it. KGS
Can you imagine being tried in this country for something that is not a crime here? If this sounds like something Kafka might have dreamt up, it is actually a proposal before EU interior ministers that will soon be enshrined in UK law. It is the sort of legislation that, were it going through Parliament, would be exciting a good deal of comment and debate; but because it is being promulgated in the councils of Europe, hardly anyone knows it is happening.
The initiative, known as the Transfer of Criminal Proceedings, is the latest in a succession of pan-European reforms designed to speed up extradition, prosecution and conviction of criminals. You might think that is no bad thing – except that how a country organises its system of criminal law and sanction is the very essence of nationhood.
This is no longer about mutual co-operation to ensure the bad guys don't escape justice by hopping from one EU country to another; this is about putting in place the trappings of a single jurisdiction.
As the European scrutiny committee of the House of Commons noted in its report on the proposed reform: "[This] is both novel and far-reaching: it gives national courts competence to try a criminal offence that is not prescribed by UK law or, put another way, that the Government has not proposed nor Parliament agreed should be a crime. Instead, jurisdiction comes from the EU Member State that is transferring the proceedings." For instance, someone accused of holocaust denial, a crime in Germany and Austria, could be tried for it in an English court even though it is not an offence here.
This is indeed novel and far-reaching. It is also the shape of things to come. Another huge programme of reform is about to take place in this area and much of it is to be agreed in the coming weeks. It involves common access to crime databases, common asylum and immigration policies, new human rights laws and an extension of legislation for the protection of children and vulnerable people (as though we have not had enough of all of these already).
Much of this is being done with UK acquiescence, even if there are some aspects of the reform programme with which the Government disagrees. Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, emphasises that "it is essential that the differences in Member States' justice systems are respected and the Government will seek to ensure that this continues in the coming years". It is hard to believe that a British minister even needs to make such a thing clear given the differences between the inquisitorial system that operates on the continent and the adversarial one here.
As I prepared for the OSCE meeting, I was fully aware that we would encounter strong opposition from most participants. However, the amount that we as a group were able to achieve took me by surprise — it was so much more than we would ever have thought possible.
That we were not applauded is obvious. Yet there were many in the room who covertly (or sometimes even overtly) agreed with us. We opened doors, doors that were previously shut and bolted. No one ever put the topic of Islam on the table, most likely out of fear and for the sake of political correctness. The OSCE is, after all, closely associated with the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and the Council of Europe. The former is responsible for some very restrictive laws that stifle freedom of opinion within the EU.
The events at the meeting can best be described by using the format of a drama in several acts.
Introduction:
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), based in Warsaw, organizes three annual supplementary human dimension meetings. (For an explanation of the term “human dimension”, consult my earlier reports about the OSCE, which include a historical overview.) These meetings always take place in Vienna, whereas the annual conference is held in Warsaw.
The third and last meeting this year focused on the topic of gender equality, with a special focus on combating violence against women. A worthy topic, about which there is much to be said from our perspective.
The characters in this drama are numerous: First, the officials from ODIHR. They were in charge of accepting the submission of official papers with interventions and recommendations. We will return to them later.
Second, the moderators of the Civil Society Round Table and the Sessions, as well as the introducers who set the stage for each session by providing examples of good practices.
Third, the representatives of the participating States and associated States as well as international organizations.
And fourth, we, the representatives of the various more or less non-governmental organizations. It is worth mentioning that the OSCE is the only international organization where the representatives of civil society can discuss their issues on equal terms with participating States.
November 5, 2009
The first event of the first day concerned civil society. The ODIHR organized a Civil Society Roundtable in order “to present the purpose and scope of the meeting; to discuss in more detail the role and contributions that civil society can make to the event; to give civil society representatives the opportunity to network and better coordinate their interventions and recommendations.”
The roundtable included a thorough presentation of the purpose, protocol and good practices of round tables and the contributions that NGOs can make, as well as participant introduction. The CSO (civil society) representatives then met in “three groups divided along the key themes of the meeting (Protection of Victims of Gender-based Violence; Investigation and Prosecution of Perpetrators of Violence against Women; and Prevention of Violence against Women) to discuss and share thoughts on their potential contributions.” I acted as rapporteur for the meeting on prevention of violence against women and was thus able to steer the talk in the right direction.
The three dominant topics of the discussion were education, family, and Islam. The key to raise awareness of violence against women is to start young, i.e. in schools. In addition, healthy families are able to teach children from childhood about how parents treat each other.
We added that Christian values are reflected in our secular laws, while violence stems from some religious groups. Mission Europa added that secular laws must be reflected in religious practices. A representative of a Kyrgyz NGO weighed in, saying that religion has the potential to be a positive force and that no religion promotes violence. There are, according to the Kyrgyz, some religions that show a large division between men and women.
A recommendation to the OSCE was put forward: There needs to be clear wording in laws. Religion must never be an excuse for violence.
The Kyrgyz representative told the group about the difficulties they face when trying to connect with religious leaders. Kyrgyzstan is a predominantly Muslim country, where the main problem lies with the religious leaders, whose cooperation is urgently needed. Since 2008, religious leaders have been issuing marriage certificates which are not accepted by the secular government. The representative added also that civil marriage grants equal rights to both the husband and the wife, while the religious marriage does not. Rather, it focuses on and empowers men, as only men can declare divorce. The Kyrgyz representative's recommendation to the OSCE: Civil law must supersede religious law.
The discussion was helpful for our cause because we were able to table the word Islam for the first time. Up until then, we had always shied away from using the I-word. It was always about “certain religious groups”. Mission Europa boldly asked the Kyrgyz representative what religion we were talking about, and – boom! - there it was. The I-word!
At the end of the civil society roundtable the three rapporteurs delivered their statements summing up the discussion. A delegate of a Bosnian NGO, Sabiha Husi?, as well as a delegate from Kyrgyzstan took the floor and said: “We are against Islam being seen as the main source for violence, as Islam cherished human values.” CARE Austria weighed in that we should not mix the perpetrator's background with the act of violence itself. In their experience with migrants there is no religious background in violence.
Remember folks, everything Daniela Santanchè is saying, is historically correct. There is another good video in the works about child marriages in Yemen, as soon as it's uploaded to sevenload, the TT will post it here. Not that any more validation is necessary, but it does underline Santanchè's point about Mohamed being a pedophile by todays's standards.
Since Mohamed's character is exemplified by many Muslims around the world, so to is the tradition of adult men marrying young prepubescent girls. Raping children then is premissable where sharia law rules. Remember, what Daniela Santanchè said on live TV, Finnish politician, Jussi Halla-aho was convicted for in Finland. KGS
Pamela: "Straight on the heels of the latest Muslim attack on America, I spoke in Texas at the McKinney Performance hall for the Collin County Conservative Republicans. The heart and soul of America was in that auditorium."
ATLAS: [On the twentieth anniversary of one of freedom's monumental moments, one of America's finest moments, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Obama is MIA. Huh?
Yes, the mirror man who has never met a camera or teleprompter he didn't fall head of heels in love with is NOT at the anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. He sent a video. I kid you not. He went to a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Alliance of Civilizations (instead of the graves of the glorious dead on the anniversary of Normandy), toured Turkey's mosques, bowed to the wahhabi Saudi king, coasted to Copenhagen to whore for his cronies in Chicago (Olympics) -- but he can't go to Germany for this stunning historical triumph of free men.]
The Tundra Tabloids' level of disgust with the Obama adminstration and his hand picked underlings, has reached new heights, as the US president rejects traveling to Fort Hood to meet with the grieving families of the dead and wounded, (or even being there in Berlin to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall) choosing rather to hang out at Camp David while his top US official, Eric Holder plans to speak at a function where CAIR, the front group for the terrorist organization HAMAS will be attending.
This stinks, and every US citizen shold be outraged that Obama didn't immediately get off his ass and fly to Texas to stand with his troops as Commander In Chief of US armed forces. No, he chose rather to offer a few meaningless words and then off to Camp David for some R&R. Adding insult to injury is his Attorney General's planned speaking engagement at a function where CAIR, the Muslim Mafia, which is also an unidicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial in which five men went to jail for funding the terrorist group Hamas.
The FBI said that they will not have anything to do with them: "Until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner,” But you would think that that would cause the US's top police official to decline his participation where CAIR officials were invited as guests.
Nope. This is Obama Land.
Welcome to the banana republic of the United States
Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to give a keynote speech next week to a Michigan group which includes the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even though the FBI has formally severed contacts with the controversial Muslim civil rights organization.
On Nov. 19, Holder is scheduled to speak in Detroit to the first annual awards banquet of Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, a coalition of several dozen law enforcement and community groups. An online registration form for the event includes the Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan on a list of “official & participating organizations.”
A spokeswoman for ALPACT confirmed that CAIR is a member of the coalition.
“CAIR has been involved for a while,” said Chandra McMillion, community development facilitator for ALPACT. “CAIR is listed as an official member.”
The executive director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter, Dawud Walid, also confirmed its involvement with ALPACT. “It’s really nothing controversial. We’ve been part of this organization for years,” he said. “We meet every month and included with us is the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI.”
Walid said he is a regular at ALPACT meetings—including one held Friday at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit. “A lot of people are there: the NAACP, the ACLU, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee…the National Lawyers’ Guild,” he said.
The FBI claims it cut “formal contacts” with CAIR after federal prosecutors in the 2007 criminal trial of officers of a Texas-based Islamic charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, introduced documents the government said showed links between CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, which gave rise to Hamas.
Yesterday, the Tundra Tabloids posted a piece about Turkish PM, Recep Erdogan who recently stated -in regards to questions over his invitation of the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and war criminal to Turkey- that "A Muslim can never commit genocide." "It’s not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide," he said. “That’s why we are comfortable [with the visit of al-Bashir]."
The Sheik, of the all impressive anti-Jihad "Winds of Jihad", was kind of enough to stop by the Tundra Tabloids and leave a comment reminding us all about the true face of Islam. It's not a crime to kill non-Muslims for the true believers following the desert madman Mohamed. Sheik Yer'Mami elucidates his point for us with the following quote from the Koran.
A Muslim can do no wrong when he kills unbelievers."
Qur'an 8:17, "It is not you who slew them; it was Allah who killed them. ...
"Therefore, genocide never happened. "It’s not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide”
How many different ways do we in the anti-jihad movement have to spell it out? As long as the Koran is continued to be revered as the actual word of Allah, the overwhelming majority of Muslims will continue to hold views like the prime minister of Turkey and the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
There is no such thing as "radical Islam or moderate" Islam, there is just Islam. Every Muslim Islamic scholar, cleric and Muslim leader will tell you the same, and it's high time for the West to understand that fact in order to develop a better strategy to defeat, or at least to contain it. Lying to ourselves that "there is a moderate Islam out there and, "all we need to do is to go find it", is a mugs game, because it's the mythical unicorn.
When we see Muslim "moderates" lurking about drinking booze and chasing skirts, and "their" women folk walking around completely unveiled, what we are actually seeing is, not moderate Islam, but people who have decided to, and most importantly, managed to, jettison huge portions of Islamic precepts and culture from their daily lives, and embrace Western culture. These westernized Muslims see the sanity and logic in Western mores, and loathe the backwardness and cruelty of traditional Islam.
It does not help matters in trying to lie to ourselves that Islam itself holds the keys to the moderation and modernization of the Islamic world. No, it's the influence of the West on intolerant and backward Islam, that holds the keys to the furture of the modern world. The more un-Islamic a Muslim becomes, better are the chances that the relations between that secularized Muslim and the non-Muslim world will succeed. That kind of Muslim has no problem building true relationships with the non-Muslim friends and doesn't seek to impose his or her world views upon another, and presents no risk to society.
It's the rejection of traditional Islam that leads to the soft, or mild Muslims, not Islam itself. So when you hear about re-education camps in the Saudi kingdom for repentant terrorists, do not believe for a minute that these Muslims are moderate after they come out of those camps, because the Koran is being used as a tool in their re-education, so that means nothing good will ever come out of it. KGS
NOTE: Commenter "F" has also this to add: "Those Turks can stuff it up their you know what! No Muslims can commit genocide? That is all Islam has been doing for fourteen centuries!"
More fodder for the Ideology of the Eternally Outraged (IEO) to seethe over! In order for the dhimmi appeasers at Yale University and the followers of the IEO to clearly get the message that, religion and religious sensibilities do not trump secular law and free speech rights, a new picture book of Mohamed is now being made available to defy the censors and Mohammedans who wish to impose their world view on the West. Read up, this is just beginning to get interesting. KGS
Group Web Media: November 09, 2009 ) Durham, N.C. - The provocatively titled Muhammad: The "Banned" Images adds another chapter to the saga of the Danish cartoons, which were back in the news recently after the FBI arrested David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana for plotting to kill Flemming Rose. Rose is the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that sponsored and first published the controversial cartoons back in 2005.
In August, Yale University Press announced that it would exclude all images of Muhammad from The Cartoons that Shook the World, a book by Brandeis professor Jyette Klausen. The Press cited an anonymous panel of experts who claimed that publication of the illustrations "ran a serious risk of instigating violence." Muhammad: The "Banned" Images, with an introduction by Duke professor Gary Hull, fills the rift in Klausen's book with 31 high-quality, full-color images of Muhammad. Complete with captions, the images span the 12th through 21st centuries, and include paintings by Muslim artists working in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, as well as paintings and drawings by William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Salvador Dali.
Hull points out, "Muhammad: The 'Banned' Images is a 'picture book' – or errata to the bowdlerized version of Klausen's book. It is of course more than that. It is a statement of defiance against censors, terror-mongers, and their Western appeasers. It is a rallying cry for free speech, freedom of the press, and for open scholarship unfettered by fear." Hull has been involved with the Danish cartoon controversy since 2006, when his program at Duke hosted a speech by Flemming Rose. His introduction includes a brief survey of the reaction of Western intellectuals to Muslim violence and threats, including the Rushdie fatwa, the Theo van Gogh assassination, and Yale University Press's recent spineless self-censorship.
The consequences of self-censorship are reiterated in a Statement of Principle with distinguished signatories: "The failure to stand up for free expression emboldens those who would attack and undermine it. … It is incumbent on those responsible for the education of the next generation of leaders to stand up for certain basic principles: that the free exchange of ideas is essential to liberal democracy; that each person is entitled to hold and express his or her own views without fear of bodily harm; and that the suppression of ideas is a form of repression used by authoritarian regimes around the world to control and dehumanize their citizens and squelch opposition. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, will get neither liberty nor safety."
Dr. Hull is available for interviews. Contact him at voltairepress@live.com or by calling (919) 660-5608.
Muhammad: The "Banned" Images (ISBN 978-0-615-32421-0) is available for $15.00 from Amazon or from Voltaire Press, at http://www.muhammadimages.com/ .
Via Sheik Yer'Mami, the following article is bound to piss off a heap of those who follow that desert madman called Mo. This brave feminist (unlike the pseudo feminists who applaud the burka) calls things as they are, and is not afraid of confrontation. The last time she was in the international news, she was assaulted by Muslims for protesting against the highly offensive Muslim body bags called burkas and niqabs.
We need more brave politicians like Daniela Santanche to speak the truth and call things as they are and political correctness be damned. Santanche has every right to speak the historical truth and not cover things up due to Muslim sensibilities, and more importantly, Muslim intimidation. The more we cave into the role (read = dhimmitude) Islam has carved out for us, the more we will become straight-jacketed into subservience.
It's either fight back with the truth and expose political correctness for what it is, or succomb to the suppression of free speech and allow others to dictate their world view free from criticism It's either or, you have to choose. Offend or be offended and muzzled at the same time, that's what the paractioners of political correctness have in store for you. And look where it got 13 people on a base in Texas, with score still in the hospital, while the media, politicians and the military brass spin this guy and the followers of his ideology into victims.
We are the ones being victimized on a daily basis, with threats of retribution, imprisonment and fines, let alone being branded as raaaaacists and Islamophobes, with the latter being constructed from pure helium. So once again folks, you can sit idly by, read the blogs and mutter to yourself, or get involved. Call your political representatives and demand an end to political correct nonsense, and demand a return to a time where one could speak his or her mind, without being railroaded as a bigot and "waaaaycist". Above all, get involved in city councils and in your local school boards, taking closer looks at your childrens' schoolbooks, remember, PC training starts young these days. KGS
Rome, 9 Nov. (AKI) - One of Italy's largest Muslim organisations on Monday condemned the feminist and former rightwing MP Daniela Santanche for calling the Prophet Mohammed a paedophile and polygamist on television at the weekend. "If there is a basis to make a formal complaint, we will do so because we need to say enough is enough with this kind of vulgarity targeting Islam's prophet," said a spokesman for the Muslim group UCOII, Elzir Izidin.
"It is incitement to hatred and is unacceptable. We are looking into what we can do," Izidin added.
Santanche made the inflammatory remarks during a heated debate on Sunday with the president of Milan's Islamic centre, Ali Abu Schwaima, on the placing of the crucifix in Italian classrooms.
"Mohammed was a polygamist and a paedophile because he had nine wives, one of whom was only nine years old, that is a historical fact," said Santanche.
Santache was referring to Aisha, the Prophet Mohammed's third wife who was believed to be nine-years-old at the time of her marriage to Mohammed.
Her remarks made on the commercial channel Canale 5, incensed Schwaima and other Muslims in the audience.
The president of Italy's association of Muslim intellectuals, Ahmad Gianpiero, also deplored Santanche's comments.
"The accusations made yesterday against the Prophet Mohammed are unacceptable and will only stoke similar reactions and hostility from the Muslim community," he said.
"Now more than ever before, we need to isolate those who seek to provoke. Instead, we need to rebuild a climate of dialogue between different religions and cultures," said Gianpiero.
Child marriages such as Aisha's were relatively common in Bedouin societies at the time of the prophet and remain so in countries such as Yemen and Saudi Arabia among others.
Lets get it straight, all jihadism is crazy. If you were to ask most people "whether or not the Islamic jihadis who attacked the US on 9/11, by hijacking commercial airliners and flying themselves and the frightened passengers into the buildings of the WTC and Pentagon", were crazy, the overwhelming response to that would be a resounding yes.
But regardless of whether they were defacto nut jobs, they were committed Muslims and terrorists, so there should be no papering over the fact that "MAJOR JIHAD" was a convinced Muslim jihadi, and this was indeed an act of terrorism. The PC culture (read= cultural Marxist dogma) is so thick in this story, that it should serve as a training manual for the debunking of PC ideology in every sphere of society. KGS
Like we haven't seen enough governmental tomfoolery already
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.
He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe
It was the latest in a series of "red flags" about his state of mind that have emerged since the massacre at Fort Hood, America's largest military installation, on Thursday.
Hasan, armed with two handguns including a semi-automatic pistol, walked into a processing centre for soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he killed 13 and injured more than 30.
Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a "Muslim first and American second."
One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.
Another, Dr Val Finnell, who took a course with him in 2007 at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, did complain about Hasan's "anti-American rants." He said: "The system is not doing what it's supposed to do. He at least should have been confronted about these beliefs, told to cease and desist, and to shape up or ship out. I really questioned his loyalty."
Selena Coppa, an activist for Iraq Veterans Against the War, said: "This man was a psychiatrist and was working with other psychiatrists every day and they failed to notice how deeply disturbed someone right in their midst was."
Good to hear that more and more Norwegians are speaking out against the stupidity of NTNU's decision to hold a measure on whether to implement an academic boycott against Israeli learning institutions. Thanks to that special someone for the heads up. KGS
[David Harris the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee -- one of the largest American Jewish organizations -- writes against the boycotters in Huffington Post, the largest left of center web publication in the United States, with ten million visitors per month. (for comparison, the New York Times web edition has 14.5 million visitors per month ) ]
Embarrasing boycott-proposal at NTNU
By Hans Rustadon November 9, 2009
As an alumnus of the University of Trondheim who collaborates with Israeli scientists and professionals, I observe with sadness and great embarassment that the university board is even considering a cultural and academic boycott of Israel.
How such an idea came on the agenda of the institutions's highest authority is really beyond me, but unfortunately, the universities in the West have become arenas of fierce ideological battles that have very little to do with the scope and intention of such institutions, i.e. to expand human knowledge, illuminate the public and educate the coming generations.
The decent, silent majority of researchers and professors in Trondheim who are more concerned with doing their jobs than with politics, probably share my embarassment, but many are afraid to speak out for fear of being branded by the ideological zealots. It is therefore encouraging to see that a group of professors in Trondheim who oppose the shameful idea of boycotting Israel, has asked the board to turn the proposal down and started a petition against it.
Considering the Nobel prize winners who have reacted to this campaign by standing up for Israel, and spurred by curiosity as to the scientific merits of the anti-Israel and pro-Israel groups of professors in Trondheim, both consisting of 30-40 persons, I did a little investigation: Having identified the most frequently cited work of each researcher, I calculated the average number of citations. As it turned out, the average figure of the anti-Israel group was 25, the pro-Israel group 158. Of course, this method has its limitations, but having observed such a big difference, one can safely assume that any other method of evaluation would lead to the same qualitative result with a significative margin.
This makes me conclude that the anti-Israel attitude is associated with a very vocal and politically active group of university employees - including notorious communists and antisemites - with relatively modest scientific merits, most of whom wouldn't even have qualified as professors a couple of generations ago, before their numbers exploded.
The Cojep cites the following to prove their false statement that the ICLA is demonizing Muslims. Read closely to what they deem as troublesome aspects to the ICLA's paper. It says much more about the Cojep's real concerns than of the ICLA they are accusing.
Establishing religious parallel societies
Seriously challenging constitutional democracies
Violating the rights of adherents of other faiths
Leading a religious segregation in societies
Using religious activities as cover to spread extremism, create State within a State, anti-Semitism, racism, oppression of women, disrespect for constitutional democracy, spread of Sharia law, hate mongering and terrorism.
"To make the matters worst, the long statement asks OSCE to intervene."
The shock and horror of it all. These people are not worried about real human rights and coexistence with other peoples within Europe, they are more interested in protecting their own value system at the expense of all the others who dare not share their beliefs. They are promoting Islamist values that they hope will one day trump all others, and the only way to do that, is for the silencing of credible debate and criticism of the more problematic Islamic cultural mores. This is the exact same thinking of the Turkish leaders of both Turkey and the OIC.
What makes the situation all the more amusing, is that the Cojep's own mission statement contains the following "We should listen and try to understand". With their knee-jerk reaction of slinging terms like "hate speech and racism", they reveal their real agenda.
The Baron from Gates of Vienna had this to say about the recent gathering of the OSCE in Vienna: Before the day was over, those four organizations had been accused of “hate speech” by certain of the other delegates for their presentations and recommendations. But first things first. Here’s the official intervention and recommendation by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff of Pax Europa:
Transcript:Intervention and Recommendation by Pax Europa, Session 3
“Gender Equality and The Threat From Religious Law”
"One issue that has been left out until now, it seems to me, is violence against women that is backed by principles of the Muslim faith. I do not have to tell you about the honor killings in Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, among other countries; as well as forced marriages, in addition to the Koranic verse 4:34, which says — and I quote -:
You have rights over your wives and they have rights over you. You have the right that they should not defile your bed and that they should not behave with open unseemliness. If they do, God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things, they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control of their own persons. (Guillaume’s translation, p. 651) (Ibn Ishaq)
Why are we not discussing this issue here and at other occasions in a depth that does justice to this problem?I therefore recommend that ODIHR urgently start a working group on violence against women in Islam in order to find out how to best approach this in the context of the OSCE human dimension."
These observations by the pro-human rights groups of the ICLA, Pax Europa and Mission Europa, that received the most attention by the Muslim representatives from the various groups participating in the OSCE conference. Their reactions and responses to these observations need to be considered in the light of all of what has been going on between major Islamic organizations such as, the OIC and the Arab League, vis-a-vis European institutions and the United Nations.
The agenda of these major international Islamic organizations like the OIC and the Arab League, is for the protection of exclusive "Islamic rights" under the guise of support for "co-existence, peace and stability", but it only goes one way. For Islam. What happened in the OSCE's Human Dimension Implementation meetings, was nothing more than the OIC and the Arab League trying to stifle any justified criticism by Europeans of actual human rights abuses which are considered a cultural norm within existing Islamic communities throughout the world. That is now becoming amazingly clear to all. KGS
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: “It’s not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide,” he said. “That’s why we are comfortable [with the visit of al-Bashir].”
Turkish PM,Tayyip Erdoğan's, statement is eerily reminiscent of what OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) secretary general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglustated to the Tundra Tabloids last year in Helskini about Islamic anti-Semitism:
OIC sec-gen Ihsanoglu
"..you cannot speak about any Muslim, good or bad, as anti-Semitic, this is a theory, this is not the case."
This is the exact same kind of denial as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's, concerning the Armenian genocide by successive Turkish governments, which shows an Islamic supremacist frame of mind. What is most likely, is that these two Turks are exhibiting the same anger and frustration over the fact that non-Muslims (read = Dhimmis) are holding Muslims accountable for their actions, and that, for a Muslim, is something that cannot be allowed under any circumstance. That, more than anything else, including racism and genocide, is what bothers these two Muslim leaders the most. KGS
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has pushed back his planned visit to Turkey, Turkish aviation officials said on Sunday, adding that the controversial leader canceled his Sunday flight without any explanation.
It was not clear whether al-Bashir will come to Turkey on Monday or Tuesday for a summit of Islamic nations, the officials added, according to a report by the Doğan news agency.
The statement came hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan defended al-Bashir’s visit by saying, “A Muslim can never commit genocide.”
“Those world leaders who criticize us, have they ever visited Darfur? Their information is solely based on what the rapporteurs are reporting. These kinds of moves will not contribute to world peace,” Erdoğan said Sunday in an address to party members.
“It’s not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide,” he said. “That’s why we are comfortable [with the visit of al-Bashir].”
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MILD MUSLIMS ARE THE ANSWER
The Islamic religion in its purest (political) form is totalitarian in nature and therefore anti democratic. We speak about the meaning of the word "moderate" in relation to Islam and find it as something no longer holding any meaning.
The reason for this is simple: many so-called "moderates" have been praised in the west, only later being found to have been supporting jihad against non-Muslims from the very beginning.
"Mild Muslims", are the ones we look to with hope, who truly believe in liberal democracy such that Islam should be a matter of personal faith, not politics.
Those who refuse to condemn sharia (Islamic law) as being incompatible with modern day society, are the Muslims we take issue with. It is these Muslims who present a clear and present danger to the rest of society. KGS
