Fuck me! Fucking fascists re-writing history!
Speaking on al-Jazeera last month, Mamoun Al-Tamimi of the Palestinian National Council
informed us: "After Hitler's fall in Germany, Winston Churchill ordered the army and the air force to continue bombing. The bombings continued three weeks after Hitler's fall, and military historians say that the casualties sustained by Germany after Hitler's fall were greater than the casualties from the war."
Now comes this bit of previously-unknown history from Lebanese Professor
Hasan Al-Juny during a routine denunciation of Zionism ("the Zionist entity is cancerous," etc, etc) on the Iranian Sahar TV: "This isn't a case of regular occupation, like when Nazi Germany occupied France, in which the French could hold a dialogue with the German occupiers, in order to ask them to leave."
What the Fucking fuck is he on about!!!!
Al-Juny is apparently the "expert on international law" whose
protest about appearing on al-Arabiya with a "senior Zionist official" resulted in that official being taken off the air.
in addition to this vile wank...
I've learned from
Dr. Hisham Jaber of the Middle East Center for Studies and Public Relations (speaking on the Hezbollah TV station al-Manar) that "Zionism has forged the New Testament - and by now, 60 million in the US alone have left Christianity to become believers in the Torah."
Fortunately there are sometimes others on the same programs who
challenge these and other fantasies. But where do the fantasies come from? Is there somewhere in the Arab world an Institute for the Creation of Outrageous Lies about Zionists and Imperialists? Do these people actually believe what they are saying? If not, do they expect others to believe them?
Am i being idiotic to find this all really fucking scary? Some of us talk about an Orwellian dystopia in Britain or in the USA - what about in the fucking Arab world! *looks worried*
with thanks to Gene at Harry's Place.
Poles apart - Leeds V. Eurofest 2005
while ive been having a fucking amazing time at the Leeds festival over the last 5 days; a neo-nazi equivalent is being organised in Greece.
check out the website
here and make sure to send lots of hate mail to these vile fuckwits.
Members of the far right, including Udo Voigt, who leads the National Democratic Party in Germany, and Roberto Fiore of Forza Nuova in Italy, are to address the festival.
Hitch
Bar his opening sentiments about Abu Ghraib; i think the Hitch eloquates wonderfully the humanitarian/leftist pro-war view. My derision with the way the war was argued and carried out does not denounce from my view that getting rid of murderous dictators is a fucking good thing.
Read the hitch
here
a must read essay - by the leading historian of the new left
this was written just after 9/11 and is rather groovy
More Galloway
Notice Galloway in the background after Dr Muhammad al-Massari won his appeal against deportation in the 1990's. The good doctor runs a lovely pro-terrorist website featuring advice on how to slit throats and a radio station broadcasting in Iraq and Saudi Arabia that calls for attacks on UK troops.
Dear God! Send me to New York to see this and i will be able to die happy!
New York, NY:
Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 PM
A debate between George Galloway and Christopher Hitchenson Iraq and U.S. and British foreign policy.
Moderated by Amy Goodman
Mason Hall at the Baruch College Performing Arts Center17 Lexington Ave., enter on 23rd St.New York, NY
Tickets $12 in advance through Ticket Central www.ticketcentral.com, Phone: 212-279-4200 and at the door.,
Saudi
Two stories have recently surfaced from Saudi Arabia - one good, the other very bad.
Firstly, three Saudi liberal democrats- sentenced in May to lengthy prison stays after circulating a petition calling for a peaceful transition to constitutional democracy- have been pardoned along with their attorney by the new King Abdullah.
It's good news, of course, but it hardly represents a fundamental change in the regime's repressive approach to dissent- any more than the Castro regime's periodic release of jailed dissidents represents a new birth of freedom in Cuba.
On a shitty note, after standing up for Democracy in Uzbekistan, Bush has refused act on his condemnation of the Saudi's for their repression of religious rights.
By citing the Saudi regime, the administration was making it liable for sanctions under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA).
Under the IRFA, the administration is required to “take action to oppose religious freedom violations” in Saudi Arabia within 90 days of making the designation. The administration can choose from among 15 actions, ranging from a condemnation to significant economic sanctions. But, more than 5 months after the 90 day deadline expired, the Bush administration has done nothing.
Galloway and terrorism - by Harry
A prominent London-based Saudi dissident, Muhammed al-Massari, is running a website that features a guide to urban warfare for potential terrorists.
In a series of video and audio clips, the Beginner’s Guide for Mujahed gives detailed advice on physical training, the surveillance of enemy targets and operational tactics.
Referring to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq (whose followers murdered the British hostage Ken Bigley by slitting his throat), the instructor adds: “As far as beheadings are concerned, we ask our brothers to seek Abu Musab’s advice on this issue as he has more experience in this.”
The BBC has
previously reported that al-Massari: helped Osama Bin Laden open a UK office in the mid-Nineties and now claims it is legitimate for Muslims to assassinate the Prime Minister.
Do I need to tell you who ran the 'Massari Must Stay Campaign' against an attempt to deport him in the 1990's?
Well, let's hear it from
Massari himself:I can confirm that the "Massari Must Stay" campaign - the campaign against my deportation - was run by Lord Avebury and Mr Galloway from Mr Galloway's office at 7 Millbank
Solidarity - 25 years ago
Twenty-five years ago, Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the former Soviet bloc, was born in Poland
Led by the electrician and political activist Lech Walesa, the strike was part of a growing campaign to improve economic conditions for Poland's labour force - and push for political freedom.
Mr Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for the part he played in Poland's push for freedom.
On 9 December 1990, Mr Walesa became the first freely elected president of Poland in 50 years.
Revolution looming in China?!?!?!?!?!
Could a new Tiananmen Square be looming in China?! If the riots reported
here and
here are anything to go by then revolution in China may not be far off. Perhaps the gastly spectacle of
Beijing 2008 will be the catalyst. We can but hope.
Limited information makes it through the government news filters. However we have learned there have been reports of 20,000 terrorist incidents a year in China, including up to 1,000 bombings with DIY bombs. Thats a fucking lot! The stress of rapid development is taking its toll. The gap between rich and poor his growing and in the West human rights are of no consideration to the authorities. There are reports of forced mass sterilisation and the continuing occupation of Tibet means there are 5 million people ready to rebel in the West given any news of dissidence in the Eastern hub.
something to think about - by boris johnson of all people
Why do these mass-murdering commies get such a good press?It is not given to us to know whither the Almighty has dispatched the soul of Melita Norwood, who died quietly last week in Bexleyheath at 93. Whether she is reading her obits from above or below, I reckon she will be pretty pleased. There she is, sniffing a rose, or smiling with hair-clipped innocence, like some author of wholesome books for children. Her deeds are reported in the affectionate tones that obituarists reserve for the practitioners of some romantic but moribund faith. She might be the last speaker of old Cornish, or the last person to have consecrated her life to proving that Stonehenge was built by spacemen as an observatory for the study of worms.
As it happens, she was "the most important British female spy ever recruited by the KGB". From the 1930s she used her position as a secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association to pass ever more vital atom secrets to Stalin's Soviet Union. In other words, she was a tool for one of the most murderous regimes ever seen, and continued blissfully betraying this country throughout the Cold War, and, as she later admitted, in full knowledge of Stalin's slaughter. File after file she shovelled to her KGB handlers, to the point where she is credited by some with accelerating Russia's acquisition of nuclear weapons by two years. She was only unmasked in 1999, thanks to the testimony of a Soviet defector; and after a brief hubbub it was decided by the then home secretary, Jack Straw (himself a former Trot), that at 87 she was too old to prosecute. I do not quarrel with that decision, but there is something in the eirenic tone of her valedictions that reminds me of the amazing indulgence we show - now that communism is meant to be dead - to commies, socialists and Lefty tyrants of all kinds.
Cycling through London, I check out the words on people's T-shirts, and I was amused the other day to see the letters
CCCP on someone's chest. Yup, folks, that's what the fashion-conscious British youth is wearing, a celebration of the great doomed Soviet experiment of 1917-90.
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
Just to prove my theory that commie tyranny was still chic, I sent a Spectator assistant to Camden Lock market, and she returned shining-eyed, with tales of hammer and sickle T-shirts, and laden with badges of the foremost commie creeps of history. There was a badge of Lenin - good old Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was responsible for killing about five million people, but a Lenin badge is obviously cool, as cool as hanging out and showing your midriff in the new chain of vodka bars called "Soviet". She had a badge of Castro. Charismatic old Fidel. Yours to pin to your nipple for only £1.99.
Now will someone explain the moral difference between enthusiasm for Fidel Castro and enthusiasm for Augusto Pinochet? Both are appalling Latin American dictators. Both have bad human rights records. Both have had their misdeeds winked at, one way or another, by Uncle Sam. Tell me, O ye coolers and groovers, why is it OK to wear a badge with Fidel on it, but very much not OK to wear a badge showing Pinochet?
There is only one man in Britain who might even consider wearing a Pinochet badge on his lapel, and that is Norman Lamont, and much as I admire Norman I would not describe him as cool. Even more extraordinary than badges of Lenin for sale in London, I read that Lefty tyrant chic is to be found in the territories once tyrannised by Russia.
How is it possible that in Lithuania there is now a Stalin theme park, complete with 13 giant effigies of Lenin (remember: he killed five million)? Why is it somehow post-modern and ironic and slick to commemorate these thugs, while any theme park in honour of the Nazis would be rightly denounced as mad and in the height of bad taste? Why is it so obvious to everyone that Melita should be left to a quiet old age in Bexleyheath - with not even a whiff of a prosecution - when we continue to chivvy out every last collaborator with the Nazis, now matter how decrepit, and herd them into the courts?
Remember the case of that nonagenarian Italian who was finally arraigned last year, at vast expense and with extreme evidential difficulty. On the first day of the trial the prisoner was asked to identify himself by the judge, and promptly expired. I do not say that we are wrong in hounding these relics of fascism; my point is that we are curiously indifferent to the behaviour of their extreme Left-wing counterparts, and that in general the Left is able to get away with things that would otherwise be viewed as nauseating and shameful.
Why, to put it bluntly, is Labour allowed to get away with all this? Imagine the howls of hate, if a Conservative government had spent the past few weeks eroding the right to trial by jury, abolishing habeas corpus, curtailing free speech, and then slapped on the plastic poll tax - the ID card. Lefties are somehow assumed to be doing things for idealistic reasons, and for the collective good, and their high motives excuse their appalling solutions.
That is why the servants of communist tyranny get sympathetic obits, and modern British girls wear CCCP T-shirts, and that is why a Labour Government can enact a series of authoritarian measures that a Conservative government could not contemplate. I cannot explain this injustice: I merely point it out.
Uganda is not progressive.. part II
About a month ago i made the
error in the thinking that Uganda's securalist attitude towards AIDS was indictive of a progressive libertarian society. I was way off the mark. The very next day I read about a Ugandan lesbian having to go into hiding after the authorities took a disliking to her campaign for equal rights.
Today i
read that a top radio station has been closed in Uganda after it aired a heated debate on the possible causes of the helicopter crash which killed Sudanese Vice-President John Garang.
Israel plans to withdraw about 9,500 settlers and the troops that protect them from the Gaza Strip in mid-August 2005. Israel will maintain control of Gaza's borders, coastline and airspace. Four villages in the West Bank will also be evacuated.
Rushdie on Islamic reform
It should be a matter of intense interest to all Muslims that Islam is the only religion whose origins were recorded historically and thus are grounded not in legend but in fact. The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Muhammad, as an orphan, personally suffered the difficulties of this transformation, and it is possible to read the Koran as a plea for the old matriarchal values in the new patriarchal world, a conservative plea that became revolutionary because of its appeal to all those whom the new system disenfranchised, the poor, the powerless and, yes, the orphans.
Muhammad was also a successful merchant and heard, on his travels, the Nestorian Christians' desert versions of Bible stories that the Koran mirrors closely (Christ, in the Koran, is born in an oasis, under a palm tree). It ought to be fascinating to Muslims everywhere to see how deeply their beloved book is a product of its place and time, and in how many ways it reflects the Prophet's own experiences.
However, few Muslims have been permitted to study their religious book in this way. The insistence that the Koranic text is the infallible, uncreated word of God renders analytical, scholarly discourse all but impossible. Why would God be influenced by the socioeconomics of seventh-century Arabia, after all? Why would the Messenger's personal circumstances have anything to do with the Message?
The traditionalists' refusal of history plays right into the hands of the literalist Islamofascists, allowing them to imprison Islam in their iron certainties and unchanging absolutes. If, however, the Koran were seen as a historical document, then it would be legitimate to reinterpret it to suit the new conditions of successive new ages. Laws made in the seventh century could finally give way to the needs of the 21st. The Islamic Reformation has to begin here, with an acceptance of the concept that all ideas, even sacred ones, must adapt to altered realities.
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the Muslim Council of Britain
When Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, admitted that "our own children" had perpetrated the July 7 London bombings, it was the first time in my memory that a British Muslim had accepted his community's responsibility for outrages committed by its members. Instead of blaming U.S. foreign policy or "Islamophobia," Sacranie described the bombings as a "profound challenge" for the Muslim community. However, this is the same Sacranie who, in 1989, said that "Death is perhaps too easy" for the author of "The Satanic Verses." Tony Blair's decision to knight him and treat him as the acceptable face of "moderate," "traditional" Islam is either a sign of his government's penchant for religious appeasement or a demonstration of how limited Blair's options really are.
Africa - famine and other stuff
Location the Presidential Palace, Niamey, Niger: Huge room with huge armchairs and sofas lining the 4 walls. Air conditioning, lush carpets, servants hovering in the doorways. Large man on large sofa dressed in white and in denial.
President Mamadou Tandja "The people of Niger look well fed as you can see.... Mass starvation is just Western propaganda..... a way for relief agencies to receive funding"
Cut and move to second location, AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.
AU heads of state still not fully recovered from the recent coup in Mauritania whose head of state incidentally landed in Niamey after being ousted. (He and Tandja could have had lots of discussions on how many slaves they own and what problems these HR organisations are causing them)
Large numbers of men dressed in a mixture of western suits and traditional gowns each with an entourage of minions carrying bags and papers standing at attention. They all mill around and chat about their latest purchases and how much of their citizen's money they have wasted in the last month on their overseas trips. Not a pleasant site, the back drop being an angry Ethiopian population who have been betrayed by their own leaders.
AU President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. In a slow drawn out tone "how much can we give to these starving people in Niger. I mean the President says it is not true. Although I have seen the photos on CNN, the President most know better. I say let us send $1 million that is 1 weeks food money from each of you, then at least we can say we did something to help these wretched people"
Clearly like slavery they do not see starvation as a something worthy of much attention. Coups are much more exciting especially as many of them have their own personal experience of either working for the "Generals" or being one themselves in a former life. It is such hypocrisy for African head of states to make all this fuss about the Mauritania coup. As Black Start Journal states, Mbeki who was apparently furious over the coup is the chief apologist for Zimbabwe's Mugabe government. How does he reconcile that one?
Evolution v Intelligent Design
There is a debate going on in the US at the moment as to whether Intelligent Design (ie. bullshit creationism) should be taught in science side by side with Darwinism. As you would expect the idiot Bush has wade in with his opinion. The battle between the two beliefs may well end up going to court.
However, it has recently come to my attention that there is a third belief. Over 10 million people feel a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the earth, and they have scientific evididence to proove it. View the wonderfull site
here.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster - May you be forever touched by His Noodly Appendage
Robin Cook
During the few years I have intensively covered the political happenings of this country nothing has had such a profound effect on me as Robin Cook’s resignation speech on the eve of the Iraq war. It was the first time I’d watched a House of Commons debate in full. The atmosphere was justifiably electric; not only because of the polarising nature of the debate, but also as we knew that in a few short hours bombs would be dropping on Baghdad. He spoke from the heart, with clarity and with morality on his side. He received a standing ovation. It may be over-zealous of me to view this as a seminal moment in my political life, but nothing politically has touched me quite like it since. I am truly sorry and upset that he has died.
view the speech
here
Galloway is a Fascist
I have reached my breaking point. There is no way that anyone on the left can lord Galloway anymore. He is an anti-Semitic fuckwit. He supports suicide bombers from Palestine killing civilians and even encourages the insurgents in Iraq to kill American and British soldiers. Theocratic fascists want world Jewry eradicated, to stone people for being gay and to establish a fundamentalist Caliphate from the Red Sea to Southern Spain with rigidly enforced Sharia Law. Galloway is siding with these wankers! The Socialist Workers Association and the Muslim Brotherhood (the ‘Respect’ Coalition) support this bile as well. Fucking Fascists!
Crown Prince Tameem Bin Hamad Al-Thani
Qatar's 25 year old Crown Prince Tameem Bin Hamad Al-Thani has been outed in a Dubai-based publication.
The prince and two other Qataris were involved in a bar fight at G.A.Y. one of the biggest gay nightclubs in Britain. Nothing wrong with that - however.....
Ken Livingstone's 'moderate' mate Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi gave this quote:
"The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is married or unmarried.”What a fucking cunt he is!
Bolton appointment
Bush has finally appointed John Bolton as cheif 'diplomat' at the UN. After monthes of wrangling and the Senate refusing to give him the seal of approval Bush has had to appoint him through the backdoor; during the Senators holiday.
This seems pretty shitty, however, someone like Bolton could be what the UN needs. It needs someone to shake things up a bit. It appeared paralysed when all hell was braking loose in Darfur. What the fuck did it do in the Balkans?
The Saudi's are a case in point. After a period of mourning for King Faisel (or whateva he's called) Bolton needs to go and tell a few people over there whats what. They may be making tentative steps towards liberalism - some are even suggesting women may be allowed to drive cars - but people like Naif incharge of the Army or the interior minister are hard like Wahabbis (sp?). This is the official religious sect of the State and encourages extreme fundamental Sharia law. It is from the extreme reaches of this sect that all the shitty fucked up terrorism comes from.
Bolton needs to kick some ass in Saudi before extremism takes further hold. The Wahabbi sect is very very strong within the governing Royal Family and only the acting, but ageing, King Abdulla is proping up the 'progressive' group.
Fundamentally, we're useful idiots by Anthony Browne (the Times)
ELEMENTS WITHIN the British establishment were notoriously sympathetic to Hitler. Today the Islamists enjoy similar support. In the 1930s it was Edward VIII, aristocrats and the Daily Mail; this time it is left-wing activists, The Guardian and sections of the BBC. They may not want a global theocracy, but they are like the West’s apologists for the Soviet Union — useful idiots.
Islamic radicals, like Hitler, cultivate support by nurturing grievances against others. Islamists, like Hitler, scapegoat Jews for their problems and want to destroy them. Islamists, like Hitler, decree that the punishment for homosexuality is death. Hitler divided the world into Aryans and subhuman non-Aryans, while Islamists divide the world into Muslims and sub-human infidels. Nazis aimed for their Thousand-Year Reich, while Islamists aim for their eternal Caliphate. The Nazi party used terror to achieve power, and from London to Amsterdam, Bali to New York, Egypt to Turkey, Islamists are trying to do the same.
The two fascisms, one racial and one religious, one beaten and the other resurgent, are evil in both their ideology and their methodology, in their supremacism, intolerance, belief in violence and threat to democracy.
The London bombings revealed only to those in denial the extent to which Islamic fascism has taken root. But we have a long way to go until we reach the level of understanding in mainland Europe. With one of the smallest Muslim populations in Western Europe, just 3 per cent of the total, Britain has been able to afford a joyful multicultural optimism. Other countries, with far bigger Islamic populations, from France to Germany to the Netherlands, have had to become far more hard-headed.
The support of Islamic fascism spans Britain’s Left. The wacko Socialist Workers Party joined forces with the Muslim Association of Britain, the democracy-despising, Shariah-law-wanting group, to form the Stop the War Coalition. The former Labour MP George Galloway created the Respect Party with the support of the MAB, and won a seat in Parliament by cultivating Muslim resentment.
When I revealed on these pages last year both the fascist views of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the fact that he was being welcomed to Britain by Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, it caused a storm that has still to abate. Mr Livingtone claims that Sheikh al-Qaradawi is a moderate — which he is, in the same way that Mussolini was.
The BBC and The Guardian regularly give space to MAB to promote sanitised versions of its Islamist views. John Ware, one of the BBC’s most-respected reporters, spent years trying to make a programme on Islamic fundamentalism in Britain, but was repeatedly blocked by senior editors who feared it was too sensitive. Last month it emerged that The Guardian employed a journalist, Dilpazier Aslam, who is a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist group that wants a global theocracy, and is described by the Home Office as “anti-Semitic, anti-Western and homophobic”. The Guardian used Dilpazier Aslam to report not just on the London bombings, but on Shabina Begum, the Luton schoolgirl who, advised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, won a court case allowing her to wear head-to-toe fundamentalist Islamic clothes.
The tale illustrates Britain’s naivety in many ways. Hizb ut-Tahrir is still legal, despite being banned in many European and Muslim countries, and despite President Musharraf of Pakistan pleading with Britain to ban it after it plotted to assassinate him. The useful idiots of the Left insisted that Ms Begum’s victory was a victory over Islamophobia, but even the Muslim Parliament of Britain gave warning that it was a “victory for fundamentalism”, bringing Shariah law one step closer.
In France, by contrast, the government ban on wearing the hijab, or Islamic veil, in schools was widely supported by the Left. It is impossible in France for radical Islamists to dupe useful idiots into supporting a pro-hijab campaign presenting it as pro-choice, as they did in Britain — because in France, the Left knows that the Islamists believe Muslim women should be compelled to wear the hijab.
Here the Government talks about deporting extremist imams, but does nothing. In contrast, France has deported ten radical imams in the past two years, with another one deported to Algeria last week, and ten more are under police surveillance. In France, no mosque is off limits to the police. While Britain welcomes Sheikh al-Qaradawi, Germany last week deported an imam who simply supported the Muslim Brotherhood. In Bavaria alone, 14 “hate preachers” have been deported since November 2004, and a further 20 have received notifications of deportation.
The Netherlands and Denmark, worried about the growth of ghettoised Muslim communities, have promoted integration, with the Netherlands insisting that those wanting to become immigrants take a test of Dutch language and the nation’s values before they are even given a visa. Both countries have clamped down on inter-continental arranged marriages — which are thought to comprise 70 per cent of Muslim marriages there, as in Britain — on the ground that they promote the creation of separatist communities. Such measures are barely on the radar in Britain.
Even post-bombing, Britain has a long way to go in its understanding of Islamic fascism. The tragedy is that we start daring to understand it only when innocent lives are lost.
