Jews And Anti Jew
The day after Israel‘s failed assassination attempt on Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a “deeply troubled” President Bush let it be known that he did not think such attacks helped Israeli security. He was concerned lest the strike undermine the momentum he is trying to create for a “two-state” solution to the Palestinian crisis, part of his larger effort to extend peace and democracy in the Middle East. In response, the Jerusalem Post declared itself deeply troubled, too — by the failure of the said operation to eliminate the man who directs terror operations in Gaza. The Post believed that the American president would have done better to recognize the threat Rantisi represents to American security.
The Jerusalem Post has a point. President Bush may understand more clearly than his predecessors the nature of the threat to Israel’s security. The attacks of Sept. 11 brought home to him the similarities between the two democracies. Along with most Americans, the Bush administration now grasps how the freedoms of an open society leave it vulnerable to assault. If America is duty-bound to strike the bases of those who threaten its security, no matter how far they are from its shores, then Israel, too, which constitutes the fighting front line in the war against terror, must root out the terrorists within and along its borders.
Yet the White House still cannot bring itself to admit the true nature of the aggression against Israel. It still tends to treat the regional crisis as “a conflict of two people over one land” that can be resolved by the creation of a Palestinian state. According to this view, since Jews and Arabs both lay claim to the same territory of Israel-Palestine, some division of the territory between will bring about a peaceful resolution. This is the assumption behind the “road map” the president presented at the recent meetings in Egypt and Jordan, inviting the Palestinians to halt their terror and Israel to withdraw some of its settlements from the disputed lands.
The Arab war against Israel is no more a territorial conflict than was al Qaeda‘s strike against America.
Unfortunately, the Arab war against Israel is no more a territorial conflict than was al Qaeda’s strike against America, and it can no more be resolved by the “road map” than anti-Americanism could be appeased by ceding part of the U.S. to an Islamist enclave. From the moment in 1947 when Jewish leaders accepted and Arab rulers rejected the U.N. partition plan of Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict bore no further likeness to more conventional territorial struggles. Arab rulers defied the U.N. charter by denying the legitimacy of a member state. Arab countries refused to acknowledge the existence of a single Jewish land. Arab rulers did not object to Israel because it rendered the Palestinians homeless. Rather, they ensured that the Palestinians should remain homeless so that they could organize their politics around opposition to Israel.
At any point during the past 55 years, Arab governments could have helped the Palestinian Arabs settle down to a decent life. They could have created the infrastructure of an autonomous Palestine on the West Bank of the Jordan and the Gaza territory that Egypt controlled until 1967, or encouraged the resettlement of Palestinians in Jordan, which constitutes the lion’s share of the original mandate of Palestine. Rather than fund the Palestine Liberation Organization to foment terror against Israel they could have endowed Palestinian schools of architecture, engineering, medicine and law. What Israel did for its refugees from Arab lands, Arabs could have done much more sumptuously for the Palestinians displaced by the same conflict. Instead, Arab rulers cultivated generations of refugees in order to justify their ongoing campaign against the “usurper.”
This is hardly the first time that the Jews have served as the pretext for a politics of opposition. To cite only the most notorious example (whose outcome President and Mrs. Bush witnessed during their recent tour of Auschwitz), Hitler used the supposedly illegitimate presence of the Jews as the excuse for tightening control over all the instruments of state. His promise to rid Germany of “the Jewish vermin” ushered in an assault on democratic culture that gained popular support by targeting an unpopular minority. Anti-Semitism camouflaged the Nazi will to power and the imposition of totalitarian controls: In the name of limiting the “influence” of the Jews, Hitler delimited the power of the courts, the media, and the educational system. As a young German named Sebastian Haffner noted at the time, “[the Nazis] provoke a general discussion not about their own existence, but about the right of their victims to exist.” Suddenly, the Nazis had everyone debating the question of the Jews rather than questioning the legitimacy of the discriminatory laws against them.
The autocrats who govern Arab societies have used the “Zionist entity” to deflect attention from the worst aspects of their rule.
In almost identical ways, the autocrats who govern Arab societies have used the “Zionist entity” to deflect attention from the worst aspects of their rule. The unwanted presence of the Jews became the rallying point for internal dissatisfaction with the mounting problems of Arab regimes. The drumbeat against Israel invited the world to debate the iniquities of the Jews rather than question the legitimacy of the attacks against them. This comparison is not intended to equate the Germans with the Arabs, except in the ways that both exploited anti-Semitism to achieve broader political goals. Both used the alleged threat of “the Jews” to excuse their own failures. Anti-Semitism in both situations linked otherwise warring groups of the Left and Right.
The problem with anti-Semitism in its older and newer varieties is that it seems to serve its patrons so well. Without question, Arab rulers successfully deflected attention from their offenses by their decades of war and propaganda against Israel. Even the liberal Western media that might have been expected to support a besieged fellow democracy have long since focused on alleged Israeli abuses instead of on the abuses of their Arab accusers.
But, just as happened in Europe, the Arab obsession with Israel grew increasingly destructive not only of its Jewish targets but also of the sponsoring regimes. Attacking Jews consumed energy that should have been directed at alleviating the misery of Arab subjects. Blaming the Jews postponed democratization, which begins with people taking responsibility for themselves.
Moreover, anti-Semitism metastasizes very quickly; its culture of hatred and its appeal to violence cannot be contained. Although Arab governments tried to direct the war against Israel according to their political needs, Islamist and nationalist groups espousing the same ideology sprang up independently, sometimes in defiance of government control. Anti-Semitism morphed into anti-Americanism — not because America supported Israel but because America represented the same challenges of an open, democratic, competitive society. The Jews’ function as a bulwark of democracy was determined by the despots who tried to crush them. America did not so much fight on the side of the Jews as find itself forced to tackle the anti-Jews.
It goes without saying that President Bush must subordinate other considerations to America’s security and interests. And Americans obviously would be better served if there were no conflict in the Middle East. Yet until Arab leaders give up the crutch of anti-Semitism they can make no real progress toward responsible self-government, and it is futile to pretend that obsession with Israel is compatible with Palestinian independence. Rantisi greeted the “road map” by organizing major attacks against Israel, which he calls “our land, not the land of the Jews.” America can’t hope to win its war against terror while ignoring some of its major perpetrators and propagandists.
Skinheads Banned from Staging Skinhead Riot
Nationwide civil unrest hasn’t come full circle until racist fringe groups come out to point fingers and promote xenophobic vigilantism. And that’s where the English Defence League comes in! The group was all set to march on the streets of Telford this weekend in order “to address the threat posed by Muslim child-grooming gangs.” Oh, but the British Home Secretary Theresa Maytoday said, “It is clear that a ban is needed to ensure communities and property are protected.”
But these crimes are not about race. There is no dangerous ideology of hatred and division sweeping Black, White or Asian communities. In modern Britain extremism exists predominately in the Muslim Community, and not in any community differentiated by race. We know this because we hear about it every day – the countless and continued examples of Islam being cited as the inspiration for various acts of extremism.
Stockholm – The Swedish royal family said Thursday that 2011 had been a ‘tough’ year, citing intense media coverage of allegations that King Carl XVI Gustaf had attended private parties at sleazy nightclubs featuring scantily dressed women.
‘It has been a very tough year,’ Crown Princess Victoria told public television SVT in an end-of-year documentary on the royal family. ‘It really hurts when your parents are depicted in the rough manner that actually occurred.’
The king continues to be dogged by allegations in an unauthorized biography published a year ago that he risked his security and image by attending private parties at sleazy nightclubs.
Mille Markovic, a former club owner, maintains that he had many photos from parties attended by the king. One allegedly shows the king watching scantily dressed women.
Stockholm tabloid Expressen said earlier in December that the photo was most likely manipulated, citing three independent experts.
In a rare interview in May, the king denied allegations that such photos of him existed.
In the SVT documentary, to be aired on Thursday, Queen Silvia said she had been hurt by the media coverage.
‘I really don’t want to go into it. It is really painful,’ the queen said. ‘It is a situation where you are completely helpless. Someone else always has the final say.’
The German-born queen’s late father, Walter Sommerlath, who died in 1990, also made headlines this year. The queen and other members of the Sommerlath family commissioned an investigation after accusations that the family had Nazi ties.
A television documentary broadcast last year by TV4 alleged that Sommerlath had taken over a company owned by a Jewish businessman as part of the Nazi regime‘s programme of expropriating Jewish property and businesses.
The report, which was updated this year, described the deal as a ‘swap’ allowing the Jewish businessman, Efim Wechsler, to emigrate from Nazi Germany. It also showed that Sommerlath joined the Nazi party in 1934 when he lived in Brazil.
‘I am worried about the lack of understanding for privacy,’ said Princess Victoria, 34, who is expecting her first child next year.
World news in 2011
| There was a lot of push and pull, as everything happened from Belgium getting its first gay prime minister to U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s historic pro-LGBTspeech to the anti-gay actions of several African nations:—Leader killed: David Kato, an openly gay human-rights activist and advocacy officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda, was attacked in his home in Mukono, Uganda, on Jan. 26, and died on his way to the hospital. Sidney Nsubuga Enoch was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison Nov. 10.
—Violence on the rise: A report, “The Impact of the Earthquake, and Relief and Recovery Programs on Haitian LGBT People,” asserted that violence and discrimination against LGBT people has increased since the January 2010 earthquake. Perhaps most shocking, conservative religious leaders in Haiti blamed LGBT people for the earthquake, leading to increased stigma and violence. —Happy anniversary: This year marked the 10th anniversary that the Netherlands became the first nation in the world to let same-sex couples marry. Now same-sex marriage is legal in 12 nations, and the Netherlands has seen nearly 15,000 same-sex marriages. —Uganda’s bill: Uganda considered an anti-gay measure that would inflict the death penalty on those found guilty of “aggravated homosexuality.” After much global outrage, Parliament adjourned in May 2011 without voting on the bill. The government voted to reopen debate on the bill later in the year. —Showing Pride: Dozens of people ( including Chicago gay-rights activist Andy Thayer ) were arrested for participating in a banned gay-pride event in Moscow. As authorities arrested individuals, things became even more chaotic as an ultra-Orthodox group, described as skinheads, gathered in anticipation of the event and attacked the activists. —I declare: The United Nations issued a declaration on HIV and AIDS. The declaration was the first General Assembly statement on AIDS to explicitly include men who have sex with men, breaking a pervasive silence about this population. —And then there’s fraud: Many followed the “saga” of the Syrian woman behind the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus,” who was supposedly kidnapped—but it turned out that it was all a fraud. Tom MacMaster—a 40-year-old U.S. man from Georgia working on his master\’s degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland—had been writing the blog for years under the pseudonym “Amina Arraf.” He later apologized on the blog. —Do the rights thing: In a groundbreaking achievement for upholding the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution on human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The resolution, presented by South Africa along with Brazil and 39 additional co-sponsors from all regions of the world, was passed by a vote of 23 in favor, 19 against and three abstentions. —Bad boy, what you gonna do?: Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton—whom gay-rights groups have vilified because of his anti-gay songs—was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a Florida cocaine deal. Banton is mostly known among gay-rights groups for his song “Boom Bye Bye,” the lyrics for which are apparently a fantasy of murdering LGBT people. In 2006, Banton was acquitted on charges that he had participated in the assault of gay men in Jamaica. —Pulling back: The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organization ( aka IGLYO ) on July 28 canceled plans to hold its December annual conference in Israel after being criticized by Palestinian LGBT activists and some of its own member groups. —He’s a survivor: Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the oldest known gay survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, died Aug. 3 at the age of 98. Brazda was one of thousands of gay men deported to concentration camps during World War II. The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler viewed homosexuality as an aberration and a threat to the Aryan race. More than 50,000 homosexuals were convicted as criminals during the Nazi reign. —Rescue me: In Norway, married lesbian couple Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen helped rescue 40 people during Anders Breivik’s recent shooting rampage at a youth camp on Utoya Island. Dalen and Hansen drove the boat to the island, picked up individuals from the water and transported them to the opposite shore to the mainland. —Layton passes: In Canada, the Right Honourable Jack Layton, MP, died of cancer at age 61. An ally of the LGBT community, Layton—who guided the New Democrat party tinto being Parliament’s dominant opposiion party—was a vigorous supporter of HIV/AIDS activism in the early years of the pandemic. In 2005, many credited Layton for the success of Canada’s national same-sex marriage bill when he was the only party leader to request supporting votes. —Taking a break: The National Presbyterian Church of Mexico voted to cut ties with the U.S. Presbyterian Church over the issue of gay ministers. Despite a 139-year history and a network of ministries spanning the United States-Mexico border, the Mexican denomination made the decision after the U.S. church voted in May to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. —German reign: Openly gay Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit was elected to a third term. Wowereit, 57, was first elected in 2001. He came out during a convention of the Berlin Social Democratic Party, saying, “I’m gay, and that is good the way it is.” —The rights stuff: In a speech to the United Nationals Human Rights Council that pro-LGBT advocates have called extraordinary, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the fight for LGBT rights to be a foreign-policy priority. “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” said Clinton. “It is a violation of human rights when people are beaten or killed because of their sexual orientation, or because they do not conform to cultural norms about how men and women should look or behave. —Ogola dies: Dr. Margaret Ogola, renowned Kenyan author and medical director of Cottolengo HIV and AIDS Hospice, passed away. At the World Congress of Families II in Geneva ( 1999 ) , Ogola received the WCF Familias Award for Humanitarian Service. Besides her service at the Cottolengo Hospice, Ogola was vice president of Family Life Counseling in Kenya, which works to improve the condition of Kenyan women. —Stepping down: In Russia, gay-rights activist Nikolay Alekseyev stepped down as head of Moscow Pride. Alekseyev, 34—the author of two books on gay rights in the U.S. Library of Congress—has fought homophobia for years and has endured slander and even kidnapping. Nikolai Baev, who succeeds Alekseyev, said the reason he left “is totally personal. He just decided to change his activity and lifestyle, and he has a full right to this.” —Pioneer: In Denmark, gay-rights pioneer Axel Axgil died at the age of 96. Axgil ( born Axel Lundahl-Madsen ) co-founded LGBT Danmark in 1948, making it one of the oldest gay-rights groups in Europe. On Oct. 1, 1989, he and his partner Eigil—who died in 1995—were among 11 couples to exchange vows as Denmark became the first country to allow gays to enter civil unions. —Rio, grand: In Brazil, a top appellate court has ruled that two women can be legally married, making it the highest court to uphold a same-sex marriage. In June, a state court judge ruled that two men could legally alter their civil union into a marriage. In May, the country’s Supreme Court ruled that civil-unions could be recognized but did not recognize full marriages. —Good night and Goodluck: Nigeria’s Senate voted to criminalize same-sex marriage, LGBT advocacy groups and even same-sex public displays of affection. Under the proposed law, couples who marry could face up to 14 years each in prison; witnesses or anyone who helps couples marry could be sentenced to 10 years. The House of Representatives now must pass the law and President Goodluck Jonathan must sign it before it can be enacted. —Donation, qualification: In the United Kingdom, gay men can now donate blood. A lifetime ban was imposed in the 1980s as a response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. However, following a review by the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs, men who have not had oral or anal sex ( with or without a condom ) within a year will be able to donate if they meet certain other qualifications. —Conflagration condemnation: Members of the pro-LGBT groups Sangama and the Karnataka Sexual Minorities Forum condemned the Delhi government in India for not putting fire-safety systems in place that, they contend, led to the deaths of 15 hijras ( transgender individuals ) in a fire Nov. 20. —Mayor development: Hobsons Bay, Australia, has the world’s first intersex mayor. Tony Briffa won the position in the city, which is just outside of Melbourne. “I am excited about the future of our community and look forward to serving the city with enthusiasm and pride,” he said. —World premier: French-speaking Socialist Elio di Rupo became the first out gay leader in the European Union, having been elected the premier of Belgium. Di Rupo, 60, is the mayor of the city of Mons and is a former chemistry professor. Di Rupo—who sports a bowtie and floppy hair, and who swears by abdominal crunches—came out in the late 1990s when questioned by journalists. —Czech, please: Former Czech President Vaclav Havel died at age 75. Havel—a playwright-turned-political activist who spent four and a half years in prison for opposing Czechslovakia’s Communist government— was also an ally of the LGBT community. He was reportedly pleased when the Czech Republic’s Chamber of Deputies passed a domestic-partnership law several years ago.
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Case of Anti-White Racism on Trial in France
As protesters massed outside, the spokeswoman for a movement representing immigrants from France‘s former colonies went on trial Wednesday for allegedly insulting white French in what may be the first anti-white racism case in France.
The verdict, expected Jan. 25, may turn on a hyphen.
The trial grew out of a legal complaint from a far-right group, the General Alliance Against Racism and Respect for French and Christian Identity, Agrif, against Houria Bouteldja for using a word she invented to refer to white French that she claims was misconstrued. She was charged with “racial injury” and, if convicted, risks up to six months in prison and a maximum €25,000 ($32,500) fine, though courts usually issue far lighter sentences.
Bouteldja, of the movement Indigenes of the Republic, called native white French “souchiens” in a TV interview. The word derives from “souche,” or stock, as native white French are commonly called, but could sound like a hyphenated word meaning “lower than a dog.”
Bouteldja’s remarks on France-3 television station four years ago caused a clamor in large part because they cut straight to long-simmering issues over inequity between white French and French whose origins are in former North African and African colonies — some of whose families took up arms to help France fight during the world wars.
Her Indigenes movement, now a tiny political party, tries to fight racism and promote equal rights for people with roots in “post-colonial immigration.”
The TV interview and media stories that ensued put Bouteldja’s remarks on center-stage. Brice Hortefeux, serving at the time as immigration and national identity minister, said he was “injured” and “shocked” by what sounded like an insulting play on words but took no action.
Security at the twice-postponed trial was high as about 150 protesters gathered outside, some representing the Indigenes movement and others from several extreme-right groups such as Bloc Identitaire (Identity Bloc), fighting what they claim is the Islamization of France and Europe by Muslim immigrants. Riot police kept the two sides apart.
Prosecutor Patrice Michel stressed the ambiguity of the word used by Bouteldja in the TV interview, but also said that her use of the word appeared aimed at “purposely hurting and outraging a certain category of French.” He added, however, that doubt persists and that his interpretation did not constitute proof.
There was no doubt for Bernard Antony, president of Agrif and formerly a European lawmaker for the far-right National Front party. He denounced before the court what he claimed is the “racist folly” of Bouteldja and “an anti-white racism that exists and is growing.”
“I’m thinking of my 14 grandchildren,” he said.
Bouteldja claims she never meant to refer to native white French as being “lower than a dog.” She told the court that she spoke of “souchiens” ”to criticize the French expression ‘French of stock,’ which prevents me from feeling fully French.”
In an interview ahead of the trial, she said the French expression “allows one to believe there are two categories of French, those of stock and the others, which creates two-speed citizens.”
Defense lawyer Henri Braun, asking the court to acquit his client, said Bouteldja was really denouncing “the rise in hate and racism and tensions over the mythical French identity which propagates the idea that there are real French,” and other French who are not real.
“They want you (the court) to judge that French of stock exist and strengthen the legitimacy of this ridiculous notion,” he said.
John Stout: “I feel very betrayed about how we were treated, it was wrong”
Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution.
One of them, 92-year-old Phil Farrington, took part in the D-Day landings and helped liberate the German death camp at Bergen-Belsen – but he wears his medals in secret.
Even to this day, he has nightmares that he will be arrested by the authorities and imprisoned for his wartime service.
“They would come and get me, yes they would,” he said in a frail voice at his home in the docks area of Dublin.
And his 25-year-old grandson, Patrick, confirmed: “I see the fear in him even today, even after 65 years.”
Mr Farrington’s fears are not groundless.
He was one of about 5,000 Irish soldiers who deserted their own neutral army to join the war against fascism and who were brutally punished on their return home as a result.
They were formally dismissed from the Irish army, stripped of all pay and pension rights, and prevented from finding work by being banned for seven years from any employment paid for by state or government funds.
A special “list” was drawn up containing their names and addresses, and circulated to every government department, town hall and railway station – anywhere the men might look for a job.
It was referred to in the Irish parliament – the Dail – at the time as a “starvation order”, and for many of their families the phrase became painfully close to the truth.
Paddy Reid – whose father and uncle both fought the Japanese at the battle of Kohima Ridge – recalls a post-war childhood in Dublin spent “moving from one slum to another”.
Maybe one slice of bread a day and that would be it – no proper clothing, no proper heating.
“My father was blacklisted and away all the time, picking turnips or whatever work he could get. It’s still painful to remember. We were treated as outcasts.”
John Stout, now 80, served with the Irish Guards armoured division which raced to Arnhem to capture a key bridge.
He also fought in the Battle of the Bulge, ending the war as a commando.
On his return home to Cork, however, he was treated as a pariah. “What they did to us was wrong. I know that in my heart. They cold-shouldered you. They didn’t speak to you.
“They didn’t understand why we did what we did. A lot of Irish people wanted Germany to win the war – they were dead up against the British.”
It was only 20 years since Ireland had won its independence after many centuries of rule from London, and the Irish list of grievances against Britain was long – as Gerald Morgan, long-time professor of history at Trinity College, Dublin, explains.
“The uprisings, the civil war, all sorts of reneged promises – I’d estimate that 60% of the population expected or indeed hoped the Germans would win.
“To prevent civil unrest, Eamon de Valera had to do something. Hence the starvation order and the list.”
Ireland adopted a policy of strict neutrality which may have been necessary politically or even popular, but a significant minority strongly backed Britain, including tens of thousands of Irish civilians who signed up to fight alongside the 5,000 Irish servicemen who switched uniforms.
Until I showed him the list – the size of a slim phone directory and marked “confidential” – John Stout had not realised his name was included.
But after the war it quickly became apparent that he could not get work and was not welcome in Ireland – so he returned to Britain.
“I feel very betrayed about how we were treated, it was wrong and even today they should say sorry for the problems we had to endure. We never even got to put our case or argue why it was unjust,” said Mr Stout.
And the list itself is far from accurate, according to Robert Widders, who has written a book about the deserters’ treatment called Spitting on a Soldier’s Grave.
“It contains the names of men who were to be punished but who’d already been killed in action, but not the names of men who deserted the Irish army to spend their war years as burglars or thieves,” he said.
In recent months, a number of Irish parliamentarians have begun pressing their government to issue a pardon to the few deserters who remain alive.
“What happened to them was vindictive and not only a stain on their honour but on the honour of Ireland,” TD Gerald Nash said.
Eamon de Valera inspects his country’s neutral army
Attacks by ultra-Orthodox Jews who have spit on and yelled at an 8-year-old American girl walking to school in their Israeli neighborhood has prompted a call by Israeli President Shimon Peres to join a protest today against Jewish religious extremists.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the city of Beit Shemesh, to the west of Jerusalem, consider a new girls school there an encroachment on their territory. Dozens of men in black hats jeer and physically accost the girls almost daily, the students say, according to the Associated Press.
Naama Margolese, 8, whose family is from Chicago, says she is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing “immodestly.” She tells the AP: “They were scary. They don’t want us to go to the school.”
TV images of Naama sobbing from her ordeal has shocked many Israelis, stocking Peres’ call for the public to attend today’s protest against women’s exclusion in the city,Ynetnews.com reports.
“Today the people and not just police officers are being tested,” Peres said. “Everyone – the religious, the secular, the traditionalists – must defend the nature of the state of Israel in the face of a small group which compromises national solidarity.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to end attempts to enforce segregation of the sexes, the BBC reports.
“The Israel police are taking, and will take, action to arrest and stop those who spit, harass or raise a hand. This has no place in a free and democratic state,” he told his Cabinet, according to the AP.
Ultra-Orthodox makes up about 10% of the Israeli population, but have a high birth rate, the BBC notes.
Western Muslims’ Racist Rape Spree
In Australia, Norway, Sweden and other Western nations, there is a distinct race-based crime in motion being ignored by the diversity police: Islamic men are raping Western women for ethnic reasons. We know this because the rapists have openly declared their sectarian motivations. When a number of teenage Australian girls were subjected to hours of sexual degradation during a spate of gang rapes in Sydney that occurred between 1998 and 2002, the perpetrators of these assaults framed their rationale in ethnic terms. The young victims were informed that they were “sluts” and “Aussie pigs” while they were being hunted down and abused. In Australia’s New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because they were not wearing a headscarf. And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy clothing, invited men to rape them. A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi created uproar when like his peer in Australia he stated that women who did not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped. And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped. He added, “For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct.” In Norway and Sweden, journalist Fjordman warns of a rape epidemic. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen stated that the steady increase of rape-cases and the link to ethnicity are clear, unmistakable trends. Two out of three persecutions for rape in Oslo are immigrants with a non-Western background and 80 percent of the victims are Norwegian women. In Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, “Gang rapes, usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become commonplace.” A few weeks ago she said, “Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old Swedish girl.” In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence after enduring years of repeated gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects and wrote a book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, “any neighborhood girl who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore.” Unfortunately, Western women are not the only victims in this epidemic. In Indonesia, in 1998, human rights groups documented the testimony of over 100 Chinese women who were gang raped during the riots that preceded the fall of President Suharto. Many of them were told: “You must be raped, because you are Chinese and non-Muslim.” Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported that in April 2005, a 9-year-old Pakistani girl was raped, beaten with a cricket bat, hanged upside down from the ceiling, had spoonfuls of chillies poured into her mouth, and repeatedly bashed while handcuffed. Her Muslim neighbours told her they were taking revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi children and informed her they were doing it because she was an “infidel and a Christian.” In Sudan where Arab Muslims slaughter black Muslim and Christian Sudanese in an ongoing genocide former Sudanese slave and now a human rights’ activist Simon Deng says he witnessed girls and women being raped and that the Arab regime of Khartoum sends its soldiers to the field to rape and murder. In other reports, women who are captured by government forces are asked; “Are you Christian or Muslim?” and those who answer Christian, are gang raped before having their breasts cut off. This phenomenon of Islamic sexual violence against women should be treated as the urgent, violent, repressive epidemic it is. Instead, journalists, academics, and politicians ignore it, rationalize it, or ostracize those who dare discuss it. In Australia, when journalist Paul Sheehan reported honestly on the Sydney gang rapes, he was called a racist and accused of stirring up anti-Muslim hatred. And when he reported in his Sydney Morning Herald column that there was a high incidence of crime amongst Sydney’s Lebanese community, fellow journalist, David Marr sent him an e-mail stating, “That is a disgraceful column that reflects poorly on us all at the Herald.” Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Australian Lebanese Muslim Association said the gang rapes were a “heinous” crime but complained it was “rather unfair” that the ethnicity of the rapists had been reported. Journalist Miranda Devine reported during the same rape trials that all reference to ethnicity had been deleted from the victim impact statement because the prosecutors wanted to negotiate a plea bargain. So when Judge Megan Latham declared, “There is no evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these offences,” everyone believed her. And the court, the politicians and most of the press may as well have raped the girls again. Retired Australian detective Tim Priest warned in 2004 that the Lebanese gangs, which emerged in Sydney in the 1990s when the police were asleep had morphed out of control. “The Lebanese groups,” he said, ” were ruthless, extremely violent, and they intimidated not only innocent witnesses, but even the police that attempted to arrest them.” Priest describes how in 2001, in a Muslim dominated area of Sydney two policemen stopped a car containing three well-known Middle Eastern men to search for stolen property. As the police carried out their search they were physically threatened and the three men claimed they were going to track them down, kill them and then rape their girlfriends. According to Priest, it didn’t end there. As the Sydney police called for backup the three men used their mobile phones to call their associates, and within minutes, 20 Middle Eastern men arrived on the scene. They punched and pushed the police and damaged state vehicles. The police retreated and the gang followed them to the police station where they intimidated staff, damaged property and held the police station hostage. Eventually the gang left, the police licked their wounds, and not one of them took action against the Middle Eastern men. Priest claims, “In the minds of the local population, the police are cowards and the message was, ‘Lebanese [Muslim gangs] rule the streets.’” In France, in the banlieues, where gang rape is now known simply as tournantes or ‘pass-around,’ victims know the police will not protect them. If they complain, Samir Bellil said, they know that they and their families will be threatened. However, Muslim women in the French ghettos are finally fighting back against gang rape and police non-action. They have begun a movement called, “We’re neither whores nor doormats.” They are struggling against the intrinsic violence that plagues their neighbourhoods and the culture that condones it. In most French prosecutions, the Muslim rapists state that they do not believe they have committed a crime. And in a frightening parallel with the gang rapists in Australia, they claim the victim herself is to blame and accuse her of being a “slut” or a “whore.” According to The Guardian, during the recent French riots, a Saudi Prince with shares in News Corporation boasted to a conference in Dubai that he had phoned Rupert Murdoch and complained about Fox News describing the disturbances as “Muslim riots.” Within half an hour he said, it was changed to “civil riots.” Swedish translator, Ali Dashti, stated that in Sweden when three men raped a 22-year-old woman recently, they said one word to her. “Whore.” Such stories, according to Dashti, are in the Swedish newspapers every week. And, the politically correct “take great care not to mention the ethnic background of the perpetrators.” Sweden’s English newspaper The Local reported in July that Malmo police commander Bengt Lindström had been charged with inciting racial hatred. He sent e-mails from his home computer to two city officials. To the head of healthcare, he wrote: “You…treat old Swedes who have worked hard building up the fatherland like parasites and would rather give my taxes to criminals called Mohammed from Rosengärd.” In Malmo, the third largest city in Sweden, the police have admitted, Dashti says, that they no longer control the city. “It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants.” Ambulance personnel are regularly attacked and spat upon and are now refusing to help until a police escort arrives. The police are too afraid to enter parts of the city without backup. In early 2005, Norwegian newspapers reported that Oslo had recorded the highest ever number of rape cases in the previous twelve months. However, Fjordman explained, the official statistics contained no data regarding “how immigrants were grossly over represented in rape cases”, and the media remain so strangely silent. Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Unni Wikan, said Norwegian women must take responsibility for the fact that Muslim men find their manner of dress provocative. And since these men believe women are responsible for rape, she stated, the women must adapt to the multicultural society around them. The BBC pulled a documentary scheduled for screening in 2004, after police in Britain warned it could increase racial tension. “In these exceptional circumstances… Channel 4 as a responsible broadcaster has agreed to the police’s request…” The documentary was to show how Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abused young, white English girls as young as 11. The number of rapes committed by Muslim men against women in the last decade is so incredibly high that it cannot be viewed as anything other than culturally implicit behaviour. It is overtly reinforced and sanctioned by Islamic religious leaders who blame the victims and excuse the rapists. In three decades of immigration into Western countries, Islam has caused social upheaval and havoc in every one of its host countries. No other immigration program has encountered the problems of non-assimilation and religious ambiguity. Everywhere in the world, Muslims are in conflict with their neighbours. And as Mark Steyn recently said, every conflict appears to have originated by someone with the name of Mohammed. In July 2005, Melbourne Sheik Mohammad Omran told Sixty Minutes that “…we believe we have more rights than you because we choose Australia to be our home and you didn’t.” In the same interview visiting Sheik Khalid Yasin warned “There’s no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend, so a non-Muslim could be your associate but they can’t be a friend. They’re not your friend because they don’t understand your religious principles and they cannot because they don’t understand your faith.” Despite being told over and over by Islamic scholars, and witnessing massive influxes of Islamic crime, Western countries continue to believe in the reality of assimilation and moral relativism. In Australia, Lebanese Christians have assimilated and become a respected part of our community. The Premier of Victoria is a Lebanese Christian as is the Governor Of New South Wales. However, Lebanese Muslims have encountered serious problems because of their refusal to accept our right to live our way of life. Nothing so clearly demonstrates that it is not an issue of race – but of culture.
Church Preaches White Genocide
Black Liberation Theology is a cult doctrine which is not only racist, but actually advocates white genocide, destruction of American democracy and the traditional Christian church. The doctrine states that all whites are collectively guilty, white oppressors must “cease to be” and equates white society to the Antichrist, calling whites the “symbol of depravity” and “the enemy of mankind.” These are genocidal religious concepts, that white society is too evil to exist. Black Liberation Theology is the doctrine of Obama’s church in Chicago, Trinity United Church of Christ. Jeremiah Wright openly declared this on national television in an interview by Sean Hannity (see video).
BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY IS A BRANCH OF BLACK NATIONALISM
The New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and Obama’s Trinity Church in Chicago and other such groups are all part of the greater Black Nationalist movement and all share the same basic, genocidal, cult-like religious belief about the destruction of whites and America, as you will see in the quotes below from the foundation books on Black Liberation Theology. That these beliefs are so prevalent and accepted in the black community certainly contributes to many murders and other violent crimes every year in the United States. Obama’s pseudo-Christian sect was designed to spread black nationalist concepts among black churches and to attract black professionals to this mass movement that began nearly a century ago. Because it is meant to appeal to a more sophisticated segment of black society, adherents of Black Liberation Theology are less overt in these racist beliefs that all of the black identity sects share, but the racism is well-documented in their own literature.
It is ludicrous to propose that Barack Obama did not know exactly what the basic doctrine of his church is. You can buy the foundation books on Black Liberation Theology from Amazon or other retailers to learn for yourself what it is. Jeremiah Wright preached that doctrine every week, not just one time, and he did not teach traditional Christianity at all. This doctrine of hate was often preached using allegory and/or symbolism, so that outsiders do not immediately understand what it is about. However, it is clearly written in certain passages of their own literature, such as a few quoted towards the end of this note.
So, how could Obama become a Christian in the usual sense of the word at Trinity Church? Many people would have us believe that the editor of the Harvard Law Review was a member of this bizarre black sect for 20 years, yet had no inkling that the basic doctrine of his church is that the white race, America and the traditional Christian church together represent the ultimate evil in the world and must be destroyed to liberate the world from white oppression.
When Jeremiah Wright preached “God damn America”, he was not just expressing his own personal opinion, but one of the three basic tenets of Black Liberation Theology and there is no real doubt that his best student, Barack Obama, understood very well the doctrine of this perverse church. Yet, neither the useful idiots of the media nor the corrupt opposition politicians held him to account for his membership in this cult of hate. They allowed him to blame it all on Jeremiah Wright, which is Obama’s “Big Lie.” Obama is most certainly fully aware of the hateful details of this racist doctrine and it is also pretty apparent that his religious beliefs are driving his policies to the extent he can do that without openly exposing himself.
There is a lot of false information posted about the origins of Black Liberation Theology, probably because the media and individuals are intimidated by these black nationalist groups. The truth is that the New Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, pseudo-Christian churches with doctrines based on Black Liberation Theology, the Black Hebrews and other black identity groups are all part of a broader, black nationalist movement and have common fundamental anti-American and anti-white beliefs, no matter what religion they use as a front for these beliefs. The roots of these groups are all in the black esoteric religious tradition of America and the black Caribbean that reaches back to African native religions. This tradition began with the slave rebellions of the Maroons, the Nat Turner massacre and other such uprisings. It is a revolutionary black religious movement, based on hatred of America, hatred of the white race and hatred of the traditional Christian church.
The co-founder of the Nation of Islam, Fard Muhammad, mandated in the 1930′s that each member sacrifice four whites. This is documented in an article in the American Journal of Sociology in 1937. There have been several cases in which this mandate was acted out, most notably in the Zebra Killings of 1973-74 in San Francisco and the Yahweh ben Yahweh serial murders in the 1980′s in Miami. The DC sniper, who was also a Black Nationalist, was no doubt also influenced by such teachings of Fard Muhammad to kill whites and other non-believers in his attempt in 2002 to start an apocalyptic uprising against America and the white man.
It is incredibly risky to accept a man as commander-in-chief, who has been a member of such a hate group and has never repudiated this hateful doctrine or even been directly questioned about it. The media and the politicians of America failed miserably in their duty to vet Obama when he was a candidate for president and they must ultimately be held to account for it. They have tried to sweep all of this under the rug, but more and more people are gradually becoming aware of this outrageous and very dangerous situation that they have created for us.
GENOCIDAL CONCEPTS OF BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY
The Merriam dictionary gives the definition of “genocide” as the following.
“the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
From the quotes below, you can see that the religious concept of Obama’s racist sect in Chicago is genocidal in all three ways, it advocates destruction of the white race as a society, America (a political entity) and the traditional church (a cultural group). This is the version of “Christianity,” in which Obama professes so fervently to believe.
From “Black Theology and Black Power” by James H. Cone (1969)
I believe that all aspiring black intellectuals share the task that LeRoi Jones has described for the black artist in America: “To aid in the destruction of America as he knows it:” (page 3)
And it should be said that racism is so embedded in the heart of American society that few, if any, whites can free themselves from it. (page 23)
In time of war, men want to know who the enemy is. Who is for me and who is against me? That is the question. The asserting of black freedom in America has always meant war. (page 26)
…violence may be the black man’s expression, sometimes the only possible expression, of Christian love to the white oppressor. (page 55)
If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist (or “the principalities and powers”), the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It is the enemy of Christ. (page 73)
Just as the black revolution means the death of America as it has been, so it requires the death of the Church in its familiar patterns. (page 116)
If the doctrine is against or indifferent to the essence of blackness as expressed in Black Power, then it is the work of the Antichrist:” It is as simple as that. (page 121)
It is a theology which confronts white society as the racist Antichrist, communicating to the oppressor that nothing will be spared in the fight for freedom. (page 135)
Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man’s depravity. (page 150)
In a white racist society, Christian obedience can only mean being obedient to blackness, its glorification and exaltation.(page 150)
It is this fact that makes all white churches anti-Christian in their essence. To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people! (page 151)
From “A Black Theology of Liberation” by James H. Cone (1970)
With the assurance that God is on our side, we can begin to make ready for the inevitable-the decisive encounter between black and white existence. ….We will not let whitey cool this one with his pious love ethic but will seek to enhance our hostility, bringing it to its full manifestation. (Page 12)
To be black is to be committed to destroying everything this country loves and adores. (Page 20)
The black experience is the feeling one has when attacking the enemy of black humanity by throwing a Molotov cocktail into a white-owned building and watching it go up in flames. (Page 25)
Every time a white master came to his death, blacks believed that it was the work of God inflicting just judgment in recompense for the suffering of God’s people. (Page 37)
As the oppressed now recognize their situation in the light of God’s revelation, they know that they should have killed their oppressors instead of trying to “love” them. (Page 51)
Because whiteness by its very nature is against blackness, the black prophet is a prophet of national doom. He proclaims the end of the “American Way,” for God has stirred the soul of the black community. (Page 55)
It (Black theology) must stay in the black community and get down to the real issues at hand (“cutting throats” to use LeRoi Jones’s phrase) (Page 59)
The goal of black theology is the destruction of everything white… (page 62)
What we need is the divine love; as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal. (Page 70)
The free person in America is the one who does not tolerate whiteness but fights against it, knowing that it is the source of human misery. (page 101)
Freedom is the black movement of a people getting ready to liberate itself, knowing that it cannot be unless its oppressors cease to be. (page 101)
The Constitution is white, the Emancipation Proclamation is white, the government is white, business is white, the unions are white. What we need is the destruction of whiteness, which is the source of human misery in the world. (page 107)
The black Christ is he who threatens the structure of evil as seen in white society, rebelling against it, thereby becoming the embodiment of what the black community knows that it must become. (page 121)
The black Christ is he who nourishes the rebellious impulse in blacks so that at the appointed time the black community can respond collectively to the white community as a corporate “bad nigger,” lashing out at the enemy of human-kind. (page 121)
To be a disciple of the black Christ is to become black with him. Looting, burning, or the destruction of white property are not primary concerns. Such matters can only be decided by the oppressed themselves who are seeking to develop their images of the black Christ. (page 123)
To verify the above quotes and see the context, these books are available from Amazon and other retail book sellers. Click the links below to order from Amazon. These quotes are also by no means exhaustive. There are many more such racist passages in Cone’s tomes of genocidal hatred. The central theme of the books is genocidal racial hatred.
To prevent the Blood and Honour crew from taking their message to the steps of city hall, about 200 anti-racism protesters formed a line at a downtown intersection. Fearing violent clashes that had broken out between the groups in the past, about 100 police officers formed a block-wide cordon between them and the white supremacists.
But the only thing that crossed the police line were insults, chants and taunts as the supremacists walked along 6th Avenue, their movements paralleled by the demonstrators on 7th Avenue.
Two people were arrested: Police said they saw one man on the anti-racist side of the line filling his pockets with rocks. When searched, they said they found a crowbar and a hammer in his knapsack. The man was arrested and charges were pending on Saturday.
Another man was arrested on a breach of warrant before the demonstration started.
Fewer white pride protesters made it to this year’s rally than in previous years.
Mostly young white males wearing masks, clad in black and waving matching black flags bearing white Celtic crosses — a traditional symbol of white supremacist movements — they lapped up the attention of media and counter-demonstrators.
They wanted “to have a peaceful protest, to promote love and pride in our culture and our heritage and for white children to walk around with their heads filled up high,” said one member of the group, who refused to show his face or be named.
Several of the supremacists screamed taunts at Jason Devine, the spokesman for Anti-Racist Action Calgary, the activist group that led the counter-demonstrations.
In November, Devine was attacked in his home by a group of white supremacists.
The de facto leader of the Calgary branch of Blood and Honour, Kyle McKee, 25, was unable to attend Saturday’s rally for a second year in a row as he was serving a 60-day jail sentence after pleading guilty to three criminal charges.
Kathy Grant of the Calgary Police Service said the force considered the day successful.
“While the majority of the demonstrators were peaceful, there were a small number of people on both sides who seemed intent on confronting one another,” she said.
“Calgary Police Service officers prevented confrontations from occurring.”
Protesters on both sides began to disperse at about 1 p.m.
