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Why does America import its suicide bombers, while we produce our own?

 

Is Trump right about importing Islam to the US?………Is there a Muslim agenda?……..

Islam in the US is a numbers game….the more Muslims the more the US mindset will change to favour Islam…so says Tariq Ramadan….

‘What is important in our number, our number as Muslims, is not that we are converting people. It’s by having an important number… the more committed Muslims we have, the more witnesses we have and the more we change mindset around us.’

and to infiltrate society to gain the upper hand…

What I said is not to infiltrate, it’s just to be a journalist. Because the journalist, when you come with your background, of course you should be objective or try to be the most objective but you are coming with a background, and you come with another vision… We have to push our daughters and our sons not only to be medical doctors, not only to be computer scientists but journalists to deal with this, to deal with academia because within academia we have all this business: to shape the perceptions, to help the people…

“I am sorry to see that too many Muslims now, they want a peaceful life, [they want] to be acknowledged, to be accepted but they are not ready for the struggle and the struggle is…We are not here to be accepted. We are here to change the society.

Ramadan suggested taking advantage of the current Canadian legal framework (“one of the most open in the world”) in order to discretely implement sharia principles one at a time. This is the approach that led Islamists to press for the establishment of reasonable accommodations in the following years.

Tariq Ramadan openly calls for Muslim colonization of the U.S.  

‘We should all be careful not to be colonized by something which is coming from this consumerist society…

It should be us, with our understanding of Islam, our principles, colonizing positively the United States of America.

We are learning how to be a Muslim. It’s difficult, it’s a challenge, it’s a jihad…

On the long run, we also have to think about our contribution. We should be a gift to the United States of America. We should be a gift to the West.

We don’t want the West to be destructed. What we want is the West to be reformed.

 

The Mail has confirmed Trump’s assertion about the police.’serving police officers today backed Mr Trump’s claim that some Muslim communities in the UK are no-go areas because of extremism.’

A Lancashire Police officer told MailOnline: ‘There are Muslim areas of Preston that, if we wish to patrol, we have to contact local Muslim community leaders to get their permission’. 

Why has the BBC not been investigating the claim, it’s not as if the claim in its own right is not worth checking out never mind who said it.  Police no-go zones….not a good thing.

And to continue today’s theme of the moral hypocrisy of the grandstanding Trump bashers here’s Boris today…..

Mr Johnson, the Mayor of London last night said Mr Trump was speaking ‘utter nonsense’ and openly mocked the American, adding: ‘The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.’

Tonight he went further, telling ITV News: 

‘I think Donald Trump is clearly out of his mind if he thinks that’s a sensible way to proceed. You can’t ban people going to the US in that way, or indeed to any country.

‘What he’s doing is playing the game of the terrorists and those who seek to divide us. That is exactly the kind of reaction they hope to produce.

‘When Donald Trump says there are parts of London that are no-go areas, I think he is betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of the president of the United States.’

 

 

Hmmmm…is that the same Boris who said this in a moment of lucid honesty?…

Islam is the problem.

To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia – fear of Islam – seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture – to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques – it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim’s mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.

The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s medieval ass?

The same Boris who said this?…

This is a turning point: we have to fly the flag for Britishness again

Of all the shattering revelations of the past few days, the worst has been that these suicide bombers were British.

We seem to have pulled off the rare feat of breeding suicide bombers determined to attack the very society that incubated them; and the question is why. Why does America import its suicide bombers, while we produce our own?

The disaster is that we no longer make any real demands of loyalty upon those who are immigrants or the children of immigrants.

So we have drifted on over the intervening decades, and created a multi-cultural society that has many beauties and attractions, but in which too many Britons have absolutely no sense of allegiance to this country or its institutions. It is a cultural calamity that will take decades to reverse, and we must begin now with what I call in this morning’s Spectator the re-Britannification of Britain.

That means insisting, in a way that is cheery and polite, on certain values that we identify as British. If that means the end of spouting hate in mosques, and treating women as second-class citizens, then so be it. We need to acculturate the second-generation Muslim communities to our way of life, and end the obvious alienation that they feel.

That means the imams will have to change their tune, and it is no use the Muslim Council of Great Britain endlessly saying that “the problem is not Islam”, when it is blindingly obvious that in far too many mosques you can find sermons of hate, and literature glorifying 9/11 and vilifying Jews.

We have reached a turning-point in the relations between the Muslim community and the rest of us, and it is time for the moderates to show real leadership.

Shahid Malik, MP for Dewsbury, who said yesterday: “The challenge is straightforward – that those voices that we have tolerated will no longer be tolerated, whether they be on the streets, in the schools, in the youth clubs, in the mosque, in a corner, in a house.

We need to go beyond condemning. We need to confront.” Well said, Shahid; and it is time for the imams to follow.

 

 

 

 

People Power

 

 

Climate alarmists always like to claim that there is a link between CO2 and global warming because of the apparent coincidence of corresponding trends, never mind that even the CRU’s Phil Jones admitted that CO2 production lagged the warmth by 800 years.

But what else is there that has a similar corresponding pathway?  Population.

Here’s global warming…..

And here’s population growth…..

 

 

Very similar trajectories and time scales……when the West’s population was falling the third world’s was booming and they all needed heating and fires to cook on [using coal or wood from forests cleared to also provide more agricultural land to feed the multitude] never mind their own use of vehicles and industrialisation…ala China.

Just as viable to blame the third world and developing nations for global warming as the West….but that wouldn’t fit the Left’s agenda of stripping industry from the West and robbing the West of its wealth to hand out to the third world.

Amused to see the Catholic Church wanting birth control and a say in the science of climate.…why oh why isn’t Harrabin sneering at the Pope as he did to a Republican climate sceptic who also happened to be a believing Christian who didn’t accept the theory of evolution….presumably something the Pope must also be somewhat sceptical about?

 

 

 

 

Is Roger Harrabin Completely Untrustworthy?

 

 

It is astonishing but there seems to be hardly a word that Harrabin writes or says that can be relied upon to be the whole and honest truth.  He is just relentless in his half-truths and outright lies.

Here he condemns the government….

 

 

Only the government hasn’t ‘slapped on’ extra VAT to renewables…it’s a consultation about proposed changes, ones to be made at the behest of the beloved EU……..

This consultation looks at proposed changes to the reduced rate of VAT for the installation of energy saving materials in compliance with a recent decision by the European Court.

#sickntiredharrabinlies

 

 

 

Small World

 

 

It’s a very small world for Roger Harrabin who seems only concerned with a very narrow world view happily ignoring all else going on especially if it doesn’t fit his own narrative.

Once again he obsesses about the UK decision to shelve carbon capture….a great pity for all those in the carbon capture industry who were looking forward to the mega cash-flow filling their bank balances….always odd how a BBC obsessed with big business ripping us off ignores the personal £100 milliion fortune green energy tycoon Dale Vince made on the back of government subsidies.

Anyway here’s Harrabin once again on his hobbyhorse…

 

Oh look…and again…

Funny how he is totally uninterested in what other Americans have to say [except to promote Greenpeace propaganda]…how about this from a US Senate sub-committee…..

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, will convene a hearing titled “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate” on Tuesday, December 8 at 3 p.m. The hearing will focus on the ongoing debate over climate science, the impact of federal funding on the objectivity of climate research, and the ways in which political pressure can suppress opposing viewpoints in the field of climate science.

Harrabin knows it is occuring because the Greenpeace anti-sceptic propaganda was released to coincide with the hearing as their target was one of the witnesses and they were attempting to discredit him…aided by Harrabin who linked to their libel attempt.

Here [from WUWT] is Mark Steyn’s testimony and below is a video of him in action at the hearing slamming the ‘cartoon climatology’, the claim that the ‘science is settled’, and the failure to admit the ‘divergence of opinion’ on climate science by those with vested interests…..

 

 

 

 

TRUMPED….

I was talking to Jon Gaunt earlier today about the intolerance of the political Left. Nowhere is this more concentrated than in the citadels of the media, with the BBC being the Sanctum Sanctorum. With cultural marxism providing the linguistic narrative, it was obvious that the BBC would be horrified by Trumps ‘No Muslims” comment. How DARE he have an opinion they don’t like? The BBC are such hypocrites. They feign an interest in all shades of opinion but the truth is they only tolerate that narrow range that resonates with their dhimmified metrosexual liberalism. It’s been clear for a long time that the BBC want Hillary Clinton to be become the next POTUS and Trump is causing them a headache because they more he is criticised by the left wing media stateside, the stronger he gets. Can you imagine the BBC having to report on a future “President Trump has phoned President Le Pen to discuss the UK’s exit from the EU?” scenario.

GET FURY…

For years the BBC has shoved down the cultural wonders of Romany Culture down our throats and along comes Tyson Fury, spouting his own “Romany values” and the BBC becomes apoplectic with rage! You have to laugh at it all. I really hope he wins SPOFTY just to hear his victory speech. Mind you, some BBC journalists won’t be happy…

A BBC Northern Ireland journalist has been “threatened with suspension” after criticising the broadcaster’s decision to keep Tyson Fury on the shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the year, according to reports. Andy West, a BBC NI news presenter wrote on his Facebook that he was “ashamed to work for the BBC”, according to BuzzFeed News.

So he should be.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST…

Biased BBC reader Harristotle observes:

“The Islamic State are muslims following Islam. They live in muslim lands and are angry at non-muslim occupation of muslim lands (amongst other things, including other muslims from a different faction of Islam). They live by the Koran, under Sharia Law, and have muslim scholars in their ranks.  However, the BBC will happily continue to refer to them as “so-called”, and many commentators, including some bloke and the Prime Minister, call them “non muslims”. 

 Yet Edward Manning sticks on a dress and calls himself Chelsea, in order to avoid a male prison, and the BBC refer to him as “she”. 
 
 
Their use of evidence is inconsistent at best.”