Eretz Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland...The Jews who will it shall achieve their State...And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. (Theodor Herzl, DerJudenstaat, 1896)

We offer peace and amity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East.
(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948)

With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of the wider world, and a population as educated and cultured as anywhere in Europe or North America, Israel is a normal Western country with a right to be treated as such in the community of nations.... For the global jihad, Israel may be the first objective. But it will not be the last. (Friends of Israel Initiative)

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Menaced By The Mob: An infidel toddler in torment

This photograph apparently shows the infant child of Christian parents being threatened and tormented by Islamic jihadist rebels in Syria.

The Egyptian-born American Christian scholar Raymond Ibrahim, who regularly chronicles the crimes against his co-religionists in the Muslim world, explains:
'According to Sham Times and other Arabic websites, jihadi social media networks posted the above picture of a child sitting on the ground while surrounded by armed men pointing their rifles at him.  The caption appearing with the picture, purportedly posted by a supporter of the Free Syrian Army, is “Our youngest hostage from among the hostile sects of Kessab.”
Kessab is a predominantly Christian Armenian village in Syria near the Turkish border.  Earlier it was invaded by jihadis, who terrorized, pillaged churches, and prompted some 2000 residents to flee.  Initial reports had stated that about a dozen families remained as hostages....'
See Ibrahim's further commentary on it here which includes the observation, given the known behaviour of such cruel and violent men,
'Surely “teasing” an infidel toddler – a subhuman – with their rifles and sharing it with their sadistic comrades via the Internet for a “laugh” should not be too surprising?'
I came across this photo just after I was sent (thank you, reader P) the link to a report in today's The Independent newspaper which tells us, inter alia, that
'Tony Blair will call on Britain today to back “revolution” against anti-Western interests in the Middle East and beyond to combat the growing threat of radical Islam.
In a significant and controversial intervention, the former Prime Minister will suggest that, as a result of failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, governments in Europe and America have become “curiously reluctant to acknowledge” Islamic extremism.
This unwillingness to confront Islamism risks the 21st century being characterised by “conflict between people of different cultures”, he will warn.
Mr Blair will also call for Europe and America to put aside their differences with Russia and China and “co-operate” to fight what he describes as the “radicalised and politicised view of Islam” that is threatening their collective interests....
[He] is understood to be increasingly concerned by the failure of Britain and other Western countries effectively to tackle what he believes to be the growing threat of radical Islam – that combines politics with religion and opposes pluralistic societies....
While he does not specifically mention military intervention he makes clear that he believes Western “engagement” needs to go beyond the political. ...
The threat of this radical Islam is not abating,” he will say. “This struggle between what we may call the open-minded and the closed-minded is at the heart of whether the 21st century turns in the direction of peaceful co-existence or conflict between people of different cultures.”...'
Many reading that will not be unmindful that it was Blair who during his prime ministership opened the floodgates in Britain to unfettered mass migration from the Third World including that of Islamists.

Yet I should have thought that his present views with regard to the radical Islamist threat around the word represents something of a "Motherhood" statement, and that those, such as our old mate the Vicar of Virginia Water whose co-religionists have the most to lose by the triumph of radical Islam (like the child in the above photo and his fellow Christians in the Middle East, not to mention the feminist brigade) would welcome Blair's remarks.

It seems I'm mistaken, at least as far as our old anti-Zionist mate is concerned (hat tip: reader P again).

Anything to say about the death and destruction meted out to your fellow Christians by the radical Islamists Blair warns against, vicar?

4 comments:

  1. Well what more to expect from a creepy hypocrit who used church funding to travel to Ahmedinejad's Iran, ostensibly to give comfort to Iranian Christians, and not to help out at the Holocaust Denial festival Ahmedinejad was hosting around then.

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  2. Of course you're wrong about Sizer, Daphne. How could he possibly be concerned with promoting the rights of his co-religionists when they are being made the victims of pogrom (term chosen advisedly) by those Islamists and Jihadis, who also want to destroy Israel.

    How hard is it to pick sides there?

    As for Blair, I'd argue that, in fact, he's acting consistently. After all, he went to war against Islamists and Jihadis fomenting terror against the West (very broadly defined: essentially, everyone else who isn't an Islamist or a Jihadi) when he agreed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Wrong on Iraq (fascist dictator slaughtering his people to cement his fascist regime - although Nick Cohen "WHat's Left?" would argue that what was wrong was the reasoning here, not the war); right on Afghanistan - that's where Al Qaeda was headquartered and the British special forces almost got Osama bin Laden very early on.

    What he, arguably, got wrong was not the mass immigration but not starting the fight against Islamists and Jihadis in the UK much earlier by co-opting the genuine liberals in the Muslim community to join the fight. Still can, but it's getting late in the day...

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  3. New video by Pat Condell:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIaGWURONRU

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