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)
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Showing posts with label Europe and Islamic migration. Show all posts
A searing look at the way the so-called European Court of Human Rights is bedeviling human rights in Europe.
Another on the plight of child brides in (and outside) the land of the mullahs.
And Douglas Murray on Islam's hostility to Jews, as revealed in a recent grubby incident in Britain regarding commemoration of the Holocaust.
Not inappropriately, here's long video from the Milken Institute featuring a panel discussion in London last month on mass migration into Europe, in which panellist Gemma Mortensen, who's no advocate of closed borders, nevertheless readily empathises with those of the European public who fear what she calls "the existential threat to liberal democracies" that current policies appear to pose.
The panellists who own the debate are the ever-wise Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who warns of the cultural baggage so many of the newcomers, entailing values that sit ill with European values, and which, inter alia, involve violence and misogyny), and the equally perceptive Mr Murray.
A look at some on-the-spot reactions to the hate-preaching of Mundhir Abdallah from Lebanon, who we are told has links to Hizb-ut-Tahrir. While talking about the Arab-Israeli conflict on 31 March at the Al Farouq mosque in Copenhagen he broke into a genocidal antisemitic exhortation. And it's not the first time he has spread the love from that pulpit...
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
So observed the French wit Alphonse Karr in 1849.
Looking through a newspaper collection recently for something entirely unrelated to the Middle East, I spotted the following, and thought of that phrase, though on second thoughts maybe it's not so apt, given that certain trends in history roll on and gain momentum.
Edinburgh Evening News, 22 March 1902:
Wanatah [Indiana] Mirror, 25 January 1912:
Ibid. Opening paragraphs in close-up:
Bedford [UK] Daily Mail, 4 June 1912 (is this what drives Viktor Orban?):
The Globe [UK], 28 November 1913):
Daily Mirror [UK], 2 June 1914
Cambridge [UK] Independent Press, 10 December 1915:
I'm sure there are a lot more where those came from.
Meanwhile, in the Middle East some things have stayed the same since the 7th century, as this fine article observes:
True
peace requires addressing the deep sources of the conflict. Those lay
with the Arab and Muslim reaction to the return of the Jewish people to
powerful sovereignty in their ancient homeland. As far as Muslim
theology and Arab practice were concerned, the Jews were non-believers,
only to be tolerated, never as equals. They should have never been
allowed to undermine Muslim rule over the lands, which the Jews claimed
as their homeland, but the Arabs viewed as exclusively theirs since
conquering them in the seventh century.
The return of the
Jewish people to restored sovereignty in their ancient homeland,
required Arabs and Muslims to accept that a people, whom they have for
centuries treated as inferiors, worthy of contempt, were now claiming
equality and exercising power in their midst.
This historical
“Chutzpah” is what drove the Arab League to violently reject any kind of
plan that would grant the Jewish people equal sovereignty over any part
of “Muslim land”, free from their control. This unnatural historical
development, in Arab eyes, led Arab governments to take revenge and
forcefully expel hundreds of thousands of Jews, living in their midst,
often in communities predating the birth of Islam, just after the
establishment of the State of Israel.
It is also the reason why
Arab states kept the Arabs who were displaced during the 1948
Arab-Israeli war and their millions of descendants, as perpetual
“refugees” – to deprive the Jewish state of legitimacy and peace. It is
the reason that even after losing repeated military wars against the
State of Israel, Arab countries have continued their diplomatic and
economic war against it to this day. Even Jordan and Egypt, that have
signed nominal peace agreements with Israel, have more of a ‘mutual
non-attack’ agreements, rather than genuine peace.
The
animosity to the concept of the Jewish sovereignty in the Arab Middle
East is simply too big. This attitude towards the Jewish state is an
Arab – and Muslim – issue, and not only a Palestinian one. The
Palestinians have been at the forefront of this Arab and Muslim
intolerance, but they are not its creators. They are the thin end of the
wedge by which the Arab and Muslim world wages its war against a
sovereign Jewish people.
If the word peace is ever to truly
describe the situation between Israel and its neighbors, it requires the
Arab and Muslim world to address the roots of their intolerance. It
requires them to accept the Jews as their equals and as an indigenous
people who have come home. This was always too large a task to be
undertaken by the Palestinians. Only Arabs and Muslims together can
legitimize a different theological interpretation of the Jewish presence
in their midst: no longer inferiors and no longer foreigners. In doing
so, they can enable and legitimize practical solutions in Jerusalem that
accept the centrality of the city to the Jewish people, and to the
manufactured problem of the “refugees”, by finally rehabilitating them
and absorbing them as fellow Arabs...."
And as the Palestinian envoy to Iran, Salah Zawawi, reminds us in a recent interview on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV:
"Our war is not only with this Zionist enemy. We are fighting a
100-year-old Western enterprise, which is ongoing. This enterprise does
not target a part of Palestine, or even Palestine in its entirety. Its
goal is to establish the Greater Israel, which would control
disintegrated Arab and Islamic countries, and indeed, this is happening
today in our Islamic world. ...This way, our enemy along with its defenders
and masters, would complete their plan to turn us into servants, if not
slaves, in this region, and to plunder our resources.
When
they talk about the signing of the nuclear agreement and whatever, they
are truly terrified. If Iran produces a nuclear bomb - and I pray to
Allah that Iran will produce 1,000 nuclear bombs - it will not be
directed against any Arab or Islamic country. It will be used to defend,
at the very least, the Islamic republic and its principles."
"I have degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic. I've spent more time than I care to recall studying Islam and its adherents. I've lectured Army and DIA personnel on Salafist terrorism.
Islam has never, ever been a 'byword for benign enlightenment.' It has always, from its triumph at Yathrib, been a religion of oppression, slavery, and war. That reformers occasionally exist does not rescue the faith from the weight of its history. And note that the reformers always fail.
Reason #1: Reform is bid'a (innovation), and bid'a is heresy, and willing heresy is apostasy, and Muslim apostates are put to death."
A commenter in response:
'Excellent post but, "And note that the reformers always fail." is not true. I think what you mean is that the peaceful ones always fail, which is true. When Islam was pacified by the influence and strength of Western culture it was denatured and mutated into something quite different. Now the reformists are trying to purge the Munafiqun (the hypocrites) from their community and purify the faith into one strong, tight fist with which to smash the infidels into submission... just as Abu Bakr (The Sword of Allah) did during the Apostasy Wars. Islam goes through these undulating waves of dilution (under the influence of kaffir civilisations) and then purification, by reformists trying to return to the original source material found in the Hadith and Quran; the terrorist organisations are simply the peak of the iceberg in a much larger movement in the Islamic world.
Sadly, the reformists are winning.'
Original Commenter:
"I don't disagree, but Khālid ibn al-Walīd was called Sword of Allah, not Abu Bakr."
Melanie Phillips, calling Trump's triumph "a kind of populist revolution," inter alia defends him from perceptions of antisemitism and racism, likening the present outrage on the part of the left to the smears of "xenophobia" and "racism" that dogged pro-Brexit voters determined to preserve their culture and restrict illegal immigration. Historian Simon Schama takes issue ... but Melanie reminds him of the terrible antisemitism on the part of leftists that has exploded under "respectable" non-controversial administrations ...
"We are living in a crazy time ... in a world of total and absolute chaos ... As a growth industry antisemitism has become immense ... Europe is under siege ... Jeremy Corbyn is promoting the worst form of leftist antisemitism and he himself is a primitive troglodyte ... "
That's just part of Isi Leibler's compelling introduction to Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld discussing "the British Disease".
To quote the uploader of this long video, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
"In recent months, a large number of extreme anti-Semitic expressions by elected representatives of the British Labour Party have come to light. The publicity has forced Labour, which is under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, to investigate antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism in the party. The antisemitism issue is overshadowed by the many consequences of Brexit, which include a major crisis in Labour.
Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld is the former Chairman of the Board of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. His many books deal with European-Israeli and European-Jewish issues. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism, and the International Leadership Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center."
In this recently issued video from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Adam Shay, a Jerusalem Center expert on the cultural boycott of Israel, answers Lenny Ben-David's question "Has the Cultural Boycott of Israel Peaked?"
To quote the uploader:
"In the 2016 concert season, there is no shortage of international performers coming to Israel and virtually all categories are represented. The South African rave-rap duo Die Antwoord, one of the hottest names around, was a prime target for BDS activity. However, the band paid little or no attention to this and once they took the stage in Tel Aviv they told the boycott activists exactly what they thought of them.
Guitar icon Carlos Santana had cancelled his performance in Israel back in 2010 when the cultural boycott was at its height. This is why Santana's recent performance in Tel Aviv was so important. The fact that a performer of iconic status, who has in the past cancelled a performance, now feels it is safe and legitimate to return, tells us that as far as the cultural boycott is concerned, the worst may very well be behind us."
As for the craziness that engulfs Europe, this new article makes grim reading indeed.
"We are importing a hostile parallel society that is never going to integrate ... We are importing war."
If you want to stop the islamisation of the West, speak up if you can, he urges, but whatever you do, vote against the "arrogant political class" that is leading us into a "political dead end" that will result in disaster for our children and grandchildren.
We in the West ignore this Middle East expert, Dr Harold Rhode (who has a PhD in Islamic Studies and was a Pentagon adviser for a number of years), at our peril.
There are other excellent videos by The Jerusalem Center that merit watching, including those featuring Dr Rhode.
Excellent article regarding the malaise in Europe (thanks to its weaklings and Quislings), by Guilio Meotti here
"Why have jihadist terrorists made France Europe’s bloodiest battlefield? Simple answer: Because France let in the most Muslims."
So writes Australia's most-read (and most controversial) columnist, conservative Andrew Bolt (pictured), in the wake of the Nice atrocity. He goes on, inter alia, in the Herald-Sun:
"This link between immigration policies and terrorism largely
explains why the French are the greatest victims of Europe’s jihadists.
It also explains why we are fools not to change our own immigration policies to protect ourselves.
No European Union country has a higher proportion of Muslims than France — up to 10 per cent of its population, or six million people, though statistics are vague, and vary.
Yes, numbers don’t tell the whole story, but they do count....
France has the most Muslims, and that is why four people were killed, three of them children, in an Islamist attack on a Jewish day school in Toulouse four years ago.
That is why 20 people were murdered in Paris in last year’s Islamist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket....
That is why 130 more people were murdered in Paris last November in an Islamic State assault on restaurants, a concert hall and a football stadium.
That is why a policeman and his wife were last month murdered by a jihadist outside their home.
That is why 84 people died in last week’s terrorist attack in Nice, when a Tunisian-born man rammed his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day....
Japan has strict controls on immigration and its 127 million people include just 100,000 Muslims. Result: zero Islamist attacks.
Contrast that with Australia, which has a population of just 24 million, but 500,000 Muslims. How we’ve paid for leaving our door open....
The mathematics is clear: The more Muslims we import, the more danger we are in...."
One of the readers agreeing with Mr Bolt is television presenter Sonia Kruger, who has become the whipping girl of the usual suspects of the Left for her remarks during a television news channel today in which Mr Bolt's column was discussed:
The betting seems to be on how much longer Ms Kruger will keep her job.
Meanwhile, on the warpath over free speech regarding Islam is the woman British Home Secretary (now Prime Minister) Theresa May (pictured, in hijab) banned from Britain along with Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer:
In the wake of the recent Australian General Election that has seen Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal Party limp to victory, just avoiding a hung Parliament, and excluding from his Cabinet conservatives such as Tony Abbott (the prime minister Turnbull toppled in a grubby coup some months ago), the latest issue of the Australian Jewish News carries an editorial that observes, inter alia:
"The moderate brand that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has identified with has seen the PM wedged between Labor on the one hand and conservatives within his own party on the other.
In an age of doctrinaire political certitudes on the right and the left, steering the middle course may not be the most fashionable option, but it is the most responsible.
Australians have historically voted for governments of the political centre, and voters have shunned voices closer to the fringes.
In a world that flirts with Donald Trump and embraces Brexit, we hope common sense will prevail in Australia."
With those words the paper insults not only the millions of decent Australians with views that mirror Mr Abbott's and respected conservative columnist Andrew Bolt's, but the many many millions of decent Britons who voted for their country to leave the squalid bureaucratic tyranny that is the EU.
Going on to deplore the re-election to the Senate of a proven racist fringe party leader who demands a ban on Muslim immigration to Australia, the editorial observes "[A]s Jews, we know what it is like being on the receiving end of such policies in bygone eras."
And a report in the paper quotes a statement by a prominent communal figure that "vilification of Islam ... must be repudiated".
Such a view threatens to place in the "racist bigot" box women who deplore Islam's misogyny as well as the writings of Australia's leading scholar of Islam, Anglican priest Dr Mark Durie.
It is untenable that the faults of Islam cannot be discussed without the discussant suffering obloquy.
The paper, which to my certain knowledge once summarily rejected an article (a perfectly reasonable one) by a regular columnist on the grounds that it was "an Islamophobic rant" (the paper has long since adopted "Islamophobia" into its lexicon), has become rather too left-leaning for many readers. These are people who resent being cast as extremists and lumped in with racists merely because they have the temerity to express disquiet about large-scale Muslim immigration into Australia and its likely effect on government policy towards Israel (we see this trend already in sections of the Labor Party).
As a London reader wrote to the paper in response to a foolish, ignorant and in some ways quite despicable article in the paper by the British principal of an Australian Jewish day school who thundered that Brexit makes him ashamed of his native land,
"Those who voted for Brexit felt this was no longer their country. Their national identity was denigrated by the EU and their cultural heritage was threatened .... He does not fully understand what is happening here .... If he despairs of us, he is no loss to Britain...."
One man from outside Europe who completely understands what is happening there and elsewhere in Europe is Dr Daniel Pipes, who in this latest Gatestone Institute/The Rebel.com video outlines three possible scenarios for the future of Europe.
"As a refugee, I too welcome refugees. As a Jew, I am aware of the mitzvah of welcoming the stranger.
As an adult with life experiences, I resent economic invaders who jump queues and try to force themselves into advanced economies where they can benefit from social services.
As a prudent person, I want no part of people who come to my adopted country and demand that I and my fellow citizens submit to the standards of their religion. The same group that tells us that we must not blame them for the terror plans of a small group of them but then not only fail to condemn them themselves, but appoint extremists as religious leaders.
As a father and a grandfather, I condemn parents who have failed to raise children who respond to social issues in a rational and Jewish way."
So says an elderly Holocaust survivor in Sydney, in response to the demands of a group of youngsters calling themselves "Jews for Refugees" that Australia admit all of the illegal "refugees" who have tried to enter Australia by the back door and are now in detention offshore while their applications are considered.
He is absolutely justified, and so, despite the leftist and holier-than-though thought police, are the like-minded people, Jews and non-Jews, who deplore the current invasion of the European Continent by young men of military age posing as "refugees".
The other day, Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and a staunch supporter of Brexit (Britain leaving the great bureaucratic tyranny known as the European Union) unveiled a poster in support of his stance that shows a vast crowd of young male migrants pouring into Europe. It is a genuine photograph of real migrants, not some staged event. It reflects what has been happening across Europe in the past few months. Yet it has been condemned (most recently by no less a personage than J.K. Rowling) as "racist" and resembling Nazi propaganda.
What balderdash.
I'm not a particular fan of Farage, but such accusations trivialise genuine racism and undermine democratic debate.
They are attempts to silence those who deplore the creeping islamisation of Europe (sobering new article by Giulio Meotti here) and what that entails for future generations (not least for women and girls). Oh, and for Jews.
The estimable Douglas Murray has once again drawn attention to Europe's migration nightmare here, and how Merkel and the rest of the European "elites" have no idea how to solve this problem that is of their own making.
Also from the Gatestone Institute and The Rebel, this, from Colonel Richard Kemp.
In this robust speech Hungary's Viktor Orban, defying the politically correct tyranny that would muzzle us all, spells out the terrible threat facing Europe, its civilisation, and its people by the invasion whose name is miscalled "migration".
As Vlad Tepes notes, this video deserves to be widely shared.
Canadian broadcaster Ezra Levant recently went to some of those countries of northern Europe that are rapidly becoming hell-holes for Jews (as well as for women and girls), thanks to "cultural enrichment".
In Sweden, Christian refugees, perhaps wiser than their indigenous counterparts, voice their fears regarding the impact of Muslim immigration. Sweden's Jews, of course, are already paying the price for Sweden's suicidal madness.
At the weekend, Martin O'Quigley, head of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, explains why he's out on the streets of Dublin demonstrating against the proposed foundation of an Irish branch of the anti-islamisation organisation PEGIDA, dubbed by most of the press a "far right" organisation (a label rejected by worried English feminist Anne-Marie Waters of UK Mothers against Sharia and the other founders of the British branch).
For O'Quigley the demo's something about being anti-Zionist and opposing all forms of racism, apparently, as well as dutifully opposing fascism.
The fact that fascism, which Europe defeated during the Second
World War (a conflict in which the Irish Republic stood neutral,
incidentally, even spitefully denying British ships port facilities
during that life or death conflict with evil), is busily importing a new
kind of fascism, is of course not part of the mindset of the Irish
anti-"Islamophobia" crowd and more than it is of their British and
Continental counterparts.
I hold no brief for PEGIDA. But how strange it is that the fears of Ms Waters and other true feminists for the future of girls and women in a Europe of rapidly changing demographics are apparently not shared by the guys and gals of the "far left".
As reported here,
among those joining in the Irish anti-PEGIDA protests are such far
leftists as Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, the Workers Solidarity
Movement.
Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan said “we are standing shoulder to shoulder in solidarity to show that there is no place in Ireland today for racism and Islamophobia. There is no place for hate.”
Ms Boylan is a veteran of the anti-Israel movement: see, for instance, here and here and here
"There is no place for hate" on the Irish Left, it seems, except where Israel is concerned.
President Higgins and friends
I have blogged several times about the anti-Israel cause in Ireland and how vicious seem its sentiments.
Here's another example, these disgraceful assertions by Anna O'Leary, an Irish
Israel-hater, telling Iran's Press TV that Israel is "a place that does not observe human rights".
Listen to her vile blood libels against Israel and her laughable remarks about "our values" (the "our" encompasses Iran, too, presumably!)
That O'Leary thinks it
appropriate to give an interview to the satellite propaganda channel of
one of the world's most notorious actual violators of the human rights
of women and children, and indeed of males when they are gays or
dissidents, while accusing Israel of the heinous things she does in the way she does speaks
volumes about the nature and purpose of O'Leary in particular and the
Irish BDS movement in general.
Oh, and as for Anne-Marie Waters, here she is in Copenhagen last month, castigating the pro-Islam lefty sisterhood heckling her there:
"....Muslim migrants who settled into enclaves in Europe have imported their hatred and formed unholy alliances with traditional anti-Semites and political leftists – including organizations purportedly promoting human rights – to foment an environment of Jew-hatred reminiscent of the 1930s, immediately prior to the rise of Nazism.
The ongoing influx of millions of Muslim refugees will massively reinforce the existing Muslim anti-Semitic elements and permanently alter the demographics of Europe. Unlikely to be reversed, it will enable Islam to become an immensely powerful political force in many West European countries.
The implications for European Jews are horrendous, as the combination of the prevailing virulently anti-Israeli public opinion and extremist Islamic political agitation will, in all likelihood, lead to even more extreme policies toward Israel. Despite lip service to the contrary, anti-Semitism will continue to thrive. .... European Jews who fail to see the writing on the wall are simply living in denial...."
That's part of a must-read article by veteran international Jewish leader and Jerusalem Post columnist Isi Leibler.
And his warning's not only restricted to Europe, although it is, of course, in Europe that the danger is at its most imminent and potentially lethal.
Here's a small example of the Leftist-Islamist/"Muslims are the new Jew"s/"Islamophobia is the new antisemitism" mindset that manifested itself in Bradford this week; note the disgraceful pandering of the BBC's Nicky Campbell to "Mossad Stole My Shoe"'s nonsense.
Here's one of the numerous manifestations of raw antisemitism that anyone can find on Facebook without really trying; it was posted by a woman whose Facebook friends includes such luminaries of the anti-Israel movement as Richard Falk and Antony Loewenstein.
Another sage passage regarding what's happening in Europe is quoted below. It was made very recently by the splendid Sultan Knish, aka Daniel Greenfield (read the entire article!):
'....The left’s patronage of Islamic
terrorists for its own political purposes follows a thread back to the
origin of Islamic terrorism. Islamic violence against non-Muslims dates
back to the founding of Islam, but the tactics of modern Islamic
terrorism owe as much to Lenin as they do to Mohammed.....
Having
learned nothing from the Hitler-Stalin pact, the left has replayed the
same betrayal with the Mohammed-Stalin pact in the Middle East and now
in the West. But the end of the Mohammed-Stalin pact will not be a
Socialist totalitarian utopia, but an Islamic theocracy of slaves,
terror and death....
The
left has crippled domestic and international counterterrorism. American
soldiers are not allowed to shoot terrorists and the FBI and NYPD can’t
monitor mosques or even be taught what to look for. Islamic terrorism
has achieved unprecedented influence and power under Obama. ISIS has
created the first functioning caliphate and Iran marches toward the
first Jihadist nuclear bomb. The mass Muslim migration is beginning a
process that will Islamize Europe far more rapidly than anyone expects.
The
Jihad would not be a significant threat without the collaboration of
the left. Without the left standing in the way, it’s a problem that
could be solved in a matter of years. With the aid of the left, it
threatens human civilization with a dark age that will erase our
culture, our future and our freedom.
We
cannot defeat Islam without defeating the left. That is the lesson I
learned on September 11. It is a lesson that appears truer every single
year as the left finds new ways to endanger us all.'
Elsewhere (again, please read the entire article) Greenfield remarks:
'.... Liberal Jewish and Christian groups, alongside gay and feminist groups, vocally advocated for the entry of millions of Muslim migrants whose contempt for women's rights was only exceeded by their loathing for Christians, their seething hatred for Jews and their violent distaste of gays.
Gay, feminist and liberal Jewish and Christian groups worked overtime to fill their countries with the demographic most likely to commit hate crimes against them....
The left does not help women. The left only helps the left. Beneath the slick advertising, the artsy designs that lend the illusion of the personal to the impersonal and the touching video narratives is the soul of an ideological machine whose acolytes are trained to allocate empathy in tune with a rigid set of rules that are as inflexible as any Soviet commissar's handbook. The left is not in the business of caring, but of coordinating, and it exploits empathy to gain recruits only to mandate the things that they are allowed to care about in a coordinated ideological fashion....
As long as feminism remains a slave to the left, it will be responsible for causing more women to be beaten, assaulted and raped. And then it will cover up the crimes and use the victims to sell more red t-shirts.
As Cologne, where hundreds of women were assaulted in one day, reminds us, a feminism in thrall to the left is one of the biggest threats to women.'
A truism if ever I heard one.
And then there is the bizarre apologia for Islam that many Christians
evince, as in this current example from an old friend of ours:
Our old friend's above post (and of course he is not to blame for her outbursts, though in all decency he really should de-friend her) has inspired at least one of his professedly Christian anti-Israel Facebook followers to spew the raw and repellent antisemitism in the form of vicious slurs against Judaism that has become her hallmark:
Make no mistake, empathy for Islam and contempt for Judaism is by no means uncommon among the anti-Israel Christian set nowadays.
As the BBC, to its credit, reports at length here, there's a Twitter campaign afoot to show solidarity in France with beleaguered French Jewry by wearing kippot in sympathy with that community, whose members are feeling so vulnerable that (as again the BBC reports) they are making aliya inunprecedented numbers.
The reason for their plight and flight is, of course, heightened levels of antisemitism, including vicious physical attacks and killings, perpetrated mainly by Islamic haters of Jews and Israel.
"Eurabia" and its consequences for Jews, for Israel, for women, for western civilisation itself, is of course a legitimate, indeed a vital subject for discourse. The ramifications of mass Muslim migration, particularly of unaccompanied males, affects us all. Many Europe-watchers predict dire consequences for Europeans' progeny. Some foresee a civil war. Others believe that it is not too fanciful to suggest that, if demographic trends remain as they are, national legislatures, including the parliament at Westminster,might one day consist of a majority of persons who would vote in sharia law!
Meanwhile, however, the increasingly dictatorial Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) has chided a social media user concerned at the recent sex assaults on women in Germany and elsewhere who used the phrase "gangs of young Arab men of military age" in relation to the attacks.
Warns the OHPI:
I have blogged about the deleterious implications for free speech now posed by the OHPI.
There is even a rather disturbing video in existence. You can see it here
Whatever its merits (and it certainly has some), the OHPI must not be permitted to muzzle or intimidate political discourse by a campaign of removal or threats to remove, or to dilute (I could almost say "emasculate"!) the narrative of that discourse by dictating how legitimate concerns are to be phrased.
The Big Issue, which draws attention to homelessness, unemployment, and related social issues, is a social initiative magazine in the UK that's sold on busy street corners and other well-populated hotspots up and down the country by and on behalf of "homeless and other socially vulnerable people".
In a small town in the UK that I livd in prior to returning to Australia, (drum roll: politically incorrect statements coming up) the magazine's sturdy young vendor, stationed a couple of days a week outside the local bank, was the very same chap with the dyed yellow ponytail who'd often sit in the bank's doorway asking everyone who passed to spare him some change. (Funnily enough, he always had money for hair bleach, liquor, and cigarettes.)
Anyway, not long after the admission of Romania into the European Community, a member of that country's Roma community, obviously newly arrived in Britain, muscled in his patch.
Within weeks the pony-tailed vendor was gone altogether, and then there were two Roma vendors, and finally three, two male and one female (well, two time-sharing females actually, the elder in an advanced state of pregnancy), stationed at key points in the High Street repeating mantra-like in fractured English: "Big Issue please".
Just round the corner, on the narrow pavement of the street leading directly from the railway station, was the elderly matriarch of the group: partially blocking a shop window, she sat on a folding chair with a rug over her knees and a begging bowl at her feet, wishing everyone who passed an obviously insincere "Good morning."
Now, hawking a magazine critical of the socio-economic policy of a host country known for its generous welfare system as soon as you've reached its shores (and been granted accommodation in one of its council houses to boot) struck me as the height of chutzpah. And the intimidating, intrusive presence of three Big Issue sellers where one had sufficed struck me as decidedly dodgy.
It evidently struck someone in authority as dodgy too, for one fine day all of them, plus their beggarly mother, were not in their accustomed spots, and were never seen again.
Still, I have nothing against the magazine itself, which undoubtedly performs a valuable social service, and whose contents are not without interest. Indeed, one of its recent articles is very interesting indeed. Written by Samira Ahmed, it observes inter alia:
'Polling here shows a large number of Britons, the majority even, are at best cautious about taking in refugees from Syria because of the fear of conservative Islamic attitudes. Some readers might want to dismiss this as a cover for racism, just as in the 1930s the Daily Mail warned of the “threat” of so many Jews coming from Hitler’s Germany.
But ... looking at gender opens up a legitimate question about how you build a strong and stable society. Where are all the women refugees? According to the latest UNHCR figures, 72 per cent of the numbers arriving in western Europe so far in 2015 are men, 15 per cent children and only 13 per cent women. A BBC World Service reporter a few days ago described on air the unease he and female colleagues felt when they tried to interview women refugees, only to be uniformly refused permission by their men.
So where ARE the women refugees? Some men will have planned to establish themselves and then bring families over safely. But talking to lawyers dealing with the influx of young male Afghan migrants here a decade earlier, it seems in many cases families spend money on the people they value most. And that’s not the women.
When we talk of compassion and doing the right thing in these humanitarian crises, perhaps we ignore gender at our peril.'
As the website Biased BBC points out, Ms Ahmed is a Muslim and a BBC broadcaster, yet the issues she raises do not appear to have been ventilated on the BBC.
This issue of gender is indeed a core one, but not the only example of the incompatibility of Islam with the essential core values of Western society, the values that make Europe what it is, values that, as this video shows, are scorned and spurned by a worrying part of the Islamic community in Germany.
In this video we meet Muslims who are in Germany but not of it, young Muslims who place sharia law
above the German constitution. We meet the school principal (Beate Altmann) who is exasperated with the situation, including the antisemitism voiced by Muslim children at her school.
There are children who justify the Charlie Hebdo murders, unapologetic upholders of male supremacy and the "honour" killings of women, youngsters of both sexes who cling to the Islamic belief that women are inferior to men, the property of their husbands, and obligated to obey the dictates of male family members..
We meet a third generation immigrant of Lebanese background who
administers sharia law. We meet followers of his who prefer his intervention in disputes to that of the police.
We meet a Christian refugee from Syria who has been threatened by Muslims in the very land in which he sought refuge and who is disgusted by the casual contempt for women shown. And so on.
We meet a rabbi who despairs of Islamic antisemitism and, having experienced hate crime personally, as has his daughter, advises Jews in their best interests not to identify in public as such.
Non-assimilation and all that it entails. This is the big issue confronting the entire West. To whet your appetite, this post is peppered with screengrabs I've taken from it.
Update: Here's Douglas Murray, speaking in Copenhagen on an aspect of Europe's Big Issue:
And Pat Condell, pointing out that Europe's ghastly bureaucratic elites are utterly failing women (and Jews) with the current Muslim invasion, and declaring that it's time the people of Europe claimed asylum from the EU:
Scene: a Christian cemetery on the Croatian/Serbian border.
Dramatis personae: Muslim invaders migrants.
Script: As told to and by the BBC's Orla Guerin.
Many observers will no doubt stare uneasily at that this screengrab from one of Ms Guerin's BBC news reports about the current invasion of migration of Muslims of eclectic provenance into Europe.
For the image captured may well symbolise the European future.
As we all know, from when she used to demonise Israel on a regular basis, the wild-eyed, doom-laden voiced Guerin (like Bowen, Donnison, Knell, and the rest of the arrogant mob of leftist Beeboids who infest Twitter and the airwaves) has never let the BBC's Charter and producers' guidelines come between her and her personal biases.
Hence tweets such as these from her, feminist though she seems to be:
The other day, I posted a humdinger of a video by Rabbi David Bar-Hayim
warning of the dire consequences for the West of the kind of mass Muslim
migration we are now witnessing.
Source: Seen on Twitter; provenance unknown
Here's a look (horrendous to behold) at how one of Europe's northern nations is accelerating its own destruction.
As Denis Prager, himself a Jew, has observed:
'Allowing millions of Syrians and others from the Muslim Middle East into Europe will end up a catastrophe for Europe, and therefore for the West....
How does an ethically motivated person -- Jew or non-Jew -- deal with the emotionally powerful Holocaust argument?
For one thing, the parallels are far from precise.
Every Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe -- man, woman, child, baby -- was targeted for death. The Syrian people are not targeted for death. The only such targets in the Middle East -- aside from the Jews of Israel -- are Christians and Yazidis, every one of whom should most definitely be allowed into Europe and the United States.
The parallel is also imprecise because the vast majority of the Jews of Germany and many other European countries were assimilated citizens of their respective countries, who thoroughly embraced Western culture and values. In contrast, most of the Muslims of the Middle East -- and the largely Muslim population (from non-Arab countries) already in Europe -- hold values that are not merely different from, but opposed to, those of Europe.
It is not as if Europe has no experience with large numbers of Muslim immigrants. And the experience has been largely negative.....'
Regarding safe haven for Middle Eastern Christians cruelly persecuted by Muslims (for whom the prominent British publisher Lord Weidenfeld, a refugee from Nazism, has nobly made provision, though not to the liking of Islamophiles who bemoan the "discrimination" against Muslims), Britain's Sunday Express reports, inter alia, the views of Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, head of the Barnabas Fund:
'According to Mr [sic] Sookhdeo, Britain’s offer to take up to 20,000 Syrian refugees inadvertently discriminates against the Christian communities most victimised by the Islamic State butchers.
He said: “The British government has said it will take 20,000 refugees and we have said, ‘Will you not take some Christians?’ But we have had no reply.
“We have even put out a joint statement with Muslim Aid to the Government saying both communities are suffering, can’t you look after both?
“What David Cameron is doing, we believe, is unfair.
“He has said he will go to the camps to get the refugees, but the problem is that the Christians don’t like to live in the camp.
“What they prefer to do is to live in church halls or else with families and the reason is that it is safer for them. What we are saying to the Government is that you need a broader based approach.
“By all means take the most vulnerable people but don’t just take them from the camps because you are only going to get one kind of people. When it comes to other countries they all say that European legislation means you can’t discriminate between one religious community and another but we say surely the most vulnerable are the ones you have got to be taking in.”
In areas controlled by IS, Christians have been crucified, beheaded, raped and subjected to forced conversion.
Christian children are also being sold as slaves.
Mr Sookhdeo added: “It is like going back 1,000 years seeing the barbarity that Christians are having to live under. I think we are dealing with a group which makes Nazism pale in comparison and I think they have lost all respect for human life.
“Crucifying these people is sending a message and they are using forms of killing which they believe have been sanctioned by Sharia law.
“For them what they are doing is perfectly normal and they don’t see a problem with it. It is that religious justification which is so appalling.” ....'
No namby pamby political correctness here, no propaganda of the kind the mainstream media is thrusting down our throats, in this needs-to-be-heeded warning from Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of machonshilo.org
The rabbi, whose beautiful voice is as easy on the ear as (I will dare to say it!) his good looks are on the feminine eye, warns that the present "crisis" is not a crisis at all but the norm for Arab-Muslim societies, and that "only a madman would take upon himself such a mission" as importing people "fleeing from their own crisis" because to do so is "importing a civil war" ... importing a culture in which internecine strife and murder is innate.
The rabbi praises the insights of Frontpage columnist Daniel Greenfield into this issue and in support of his warning discusses the Torah phrase "This is the way of Ishmael".
