Go Get 'Em, UKIP!

In Londonistan last week, the fruit of mass immigration

From Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist for Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper that inclines so far to the Left that it frequently acts as a propaganda sheet against the interests of its own country, comes a sanctimonious article condemning Anglo-Jews for not bad-mouthing Nigel Farage's United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which is tipped to wipe the floor with other British parties in the European elections that begin today.

Writes Pfeffer, inter alia:

'[T]he United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) ... has been riding on a sinister wave of xenophobia and fearmongering over millions upon millions of rapacious Eastern European immigrants about to descend upon Britain, snapping up all the jobs.

Of course this wave hasn't engulfed all of British society, but it's large enough to ensure UKIP in most polls at least a quarter of the votes and most likely the first place, overtaking the established parties of power and opposition.

.... But as hard as I tried, I couldn't find anywhere else a response of any sort from a figure of authority in the British Jewish community to UKIP and its ugly scare campaign. Nothing from the Board of Deputies, its competition the Jewish Leadership Council, the Chief Rabbi or any other rabbi or lay-leader of any of the various religious denominations that comprise British Jewry.

Normally it wouldn't be the place of these worthies to weigh in on party-political issues.... But when a party that is basing its entire campaign on stoking fears against immigration seems on the verge of winning these elections there is complete and utterly shameful silence. 

.... [T]o remain silent in the face of a successful party whipping up ordinary Britons into a frenzy against immigrants is a betrayal of our immigrant ancestors and the values of British society that allowed them to settle and flourish in its midst....'

Perhaps Mr Pfeffer should consider what it is that UKIP opposes: the bureaucratic behemoth that is the burgeoning European Superstate, as totalitarian and unaccountable as the old USSR, that has been imposed on Briton by stealth, originationg as it did in a Common Market that seemed to many to make good sense as the economic arm of NATO, but which has become a tyrannical monster governing by decree and subjugating the Mother of Parliaments to its whim.

Membership of this odious institution undermined Britain's special relationship with the former Dominions (visitors from Australia and other Commonwealth countries, whose ancestors fought for Britain in Britain's wars, have to queue at docks and airports with other "aliens" awaiting immigration checks while citizens of former enemy states, cluching their EU passports, march right in).

It means that Britain has no effective control over its own Borders and  who crosses those Borders, and that legislation made by MPs can be subverted by decision-makers in Brussels and Strasbourg.

UKIP seeks Britain's withdrawal from the European Union precisely in order to claw back the country's sovereignty and restore some semblance of control over immigration policy.  The migration of Roma mendicants and pickpockets (yes, I know it's unpolitically correct to say that, but it's honest, and I feel entitled, having thwarted an attempt by two Roma boys to rob me in London in broad daylight) and of Islamists from other EU countries such as France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and obstacles to the removal of foreign miscreants and security threats on the grounds of their "human rights" will continue so long as Britain remains a vassal.

Anglo-Jewry is an integral part of Great Britain, with a long and proud history of belonging and of contributions to all spheres of British life that belie its small size.  Its members are entitled to vote for whoever they wish.  Despite Anshel Pfeffer, that includes UKIP.

Some decades ago an Aussie politician, Don Chipp, who founded a new party, famously said that it was to "keep the bastards [the other parties and their leaders] honest".

Today's Britain badly needs a politician and a party to "keep the bastards honest".  It appears to have found them in Farage and UKIP.  The other parties are running scared, and so they should.

Love him or hate him, Pat Condell is to-the-point and on-the-ball regarding the evils of EU membership here:

See also my next post.

Strasbourg Rules Britannia:The "Human Rights" Ruling That Favours A Jihadist Over Britain's Security

“London has traditionally been a place of refuge and tolerance; Marx after all wrote his classic work in the British Library. London was the favourite place of exile of anarchists and revolutionaries. More recently it has been seen as the home of Muslim opposition forces, even leading to the French coining the term Londonistan. This is a heritage that we are proud of, even if it makes us occasional enemies of other governments.”  [My emphasis]

So enthused Britain's then Ambassador to Lebanon, Frances Guy, an avowed admirer of Hezbollah cleric Sheikh Fadlallah, in a speech at Beirut Arab University a couple of years ago.

The name of the speech? "The Legal framework of Human Rights as a necessary protection for individual citizens and for diversity".

Here's another of its gems:

"Today in the UK these rights are enshrined in a Human Rights Act which was agreed in 1998 and which in turn ensures the primacy of the European Human Rights Convention agreed in 1950 over other aspects of English law.   That development in itself: the enshrinement of a Human Rights Act and the acknowledgement of international law as paramount was a very significant step forward in the evolution of English justice."

This seemingly archetypal (save in gender) representative of the FCO Camel Corps (no great friends to Israel, they, and that's a classic British understatement) continued:

"Muslims represent about 3% of the total British population, about 2 million people.  There are now over 1,200 mosques in the UK and more than 110 Muslim schools.  Some of these are state schools.... Muslims in the UK have been able to use human rights legislation successfully to argue that if the state provides other faith schools, in this case, Church of England and Catholic schools, then the state should also provide Muslim schools where demand justified such a provision.  This now happens."

Quite so.  But there's a more negative side to the Human Rights Act, as glimpsed recently in a couple of cases discussed - here and here - in the Daily Express by Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard.

In fact,  the situation (except for so-called Human Rights lawyers, of course) wrought by this piece of legislation is far far darker.  Britain has lost control of its sovereign jurisdiction regarding the fate even of the vilest po;tical extremists who pose a clear and present danger to its citizens.

One of the "Muslim opposition forces" which, to the evident delight of such metropolitan elites asthe Camel Corps and the Human Rights Industry, were offered sanctuary in the UK, was (crazily enough) radical Islamist cleric and al-Qaeda crony Abu Qatada.  And as we saw today the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has thrown a spanner into the British Home Office's works by ruling that he cannot be deported to Jordan.

One of the best commentaries on this abhorrent state of affairs comes from the Henry Jackson Society, and I reproduce it here, with no further input by me:


States the Henry Jackson Society:

"Qatada, a Jordanian national, stands accused of conspiracy to cause explosions in his home country, but has never been charged with any offences in the UK, despite a long and damning record of terrorist activity.  Qatada has served as the spiritual advisor to a host of radical Islamists including 9/11's '20th hijacker' Zacarias Moussaoui and  the 2001 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid.  He was the mentor of Abu Hamza, the former imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque who was convicted of soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred in 2006.    

Qatada has been linked to the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad (now merged with al-Qaeda) through Ayman al-Zawahiri and is believed to have known Osama bin Laden since 1989.  

The ECHR judgment found the UK legal system did everything it could in processing Qatada and that the UK's extradition arrangements with Jordan were sound. Further, Qatada is not staying in the UK because he is at risk of torture, but because the evidence against him might have been obtained from others under duress, breaching article six of the ECHR, the right to a fair trial. 

Before his arrest in London in October 2002, Abu Qatada was the most prominent jihadist scholar in the UK. Widely seen as wielding more theological authority than his student Abu Hamza, he issued fatwas on behalf of the GIA (Armed Islamic Group) in Algeria and in the late 1990s and early 2000s played a key role in radicalising several key al-Qaeda individuals.

Eighteen video recordings of Abu Qatada's talks were discovered in the Hamburg flats of Muhammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 attacks and when he was arrested in February 2001, police discovered £170,000 in cash in his home, including £805 in an envelope labelled "For the Mujahedin in Chechnya". 

In February 2007, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled that "He has given advice to many terrorist groups and individuals, whether formerly a spiritual adviser to them or not. His reach and the depth of his influence in that respect is formidable, even incalculable." 

The 2008 report Virtual Caliphate, by the Centre for Social Cohesion, now part of the Henry Jackson Society, found many Islamist websites hosting audio recordings by Abu Qatada calling for jihad as the way to establish the Islamic caliphate, and demanding the execution of Muslim secularists, whom he describes as "kaffirs" (unbelievers).

In one lecture, 'Wajib al-Muslim' ('The Duty of Muslims') Qatada claims that it is the duty of Muslim to wage jihad against "oppressors" (both Muslim and non-Muslim) who do not fully apply sharia law until the caliphate has been re-established, saying

"The only way to have a khilafa is through jihad."

Qatada also explicitly calls on Muslims to murder non-Muslims, saying that:

"Our countries have been infiltrated by kaffirs [non-Muslims]. It is farid [duty] for us to turn our swords on to them and kill them."

"We must fight the kaffirs. We can't reason with them. We can't reach a compromise and we can't be friends."

In another recording entitled 'Seerah' ('The Path') he launches a tirade against Christians and Jews while outlining his apocalyptic visions of the future, describing Christianity and Judaism as "devil worshipping" and saying:

"There will be a great battle against the wathaniyah [Jews and Christians] where the saviour will come back to this earth, the king with an army in the sky, killing the Jews, wipe them out, and rid of the planet of the Jews. Esa [Jesus] will return and spread peace; the majority that remain are those who believe in Esa."

He then tells his listeners that:

"In Jewish law, when a Jew enters a village in war or peace it is his duty to rape the land, take kill the men and turn the women into slaves. He will take the land and the money and that is what that religion says. This war is for existence, to exist or not exist."

Robin Simcox, Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, said today:

"Abu Qatada has been detained for almost ten years without trial while awaiting extradition to Jordan. This is a man who aspiring terrorists and jihadists from around the world sought out for spiritual advice. His continued presence in the UK poses a grave national security threat.""