22-Pistepirkko, is a Finnish popular music band formed in 1980.Their early albums were inspired by rock and roll and underground icons like Bo Diddley and The Sonics, but they have developed their unique sound by adding other influences to their music. Today they play an unconventional but distinctive mixture of pop, punk, rock and electronica, and achieved this fusion before artists such as Primal Scream or Beck popularized this kind of sound.(Wiki)
here comes my darling
saying hello you
hey why you look so worried
what’s so wrong with you
I felt something evil
lying in my room
it makes me really scared
don’t you feel it too
I know, it don’t really matter
does it really matter
if we go insane, my darling
do we always stick together
does it really matter
if we go insane, my darling
you said you saw shooting
on a market square
since when I have been dull
to see blood in everywhere
this time man was you uncle
you wonder what went wrong
he always looked so harmless walking on his own
One of the elderly women, whose life Åberg has disrupted and possibly ruined, is a 73-year old woman with no criminal record, who shared an old text from 2015, widely available on the internet and written by someone else, in a small Facebook group of barely 50 people. She has been charged with “incitement against an ethnic group” for sharing the following:
“A biological sensation in Sweden. A new bird species (parasitus muslimus) has established itself here… In recent years, the Arab bird (parasitus muslimus) has been widely spread in northern Europe, largely because it lacks natural enemies here…The female has a comprehensive feather shield, where only the eyes are visible… The male usually has four females… The species is a migratory bird but with the weird feature that they never move back…”
Yet another woman, Christina, 65, was charged with “inciting hatred against an ethnic group” for writing on Facebook: “If this continues, the intelligence in Sweden will be at goldfish level” and “Refuse all that has to do with Islam”. She denies having written those statements but insists that she wishes to warn Swedes against Islam. According to news reports, in 2016 Christina was assaulted by four so-called “unaccompanied minors” (migrants) and knocked unconscious, an act that has impaired her memory. No one was sentenced for that assault, but she now faces financial difficulties and cannot pay her rent. She receives no help from the Swedish state. So far, Christina has reportedly been interrogated six times, for up to two hours each, for her alleged thought crimes, asked about her childhood, and whether she was doing drugs. She has no criminal record.
“It’s terrible to feel like a dangerous criminal because you write the truth about what’s happening in our society, while rape is high and criminals go free,” she told Samtiden. It was someone from Näthatsgranskaren who reported her to the police. She risks being fined or possibly going to jail.
I’m among some people who think, That if our own country are not willing to protect its own population against the Islamist threat, and let Sharia rule over us, even by democratic mean, as also their population grow so fast that we are doomed to be overwhelm.
So some solution must be found to help send families away from all this, to find security…
If You Look At Statistic Many British have already done so, unfortunately for them, for the most they choice France and Spain…Which both have a Serious Muslim Problem. Violence and so on.
The Cold did seems to be THE solution…Artic Circle, Laponnia of Finland, of Sweden and Norway. Greenland and Island. Well, many things been done, may be some who went ahead.. and found house..job..
I give 10 years to Switzerland before Civil Unrest, might go even faster depending of our independence against the European Union, which with its immigration habit.. will terminate our Direct Democracy. And make us Bent To Islam As Tarik Ramadan wish so much in his speech here and there including The European Parliament. That’s the Normality.
So as abnormal, where can we still live a Westerner Life ?..
Wil. T. Knox
Iceland to Get its First Mosque
The Muslim Association of Iceland now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque’s construction costs. The former mayor of Reykjavik says he believes it is outrageous for the city to give Muslims a site at no cost at a great location in the center of the city, and asks why political and feminist groups are so tolerant of a religion that he says degrades women.
The Reykjavík City Council has approved a building permit for the construction of the first mosque in Iceland.
The mosque will be built in Sogamýri, an upscale district near downtown Reykjavík on a highly desirable plot of land that was granted to Muslims free of charge, courtesy of Icelandic taxpayers.
Members of the city council — which is led by Reykjavík Mayor Jón Gnarr, who identifies himself as an anarchist — say they hope the prime location will make the mosque a prominent landmark in the city.
Critics of the mosque, however, say the project is being financed by donors in the Middle East who are seeking to exert control over — and radicalize — the growing Muslim community in Iceland.
Although reliable statistics do not exist, the Muslim population of Iceland is estimated to be approximately 1,200, or 0.4% of the total Icelandic population of 320,000. Most Muslims in Iceland live in the capital Reykjavík, where they make up about 1% of the total population of 120,000.
The Muslim community in Iceland may be small in comparison to other European countries, but its rate of growth has been exponential: Since 1990, when there were fewer than a dozen Muslims in the country, their number has increased by nearly 10,000%. Much of this growth has been due to immigration, but in recent years native Icelanders have also been converting to Islam in increasing numbers.
Currently there are two main Muslim groups in Iceland: the Muslim Association of Iceland, which has around 500 members, and the Islamic Cultural Center of Iceland, which has some 300 followers. The former group is run by Salmann Tamimi, a Palestinian immigrant who considers himself to be the voice of moderate Islam in Iceland; the latter group is run by Ahmad Seddeq, a firebrand preacher from Pakistan whose activities are allegedly being financed by Saudi Arabia.
Although both groups pertain to Sunni Islam, they have been openly fighting with each other for many years over who should be the rightful representative of Islam in Iceland.
In 2000, Tamimi — whose group meets at a make-shift mosque on the third floor of an office building in downtown Reykjavík — submitted an application to obtain a free plot of land from city authorities to build the first purpose-built mosque in Iceland.
Not to be outdone, Seddeq — whose group meets at a make-shift mosque in an old concert hall near the Reykjavík airport — submitted his own application for free land to build a competing mosque.
City officials responded by saying there should be only one mosque and that it should be shared by both groups. “Obviously we won’t be allocating two lots for mosques at this point and we find it natural for them to cooperate on the construction of one mosque,” Páll Hjaltason, the chairman of Reykjavík City’s Urban Planning Council, told the newspaper Fréttabladid.
Seddeq said he was open to the idea of sharing one plot of land, but Tamimi, who submitted his application first, would have none of it. Instead, Tamimi lashed out at Seddeq, accusing him of extremism, fanaticism and oppression in the name of Islam.
“Our application is completely different from theirs,” Salmann said in an interview with the newspaper Fréttabladid. “This is like asking the national church to be with the Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Tamimi sought to undermine Seddeq’s group by accusing it of being financed by Saudi Arabia. At one point, Tamimi called the police to report members of Seddeq’s group, accusing them of misunderstanding the peaceful nature of Islam, and saying that he feared that Muslim extremists were attempting to gain a foothold in Iceland.
Tamimi also sought to assure the Reykjavík City Council that — unlike Seddeq — his mosque project would not be financed by foreigners and thus would not be promoting extremism.
“If we are going to have a mosque, it must be done according to local considerations,” Tamimi said in October 2010. “As soon as you lose sight of the source of funding you lose control of what happens subsequently. The experience of other countries teaches that it is wise to reject large foreign investments in religion. Such investors are much more likely to import their own countries’ traditions and not adapt to the traditions in their host country.”
In the end, city officials sided with Tamimi, whose mosque project was formally approved on September 19. After more than a decade of bickering, construction of Reykjavík’s first mosque is expected to begin in early 2014.
The cost of building the 800 square meter (8,600 square foot) mosque — which will include a prayer hall, community center and library, as well as a nine-meter (30 foot) minaret — is expected to exceed 400 million Icelandic Krona (€2.5 million; $3.3 million).
But now that the Reykjavík mosque project has been given the go-ahead, Tamimi’s group has changed its tune and now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque’s construction costs after all.
During a newspaper interview on September 19 — conducted just a few hours after the mosque project was approved — Sverrir Agnarsson, a convert to Islam who is chairman of Tamimi’s group, the Muslim Association of Iceland, was asked how the mosque would be financed.
“We have received numerous promises,” Agnarsson said. “We are mostly seeking funding from individual foreigners. We have a right to get support from the collective funds of Muslims [the Ummah, or the worldwide community of Muslims]. We are doing all of this in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice to guarantee that all the money coming to us is received legally, and is not associated with any terrorist organizations,” he added.
The idea that foreigners are financing the spread of Islam in Reykjavík does not sit well with many Icelanders.
One of the most vocal opponents of the mosque project has been the former mayor of Reykjavík, Ólafur F. Magnússon. In an article he wrote for the newspaper Morgunbladid, Magnússon laid out his position:
It is a matter of grave concern that it seems to be no problem for Muslims in Iceland to finance such a mosque here in Iceland with money from ‘Muslim/Islamic promotion organizations’ abroad. They could receive financial help from organizations that want to increase Islamic influence in Iceland as well as in other countries. This can be dangerous for our national culture and safety.
Magnússon also said why he thought it was wrong for foreign organizations to be financing the construction of mosques in Iceland:
Islam is a religion with the goal to eliminate all other religions and to expand all over the world, the West, the Nordic countries…and now even Iceland. The experience in the Nordic countries shows that Muslims are not adapting to society. This has become a huge problem, in Malmö [Sweden] for example. The other day, a mosque was to be built on Trondheim [Norway], but the Norwegian authorities canceled the project because some Saudi Arabian organization was to finance the whole thing.
Although he is not opposed to the mosque per se, Magnússon believes it is outrageous for the city to give Muslims a building site at no cost at a great location in the center of Reykjavík. He also asks why political movements and feminist groups in Iceland are so tolerant towards a religion that he says degrades women.
Part of the answer may be found in the political make-up of the Reykjavík City Council, which is led by the upstart Best Party, a so-called joke party that was propelled into office in 2010 as a backlash against establishment parties in the wake of Iceland’s banking collapse in 2008.
The Best Party — a semi-serious far left party that is home to anarchists, atheists, surrealists, punks and poets — is being led by Jón Gnarr, a stand-up comedian whose stated political aim is thoroughly to upset the established order in Reykjavík. Critics say the new mosque represents a big step toward achieving Gnarr’s objective.
At least one member of Parliament, André Oktay Dahl of the Conservative Party, calls the situation “critical” and is brave enough to acknowledge that many of the perpetrators come from cultures “with a reprehensible attitude toward women.”
The scandalous fact is that Norway, for all its wealth, has chosen not to invest overmuch in law and order. “Norway wastes millions of kroner every year on ‘development aid’ that ends up largely in the pockets of corrupt African dictators; it pours millions more into the pockets of non-Western immigrants who have become masters at exploiting the welfare system; the Norwegian government even funds anarchists. It’s not entirely misguided for a Norwegian citizen to feel that his tax money is going less to fight the crime that threatens his home, his self, and his business than to support criminals.”
But beefing up the police force wouldn’t even begin to address the problem that’s at the root of the country’s growing rape crisis: the presence in Norway, and especially in Oslo, of ever-growing numbers of people who have nothing but contempt for Western culture, who have absolutely no concept of respect for members of religions other than their own, and who have been brought up on the idea that women who dare to walk the street alone and without veils covering their faces deserve to be violated.
Not so very many years ago, Oslo was virtually a rape-free city, inhabited by people who had been brought up on civilized notions of mutual respect and tolerance. No longer. Over the years, the incidence of rape has risen steadily. A wildly disproportionate number of the perpetrators are “rejected asylum seekers” — which may sound puzzling unless you are aware of the perverse state of affairs whereby even persons officially rejected for asylum in Norway are still allowed to stay. And the increasing temerity of the rapists — who know very well that they will probably not be caught, and, if caught, will not be severely punished — is reflected in the fact that the most recent rape (in which two men assaulted a 21-year-old woman) took place virtually in the backyard of the Royal Palace.
Oslo is, of course, not alone in having undergone this cultural sea change: many major cities in Western Europe have experienced similar transformations. Yet it now appears that the incidence of rapes in Oslo has now eclipsed that in the other two Scandinavian capitals, Stockholm and Copenhagen. This is quite an achievement, given that Oslo has traditionally been the smallest and sleepiest of these three cities — the least cosmopolitan, the one that feels more like a safe small town than a European capital.
A glimpse of the official mentality that makes this steady rise in rape statistics possible was provided in an article that appeared in the Norwegian daily Dagbladet on October 25. It appears that in the summer of last year, the same paper ran a story about Abdi, a Somali immigrant, then 24 years old, who since coming to Norway as an asylum seeker had committed 14 robberies, been incarcerated, become a narcotic, and lived on welfare.
On June 3, 2010, Dagbladet reported, an Oslo court had ruled that Abdi, who is not a Norwegian citizen, should be returned to Somalia. Now, however, that ruling has been overturned by an appeals court. Abdi’s lawyer was jubilant, saying that this decision “is important for many Somalis in this country.” (Of all immigrant groups in Norway, Somalis are among those with the lowest employment and highest crime rates.) The lawyer chided Norway for having shown “an ugly face in this case” by planning to return her client to Somalia, but she expressed hope that given the new decision Norway would “change its practice” — presumably meaning that no amount of unsavory activity would make it possible to kick an immigrant out.
The appeals court’s basis for its decision to let Abdi stay in Norway was that it might be dangerous for him to live in Somalia. Whether letting him stay in Norway might make life dangerous for Norwegians didn’t seem to enter into the court’s calculus.
It’s not only the courts, to be sure, that are at fault in this sort of situation. In such cases, the media almost invariably step in and bombard the public with shameless propaganda designed to stir up sympathy for the miscreant in question. So it was with the Dagbladet article the other day, which sought to present Abdi as repentant, reformed, and reflective — indeed, almost sagacious and saintly. He was represented as having claimed that he has turned over a new leaf and that he now wants to help wayward immigrant kids to straighten out. He also supposedly said that he wants to study to be a sociologist (which, the more one thinks about it, sounds potentially even more dangerous than if he decided to persevere in his life of crime).
Legend has it that on this day, the god Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir The soil and the sky will be stained with poison and the sea will rear up Prior to the apocalypse, three freezing winters would follow each other The sound of the horn is supposed to call the sons of Odin to the battlefield, where Odin will ultimately be killed
If Vikings were here today, the sounding of a distinctive horn in York would have created chaos. The ancient instrument, blown last night, signalled exactly 100 days until the end of the world, according to Norse mythology.
Hello Muse, may be it need to refresh the page, because all videos got sound, working perfectly fine. I had problem with the pictures, I wanted a different display but didn’t work.
Handcuff picture in cross for both, Gun picture for both and an army picture for both.
I react to this Sweedish Newspaper who says that Anders did make some statement…Now it goes around twisting thing further.
The Only thing I agree, is that he feel lonely and bitter as the “Rising” didn’t happen…enven less a an Uprising..
More of an “Hiding” after what he did. So yes that part is true for the rest they have still no Clue about who is Anders Breivik.
And An Other Country Under Jihad…. I did like Iceland.
Thinking of a Safe Haven in Iceland….well…the same will be there also..and knowing Iceland the number of muslims gonna sky rocket !
Sad Sad News…
Wil.
Former mayor of Reykjavík claims a mosque will threaten Iceland’s culture and safety. Ólafur F. Magnússon, who was mayor for little less than 7 months in 2008, is highly pessimistic about plans of a mosque being built in the open space of in the eastern part of Reykjavík, Eyjan reports.
City council approved of the plans last week, after Muslims in Iceland having waited 13 years to get a property to raise the first mosque in Iceland. Ólafur writes in Morgunblaðið today, expressing his concern about the matter.
“It is worrying that Muslims here don’t seem to have any difficulties financing the project, receiving aid from Muslim organizations abroad. Those organizations might want to increase the influence of Islam in Iceland, as well as in other countries.”
Instead of a mosque, Ólafur suggests a temple of the Nordic gods to be built in the plot. “Such a cultural gem would bring joy to the majority of the city’s residents, as well as other Icelanders, and wouldn’t be as out of place as a mosque would.”
Swedes take to the streets to defend their city. You won’t see this mentioned in US mainstream media. Photo from Fria Tider
After five nights of watching rampaging immigrant gangs (largely from Africa and the Middle East) torching cars and destroying property, and the police taking a non-confrontational attitude toward the lawbreakers, the Swedish people are rising up!
There is hope for Western civilization in Europe after all!
Here is the story from the Fria Tider (thanks to reader Paul for making my day!):
Stockholm.Faced by another night of terror at the hands of predominantly immigrant rioters, Swedes grown tired of the police’s inability to put an end to the unrest took to the streets Friday night to defend their neighborhoods.
The vigilantes were described as a motley crew of homeowners and concerned citizens, as well as neo-Nazi activists and football hooligans.
What did police do initially? They began aggressively rounding up the Swedes!
In the Stockholm suburb of Tumba the police decided to abandon their earlier non-intervention policy as a large group of police officers rounded up and dispersed a group of vigilantes trying to fend off rioters.
The decision to round up vigilantes while, according to Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving, ”doing as little as possible” to stop rioters, met with a wave of protests in various social media and on the Internet. Representatives of some vigilante groups contacted Fria Tider to give their view of last night’s events.
Here is what one of the defenders of Stockholm said:
It makes me sick to see the police clamp down on us Swedes with full force and without warning, using nightsticks and tear gas, while they don’t do a damn thing about the immigrants. We are only trying to help maintain order, while the immigrants set cars and buildings on fire, said a young man who wished to remain anonymous.
After a huge public outcry, the police did let Swedish patrols go after the Muslim immigrants:
Later during the night the police appear to have relaxed their attitude to the presence of vigilante groups in the streets. The police is reported to have stepped aside and watched as a huge crowd of vigilantes chased immigrants through the streets of Tumba, chanting ”the city is ours” and ”we will do what the police can’t do”.Several independent sources testify about vigilantes managing to scare away groups of rioters torching wastepaper baskets.
Be sure to see a ludicrous second story at Fria Tider where owners of burned cars were being ticketed!
For new readers: We have been writing about the downfall of Sweden since 2007 as the welfare nation opened its doors to Muslims from North and East Africa, and the Middle East. Here is one post about how “refugees” are dashing to Sweden so they don’t have to work and another where Muslim youths say the Swedes are wimpy.
Send this post out far and wide please! ***Update*** You sure did, this post has been seen by thousands and thousands around the world in the last two days! But, I have seen no mention of Swedes rising up in the mainstream media, have you?
The Government Pension Fund – Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond – Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited. The fund changed name in January 2006 from its previous name, The Petroleum Fund of Norway. The fund is commonly referred to as The Oil Fund (Norwegian: Oljefondet). As of the valuation in June 2011, it was the largest pension fund in the world, although it is not actually a pension fund as it derives its financial backing from oil profits and not pension contributions. As of 30 September 2012 its total value is NOK 3.7trillion ($654 billion), holding one percent of global equity markets.With 1.78 percent of European stocks,it is said to be the largest stock owner in Europe.
The purpose of the petroleum fund is to invest parts of the large surplus generated by the Norwegian petroleum sector, generated mainly from taxes of companies, but also payment for license to explore as well as the State’s Direct Financial Interest and dividends from partly state-owned Statoil. Current revenue from the petroleum sector is estimated to be at its peak period and to decline over the next decades. The Petroleum Fund was established in 1990 after a decision by the country’s legislature to counter the effects of the forthcoming decline in income and to smooth out the disruptive effects of highly fluctuating oil prices.
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (Norwegian: Olje- og energidepartementet) is a Norwegian ministry responsible for energy, including petroleum and natural gas production in the North Sea. It is led by Minister of Petroleum and Energy Ola Borten Moe (Centre Party). The department must report to the legislature, the Storting.
U.S., NATO to Jointly Consider Turkish Patriot Missile Request
U.S., NATO to Jointly Consider Turkish Missile Request. Courtesy Video | Pentagon Channel | Date: 11.26.2012. The U.S. and NATO will work together in deciding how to respond to Turkey’s request for Patriot missiles.
Erdogan’s Green Fascism: The New Sultan Flexes His Muscles
Submitted by Richard Cottrell on Wed, 2012-08-01 04:49
The Turkish daily Zaman has just published a very important commentary by Mumtazar Turkone which appears to suggest that the country’s soft Islamic ruling power is not quite all that it seems. For a start, anything but ‘soft’. In fact more like a perpetually ruling caste in the making, whose pretences towards Islamic justice and values may not be all they seem to the surface.
This is an airing of a very radical view which seems to pose strong chords with the rise of Bolshevism and National Socialism (and indeed the decay of real politics in the US today and their replacement by a common state corporatist ideology (see Supreme Court ‘corporations are people’ judgment)..
Turkone is guardedly pointing to the AK party becoming a permanently entrenched system of power. I completely agree with that. My impression for some time is the steady evolution of the AK movement towards a form of Islamic fascism, or more correctly, a fascist state that rests on the illusion of Islamism.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish premier, is foremost a merchant accustomed to trading in the bazaars of power. He has knocked away two of the main props of the secular establishment, the military and the old secular political institutions. They are reduced to waving their arms like windmills with no corn to grind. He has ruthless deployed the exposure of Ergenekon ( a deep state Gladio-type imitatorwhich is actually controlled by the government) to act as a kind of purifying and purging ritual.
This is exactly the tactics the Bolsheviks used to cement themselves in power, the idea of ‘liberation’ as a purging of a debased system. Hitler occupied the same territory. Ditto Franco, Mao. In a sense, all of these people took their inspiration from Robespierre. Erdogan’s stance, his constant twisting and turning, bewilders the US, NATO etc., because the understanding and perceptions of Islam are scarcely understood in the Christian West. Those scholars who can see that Sunni Fascism is an evolving and rolling force, drawing on very old historic trends, wedded to the concept of the New Ottoman Empire, are ignored.
Erdogan’s Islamism is not so much skin deep as convenient political clothing. The source of his power lies with Turkey’s corporate barons, the same creatures who nourish and maintain Putinism in Russia. They are far more powerful than the soldiers. The economy is running at full tilt and while there are many black holes (weak innovation, the creaking educational fabric etc), Turks are for the first time enjoying the rewards of economic success.
There is work for all who want it, Turkey is building a high speed (aka Hitler’s autobahnen) rail network based on astonishing advanced technology. This network will connect all the main population centres east-west, north-south, which will increasingly dissolve the differences between the various ‘states of mind’ which have held the country back since the fall of the Oottomans and the subsequent rise of the false prophet Ataturk (to whom I will return in a moment)..
We learn from current events in the region that Erdogan Islamic Fascism is an export commodity which benefits from the prevailing turmoil. It is plain that the main beneficiary of the unrest throughout the Arab world is a non-Arabic Sunni Moslem state – Turkey..
Ataturk replaced the Sultans with a rigid Bolshevist-Corporatist-Militarist police state. Between them the High Command and Ataturk’s successors (the secularists who are now in a state of advanced decay) attempted to prolong his legacy so to speak but failed because they could not manage the economy and they lacked any deep or effective roots in political will.
Erdogan has tapped the reservoirs of Islamist consent, the votes of the pious and faithful who are enjoying fruits of plenty for the first time: they speak now of the Islamic Work Ethic in Anatolia, where entire communities are benefitting from small business start up grants, new public architecture of roads, fast trains, new hospitals and medical centres and schools.
Unknown, unobserved to the Christian West, Edrogan is surreptitiously altering the political landscape from one day to the next. He has started to swallow smaller political groups to expand the root base of AK. He says that AK itself must advance to the state of a national political force which reflects the united identity of the Turkish people. To that end, AK’s huge immaculately choreographed rallies increasingly reflect Nuremberg.
When Erdogan steps into the limelight before the adoring masses, he pauses, inclines his head, smiles and turns to applauding aides before silence befalls the multitude and he begins to speak in slow, measured tones. This is politics as theatre. The people love it.
One of his most significant pronouncements came at the huge rally held in the Istanbul sports drome in early summer. The master declared that he would not stand as prime minister again nor seek office again as leader of the party. This is because he intends there will be no AK party to lead. The new force which is to replace it and which he is currently constructing is the imminent National Political Movement which he will submit to the electorate for their joyous approval.
We mayl come to know this new beast in good time as Green Fascism
Ataturk constructed his vision of a modern, throbbing Turkey on a one party state. His was a hobbled, introspective creature which left the Islamic nature of Turkey unresolved. Ataturk responded like any dictator with instruments of oppression. He cowed the population and they adored him for it. He became a god when he died, of overwork it was said. Certainly his life was not prolonged by chain-smoking, frequent drinking binges and his serial amorous adventures.. Unconsciouly or otherwise the brilliant soldier turned statesman was striving to show how un-Islamic he was..
The smack of his regime lay in petty gestures like banning the fez, forcing Turks to adopt westernised names and the Latin alphabet.
Erdogan ‘s genius is to resolve Ataturk’s unresolved legacy. He has no need to ban hats, in fact in a curious reverse doppelganger of the affair of the fez, he has legitimized – repatriated -. the public wearing of the headscarf in schools and universities. Even the most secular critics are bound to admit that its cool to be in Istanbul, thanks to the galaxy of world-friendly galas of arts. There’s even a brand new home grown fashion style, Islam Chic,
It it any co-cindicidence that the turbans-and-testosterone biopic Fetih (Conquest) 1453, which features the Turkish defeat of Constantinople, is playing to rapturous houses all over Turkey? The film shamelessly re-kindles Turkey’s foundation credentials which goes down with audiences throughout the Islamic world.
The religously-sympathetic daily newspaper Zaman noted ‘ Turks are feeling imperial again’ after a decade of unprecedented economic growth, increasingly re-visiting with awe and admiration their Ottoman ancestors for inspiration – in foreign policy as much as interior design, food and fashiion.
Fetih, lavish, gaudy, fast and loose as it is with historical niceties, nonetheless perfectly identifies the neo-Ottomanist push to reassert Turkish diplomatic hegemony over the sultans’ former Arab domains.
The anti-orientalists, the dispossesed elites brooding over their gin and tonics in Istanbul, dismiss the film as a ‘muddled pool of hypocrisy’, which is unfortunately to miss the point altogether. Namely the rescusitation of Islamic pride after all most a decade of insults for intellectual and religious backwardness, while acting as the main sump for worldwide eterror.
Catch-me-if-you-can Erdogan pulls many tails as once, and every time the victim turns around to find the tormentor has disappeared. His genie-like course through the current travails of the Middle East leaves the global community as confused as always concerning his real objectives. The man himself could very well respond, like the scorpion who stung the frog, ‘it is my nature.’
Western diplomats in Ankara have closed their minds because they basically regard Turkey as a third world country which has got too big for its boots. One fine day the secularists will come back to power and everything will be as neat and tidy as it was before. Turkey is supposed to be a swimming pool for westerm corporates, not a power in its own right. They laugh at the imperial dimension. I wonder if they will still be laughing when Syria and Iran go the way of Iraq and Afghanistan and Turkey is the last man standing.
International conference on Syria in Geneva on June 30 on certain terms
MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax) – Russia could take part in an international conference on Syria in Geneva on June 30 on certain terms, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
It could, if the conference brings together the right participants and if it centers on ways to facilitate political dialogue instead of predetermining Syria’s future political set-up, he said at a press conference in Moscow on Friday.
“If these two conditions are observed we will attend the conference by all means. But our interests must be observed, because they are not egoistic interests, but a committed position,” Lavrov said.
US Fighting On Same Side As Three Terrorist In Syria
Posted on June 15, 2012 by creeping
via Washington’s Blog: U.S. Fighting On the Same Side As Three Terrorist Groups In Syria.
U.S.Fights Side-By-Side With Three Terrorist Groups InSyria
Al Qaeda is supporting the Syrian opposition.
So is the Muslim Brotherhood.
And Hamas.
This is curious, given that the U.S. is supporting the Syrian opposition (and see this), considering military options for ousting the Syrian government, American allies Britain and Qatar allegedly already have foreign troops inside Syria, and the U.S. has been planning regime change in Syria for over 50 years.
I thought Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood were America’s mortal enemies. Why are we backing terrorists?
If Hezbollah joins the opposition, it will be a clean sweep.
Actually, according to their covenant, Hamas is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Just as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, etc. are wings of the U.S. Brotherhood. Hizbollah is not too popular among Syrians right now, but you can fund America’s terrorist “allies” online no problem.
LOL: Saudi Arabia to Lead UN Counter Terrorism Initiative
If the UN were to form an anti-terrorism group dedicated to attacking the menace on a global scale, who do you think would be asked to lead it? A nation with a proven track record of anti-terror initiatives? A nation that esteems human rights and freedomsabove all else? Unfortunately, in the case of the UN Centre for Counter Terrorism (UNCCT), the answer is emphatically neither.
The UNCCT was formed in September 2010 with the purpose of executing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted by the General Assembly in 2006. In a move more befitting Alice in Wonderland than the United Nations, Saudi Arabia was named chair of the organization.
The Resolution that created the UNCCT highlighted four key “pillars” in the fight against terrorism. The first of these pillars, “tackling the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism,” was undermined almost immediately upon the organization’s establishment. Three months after the UNCCT’s formation, WikiLeaks exposed a trove of diplomatic cables in which Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wrote “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT, and other terrorist groups, including Hamas.” Clinton’s US embassy cables also revealed Saudi resistance to prioritizing the issue in terms of its own domestic policy.
These revelations are perhaps not so surprising in light of the Saudi kingdom’s lukewarm response to terrorism funding and recruitment within its borders. Remember when, in the months following the 9/11 attacks, Saudi Arabia denied the fact that 15 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens, before eventually confirming the undeniable truth in 2002?Even worse, this past February two former US senators involved in the 9/11 inquiries suggested in separate affidavits that the Saudi government may have played a directrole in the attacks themselves.
It’s an ironic twist that the UN appointed Saudi Arabia, a country historically labeled by groups like the CATO Institute as a state sponsor of terrorism, to chair the flagship effort to end such practices. The UN’s actions speak to a certain cluelessness it exhibits as a governing body: the organization bows to diplomatic and political courtesies while ignoring what’s happening on the ground.
The designation is also farcical in another sense. Saudi Arabia’s human rights record blatantly contradicts the UNCCT’s fourth pillar, “ensuring respect for human rights against the backdrop of the fight against terrorism,” as evidenced by the nation’s treatment of its own citizens. Amnesty International’s 2012 Report details the state’s numerous abuses: public demonstration is forbidden, females face harshly oppressive discrimination in both the law and society, citizens are subject to torture and confinement for excessive periods of time without due process of law, etc. And the Amnesty International report is not even comprehensive. For example: it fails to mention LGBT rights or the fact that homosexuality in the Saudi kingdom is a capital offense.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia’s state-sponsored curriculum continues to foster a learning environment of intolerance and discrimination. As detailed in the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom’s recently published report, the Saudi Kingdom’s academic curriculum for grades 1-12 contains textbooks that disparage Christianity and Judaismand tutors on the subject of jihad and war against nonbelievers. In 2010, a special investigation by the BBC’s Panorama discovered that part-time schools “teaching the official Saudi national curriculum” in the United Kingdom were imparting messages of anti-Semitism and homophobia to young Muslim students, as well as illustrating how to punish thieves by cutting off the criminal’s hand or foot.
It is no secret that Saudi Arabia holds a strong anti-democracy stance, as exemplified in March 2011 when the kingdom sent troops into Bahrain to help repress protests during a government crackdown. Freedom of expression is nearly non-existent; a draft of the nation’s own anti-terror law leaked in July 2011 would suppress free speech and could punish blasphemy with death.
The greatest irony of all is the UN’s failure to come up with a legal definition for the act of terrorism while purporting to fight it with projects like the UNCCT.While the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism has been in the works since 2000, the UN General Assembly Sixth Committee (Legal) has reached an impasse in negotiations.The result is that the UNCCT exists without any clear international definition the word “terrorism.”
The standoff is the outcome of maneuvering by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a 57-member voting bloc that represents itself as the “collective voice of the Muslim world.” The group refuses passage of any Sixth Committee Resolution defining terrorism unless it exempts certain kinds of conflicts, such as “armed struggle against foreign occupation.” This means that, according to the OIC, attacks on civilians would not constitute terrorism as long as they were citizens of a so-called “occupying power.” This is obviously unacceptable.
The UN must first facilitate a consensus between states on the definition of terrorism if it is to effectively combat the threat. Furthermore, it’s incumbent upon all Western democracies and especially the Obama administration to lobby for the removal of Saudi Arabia from the UNCCT. The UN needs to stop playing political games when human lives are thrown into the mix; terrorist groups will continue to survive as long as there are nations that remain lax on enforcement and bodies like the UN that reward complacency. Only an international campaign that possesses both legitimacy and resolve has the potential to eradicate — or at least suppress — terrorism.ByBrooke Goldstein and Zack Kousnetz
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Now it appears that no child is left behind in Gaza, where kindergarteners recently held a jihad-promoting graduation ceremony replete with camouflage make-up, fatigues, fake machine guns and a kiddie version of water-boarding. Ynet News translates from Islamic Jihad’s website which posted the photos:
“It is our obligation to educate the children to love the resistance, Palestine and Jerusalem, so they will recognize the importance of Palestine and who its enemy is,” the kindergarten’s director said.
The children were dressed up in uniforms of Jihad’s armed-wing, the al-Quds Brigades, and each of them received a toy rifle […]
One child, Hamza, said “When I grow up I’ll join Islamic Jihad and the al-Quds Brigades. I’ll fight the Zionist enemy and fire missiles at it until I die as a shahid [martyr] and join my father in heaven.
“I love the resistance and the martyrs and Palestine, and I want to blow myself up on Zionists and kill them on a bus in a suicide bombing,” he said.
Here are some of the photos, captured by the pro-Israel bloggers Challah Hu Akbar and Elder of Ziyon:Ynet translates one teacher who said:
“At every kindergarten graduation ceremony we focus on the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of Allah so they will grow up to love the resistance and serve the cause of Palestine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Palestine.”
In an op-ed in Ynet News, Yigal Walt criticizes so-called terrorism experts who promote the theory that it’s economic hardship or political repression that prompts youths to turn to terror and carry out “desperate acts.” He writes:
The simple and sad truth is that terrorism is an “acquired taste” and affinity for terror is a value that one must nurture and impart. Just as many families and states worldwide educate their children and people in line with the value of tolerance, for example, other people and nations prefer to encourage their sons and daughters to choose the path of murder and terror. Indeed, after long years of such “education” in kindergartens, schools, on television and in prayer houses, there is no wonder that many members of these peoples take the path of terror and turn this murderousness into a prevalent way of life.
Some of the children’s relatives are themselves members of Islamic Jihad and other armed Palestinian groups, now educating them to follow in their violent footsteps.
Suicide terrorists are “greatest role models,” says EU-funded NGO for youth on PA TV
Last week, Israel transferred the bodies of 91 terrorists including numerous suicide bombers to the Palestinian Authority. A PA TV program for youth, Speak Up, glorified the 91 terrorists saying they were:
“More honored than all of us… They are the greatest role models for us.” The TV program is co-produced by PA TV and PYALARA, an NGO for youth funded by the EU, Save the Children and other international donors.
The following is the statement on PA TV honoring the terrorists:
PA TV Host: “Unfortunately, we couldn’t part from them (i.e., the terrorists) or even embrace them, but were satisfied standing before their bodies, standing up before their sanctified message: The homeland won’t die, but we will die for it.” Co-Host: “These [Martyrs] are more honored than all of us… They are the greatest role models for us, not only because they fought and struggled for the homeland, but also because they went beyond the sacrifice [of] strain and effort, to the stage where they actually sacrificed their lives for the homeland.”
[PA TV (Fatah), June 3, 2012]Palestinian Media Watch reported that the PA leadership participated in a national funeral treating these 91 terrorists as heroes and Islamic Martyrs. At the funeral, suicide bombers and other terrorists were presented as role models for others to “follow in their path.”
This is the second time in a few weeks that EU-funded PYALARA has chosen to glorify terrorists. In May, PYALARA, on its other PA TV program Jerusalem Scenes, honored Palestinian terrorist prisoners serving multiple life sentences for planning suicide bombings that murdered many Israelis. The TV crew visited the homes and interviewed family members of three terrorists of the “Silwan cell,” which was responsible for terror attacks in 2002, including:
– Hebrew University cafeteria, 9 killed
– Cafe Moment in Jerusalem, 11 killed
– Sheffield Club in Rishon LeZion,15 killed
The terrorists of the “Silwan cell” whose homes were visited by PA TV and PYALARA:
1. Wisam Al-Abbasi, sentenced to 26 life sentences and another 40 years
2. Muhammad Ouda, sentenced to 9 life sentences and another 40 years
3. Alaa Al-Din Al-Abbasi, sentenced to 60 years
The mother of the terrorist Wisam Al-Abbasi who is serving 26 life-sentences said on TV:
“I am proud and pride myself on having a son in prison.”
The father-in-law of terrorist Alaa Al-Abbasi who is serving 60 years told the PYALARA interviewer:
“I always remember Alaa – a person of exalted moral values.”
The following is the transcript of the PA TV’s visit to the homes of terrorist prisoners on the program Jerusalem Scenes, produced jointly by PYALARA and PA TV:
PA TV host: “More than 250 prisoners from Jerusalem are held in the occupation’s prisons, most of them on a hunger strike. It is our duty to visit the families of some of the prisoners, to hear from them and to see how they encourage their children to continue in the path of their struggle against the Israeli occupation.
The first prisoner from Silwan, Jerusalem, whom we wish to visit is Wisam Al-Abbasi, who was given 26 life sentences and another 40 years. In other words, in total he is meant to serve 2,614 years in the occupation’s prisons.”
In the home of prisoner Wisam Al-Abbasi:
Host: “Hello, how are you?” Mother: “I’m the mother of prisoner Wisam Al-Abbasi, who was given 26 life sentences and another 40 years. I am proud and pride myself on having a son in prison.”
In the home of prisoner Muhammad Ouda:
Host: “We are visiting now the home of another prisoner from Jerusalem, Muhammad Ouda. Ouda has been imprisoned in the occupation’s prisons for more than 10 years, and was sentenced to 9 life sentences and another 40 years.”
In the home of prisoner Alaa Al-Din Al-Abbasi:
Wife: “He was sentenced to 60 years. We were told [he was one of] the four men of the Silwan cell.” Father-in-law: “I always remember Alaa – a person of exalted moral values.”
[PA TV (Fatah), May 18, 2012]PYALARA and Speak Up [http://www.pyalara.org/about_us.php?lang=1]
PYALARA’s website lists the following as sponsors:
[http://www.pyalara.org/donors.php?lang=1]
The TV host telling youth to view terrorists and suicide bombers as “role models” corresponds with PYALARA’sagenda, as its website states that creating “role models” is one of the important purposes of its TV program:
“The greatest success of [the youth program] Speak Up [Arabic- “Alli Sotak”] comes from its peer-to-peer approach, in which young people act as role models and reach out to their own peers through their active role in reporting…”
[http://www.pyalara.org/tv.php?id=9&lang=1]
For names and description of the suicide bombers honored among the 91 terrorists see PMW’s recent bulletin.
What is the Mission Statement of the United Nations?
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom
Oh Yeah, I’m so proud, feels great, of a good job well done ! May be should phone now !
When the United Nations began deliberation on the Palestinian Authority’s demand for a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, it ignored the fact that the Gaza half of that proposed state is ruled by a group, Hamas, that has called for the destruction of Israel and a genocide against the Jewish people. This event, Daniel Greenfield writes in this searing pamphlet, remind us once again that the UN is “a democracy of tyrants” that has long since turned its back on the ideals present at its founding. In 10 Reasons to Abolish the UN, Greenfield shows why the “world body” has become a theatre of the absurd in which injustice flourishes. From failing to prevent outbreaks of genocide across the globe, to creating a rancid regimen of double standards that obsessively condemns Israel, while allowing countries such as Syria and Cuba to head its Human Rights Commission, the UN has become part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
During the Cambodian Genocide, the UN Security Council did not issue a single resolution on it.
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