there seem to be small pockets of sanity forming...or is it simply that the EU politicians have finally started to see what 'Islamic democracy' does to people that upheld the previous democracy ?
Challenge of Swiss minaret ban tossed
Associated Press / July 9, 2011
GENEVA - The European Court of Human Rights yesterday dismissed a challenge by Muslim groups to Switzerland’s minaret building ban.
A panel of seven judges with the court in France ruled that the people filing the lawsuits could not claim to be victims. The ruling’s timing coincided with the Muslim day of prayer.
Swiss voters approved a constitutional ban on minarets in 2009 that barred further construction of mosque towers.
The country’s four standing minarets, which were not affected by the ban, do not traditionally broadcast the call to prayer outside their own buildings.
The judges concluded that the people who filed the lawsuits, including several Swiss Muslim groups, failed to show how the ban had harmed their human rights.
The referendum by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party had labeled minarets as symbols of rising Muslim political power that could one day transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation.
Islam is violent, intolerant and expansionist. There is no moderate Islam, only Islam. That's what all of us need to keep in mind. Islam is hostile to the basic tenets of free societies. We must stop Muslim immigration to Canada now! Allowing it to continue is slow-motion suicide.
End all Moslem Cult Immigration. Murder and Mayhem, 24/7/365. We would not allow Charlie Manson and his family to immigrate here, why allow a Cult that is involved in Murder and Mayhem 24/7/365. Kick them all off Airplanes apply the same rule that Saudi Arabia applies to all Jews. Jews cannot fly on their airplanes. Ban Moslems off airplanes, make them walk swim or stay home...
Does anyone have an update on this story. It's very old and I wonder if the left wing mayor is still in office.
Do we know were these folks finally ended up living? When anyone is treated so badly I wonder how far away they went to survive?
RFB- I suspect the airlines would go out of business, if they banned muslims. Every time I'm in an airport, I see more muslims walking through the terminals, than regular people. It wouldn't surprise me to find out the airlines are the real driving force behind the mindless security measures we have to endure these days.
It's already happening at our univesities, the Muslim Student unions and their incestuous leftwing buddies are making life miserable for Jews and we're doing absolutely nothing about it. Face it as long as the Wahhabists are free to immigrate into Canada they'll bring their hatred of Jews with them. We need to make a choice protect Jews or allow the Islmists' uncontrolled access to our country.
Wake up Canada as that scene is on its way here, and the enablers of it - be them human rights commissions, Ontario school boards or political correctedness - have already set the stage.
Read the latest report on anti-semitism in Canada and it is not the 10 neo-nazis causing it. It is caused by (insert answer here)who are growing for many reasons especially uncontrolled immigration.
The sorry truth is that we've been truedoughized into believing that everyone's multicultural uniqueness must be accomodated at the expense of the taxpayer and thus somehow makes us 'noble' instead of just suckers.
If wearing a bag and being forced to submit to sharia law is so damned important, why not stay in countries where it's the norm instead of coming here and demanding it from us as well ? or is it that the countries with those practices are the ones to be fled as 'oppressing' expecting something different to happen here when the same things are forced to occur ?
Sorry kiddies, you want sharia law, stay in the Islamic countries you were in or go back....of course, most do go back anyway, once they have a Canadian passport to use when it gets too hot..or to let someone else use..and to vote to turn Canada Islamic as well..over and over again since nobody's allowed to look under the bag over the voter's head thanks to the dhimmies at Elections 'Canada'.
What Bemused describes is called "lawfare": Islamists use our laws, which promote "tolerance, diversity, and inclusiveness", against us.
And we're so supine—we believe the lies that the Judeo-Christian dispensation, via Magna Carta, is what’s wrong—we’ve fallen hook, line, and sinker for our own destruction.
A group that understands this—there are others—is observant Christians. (Unlike the beleaguered Jews, with eyes wide shut, there are few to no lefties among observant Christians.)
There are so many points to fisk in the article, but these two are most telling.
First, multiculturalism led to the rot.
"His city was - until recently at least - a shining multicultural success story, and has taken in proportionally more refugees than anywhere else in Sweden, a record of which it is proud."
Second, the mayor is in denial and blames the Jews.
"We want Malmo to be cosmopolitan and safe for everybody and we have taken action. I have started a dialogue forum. There haven't been any attacks on Jewish people, and if Jews from the city want to move to Israel that is not a matter for Malmo."
The sad thing for the mayor is that he will only wake up to the problem when his granddaughter or niece is on a plane bound for Saudi Arabia where she will have a clitorectomy. One wonders if he'll shrug his shoulders at that point.
"One wonders if he'll shrug his shoulders at that point."
Have you ever known a lefty admit he was wrong? Have you ever heard "boy, I'm still kind of a hippy, but that Soviet Union really was a dump like y'all kept saying and I'm beginning to think Mao wasn't a nice guy. My bad."
First they came for the Jews... and then they came for the agnostic/atheist post-Christian multi-culti jerks...
Europe, post WWII, decided that any failure slavishly to accomodate an ethnic or religious minority was verboten. They'd have been better off keeping it simple; they shouldn't have murdered all those Jews, or imported all those Jew-hating foreigners.
I hate to advocate anything in the realm of violence, but the Jews of Malmo, and the victims of extremism anywhere else in the "civilized" world,for that matter, are going to have to fight fire with fire. Political correctness has frozen elected officials the world over in fear of actually doing anything,so there isn't a real choice.
The Jews can look to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto in WW2 for inspiration,if they must.
The young members of the Jewish community are going to have to band together in secret societies and give as good as they get. The "authorities" obviously have no intention of doing their duty to the law and their citizens,so it's either fight or flight for the Jews,there IS no other choice.
Maybe a civil war in one of their major cities could wake the Swedish government up to what's happening under their noses.
But, the Euros are too civilized to fight back against the barbarian,they've become the Eloi,so the Muslims will win,one city at a time.
As for comments that "Canada must stop Muslim immigration", there is no possible hope for that, no politician sees the Muslims as anything more than a voting block to be pandered to.
Besides,with over 600,000 Muslims in the Country now,and with a high birth rate,they should become a real political force within a decade,and we can watch our political heroes succumb to their threats the same as in Sweden and France today.
It's discouraging to try to start a dialogue with politicians about the threat of Muslim extremism when they simply refuse to believe that there is any possibility of this occurring in Canada.
Politicians always meet with the leaders of any given community,and those persons are always the better educated and well spoken,or damned good actors able to hide their true feelings.
Thus the politicians know the Tarek Fatahs of the world,and they see that there is nothing dangerous about Tarek,and we must be crazy to even suggest it. Worse, we're "Islamophobes", and the Muslims are the victims.
We can only hope that our decadent North American style of living will seduce the young Muslims away from the extreme elements in their communities,and our civilizing influence will prevail,because if we're waiting for any action on the part of any politician,we wait in vain.
I think most people in here have read it ..a book i would suggenst to you is mayday mayday i can't remmeber the authors name it is newer and he is canadian and it deals with our immigration system.!!
Like the lady tour guide in Oslo told us last September "we are terrified of the future". The leaders are fiddling and marrying their horses while Rome is burning.
@ stephen, I have it and have read it. Scary isn't it? To think that America now has a president who believes in class warfare.
Mark
// Second, the mayor is in denial and blames the Jews.
"We want Malmo to be cosmopolitan and safe for everybody and we have taken action. I have started a dialogue forum. There haven't been any attacks on Jewish people, and if Jews from the city want to move to Israel that is not a matter for Malmo." //
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At the time this comment was made, the major of Malmo had other attacks on his plate -- Sweden: Malmö's immigrants adjust to life in gunman's sights
// Swedish police intensify their presence on the streets of Malmö after 15 linked shootings in past year //
21/9/2010- It will not be long before the true anti-Semitic nature of the far-right anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats (SD) party - which won an unprecedented number of seats in Sunday’s elections, is revealed - a leader of the local Jewish community there warned on Monday. “This is a neo-Nazi party… articulate, and talented…but very dangerous,” said Lena Posner, President of the Official Council of Jewish communities in Sweden, an umbrella organization of Jewish groups in the country. “We know where these people are coming from. They are Nazi sympathizers who, under their jackets, are still wearing their brown shirts.”
the Euros are too civilized to fight back against the barbarian,they've become the Eloi,so the Muslims will win,one city at a time.
Posted by: dmorris at July 11, 2011 1:28 PM
..................................................Bill Bryson's 'Mother Tongue': discussing the Anglo-Saxon incursions into Britain, he quotes linguist Charlton Laird:
"The native Celts had become civilized, law-abiding people, accustomed to government and reliable police, nearly as helpless before an invading host as most modern civilian populations would be."
and still the apologies of the dhimmies go on and on and on...deluded into thinking that they'll be spared the burqas and the beatings when their time comes....
(Prague Monitor) — Retired politician Milos Zeman, Czech prime minister in 1998-2002, faces a criminal complaint over the statements on Islam he made in June at an international conference on Europe.
“The enemy is the anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales,” Czech news servers quoted Zeman as saying about Islam at the recent conference.
Zeman said Thursday Muslims believe in the Koran like Nazis believed in racial supremacy and anti-semitism and communists in class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat.
He said Islam is far more aggressive and intolerant than present Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and other world religions.
He added that the Koran includes passages calling for the subjugation, enslavement and even elimination of non-believers.
* Reporter: Bryan Seymour
* Broadcast Date: July 11, 2011
Aspects of Sharia law are being practiced across Australia.
Sheikh Moussaab Leghe, in Sydney's West, presides over hundreds of Sharia divorces each year, and adjudicates on financial disputes.
According to the Sheikh, “This is Islam - Islam is to live your life in a happy way, in justice, in equity. Everybody is taking his share, everybody is happy and satisfied.”
Sheikh Moussaab Leghe offers Muslims Sharia law from his base at the Islamic Welfare Centre at Lakemba, in Sydney's West.
"Well when you have women that are having their babies out of the marriage, some people they will say we need something to find a solution. And this is something,” said Sheikh Leghe.
Sheikh Leghe says he believes Australian law rules our land, though, like his predecessor, he does feel there is room for men to have multiple wives.
“Well the problem (is) with this thirteen per cent extra women in Australia.
“I don't go for (polygamy), but I call the Australian law to give the women rights to find a man, when you have (less men than women)."
According to News Limited columnist Miranda Devine, such ideas are "terribly disempowering of women, and very disruptive of our social fabric, for that reason."
"I think it's seditious. It undermines Australian law, and really, if we're going to have separate laws and separate societies, we can only expect to have more division and more lawlessness," said Vicky Janson.
Vicky Janson, and her husband Michael, live in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West. They have joined a community group named The Q Society - aimed at stopping what they call the ‘Islamification of Australia’.
According to Vicky "it's the way we're meant to be treated. We are truly treated as second-class citizens. Under anything to do with Islamic law, women are not treated equally, non-Muslims are not treated equally."
For some, the issue that’s causing concern and division is whether or not Sharia law can co-exist with Australian law, so that we still have one law for all.
In Britain, Islamic courts have operated for nearly four years under the Arbitration Act, and their rulings are legally binding.
Under Sharia law, a woman's testimony is worth half a man’s; a daughter can only inherent half as much as a son; guardianship of children automatically goes to the father; and men can summarily divorce their wife, while a woman must fight for a divorce, even if her husband is abusive.
"We don't want it. We do not want Sharia law. It's a system that has a completely different idea of what is right and wrong, what is good and evil, and it just undermines our democratic rule of law. We don't want it," said Vicky.
and you can be sure that every one of us has eaten halal meat at least once...it's not advertised as such, but muslims seem to have a particular knack for either buying up slaughterhouses or insisting they be allowed to provide mullahs to sanctify the meat...granted, rabbis have been present for some time but usually the meat is bought for kosher stores and is advertised as such....I'm not sure if I want my hamburger to be dedicated to a religion I don't follow...but that's irrlevant, the problem is that we don't have a say in the matter...just another stealthy step towards dhimmytude....
A protester attacks a McDonalds worker over it's halal menu.
A French hamburger chain, Quick, announces it is devoting stores to halal only meals, and protesters wearing pig-masks react.
KFC and Domino's have now pulled back or completely scrapped their halal menus, because of consumer backlash in Europe.
But in Australia, halal food has exploded onto the market. Up to 80 per cent of our supermarket shelves stock halal approved foods. Now fast food chains, takeaways, and restaurants are turning halal.
From the outside it looks like any regular Italian restaurant, but Tuscany is halal. It's one of a growing number across the country catering to Muslims and their special religious requirements for food.
Co-owner Nadia Hasan says a halal menu ensures her restaurant stays busy.
"The only reason we're busy and we get customers is because we're halal. The meat needs to be slaughtered with a clean cut across the neck, and the meat needs to be drained so it's drained of all the blood straight away, and also we need to read God's name when we are killing the animal."
Nadia ensures there are no other animal products used in the cooking, no alcohol and no pork. So how does she do a ham and pineapple pizza? She uses 'facon'.
"They usually have the bacon rashers in them, which is basically smokey bacon. We have a smokey beef which is prepared exactly the same way as the way the bacon is prepared, and in all those sorts of dishes, you can't tell."
"I think if somebody is not going to be totally halal and it's only logical and good business sense to include some things on the menu that are halal certified."
Halal takeaways have spread into every popular style of food in the country. McDonalds has halal dedicated stores, so does KFC with no pork products. Nando's chicken burgers are considered halal, while Dominos has one halal pizza; a vegetarian. Even old favourites like Chinese, Thai and Italian have gone halal.
Bill Meuhlenberg from the Family Council of Victoria is concerned Australia is going Halal too quickly.
"Some have argued this is part of the direction where Australia is heading, where more and more Australians are being coerced to bow to Islamic values," Bill said.
"And there might be a bigger issue here of Sharia law and how much Islam concerns are being foisted upon a democratic free Australia."
Dietician Susie Burrell isn't surprised businesses are now going halal, it's big money.
"I think a lot of people don't know they are eating halal meat. It's not necessarily labelled clearly and because it doesn't change the taste or the way the actual meat cooks, there is no real apparent difference other than how the way it's been slaughtered," Susie said.
"There is no difference between the nutritional qualities of halal meat to any other meat."
Some consumers have voted against halal foods with their feet, boycotting some products, complaining to big companies. But it isn't stopping fast food outlets, takeaways and even multi-nationals turning halal.
Marketing expert Barry Urquhart says it is good marketing.
"This is simply a brand. It is simply like the Heart Foundation tick. In a sea of commodities and sameness it could be the point of difference that gets people talking, gets them considering, and attracts them to your fast food outlet rather than the one down the road," Barry said.
The young members of the Jewish community are going to have to band together in secret societies and give as good as they get. The "authorities" obviously have no intention of doing their duty to the law and their citizens,so it's either fight or flight for the Jews,there IS no other choice.
- dmorris
Kate, how do you do 24 point font here? In red.
This is the plain unvarnished truth. The "authorities" will only bow to violence.
We see this over and over again when anti-sharia counter protesters get shut down and the islamist-nazis get protected and coddled.
As mentioned here a few times, the chief takeaway from Efraim Karsh's Islamic Imperialism is that this this ugly totalitarian ideology expands ONLY with the active collusion of our political elites.
"As for comments that "Canada must stop Muslim immigration", there is no possible hope for that, no politician sees the Muslims as anything more than a voting block to be pandered to.
Besides,with over 600,000 Muslims in the Country now,and with a high birth rate,they should become a real political force within a decade,and we can watch our political heroes succumb to their threats the same as in Sweden and France today".
The things is, more so than any other country, when push finally comes to shove ( and it bloodily will..) you may find that of all people, it will be the Canadians who will react the most violently.
Canadians have a nature that includes an unending reserve of goodwill for those who deserve it and are certainly slow to anger; however, once pushed to the edge and with the realization that they have been lied to for so many years, with their way of life and culture under threat ( possibly after the first large scale terrorist attack on our soil) they will push back extremely hard.
The DNA of our warrior ancestors is still contained within our bodies and the very blood that courses through our veins. It will be a very dark day indeed when the Islamists find that out, very dark indeed.
Muslims are not immigrants in the strict sense, or at least most. They have come for one reason. Colonization.
Colonists want to turn the new land into an image of their old. Immigrants come for a new life they could not get at home. The forme do not become part of the culture like the latter.
Hence we are paying for our own invasion.
JMO
Kate linked to an article, about the plight of Jews in Malmö who are being subjected to violence and threats from Islamists, which made reference to the Mayor of Malmö's weaselly suggestion that anti-Semitism was a direct and unavoidable consequence of Israeli policy - as if there was no Muslim anti-Semitism before the creation of the state of Israel.
You completely avoided both issues by redirecting, and by making weak excuses. You wrote: "At the time this comment was made, the mayor of Malmö had other attacks on his plate." To prove your statement you linked to an article titled "Swedish police intensify their presence on the streets of Malmö."
Huh? The fact that the *police* in Malmö are tackling crime committed by Muslims and other Swedes doesn't obviate the ignorance of the mayor's suggestion that Jews are being targeted because of Israeli foreign policy, does it?
Then it was on to the next red herring: you quoted one person's statement -- as if it was relevant -- that the Sweden Democrats are neo-nazis, and anti-Semitic. Well, first of all, even if there were fifty neo-Nazi parties in Sweden it would have nothing to do with the issue of Swedish Jews being attacked and harassed by Swedish Muslims, nor would it obviate the ignorant, anti-Semitic excuse-making of the Mayor.
Secondly, dizzy - leaving aside the fact that your Googled quote had little to do with the issue at hand - one person's assertion about the Sweden Democrats isn't a definitive statement about the views and policies of either the party or its leader. The leader himself might be a better source:
"Jimmie Åkesson is staunchly anti-racist and has expelled members who show the slightest hint of bigotry. 'Swedishness is not in your skin color or in any part of the body. It's in your values and how you behave.'"
That's an awfully lousy platform for a racist, neo-Nazi party, no? And then, of course, there's the pesky fact that two of the leaders of this "anti-Semitic" party, Kent and Ted Ekeroth, are *Jewish.*
So, do you have any opinion on the specific issue of threats/attacks on Swedish Jews by Muslim immigrants, or are you committed to avoiding the issue by redirecting, and throwing out a bunch of red herrings?
The appeasers will, just they did like in the 1930s, eventually either roll over and accept the new Muslim overlords or fight and have a resulting bloodbath.
Whoever said "not immigrants, but colonizers" is right.
dmorris, you're quite correct about the solution to Malmo's problems. Perhaps some JDL members could be sent to Malmo to provide instruction.
The worst thing one can do is to expect the politically correct emasculated police to be of assistance if one has a dispute with TROP. I would suggest that any Jews who are interested in ensuring their survival buy a pistol, get skilled in its use and be ready to use it in the future. We're only a decade away from having Malmo's problems in large Canadian cities.
police are 'persuading' officials to let them in ? That's your problem right there...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A man reportedly trying to show students how to make explosives was killed by a homemade bomb inside an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, police said Tuesday.
School officials and students have prevented police from entering the building since Monday’s explosion, local police spokesman Lt. Col. Sukarman Husen said.
But they discovered the body of the suspected bomb maker, a 30-year-old man identified only as Firdaus, on a bus Tuesday as it tried to leave the school compound, he said.
Eleven people have been taken in for questioning, Husen said, adding that police also confiscated a number of arrows and machetes.
Husen said the bombing victim was a treasurer at the school, but media reports alleged he was a former bomb trainee in the Philippine region of Mindanao. According to TVOne, he was killed in an unintentional explosion while training students about bomb-making.
Police are still persuading the school officials to let them enter the compound, Husen said.
National Police Spokesman Maj. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said the explosion was suspected to be from a homemade bomb being prepared to attack the police.
EBD wrote --
"At the time this comment was made, the mayor of Malmö had other attacks on his plate," you wrote, and then linked, as if it were proof of your statement, to an article titled "Swedish police intensify their presence on the streets of Malmö."
How does the fact that the police in Malmö are tackling crime committed by Muslims and other Swedes obviate either the anti-Semitic attacks on elderly Jews, [...]
Deplorable as you may find it, don't imagine that I would accept a link to the obsessive islam watchers of pajamas media at face value, without offering some "redirection"; in this case to a real campaign of violence in Malmo causing a national uproar in Sweden at the same time -- 15 shooting attacks, actual dead & wounded; the mayor with a terrified immigrant population including 50 000 muslims with 80% unemployment, while still atttempting to reassure the 700 Jews, some of whom were feeling forced to move. [ Not all "leaving the country as a result", pajamas at least got that right.]
Nor was I linking to "crime committed by Muslims and other Swedes" You should have gone beyond the link title. The VICTIMS included muslims. The shooter [if there is only one] is a 38 year-old "ethnic" Swede who has an obsession with immigrants.
Not planning to move is the 86-year-old, having lived 65 years in Sweden without ever before having seen such racism.
As for the Sweden Democrats' nazi proclivities, you dismiss the "one person" for one other person, the SD leader, and seal your argument by naming two Jewish members.
That's funny. Their English pals & advisors, the EDL, would say exactly the same, although recently the head of ITS Jewish Division quit, accusing the lot of Nazism. [Other "friends of israel" with neo-nazi pasts include various anti-muslim parties that Israeli "deputy minister" Ayub Karahas been recently establishing contacts with].
If you can't abide my failure to bark at the intended target, spike the posts. [as is apparently your wont]
Inasmuch as the EDL aren't the Sweden Democrats it's not legitimate to respond to a pledge of non-racism by Jimmie Åkesson, or to my observation that two of the SD leaders are Jewish, by saying, in effect, "funny, that's what the (English Defense League) would say." I mean, if an innocent person accused of murder said "I didn't do it!", it wouldn't exactly be a prosecutorial coupe de grace to reply "funny, that's exactly what a murderer would say."
I don't place much value on third-party accusations that someone is a neo-Nazi or a racist, because the accusation has become the left's stock-in-trade, a crude and tiresome gambit that gets floated in lieu of facts or a convincing argument. Non-racist non-neo-Nazis like Stephen Harper, George Bush, Kate, Kathy Shaidle, Mark Steyn, etc etc etc have all been accused of the same thing thousands of times - *I've* been accused of the same thing. The accusation means nothing at this point because it's been devalued by reflexive, inane overuse. It's certainly not hard to Google up a litany of accusations that a leader of *any* right-of-center party who wants to control Muslim immigration is a racist or a neo-Nazi.
Regarding the spiked commenter, I don't expect any commenter to "bark at the intended target", I just expect them to address the subject matter regardless of whether I share their take or not. I've never spiked any of your comments, you'll notice, or Davenport's. The spiked commenter in the thread you referenced had been making one entirely OT point, over and over again -- "religion is stoopid" -- not just in my thread but in other threads, none of which were intended to be Theological Debate Central. People sometimes take a particular word that just happens to be in a post - the word "church", say, in a story about, I don't know, a traffic accident that happened in front of a church, and then use it as a trigger to gas on about whether God exists or not; or maybe there's a post about a fire in an Immigration office, and someone starts talking about immigration policy. If such commenters persist I will delete, but this happens very rarely.
You addressed the subject matter here, in a manner of speaking; I simply found it disturbing that you couldn't even note or acknowledge, in passing, the disturbing level of anti-Semitic harassment going on, and that you chose to redirect by saying, in effect, "yeah, well what about (X)?" where X is -- IMO -- a separate issue.
BTW, I'm not unaware of the lone loony Swede (you say there may be more than one) who targeted Muslims, and I condemn his actions, but his actions are not in any way, shape, or form a counterweight to what's happening to Jews in Malmo. You seemed to think it is; I disagreed, and I told you so. If you posted a comment in Reader Tips that contained a link to a story about, say, a madman who was dumping poison into a town's drinking water, I wouldn't float, as if it was some kind of a vigorous counter-argument to the significance of the man's actions, "Yeah, well what about the pollution in the Yangtze?"
You mentioned that two members were Jewish as if that "pesky fact" somehow guaranteed that the Sweden Democrats couldn't be associated with neo-nazi pedigrees. My two examples were meant to demonstrate the flaws in that assumption.
Then, as if to step all over your point about "legitmate responses", you present an array of names that "have all been accused" etc etc.
Did you read that "history" of the Sweden Democrats? I read yours -- "Rightist but Pro_Israel" [love that "but"] Not all that rightist either.
Here's a bit more
Aakesson is here credited with a "makeover" of the party, which it definitely needed --
// When Aakesson joined the Sweden Democrats in 1995, "there were still members who showed up at meetings dressed in Nazi uniforms," political scientist Sofia Nerbrand said recently.//
It's meant to be impressive, but I ask, what sort of young man joins a party with members who dress in nazi uniforms?
And the makeover? Basically a change from anti-semitic bigotry to anti-islamic bigotry + populism. More in line with the times & another parallel with the EDL. The EDL even had a ceremony in which they raised an Israeli flag & burned an old nazi one [I imagine that the latter would have been readily available in several back pockets]
// You addressed the subject matter here, in a manner of speaking; I simply found it disturbing that you couldn't even note or acknowledge, in passing, the disturbing level of anti-Semitic harassment going on, and that you chose to redirect //
You didn't read my links did you? I responded to the only comment that "acknowledged, in passing" the harrassment, [the rest just slagged muslims] but who accused the Malmo mayor of blaming the victims.
An architect who is praised for his role in developing Malmo into a model city, made irrelevant by the Swedish dirigist goverment's wacky version of multiculturalism, packing multitudes into one small area at the mercy of slum landlords , and saying in effect "Here you are, learn Swedish & you can't get a job until you do." So there he was, juggling gang warfare, a shooting spree, terrified Muslims & Jews & the pot-stirring influence of the Sweden Democrats.
If you want to read an elaborate discussion of the mayor's remark[s] -- [towards the end & the discussion page. ]
I don't know who holds my comments [including some to you]. You were just the only person who acknowledged deleting at all. I imagine a number of people here play Cerberus from time to time.
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Dictionary:
Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.
All the Scandinavian countries have the same problem. The one that faces up to it first and acts, it will set a precedent for the others.
I think Denmark or Norway will act first. It's not like Norway needs oil or investment.
Many there are appalled by the series of "honour killings"that their legal system have been
helpless to stop.
Sweden's current establishment is still in denial. It's just a matter of time until the general population decides they've had enough.
The financial implications of the Muslim enclaves will force Scandinavia to drop the subsidy or drop some revered traditional expenditures.
They'll soon have to double their police force, and it sounds as if their prisons are getting full, too. Neither of those expenditures come cheap.
They have to be prepared to deal with obstruction from the E.U. court when they do act. If they act in unison their efficiency will be impressive.
Latest compiled comparative data for Canada 2008-2009
Hate crime / religion
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2011001/article/11469/c-g/E-11469-chart6.jpg
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2011001/article/11469/c-g/desc/desc06-eng.htm
171% increase in crime that can be positively identified as antisemitic. Move along now folks.
Posted by: ∞ ≠ ø at 2:38 AM
Simple EU solution; make it illegal to track that 'racist' detail.
Nothing to see? Problem solved!
The real test will come when they try to enter Canada as refugees.
Pretty soon it will be Swedes leaving Swedish cities because the congregation of the religion of peace & harmony is too violent for them as well.
War by lawful immigration. If your enemy lets you do it, why not conquer him that way.
there seem to be small pockets of sanity forming...or is it simply that the EU politicians have finally started to see what 'Islamic democracy' does to people that upheld the previous democracy ?
Challenge of Swiss minaret ban tossed
Associated Press / July 9, 2011
GENEVA - The European Court of Human Rights yesterday dismissed a challenge by Muslim groups to Switzerland’s minaret building ban.
A panel of seven judges with the court in France ruled that the people filing the lawsuits could not claim to be victims. The ruling’s timing coincided with the Muslim day of prayer.
Swiss voters approved a constitutional ban on minarets in 2009 that barred further construction of mosque towers.
The country’s four standing minarets, which were not affected by the ban, do not traditionally broadcast the call to prayer outside their own buildings.
The judges concluded that the people who filed the lawsuits, including several Swiss Muslim groups, failed to show how the ban had harmed their human rights.
The referendum by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party had labeled minarets as symbols of rising Muslim political power that could one day transform Switzerland into an Islamic nation.
Germany gets rid of 6 million Jews, WW-2.
Another 3 million European Jews flee to Israel- 1946-2011.
Europe fills the Jewish vacuum with Musslemen on Social Steroids.
European countries collapse under the weight of Social reform-
Riots, rapes, French car burnings.
Note:
'please burn my son-in-laws 1999 Volvo,
4 gallons of gas in trunk.'
Anyway...
European future looks bright and smokey..
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Islam is violent, intolerant and expansionist. There is no moderate Islam, only Islam. That's what all of us need to keep in mind. Islam is hostile to the basic tenets of free societies. We must stop Muslim immigration to Canada now! Allowing it to continue is slow-motion suicide.
End all Moslem Cult Immigration. Murder and Mayhem, 24/7/365. We would not allow Charlie Manson and his family to immigrate here, why allow a Cult that is involved in Murder and Mayhem 24/7/365. Kick them all off Airplanes apply the same rule that Saudi Arabia applies to all Jews. Jews cannot fly on their airplanes. Ban Moslems off airplanes, make them walk swim or stay home...
Does anyone have an update on this story. It's very old and I wonder if the left wing mayor is still in office.
Do we know were these folks finally ended up living? When anyone is treated so badly I wonder how far away they went to survive?
Damned dirty Scandies...
RFB- I suspect the airlines would go out of business, if they banned muslims. Every time I'm in an airport, I see more muslims walking through the terminals, than regular people. It wouldn't surprise me to find out the airlines are the real driving force behind the mindless security measures we have to endure these days.
I noticed that the left wing mayor mouths the same gibberish that the pro-Hamas NDP and some lefty Marxist church supporters in Canada do.
It's already happening at our univesities, the Muslim Student unions and their incestuous leftwing buddies are making life miserable for Jews and we're doing absolutely nothing about it. Face it as long as the Wahhabists are free to immigrate into Canada they'll bring their hatred of Jews with them. We need to make a choice protect Jews or allow the Islmists' uncontrolled access to our country.
Wake up Canada as that scene is on its way here, and the enablers of it - be them human rights commissions, Ontario school boards or political correctedness - have already set the stage.
Read the latest report on anti-semitism in Canada and it is not the 10 neo-nazis causing it. It is caused by (insert answer here)who are growing for many reasons especially uncontrolled immigration.
The sorry truth is that we've been truedoughized into believing that everyone's multicultural uniqueness must be accomodated at the expense of the taxpayer and thus somehow makes us 'noble' instead of just suckers.
If wearing a bag and being forced to submit to sharia law is so damned important, why not stay in countries where it's the norm instead of coming here and demanding it from us as well ? or is it that the countries with those practices are the ones to be fled as 'oppressing' expecting something different to happen here when the same things are forced to occur ?
Sorry kiddies, you want sharia law, stay in the Islamic countries you were in or go back....of course, most do go back anyway, once they have a Canadian passport to use when it gets too hot..or to let someone else use..and to vote to turn Canada Islamic as well..over and over again since nobody's allowed to look under the bag over the voter's head thanks to the dhimmies at Elections 'Canada'.
What Bemused describes is called "lawfare": Islamists use our laws, which promote "tolerance, diversity, and inclusiveness", against us.
And we're so supine—we believe the lies that the Judeo-Christian dispensation, via Magna Carta, is what’s wrong—we’ve fallen hook, line, and sinker for our own destruction.
A group that understands this—there are others—is observant Christians. (Unlike the beleaguered Jews, with eyes wide shut, there are few to no lefties among observant Christians.)
Sleepers, awake!
There are so many points to fisk in the article, but these two are most telling.
First, multiculturalism led to the rot.
"His city was - until recently at least - a shining multicultural success story, and has taken in proportionally more refugees than anywhere else in Sweden, a record of which it is proud."
Second, the mayor is in denial and blames the Jews.
"We want Malmo to be cosmopolitan and safe for everybody and we have taken action. I have started a dialogue forum. There haven't been any attacks on Jewish people, and if Jews from the city want to move to Israel that is not a matter for Malmo."
The sad thing for the mayor is that he will only wake up to the problem when his granddaughter or niece is on a plane bound for Saudi Arabia where she will have a clitorectomy. One wonders if he'll shrug his shoulders at that point.
"One wonders if he'll shrug his shoulders at that point."
Have you ever known a lefty admit he was wrong? Have you ever heard "boy, I'm still kind of a hippy, but that Soviet Union really was a dump like y'all kept saying and I'm beginning to think Mao wasn't a nice guy. My bad."
First they came for the Jews... and then they came for the agnostic/atheist post-Christian multi-culti jerks...
Europe, post WWII, decided that any failure slavishly to accomodate an ethnic or religious minority was verboten. They'd have been better off keeping it simple; they shouldn't have murdered all those Jews, or imported all those Jew-hating foreigners.
"...and if Jews from the city want to move to Israel that is not a matter for Malmo."
Good thing it's there, then, eh, Sven?
I hate to advocate anything in the realm of violence, but the Jews of Malmo, and the victims of extremism anywhere else in the "civilized" world,for that matter, are going to have to fight fire with fire. Political correctness has frozen elected officials the world over in fear of actually doing anything,so there isn't a real choice.
The Jews can look to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto in WW2 for inspiration,if they must.
The young members of the Jewish community are going to have to band together in secret societies and give as good as they get. The "authorities" obviously have no intention of doing their duty to the law and their citizens,so it's either fight or flight for the Jews,there IS no other choice.
Maybe a civil war in one of their major cities could wake the Swedish government up to what's happening under their noses.
But, the Euros are too civilized to fight back against the barbarian,they've become the Eloi,so the Muslims will win,one city at a time.
As for comments that "Canada must stop Muslim immigration", there is no possible hope for that, no politician sees the Muslims as anything more than a voting block to be pandered to.
Besides,with over 600,000 Muslims in the Country now,and with a high birth rate,they should become a real political force within a decade,and we can watch our political heroes succumb to their threats the same as in Sweden and France today.
It's discouraging to try to start a dialogue with politicians about the threat of Muslim extremism when they simply refuse to believe that there is any possibility of this occurring in Canada.
Politicians always meet with the leaders of any given community,and those persons are always the better educated and well spoken,or damned good actors able to hide their true feelings.
Thus the politicians know the Tarek Fatahs of the world,and they see that there is nothing dangerous about Tarek,and we must be crazy to even suggest it. Worse, we're "Islamophobes", and the Muslims are the victims.
We can only hope that our decadent North American style of living will seduce the young Muslims away from the extreme elements in their communities,and our civilizing influence will prevail,because if we're waiting for any action on the part of any politician,we wait in vain.
read America Alone by Mark Steyn
@ STEPHAN OTTRIDGE
I think most people in here have read it ..a book i would suggenst to you is mayday mayday i can't remmeber the authors name it is newer and he is canadian and it deals with our immigration system.!!
Black Mamba and dmorris, exactly and well said.
Like the lady tour guide in Oslo told us last September "we are terrified of the future". The leaders are fiddling and marrying their horses while Rome is burning.
@ stephen, I have it and have read it. Scary isn't it? To think that America now has a president who believes in class warfare.
Mark
// Second, the mayor is in denial and blames the Jews.
"We want Malmo to be cosmopolitan and safe for everybody and we have taken action. I have started a dialogue forum. There haven't been any attacks on Jewish people, and if Jews from the city want to move to Israel that is not a matter for Malmo." //
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At the time this comment was made, the major of Malmo had other attacks on his plate --
Sweden: Malmö's immigrants adjust to life in gunman's sights
// Swedish police intensify their presence on the streets of Malmö after 15 linked shootings in past year //
But not to worry. The election brought the Sweden Democrats to the rescue -- [but it seems some Jews aren't getting with the program]
'IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE SWEDEN DEMOCRATS SHOW TRUE ANTI-SEMITIC NATURE'
21/9/2010- It will not be long before the true anti-Semitic nature of the far-right anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats (SD) party - which won an unprecedented number of seats in Sunday’s elections, is revealed - a leader of the local Jewish community there warned on Monday. “This is a neo-Nazi party… articulate, and talented…but very dangerous,” said Lena Posner, President of the Official Council of Jewish communities in Sweden, an umbrella organization of Jewish groups in the country. “We know where these people are coming from. They are Nazi sympathizers who, under their jackets, are still wearing their brown shirts.”
dizzy
Lena Posner can piss off like every other Jewish hypocrite when it comes to multiculturalism. Diversity is good for the goyim but not for the chosen.
Danny Danon: Send African migrants to Australia
The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity,” Danon told The Jerusalem Post.
“The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227332
the Euros are too civilized to fight back against the barbarian,they've become the Eloi,so the Muslims will win,one city at a time.
Posted by: dmorris at July 11, 2011 1:28 PM
..................................................Bill Bryson's 'Mother Tongue': discussing the Anglo-Saxon incursions into Britain, he quotes linguist Charlton Laird:
"The native Celts had become civilized, law-abiding people, accustomed to government and reliable police, nearly as helpless before an invading host as most modern civilian populations would be."
What goes around, comes around again.
and still the apologies of the dhimmies go on and on and on...deluded into thinking that they'll be spared the burqas and the beatings when their time comes....
(Prague Monitor) — Retired politician Milos Zeman, Czech prime minister in 1998-2002, faces a criminal complaint over the statements on Islam he made in June at an international conference on Europe.
“The enemy is the anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales,” Czech news servers quoted Zeman as saying about Islam at the recent conference.
Zeman said Thursday Muslims believe in the Koran like Nazis believed in racial supremacy and anti-semitism and communists in class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat.
He said Islam is far more aggressive and intolerant than present Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and other world religions.
He added that the Koran includes passages calling for the subjugation, enslavement and even elimination of non-believers.
Zeman has been known for his strong statements.
and Down Under...well..they're Done, under...
Ruled by Islam's laws
* Reporter: Bryan Seymour
* Broadcast Date: July 11, 2011
Aspects of Sharia law are being practiced across Australia.
Sheikh Moussaab Leghe, in Sydney's West, presides over hundreds of Sharia divorces each year, and adjudicates on financial disputes.
According to the Sheikh, “This is Islam - Islam is to live your life in a happy way, in justice, in equity. Everybody is taking his share, everybody is happy and satisfied.”
Sheikh Moussaab Leghe offers Muslims Sharia law from his base at the Islamic Welfare Centre at Lakemba, in Sydney's West.
"Well when you have women that are having their babies out of the marriage, some people they will say we need something to find a solution. And this is something,” said Sheikh Leghe.
Sheikh Leghe says he believes Australian law rules our land, though, like his predecessor, he does feel there is room for men to have multiple wives.
“Well the problem (is) with this thirteen per cent extra women in Australia.
“I don't go for (polygamy), but I call the Australian law to give the women rights to find a man, when you have (less men than women)."
According to News Limited columnist Miranda Devine, such ideas are "terribly disempowering of women, and very disruptive of our social fabric, for that reason."
"I think it's seditious. It undermines Australian law, and really, if we're going to have separate laws and separate societies, we can only expect to have more division and more lawlessness," said Vicky Janson.
Vicky Janson, and her husband Michael, live in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg West. They have joined a community group named The Q Society - aimed at stopping what they call the ‘Islamification of Australia’.
According to Vicky "it's the way we're meant to be treated. We are truly treated as second-class citizens. Under anything to do with Islamic law, women are not treated equally, non-Muslims are not treated equally."
For some, the issue that’s causing concern and division is whether or not Sharia law can co-exist with Australian law, so that we still have one law for all.
In Britain, Islamic courts have operated for nearly four years under the Arbitration Act, and their rulings are legally binding.
Under Sharia law, a woman's testimony is worth half a man’s; a daughter can only inherent half as much as a son; guardianship of children automatically goes to the father; and men can summarily divorce their wife, while a woman must fight for a divorce, even if her husband is abusive.
"We don't want it. We do not want Sharia law. It's a system that has a completely different idea of what is right and wrong, what is good and evil, and it just undermines our democratic rule of law. We don't want it," said Vicky.
and you can be sure that every one of us has eaten halal meat at least once...it's not advertised as such, but muslims seem to have a particular knack for either buying up slaughterhouses or insisting they be allowed to provide mullahs to sanctify the meat...granted, rabbis have been present for some time but usually the meat is bought for kosher stores and is advertised as such....I'm not sure if I want my hamburger to be dedicated to a religion I don't follow...but that's irrlevant, the problem is that we don't have a say in the matter...just another stealthy step towards dhimmytude....
A protester attacks a McDonalds worker over it's halal menu.
A French hamburger chain, Quick, announces it is devoting stores to halal only meals, and protesters wearing pig-masks react.
KFC and Domino's have now pulled back or completely scrapped their halal menus, because of consumer backlash in Europe.
But in Australia, halal food has exploded onto the market. Up to 80 per cent of our supermarket shelves stock halal approved foods. Now fast food chains, takeaways, and restaurants are turning halal.
From the outside it looks like any regular Italian restaurant, but Tuscany is halal. It's one of a growing number across the country catering to Muslims and their special religious requirements for food.
Co-owner Nadia Hasan says a halal menu ensures her restaurant stays busy.
"The only reason we're busy and we get customers is because we're halal. The meat needs to be slaughtered with a clean cut across the neck, and the meat needs to be drained so it's drained of all the blood straight away, and also we need to read God's name when we are killing the animal."
Nadia ensures there are no other animal products used in the cooking, no alcohol and no pork. So how does she do a ham and pineapple pizza? She uses 'facon'.
"They usually have the bacon rashers in them, which is basically smokey bacon. We have a smokey beef which is prepared exactly the same way as the way the bacon is prepared, and in all those sorts of dishes, you can't tell."
"I think if somebody is not going to be totally halal and it's only logical and good business sense to include some things on the menu that are halal certified."
Halal takeaways have spread into every popular style of food in the country. McDonalds has halal dedicated stores, so does KFC with no pork products. Nando's chicken burgers are considered halal, while Dominos has one halal pizza; a vegetarian. Even old favourites like Chinese, Thai and Italian have gone halal.
Bill Meuhlenberg from the Family Council of Victoria is concerned Australia is going Halal too quickly.
"Some have argued this is part of the direction where Australia is heading, where more and more Australians are being coerced to bow to Islamic values," Bill said.
"And there might be a bigger issue here of Sharia law and how much Islam concerns are being foisted upon a democratic free Australia."
Dietician Susie Burrell isn't surprised businesses are now going halal, it's big money.
"I think a lot of people don't know they are eating halal meat. It's not necessarily labelled clearly and because it doesn't change the taste or the way the actual meat cooks, there is no real apparent difference other than how the way it's been slaughtered," Susie said.
"There is no difference between the nutritional qualities of halal meat to any other meat."
Some consumers have voted against halal foods with their feet, boycotting some products, complaining to big companies. But it isn't stopping fast food outlets, takeaways and even multi-nationals turning halal.
Marketing expert Barry Urquhart says it is good marketing.
"This is simply a brand. It is simply like the Heart Foundation tick. In a sea of commodities and sameness it could be the point of difference that gets people talking, gets them considering, and attracts them to your fast food outlet rather than the one down the road," Barry said.
The young members of the Jewish community are going to have to band together in secret societies and give as good as they get. The "authorities" obviously have no intention of doing their duty to the law and their citizens,so it's either fight or flight for the Jews,there IS no other choice.
- dmorris
Kate, how do you do 24 point font here? In red.
This is the plain unvarnished truth. The "authorities" will only bow to violence.
We see this over and over again when anti-sharia counter protesters get shut down and the islamist-nazis get protected and coddled.
As mentioned here a few times, the chief takeaway from Efraim Karsh's Islamic Imperialism is that this this ugly totalitarian ideology expands ONLY with the active collusion of our political elites.
"As for comments that "Canada must stop Muslim immigration", there is no possible hope for that, no politician sees the Muslims as anything more than a voting block to be pandered to.
Besides,with over 600,000 Muslims in the Country now,and with a high birth rate,they should become a real political force within a decade,and we can watch our political heroes succumb to their threats the same as in Sweden and France today".
The things is, more so than any other country, when push finally comes to shove ( and it bloodily will..) you may find that of all people, it will be the Canadians who will react the most violently.
Canadians have a nature that includes an unending reserve of goodwill for those who deserve it and are certainly slow to anger; however, once pushed to the edge and with the realization that they have been lied to for so many years, with their way of life and culture under threat ( possibly after the first large scale terrorist attack on our soil) they will push back extremely hard.
The DNA of our warrior ancestors is still contained within our bodies and the very blood that courses through our veins. It will be a very dark day indeed when the Islamists find that out, very dark indeed.
One of the strongest, and most consistent of the easy immigration access to Western countries, has always been Jewish lobby groups.
Conversely, they are not nearly so strong when it comes to immigration to Israel.
Obama's highest support group among Americans, besides African-American are Jews.
In Canada Jewish voters are one of the last demographic votes for the LPC.
Be careful what you wish for..........you may get it.
Muslims are not immigrants in the strict sense, or at least most. They have come for one reason. Colonization.
Colonists want to turn the new land into an image of their old. Immigrants come for a new life they could not get at home. The forme do not become part of the culture like the latter.
Hence we are paying for our own invasion.
JMO
Revnant Dream sez:
"Muslims are not immigrants in the strict sense, or at least most. They have come for one reason. Colonization."
BINGO !!!!
hold yer cards folks, we got a winner !!!
Dizzy (2:24 pm):
Kate linked to an article, about the plight of Jews in Malmö who are being subjected to violence and threats from Islamists, which made reference to the Mayor of Malmö's weaselly suggestion that anti-Semitism was a direct and unavoidable consequence of Israeli policy - as if there was no Muslim anti-Semitism before the creation of the state of Israel.
You completely avoided both issues by redirecting, and by making weak excuses. You wrote: "At the time this comment was made, the mayor of Malmö had other attacks on his plate." To prove your statement you linked to an article titled "Swedish police intensify their presence on the streets of Malmö."
Huh? The fact that the *police* in Malmö are tackling crime committed by Muslims and other Swedes doesn't obviate the ignorance of the mayor's suggestion that Jews are being targeted because of Israeli foreign policy, does it?
Then it was on to the next red herring: you quoted one person's statement -- as if it was relevant -- that the Sweden Democrats are neo-nazis, and anti-Semitic. Well, first of all, even if there were fifty neo-Nazi parties in Sweden it would have nothing to do with the issue of Swedish Jews being attacked and harassed by Swedish Muslims, nor would it obviate the ignorant, anti-Semitic excuse-making of the Mayor.
Secondly, dizzy - leaving aside the fact that your Googled quote had little to do with the issue at hand - one person's assertion about the Sweden Democrats isn't a definitive statement about the views and policies of either the party or its leader. The leader himself might be a better source:
That's an awfully lousy platform for a racist, neo-Nazi party, no? And then, of course, there's the pesky fact that two of the leaders of this "anti-Semitic" party, Kent and Ted Ekeroth, are *Jewish.*
So, do you have any opinion on the specific issue of threats/attacks on Swedish Jews by Muslim immigrants, or are you committed to avoiding the issue by redirecting, and throwing out a bunch of red herrings?
EBD, bingo.
The appeasers will, just they did like in the 1930s, eventually either roll over and accept the new Muslim overlords or fight and have a resulting bloodbath.
Whoever said "not immigrants, but colonizers" is right.
Well spoken, EDB! With succinct logic, you neatly shredded that noxious piece of moral equivalence sophistry.
dmorris, you're quite correct about the solution to Malmo's problems. Perhaps some JDL members could be sent to Malmo to provide instruction.
The worst thing one can do is to expect the politically correct emasculated police to be of assistance if one has a dispute with TROP. I would suggest that any Jews who are interested in ensuring their survival buy a pistol, get skilled in its use and be ready to use it in the future. We're only a decade away from having Malmo's problems in large Canadian cities.
Should be Jews "left" Swedish city.
The Telegraph article at the root of this was published on Feb 21. 2010. Why that's going to show up in "tomorrow's" Telly is anyone's guess.
Does nobody read datelines anymore? Or at least follow links to the source?
police are 'persuading' officials to let them in ? That's your problem right there...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A man reportedly trying to show students how to make explosives was killed by a homemade bomb inside an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, police said Tuesday.
School officials and students have prevented police from entering the building since Monday’s explosion, local police spokesman Lt. Col. Sukarman Husen said.
But they discovered the body of the suspected bomb maker, a 30-year-old man identified only as Firdaus, on a bus Tuesday as it tried to leave the school compound, he said.
Eleven people have been taken in for questioning, Husen said, adding that police also confiscated a number of arrows and machetes.
Husen said the bombing victim was a treasurer at the school, but media reports alleged he was a former bomb trainee in the Philippine region of Mindanao. According to TVOne, he was killed in an unintentional explosion while training students about bomb-making.
Police are still persuading the school officials to let them enter the compound, Husen said.
National Police Spokesman Maj. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said the explosion was suspected to be from a homemade bomb being prepared to attack the police.
EBD wrote --
"At the time this comment was made, the mayor of Malmö had other attacks on his plate," you wrote, and then linked, as if it were proof of your statement, to an article titled "Swedish police intensify their presence on the streets of Malmö."
How does the fact that the police in Malmö are tackling crime committed by Muslims and other Swedes obviate either the anti-Semitic attacks on elderly Jews, [...]
Deplorable as you may find it, don't imagine that I would accept a link to the obsessive islam watchers of pajamas media at face value, without offering some "redirection"; in this case to a real campaign of violence in Malmo causing a national uproar in Sweden at the same time -- 15 shooting attacks, actual dead & wounded; the mayor with a terrified immigrant population including 50 000 muslims with 80% unemployment, while still atttempting to reassure the 700 Jews, some of whom were feeling forced to move. [ Not all "leaving the country as a result", pajamas at least got that right.]
Nor was I linking to "crime committed by Muslims and other Swedes" You should have gone beyond the link title. The VICTIMS included muslims. The shooter [if there is only one] is a 38 year-old "ethnic" Swede who has an obsession with immigrants.
Not planning to move is the 86-year-old, having lived 65 years in Sweden without ever before having seen such racism.
As for the Sweden Democrats' nazi proclivities, you dismiss the "one person" for one other person, the SD leader, and seal your argument by naming two Jewish members.
That's funny. Their English pals & advisors, the EDL, would say exactly the same, although recently the head of ITS Jewish Division quit, accusing the lot of Nazism. [Other "friends of israel" with neo-nazi pasts include various anti-muslim parties that Israeli "deputy minister" Ayub Karahas been recently establishing contacts with].
If you can't abide my failure to bark at the intended target, spike the posts. [as is apparently your wont]
Inasmuch as the EDL aren't the Sweden Democrats it's not legitimate to respond to a pledge of non-racism by Jimmie Åkesson, or to my observation that two of the SD leaders are Jewish, by saying, in effect, "funny, that's what the (English Defense League) would say." I mean, if an innocent person accused of murder said "I didn't do it!", it wouldn't exactly be a prosecutorial coupe de grace to reply "funny, that's exactly what a murderer would say."
I don't place much value on third-party accusations that someone is a neo-Nazi or a racist, because the accusation has become the left's stock-in-trade, a crude and tiresome gambit that gets floated in lieu of facts or a convincing argument. Non-racist non-neo-Nazis like Stephen Harper, George Bush, Kate, Kathy Shaidle, Mark Steyn, etc etc etc have all been accused of the same thing thousands of times - *I've* been accused of the same thing. The accusation means nothing at this point because it's been devalued by reflexive, inane overuse. It's certainly not hard to Google up a litany of accusations that a leader of *any* right-of-center party who wants to control Muslim immigration is a racist or a neo-Nazi.
Regarding the spiked commenter, I don't expect any commenter to "bark at the intended target", I just expect them to address the subject matter regardless of whether I share their take or not. I've never spiked any of your comments, you'll notice, or Davenport's. The spiked commenter in the thread you referenced had been making one entirely OT point, over and over again -- "religion is stoopid" -- not just in my thread but in other threads, none of which were intended to be Theological Debate Central. People sometimes take a particular word that just happens to be in a post - the word "church", say, in a story about, I don't know, a traffic accident that happened in front of a church, and then use it as a trigger to gas on about whether God exists or not; or maybe there's a post about a fire in an Immigration office, and someone starts talking about immigration policy. If such commenters persist I will delete, but this happens very rarely.
You addressed the subject matter here, in a manner of speaking; I simply found it disturbing that you couldn't even note or acknowledge, in passing, the disturbing level of anti-Semitic harassment going on, and that you chose to redirect by saying, in effect, "yeah, well what about (X)?" where X is -- IMO -- a separate issue.
BTW, I'm not unaware of the lone loony Swede (you say there may be more than one) who targeted Muslims, and I condemn his actions, but his actions are not in any way, shape, or form a counterweight to what's happening to Jews in Malmo. You seemed to think it is; I disagreed, and I told you so. If you posted a comment in Reader Tips that contained a link to a story about, say, a madman who was dumping poison into a town's drinking water, I wouldn't float, as if it was some kind of a vigorous counter-argument to the significance of the man's actions, "Yeah, well what about the pollution in the Yangtze?"
The one doesn't negate, or address, the other.
// it's not legitimate to respond //
You mentioned that two members were Jewish as if that "pesky fact" somehow guaranteed that the Sweden Democrats couldn't be associated with neo-nazi pedigrees. My two examples were meant to demonstrate the flaws in that assumption.
Then, as if to step all over your point about "legitmate responses", you present an array of names that "have all been accused" etc etc.
Did you read that "history" of the Sweden Democrats? I read yours -- "Rightist but Pro_Israel" [love that "but"] Not all that rightist either.
Here's a bit more
Aakesson is here credited with a "makeover" of the party, which it definitely needed --
// When Aakesson joined the Sweden Democrats in 1995, "there were still members who showed up at meetings dressed in Nazi uniforms," political scientist Sofia Nerbrand said recently.//
It's meant to be impressive, but I ask, what sort of young man joins a party with members who dress in nazi uniforms?
And the makeover? Basically a change from anti-semitic bigotry to anti-islamic bigotry + populism. More in line with the times & another parallel with the EDL. The EDL even had a ceremony in which they raised an Israeli flag & burned an old nazi one [I imagine that the latter would have been readily available in several back pockets]
And, like the EDL, there have been lapses. Check this local.se search.
e.g. Sweden Democrat leader joins white power singsong
// You addressed the subject matter here, in a manner of speaking; I simply found it disturbing that you couldn't even note or acknowledge, in passing, the disturbing level of anti-Semitic harassment going on, and that you chose to redirect //
You didn't read my links did you? I responded to the only comment that "acknowledged, in passing" the harrassment, [the rest just slagged muslims] but who accused the Malmo mayor of blaming the victims.
An architect who is praised for his role in developing Malmo into a model city, made irrelevant by the Swedish dirigist goverment's wacky version of multiculturalism, packing multitudes into one small area at the mercy of slum landlords , and saying in effect "Here you are, learn Swedish & you can't get a job until you do." So there he was, juggling gang warfare, a shooting spree, terrified Muslims & Jews & the pot-stirring influence of the Sweden Democrats.
If you want to read an elaborate discussion of the mayor's remark[s] -- [towards the end & the discussion page. ]
I don't know who holds my comments [including some to you]. You were just the only person who acknowledged deleting at all. I imagine a number of people here play Cerberus from time to time.
Cheers.