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Jihadi Denial Syndrome reaches epidemic proportions

, 08 Nov 2009 13:09:49 GMT

After the 7/7 London transport bombings woke at least some people up to the phenomenon of British ‘sleeper’ Islamic terrorism – and, equally important, to the way this was continuing to be denied by the British establishment – the reaction across the pond was, to say the least, complacent. What on earth had happened to the British lion? Americans asked, scratching their heads in amazement at how a country which had once stood united in determination to fight the enemies of democracy on the beaches was now apparently indifferent to]]>

Britain's Quisling party

, 05 Nov 2009 09:03:45 GMT

So now we finally have the unequivocal answer to the question some of us have been insistently asking: what is the point of the Conservative party? The answer is, bleakly, there is none.

There is today one overwhelmingly important issue of issues, the meta-issue without the resolution of which it is pointless to address any other issue. It is the issue of whether the United Kingdom is to continue as a sovereign nation able to govern itself in accordance with its own laws, culture and traditions or not. The Lisbon]]>

The deep green sophistry of 'religious' equivalence

, 04 Nov 2009 17:38:25 GMT

It’s official -- putting plastic bottles into the recycling bin or going on a Greenpeace demo is akin to having a religious experience.

Rupert Dickinson, who was made redundant by a London property company, claimed that it had discriminated against him on account of his subscription to the theory of man-made global warming and other environmental issues which he said constituted a ‘philosophical’ belief.

In any rational universe, he would be sent away with a flea in his ear for trying it on. But this is not such a world. At]]>

Britain's timid Jews

, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:05 GMT

Isi Leibler has written a fierce denunciation in the Jerusalem Post of Britain’s Jewish community leadership for their supine and craven response to the way Britain’s political and intellectual class is throwing Israel ever more brazenly under the bus. I agree with all that he says. However, I fear that his hope that British Jews get rid of these leaders and replace them by individuals who are prepared to mount a proper defence of Israel in the face of this verbal pogrom is tragically unrealisable.

This is because Britain’s]]>

Two-minute hate at the Guardian

, 02 Nov 2009 21:30:21 GMT

Students of the psychopathology of Britain’s intelligentsia might find it educational to peruse this post by the admirable CiF Watch, the website devoted to monitoring the Guardian’s Comment is free website as a public service of rare devotion, on the readers’ comments that followed Ed Husain’s attack on me in Cif last Saturday (to which I respond below). Don’t miss in particular the contribution by one BellaM, a Guardian moderator of the site, to the verbal pogrom against me -- a contribution so outstanding that CiF Watch dedicated]]>

Ed Husain and me

, 01 Nov 2009 01:29:17 GMT

On Friday, I wrote about the confused message being put out by the various groups which were taking to London’s streets yesterday, including one led by Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, to oppose the ‘sharia now’ demonstration by al Muhajiroun. My post provoked an unexpected reaction – an extraordinary ad feminam attack upon me, on the Guardian’s Comment is free blog, by the ‘reformist’ Muslim Ed Husain which accuses me of displaying

zealotry and ignorance

and being filled with

anger, venom and

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A less than united front

, 29 Oct 2009 23:46:20 GMT

This weekend there is to be a demonstration in London organised by the Islamists of the re-formed al Muhajiroun calling for sharia law to be enforced in Britain.

When they heard about this, various moderate, anti-Islamist Muslims started suggesting on Facebook and elsewhere that a counter demonstration be held. Within a short space of time, the moderate anti-Islamist British Muslims for a Secular Democracy decided to hold a counter-protest of their own. It was great news that reformist British Muslims were now getting it together to oppose the Islamists]]>

The struggle for Islam's soul

, 29 Oct 2009 22:17:45 GMT

The tireless Islam scholar and anti-Islamist Dr Patrick Sookhdeo of the Barnabas Fund has written a must-read article in the Fund’s current newsletter which, if his analysis is correct, provides a real chink of light in these dark times. He suggests that the Islamist orthodoxy which has had the Muslim world by the throat is beginning to crack under pressure from reformist Muslims around the world, particularly within Britain. He writes:

Recent months have seen a number of unexpected and extremely encouraging statements coming out of the Muslim

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Tortured reasoning

, 28 Oct 2009 15:23:28 GMT

Britain’s ~~human rights~~ anti-America activists are champing at the bit to convict British and American politicians and officials – at the very least at the bar of public opinion – for their alleged complicity with the torture of suspected Islamic terrorists. Britain’s ~~human rights~~ anti-Israel activists are also intent on arresting Israelis for ‘war crimes’ – so much so that Israelis who have played prominent roles in military operations to defend their country against Palestinian terror attacks cannot set foot in Britain without running the risk of being thus arrested.]]>