The struggle for Islam's soul

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 world.  Respected, mainstream Muslim leaders in a variety of countries have voiced opinions which are at odds with traditional, conservative Islam.  They have challenged aspects of shari‘a and are calling for a liberal, modernist, enlightened Islam compatible with Western norms.  Perhaps the most significant of all is a comment by

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Tortured reasoning

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. Two days ago, Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon was the latest to be targeted by such a move during a brief visit to London.

Yet as the Mail on Sunday reported last weekend, Britain is complicit in the torture of Palestinians – by other Palestinians. So much...

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The Neatherworld of Britain's busted political class

Let me spell this out again very slowly.

The neo-Nazi British National Party now has two MEPs, one million votes and a claim to a place in the legitimate political life of Britain principally because a very significant proportion of the electorate believe that Britain’s culture and identity are being steadily transformed by mass immigration.

Last Friday a former speechwriter for government ministers, Andrew Neather, who wrote a seminal speech in 2000 for then Immigration Minister Barbara Roche which signalled the loosening of immigration controls, blurted out that the ‘driving political purpose’ of this ‘major’ shift in policy was to bring about mass immigration and a ‘truly multicultural’ society. This purpose was deliberately kept secret from the British people because ministers knew they would react very badly against it.

There could scarcely be a more profound abuse of the democratic...

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Blame the cows!

Really, this is beyond parody. Nicholas Stern, whose absurd and ignorant report on the economic consequences of man-made global warming has embarrassed even the warmists because of the scorn and ridicule it provoked from other economists let alone scientists, has now decided what we must all do to avoid the imminent climate Armageddon: stop eating meat. The Telegraph reports:

Lord Stern, author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving. Livestock farming has come under fire in recent years from environmental campaigners because methane from cattle and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, believes that the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December should call for an

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Trying to stuff the cat back into the bag

In the Daily Mail, I have written about the amazing revelation in last Friday’s Evening Standard by Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter to various Labour ministers, that the government had not only deliberately encouraged mass immigration to Britain in order to destroy its identity and transform it into a multicultural society but had covered up what it was doing because it was well aware that the public would rise up in revolt. Such a deliberate transformation of Britain’s society while keeping the public in the dark can only be described as treachery.

However, in a further article in the Standard, Neather has tried to backtrack on his explosive disclosure. Accusing

excitable Right-wing newspaper columnists

for presenting his views in such a way that they were

twisted out of all recognition

he claims that the...

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The humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Those who still think Gaza is starving under the tyrannical Israeli blockade (sic) will not be interested to read this by Taghreed el Khodary in the New York Times, under the headline

Goods Flood Gaza’s Tunnels, Turning Border Area Into a Shopping Mecca

RAFAH, Gaza — Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to $10,000.

At Nijma market, refrigerators, flat-screen televisions, microwaves, air-conditioners, generators and ovens filled the tents, all at inflated prices, having been spirited into this town on the border with Egypt through tunnels under the sand. Some Gazans have even purchased cars smuggled in parts into the

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