An update on the journalist who authored the "We Rock the Boat" editorial right after 7/7. It seems people are starting to ask questions they may not have asked before the bombings. From the UK Guardian News Blog, with thanks to D.M.
Trainee journalist Dilpazier Aslam had his contract with the Guardian terminated today.The move followed an internal inquiry into Aslam’s membership of the political organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.
A statement said: “The Guardian now believes continuing membership of the organisation to be incompatible with his continued employment by the company.”
“Mr Aslam was asked to resign his membership but has chosen not to. The Guardian respects his right to make that decision but has regretfully concluded that it had no option but to terminate Mr Aslam’s contract with the company.”
The inquiry followed a piece written by Aslam for the Guardian’s comment pages entitled “We rock the boat”.
The statement added: “The Guardian accepts that it should have explicitly mentioned Mr Aslam’s membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir at the end of his comment piece.”
And the next one will simply not be a formal member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, or of any Muslim organization at all. Who will dare to see right through that?
Son of a gun!
Is the kafir UK public beginning to awaken?
Did anyone read his screed? It's so sad -- he fit so nicely into the arrogant fantasist folds at the Guardian, and it was refreshing to see a Muslim write so truculently about his terroristic sympathies and how his "anger is seething." (what a BIG surprise!!! Seething anger in a Muslim!! Now THAT'S a Dilly!!!)
I wonder if he was even slightly frank with his secularist pinko colleagues at the Guardian when it comes to Islam's disposition towards the godless ones... Mr. Dilpazier and his anti-American colleagues could have accomplished so much, their shared hatreds and bigotry would have insured a profitable partnership as they worked to undermine and dismantle the noble western systems they both despise. It's the Guardian's loss -- Oh well...
Good Riddance!
Now what's next? Who they gonna call? Hugh Fitzgerald?
Poor Dilpazier! Another casualty of the jihad.
Hugh,
You might be pleased to know that more and more people over this side of the pond are daring to. The last few days have been quite refreshing.
Of course the media is still impersonating Lord Haw Haw, but larger numbers of Joe public understand the necessity of this. One good thing about the Iraq war is that no one believes Blair anymore and more and more people are beginning to realise that Blair himself no longer believes it(I bet it's times like these that the left wished they had their own Ronald Reagan, a half decent actor)!
On another topic Hugh, on a rebuttal of Said's Question of Palestine, which would be the best books to read?
JV
Let’s organize a Million Man March on Washington D.C.
Target Date: July 2006
Agenda: EXTREMELY Simple:
A Call on President Bush and the US Congress to do the following three things:
1) Declare officially in a joint press conference with President + Senate majority & minority leaders -- that Islam is a problem and that Islamic culture is nourishing global terrorism.
2) Put the following six proposals on the table for discussion:
a) Profiling of Muslims in public places – with the intent to stop and search anyone deemed suspicious and detain if there is reasonable cause to presume that person might be a terrorist
b) Monitoring all mosques
c) Shutting down mosques that exhibit one (1) instance of anti-Western or anti-Infidel or anti-Christian or anti-Jewish or anti-Israel expression.
d) Arresting any Muslim who expresses one (1) instance of anti-Western or anti-Infidel or anti-Christian or anti-Jewish or anti-Israel expression, to be detained without counsel indefinitely.
e) Making burkas illegal.
f) Demand that Muslim leaders and Muslim communities surveil, hunt down, root out and bring their bad apples to secular law enforcement authorities on pain of monetary fines and/or imprisonment if they refuse or fail to produce a certain number of bad apples in certain set periods of time – “bad apples” defined as
i) any Muslim who believes that violent Jihad is an obligation for Muslims
ii) any Muslim who believes that Islam should be defended as a trans-national entity distinct from secular national law enforcement.
3) Make 3 books mandatory reading for the President's Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Homeland Security, and Congress:
[choose 3 books, I would suggest one be a Spencer book]
There is a big difference between rocking the boat and blowing it up.
This is the Time 07/22/2005.
This is the Faith:
This Religion is Truth and This Church is Freedom
This can be prayed as many, one, or none.
This has no name and can be given any name.
This has created everything.
This creatures are all pure and sacred and all deserve the same rights.
This needs no prophet and raised no prophet: all these are inventions of evil.
This needs no book and inspired no book: all these are inventions of evil
Human union is between one woman and one man.
A human child has the right to have one mother and one father.
evil name is lie, child of jealousy and envy.
The wicked lost their ability to distinguish Good from evil and became evil slaves.
We will burn the wicked in the fire of Truth as only This can fight evil.
This is the Prayer:
I acknowleged the nature of evil.
I will spread the Faith on Earth with all my might.
I will fight the wicked till they come back to the path of Truth or die.
Then peace will come to Earth and This will will be accomplished
Wow, Ila -- sounds like you have "Islam light" in mind -- i.e. drop the prophet hooey and the koran hooey and let the slaughter begin! There seems to be a dissonance between
"This Religion is Truth and This Church is Freedom..."
and
"I will fight the wicked till they come back to the path of Truth or die.
Then peace will come to Earth and This will will be accomplished"
It's time for ALL utopianism to go into the dustbin --It's sometimes the zealout's quest for perfectability which is a true source of misery --
We need idealism mixed with pragmatism -- It's called America, and IT'S HERE ALREADY...
The brilliance of our Founding Fathers was in coming up with a PROCESS for perfectiblility, not the end goal of perfection...
America is the most perfect system humanity has invented, despite its many flaws... So, HANDS OFF !!! I love this country EXACTLY the way it is -- warts and all...
jsla,
You have it exactly right. (One hopes ila was being satirical...)
jsla,
Thanks for reminding me about muslims' seething anger. It's true. That does seem to be a principle characteristic, along with indignation, resentment, and hyper-sensitivity to all kinds of perceived dishonors and humiliations.
It seems to me, also, that they do not have any sense of humor. Have I simply missed that? Can anyone cite an example of a muslim with a sense of humor ever writing anything funny (as opposed to stupid, ridiculous, asinine, or preposterous) in these posts? Or anywhere else? Do they only laugh when they humiliate their captives?
Where is the dissonance ? Please explain
I am not the author of this.
I have no ownership of this true faith.
I am just spreading it because it's our prayer.
I am not alone.
What's wrong with it ?
Please answer.
What is mild islam ?
Please answer.
Our belief is that women have equal rights
We can't sustain vision of women whose face is destroyed by acid.
We can't sustain vision of women who's feet are
cut by their fathers and "brothers" and "brothers in law"
We can't sustain vision of women who's ears and nose are cut by the same evils.
We can't sustain vision of women raped by these evil monsters amd then forced to wed their rapists.
We can't even sustain vision of women who can't drive or go shopping alone.
We can't sustain vision of daughters strangled by their fathers because they wanted freedom.
This is evil abomination and we will destroy it.
We can't sustain blind people not being able to attend university because their dog is labeled impure by the wicked.
Our belief is that pigs and dogs are not impure.
Our belief is that who pretends otherwise is evil.
Is there anything wrong with this ?
Please answer.
We think it is evil and against This will.
Is there anything wrong with this ?
We think that any problem requires a solution which match its size.
This is the true pragmatism.
Everything else is illusion.
You just don't understand.
What are the other religions done so far ?
Please tell us.
We are expecting clear answers for all our questions.
Ila.
Oh dear. the Guardian has lost its` Head. Now they`ll get a taste of their own medicine
The Islamists will soon see to the Head.
One of the victims on 7/7 was also a trainee at the Guardian. This fact might be shaping that newspaper's attitude.
He was only a trainee journalist. Who was training him? Who was his mentor? Who on the editorial team approved this piece and authorised it's publication?
Terminating the contract of this young pup is a good start but more senior heads remain unrolled. The Gruniad has a lot to answer for this last 10+ years.
The Guardian has also published an article by Norman Geras, criticising those who make excuses for terrorism http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1532738,00.html
HA HA,
you have to laugh at the luvvies though don't you all so politically correct yet totally deluded.
In todays Al guardian we have an atricle by vikram dodd "seconds to decide"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1534753,00.html
the last paragraph
contains a comment by massoud shadjarae of the islamic human rights commission "we have raised concerns about the met sending officers to learn from the Israelis about suicide bombers . They have a policy of assasinating people - Why sould our police learn these tactics and these values ?"
Its amazing didn't mo the beast have people assasinated ? Asma bint Marwan, maybe the luvvies don't know. besides what were they supposed to do offer the beast tea & biscuits ? ( or samosas as my mum would)
The luvvies are so amazing in their little PC fantasy world.
their expensive wine, visits to the theatre,their culture refinement, liberal values.
I suggest we write to the guardian to remind them of the people mo the beast had assasinated and exactly how their little fantasy would come to an end in an islamic state.
"we have raised concerns about the Met sending officers to learn from the Israelis about suicide bombers . They have a policy of assasinating people - Why should our police learn these tactics and these values ?"
Because those tactics bloody well work ! ! ! !
And the principle of protecting the public from murderers is a very fine value to have.
They call the policy shoot to protect, not shoot to kill.
a journalist sympathetic to jihadists' world war and working for a major MsM agitprop organ...? impossible!
Hugh - post of July 22, 2005 07:38 pm: "spot on" as they say
"on a rebuttal of Said's Question of Palestine, which would be the best books to read?"
--- from a posting above
The best one-volume work, easily managed, is "Battleground" by Samuel Katz. However, one thing Katz did not include, did not really know about, was the biggest subject of all: Islam. In other words, he describes, in lucid prose, the area (Land of Israel, Holy Land, "land which the Palestinian people have tilled since time immemorial") that became Mandatory Palestine (that is, all of Western Palestine and none of Eastern Palestine), and much of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. That is the one book I would recommend, if only one can be recommended.
There are so many others. I like Walter Clay Loudermilk's "Palestine: Land of Promise." Loudermilk (the name lends itself to the first line of a clerihew, by the way: "Walter Clay Lowdermilk") was born in Liberty, North Carolina, became one of the leading agronomists in this country, and qua agronomist, visited Mandatory Palestine to observe how the Jews were reclaiming the desert. His book tells you something about the state of the soil after centuries of Arab Muslim neglect, and of the fantastic efforts of the Jews who were reclaiming, in every sense (land reclamation both material and spiritual), their ancient homeland.
Another writer is John Roy Carlson, "From Cairo to Damascus." I still rue the day I passed up a chance to buy an autographed copy at a bookstore. His real name was "Garabedian," he was a grateful survivor of the Turkish anti-Christian, anti-Armenian pogroms; he was in the area in 1948.
Another is Pierre van Paassen, author of war-time best-sellers such as "Days of Our Years," and of a memoir of his life in a small Dutch town of evangelical leaninigs (he came from a very devout Christian family), whose book "The Forgotten Ally" is also manageable.
These four books are all short, and well-written. There are tens of thousands of scholarly books and articles; the only two I would mention here is Moshe Gil's massive book "Palestine 634-1099" (I think that's right) and a book whose author I have forgotten, but it is called "The Myth of Dispossession," and is mainly about the real demographics, all the Algerians and Egyptians and even Muslims from Europe who were transferred by the Ottoman Porte to the Ottoman lands further south.
Is that enough? Start with Katz.
If you want to have some fun, look at the first chapter of "The Question of Palestine," look at Said's breezy reference to some European visitors to the area, and check what he writes, with what Katz quotes from Mark Twain, Melville, et al. See how completely dishonest Said is? He was counting on no one checking, no one knowing anything. He thought he could get away with it.
He was right. He turned on the charm for quite a few academics, including some who should have known much better. He was a great supplier of blurbs for books he never read, but the recipients were forever grateful. He was a writer of recommendations and references, the Compleat Back-Slapping Academic and Impassioned, Because Committed, Man of the World. All that crap -- that crap about being a historian, a defender of Arabs and of Islam (oh, did I mention that he knew NOTHING about Islam, but wrote a book on how badly it was covered?), and a scholar. He was no scholar, not of literature or of anything else. He had a free ride, and his success is perhaps the most telling indictment of the modern university enterprise, and of the BBC (Reith Lecutres, etc.) and of all sorts of people who should never have gotten the positions they attained. A represenative figure, is Our Edward. Even those who see what nonsense he offered sometimes make excuses and tell us that his inaccuracies have "value." His "inaccuracies"! A good example of this is a recent article in the TLS by John Sutherland; it may be retrievable on-line. It makes no sense.
I have heard that Robert Irwin, the MIddle East (Arab Affairs, Islam, Mogul India, etc.) editor of the TLS has been working on a book on Said for the past decade. Though Said, in the Eric-Ormsby tradition of the aesthete who just doesn't get Islam really, but likes Mutanabbi and the night and the desert, and also all his charming intelligent Arab friends, who of course are nothing like, so he thinks, what those terrible Islamophobes and ignoramuses think of when they think of Islam -- well, Irwin knows more about Islam than he will allow himself to fully comprehend. He just can't do it. It's like Fouad Ajami, or Kanan Makiyya. Filial piety, scholarly piety, dislike of the nasty simplifiers and beraters and minimizers of the "great Islamic civilization."
Well, en attendant Irwin, there is the excellent article on Said by Keith Windschuttle -- google "Windschuttle" and "Said." My favorite article on Said, the one which I think says all that need be said, is that by Ibn Warraq --google "Ibn Warraq" and "Edward Said."
Bon appetit.
Hugh,
Thank you for your valuable time. This is very much appreciated.
Once again thanks.
Kind regards,
JV
Ha,ha. I liked that post by apostate_islam. There'd be no more jaunts to the theatre and concerts for Guardianistas under the new Islamic rule that's for sure. Music is eeeevil, mkay?