It's a chilling story:
A man was shot five times in the head at close range in an "execution" plotted by a group who had failed to convert him to Islam, a jury has heard.
Where did this happen? Saudi Arabia? Iran? Egypt? Pakistan?
Nope. Try Great Britain. Islamic intimidation and contempt for those who reject Islam comes to the sceptered isle. The BBC article (thanks to Granny Weatherwax) continues:
Adrian Marriot's murder was a "swift and brutal response" to him falling out with the group, the Old Bailey heard.Marcus Archer, Aaron Irving-Simpson and Marlon Stubbs, all 24, deny conspiracy to murder the man from Brixton, London.
Mr Stubbs and Mr Archer had said they had a "missionary zeal" for converting people to Islam, the prosecutor said.
Christopher Kinch QC told the jury Mr Marriot, of Swinford Gardens on the Angel Town Estate in Brixton, had told his brother David he had been threatened at gunpoint by Mr Stubbs and two other men and £500 demanded from him.
Mr Marriot and another man had then "accosted" Mr Archer at Loughborough Junction train station, Mr Kinch said.
Mr Archer "plainly felt himself threatened and at risk of something very bad happening to him", he added.
"He made contact with the other defendants and we say that you will be able to conclude that the execution of Adrian Marriot was being planned from that moment on.
It was likely other people were also involved in the "conspiracy, that is an agreement, to shoot Adrian Marriot dead", Mr Kinch said.
"He was shot five times in the head at close range.
"It was, the Crown suggest, quite clearly an execution."...
"They said they were interested in getting converts to Islam and among their targets for conversion were Adrian Marriot himself, his sister Tara and her friend Jade Okai.
"Whether what they said was actually true, that they had a missionary zeal to convert people, or whether that was more of a front for getting people under their circle of influence, is a question you may have to consider as you hear the evidence."
Given hijabs
"There may have been some element of pressure brought to bear by the two men but in due course both Tara Marriot and her friend Jade Okai agreed to take the Shahadah, a declaration of faith."
The two women had then been given hijabs, or headscarves, Mr Kinch told the jury.
And Mr Stubbs and Mr Irving-Simpson had brought round DVDs, Islamic books and copies of the Koran.
The case continues.
Italy expels Islamic leader under anti-terrorism laws
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050906/wl_afp/italyislamjustice_050906201751
Italy Cracks Down on Islamic Hard-Liners
http://www.voanews.com/english/CR-CASTELFRANCO-ITALY-HARDLINERS.cfm
And the "Islamic Anti-Defamation League" and Il Manifesto defend him, by accusing the gov't to behave like Mussolini
Who needs novels? Reality is crazy enough on its own. Well, off to prepare for the Anti-sharia rally on Thursday! Remember to come out and support your civilization against creeping Islamization. When will the frog hop out of the slowly warming water I wonder?
The really, truly terrifying thing is that when I read that story this morning, I wasnt particularly shocked. What does that say about the sorry state of our country, about what the depredations of the islamists are doing to our psyche's, that one has become inured to brutal, sstupid, pointless violence?
I can only hope that, as happened with fascism and nazism, we eventually fought back after a long period of sticking our heads in the sand.
Thomas Ato
I felt the same.
The fightback will come, but not an offically sanctioned one. The next attack on an English city will be a turning point. The backlash next time will be real - not the phony left wing hype we experienced after 7/7.
I know the English, being English myself - (can't really speak for the Scottish & Welsh), & I know that we will, when the time comes, come out swinging with everything we can get hold of.
The Government will have to be led by us - they won't listen to reason or the facts about Islam but will have to respond to a sustained period of civil unrest generated by the "indigenous" Britons. They will be seen to be with us against militant, rampant Islamic fascism, or against us.
As we know & the Government clearly does not, fighting Islam on every level is going to be a matter of survival for our people, country, our values & heritage.
"The really, truly terrifying thing is that when I read that story this morning, I wasnt particularly shocked."
-- from a posting above
Would you be shocked if you woke up tomorrow to the following news story:
"Louvre Bombed."
"In what appears to have been a coordinated series of attacks, the Musee du Louvre was largely destroyed yesterday. According to the French Minister of the Interior, the attack took place during the opening hours, and the fate of museum visitors, Louvre staff, and guards is unknown.
It appears from preliminary reports that the entire collection of Western sculpture, from Praxiteles to Houdon, has been destroyed. Only the head of one lion, apparently a remnant of those removed years ago for safekeeping from Marly-le-roi, appears to have emerged intact and unscathed.
Two wings of the Louvre devoted to pre-1800 paintings also were destroyed in the mutli-pronged attack, which former curator Pierre Rosenberg has described as the "greatest single assault on the cultural heritage of mankind in human history."
Muslim groups have claimed responsibility, and said that "no museum or university in the Western world will be safe as long as Western governments refuse to allow unlimited Muslim migration to the Bilad al-kufr" and "refuse to allow Muslism to govern themselves under the Shari'a." This, according to a communique sent apparently simultaneously to a dozen news agencies in Europe and North America, has "caused resentment" among Muslims that cries out "for revenge." The statement goes on to war of similar attacks in the future, and says that "the predictable sympathy of Unbelievers for paintings and sculpture which offend the law of Allah" shows where the Infidels really place their faith -- on mere men and their works, and not on Allah and the Prophet Muhammad."
Of course you wouldn't. None of us would. Nothing would surpise us anymore -- from the world of Islam and the Believers.
This is another rape and murder of a young girl and a serious assault on her friend. A third girl escaped.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/4584089.stm
What my boss calls my spider sense went into overdrive when I read that the stab wounds were to the neck. And sure enough, one defendant attended court silent but clutching his Koran.
http://www.getreading.co.uk/story.asp?intid=12017
I believe that the trial is due to begin next month.
What these thugs know about Islam could probably be written on the back of a postage stamp. This is more about gang culture among African-Carribean youth, than it is about Islam.
All the same, Buddhism isn't quite as good a fit for the testostorene-fuelled life, is it?
Buddhism has better, but highly disciplined and more responsible martial arts. It takes many years to achieve true masterery of hai Karate, and about 5 minutes to sharpen a meat cleaver.
Granny,
Blimey, did not see that one as a possible Muslim rape crime. Have you seen this blog http://fjordman.blogspot.com/ there is a lot of posts on the rape issue, especailly in Sweden and Norway.
The authorities like to hide the fact that many rapes are carried out by friendly, cuddly brothers from the religion of peace. Whose only reason for doing so is to stop the young lady from acting immodestly, did we ask them to be our moral police, no, and that showing the leg below the knee was an invitation to do so..., nothing about their own religion inspired sexual inadequcy, you can almost see the report on the case coming can't you, with the girl being blamed.
Another victim of terrorism in one of its more sinister and under-reported guises.
Would you be shocked if you woke up tomorrow to the following news story:
"Louvre Bombed." "In what appears to have been a coordinated series of attacks, the Musee du Louvre was largely destroyed yesterday... Muslim groups have claimed responsibility..."
No. I also would not be shocked to read in the following days, weeks, months, and bloody (literally) years:
"The French government has urged its citizens to control their anger and be sensitive to the Muslim community, the vast majority of which has absolutely nothing to do with this shocking crime. A symposium headed by Tariq Ramadan has been invited to help the Ministry of the Interior put the problem of this infinitessimal minority of ideological extremists in its proper context..."
It's quite surprising that the Louvre hasn't been attacked yet. The security, like just about every other museum in the world, is fairly lax.
However the net result will be the same as after every other jihad bloodbath. A lot of noise for a week or so, then, business as usual and Eurabia marches forward.
Europeans no longer seem to care very much about their civilization. No one seems to do anything except consume and the idea of believing, dying or fighting for a cause belongs to eccentrics.
Even St Denis, the burial place of French Kings is in an area where police now fear to tread.
Its the religion of peace in action again. But then it has spent almost 1,400 years doing this sort of thing to those who refused to convert, and the "Convert or die" mesage could hardly be more emphatic.
Below is a link to information on the rallies against sharia in the West. The rallies are tomorrow.Vancouver, Toronto, Ottowa, Paris, London, and many other places. One might hope that if there's no rally planned for you city you might do something ad hoc yourself. You cannot rely on others to save you.
It's beyond the realm of metaphor now to mention Primo Levi's essay "The Drowned and the Saved." Look at catastrophe, see what happens to those who will not save themselves, who rely on government to saved them, those who get along by going along. The drowned literally die in sewage. You have to act to save yourselves.
In the thread below you'll find listed detqils of where and when to assemble to add your voice to the cry agianst sharia in the West. Below that is more background on the rallies with further information on the people organizing it.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/007981.php
http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com
The Sun newspaper calls the 500 a 'tax'.
Seems like it was the old jizya, convert or die choice. Classic.
Sorry, here's the link:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005410422,00.html
Silvester
Take care.
"Even St Denis, the burial place of French Kings is in an area where police now fear to tread."
-- from a posting above
Tourists going to visit St. Denis have been made most nervous by the Muslim environment -- it was not what you expect to surround a visit to the burial place of the Kings of France. Reims, the place of le sacre du roi, and Versailles, with its palace and orangerie and lake and follies and statuary, are both still safe to visit. For this decade. And possibly the next. And then?
In 2002, a pair of youthful-looking Arab men dressed in identical windbreakers made an attempt on my life. I was walking down a street in a California city where I live one night and they came out of a car from behind me armed with knives and followed me down the street. When I crossed the street, THEY crossed the street behind me.
Fortunately, a security officer witnessed the event and called to me in a loud voice. The two young men scattered and ran off into the sunset and I was unhurt. I called the police department about the incident and of course it went nowhere and I am now the wiser and grateful nothing worse happened to me--since it certainly could have been serious if not fatal.
The young men were Arab-looking, definitely of Middle Eastern descent. I have no doubt they were Muslims. My town is known for being one of America's safer cities. This was a very unusual incident for this city. If it were Central Park or South Central LA it would be more believable as a typical attempted robbery. And now that I think about it, those two guys were WAITING for me in that car behind me. I can't imagine them being anything other than jihadists trying to intimidate or exact revenge on an infidel.
I am certain many Americans have had similar incidents over recent years. They probably go unreported. And the victims probably have no idea who or what was behind it.
There is nothing surprising about this Great Britain incident, really. There are probably many others that go unreported for each one of them there, too.
I can't be the only one.
"have_mercy, no thanks, old europe does not need any of that freaky advices, Europe is and will be always be superior culturally from all other civilizations and does not need any neo-con evagelist whackos"
Posted by: chris
Euro rubbish: without any pride in their ancestral faith, culture, history, and civilization. The only way they define themselves is in terms of what they are not, not what they are, and by their sheer contempt for America and traditional western values. The damage has been done already to generations of Europeans who lost their faith and their values. Since it will take generations and a monumental effort to correct he European mentality, how can anyone hope the escalating Islamic shadow, darkening European skies, would ever clear!