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Orwell Alert from the UK: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength, and Islamic Terrorism Is Anti-Islamic. Violent actions committed by believing Muslims, who justify those actions by reference to Islamic texts and teachings, will now be called "anti-Islamic activity."
Ms. Smith, your statement that "there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief" certainly expresses a mainstream view. I have just a few questions. How do you propose to counter the recruitment among peaceful Muslims that is being conducted by these "anti-Islamic" Muslims, who quote the Qur'an, Sunnah, and Islamic law to portray their "anti-Islamic" behavior as not only Islamic, but the only true Islamic position? Wouldn't combating that call for a searching and honest examination of the actual contents of those texts? Aren't you making that examination a bit more difficult to do by pretending that it need not be done, and that the strife is already o'er, the battle done, and the "moderates" have beaten back the ideological challenge of the "extremists"? How can sincere Islamic reformers prevail when you act as if there is nothing in Islam that needs reforming?
By James Slack in the Daily Mail (thanks to all who sent this in):
Terrorism by Muslim fanatics was yesterday re-named "anti-Islamic activity" by Jacqui Smith.The Home Secretary said that - rather than acting in the name of Islam - they were behaving contrary to their faith.
Her words were chosen carefully to reflect new Government strategy on the language used to describe fanatics.
Security officials believe that directly linking terrorism to Islam is inflammatory, and risks alienating mainstream Muslim opinion.
In her first major speech on radicalisation, Miss Smith repeatedly used the phrase "anti-Islamic".
One passage said: "As so many Muslims in the UK and across the world have pointed out, there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief. Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic".
Another referred to enlisting the Muslim community against "anti-Islamic activity".
It follows a decision taken last year to stop using the phrase 'war on terror', first adopted by US President Bush.
Officials were concerned it could act as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda, which is determined to manufacture a battle between the values of Islam and the West.
The strategy emerging across Government is to portray terrorists as nothing more than cold-blooded murderers who are not fighting for any religious cause.
Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism is instead being described by key figures as "more like a death cult".
Posted by Robert at January 17, 2008 4:26 PM
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Humph. The whole dang THING is a 'death cult.'
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at January 17, 2008 4:46 PM
"One passage said: "As so many Muslims in the UK and across the world have pointed out, there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief. Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic".
Are you kidding? What is it you don't understand about "Kill the Unbelievers" and "Slay the Infidel?" (See Koran) How 'bout "Smite them at the neck?"
Oh, this is an "Orwell alert" allright. Just say exactly what is *opposite* to the truth. A Nazi alert, too, such as "Arbeit mach frei."
Uh Huh.
at January 17, 2008 4:55 PM
So is the UK going to rename the I.R.A. the Anti-Irish? I no longer see the need to name then a terrorist organization.
Posted by: alaskan1000 at January 17, 2008 4:56 PM
Congenital liars can't stop lying . Even at the cost of their own lives.
Posted by: teba at January 17, 2008 5:02 PM
exactly alaskan1000!
The UK would have never referred the IRA attacks as "anti-Irish republican activity." Unlike with the ISLAMISTS of today the Brits back then at least bothered to read the IRA's own propoganda.
Posted by: irish_infidel at January 17, 2008 5:03 PM
...Pro Islamic activity...would have been more accurate...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 17, 2008 5:06 PM
There's votes in dhimmitude.
Posted by: Celsius at January 17, 2008 5:08 PM
Think about it--the whole of Dar al-Islam convulsively wracked by "Anti-Islamic Activity"; yeah--that's the ticket! Now, if we can just THROTTLE all those propagandizing Christian missionaries, we'll all enjoy WORLD PEACE!
Robert & Company, you're winning! JUST KEEP UP OUR PRO-ISLAMIC AGITATING RELENTLESSLY!!
Posted by: John C at January 17, 2008 5:08 PM
Anything to avoid the truth. More whistling past the graveyard. Simply pathetic. I summon....
Winston Churchill!
at January 17, 2008 5:12 PM
Well, since terrorism isn't Islamic, that should give a green light to a more liberal immigration policy in the UK. Then, as things devolve, if anyone resists Sharia, those unislamic cads will simply kill them. Ooops, how unislamically convenient! Accidentally, on purpose, for spite...
Posted by: jewdog at January 17, 2008 5:18 PM
How telling, that they don't refer to violence, specifically. They just can't say "Islamic" and "violence" together in any form! But, that's OK--we know, of course, that violence is just the outward manifestation of Islam's inherently deeper problem.
This "doublethink" is classic George Orwell; and, thanks to his legacy, we understand the REAL meaning with nigh transparent clarity. This is a backwards admission of what we here plainly see and know. The more Truth is twisted, the more resilient and straighter it becomes.
Posted by: John C at January 17, 2008 5:19 PM
Barf.
Posted by: Stendec at January 17, 2008 5:21 PM
And so we witness the slow surrender of a people who stood bravely against the Nazi blitz, who fought alone against Hitler, until America's hand was forced by Tojo and Russia's by Hitler himself.
Now, freedom matters less than peace and order. The island may be populated but the culture that gave us the Magna Carta and spread its message of human liberty around the world is dead. Is there a Churchill who can resurrect it?
Is there a difference between death and dhimmitude?
Posted by: PMK at January 17, 2008 5:25 PM
I have yet to fully process this insanity.
Posted by: awake at January 17, 2008 5:26 PM
Nu Labour has completely lost the plot.
It favours muslims above all other citizens and nothing will please them more than a complete takeover of Britain by muslims.
This muslim labour government has presided over the biggest influx of migrants in the history of these isles. Over 350k per annum over the last 10 years! It talks tough on immigration, law and order and family values. What it has succeded in accomplising is the complete opposite.
The sooner they are kicked out, the better.
However, the muslim vote has so corrupted our political parties that even the once patriotic Tories are kneeing to the demands of muslims.
Britania stopped ruling the moment muslims set foot on these shores.
Demise of once a great nation is neigh!
Posted by: Hermit at January 17, 2008 5:30 PM
Golly all one had to do was call it by another name?
Why didn't we all think of that?
So the war is over? Wheeeewww! Finally!
Posted by: Sounder at January 17, 2008 5:33 PM
I have yet to fully process this insanity.
Posted by: awake at January 17, 2008 5:26 PM
Agree with you, awake. It's simply incredible.
at January 17, 2008 5:36 PM
"Security officials believe that directly linking terrorism to Islam is inflammatory, and risks alienating mainstream Muslim opinion"
In other words, correctly and honestly identifying the link between Islam and terror will cause mainstream Muslims to support acts of barbarity.
"One passage said: "As so many Muslims in the UK and across the world have pointed out, there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief. Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic".
This lady is absurd, she sounds absurd, Jihadists must be belly laughing......again.
Posted by: Sneakyzionistcrusader at January 17, 2008 5:36 PM
"there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise ..."
-- Jacqui Smith
"Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): 'I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.' "
-- Qur'an 8:12
Home Secretary Smith's folly is analogous to that of the U.S. Department of Defense in its "Current Approach," which fired DoD analyst Stephen Coughlin has taken to task in his trenchant thesis:
http://www.strategycenter.net/docLib/20080107_Coughlin_ExtremistJihad.pdf
Excerpt (pp. 132-33):
"Given the Current Approach’s substantial investment in cultural experts to help explain
events, it is remarkable how little is really known of the enemy’s stated threat doctrine.
An IPB [Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield] methodology tailored to account for the 'extremists' ' doctrine would determine that doctrines like scholarly consensus, abrogation and progressive revelation are powerful legitimizing tools in the enemy’s arsenal. In reference to scholarly consensus and abrogation, a sober threat assessment would also indicate that we are fighting an enemy that controls the key terrain in the information battle space. As part of that control, the enemy cannot only force doctrinal arguments of jihad that cut decisively in its favor, it can also preclude Current Approach advocates from establishing any real footholds. Hence, even before addressing the substantive issues of jihad, 'extremists' have already established their dominance in the debate. Decisionmakers need to know this."
(Emphasis mine.)
Posted by: Papa Whiskey at January 17, 2008 5:37 PM
This is an Orwellian moment in British history.
And it shows that Britain is already an Islamic country.
Posted by: Voltaire at January 17, 2008 5:38 PM
"The strategy emerging across Government is to portray terrorists as nothing more than cold-blooded murderers who are not fighting for any religious cause." -- from article
I can see the 'death cultists' laughing in their hand.
at January 17, 2008 5:38 PM
Terrorism by Muslim fanatics was yesterday re-named "anti-Islamic activity" by Jacqui Smith....
First rate moron.
Posted by: MusHuntCowboy at January 17, 2008 5:39 PM
Wish I could have sat in on the meetings where this course of action was decided. Imagine the confusion when practicing the sales pitch the first time. Very confusing until everyone got the Islamemo, I'll bet. Now it's not confusing, just confused. A very postmodern approach.
at January 17, 2008 5:43 PM
I'll bet the jihadists are laughing their a$$es off.
Posted by: interestinconundrum at January 17, 2008 5:43 PM
I hope this site institutes a "Flaky as a snow storm award" in addition to its other awards.
Miss smith clearly deserves some sort of recognition for her hairbrained idea.
My condolences to the British people!
Posted by: rational at January 17, 2008 6:00 PM
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Twilight Zone"."
dododododododododododo....
at January 17, 2008 6:12 PM
"As so many Muslims in the UK and across the world have pointed out, there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief. Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic".
quoted from Miss Smith
Actually, this is a forward step. The British gov't is now the arbiter of what is, and what isn't, Islam. I'm sure their first action will be to shut down all the so-called "Islamic" mosques where there is plotting of murder, pain and grief, and to arrest all the so-called "Islamic" imams, muftis, mullahs or whatever who are doing the plotting. Next the gov't will seize all the Korans and other Moslem holy writings as anti-Islamic literature, since they are filled with wishes to terrorize and plots to murder and cause grief.
The mosques will be turned over to gov't bureaucrats who will use them to instruct the faithful on "true Islam"; and in due course a new "true Koran" will be published by the gov't, duly cleansed of its anti-Islamic passages.
at January 17, 2008 6:14 PM
I guess this makes me anti-anti-Islamic.
Posted by: Amillennialist at January 17, 2008 6:16 PM
So will the following legal changes be coming...
Murder..will now become Anti-Life
Theft/Robbery...will now become Anti-Wealth
Rape...Anti-'When Hell Freezes Over'
Abortion....Will still be Pro-Choice, but the fetish can now consider it Anti-Life.
And they all agree that being Anti-American is still 'in'.
Their still out on morals, ethics, patriotism, and National Security labels.
The MSM will still be Anti-Truth.
Posted by: alaskan1000 at January 17, 2008 6:23 PM
Wow! Just when you thought wacky, British, PC liberals couldn't get any more bizarre.
I can't imagine that even many liberal-minded Brits agree with this insanity.
Islamic jihadists frequently justify their actions by pointing to verses in the koran, hadith, and sira.
If one takes the time to read the exegete of the most prominent muslim jurists, legal manuals from all islamic sects and schools, you will find that what you read is very much in step with the murderous attacks of islamic jihadists.
Why do liberals deny this?
Jihadists will not be impressed by this and most muslims are already either sympathetic to them or on their side.
They will see gestures like this as simply more evidence of the West's weakness and lack of will to confront its mortal enemy.
Britains need to demand a permanent halt to all islamic immigration, the deportation of all muslim non-citizens in the UK, and do whatever they can to persuade all other muslims to leave the UK.
Posted by: senatortombstone at January 17, 2008 6:23 PM
Not even Orwell could've come up with thought manipulation this contorted.
(and here we were thinking that "War On Terror" was silly)
The Home Secretary has also decreed that Nazis will henceforth be called Anti-White Agitaters.
Posted by: alexon at January 17, 2008 6:29 PM
Jacqui Smith has now joined so many other dhimmis in entering an Alice in Wonderland world where Islam can never be the problem. Something or someone else is the problem but it certainly can't be Islam itself. This lethal fantasy for the West continues unabated because there are a hell of a lot of Jacqui Smiths out there. Way too many.
Posted by: Wellington at January 17, 2008 6:30 PM
No worries, the British are a hardy lot, having survived the anti-Spanish armada, the anti-Napoleonic wars, and the anti-Nazi blitz, I'm sure they will successfully endure the anti-Islamic invasion. Now if only Scotland Yard could do something about all those anti-theft thieves, anti-kidnapping kidnappers, anti-murder murderers, and anti-rape rapists that anti-terrorize the populace.
Or did we misinterpret this altogether? Maybe Ms. Smith really did mean anti-Islamic, i.e., Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Tao, Shinto, Bahai, Jewish, Confucian, Humanist, et summa al.
That's it! That is precisely the problem, there are just too damn many victims of Islamic violence. Exterminate the victims worldwide and voila, no more Islamic violence. Only then will Islam be a religion of peace. But then again, judging from the carnage today that is associated with the "Big Fitnah" (Ashura), maybe not.
Posted by: SaracensAtTheGates at January 17, 2008 6:41 PM
Yeah I say stop all these "wars on things" until you can figure out who the enemy is.
It will be me and my friends of course.
at January 17, 2008 6:46 PM
Oh dear, the war is now on anti-islamic activity...
Does that mean we can look forward to the UK police shutting down Hair salons, CD shops, Clothes shops and Pubs, with the threat of death for not complying?
Will i be punished for being Najis? or just for not praying 5 times a day?
Posted by: MrTommyAtkins at January 17, 2008 6:54 PM
As we all know, the driving force for Islamic terror is the teaching of Muhammad enshrined in Islamic law in all mainstream schools of Islamic judas prudence pertaining to violent jihad, Islamic supremacism and the global spread of Sharia law even by peaceful means.
Muslims believe that Allah dictated directly to Muhammad and dissenters are an abomination to Allah. Peaceful Muslims are thus vulnerable to extremists. Who wants to be an abomination? Only an Islamic reformation can finally marginalise the extremists, but we all, Muslims and non-Muslims must come out of denial first. To reinforce this denial with Orwellian trickery is extraordinarily dangerous.
They British government is so drunk, drugged and incapable on their own multiculturalist propaganda that they are jumping into bed with very wily jihadists (remember war is deception) and may not wake up till the dawn of Sharia law and have no recollection of how they got there.
We are watching the date rape of a nation.
at January 17, 2008 6:55 PM
"PC gone wild"......coming soon to a theater near you.
Posted by: TRSTHNTR at January 17, 2008 6:57 PM
"The Home Secretary said that - rather than acting in the name of Islam - they were behaving contrary to their faith."
This is a stupendous feat of suspended disbelief!
I've always enjoyed British humor. Now, seriously, what was her speech about?
Posted by: Abscedere at January 17, 2008 6:59 PM
Terrorism by Muslim fanatics was yesterday re-named "anti-Islamic activity" by Jacqui Smith.
The Home Secretary said that - rather than acting in the name of Islam - they were behaving contrary to their faith.
She is accusing them of apostasy? Is it possible that an infidel can accuse a muslim of apostasy, without a riot? Maybe the UK should start a 'report the apostates among you', program. That would go a long way on clamping down on terrorism, I mean Anti-Islamic activity. These people are stupid beyond any level of functioning. They must be government employees...
Posted by: duh_swami at January 17, 2008 7:07 PM
They can call acts committed by jihadis "strawberry ice cream" but it doesn't change the reality of the situation one little bit. The UK government is trying to change the perception of Brits to their plight. This just keeps getting worser and worser.
Posted by: pismopal at January 17, 2008 7:27 PM
Oh dear, the war is now on anti-islamic activity...
Does that mean we can look forward to the UK police shutting down Hair salons, CD shops, Clothes shops and Pubs, with the threat of death for not complying?
Will i be punished for being Najis? or just for not praying 5 times a day?
MrTommyAtkins
Yes exactly, as I said above we are witnessing the date rape of a nation
Muhammad’s teaching on "war is deception" as a guiding principle, about the instruments of Jihad, about taqiyya, about the deliberate attempt to make Islam "seem" (only "seem") in the eyes of Infidels to fit in.
Then when they are strong enough the war on anti-Islamic activity will take on its true meaning
at January 17, 2008 7:28 PM
why are people getting stupider and stupider in sight of the impending and increasing violence they are facing? Are they that stupid about current and past history? Are they that unwilling to crack open a koran for themselves to find out what the heck is in that God foresaken book?
All answers to my quesion are... yes.
Posted by: R_not at January 17, 2008 7:34 PM
R_not, it's called Sleepwalking To Disaster.
Posted by: Sounder at January 17, 2008 7:47 PM
It is abundantly clear that we cannot call a spade a spade. But in this war of words we can use them to our advantage too.
I think renaming islamic terrorism "anti-islamic" activity is BRILLIANT. In fact, we should all embrace this phrase and use it FREQUENTLY when muslims seek to impose ANY of their values or taboos on us.
I have had occasion to remind a muslim that the koran says "To you your religion. To my mine;" when he started bitching about pork being un-islamic and how offensive it was to see someone eating that. I quietly explained that it is his taboo, not mine. I find polygamy offensive, but hey, to you your religion and to me mine.
Now we can tell all muslims when they are offended by anything Western that bitching is "unislamic intolerance."
When a muslims is violent or pissed, he is being "unislamic" and not practicing the religion of peace appropriately.
We CAN MILK THIS!
Posted by: 3812Michelle at January 17, 2008 7:58 PM
Hey Jacqui. Whatever...but could I get the phone # of your drug connection? You obviously get much better drugs than the rest of us have access to. Electric kool-aid...everything is groovy and gonna be fine. Amazing the quality of intelligence our tax dollars buy. Anybody heading for a different planet? Could I hitch a ride? I'll share gas. Every day I come here thinking that it can't get any stupider. Most days I'm surprised to find that it can. Get your burqua Jacqui...Don't let me see you in public without a male relative. I might not be able to control my urges. They actually pay you good money to come up with things like that???
Posted by: Rick at January 17, 2008 8:17 PM
If terrorists are anti-islamic, are we terrorists? I keeel you all!
Posted by: Brett_McS at January 17, 2008 8:25 PM
This blog is useful for evidence of the state of American jihadism. Note: "jinnzaman" (play on demonizing) is a Pennsylvania Muslim who works directly with the notorious "inshallahshaheed" pro-al-qaeda website. He is also a fraud. He claims to support phony muslim "modernists" like John Makdisi, Talal Asad and M Tabawi, while posting their copyrighted books on file sharing services, for easy theft. Naturally, the MSA and ISNA welcome his presence. He posts on muslim and dhimmi websites as jinnzaman or abdulalhaq (slave of the truth). I have posted 2 complaints - not anonymous - on the Homeland Security's website (they are a joke).
http://jinnzaman.hadithuna.com/
Posted by: supercargo at January 17, 2008 8:27 PM
3812Michelle,
Will non-Muslims be allowed to label something un-Islamic without being accused of hate speech or, at the very least, of misrepresenting Islam?
If you and I label tolerance as Islamic and violence as non-Islamic whom will the Muslims believe - us or their local imam?
Is the jizya un-Islamic?
It's an interesting idea, but I don't see it going anywhere.
Posted by: PMK at January 17, 2008 8:31 PM
Here's what Melanie Phillips says about this Dhimmocracy in the UK. Some paragraphs:
"Yes, the phrase ‘war on terror’ is conceptually incoherent; but the government’s intention is not to describe what we are facing more precisely. On the contrary, its intention is to make it impossible to describe the situation truthfully. We are being subjected to an onslaught from Islamic jihadi terrorism. First the government decided to ban the use of the word ‘Islamic’ in relation to terrorism; now it is banning the word ‘terrorism’ itself."
"But what we are facing is not merely criminal activity. It is terrorism, the attempt to murder large numbers of innocent people in the pursuit of a political aim — namely, the Islamisation of Britain. The suggestion that if the British state calls jihadis ‘criminals’ they will feel less glorious about what they are doing is inane. As far as they are concerned they are fighting a jihad, or holy war. By denying that this is what we are up against, and arriving instead at a false analysis that denies the reality of holy war, the government is fatally undermining Britain’s ability to defend itself. By denying the political goal of the violence, it makes it much more likely that it will accede to that goal. You cannot ever defeat a threat that you refuse even to call by its proper name."
"...the government believes that Islamist terrorism has nothing to do with Islam that the leading Muslim scholars and opinion formers whom Ms Smith said the government was backing to talk about extremist ideology to British Muslims in order to counter Islamic radicalisation are themselvesin large measure … Islamist radicals."
"Really — you couldn’t make it up."
"Much of the problem is that the government’s advisers and civil servants have had their heads filled with the revisionist and ahistorical rubbish about Islam produced by authors such as Karen Armstrong or John Esposito. Their resulting profound ignorance about Islam means they simply haven’t got a clue about what is actually happening."
"the government has failed to grasp that Britain is being squeezed by a jihadi pincer movement of both terrorism and cultural aggression, each reinforcing the other and, according to plan, causing the governing class to descend into that state of cultural servitude to Islam known as ‘dhimmitude’."
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/454956/slouching-towards-dhimmocracy.thtml
Posted by: Sounder at January 17, 2008 8:35 PM
It's an outrage, but Outrage itself has become a euphemism regarding these daily assaults on truth. So long as our enemies have their way with us, we will continue losing simply by not winning. Cowards in power, what a pathetic mess they've made of our response to Jihad.
Posted by: Bosch Fawstin at January 17, 2008 8:36 PM
"ebonystone:
The British gov't is now the arbiter of what is, and what isn't, Islam."
It would appear so. Doubtless there is already an ambitious Range 8 in the Home Office eagerly drawing up a set of Best Practice Guidelines for Followers of Islam.
But here's a puzzler for them. Egyptian cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is one of the foremost Sunni theologians in the Islamic faith. He is revered, and his fatwas are taken as law, by millions of Sunnis throughout the world. Yet Sheikh Qaradawi has repreatedly praised Palestinian suicide bombers, believes that gays in Islamic countries should be stoned to death, and has ruled that Israeli babies in their mothers' wombs are legitimate targets for murder.
Is this pre-eminent Sunni scholar Islamic, or anti-Islamic? Perhaps Jacqui Smith could tell us?
Posted by: Matamoros at January 17, 2008 8:46 PM
Orwell Alert! Indeed.
So on that note, if the Dhimmicrats get elected in the US and the Fiberals get elected in Canada, next elections,
..... you ain't seen nothin yet!
Posted by: Sounder at January 17, 2008 8:47 PM
I wonder how long it will take before Labour turn thier new double speak on anyone who disagrees with the practise of Islam.
"un-british"?
Sounds almost too Muslim to be true.
Posted by: OLDEngland at January 17, 2008 8:47 PM
I know!
Why don't we just call it 'anti-British activity'?
Posted by: devorgilla at January 17, 2008 8:47 PM
Anti-Islamic...
That phrase and the fact the government now intends to enforce laws covered by this should send chills down everyones spins. It's a small step to enforcing Sharia Law and attacking Web Sites like this one.
Perhaps not so Orwellian, but in fact an open admission by the supposive leaders of the free world of whom they prefer. They'd prefer to declare victory for Islam and demand we pay jizya to our new Mohammedan overlords with them as it's "Guardians of the "Faiths"" and the treasury there of.
Posted by: senor doeboy at January 17, 2008 8:49 PM
So what are these no-go zones we recently read about over there, Anti-Islamic zones?
at January 17, 2008 8:58 PM
Humph. The whole dang THING is a 'death cult.'
Posted by: Lori B. at January 17, 2008 4:46 PM
To a politician, a death cult' is good for..... Wanna guess?
Posted by: Alert at January 17, 2008 9:14 PM
If the BNP were to jettison their racist policies, I bet they would win the next British general election.
Posted by: Teejay at January 17, 2008 9:15 PM
Since all true believers, that is those that follow the teachings of the Quran, are duty bound to destroy us non-believers, let's call them all (potential) murderers, until they prove themselves otherwise.
Those that don't wish to be associated with such tactics will be more willing to speak out against their murderous brothers.
at January 17, 2008 9:43 PM
If the BNP were to jettison their racist policies, I bet they would win the next British general election.
Posted by: Teejay
If you go to the BNP website you will see that the BNP has tried their best to put this "racist" tag aside. But it seems that Brits will only see what the want to see and thus they have spineless wimps like Jaki Smith ruling them, giving their country away and brainwashing the population.
Mr. Brown in his previous position vowed that he would change the laws so that one someone like Nick Griffin says that Islam is a wicked faith, he will be convicted as a criminal. Thus you see the start of it. Those telling the truth will eventually be put behind bars. When free speech is banished only violence will ensue.
But Teejay, by all means, don't vote for the BNP. A vote for the only party that's got the Islamic thing right is a bad thing to do. Keep your hopes pinned to the Labour clowns and the Tories while London Burns.
Posted by: Briars at January 17, 2008 9:58 PM
"UK: Government renames Islamic terrorism as 'anti-Islamic activity' to woo Muslims"
Actually, this might not be as bad as it sounds. The way this can be a good thing is if the British government begins to publicly identify ANY AND ALL people who call themselves Muslims, and who engage in ANY kind of hate crime (e.g. intimidation of others, terrorism, suicide bombing), as phony Muslims guilty of anti-Islamic activity, and starts to harass THEM in the name of dealing with "anti-Islamic activity". They also can begin to put prominent Muslims on the spot and pressure them to PUBLICLY AND SPECIFICALLY condemn Muslims who are guilty of "anti-Islamic activity".
Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at January 17, 2008 10:15 PM
and how about naming the crusades as anti christian wars? if we go by that logic.
Posted by: desidude at January 17, 2008 10:21 PM
"Security officials believe that directly linking terrorism to Islam is inflammatory, and risks alienating mainstream Muslim opinion"
"MAINSTREAM" Muslim? I guess I don't know what that means.
I know what I THINK it means: Those Muslims who either tacitly condone and approve of Islamic terrorism, or who accept it and allow it to continue with nary a peep of protest.
I am unaware of any major group of of Muslims who ACTIVELY oppose Islamic terrorism, nor even any group that routinely protests, decries or villifies acts of Islamic terror. I do hear lip-service from the governments of State sponsors of terrorism, but I discount it. I certainly don't know of any vocal Islamic group with an Anti-Terrorist mission within the U.S. or U.K.. If I'm wrong, please direct me to such a group's website.
Posted by: Eyas at January 17, 2008 10:25 PM
The Street gang Islam has a new uniform
Burqa for boys’ becomes new hoodie fashion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle302...
THEY look less like hoodies than “burqas for the boys”. A jacket that conceals the head and face, leaving two “goggle-slots” to see through, is becoming the latest fashion craze to hit the streets.
The intimidating look has been borrowed from Italian couture, where it was created in the 1980s in homage to the protective gear worn by drivers in the Mille Miglia, the endurance race which started in the 1920s.
Police and community groups are concerned that the “goggle jackets” will become the next uniform of Asbo culture.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...
Brian Paddick, a former senior officer at the Metropolitan police and now a London mayoral candidate, said:“The trouble in society is not just crime but the fear of crime, and this new jacket is enough to give anyone a shiver down their spine.”
The Italian version of the jackets still sells at about £600 in the West End store of CP Company, an Italian couture brand. But this season high street brands like Projekts NYC are selling them for £50. They mostly come in dark colours.
At Arrival, a clothes shop in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, owner Marc Chapman cannot keep up with demand.“I must have sold about 40 jackets in the past fortnight,” he said.
“Even girls are coming in to buy them, although this is a men’s store.”
Chapman, 22, added:“A lot of people who are hoodies are buying this as the new thing.”
Steve Dodd, 18, a student in South Shields, said he bought his jacket to protect his face from the freezing winds off the North Sea and was taken aback by the reaction he gets from strangers.
He said:“After I bought the jacket I went into the Caffe Nero opposite, fully zipped up, and people just laughed.”
Dodd said he had even consulted a lawyer friend on the legal position.“She told me that the police could ask me to take it down but it wasn’t illegal. To me it’s a practical jacket.”
Officials at the Association of Chief Police Officers say there are no laws to forbid anyone from wearing such a jacket during the day or night.
A spokesman added that the only time that police officers could demand to see a person’s face was if they suspected that he had committed, or was about to commit, a crime.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&ie=UTF-8&q=goggle+jackets
Posted by: GrennBeck at January 17, 2008 10:34 PM
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder[er] is less to fear.”- -
Marcus Tullius Cicero
at January 17, 2008 10:52 PM
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder[er] is less to fear.”- -
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Posted by: shiva at January 17, 2008 10:52 PM
Shiva,
Excellent post. We have crossed paths and generally agreed on outside blogs as well, along with elric.
Your reference to Cicero is quite apropos, and touches on a common theme that I personally have reiterated here at this site quite recently...
Rome was not built in a day, nor was it desroyed in a day, and more importantly, not from without, but rather...from within.
The infiltration is nearly complete. Islam is undoubtably the enemy of the West, and the enemy of freedom of mind and body.
This latest example is a slap in the face by a freight train.
Remember this date, 1/17/08, for it very well may be the date of the final funeral dirge of the UK...with the US to follow in short order.
Posted by: awake at January 17, 2008 11:31 PM
Islam: the deathcult of peace.
Now going under the new UK name:
The Happy Marshmallow Society of Fancy Fairies and Silly Sylphs.
George Orwell, call your answering service.
Posted by: profitsbeard at January 17, 2008 11:37 PM
If Jaki is going to be consistent, She must publicly label the Saudi government, the Iranian government, and just about every other Islamic state in the world, as Anti-Islamic. In addition, she must label Sharia law as Anti-Islamic.
It would be amusing to watch her debating the entire Muslim world about what constitutes true Islam.
Posted by: rational
at January 17, 2008 11:42 PM
And where is Monty Python when you need them?
Posted by: Emerson Twain at January 18, 2008 12:03 AM
And where is Monty Python when you need them?
If they were still au courant, they would be lampooning extremist Christians and other assorted "Islamophobes".
at January 18, 2008 12:20 AM
The need to be PC has no end. It has supassed irony and moved on to parody at this point. Yes, Emerson Twain, the Ministry of Misleading labels is working overtime.
www.culturism.us
Posted by: culturist at January 18, 2008 12:36 AM
Reinterpreting Quranic texts is fun. I like theology.
But this is all a double standard. When the European religious inferno stopped around 16-1700, it was not because priests "reinterpreted their holy texts". It's not the case that you had a bunch of priests saying that whoops, all their religious compatriots had died for nothing and let's all get along.
You had priests saying "say the wrong thing, you'll go to Inquisition", as before--and then there were other people (Galileo, Henry IV, Hobbes/Locke) who decided that the hell-on-earth jig was up.
Why do you ask for more from Islam?
Posted by: Shlomo_Michael at January 18, 2008 1:25 AM
Jacqui Smith must have spent months working on her new epithet for islamic terrorism; she deserves special recognition from her fellow travelers for her brilliant work. What a bizarre world we live in when Western "leaders" are more concerned about finding politically correct euphemisms for our enemies than defeating them, and more aggressively punish people for telling the truth than for committing violent crimes. When will these idiots be removed from office, or are their policies acceptable to the British people? We have plenty of idiots at every level of government but they are not in total control for life, as seems to be the case in the U.K.
Should Madame Clinton luck out and get elected president, we can expect her to closely follow the patterns in Europe. She is enamored of the European social model and would love to see it replicated in America. She especially adores the "universal" European health care system, which from my vantage point is a dismal disaster, providing mediocre health care at best and getting worse by the day. Of course, high-level bureaucrats and elites are spared the indignities, inferior service, long waits, and excluded benefits that the common citizens must endure. It would appear that this noble endeavor has come full circle and once again, only the privileged members of society get quality medical care. That always seems to happen in socialist societies, and not just with medical care. Equality is so elusive; now you see it, now you don't.
at January 18, 2008 1:26 AM
Violent actions can be described by the beliefs of the perpetrators or the characteristics of their victims. Murder by those who want to end Islam would be anti-Islamic. Is that Al Q.'s aim? Well, no.
Murder of Sunni or Shiite by Al Q. may be properly called anti-Islamic, because of the victims beliefs. But that doesn't fit the majority of victims dispatched by members of the Islamic faith.
Other accurate descriptive type terms, based on the victim's status, might also include anti-American, anti-British, anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Hindu, anti-homosexual, anti-liberated women, anti-free thinking man, anti-communist, anti-democratic, anti-free speech, or anti-Liberal, or even, anti-non-Islamic. But that's not what the media shapers want you to think about, is it?
What they really mean to imply is that the perpetrator was an Islamic heretic, an Islamic deviant, really, a self-mis-indentifying Islamic who doesn't ft their definition of what a good Muslim should believe the Koran means.
"Self-Mis-Identifying Islamic activity"? Rolls right off your tongue like your head off your shoulders, eh?
If the label is not accurate then why bother. Just say, that dead human was killed by one of them killer humans...
The press should mock their crude spin by using scare quotes "anti-Islamic", and then properly identify the victim and the goals of the perpetrator "a British Anglican was blown up by a Salaffi or Wahabbi Muslim seeking to destroy the West and institute a Caliphate". or, in shorter form, an "Islamic terrorist".
One must restrain a laugh when hearing the complaint "There is no war on terror, terror is just a method', then you realize that they are more offended by actually identifying who the war is really against, and restrain from crying when you realize that they just can't stomach the concept of a war, even as it shoots their neighbor in the face.
Do they really think that Muslims on the fence over perpetrating violence will be mollifed by a gentler label for religiously motivated terror?
at January 18, 2008 1:40 AM
Thought you might be interested:
Just found another gem, sent in by an ex-Sufi Muslim:
The honour of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims... The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.--
Sufi saint Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624), letter #163
at January 18, 2008 4:52 AM
Its a sign of desparation by the left, they are trying to tar extreme Islamics as being the same as the Assassins, that is the plan, keep being nice, say that we are not at war, praise Islam and try to make Islamic society reform itself.
The cult of wishful thinking, all of the leaders in the West are following this strategy, at what point will they realise that they are wrong, when its too damn late. Did anyone check out Sarkozys simpering speach to teh Saudi's, I will pass you the sick bag!!!
Our societies are being destroyed from the inside, both by the Islamics and by the people who are using this strategy to try to win over the Muslims.
The only good thing you can say about this is that it just shows how mad the policy is, it takes a really incompetent government to really show just how silly it is. Thank you Labour for your incompetence giving us another lesson!
Posted by: Daffersd at January 18, 2008 5:11 AM
These people are stupid beyond any level of functioning. They must be government employees...
Posted by: duh_swami at January 17, 2008 7:07 PM
Imagine Chruchill telling the British over the radio: "Nazis are not true Germans...... just 'Anti-German criminals'. Good-night.".. with Goebbels and Göring, rolling on the floor, telling Hitler "Can you turn down your Charlie Chaplin comedy, this Churchill guy is funnier."
Posted by: Alert at January 18, 2008 6:04 AM
Cowards in power, what a pathetic mess they've made of our response to Jihad.
Posted by: Bosch Fawstin at January 17, 2008 8:36 PM
.. and herein lies the test of western voters! Dangerous as Islam is to our civilization, politicians pose a real and immediate threat to our life, if you see the difference............. I repeat, we must hold our corrupt politicians's feet to fire.
Posted by: Alert at January 18, 2008 6:27 AM
GrennBeck, Re: Goggle Jackets
you mean these...
http://i10.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/b9/a1/bf79_1.JPG
I have seen these jackets being worn but the association with future sharia implementation is wrong, the people who wear these jackets are the BRITISH foot soldiers of our future conflict.
I think its more 'if some people can legally cover their faces, so can i.
I have my eye on a nice black camo one, its that or a Union Jack shemagh
Posted by: MrTommyAtkins at January 18, 2008 6:49 AM
Someone needs to tell Hamas that all their rockets and "martyrdom operations" are ANTI-Islamic.
Posted by: Godefroi at January 18, 2008 6:51 AM
But this is all a double standard. When the European religious inferno stopped around 16-1700, it was not because priests "reinterpreted their holy texts". It's not the case that you had a bunch of priests saying that whoops, all their religious compatriots had died for nothing and let's all get along.
Why do you ask for more from Islam?
Shlomo_Michael,
Actually, Priest and Ministers didn't have to "reinterpreted their holy texts." Their holy texts never sanctioned the atrocities they committed against one another for generations. The text' was always in sharp contrast to the murderous behavior of its followers.
It was only when Christians began taking their scriptures seriously that they realized the great gulf that existed between what they were supposed to do and what they were doing. No Christian theologian today would dare try using scripture to sanction the crimes committed in the past in the name of Jesus Christ. It would not be possible, because the text makes it impossible.
In Islamic text The contrary is true. Crimes committed in the name of Allah are perfectly consistent with Islamic scripture. Ask any Jihadist. He can quote chapter can verse to justify his crimes. That's why a so-called "Moderate" Muslim will rarely debate a Jihadist about what constitutes true Islam. He knows the Jihadist will wipe up the floor with him.
There's no double standard here, because there was never any reason to reinterpret Christian scripture. There was only a need to believe and follow it.
In Islam, believing and following Islamic scripture, invariably leads to the criminal and uncivilized behavior of militant Muslims in the world today. It corrups their own world, and threatens ours.
There's only two possible solutions to the Islamic problem in todays world: Muslims can rewrite -- not reinterpret. that would be impossible -- their own scriptures, or they can abolish them all together.
I don't think it's unreasonable, though probably unlikely, for the rest of peaceful humanity to expect them to do one or the other.
It would be highly unreasonable to expect the rest of us to accept Islamic terror as a normal part of our lives.
They have to change, not us.
Posted by: rational at January 18, 2008 9:53 AM
Who-ever came up with this piece of clap-trap was probably awarded a seven figure grant in which to do so.
Posted by: U.K. TODAY. at January 18, 2008 10:50 AM
Shlomo_Michael,
When can we expect Islam to give up the religious wars? Why is it unreasonable to expect the so-called peaceful Muslims in the world to put a stop to the jihad? Either they believe in it or they don't. Without the fighters, what's said in the mosque would stay in the mosque.
Posted by: PMK at January 18, 2008 10:54 AM
" One passage said: "As so many Muslims in the UK and across the world have pointed out, there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief." "
Jacqui Smith.
And what about the many Muslims in the UK and across the world who have pointed out, there is something Islamic about the wish to terrorise, something Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief.
Both statements above are true. There are both Muslims denying Islam's link to terrorist acts committed by Muslims and Muslims who claim that terrorist acts committed by Muslims are done in the name of Islam.
Obviously one group of Muslims is wrong, the burning question is....which one? Jacqui....sorry love, you guessed wrong. Shame really, seeing it’s only the survival of the free World that's at stake here.
Actually scrap that....you’re not a "love", you’re a first class tool.
at January 18, 2008 12:40 PM
"UK: Government renames Islamic terrorism as 'anti-Islamic activity' to woo Muslims"
Actually, this might not be as bad as it sounds. The way this can be a good thing is if the British government begins to publicly identify ANY AND ALL people who call themselves Muslims, and who engage in ANY kind of hate crime (e.g. intimidation of others, terrorism, suicide bombing), as phony Muslims guilty of anti-Islamic activity, and starts to harass THEM in the name of dealing with "anti-Islamic activity". They also can begin to put prominent Muslims on the spot and pressure them to PUBLICLY AND SPECIFICALLY condemn Muslims who are guilty of "anti-Islamic activity".
Posted by: PersonOfTheBook
Actually, this is good. I could go with that, I like it! It opens the door for REAL prosecution for "un-Islamic" activities, which includes beheadings, 'honor' killings, suicide bombings, you know, the usual un-Islamic stuff, included in the pot with hateful preachings at the mosques, recruiting jihadists... all those un-Islamic activities. It also puts the shoe on the other foot, where Islamics must now defend their faith from all those un-Islamists in full public MSM view, all those baddies who live in their no-go ghettos midst. Furthermore, it now puts pressure on them to explain, without bold faced lying, EXACTLY what this clean and pure Islam is supposed to be all about. Washing feet doesn't count, and halal bloodletting is environmentally unsound, but coming clean is a start. Let them start to convince us what exactly good and proper "Islam" is all about, and not some made up fiction. Islam is un-Islamic? Please explain...
at January 18, 2008 3:21 PM
This is what is so scary about the idiots who run my country. Instaed of spouting left wing PC rubbish Jacqui Smith should try reading the quran.
More worryingly she probably has read the quran, knows that this religion poses a direct threat to the freedom and safety of the people she is charged with protecting, but is more concerned with winning the next election and protecting her own career.
So we can all just go and die then. Thanks Jacqui. Remember that when the next islamic murders take place in th UK. Every drop of blood, every single drop, will be on your hands.
All because of your career.
Posted by: DaveMate at January 18, 2008 7:11 PM
Looks like the "ISLAM IS PEACE" campaign has been successful despite the applaudable eforts of Robert Spencer (series of videos on HotAir) to debunk it
Posted by: Xero G at January 18, 2008 9:49 PM
I guess she hasn't even slightly reviewed the Koran, all of the terrorist's actions are spelled out step by step, even new names for the victims, Kaffers etc., reminds me of Rawanda, "the cockroaches are hiding in the churches, the schools." What's up with this nut b.
Posted by: americanpatriot at January 21, 2008 6:15 PM
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