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Scotland Muslim in jihad vid, First Minister hits “demonization of Muslims”

Jun 27, 2014 1:53 pm By Robert Spencer

ISILjihadrecruitersThere should indeed be no demonization of Muslims in Scotland, and the actions of one individual should indeed not reflect upon an entire community. The statements by Salmond and Stewart, however, reflect the success of the years-long campaign by Muslim groups in the West to portray themselves as victims of counter-terror efforts. The demand that the actions of one individual not reflect upon the entire community is all too often used to deflect unwelcome questions about just how much of what this young man believes is indeed taught in the community, and about what the community is doing to combat this understanding of Islam that it ostensibly rejects. What’s more, honest inquiry into how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims is often excoriated as “demonization of Muslims.”

During World War II, Germans and Japanese in the U.S. were anxious to prove their loyalty, and formed divisions that fought in the military. In Muslim communities today, by contrast, we see indignation at efforts to find and prosecute jihadis, claims that Muslims are being unfairly victimized, and so on. And this has gone on for so long that now to mouth such statements as Salmond and Stewart make here is the default mode for Western politicians whenever their is a jihad attack or, as here, the discovery of a jihadist from a Western country.

“FM: Zero tolerance to demonisation of Scots Muslims,” by Scott McNab, The Scotsman, June 27, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):

SCOTLAND’S authorities will take a “zero tolerance” approach to attempts to demonise Muslims after an Aberdeen man appeared in a terrorist recruitment video, Alex Salmond said today.

The First Minister told MSPs that police are “actively monitoring” the threat of radicalisation in Scotland after the video, There Is No Life Without Jihad, emerged on Friday. It was posted by accounts linked to Isis and featured Abdul Rakib Amin, 25, who was raised in the Granite City.

North East MSP Kevin Stewart said the video “shocked” the city’s Muslim community during First Minister Questions today and said the actions of one individual should “not reflect an entire community”

Mr Salmond said: “I wholeheartedly agree with that as I believe the whole chamber agrees with that.

“The purpose of extremism is to seek to divide communities. Radicalisation is something that we have been and continue to be vigilant about.

“The purpose of extremism is to seek to divide communities.” No. The purpose of “extremism,” when that word is used to refer to Islamic jihad, is to establish the Islamic state and impose Islamic law.

“Police Scotland have been very active in monitoring that, but also active of course in engaging with and building strong relationships with the Muslim community.

“However the actions of any individual should not and must not be seen as reflecting in any way mainstream opinion in any community of Scotland.

“We know from experience how well this country can react to such challenges, as the integrated community response to the Glasgow airport attack in 2007 showed Scotland at its very best.

“All fair-minded people in Aberdeen and across the country will support our zero tolerance approach to any attempt to demonise the Muslim community or indeed any other minority group.”

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    Take a look at the flag of Scotland. What do Muslims think of any flag with a cross (of any type) appearing upon it? I live in the United States and I remember the U.S. flag being displayed in every classroom at the school I attended and also at my church. I’m just curious…..do Muslims in Scotland display the flag of Scotland anywhere upon the gounds of their mosques or schools? Not flying the flag would not make the demons, of course, but do you think they really have much allegiance to Scotland?

    • eddie tibbot says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 1:31 pm

      As a Scot and a rampant nationalist, I find our first ministers comments both worrying and disgusting. are we to trust this mans to take us in to independence. Sorry Alex I may vote yes but I will never vote for you after independence. REMEMBER LOCKERBIE………………

  2. Charli Main says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    You don´t have to be blowing yourself up, pulling the trigger on a gun or beheading infidels to be a Jihadist.
    All those ” peaceful” ” moderate ” Muslims giving financial aid, moral support to, and hiding and protecting those Muslims that are actively killing people , are just as guilty of Jihad as their blood stained brothers.

    • bettina says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 2:49 pm

      Hear, hear, Charli !

  3. Wellington says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    So glad Scottish authorities of yore didn’t take a zero tolerance approach to demonizing Nazis and Communists. Again can be seen that Islam is not seen by Western elites for the nefarious, liberty-crushing spiritual ideology that it is.

    Also, it is so lame to say that the vast majority of Muslims don’t commit violence in the name of their ideology. The vast majority of Nazi Party members and Communist Party members didn’t personally commit violence either but this didn’t make Nazism or Communism OK.

    Islam still hides behind its religious veil. Meanwhile, Western elites remain in slumber mode where Islam is concerned. This is both stupid and dangerous.

    • not telling says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 5:12 pm

      Actually, the SNP where in support of the Nazi’s (who where fellow Socialists)

  4. Tradewinds says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    There shouldn’t be any Muslims in Scotland. How in the heck did that happen??

    Muslims demonize themselves. You got that, First Minister? What a Dhimmi. As bad as the Dhimmi PM’s in Londonistan. The UK has truly ruined itself. I’ve never seen such stupidity.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 3:09 pm

      Salmond is a rabid leftist. If Scotland votes ‘yes’ in the referendum, he will have control of an immigration policy that will be overwhelmingly on the side of uncontrolled mohammedan immigration.

      Add to that his rabid hatred of England and the English, and one sees a very troubling future for England, **and** Scotland. I just hope ”my ain folk” have the sense to vote ‘no’. Or at least to kick out Salmond.

      • bernie says

        Jun 27, 2014 at 9:34 pm

        When the young white Scottish boy Kriss Donald was brutally tortured and murdered by a racist Pakistani Muslim, what did the Scottish muslims say about it at the time the guy was prosecuted and convicted?

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Jun 28, 2014 at 12:19 am

          Bernie, I’m not sure what the Scottish Muslims said but here’s what Wikipedia says about it:

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kriss_Donald

  5. zulu says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    Muslim man murders pregnant prostitute because she was working near a mosque

    Mariana Popa was six weeks pregnant when she was knifed by Farooq Shah

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672538/Muslim-man-murders-pregnant-prostitute-working-near-mosque.html#ixzz35ru12t8U
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  6. Jaladhi says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    Once again it goes to show that there are no “moderate” Muslims nor there were any at anytime in history. This is a fable created by stupid Westerners with the help of Muslims themselves!!

    • PRCS says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 10:20 pm

      The phrase “every Muslim” means exactly that. Every Muslim.

      Every Muslim, no matter how violent, was a “moderate Muslim” at some time in their lives.

      They had to be carefully taught.

      And yet, despite their carefully washed brains, it’s hard for me to believe that the failure of burqa clad Afghan mothers to speak out against wife beating constitutes silent support for their “radicalized” brethren.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    The militant jihadist Muslims with all their murderous violence are the ones who are guilty of making the image of the “demonization of Muslims.” the violent jihadist Muslims are the one who give the non-violent Muslims a bad name. Those jihadist Muslims are more then just a few. Lets put the blame where it belongs.

    • Charlie Griffith says

      Jun 27, 2014 at 4:25 pm

      Re:
      “…the violent jihadist Muslims are the one who give the non-violent Muslims a bad name. ” I strongly disagree.

      Do our resident Muslims read and adhere to the verses in their Koran?

      To me all Muslims are latent violent Muslims. It’s only a matter of their choosing the time and place to be violent, or of having the time and place for their violence chosen for them by their principals here among us.

  8. ploome says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    the only people acceptable todemonize in Scotlans are Israelis/Jews

  9. Jaladhi says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 4:06 pm

    It’s only in Western lexicon that telling the truth about Muslims or anybody else is demonizing them! Nobody can be more stupid than that!!

  10. Charlie Griffith says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    Too bad there’s not more people in high positions inside Western Governments today who remember the Second World War, and then the Cold War. We’d have a very different situation here regarding our Muslim enemy.

    Franklin Roosevelt, that well known shy, shrinking violet of a Liberal President here in America wrote an Executive Order interning all of the Japanese, especially those on our West coast early in 1942, I think it was. They were quarantined inside barbed wire encampments. Germans and Italians were suspect, wherever they were.

    This nation was in shock, and the Japanese were called things which I can’t repeat here. There was nationwide fury at that sneak attack. This fury lasted until August of 1945, and lingered long after. There was no racial fury against those of German and Italian heritage resident here .

    Starting even earlier about 1925 or so we began having serious Soviet Communist agent infiltration, embedding themselves quietly here and there, and the emergence of their “cells”. Our State Department seemed to welcome Soviet moles.

    Skip ahead now to 2001. The shock of the Muslim sneak attack via air on Lower Manhattan, and the Pentagon building in Northern Virginia dissipated fairly quickly. President Bush even visited that large prominent white marble mosque out on Massachusetts Avenue with a somewhat conciliatory gesture and words very soon after that sneak attack. Well intentioned, but a serious mistake much used against him later on.

    But today our Muslim enemy has been more successful than any before in infiltrating themselves and embedding themselves nationwide….Fairfax County in Northern Virginia is now becoming a Muslim suburb of our District of Columbia. Muslims today are using the same strategy and tactics the Soviet Communists used years ago. There is the C.A.I.R. There is some sort of Saudi endowed “Chair” of something or other at the Roman Catholic Georgetown University. Very ecumenical, and all that.

    But now we mustn’t hurt the feelings of our Muslim residents. Imagine. They will SUE US in Court. “Lawfare” we call it.

    The World is turned upside down. So read Spencer’s excellent articles now with a little more urgency and perspective. We need many more Robert Spencer’s.

    There really, really aren’t any “moderate” Muslims. Either they are Muslims, or they are not. There are no degrees or scales of Muslim-ism. No barometer.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 2:58 am

      It’s refreshing now and again to read the rare example of genuinely anti-Islam prose here at Camp Jihad Watch Softy.

  11. Stanley says

    Jun 27, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    Just like the ‘snobs law’ he passed a couple of years ago which can lead to up to five years in prison for saying or singing the ‘unacceptable’ words. This from this reprobate doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. I wonder if he’ll expand the law to include any criticism of the religion of peace.

    ‘Zero tollerance’, totalitarianism in the guise of liberalism.

    Salmond is a weird character, he was one of the only vocal opponents of nato action to prevent the genocide in the former Yugoslavia.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 3:07 am

      Salmond was only against the bombing of the Serbs; he was still an idiot about the jihad against Serbia and about Milosevic.

  12. Somhairle says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 5:04 am

    These Muslims are NOT Scots and that is a FACT. Stopping selling our heritage, our identity and future away like cheap prostitutes. We’ve been here in these islands for over 40,000 years, we’ve literally built this land. And they have nothing but contempt for us. They would bomb Callanish and New Grange, Stone Henge, St Ninian’s chapel, Skarra Brae, Iona and all our other heritage as soon as they get the chance. Our history is nothing but idols which their God says must be destroyed to them.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 4:09 pm

      I agree with you 100%.

      Did the Scots move Stonehenge north as retribution for the English ‘borrowing’ the Stone of Scone for a few hundred years?

      • Somhairle says

        Jun 28, 2014 at 11:55 pm

        Its a part of all our heritage. If you want to get pedantic though, its more a part of our heritage than the English considering genetic analysis has shown they are more closely related to the Frisians than the pre-Roman inhabitants of these islands.

  13. Alastair says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Salmond has one chance to free Scots from Londonistan. He needs every vote and with the entire western world from the Pope to Obama & every Media outlet backing London we have to get every single vote.

    For next 3 months we will stay united and if that means cozying up to every demographic.

    Once the referendum is over we will disperse. Left & right politically. Pro & anti immigration. Christian, Jew, Athiest & Muslim.

    We have been fighting this battle for a millennium & nothing trumps it in importance for us. Gaining our independence from London was the goal before the first Europeans ever set foot in America.

    The UK state is an impressive operator and divide & conquer worked in every conflict.

    In the middle east I care only for Israel and a little sympathy for Kurds.

    The rest are welcome to recruit every single jihadi wanabee in Europe and I welcome them murdering the hell out of each other till they learn that Islam is a nonsense cult written by a madman.

    Scottish independence is not about Salmond, SNP or any politician. It is about returning government to the people of this ancient nation for the generations to come.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 1, 2014 at 5:07 am

      Any and all patriotic Scots jihadwatchers should be displaying the Cross of St Andrew at every chance they get: badge, T-shirt, bumper-sticker and of course as a flag.

      (To show your brother infidels south of the border that despite your strictly-intra-infidel quarrel you support the struggle against Jihad, you can always display the Cross of St George and the Pendragon in brotherly fashion as well, of course using the proper protocols). The Rules for Dhimmis say that public display of crosses is forbidden. So – just as when the English show the cross of St George – the Scots flying of the Cross of St Andrew is a major statement – “No Dhimmis Here”.

      I just looked up Scottish symbols – apparently the national animal of Scotland is the unicorn. Islam forbids the artistic representation of living beings, human or animal (or mythical); so display your Unicorn and let the mohammedans know that you have NO intention of complying with the Sharia.

      Patriotic Welshmen should be displaying the sign of the Pendragon, another wonderful mythical beast.

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