The anti-Islam group Pegida has announced plans for a rally in Amsterdam that will be held February 25, the same day on which a famous anti-Nazi rally was held in 1941 during the German occupation.
The march by Pegida is scheduled to take place on the 77th “anniversary of the so-called February Strike — a rare act of disobedience under the Nazi occupation called by the then illegal Dutch Communist Party. Amsterdam dockworkers went on strike in solidarity with 425 Jews arrested by the Germans and deported to Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp.”
Not everyone was pleased. “Reinier van Dantzig, who heads the liberal Democrats 66 party’s faction on the Amsterdam City Council, called on the organizers to find an alternative date.
“Darn it, why on that day?” van Dantzig wrote on Twitter. “The right to demonstrate happens to be sacrosanct in Amsterdam, even for these xenophobes, but pick another date when Amsterdam does not commemorate those who fought for tolerance during World War II.”
“Why on that day?”
Notice the double dig at Pegida’s members, described as “xenophobes” who have no right to hold their rally on a date when Amsterdam “commemorate[s] those who fought for tolerance during World War II” because impliedly the anti-Islam Pegida has nothing to do with “tolerance” but is intolerant of Muslims, who for the reinier-van-dantzigs of this world are blameless innocents, the “new Jews.”
One way of dealing with van Dantzig’s complaint is simply to ignore it, just go ahead and hold the rally.
But there is another way, which is to take van Dantzig’s complaint and, using it as a point of departure, to explain why holding an anti-Islam rally on the anniversary of an anti-Nazi rally is in fact most appropriate. Exploit the occasion, bring forth the evidence of close Muslim collaboration with the Nazis, explain to the Dutch public the links between the ideology of Islam and of the Nazis, detail the sinister role of Haj Amin al Husseini, the leader of the Arabs of Palestine and beyond, in encouraging Hitler in his policy of mass murder of Jews, discuss the Nazi war criminals who found refuge and succor in Arab lands after the war (with many converting to Islam), and the virulent antisemitism that is to be found throughout the Qur’an. Nothing extenuate.
First, the Pegida spokesman should admit that “yes, we chose that date deliberately. We did so because we feel a deep kinship with those who dared to challenge the German occupation, seventy-seven years ago, as we are challenging a different kind of occupation of Europe today. The occupiers are the tens of millions of Muslims who have been allowed by our careless governments to settle in our midst, deep behind what they are taught to regard as enemy lines, the lines of Dar al-Harb. And while the media keep calling us the “far-right,” which by implication connotes antisemitism, we are nothing of the sort. Some of us could even be described as on the left. We are philosemitic. We think Europe has a moral duty, given its past, to assure the security of Jews. We think that freedom of religion includes the right to be an apostate. We think the right of free speech includes the right to criticize, without fear, any faith. We think that men and women must be equal under the law; men should not be able to control “their” women. We think we have a right to expect those who come to our countries to respect these values. Is any of that “far-right”?
“And we chose our date, too, because we want to remind people, too, of the similarities between Nazi and Islamic totalitarianism. It is worth learning that according to Albert Speer in Inside the Third Reich, Hitler is reported to have been much impressed by “a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs.” The delegation had speculated that the world would have become “Mohammedan” if the Berbers and Arabs had won the Battle of Tours in the 8th Century AD, and that the Germans would have become heirs to “a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and in subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the German temperament.” Speer then presents Hitler’s claims on this subject:
“Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.”
“Similarly, Hitler was transcribed as saying: ‘Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers […] then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world.’”
Hitler’s wistful admiration for Islam — with it “the Germanic races would have conquered the world” — deserves to be more widely known.
But, Mr. van Dantzig may well ask, just what kind of “occupation” are we enduring in the Netherlands today? He doesn’t see any evidence of it. But he fails to understand. True, there are no serried ranks of black-booted heil-hitlering goose-stepping soldiers of the Nazi era. Our present-day “occupiers” do not wear uniforms. They are the millions of Muslims, living among us, but unwilling to integrate by adopting Western attitudes and accepting Western values. They believe in Islamic supremacism, that Muslims are the “best of peoples” (3:110), and Infidels the “most vile of creatures” (98:6). They object to such central values in the West as the freedoms of speech and of religion, for in their view criticism of Islam and of Muhammad is impermissible; a Muslim may not leave the faith on pain of death. These Muslims are commanded in the Qur’an not to take Christians or Jews as friends, “for they are friends only with each other.” They are failing to integrate (while other, non-Muslim migrants, integrate without much difficulty) not because their non-Muslim hosts haven’t made immense efforts to help them do so, but because they have no wish to do so.
The German occupiers in World War II helped themselves to the wealth of the Netherlands, including gold bullion, antique furniture, and paintings for the collection of that rapacious art thief Hermann Goering. Today our Muslim occupiers help themselves to different kinds of wealth: the free housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances. It all adds up to many billions of dollars. And to make matters worse, most of us look away, or complain not about the Muslims, but about those who dare to question this state of affairs. Theoretically, we still enjoy free speech; practically, when it comes to the discussion of Muslims and Islam, our free speech is sorely constrained. Just look at how much attention the Dutch media lavishes on Geert Wilders and others, castigating them as vicious Islamophobes, when they merely point out undeniable truths about what Islam teaches and how, as a consequence, many Muslims behave, including those who dutifully follow the Qur’an commands to “strike terror” in the hearts of the Kuffar. How many people feel they can speak freely about Muslims and Islam, in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe?
The original World War II-era strike on February 25, 1941, possibly the largest show of public disobedience over the fate of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, spread from the dockworkers to the tram company to other municipal departments, as well as to shipyards in the city’s north, the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile company and the De Bijenkorf chain of department stores. It was clearly a response to antisemitism.
Pegida could continue: “While we at Pegida are protesting many aspects of Islam, we want to underline our particular horror at how Muslim immigrants have reintroduced antisemitism into Europe’s body politic.
“Our planned protest, then, is against the latest carriers of antisemitism in Europe: the Muslims. We all know of the murderous attacks by Muslims on Jewish customers at the Hyper Cacher market in Paris, the killing of three little children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, and attacks on Jews by Muslims in Brussels, Copenhagen, Malmo. We know about the Jewish retiree who was stabbed, mutilated, and thrown out of her window by a Muslim neighbor, about the Jewish student in Berlin who was forced to leave his school because of attacks by Muslim classmates; about; the two Jewish brothers set upon and beaten by a group of young Muslims. We remember Ilan Halimi, the Jewish boy kidnapped and tortured by a group of Muslims, over several weeks, until he died. It is not surprising that Jews are now afraid to walk abroad in parts of many European cities. We know that in poll after poll Muslims in Europe show agreement with antisemitic statements, from three to six times more often than do non-Muslims. No one is any longer surprised that Jewish students have been beaten up by Muslim classmates, that some Jewish students have had to leave or change schools, that teachers are afraid of discussing the Holocaust with Muslim students who resent the attempt to “make us feel sorry for Jews.” One out of three Jews in the U.K. now say they are thinking of leaving the country.
“In France, the Jewish leader Richard Abitbol, president of the Confederation of Jews in France and Friends of Israel, describes the grim situation: ‘Every day we have people who are hurt, every day we have people who are insulted. We can be hurt by words, but we don’t mind, but when we are hurt by a knife, a gun, you can’t say I don’t mind.’ He predicts that ‘In a few decades, there will be no Jews in France. And there is also a problem in Europe. There are almost no Jews now, they are leaving. So, it’s terrible what I will say, but Europe is continuing in peace what Hitler had done by war.’
“It is not Europe, but Muslims in Europe, who are “continuing in peace what Hitler had done by war.” And where does this Muslim antisemitism originate? From the Qur’an itself. We think the following passages from the Qur’an explain Muslim antisemitism. We at Pegida would like to know what our critics, including Mr. Van Dantzig, think of the following passages from the Qur’an, and its classic commentators, and contemporary clerics, all collected by Robert Spencer:
“’The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the wellbeing of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.’
“Then there are the Qur’anic commentators on these verses:
“‘The classic Qur’anic commentators do not mitigate the Qur’an’s words against Jews, but only add fuel to the fire. Ibn Kathir explained Qur’an 2:61 (‘They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of Allah’) this way: ‘This Ayah [verse] indicates that the Children of Israel were plagued with humiliation, and that this will continue, meaning that it will never cease. They will continue to suffer humiliation at the hands of all who interact with them, along with the disgrace that they feel inwardly.’ Another Middle Ages commentator of lingering influence, Abdallah ibn Umar al-Baidawi, explains the same verse this way: ‘The Jews are mostly humiliated and wretched either of their own accord, or out of coercion of the fear of having their jizya [punitive tax] doubled.’
“’Ibn Kathir notes Islamic traditions that predict that at the end of the world, ‘the Jews will support the Dajjal (False Messiah), and the Muslims, along with ‘Isa [Jesus], son of Mary, will kill the Jews.’ The idea in Islam that the end times will be marked by Muslims killing Jews comes from the prophet Muhammad himself, who said, ‘The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.” This is, not unexpectedly, a favorite motif among contemporary jihadists.’
“And today’s most prestigious Islamic clerics agree:
“’Not just contemporary jihadists, but modern-day mainstream Islamic authorities take these passages seriously. The former Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, who was the most respected cleric in the world among Sunni Muslims, called Jews ‘the enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs.’ The late Saudi sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudayyis, imam of the principal mosque in the holiest city in Islam, Mecca, said in a sermon that Jews are ‘the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.’
“’Another Saudi sheikh, Ba’d bin Abdallah al-Ajameh al-Ghamidi, made the connection explicit: ‘The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places … is connected with the deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam–which proves the great similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of Islam.’
“We would all like to know what Mr. van Dantzig makes of these verses. Does he think we at Pegida are wrong to be alarmed? Is he not alarmed? And what does he make of the classic commentators and clerics endorsing those antisemitic passages? Does he think they are of no significance? Should we pretend they don’t matter?
“We think that any fair-minded person, willing to consider this evidence, would share our alarm at the antisemitism that seems so deeply imbedded in the texts of Islam.
“It’s not only the antisemitism found in the Qur’an, but antisemitism in practice, as reflected in the attitudes and behavior of notable Muslim clerics, and especially of Haj Amin al Husaini, the most important leader of the Palestinian Arabs from the 1920s to the early 1950s, that should concern us all, including Mr. van Dantzig. Haj Amin al Husaini needed no lessons from Hitler in the virulence of his antisemitism. When he visited Der Führer in Berlin in 1938, they naturally hit it off. Ibn Warraq notes that Haj Amin al Husaini ‘advocated genocide even before the Nazi government did so. His 1937 Appeal to All Muslims of the World urged them to cleanse their lands of the Jews, and it was translated into German in 1938. Urging the use of force against all Jews in the Middle East, al-Husaini both gave his parallel version of Hitler’s doctrine and laid the foundation for the anti-Semitic arguments used by radical Arab nationalists and Islamist down to this day. A half-century later, every speech and sermon from Hamas, Hizballah, Iran’s regime, the Muslim Brotherhood, and al-Qaeda echoed all of the grand mufti’s main points in his declaration.’
“The scholars Barry Rubin and Wolfgng Schwanitz explain that al-Husaini ‘combined traditional Islamic hatred of Jews with arguments framed by modern political concepts.’ He quoted, writes Ibn Warraq, ‘constantly from the Koran, Sira, and hadith to lay out his claims: Jews are cursed and evil; they were expelled from Egypt because they exploited the Egyptian people; (citing al-Tabari) they tried to kill Moses; they were punished by God for their sins; they spread disease; they hated, tried to discredit, and, finally, tried to poison Muhammad; they are out to destroy Islam. The Grand Mufti’s diatribe ends thus:
“‘I present to my Muslim brothers in the entire world the history and the true experience which the Jews cannot deny. The verses from the Koran and hadith prove that the Jews have been the bitterest enemies of Islam and continue to try to destroy it. Do not believe them. They know only hypocrisy and guile. Hold together, fight for Islamic thought, fight for your religion and your existence! Do not rest until your land is free of the Jews. Do not tolerate the plan of division, for Palestine has been an Arab land for centuries and shall remain Arab.’
“’Rubin and Schwanitz conclude: ‘It is wrong to see al-Husaini and his fellow radicals as merely importing European antisemitism or being influenced by the Nazis. The two groups’ ideas developed in parallel from their own histories and political cultures . . . The two sides came together on the basis of both common interests and similar worldviews.’”
“In an October 1944 speech to the imams of the Bosnian SS Division fighting for the Nazis, al-Husaini stated: ‘Nearly one-third of the Koran concerns the Jews. The Koran calls upon all Muslims to protect themselves against the Jews and to fight them wherever they may meet.’
Ibn Warraq notes that “al-Husaini’s role as the father of modern, violent Arab radical movements has been overlooked because he allied himself with the Nazis and the losing side in World War II, and was implicated in the humiliating defeat of the Arabs by the Israelis in 1948. He was too closely identified with the Palestinian cause, when he was actually the leader of the international radical Arab forces, both Islamist and nationalist. When the nationalists gained power, al-Husaini’s earlier part in keeping the two factions together was again forgotten. And, as noted above, al-Husaini was responsible for fundamentalist Islam’s survival in the 1950s and 1960s and its 1970s revival.”
“Muslims from many Muslim countries recognized al-Husaini’s leadership and came to pay their respects in Jerusalem, his personal base. He was in close contact with the Muslim Brotherhood through Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi. In 1931, al-Husaini organized the General Islamic Congress in Jerusalem, which resulted in the formation of the Islamic World Congress and his election as president. Several international branches contributed funds to the head office in Jerusalem.”
“At first, al-Husaini concentrated in building a strong united state that would be nationalist and Islamist, and playing both cards, garnered mass support from a religiously oriented public that was not ready to accept secular nationalism. He also persuaded the Nazis that he was leader of the world’s Muslims and Arabs. Al-Husaini’s and the radical faction’s most significant tactic at this stage ‘was to make militancy the test for legitimacy. The most extreme stance became the legitimate mainstream one; anything more moderate was portrayed as treason to Islam and the Arab people. Using this standard, al-Husaini and his allies could blackmail and intimidate Arab governments, threatening to discredit or even assassinate anyone who wanted to compromise with the West or to oppose their goals.’”
“Al-Husaini was also able to impose his will on how the Palestinian cause would be handled. He and his allies were now in a position to influence and galvanize the masses through sermons at mosques, rousing speeches, ‘intimidating mobs, and demonstrations.’ Al-Husaini also demonized the British and Americans, presenting them as enemies of Islam and simultaneously convincing his followers that Germany would soon rule the world. The result was an alliance of Palestinian Arabs, Syrian and Iraqi nationalists, and Egyptian Islamists with Hitler’s regime.”
“Al-Husaini laid down the halt to the exodus of Jews from Germany as a condition for his support for Hitler, and bargained in the same way with the Allies—any migration from Germany would mean the migration to Palestine. The British had to close all migration of Jews to Palestine as well in order to keep the ambiguous support of the Grand Mufti and the Arabs. Al-Husaini, thus, can be justly held accountable for his role in the Holocaust.”
In other words, though in the early to mid-1930s, many Jews managed to leave Germany, in 1938, when al-Husaini met Hitler, there were still close to 200,000 German Jews in the country. Al-Husaini wanted to prevent their coming to Palestine, and demanded that in exchange for his support Hitler not allow them out. As a consequence, they were kept in Germany, and later killed. Furthermore, al-Husaini managed to persuade the British, the mandatory power in Palestine, to prevent Jews from anywhere migrating to Palestine, by making clear that his putative support for Great Britain (support he never really delivered) depended on this. The British did keep Jews fleeing Europe from entering Palestine. Estimates as to the number that might have been saved, on ships sailing from such ports as Costanza (that remained open throughout the war) in Rumania, run as high as one million, but the British blockade meant that the handful of ships with Jewish refugees that tried to land in Palestine were turned back, and news of that blockade kept many other ships from ever setting out. Even after the war ended, the British sabotaged ships — with explosives — that were to carry Jewish survivors of the Nazis from war-torn Europe to Palestine, so eager were the British to curry favor with the Arabs.
Ibn Warraq continues: “Nazi Germany launched a well-organized campaign in the Middle East, urging the elite in the respective countries to embrace pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic sentiments. ‘In Beirut and Baghdad, Cairo and Jerusalem, Kabul and Tehran, Tripoli and Tunis, local Nazi Party branches coordinated military and SS intelligence, businessmen, and academics to spread the influence of Hitler’s regime. There were also Nazi Party branches in Alexandria and Port Said; Haifa and Jaffa; and Adana, Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir.’ It was Nazi policy to subsidize and use ideologically compatible Islamist and nationalist groups such the Muslim Brotherhood, the fascist Young Egypt Party, al-Husaini’s forces in Palestine, and various other groups in Iraq and Syria.”
“After the end of the war, Nazi war criminals found refuge in two places; in South America, and in the Muslim Middle East. Most of us instantly think of Nazis finding refuge in South America. In fact, only between 150 and 800 went to South America. But many times that number, about 4000 Nazi war criminals, not only found refuge in Muslim countries, especially Egypt and Syria, but also found work, often in the security services of the Arabs. Quite a few converted to Islam, finding it, with its violence and aggression, and especially its antisemitism, a faith congenial to former Nazis.
“Mr. van Dantzig seems to think that only ‘xenophobes’ would support Pegida, though none of us are against foreigners; we have no objection to Hindus, or Buddhists, or Christians from black Africa settling, in reasonable numbers, in the Netherlands. We have found that they respect our values, are grateful for being permitted to settle, and wish only to integrate. We are, however, against Islam, and against those Muslims — foreign or not — who take its dangerous commands to heart. Mr. van Dantzig thinks that it is unacceptable for our organization to hold its rally on the 77th anniversary of the anti-Nazi Amsterdam strike in protest of what the Germans were doing to Dutch Jews. We think that will be the perfect day to rally against our new occupiers, to protest their antisemitism just as 75 years ago the shipyard workers in Amsterdam protested the Nazi antisemites who had just taken away 425 Dutch Jews to a camp in Mathausen.
“Perhaps Mr. van Dantzig will read what the Qur’an teaches about Jews, and Christians, learn why Muslims believe they must engage in violent Jihad to subjugate the Kuffar, and how, once subjugated, these Infidels must either be killed, converted, or treated as dhimmis, subject to a host of onerous conditions, including payment of the Jizyah. He might even ponder the meaning of a few verses, as 8:12: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.” Or 8:60: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.”
“Perhaps he will look especially at the many blood-curdling passages about Jews in the Qur’an, since that is to be one focus of the rally, and how those passages have been endorsed by both classic Qur’anic commentators and contemporary clerics and put into practice by Muslims. He might study the activities of Haj Amin al Husaini, for decades the leader of the ‘Palestinian’ Arabs who, in the late 1930s, made sure the Nazis did not let any more German Jews to escape, as al-Husaini feared, to Palestine; the Grand Mufti also persuaded the British to seal off Palestine to Jewish refugees, who were then left to their fate in Nazi-occupied Europe. Perhaps too, he will review all the antisemitic acts by Muslims throughout Europe during the last decade, and ask himself why thousands of French Jews are leaving France, and why 1/3 of British Jews report that they are thinking of leaving the U.K.
“And of course, he should not overlook all the terrible attacks where the intended victims include Christians, too. The stabbings, the running down of pedestrians in Barcelona, Nice, London, and Paris, the shootings and explosives in night clubs, the bombs in buses and in subway cars and metro stations, attacks in London, Manchester,Paris, Toulouse, Nice, Amsterdam, Madrid, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Malmö, Stockholm, and Turku, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Beslan, the killing of the dozen Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, the stabbing of Theo van Gogh, the dismemberment of Drummer Rigby, the decapitation at his altar of Father Hamel and much, much more. We will be dealing with this larger question at a subsequent rally.
“If Mr. van Dantzig studies this matter of Islamic antisemitism, on which we have focused today because the date of our next rally was chosen to deliberately make the connection between the Nazi antisemitism that was being protested in 1941 with the current, Islam-based antisemitism that needs to be protested today, we devoutly hope he will not only cease to describe us, the members of Pegida, so unfairly, as ‘far-right,’ but will join us in our protest against what Muslims in Europe have done and are doing to change our societies, and how they have again made many parts of Europe a dangerous place for Jews. We in the Western world must not continue to acquiesce. If after learning more about Islam — reading the Qur’an with care, studying the history of Islamic conquest, taking note of the more than 32,500 acts of terrorism by Muslims since 9/11, would be a good way to start — he rethinks his hostility toward us, and finds that he now shares our indignation and our sense of dread, we invite Reinier van Dantzig to join us, in Amsterdam, when we will show up, on that fatidic date, February 25, to protest this state of affairs.”
6woods says
Mr. van Dantzig is pretty easy on the eyes, IMO. Too bad he’s a shallow thinker – what a waste. Or he’s bought and paid for.
mortimer says
Van Dantzig is shallow. Does he truly think that criticizing a TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY is ‘xenophobic’?
Here is an explanation of ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM by Maulana Mawdudi, a twentieth-century Islamic scholar and political leader in Pakistan:
“The purpose for which the Muslims are required to fight is not, as one might to think, to compel the unbelievers into embracing Islam. Rather, its purpose is to put an end to the suzerainty of the unbelievers so that the latter are unable to rule over people.
The authority to rule should only be vested in those who follow the True Faith; unbelievers who do not follow this True Faith should live in a state of subordination. Anybody who becomes convinced of the Truth of Islam may accept the faith of his/her own volition. The unbelievers are required to pay jizyah (poll tax) in return for the security provided to them as the dhimmis (“Protected People”) of an Islamic state. Jizyah symbolizes the submission of the unbelievers to the suzerainty of Islam.”
StellaSaidSo says
The evil, ugly globalists have a factory somewhere, churning out shallow pretty boys whom they shower with rewards for their co-operation in implementing our servitude. Obvious examples include the air-heads Macron and Trudeau, but there are plenty more of them – and their female equivalents – in parliaments across Europe. This idiot Dantzig is typical.
Garfield says
Truedeau is NOT attractive. Eeeew.
StellaSaidSo says
LOL, I agree. But apparently a majority of Canadians find him adorable!
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjYLWadz5Yc
Andy says
The FACTS about Muslims in Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cRvGX4T3hQ
StellaSaidSo says
Both EXCELLENT vids. Thanks for posting!
Michael Copeland says
The “facts about muslims” in the video are percentages who say they support such and such in surveys. These surveys can give rise to much interest and discussion, but unfortunately they miss the point. Islam is not a Trade Union. Its teachings are not determined, or even influenced, by percentage support.
There could, for instance, be many interesting surveys made of how many people support or do not support, say, the off-side rule in football, or the no-ball rule in cricket. The result can be discussed at length, but IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO THE RULE.
Islam has rigid rules against any reformation whatsoever, enforced by authorised vigilante-style killing. Its teachings are quite clear against democracy, against equality before the law, against free speech, and entirely endorsing slavery, daughter-killing, amputations, wife-beating, forced marriage, genital mutilation, and second-class status for all non-muslims. Those are what are INSTRUCTED: they come from Islam’s rule-book, Sharia.
Frederick Middleton says
Nice one! It would be good if ballot papers had a section marked ‘Not voting for any of the candidates as they all stink’.
gravenimage says
Bravo, Pat Condell! Same with Geert Wilders.
Thanks for the links, Andy.
Andy says
My pleasure gravenimage, The more information we can share with each other the better educated we become about the problems at hand.
Happy New Year to you gravenimage and all JW readers!
Tjhawk says
What a perfect day for a Pegida rally!! This blithering idiot fails to see that tolerance is exactly one of the values being marched for. When he ascribes the monikers xenophobic and right wing to the entirety of the Pegida movement, he blinds himself to what they are really trying to do.
john spielman says
freedom is freedom! whether opposing nazi fascists or islamo fascists
Terry Gain says
Those who marched on February 25 in Amsterdam dis not March for tolerance, they marched to protest fascism. It is therefore completely appropriate to march in protest against Islam on the same date.
Michael Copeland says
Blueprints of Auschwitz gas-chamber, crematorium, and corpse-cellar were found nearly ten years ago hidden in a Berlin apartment being refurbished. They are dated October 1941.
They thus pre-date the Wannsee Conference January 1942, normally taken as the start of the Nazis’ planned Holocaust.
It is thought that that could well have been the apartment allocated to Haj Amin Al Husseini.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3411647/Auschwitz-plans-found-in-Berlin-flat.html
StellaSaidSo says
Hitler got the idea of the holocaust from Haj Amin Al Husseini, who waxed lyrical over the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Al Husseini was bitterly disappointed that Hitler failed to ‘complete the job’.
gravenimage says
Very true, Stella. Hitler admired the Armenian Genocide, and modeled the Holocaust on it. He mockingly sneered, “who now remembers the Armenians”?
eduardo odraude says
Excellent article by Mr. Fitzgerald.
Michael Copeland says
Hear revered Islamic scholar Maududi (d.1979 in Buffalo, NY) on the Islamic state.
It should be…….
“the very antithesis of secular Western democracy … In such a state no one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. Considered from this aspect the Islamic state bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states.”
http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/mawdudi_gems.html
Mockingjay says
– That quote is a gem indeed!
Those islamic scholars really say it best.
mortimer says
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
Islam is genocidal by nature. Islam is intolerant of the ‘other’ by nature.
Koran 9:33 – “He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the Religion of Truth, that He may cause it to PREVAIL (be supreme) over all religion, however much the idolaters may be averse.”
Mawdudi, a twentieth-century Islamic scholar and political leader in Pakistan, wrote:
“The purpose for which the Muslims are required to fight is not, as one might to think, to compel the unbelievers into embracing Islam. Rather, its purpose is to put an end to the suzerainty of the unbelievers so that the latter are unable to rule over people.
The authority to rule should only be vested in those who follow the True Faith; unbelievers who do not follow this True Faith should live in a state of SUBORDINATION. Anybody who becomes convinced of the Truth of Islam may accept the faith of his/her own volition. The unbelievers are required to pay jizyah (poll tax) in return for the security provided to them as the DHIMMIS (“Protected People”) of an Islamic state. Jizyah symbolizes the submission of the unbelievers to the suzerainty of Islam.”
Yohanan says
Thanks to Hugh Fitzgerald for excellent rebuttal of Reinier van Dantzig.
More on Pegida in wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegida_Netherlands
Their Dutch Website: http://www.pegidanederland.com which has links to their Facebook, VK, Instagram, GAB AI addresses.
gravenimage says
Thank you for the links, Yohanan.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Reinier van Dantzig Asks, “Darn It, Why On That Day?”
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If the witless Meneer Dantzig understood anything about Islam, this would be obvious.
Bravo, Pegida!
Raja says
The genocidal Islam had a perfect ally in Nazism to go after the Jews. Now they don’t need Nazi or like minded groups as the left centered governments are more than obliging to revive anti semitsm and anti humanism.
I wonder if the west is so stupid as to not learn about the evils of Islam and and HATE it? Do they need more violence across globe than alread ypresent?
StellaSaidSo says
Ordinary people know what is going on, because we are directly impacted by it. But we are powerless. A negative comment can get us arrested for ‘hate crime’. And we know that we will serve a longer sentence than a refugee child rapist.
The elites live in secure environments, far away from the firing line, and manage to convince themselves that there isn’t a problem. Until it reaches their door, or their daughter – which, eventually, it must do. Even then, some would deny reality, lest it shatter their utopian dream. Or require them to pay back the large sums of money that they accepted in advance for services to be rendered to their globalist puppet meisters.
The desperation is starting to show. Bill de Blasio and Theresa May are looking particularly nervous lately, but no serious action to address the fundamental issues has been taken. Theresa shuffled a few chairs yesterday, but not the ones that mattered. Bollards and barriers and a deaf ear is what we get, and we take our chances on the next SUV hitting our children.
gravenimage says
Stella, we in the West–some more than others–are in a bad position. But we are not powerless. If enough good people stand up, this crushing of freedom of speech will end.
StellaSaidSo says
Let’s hope the numbers rise, and rise up, before all freedom is lost. We have been too tolerant for too long.
6woods says
Hello. I’m a new poster here, though I’ve been “lurking” for a few years. I’ve learned a lot from Mr. Spencer, as well as posters such as yourself, Hugh Fitzgerald, Wellington, DDA, Jay Boo, Alarmed Pig Farmer, Mortimer, and many others. Over the years, I’ve seen many hopeful comments that this Islamic incursion on our lives will end once “enough good people stand up.” When and precisely how is that supposed to happen? I see free speech being eroded every day. I’m Canadian, and you know what’s going on here. The only good people I see standing up are Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, and a scant handful of others, but they’re all drowned out by the scum that has a vested interested in
globalization, and their useful idiots.
I despair for my children and future grandchildren.
gravenimage says
6woods, not everyone has to be as brave and committed as Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller in order to make a difference.
Speak up in public, write letters to the editor, support those who support freedom of speech. Even small gestures can make a difference if enough people engage in them.
Michael Copeland says
From when Mr. C. was Prime Minister:
IS IT YOUR GIRL, MR. C.?
Is it your girl they enslaved and raped and raped, Mr. C,
Coldly marketing her sex for ready cash?
Is it your wife they demean with their insulting cries of “Whore!”,
And assure her that her pretty face they’d smash?
Is it your boy who gets picked on all the time when he’s at school,
Who gets threatened he’ll be given broken bones?
Is it your car that they vandalise and seek to set on fire,
And your house they keep targeting with stones?
Is it your road where they park and double-park outside the house,
Or urinate in driveways and in yards?
Oh no, sorry. I forgot. It isn’t like that. Silly me!
At your place there’s a gate with well-armed guards.
StellaSaidSo says
PRECISELY.
Set it to music, and we can give a recital at Westminster. And outside their houses. They need to hear it.
Mockingjay says
“Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority…,”
– HAHAHA – can someone pass this on to all those arab Hitler-fans ?
6woods says
Hey, Ibrahim, are you reading this? Even Hitler knew you were trash.
MFritz says
Why should he? Hired fakes don’t read, hired fakes only agitate.
Michael Copeland says
Notice also Hitler’s speaking of “Mohammedanism, that cult…..”.
gravenimage says
Hitler did admire Islam, though, as a “martial creed”.
Ewanda says
Kudos to Hugh Fitzgerald for his incredible effort to bring so many historical facts to light.
I am going to print out this article many times so I always have the information to hand out to those who don’t take the Islamic threat seriously … especially to skeptics who do accept the horror of the Holocaust but never knew how thoroughly the respected leaders of Islam were involved.in devising its operations.
Do the British people even know how their bureaucracy was in cahoots with the Holocaust successes? Someone should try to get this article published in one of their major respected newspapers. This could be the needed information that turns the tide in Britain to wake the population up to the disgusting Islamic ideology that is insinuating itself into a country that gave us the Magna Carta!! Orthodox Islam must publicly wear this shame around their neck just as the truth about their responsibility for African slavery is finally seeing the light of day.
Thank you so very much Hugh
gravenimage says
Ewanda wrote:
Do the British people even know how their bureaucracy was in cahoots with the Holocaust successes?
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Actually, the British saved a great number of Jews, and their opposing Hitler led to the end of the Holocaust.
Some have argued that they should have done more, but that is miles away from the claim that they were in cahoots with those perpetrating the Holocaust. Where did you get this?
Ewanda says
Actually from this presentation by Hugh Fitzgerald himself. Page #9 “British had to close all migration of Jews to Palestine as well in order to keep the ambiguous support of the Grand Mufti and the Arabs” and “Furthermore, Al-Husain managed to persuade the British, the mandatory power in Palestine, to prevent Jews from anywhere migrating to Palestine by making it clear that his pulative support for Great Britain(support he never delivered) depended on this. The British did keep Jews fleeing Europe from entering Palestine.” and the rest follows on page 9 but I can’t take the time …
Did you read all of Fitzgerald? I did. That’s why I specified those in the Bureaucracy. Of course the British people worked to save Jews. Don’t forget that Canada and the Americans turned back ships of Jewish people fleeing Eichmann’s Holocaust but these orders came from the higher ups that totally acted independently of what would have been the sympathetic public.
gravenimage says
Of course I read the article, and I know this history, in any case. This falls under the category of their should have done more, as is true with Canada and the United States, as well.
This does *not* mean that they were “in cahoots” with the Nazis in engineering the Holocaust.
MBR says
Hugh wrote: “Nothing extenuate” … as in, tell the whole truth about Islam, leave nothing out.
Ironic words from Shakespeare via the mouth of Othello, the central character in the great tragedy, playing the part of a Moorish general,
Well done, Hugh!
MFritz says
Ha ha, the Democraten 66 are a JOKE! Not an OUNCE of back bone, their eyes ALWAYS wide shut to inconvenient truths and when they open their mouths ONLY the senseless blurb of political correctness coming out.
Garfield says
Everyone should read this article. Could Mr. Spencer publish it as a short kindle booklet along with an explanation about his work and this site as a .99 cent kindle book maybe? Maybe that would help more people get this information?
gravenimage says
Garfield, the author of the above piece is the inimitable Hugh Fitzgerald.
Mirit says
Dear Friends,
I am a Jewish Israeli. My suggestion to you is get a good religious education for your kids. Secularism and pluralism is not the answer. The answer to “multiculturalism” is stick to your own culture and faith. Learn your history. What Muslims are trying to do to the Jews is erase our faith, replace us in Israel. Replace our history, culture, religion, and connection to the land of Israel. They are doing the same to Christians in Europe. They are trying to replace your culture and religion. That is why they are not integrating. They want to rule your lands.
Michael Copeland says
Indeed.
Islam INSTRUCTS muslims NOT to integrate: Erdogan told Turks in Germany not to assimilate.
Islam INSTRUCTS that Islam has to dominate, that non-muslims must be under Islamic rule.
Islam INSTRUCTS muslims to use killings to achieve that domination.
Islam INSTRUCTS “Impose Sharia Law on All Mankind” – I.S.L.A.M.
Carlos Danger says
Islamists are the Nazis of the 21st Century.
Smart guy says
The second world war fought by the British ruling class such as Winston Churchill an Aristocrat had nothing to do with rescuing Gypsies or Jews. The British ruling class consider Gypsies and Jews as scum the same as the Nazis. Wars are not fought by the working class of any country, instead they are fought by the ruling class of both countries, the lowers classes are simply obeying orders to fight the wars of the ruling class. The sun never sets on the British Empire. The British built their Empire on Victorian thinking which is the same as Charles Darwin. British is best and us British are the Master race. How dare that diminutive Austrian Corporal suggest that Britain should play second fiddle to Germany. And the ruling class would sing songs such as “And what a jolly good war it is.” “Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler if you think that England is done, We are the boys that will make you think again”
The ruling class of England even went so far to pray in church that those lower class disgusting Americans should not enter the war to rescue England. Edward the eight could not become king of England because he married a disgusting lower class American so instead Elizabeth became Queen.
The ruling class of England still consider Americans to be disgusting lower class people, the Queen will not allow a prince to marry an American. The ruling class have the same philosophy as the Nazis.
If you marry down you will be disinherited and removed from the throne and the ruling class.
If the Queen cared about the lower classes she would have ordered the expulsion of Islam a long time ago. To be a “Democracy” the people have to have the right to keep and bare arms. England is NOT a “Democracy” it is a monarchy.
gravenimage says
The ludicrously self-styled “Smart guy” wrote:
The second world war fought by the British ruling class such as Winston Churchill an Aristocrat had nothing to do with rescuing Gypsies or Jews. The British ruling class consider Gypsies and Jews as scum the same as the Nazis.
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What *absolute crap*. There was no Holocaust in Britain–what calumny. Why would the UK have taken part in rescues of Jews like the Kindertransport if they hated Jews as much as the Nazis did?
Now, there is no doubt that there was some ugly antisemitism in Britain and the US–as in many places–but claiming things were as bad as under a genocidal creed is ludicrous.
More:
Wars are not fought by the working class of any country, instead they are fought by the ruling class of both countries, the lowers (sic) classes are simply obeying orders to fight the wars of the ruling class.
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More tripe. My mother and aunt joined the British Army as young middle-class women during WWII, which they did not have to do. My grandfather was superintendent of police in a series of towns and small cities in the West Midlands, and he was head of defense on the ground in case of a Nazi invasion. He was not compelled to do this, either.
In fact, it was obvious to *all* Britons that those invaded by the Nazis did not do well–those who valued freedom most of all.
More:
The sun never sets on the British Empire. The British built their Empire on Victorian thinking which is the same as Charles Darwin.
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What does this even mean? That Charles Darwin was a Victorian? (He was actually born and raised before the Victorian Era). That the Victorians were “Darwinian”, in the pop culture sense of the term? Who knows?
More:
That British is best and us British are the Master race.
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Not really. Many European nations had colonial empires–Britain was just the largest.
More:
How dare that diminutive Austrian Corporal suggest that Britain should play second fiddle to Germany.
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The idea that it was the British who were obsessed with being the “Master race” is just ludicrous projection. Of course, this was the concept of the Nazis.
Also, look what “Smart Guy” is doing here–claiming that there is no difference between freedom and Fascism, and that if you don’t want to be conquered by the tyrannical Nazis, that it must be because you are “racist”. *Ugh*.
More:
And the ruling class would sing songs such as “And what a jolly good war it is.”
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I’ve never heard of this song, and doubt it exists.
Is “Smart Guy” referring to “Oh, It’s a Lovely War”? Most likely.
This was actually a song from the First World War, although it was likely also sung during WWII. Far from it being an upper class taunt to the lower classes, it is a satirical song sung most often by the Infantry about the discomforts of war.
It was written by popular songwriters Courtland and Jeffries. Here are the lyrics:
http://noglory.org/index.php/multimedia/music/30-coope-boyes-simpson-7
You can see, it is the exact *opposite* of what “Smart Guy” claims.
More:
“Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler if you think that England is done, We are the boys that will make you think again”
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This was from a different song–“Dad’s Army”. This was also a populist song, not something from the “ruling class”.
More:
The ruling class of England even went so far to pray in church that those lower class disgusting Americans should not enter the war to rescue England.
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More rot. Britons wanted America to enter the war. Winston Churchill spent a great deal of time and effort on just that.
When news arrived that the US has entered the war at the Ministry of Information where my mother worked as a teletype operator, they celebrated with a bottle of champagne. My mother was too young to drink, but had a glass, anyway. Everyone wanted to celebrate.
Also, notice that “Smart Guy” cannot even keep his bs straight. Did the British upper class want to enter the war so they exploit the lower classes, or did they want Hitler to win? He claims both.
More:
Edward the eight could not become king of England because he married a disgusting lower class American so instead Elizabeth became Queen.
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I see “Smart Guy” knows nothing about history.
The issue with Wallis Simpson was that she was a divorcée, not that she was American or lower class.
And he did not abdicate to Elizabeth, but to his brother the Duke of York, who would become George VI. Elizabeth was a ten-year-old child at the time, and would not become queen until 1952.
And King George VI was very much opposed to the Nazis, and guided Britain through the war. Why would this have been the case, if all of the upper classes supported Hitler? “Smart Guy” is not just not smart, he is not consistent, either.
More:
The ruling class of England still consider Americans to be disgusting lower class people, the Queen will not allow a prince to marry an American.
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“Smart Guy” does, of course know that Winston Churchill’s mother was American?
Probably not…
And actually, the issue is exactly the same as it was previously–that Meghan Markle is a divorcée. One might consider this old fashioned, but it has nothing to do with her being American.
Also, the pair *are* getting married. The idea that Queen Elizabeth is preventing this is ridiculous.
More:
The ruling class have the same philosophy as the Nazis.
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The Nazis actually liked and courted the Americans before WWII. It was only when it became clear that they were not going to support Fascist aggression that Hitler turned against them.
More:
If you marry down you will be disinherited and removed from the throne and the ruling class.
If the Queen cared about the lower classes she would have ordered the expulsion of Islam a long time ago. To be a “Democracy” the people have to have the right to keep and bare (sic) arms. England is NOT a “Democracy” it is a monarchy.
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England is a constitutional monarchy, and that is a democracy.
I certainly agree that the Queen should be more outspoken against Islam–but few leaders in the West today are.
What “Smart Guy” is really doing here, though, it revisionist history–that Britain was wrong to oppose Fascism, and instead should have embraced being invaded and conquered by Hitler. I have seen this before, and it is always sickening.
StellaSaidSo says
Oh dear. Another ill-informed poster who thinks that the Queen rules, that she can ORDER anything at all, apart from coffee. Look up CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, my friend, and discover how it actually works.
Edward VIII abdicated because, at the time (1936) the rule book forbade marriage to a divorced person. The fact that Mrs Simpson was American was not the issue. Princess Margaret was not allowed to marry Peter Townsend for the same reason. The Queen has given her approval to the marriage of Prince Harry to an American woman. If she had not, there would be no official engagement.
There are plenty of Jews amongst the elites in Britain. The argument that Jews are considered ‘scum’ in Britain won’t fly. If anti-Semitism is a problem in Britain today, it is because of Muslims, not because of Britons. And plenty of Britons prayed for the US to enter WWII, so you’re wrong about that, too.
Back to school for you, now, Smart guy!
StellaSaidSo says
LOL, GI, you beat me to the draw!
gravenimage says
🙂
Felix Quigley says
I am not defending “Smart Guy”..his remark about Charles Darwin shows that he or she is an ignoramus!
But the reply in this sentence is extraordinary and needs to be challenged.
StellaSaidSo echoing Gravenimage
“There are plenty of Jews amongst the elites in Britain. The argument that Jews are considered ‘scum’ in Britain won’t fly. If anti-Semitism is a problem in Britain today, it is because of Muslims, not because of Britons.”
“There are plenty of Jews amongst the elites in (change one word) Germany, pre Hitlerian Germany
So that is nonsensical as an answer.
There were Jews in the elites in Germany before 1933 but that meant nothing when the Fascists seized power
There is in fact a deep Antisemitism right across and through British society. There was a deep antisemitism among the British forces in Palestine towards the Jews, towards the concept of the Jews having a Homeland in Palestine, and this extended from 1918 right up until Britain aimed to destroy the Jewish State in 1948 and with the way that Britain withdrew. This is well known and highly sourced.
Britain is in fact a very racist country. Has been still is!
I conjecture that this racism, leading to forms of Antisemitism, originates in the hatred of the Irish among the British ruling capitalist class and Monarchy which echoes that capitalist class, and organized religion ditto. This is translated down through tot he masses. The best vehicle for this Antisemitism is the BBC the tool always of the British ruling capitalists.
The Muslims have brought another virulent form of Antisemitism into Britain but it was already there.
You are wrong on all counts.
StellaSaidSo says
Felix Quigley, please note that my post was in response to ‘Smart Guy’, who claimed that ‘the British ruling class consider Jews as scum’. Given the number of Jewish families who have long been a part of what ‘Smart Guy’ would consider to be ‘the British ruling class’, this assertion is obvious nonsense.
Please note that I did not claim that anti-Semitism has never existed in Britain. But it is not Britons who are targeting Jews today. Attacks by Muslims on Jews and Jewish businesses and places of worship are almost a daily event in every Western country which has opened its doors to Muslims.
As ‘Smart Guy’ made no reference to Germany in his post, there was no reason for any reference to Germany in my reply. Your straw man is therefore easily dismissed.
‘Wrong on all counts?’ I don’t think so.
CRUSADER says
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As a gift as we enter this new year, attaching a link to a version of the Koran that few might have seen before. This work was translated by a convert to Islam and was published in 1930. The premier Sunni Islamic school, Al-Azhar University, endorsed this translation.
Could prove helpful in our efforts.
Source for the file: http://blueprintislam.bravesites.com/
What makes this translation unique is that it identifies by color code the verses that apply to Allah, Believers, Unbelievers, Jihad, and Israel. But perhaps even more important is the fact that the translator, Marmaduke Picthall, emphasizes the importance of the doctrine of abrogation by arranging the chapters (sura) in this translation with the most recent first and the oldest last.
As you are aware, the doctrine of abrogation holds that where there is an apparent conflict between verses in the Koran, a more recent verse abrogates the earlier, or older verse; that is, the most recent verse supersedes the earlier verse in the event of a conflict.
This doctrine of abrogation comes from Koran 2:106:
Nothing of our revelation (even a single verse) do we abrogate or cause be forgotten, but we bring (in place) one better or the like thereof. Knowest thou not that Allah is Able to do all things?
Why is this doctrine important? Often Islam apologists point to the kinder and more gentle verses that were written chronologically in the early part of the Koran to show that the Koran promotes a religion of peace, and that it urges Muslims to be kind and gentle with non-Muslims. But they decline to address the later verses that abrogate those early peaceful verses; the later verses that urge or command harsh and violent dealings with non-Muslims.
Wherever contradictions exist, the translator has crossed out the verses that have been abrogated and noted the verse that superseded it.
Be sure to read the introduction because it explains the organization of the book and the importance of understanding how present-day terrorists can legitimately point to the Koran as the basis for their belief and actions. After the peaceful verses in the Koran have been abrogated, the “Religion of Peace” apologists have a difficult time with the remaining verses that instruct Islamists to hate non-Muslims, and to kill non-believers.
Source for the file: http://blueprintislam.bravesites.com/
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Felix Quigley says
From what Hugh writes…
“Some of us could even be described as on the left. We are philosemitic”
This is in reply to the attacks which are both widespread and pernicious of groups like Pegida and Tommy Robinson, Britain First etcetera. as being Right Rightist Fascist and much else
and this has been my point all along since I was reading Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.
I have always said that I am a revolutionary socialist in the tradition of Marx and Engels, that I defend Israel very strongly as The Homeland of the Jewish People, understanding this concept above all historically as well as politically.
These groups like “Black Lives Matter” are Antisemitic and rather than being Marxist are opposed to historical materialism, the central component in Marxism.
Yet I was every day since I started reading them years ago labelled by Pamela and Robert as being Antisemitic. That is because the “broad brush” they have used was mischievous. The comments were always worse, that is more virulently worse.
First sign of a change but far too late. Terrible damage already done and I would say unrecoverable.
Felix Quigley says
This is a remarkably important essay by Hugh Fitzgerald and important that it will be backed in the tradition of free speech that they uphold by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Gates of Vienna and many others in the against Islamic Jihad movement. This is an important fact.
But I find that in essays like this many commenters read, take what suits them and discard the rest. This latter action pathetic and childish as it is therefore defeats the purpose.
The really important thing in this essay is that Hugh Fitzgerald has questioned the prevalent nomenclature in many opposing Jihad sites and writers of books.
Why is this nomenclature wrong? Wrong because it is a lie!
All those who promote this lie composed of a left, right terminology in relation to opposing Jihad are promoting and worse prolonging a lie.
Look at it this way. Those around such as “Black Lives Matter” and I just pick this name out of the proverbial hat because in these circles here today gone tomorrow is a norm.
They do though represent a certain unease with the present system. That system is definitely and unmistakably capitalism.
Many who come around such movements are youth, with little political experience, with ignorance about history because of an inadequate schooling system, supplied by capitalism, the one and only capitalist system, so we are closing the circle here in a way.
You could say they are left leaning, or even say they are “leftist”. That is what Robert Spencer would do in almost every series of posts you will find this somewhere.
But to term them “leftist” is a very shallow call. There is not much depth to that description.
An alternative way of looking at the problem is that they are being misled, and that the leaders of these organizations such as “Black Lives Matter” have broken with Marxism, have broken with Karl Marx, with Engels, with Lenin and Trotsky.
Which is indeed the case.
Marx strictly opposed Islam. He was a noted enemy of Islam. Sources can be given.
Engels on all things was in general agreement with Marx but an independent thinker always.
Lenin was a great enemy of the Antisemitism in Russia of the Black Hundreds and of Czarism…Sources are easy to find
Trotsky, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was the most notable opponent of Antisemitism and here sources are most easy.
And those four are the very foundations of socialist theory and practice.
So obviously there is something wrong when the term “leftist” is used by Spencer and the real positions of the founders of socialism are hidden. Does that lead to a proper education of the youth on especially the matter of history?
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Felix Quigley says
There is another way to look at the British, the Germans, French etcetera and Antisemitism. By siding so much and so openly with the adherents of Islam the British and others in Europe are being totally Antisemitic, and they are opening the door to new states which will have no Jews present. It is another aspect of the Holocaust. There needs to be a new leadership, Trotskyism, which will explain things like this, and in this case show that the content of the Nazi Holocaust is existing in Britain as we speak.
Felix Quigley says
Stellasaidso
At the expense of belabouring the issue
“Felix Quigley, please note that my post was in response to ‘Smart Guy’, who claimed that ‘the British ruling class consider Jews as scum’. Given the number of Jewish families who have long been a part of what ‘Smart Guy’ would consider to be ‘the British ruling class’, this assertion is obvious nonsense.”
Note that these ruling classes have become adept at taking in Jews in order to hate them…Even Iran does this!
There are a number of issues involved, not one. The Jihad is a huge danger to everything.
But we have a capitalist system more and more spinning out of control which I liken to The Weimar Republic.
I do believe that the British are a very Antisemitic nation. The ruling class in Britain have allowed Islamic areas to be founded. They know that Islam is deeply hating of Jews.
The British all sections of the ruling class treat Israel most unfairly. Even the Friends of Israel in the Labour Party are very supportive of Palestinian Arabs.
I see no respite from this ruling class. And there is NO independent voice from the working class because there is no Trotskyist Party, as I as an individual, express.
So the fight against immigration of all types, the struggle for expulsions, for an end to Islamic areas, is all tied in with making UK safe for Jews.
This is a very big task indeed.
In fact the situation is very scary as May gets weaker and weaker with no replacement possible.
Dustin Koellhoffer says
What’s his beef? It’s anti-Islamo-Nazi day, too!