Act ! for America / latest bulletin / Oct 29. 2010 DHS swears in an Islamist
Elections have consequences Dear Billy, On the weekend before the crucial mid-term elections, we bring you the juxtaposition of two recent events. First, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano _swore in three new members_ (http://tool.donation-net.net/Act4America/NapolitanoSwears.cfm?dn=1097&commID=41669603&ID=129529) of the Homeland Security Advisory Council—one of whom, Mohamed Elibiary, was a speaker at a 2004 event honoring the Ayatollah Khomeini! When a Dallas Morning News reporter exposed Elibiary, Elibiary threatened him. Incredibly, Elibiary is someone Napolitano believes should now be on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Second, two weeks ago German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in an obvious reference to the tidal wave of Muslim immigrants to Germany, made the stunning statement that multiculturalism in Germany has “totally failed.” This is emblematic of the broader pushback against the rising threat of radical Islam that is occurring throughout Europe—except, as celebrated author Melanie Phillips points out, in Great Britain (see story below). Europe is beginning to understand the threat of radical Islam. More and more of the American people are beginning to understand the threat of radical Islam. Unfortunately, it is clear that much of the Obama administration, as illustrated by Napolitano’s latest blunder, does not. Elections have consequences. Please remember this when you vote. ____________________________________ _http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7684/pub_detail.asp_ (http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7684/pub_detail.asp) October 19, 2010 Britain: Groveling Alone _Melanie Phillips_ (http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.120/author_detail.asp) _Angela Merkel_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8069434/Angela-Merkel-multicuturalism-has-failed.html) has got the point. Multiculturalism has failed, she states flatly, as she surveys western Europe going down under the tide of radical Islam. Rather than liberal society creating the utopia of harmonious cultural pluralism, it is being swallowed whole by the giant predator whose voracious mouth it encourages, in the spirit of tolerance, to open ever wider in the unshakeable belief of western liberals that the jaws about to snap shut around their necks are actually stretched wide in a smile. All over mainland Europe, a few shoes are belatedly – maybe too late -- starting to drop. France and Belgium have banned the burqa and other countries are debating doing the same. Switzerland has banned minarets. Denmark has imposed ferocious limits on immigration. In the Netherlands the prosecution in the case against the Dutch politician Geert Wilders for allegedly inciting religious hatred -- through his criticism of Islamic hatred -- has thrown in the towel and asked the judges to acquit him of all charges. See _here_ (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/geert_wilders_and_the_rise_of.html) for an authoritative analysis of the significance of this. And so what of dear old Blighty, the country which in 1940 stood alone against the threat to democratic life and liberty and the values of western liberalism? Is the shoe of reality starting to drop in the UK too? A report by _Quilliam_ (http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/images/stories/pdfs/radicalisation-on-british-university-campuses.pdf?dm_i=JI3,9VTX,2Q5VZ1,QML Z,1) about City University, central London, states that a hard-line Islamist ideology is being promoted through the leadership of the university’s student Islamic Society, leading to increased religious tensions on campus and to the intimidation and harassment of staff, students and members of minority groups by extremists and increasing the risks of students turning to terrorism. Ahmadi Muslims in south London have been _targeted_ (http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/wimbledonnews/8451429.Hate_campaign_discovered_agains t_Islamic_minority/) by Islamists in a hate campaign, and a Muslim woman in _Bradford_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-11548859) has died after being set on fire (via _JihadWatch_ (http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/10/just-like-pakistan-ahmadis-in-britain-face-campaign-of- muslim-intimidation.html#comments) ), underlining the fact that Muslims are themselves front-line victims of Islamic jihadis and sharia law. And in the Sunday Telegraph, _Andrew Gilligan_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8068839/PICS-AND-PUBLISH-Tower-Hamlets-extremist-v ote-poses-Eds-first-big-election-test.html) continues to chronicle the remorseless takeover of an entire London borough, Tower Hamlets, by the radicals of the Islamic Forum of Europe using intimidation, infiltration and corruption: According to one of its own leaflets, the IFE – based at the hardline East London Mosque in Tower Hamlets – wants to change the ‘very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed … from ignorance to Islam.’ The group is accused by one of the area’s Labour MPs, Jim Fitzpatrick, of infiltrating and ‘corrupting’ his party in a way similar to the Militant Tendency in the 1980s. The response of other newspapers to what’s going on in Tower Hamlets? As far as I can make out, deafening silence. And what is the response of the rest of the British thinking classes to this and countless other signs of increasing Islamisation and Islamic radicalisation in Britain? The hitherto resolutely counter-counter-cultural think-tank Civitas, which in the past has produced some outstanding social and cultural analysis, has just published a set of essays on Women, Islam and Western Liberalism in which one author, Alveena Malik, _states_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8067708/Islamic-face-veil-part-of-British-way-of-life.html ) that the full-face Islamic veil, or niqab, should be regarded ‘...as part of a modern British way of life.’ She continued: ‘The wearing of religious symbols, including the full veil, should be a fundamental human right of an individual in both the public and private sphere. The real test for religious symbols in the public sphere should always be: “Does the wearing of a symbol (such as the kirpan, turban, yarmulke, crucifix and the veil) hinder a citizen’s ability to perform their public civic duties?”’ Britain is in a ‘unique’ position to embrace such a public display of faith because of the role the church plays in the affairs of the state and its ‘multicultural diversity’. To be fair, the Civitas pamphlet contains other views which profoundly disagree with this. Even so, the idea that advocating as ‘part of the British way of life’ the niqab, which presents such an obvious danger to security as well as intimidating non-radical Muslim women, inciting religious subversion by serving as a symbolic call to arms against western values and destroying the equality inherent in human interaction by virtue of the simple act that we can all see each other’s faces – the idea that this is, as Civitas appears to _suggest_ (http://www.civitas.org.uk/press/prWomenAndIslamOct10.htm) , a contribution towards liberal diversity, is simply grotesque. And here’s the thing: the _Telegraph_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8067708/Islamic-face-veil-part-of-British-way-of-life.html) also tells us: Mrs Malik was appointed by last government to a panel of faith advisers for the Department for Communities. She has overseen British Council guidance on ‘intercultural dialogue’. It looks horribly like, seventy years on, Britain is now once again alone -- this time, though, not standing but grovelling on its knees before those bent upon the extinction of freedom. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
