An Arabic "Je ne regrette rien "

Many self-described moderate Muslims are asking why they should apologise for or collectively condemn the acts of 9/11 because they were not personally involved in the actual attacks? Perhaps I can help. The 9/11 terrorist attack was committed by Muslims, who were provided material support by other Muslims and their dastardly plans were not revealed by family, friends, mosque co-worshippers and co-religionists who were aware of the plot. Even subsequent to the attack, there was not a lot of voluntary help provided to the authorities in tracking down the evil-doers. All of these people justified their behaviour by reference to their faith. It may be an incorrect understanding of what Mohammed prophesized as the message of Allah, but the fact remains that the terrorists and enablers were inspired by his reported message.

The only regret I have ever heard expressed by Arabs, both Muslim and Christian, is that the terrorists’ acts impacted on their lives personally. The first words I heard on the day of 9/11 from a Christian Arab were simply “how could those bastards do this to me?” The bastards had hurt his business because he had just opened up a new store in an airport that day and the attack would affect air travel (in spite of him being told not to open another store by his bank, who were not prepared to continue funding a guy who ignored covenants, diverted funds due to the bank away from them and generated losses whilst paying himself and family large amounts). There was not a word about the deaths of thousands, or the extent of the horror unfolding that day for so many families.

Further reports from everyday Muslims to world class squash players have only ever concentrated on the fact that they now need visas to visit certain countries. Yet there is no profiling allowed as we recently saw from footage at Montreal airport even though the probable ladies were in full burka. I regularly get stopped for additional screening and I presume it is because middle-aged, Caucasian accountants are a big threat group. On one trip to the UK about 3 years ago, 4 male Arabs in big headdresses covering most of their face were allowed to walk through customs before me with a joke and a smile from the customs lady. I thought that Muslim men could uncover their faces without affecting their modesty. On my turn, I was told by the customs lady to remove my baseball cap in a very curt manner as I should not turn up at her desk with a hat on. She was not impressed when I asked her why she just allowed the 4 non-UK citizen gentlemen in front of me to go through without removing their headdresses. I was lucky to get back into my country of birth after that comment.

So, to return directly to the issue of regrets or apologies. If a member of my family or community were to commit a terrible crime, I would denounce the crime and the person. I would be personally embarrassed, and to the extent that I am able, I would apologise to society on behalf of my community and admonish the criminal. I would try to ensure that the criminal would never do such a thing again, nor that their act encourages others to follow. I would not justify their crime nor blame society as a whole for the crime committed against it. Meanwhile, we see an unrepentant ummah and vicious supremacist hate being spread to the next generation of Muslims.

Mosque versus Hotel at Ground Zero

Recently, the defenders of those who protect from our unknowing racism have sought to justify the building of a mosque, Cordoba House, adjacent to the site of Ground Zero in New York. The civil libertarians believe that the spot, where terrorists of the Muslim persuasion created carnage of thousands of innocents is an appropriate spot to build a mosque, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is being racist. Some have even sought to justify the mosque because a hotel has been built nearby, The World Center Hotel, and if commerce can come into the area then so can a mosque.

Their argument falls apart because World Center Hotel did not kill nearly 3,000 people on 9/11 and is not part of a homicidal chain that wants us to understand the murderers’ grievances. The World Center Hotel is not planning other terror attacks, nor keeping quiet as other “militant” hotel chains plan attacks, nor does it provide funding for terrorism through “humanitarian” soap collections, and nor does it justify terror whether by reference to the root causes of not having enough bath towels or to the holy Manual of Hotel Management.

As for Cordoba House’s aims being innocent and moderate da’wa, it is to be noted that Islamic practice is to build on conquered holy or historic places of other cultures. The building of the original Cordoba mosque was on the site of a church to commemorate the Muslim conquest of Spain. This is the message that the Islamic world will understand by building of this structure in its proposed location.

Intrepid reporters have confirmed to us that the sources of funding for the project are all from parties with multi-cultural and religious courtesy at the forefront of their donations, even though the project organizers themselves cannot, or will not, divulge the funders. And even though the putative imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, thinks that the USA is an accessory to the crimes committed on 9/11 and that Hamas is not a terrrorist group. Hint: read the Hamas charter and its quoting of the forged Protocol of the Elders of Zion as fact, and that there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad.

Perhaps in a display of mutual respect, now would be a good time for the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia to allow a synagogue to be built in Yathrib (formerly Medina). It is the city which gave refuge to Mohammed and his followers before they slaughtered the Jewish adult males by decapitation, shared out some women amongst themselves and sold the remaining women and children into slavery. Nice way to show thanks for hospitality. New York has already enjoyed similar "hospitality" and by encouraging the Cordoba House to go ahead, it is to be hoped that they will not suffer such hospitality in the future.

Whiff of Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff recently decided that his preferred method of appealing to the Canadian electorate was to effectively refer to the Prime Minister of Canada as the Devil. A man who has spent the majority of his life soaking up pseudo intellectual champagne socialism on foreign shores had the gall to allege that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has the "whiff of sulphur" upon him. On September 25, 2009, Hugo Chavez, the dictator of Venezuela spoke at length at the UN in New York and when referring to the US Presidency used the phrase “the smell of sulphur is gone”. Following the end of the South African World Cup, we now have found a practical use for the irritating vuvuzuelas, drowning out Ignatieff’s unoriginal slurs. When Ignatieff has to resort to regurgitating Chavez and translating old Hungarian proverbs, then it is fair to say that Ignatieff’s impact on history will be no more than the “whiff of scent on a lady’s handkerchief” (Lloyd George). Or perhaps, if we are using other people’s insults, we can say that there is “something of the night” about Ignatieff (Widdecombe). I just hope nobody tells me that I have a whiff of Ignatieff about me. Is this what now passes for vibrant political debate?

How to tell if you are a drunk driver and an anti-Semite.

If I am drunk and kill someone, it means that I am drunk driver, even if I believed I was under the legal alcohol limit.

Drinking and driving mean that you are a drunk driver.

There are some people who claim merely to be anti-Zionist and act against Israel based on falsehoods (and some politicians do it to further their political careers by grubbing for votes at the lowest common level e.g. Obama, all the UK parties and the NDP/Liberal parties in Canada). Supporting action against the only Jewish state based on lies, revised history and perverted arguments demonstrates a bias.

Many of these people also claim that they do not have anti-Semitic beliefs.

Anti-Semitic and racist acts mean that you are an anti-Semite.

Simple.

NDP's perfidy

Canada recently had a perfect example of how the "left-wing" defends its support of fascist, misogynistic, theocratic, terrorist tyrannies.

For those who do not know, Libby Davies is an MP for the riding of Vancouver East in Canada, deputy leader of the extreme left New Democratic Party ("NDP") and the NDP's leader in the House of Commons. She is also an anti-Semite.

The NDP is the sort of party whose primary concern is for the welfare of Taliban terrorists at the hands of the Afghan police rather than for Canadian and NATO soldiers who have been maimed or killed by IEDs laid by the Taliban or Al Queda. The NDP roundly criticize the Canadian Armed Forces for handing over captured terrorists to the governing authorities of Afghanistan.

This is the sort of woman who wanted Israel investigated by the UN when Hamas terrorists used a UN school for cover when firing at Israel, and Israel responded to the source of fire. Not Hamas, nor UNRWA for having terrorist members in their employ or for letting terrorists use their facilities.

Anyhow, given her background, it was not unsurprising that her tongue slipped at an recent anti-Israel rally and in a revision of real history claimed  that the “occupation of Palestine (sic)” began in 1948 and espoused support of a boycott of Israel. Basically, Jews have no rights to their homeland and the 22% that they do currently have from the land promised via the Balfour Declaration and San Remo conference should be handed over to those Arabs who surged into the economically revitalized land from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and what was TransJordan (the 78% pay-off to the Husseinis). Not enought that the Ottoman Empire had oppressed and attempted to ethnically cleanse the land of Jews for centuries. Anyhow, moving on, the radical haters immediately moved to defend Davies from criticism of her anti-Semitic ignorance.

In many media sources, defenders were given prime spots and accused those who criticized Libby Davies' overt anti-Semitism of racism and an anti-human rights agenda. Talk about the world gone mad, and evil logic applied.

The defence of Davies contained the proto-typical treatment of those who disagree with the self-described left wing. Simply smear anyone else as racist and anti human rights, whilst absolutely avoiding any real consideration of facts and pervert history to create a voodoo narrative of a previously determined hip cause. Meanwhile, support a nihilistic, theocratic and misogynistic tyranny with genocidal desires in their very charter against a democratic nation, Israel, which still supplies thousands of tons of aid weekly to those who voted for their enemy to power and those who aid and abet them in terrorist activity. An enemy that receives more aid per capita than any other society in history.

Of course, Smiling Jack Layton, the leader of the NDP has done nothing of any value. Canada admitted 600,000 Muslims via immigration since 1990, and he wants their votes. Doing the right thing is irrelevant when so many votes are up for grabs.

Well, I have news for these "left wing" fascists; your support for the fascist ideology of the Syrian, Hamas, Iranian and Turkish axis is not progressive (work out your own acronym). I can tell the difference between right and wrong, between good and evil, between tyranny and democracy, between oppressive racism and freedom. I remember history as it happened, not as the NDP hierarchy and their ilk reinvent it. Your  smears are repulsive to all those for whom human rights truly matter.

Vuvuzela

If you know what a vuvuzela is, then please let me know what is the point of them.

They are ruining the 2010 World Cup coverage with their incessant and irritating buzzing noise. They have nothing to do with African heritage. Is it just to give some commercial incentive to pirate manufacturers?

And, if you don't know what a vuvuzela is, then I envy you.

Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi still Living Long and Prospering

Remember Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan terrorists freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government on August 20 2009 following medical advice that he had terminal prostate cancer and  less than three months to live? The convicted terrorists responsible for 270 deaths? The convicted terrorist given a welcome parade when delivered to Libya's tender care.

Still alive in Libya.

Still can’t trust terrorists to live up to their promises.