Double Dealing.

My Old Man [which is what we called my dad] was I guess what’s known as a ‘character’. If I need to illustrate his totally self centred beingness, I tell of one evening about 1953, we were watching a show on TV with Bing Crosby singing some song or other, and he remarked, “You know, unfortunately for Bing, I’ve never liked him”. He was also a story teller, aka a liar. He would lie sometimes for no apparent reason or advantage. The family solicitor, [lawyer] called him the most convincing liar he’d ever met. My mom on the other hand was as honest as Jesus himself, she would tell by way of example of ‘proper’ behaviour, of her father of whom it was said, ‘He is transparently honest’. So, genetics aside, I and my brothers, as their offspring had a choice as to which example to follow.
My dad’s mother who died when he was twelve was Spanish. This is her in 1908 with my one year old papa.

Next a pic taken in Deal which I have mentioned before, a seaside town in Kent on the south east corner of England, the skinny 12 year old in the dark school blazer is yours truly and the other boy is my brother, two years younger to the day than I.

One more and I’ll get to the point, my dad at 49.

OK, so my grandmother looks Spanish as does my dad but do you see a Middle Eastern look too, aka Arab Muslim? Given that Spain was occupied by them for several hundred years there must have been much interbreeding. Now connect Mohammed’s commands that it’s OK to lie and deceive for Allah, as in the case of a Hudna, which is a ceasefire only because they would be losing and it buys time to re-group to renew hostilities later. All that didn’t come from out of the blue, despite what Mohammed may tell you, it must have been normal practise for the Arabs for as long as they’ve been around, it was part of their genetic code so for Muhammed it was just part of the culture, nothing unusual. This is in part idle speculation and part accepting that there maybe some truth in it and given by dad’s penchant for lying could it have been part of his genetic code.?

Finally I come to this article
from Standpoint:

Imaginary Islamist Think-Tanks
ROBIN SIMCOX
March 2009

Despite what the pessimists say, there is one industry that is still flourishing in the UK. It consists of Islamists establishing their own think-tanks and pressure groups. They serve little purpose other than to bestow legitimacy upon ill-informed, extremist Muslim speakers, who can then attend conferences and get media access under the façade of expertise.

This is a surprisingly easy bandwagon to jump on. Come up with an intellectual-sounding name for your organisation, buy a website domain and give yourself an impressive-sounding job title. This was the route taken by Hamas cheerleader Azzam Tamimi. He recently addressed the prestigious UK Defence Academy, is a regular contributor to the Guardian website, and once told the BBC that suicide bombing in Palestine “is the straight way to pleasing my God and I would do it if I had the opportunity”. He describes himself as Director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought (IIPT). The domain registered to the IIPT says it has a website “coming soon” (it has been coming since 2007), but meanwhile offers you the chance to download Tamimi’s CV. What exactly it is that he is meant to be directing remains unclear. What is beyond doubt is that Tamimi uses the IIPT to try to couch his views in an aura of academic respectability.

Then there is Anjem Choudary, former leader of the banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, who according to CNN called the 9/11 terrorist attacks “magnificent” and boasted that “the black flag of Shariah will fly over Downing Street”. Choudary was a regular on the BBC in the wake of 7/7, last year spoke at the National Liberal Club on the need for Sharia in the UK, and calls himself a Principal Lecturer at the London School of Shariah. This consists of Choudary driving around east London trying to find people to preach his version of Sharia to. It is probably the first, and only, school in the world to be based in the back of a van.

I wonder when the left, Academe, the MSM, Obama, all the usual suspects are going to factor this into their dealings with Islam.

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