Free Speech, Islam, Barack Obama

At one point, YouTube pulled this video, much the same as they tend to pull down anti-Obama videos. We can expect more protection for islamofascists if Barack Obama ever takes office. Like his muslim buddies, Obama has, thus far, proven himself to be very unfriendly towards free speech when such speech is critical of him. Fortunately, there was sufficient outcry to restore Condell’s video. Unfortunately, a successful outcome in such battles depends on the free dissemination of knowledge. Obama will hinder that process considerably.

Apparently YouTube, who has had some challenges with Turkey and Pakistan, have decided that it is easier to block ‘problematic’ content themselves than standing up for freedom and have Pakistani Internet operators wreck havoc on them.

We are still waiting for the day when big media realizes they have a responsibility to stand up for freedom of expression.

In his latest video, Pat Condell sure manages to step on some toes in this latest video. But that is well deserved, for what happens is serious and what he has to say is important. : (Source)

Though I appreciate Condell’s excellent work against Islam, I find it sad and ironic that he, as an atheist, also disparages Christianity, the only religion boasting a God who respects individual free will. In the end, it will be Christians defending Condell’s rights to preach against Islam, even as he attacks their own faith.

More Creeping Sharia

I guess it would be the height of insanity to expect today’s presidential candidates to address the encroachment of Islam. I suppose it has to get as bad as it is in Europe before Americans wake up.

• Muslim cabbies in Minn. lose round in court

  Muslim cabbies whose religious beliefs go against driving passengers who carry alcohol have lost another round in Minnesota courts. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday against the cabbies’ latest attempt to block penalties from being imposed when they refuse to transport passengers because they’re carrying alcoholic beverages. An ordinance adopted by the Metropolitan Airports Commission last year revokes a cabbie’s license for 30 days for refusing to pick up a passenger for any reason at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. A second refusal brings a two-year revocation.

  
  

• Prayer tiff at Swift plant – The Denver Post

  Nearly 400 Muslim workers who walked off the job Friday night at a Greeley slaughterhouse stayed home Monday to protest the denial of time to pray when their religious fasting ends during the workday. Officials of the union that represents the workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, met with managers at JBS Swift & Co. on Monday over accommodations for the workers, mostly Somalis, who say they have not been allowed to break for food, water and prayer when religious fasting in observance of Ramadan ends each day, UFCW spokesman Manny Gonzales said. The workers stayed home Monday while negotiations continued, employee Ahmed Mohamud said. “They’re working with us,” Mohamud said of Swift managers, noting that a resolution is expected today. Company officials would acknowledge in a prepared statement only that an undisclosed number of workers walked out Friday night and that Swift was trying to make accommodations for the workers’ religious practices. The employees walked off Friday night after they were told to keep working rather than break to end their daily fast, employees said. They said bathrooms were locked and water fountains shut off. “They’re upset with their prayer time, and we’re filing appropriate grievances to be sure their needs are being met,” Gonzales said of the workers.

  
  

• Inver Grove Heights charter school changing student prayer time

  An Inver Grove Heights charter school that came under investigation by the state Department of Education in the spring over allegations that it illegally promoted the Muslim faith will make changes this fall in the way it accommodates student prayer. Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) will reduce the length of voluntary Friday prayers and have staff members who wish to pray do so in a room separate from students, according to a letter school director Asad Zaman sent to the Minnesota Department of Education. The school, responding to the state investigation, has maintained that it has been in compliance with state and federal laws.

  
  

• A place for prayer at USF

  ampa, Florida-Slowly word is getting out to USF’s estimated large Muslim student population. They no longer have to look for a place to pray on campus because students now have a private place to worship. Members of USF’s Muslim Student Association are introduced to the school’s Serenity Room in the new Marshall Student Center. Twenty-one year old Narjis Zaidi says the small room on the north side of the Marshall Center’s third floor brings the peace and quiet she looks for. “During certain times of day the beams of the sun they reflect into the room in a very soothing and relaxing way. I’ve come here to pray and to relax or take a breather for a few minutes,” says Narjis. There’s also a wash room for Muslims to cleanse their feet, hands, arms and face before prayer. Until now they’d wash their feet in the school’s bathroom sinks they’d pray where possible on campus 5 times a day.

  
  

• Muslims for Barack Obama ’08

  
  

  • ISSUES & SOLUTIONS

    QUESTION: What are issues and recommendations for solutions that are unique to Muslim Americans?

    1. A Law against harrassment of a Muslim women wearing Hijab at the Airport, DMV and other public arenas.

    2. Institute a Law to allow Muslim Employees to take a hours off from work for Friday Jummah Prayer.

    3. Make the 2 Eid’s, recognized National Holidays on Calendars with days off from work.

    4. Optional Halal meals in federal buildiings, public schools and colleges.

    5. Provide prayer areas suitable for Salah and Jummah, in public and private facilities. (i.e. Malls, Airports, Universities and government buildings.)

    6. Organize a Muslim American group to assist in recommendations for US foreign policy affecting majority Muslim countries.

• THE MIDNIGHT SUN » Leftist double standards

  Daily Mail – Councillors have been ordered not to eat during town hall meetings while Muslim colleagues fast during the holy month of Ramadan. All elected members at Left-wing Tower Hamlets Council in East London have been sent an email asking them to follow strict Islamic fasting during September no matter what their faith. As well as restricting food and drink until after sunset, the authority’s leaders have decided to reduce the number of meetings throughout the month so they do not clash with the requirements of Ramadan. …. But some members of the Labour-run council say the demands favour one religious group over the others.

  
  

• Minneapolis enables sharia law « Creeping Sharia

  Not surprising from a state where Muslim cab drivers refuse to pick up passengers with alcohol or dogs, where local colleges install Islamic foot baths, the airport installs Islamic prayer rooms, where Islamic school administrators don’t know how to raise the American flag, and where a Muslim congressman refuses to condemn Muslim American Society for the violent and anti-Semitic statements found on the group’s website.

  
  

Be Prepared to Bow Before Your Islamic Masters (Spit)

Gateway to Hell

For all the secularists and atheists and christo-phobes, become acquainted with the masters you will one day kneel before – if you keep up your incessant support of islam. You will long for the day when all you had to contend with were pushy preachers. This is in England, a country robust with those who despise the Christian god and those who have pushed a multicultural agenda. As they are now finding out, you will soon reap what you have sown in America.

Later this month it’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It’s one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, so I’d be obliged, please, if you’d all stay at home, turn off the TV and refrain from your usual activities. Ten days after that it’s Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when Jews fast and spend the day in synagogue. So I’ve also asked my Times colleagues not to work then. And I will be mightily offended if I learn afterwards that any of them have been eating.

You might not think I am being serious. But if I was Head of Democratic Services at Tower Hamlets Council in East London, I would be. Last week John Williams e-mailed each of the borough’s 51 councillors with a similar instruction.

For the duration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, they are, he told them – every one of them, Muslim, Catholic, Jew or atheist – to behave during council meetings as strict Muslims. They are not to eat or drink; they are to break for Muslim prayers; they are to do as they are ordered by the Muslim religion.
Continue reading…Compulsory fasting for all.

For those yet unfamiliar with the term, this is called “creeping sharia”. It is the insidious incursion of muslims into western societies. The rude and chauvinistic insistence that we honor their “holy” days while they continue to work with the left to eradicate all evidence of any other religion, be it Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism – any of them. And forced observation of their “holy” days will be the least of it.

Quite the contrary to what the insanely misguided Mr. Bush has declared, Islam means “submission”, not peace. There are a multitude of bookmarks under the heading, “Islam Kills: Wake Up America”, to your right. Please, if you still do not get it, peruse them. Your lefty friends will never know you questioned their “all cultures are equal” doctrine.

Eurabia

EURABIA – A Chilling Look at Europe under Islam
via Bare Naked Islam

Do you really want Barack Hussein Obama charting America’s future?

Creeping Sharia:Forcing Prayer in School

I didn’t think much of any faith based initiative under Bush. I am horrified that Barack Obama has endorsed it. Even more ominous, he intends to expand the list of faiths to whom it applies.

Christians I can handle. They have yet to threaten to kill me when I offend them. Real Christians (as opposed to the pseudo _christian left) have a healthy respect for free will. More so, they have a healthy respect for life. Islam respects neither, in fact, muslims respect nothing outside of Islam, least of all the right to worship any god, or no god at all.

Given Obama’s seemingly natural affinity for totalitarian systems, I clearly expect him to gravitate towards the autocratic dictates of Islam. And expanding faith based initiatives will open the door ever wider for Islam. More to the point, it isn’t as if they are a body of impoverished believers, hurting for money. Islam has a steady revenue of Wahabbi and Saud money flowing into their coffers. Let them fund their own freaking initiatives.The idea of adding American tax dollars is tantamount to handing ammunition to the enemy.

Islam is quietly crossing the threshold of our schools in this country while hysterical muslims scream “racism’ anytime parents protest. The lamentable and subversive ACLU does absolutely nothing about it. But of course, you have to grow a pair to confront Islam and the dhimmi ACLU are far to used to the easy victories they have had suppressing Christianity.

If American remains indifferent, they’ll be longing for the days when Christianity was the only religion they had to contend with. Don’t believe me. Start reading the blogs and news out of Great Britain. Below is only one small example.

Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson. [snip] “But not only did they have to pray, the teacher had gone into the class and made them watch a short film and then said ‘we are now going out to pray to Allah’. “Then two boys got detention and all the other children missed their refreshment break because of the teacher. “Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. [snip] Parents said that their children were made to bend down on their knees on prayer mats which the RE teacher had got out of her cupboard and they were also told to wear Islamic headgear during the lesson on Tuesday afternoon.
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Forcing children to pray to Allah and promoting sharia

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CAIR: It Ain’t Over Yet

Seventh Circuit Vacates Holy Land Foundation Opinion, Grants Rehearing

On June 16, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the opinion of a three-judge panel, rendered December 28, 2007, which overturned the landmark $156 million judgment against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), other Islamic charities in the U.S., and an alleged Hamas fundraiser. The case arose out of the 1996 murder of David Boim, a 17-year-old American citizen, who was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack in the West Bank. David’s parents sued men who were directly involved in the murder; the Holy Land Foundation (HLF); the American Muslim Society, also known as the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP); the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI); the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR); Saleh, the alleged Hamas fundraiser; and others (see this summary judgement order from the first trial for the complete list). The June 16 decision will result in a rehearing of the case by the entire court in the near future, thus giving the Boim family a second chance at the appellate level.

I have less and less hope that this castrated government will rid this country of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and all other islamic front groups. But at least there is this, small as it is. May they nail these bastards to the wall.

The Insanity of Appeasing Muslims

It seems too lunatic to be true. But here a hair salon boss reveals how she was driven to the brink of ruin – and forced to pay £4,000 for ‘hurt feelings’ – after refusing to hire a Muslim stylist who wouldn’t show her hair at work.

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For a year, Sarah has been facing financial ruin, due to a compensation claim for £34,000 brought by Bushra, 19, who has maintained she is due that figure after being turned down for a job at the Wedge salon in London’s King’s Cross.

In the event, the tribunal ruled this week that while Bushra’s claim of direct discrimination failed, her claim for indirect discrimination had succeeded.

Sarah has therefore been ordered to pay £4,000 compensation by way of ‘injury to feelings’.

Although this is a smaller sum than she’d feared she might have to hand over, Sarah, 32, is still outraged.

‘I am a small business and the bottom line is that this is not a woman who worked for me,’ says Sarah.

The muslim in question was also rejected by 25 other salons and even though she admits that Sarah said nothing that could be construed as an insult, she opted to sue. My guess is that Sarah looked like the softest target.

This is what comes of the ludicrous notion that offended feelings deserve compensation. Moreover it speaks to the insidious control the state exerts over the private business owner who has less and less freedom to conduct business profitably or in accordance with their beliefs. Such interference with private enterprise becomes even more insidious when coupled with the additional threat posed by  the very dangerous momentum with which sharia compliant banking is being implemented across the world. As it progresses, so does the imposition of sharia law.

Yet, we allow muslims continue to use our laws against us. And it isn’t just in England. Islam has global ambitions, and as one writer cautions, while warning of the acceleration of muslim sponsored censorship, it has become an issue that crosses all national boundaries.

“We can no longer be secure in the knowledge that our own laws or constitution will protect us. THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THREAT and we’ve got to be watching for changes globally rather than nationally if we want to be prepared for what is going to absolutely affect each one of us.” (source)

From refusing to wear uniforms, to protesting male western doctors  treating muslim women, to muslim taxi cab drivers demanding special privileges , not to mention the pathetic dhimmis who acquiesce to muslim extortion, like the execrable Oregon principle who had the audacity to ban the Pledge of Allegiance in an American public elementary school, for fear of offending Muslims.

This list can go on and on -  creeping sharia and cultural jihad continues, abetted by the left, in nation after nation.

What the hell is it going to take for Americans to freaking wake up? And it won’t be Barack Hussein Obama who finally gets a clue, the would-be president who finds the shrill islamic “call to prayer” melodic and permits advocacy of “honor” killings on his official campaign site...

In 1997, Sarah got a job at a salon on London’s Portobello Road, where she remained for almost a decade. In March 2006, feeling ready to spread her wings, she wrote a business plan, secured a loan and invested £5,000 of her savings into the lease on a small salon on Caledonian Road.

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‘I’d never felt as proud as I did on the day I picked up the keys to my salon,’ says Sarah.I was prepared to put my heart and soul into my business in order to make ends meet, and for the first few months, I worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, all by myself. ‘I barely saw daylight, but I didn’t mind because I was fulfilling my ambition.

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By March 2007, the business was doing so well that Sarah needed to take on another stylist. (source)

And then a muslim walked in.  A muslim applying to an “edgy” salon, garbed in head scarf down to her brows. And she was looking for an excuse to sue, of that I have no doubt. Sarah interviewed her, discovered that she would refuse  to remove her head scarf and that was the end of it in her mind. If style is the product that you sell, and hair is the showcase, it is rather obvious that a dour muslim with nary a wisp of hair showing isn’t a good match. Rather like applying to be a nude model and refusing to take off your clothes. A sensible person simply wouldn’t apply.

One morning in the second week of June 2007, an innocuous white envelope landed on Sarah’s doormat. It contained a letter saying that she was being sued for £15,000 for indirect and direct discrimination by Bushra Noah. This, the letter stated, related to compensation for injury to her feelings and lost earnings. Later, that figure was increased to £34,000.

And so it goes. In every country where muslims are seeking a stronghold,  charges of discrimination and threats of lawsuits are becoming common. It is the same victim’s templates used by all so-called minorities. And  small business owners simply trying to hold their own, to make a living, are confronted with a well oiled grievance machine with absolutely no support from their individual governments. In fact, too many governments are bending their knees to these extortionists.

If you, as an American, have no intention of bowing down before foreign gods, then you damn well better start fighting.

Creeping Sharia: This Is How They Do It

Editors note: I have five years of archived posts in one file that I will have to hand post individually into this WordPress platform and it is, indeed, a daunting task. There are all kinds of extra squiggles and code that needs to be ferreted out and deleted, links updated and images found. So expect to get hit with some golden oldies as I plunge ahead with this task. If I am to make any inroads, time to write new posts will be a bit truncated.

But, sadly, what I wrote about back in 2004, when the below was posted, is even more relevant today.

In 2004 I remember thinking, we still have time, that the culturally imperialist Sharia mongers couldn’t possibly infiltrate so pervasively and thoroughly in America as they have in Europe.

I was wrong. This post describes one instance, of thousands, of an ongoing national effort to promote “understanding” under the guise of “ecumenical out reach” between muslims and Christians. Christian churches – apparently as gutted by “progressive” infiltration as the rest of America – are blindly providing trojan horse groups like CAIR center stage.

And most of you have probably read about the “redneck” baiting ABC is doing on behalf of CAIR. That still angers me so much that I can’t yet write about it.

But I touch on the evidence of “creeping sharia” in this post. And all of this to set up a post describing how blatantly Great Britain’s muslims are defying western law and defiling western culture. Hell, it ain’t creeping sharia anymore, it’s freaking marching across the continent. But, that’s the next post.

From February 25,2004…. “This is How They Do It”

This Is How They Do It

Muslim offers ideas on avoiding sexual abuse.

This is how they do it. For all of those who are happy to see the last vestiges of Christianity disappearing, I hope you will be as vociferous against the attempts of Muslims to assert their “moral” authority and attempt to incorporate their religious mandates into our “secular” society.

Here we have a little pristine Muslim bitch trying to insinuate that women are responsible for their own rapes. She has a slight point. If most women look like “it” is for sale, they ought not be too aggravated when men attempt to see if the merchandise is worth it. That personal sentiment aside, it is still incumbent upon the man not to touch what isn’t his. Personal responsibility.

But this lightweight wants to assert that it falls upon the woman to inhibit her behavior and says nothing of a man’s responsibility to keep it in his pants. Were this speaker a no-name Christian as opposed to a no-name Muslim this event would never have merited the attention of the press.

In fact, what is nauseating is the Muslim appropriation of a moral issue as if their pronouncements were unique. Similar sentiments, expressed by Christians, are routinely mocked as censorious, judgmental and hopelessly backwards.

In the West, we raise our children to make them . . . the object of attraction. We raise our girls to make them be picked up, to be asked for a date,” she said. “We tell the children you have to look pretty and sexy, and they are trained to follow the fashion and to make yourself alluring. It is there we are failing. I don’t think we see what we’re doing.”

[She]… favors billowy skirts and loose-fitting pants…She … believes her style helps her command and maintain the respect of men….eschewing the more “alluring” Western style of dress and establishing more boundaries between men and women is one possible answer.”[for sexual abuse]

Yes, this is how they do it. There are any number of religions who share mutual values and mutual repugnance at current societal mores. Most of them have been dismissed, discounted or caricatured by the media. But the media will continue to interview Muslims on issues where they have already denigrated the parallel Christian voice. You’ll note the dilemma of sexual abuse exists, in part, because we are subject to mores found “in the West, and “alluring” Western styles…” Not greedy Madison Ave advertisers. Not the snarling, multi- cultural PC pimps at MTV. It is not attributable to leagues of leftist professors across all nationalities dismantling family and Christian-Judeo moral code with much the same zeal that Muslims seem to demonstrate when defending their bad breed while propagating a duplicitous public posture of benign wisdom. It is in these types of innocuous sessions that Sharia is being pedaled across America.

“The mother of 8-year-old twins is partial to less-fitting clothing in observance of purdah, the concealing style of clothing common among Muslim women….She also believes her style helps her command and maintain the respect of men.”

“I hear constantly in the news the negative perspective of observing purdah,” she said. “I found it to be extraordinarily positive. We feel it is the one way women can walk freely. We see it as a means of emancipation.” Her daughter is forbidden from wearing shorts, but so is her son, she said. Both are taught to be modest. “Your shape is not revealed,” she said. “This way you’re establishing that you’re not inviting the wrong approach.” A teacher of the Alexander Technique, a method for releasing muscular tension, Malik met her husband, a native of Pakistan, during a student’s graduation. Their courtship was cerebral, intellectual, Malik said. “None of this flirtatious business,” she said.

To gullible, foolish souls who fancy themselves agnostics or those who suffer from the ubiquitous spiritual void that secularism can not satisfy – those folks will migrate towards Islam like geese to warmer climes.

Some people can not navigate without a group and the rule of the group.The media and the academics have removed all other gods off the table, but Allah they leave alone.

They have rationalized away all constraints, boundaries, taboos, and guidance. But they leave Sharia alone.

Perhaps it’s the left’s deep empathy for the nihilism inherent in Islam. Those who always succumb to gods and celestial longings, be it Jim Jone’s kool-aid flock or Oral Robert’s unflappable contributors, they are the ones who need what they think Islam is selling.

And apparently humans will buy into slavery. Willingly.