That’s the headline to an article in today’s Sunday Telegraph, which resumes the paper’s hysterical campaign against the Law Society’s supposed complicity in the Islamification of the UK. As before, Baroness Cox is quoted as an authority. And what illustration did the Telegraph choose to accompany their report? Yes, it was the one below, of a group of Anjem Choudary’s supporters.
Assed Baig analyses the hysteria around the supposed “Trojan Horse” plot by Islamists to take over Birmingham schools. He points out that Michael Gove’s background of Islamophobia (he is the author of the scaremongering anti-Islam book Celsius 7/7 and a member of the right-wing think-tanks Policy Exchange and the Henry Jackson Society) renders the education secretary incapable of examining the issues in an objective fashion.
The government and the culture of the United States are being infiltrated and undermined by “a warring religion,” and the Muslim Brotherhood is behind the drive, conservative political activist Cathie Adams warned those attending Tuesday’s meeting of the Texas Patriot Tea Party.
Adams, a former state chair of the Republican Party of Texas, is president of Texas Eagle Forum, the Lone Star arm of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum. Adams said she has studied in Israel and worked with Jewish people, as well as studying the reach of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. and around the world.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamic political organization that has the stated goals of establishing Islamic Sharia law as “the basis for controlling the affairs of state and society” and unifying “Islamic countries and states, mainly among the Arab states, and liberating them from foreign imperialism.”
But Adams said that the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda includes creating a worldwide Islamic state, including the U.S., by overturning the laws and constitutions of other countries and replacing them all with Sharia law. It’s motto, she said, is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Adams told her audience on Tuesday not to be taken in by claims that Islam is a peaceful religion, adding that just listening to public statements by Muslim leaders and reading the tenets of Islam provides ample evidence to the contrary.
Sharia law, Adams said, tells Muslims everything on how to live, and that it is “held by every Muslim,” not just extremists. “How do you know who is going to turn radical when every Muslim embraces Sharia law?” she said.
Adams said that while Islam teaches Muslims not to lie to other Muslims, on the other hand it demands that Muslims lie to non-Muslims when necessary to protect and promote Islam. “If it’s a Muslim telling you something, you really don’t know if it’s the truth or a lie,” she said.
And while Muslims are “extremely hospitable when you are under their roof,” as required by their religion, that hospitality ends as soon as you leave their home. “Walk out of their home and you can be shot in the back,” Adams said.
MURFREESBORO — The U.S. Supreme Court should reject hearing an appeal about Rutherford County’s public notice before approval of a mosque, according to attorneys for the county.
“Defendants pray the Court deny the petitioners’ petition for writ of certiorari,” states a document sent this week to the high court in Washington, D.C., from county lead defense attorney Josh McCreary and County Attorney Jim Cope.
The document is in response to plaintiffs led by Kevin Fisher, Henry Golczynski and Lisa Moore asking for the high court to hear their case. Their attorneys recently completed their request for an appeal for a case that initially started September 2010 in seeking to stop construction of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro from being built on Veals Road off Bradyville Pike.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has the details.
See also “CAIR-FL, parents, students to oppose anti-Muslim textbook bill”, CAIR press release, 21 April 2014
The UK Independence party has suspended one of its five supporters chosen to appear on its first European election broadcast after it emerged he had posted a series of racist and Islamaphobic tweets that also condemned Ed Miliband as “a Pole” and called for Africans to be left alone to kill themselves.
The election broadcast featured builder Andre Lampitt criticising eastern European immigration. He said: “Since the lads from eastern Europe are prepared to work for a lot less than anybody else, I’ve found it a real struggle.” In common with the other Ukip supporters featured on the broadcast Lampitt is not named.
After the tweets came to light, a Ukip spokesman said: “We are deeply shocked that Mr Lampitt has expressed such repellent views. His membership of the party has been suspended immediately pending a full disciplinary process.”
Lampitt’s offensive and potentially unlawful tweets have been posted in the past few months. He describes Islam as a Satanic religion and claims Nigerians are bad people.
The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, has repeatedly claimed he cannot control all the views of his party membership and insisted his posters are not designed to encourage racism. But Lampitt was handpicked by Ukip headquarters to represent the views of working-class people in the UK, and it appears no checks were made to examine his wider opinions.
Lampitt describes himself as “Born British in Rhodesia”. In one tweet he claimed that Islam is not a religion and called it an “evil organisation”. Another says: “Get over it, slavery was an act of war. you lost stop being so damn jealous and move forward.”
He also said he wants to start a website called Islamoutofuk.co.uk. He tweeted: “Most Nigerians are generally bad people I grew up in Africa and dare anyone to prove me wrong.”
MURFREESBORO — County mayoral candidate Jimmy Evans stands by a flyer he sent out depicting the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro praising incumbent Mayor Ernest Burgess.
“Thank you Ernest Burgess,” the flyer states to serve as a translation for what appears to be Arabic writing related to the government approving the ICM. “Without you, the Mosque would not be possible!” “That’s true,” Evans said during an interview in his office at his car dealership on Northwest Broad Street in Murfreesboro. “Without Mayor Burgess, the mosque would not be possible.”
The front page of the advertisement that displays the name “Ernest Burgess,” shows Arabic writing, images of mosque structures with a sun in the background and then adds “See translation inside …” But the American Center of Outreach, a local Muslim advocacy group, said the Arabic letters first appeared to be gibberish but actually are the intended words backward and without proper punctuation or spacing for the language.
Evans is running against Burgess in the May 6 Republican primary for Rutherford County offices. Early voting is going on through May 1 for the GOP primary. The general election is Aug. 7.
The saga of the Athens mosque, the realization of which has been delayed for years and seemed a settled issue last November, continues. Work for the construction of the Muslim temple has been blocked again, this time by political maneuvers and an appeal presented by a university teacher, two navy officials, a cultural association and the ultra-conservative bishop of the Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus, all of whom are against the presence of the worshipping place in the Greek capital, the only one in Europe still without a temple for its more than 200,000 residents of Muslim faith.
Precisely because of the legal recourse – and the fear that a judge may rule for the complainants – the infrastructure ministry has made it known that it has not yet signed the contract to carry out the 946,000 euro project on which the tender was won five months ago by the consortium composed of four of the largest Hellenic businesses: Aktor, Terna, JP & Avax and Intrakat. The preceding four tenders for assigning construction were not successfully completed since the participating companies withdrew after threats and intimidation received from extremist right-wing groups, like the neo-Nazi Chrysi Avgì (Golden Dawn) party and residents of the Votanikos neighborhood, where the place of worship is supposed to be built, all of whom are contrary to the presence of Muslims in their zone in fear that it could become a gathering place for Islamic extremists or even a “den of terrorists”.
Officials at the Department for Education and Ofsted are under investigation over leaks in the Trojan Horse inquiry.
Birmingham Council leader Sir Albert Bore said the Cabinet Office was investigating the unauthorised release of information to a national newspaper. He spoke after reports claimed that six city schools were to be put into special measures following the Trojan Horse probe.
“Leaks to the press at this time are in my view wholly reprehensible and completely unacceptable,” Sir Albert said. “A leak inquiry is being undertaken by the Cabinet Office which I understand will be thorough.”
The Sunday Telegraph revealed that six inner city schools would be put into special measures when Ofsted published its findings early next month.
The Daily Telegraph publishes a puff-piece on Caroline Cox, the woman who invited Geert Wilders to the House of Lords. Some defender of Muslims.