Category: Europe

Furor over Fox! Are we seeing the Saudi influence at Fox News

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Update:  One of many good commentaries on how Beck screwed up big time, here.  And, here is Mark Steyn on Krauthammer.

I had a slew of e-mails this morning on what Fox News did last night on Geert Wilders.  I saw some of it myself and was disgusted by what appeared a joint plan between Glenn Beck and Fox’s Special Report to trash Wilders.  Unfortunately my time is limited this morning so I urge you to read Jerry Gordon’s post at New English Review to find out what all the anger is about.   We at RRW admire Wilders very much and predict Krauthammer (who I usually count on to know the facts) and company will come to eat their words!

Geert Wilders: the elite Left is guilty of practicing cultural relativism

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I told you earlier today about Geert Wilders election success in Dutch local elections.  Today he spoke at the House of Lords in London.  Here is one portion of that speech that resonates with me.    

Ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake: The left is facilitating islamization. Leftists, liberals, are cheering for every new shariah bank being created, for every new shariah mortgage, for every new islamic school, for every new shariah court. Leftists consider Islam as being equal to our own culture. Shariah law or democracy? Islam or freedom? It doesn’t really matter to them. But it does matter to us. The entire leftist elite is guilty of practising cultural relativism. Universities, churches, trade unions, the media, politicians. They are all betraying our hard-won liberties.

Why I ask myself, why have the Leftists and liberals stopped to fight for them? Once the Leftists stood on the barricades for women’s rights. But where are they today? Where are they in 2010? They are looking the other way. Because they are addicted to cultural relativism and dependent on the Muslim vote. They are dependent on mass-immigration.

Please read the whole speech, here, at Atlas Shrugs.

About Geert Wilders victory in the Netherlands yesterday

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Likely the only politician in the world with the guts to say that Muslim immigration to a western country—this time the Netherlands—should be halted is Geert Wilders.  Yesterday elections in Holland sent a message to the Far Left and their Muslim Supremacist friends that times may soon be changing!

From the UK Guardian:

The Dutch far-right, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders has won major gains in local elections in the Netherlands, with preliminary results today indicating he may dominate the political scene in the run-up to the general election in three months.

Yesterday’s poll, 10 days after the centrist coalition government collapsed, was seen as a gauge of the public mood ahead of the national elections on 9 June.

Wilders last night claimed a massive victory, predicting: “We are going to conquer the entire country … We are going to be the biggest party in the country.

“The leftist elite still believes in multiculturalism, coddling criminals, a European super-state and high taxes,” Wilders told cheering supporters at a rally in Almere. “But the rest of the Netherlands thinks differently. That silent majority now has a voice,” he said.　

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Wilders, who likens the Qur’an to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and wants Muslim immigrants deported, is bidding to win the general election in June, with the latest opinion polls predicting he might take 27 of the 150 seats in the Netherlands’ highly fragmented political scene.

That would make it tough for the Christian Democrats, projected to win one seat less, to forge a strong coalition without Wilders.

I was too tired to post on this story last night, and I see this morning that it is all over the news.  Here are some references to analysis of what it all means at Blue Ridge Forum.

Judy and I have written on several occasions about Wilders’ courageous campaign for free speech and against radical Islamic ideology and were fortunate to hear him speak at CPAC in 2009 (albeit the event was not sanctioned by the Washington DC insider Republicans that Michelle Malkin says are missing a key part of their anatomy, link in that same Blue Ridge Forum post!).

Britain finally gets around to designating Al-Shabaab a terrorist group

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It’s about time.  From the Voice of America:

The British government says it is banning the Somali militant group, al-Shabab and designating it a terrorist organization.

The British Home Office said the move to ban al-Shabab is necessary.

Al-Shabab is a militant Islamic group fighting for control of Somalia against the country’s transitional government. The group has pledged its allegiance to al-Qaida and has vowed to set up a strict Islamic state in Somalia.

Roger Middleton is a Horn of Africa analyst with London’s Chatham House research center. He tells VOA even though few reliable details are known about al-Shabab, its top leadership clearly talks about global jihad.

I think they have done more than just talk, but nevertheless, here is a sample of their talk!   I think the UK falls in there somewhere!

“We want to inform Bush and our rivals about our real intentions. We will establish Islamic rule from Alaska and Chile to South Africa, and from Japan to Russia. Beware, we are coming.”

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“Our objectives, by the grace of God, are to see the return of the Islamic Caliphate, the last of which was the Ottoman empire that collapsed in the 1920s. We want to bring that system back and govern the world with God’s law.

UK Somali woman’s case demonstrates that the end of Europe as we know it is near

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Thanks to Baron at  Gates of Vienna for this incredible story.  A Somali woman with 4 children and no husband (where is he?) is given permission by European Union judges to be provided a new home by the British government.    From the Daily Mail:

Standing proudly with her arm draped over her 36in television, this is the Somali woman who must be given a council house even though she has no right to live in Britain.

Nimco Hassan Ibrahim – who lives with her four children on benefit handouts – was granted the right to the home by EU judges yesterday because she was once married to a Danish citizen who briefly worked in this country.

The landmark judgment means the 34-year-old migrant and her children will soon be packing up their impressive collection of furniture and electrical equipment when they are given a new house. 

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The landmark EU judgment opens the door for hundreds of thousands of unemployed foreigners to claim both state benefits and council or housing association homes.

Read this whole article and weep!  As I read it I wondered, so where is the husband and father of 4 kids?  Off in Somali fighting for al-Shabaab perhaps?

The story reminds me that we live in incredible times—witnessing the end of Western Civilization in Europe.   This is of course why Mark Steyn entitled his book that everyone should read—America Alone!  And, then get to work saving ourselves!