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- Exposed At Last
March 16, 2008: London, Britain A Muslim who advised the Government following the July 7 London bombings has been arrested after an alleged stabbing.Inayat Bunglawala, 39, was held on suspicion of attacking another man at his £300,000 home. Mr Bunglawala,...
- Archbishop Of Canterbury: Sharia Law In The Uk Unavoidable
The Archbishop Rowan Williams is digging out quite a niche for himself in this world. He will be remembered as among the biggest traitors and stooges in history; right up there with Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot. Now, he is saying that it is unavoidable...
- Muslim Polygamy
Personal note: Perhaps some of you here at IBA have noticed that I haven't posted or commented much lately. Sure, I've been busy. But something else has been going on too. I feel as if I'm living in some sort of alternate reality, a reality...
- Whitehall To Whitewash Islamic Extremism And The Jihad
Banner of Jihad courtesy of Google Images THE GUARDIAN: Phrasebook designed to avoid blaming Muslims for extremism A new counter-terrorism phrasebook has been drawn up within Whitehall to advise civil servants on how to talk to Muslim communities about...
- British Muslims
Here are the results of a survey of British Muslims for Channel 4. Forty-five percent say 9/11 was a conspiracy by the American and Israeli governments. Almost one in four British Muslims believe that last year's 7/7 attacks on London were justified...
Green Energy
Britain's Three Wishes
The genie of life presented Britain with three difficult situations, and instead of choosing to man-up and take responsibility for their situation, the British have chosen to make three wishes (from Daniel Pipes):
Beneath the deceptively placid surface of everyday life, the British population is engaged in a momentous encounter with Islam. Three developments of the past week, each of them culminating years' long trend — and not just some odd occurrence — exemplify changes now underway.
First, the UK government has decided that terrorism by Muslims in the name of Islam is actually unrelated to Islam, or even anti-Islamic. This notion took root in 2006 when the Foreign Office, afraid that the term "war on terror" would inflame British Muslims, sought language that upholds "shared values as a means to counter terrorists." By early 2007, the European Union issued a classified handbook that banned jihad, Islamic, and fundamentalist in reference to terrorism, offering instead some "non-offensive" phrases. Last summer, Prime Minister Gordon Brown prohibited his ministers from using the word Muslim in connection with terrorism. In January, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith went further, actually describing terrorism as "anti-Islamic." And last week the Home Office completed the obfuscation by issuing a counter-terrorism phrasebook that instructs civil servants to refer only to violent extremism and criminal murderers, not Islamist extremism and jihadi-fundamentalists.
Second, and again culminating several years of evolution, the British government now recognizes polygamous marriages. It changed the rules in the "Tax Credits (Polygamous Marriages) Regulations 2003": previously, only one wife could inherit assets tax-free from a deceased husband; this legislation permits multiple wives to inherit tax-free, so long as the marriage had been contracted where polygamy is legal, as in Nigeria, Pakistan, or India. In a related matter, the Department for Work and Pensions began issuing extra payments to harems for such benefits as jobseeker allowances, housing subventions, and council tax relief. Last week came news that, after a year-long review, four government departments (Work and Pensions, Treasury, Revenue and Customs, Home Office) concluded that formal recognition of polygamy is "the best possible" option for Her Majesty's Government.
Third, the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, endorsed applying portions of the Islamic law (the Shari'a) in Great Britain. Adopting its civil elements, he explained, "seems unavoidable" because not all British Muslims relate to the existing legal system and applying the Shari'a would help with their social cohesion. When Muslims can go to an Islamic civil court, they need not face "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty." Continuing to insist on the "legal monopoly" of British common law rather than permit Shari'a, Williams warned, would bring on "a bit of a danger" for the country.
These developments suggest that British appeasement concerning the war on terror, the nature of the family, and the rule of law are part of a larger pattern. Even more than the security threat posed by Islamist violence, these trends are challenging and perhaps will change the very nature of Western life.
Go read the whole thing.
Beneath the deceptively placid surface of everyday life, the British population is engaged in a momentous encounter with Islam. Three developments of the past week, each of them culminating years' long trend — and not just some odd occurrence — exemplify changes now underway.
First, the UK government has decided that terrorism by Muslims in the name of Islam is actually unrelated to Islam, or even anti-Islamic. This notion took root in 2006 when the Foreign Office, afraid that the term "war on terror" would inflame British Muslims, sought language that upholds "shared values as a means to counter terrorists." By early 2007, the European Union issued a classified handbook that banned jihad, Islamic, and fundamentalist in reference to terrorism, offering instead some "non-offensive" phrases. Last summer, Prime Minister Gordon Brown prohibited his ministers from using the word Muslim in connection with terrorism. In January, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith went further, actually describing terrorism as "anti-Islamic." And last week the Home Office completed the obfuscation by issuing a counter-terrorism phrasebook that instructs civil servants to refer only to violent extremism and criminal murderers, not Islamist extremism and jihadi-fundamentalists.
Second, and again culminating several years of evolution, the British government now recognizes polygamous marriages. It changed the rules in the "Tax Credits (Polygamous Marriages) Regulations 2003": previously, only one wife could inherit assets tax-free from a deceased husband; this legislation permits multiple wives to inherit tax-free, so long as the marriage had been contracted where polygamy is legal, as in Nigeria, Pakistan, or India. In a related matter, the Department for Work and Pensions began issuing extra payments to harems for such benefits as jobseeker allowances, housing subventions, and council tax relief. Last week came news that, after a year-long review, four government departments (Work and Pensions, Treasury, Revenue and Customs, Home Office) concluded that formal recognition of polygamy is "the best possible" option for Her Majesty's Government.
Third, the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, endorsed applying portions of the Islamic law (the Shari'a) in Great Britain. Adopting its civil elements, he explained, "seems unavoidable" because not all British Muslims relate to the existing legal system and applying the Shari'a would help with their social cohesion. When Muslims can go to an Islamic civil court, they need not face "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty." Continuing to insist on the "legal monopoly" of British common law rather than permit Shari'a, Williams warned, would bring on "a bit of a danger" for the country.
These developments suggest that British appeasement concerning the war on terror, the nature of the family, and the rule of law are part of a larger pattern. Even more than the security threat posed by Islamist violence, these trends are challenging and perhaps will change the very nature of Western life.
Go read the whole thing.
- Exposed At Last
March 16, 2008: London, Britain A Muslim who advised the Government following the July 7 London bombings has been arrested after an alleged stabbing.Inayat Bunglawala, 39, was held on suspicion of attacking another man at his £300,000 home. Mr Bunglawala,...
- Archbishop Of Canterbury: Sharia Law In The Uk Unavoidable
The Archbishop Rowan Williams is digging out quite a niche for himself in this world. He will be remembered as among the biggest traitors and stooges in history; right up there with Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot. Now, he is saying that it is unavoidable...
- Muslim Polygamy
Personal note: Perhaps some of you here at IBA have noticed that I haven't posted or commented much lately. Sure, I've been busy. But something else has been going on too. I feel as if I'm living in some sort of alternate reality, a reality...
- Whitehall To Whitewash Islamic Extremism And The Jihad
Banner of Jihad courtesy of Google Images THE GUARDIAN: Phrasebook designed to avoid blaming Muslims for extremism A new counter-terrorism phrasebook has been drawn up within Whitehall to advise civil servants on how to talk to Muslim communities about...
- British Muslims
Here are the results of a survey of British Muslims for Channel 4. Forty-five percent say 9/11 was a conspiracy by the American and Israeli governments. Almost one in four British Muslims believe that last year's 7/7 attacks on London were justified...