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Letter to Lady Liberty: A Battlecry from Europe to America

From: secure.kolofon.no

by Hallgrim Berg (ISBN: 9788292395332)

The goal of militant and imperialist Islam is absolute grandiose and global.  The first step to world supremacy is to turn Europe into a Eurabia.  The methods are not by armies, but combinations of oil, emigration, fertility, exploitation of tolerance and democracy, spread of fear, uninhibited terrorism, and millenial patience.

So far, Europe has been asleep.  A confused continent, without a gathering purpose, and without sustainable integration policies, is at a loss what to do.

The Euro-Arab "bridge-building measures" are self-deceiving, as long as there is only one-way traffic on the bridge.

The author maintains the United States the only power in the world that may secure the world's free nations.  He is discussing the growing anti-Americanism in Europe, a phenomenon evolving despite America's role as a guaranteeing force for democracy and freedom.  Anti-American sleepwalkers do not see that if the American way goes down the drain, Europe will follow.

Hallgrim Berg attacks international leftism, which is constantly marketing twisted stereotypes of America, and is also criticizing the feebleness of European politicians, particularly France, where hypocrisy is developed into mastery.

Challenged by the most comprising and hard-core totalitarianism the world has seen, the only hope for Western democracy, culture, and our way of living is a more confident cooperation and pooling of resources among European nations and the United States.


This is actually true.  Be sure to help spread the word!  Hijack a Mosque speaker and start an "illegal" radio station!  Hehe...

Polio Cases Jump in Pakistan as Clerics Declare Vaccination an American Plot

February 15, 2007 - From: www.guardian.co.uk

By Declan Walsh

The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.

The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations, and by word of mouth - has caused a sharp jump in polio cases in Pakistan and hit global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded 39 cases of polio in Pakistan in 2006, up from 28 in 2005.  The disease is concentrated in North-West Frontier Province, where 60% of the refusals were attributed to "religious reasons".

"It was very striking.  There was a lot of anti-American propaganda as well as some misconceptions about sterilisation," said Dr Sarfaraz Afridi, a campaign manager with the WHO in Peshawar.

The scaremongering and appeals to Islam echoed a similar campaign in the Nigerian state of Kano in 2003, where the disease then spread to 12 polio-free countries over the following 18 months.  Pakistan is one of just four countries where polio remains endemic.  The others are Nigeria, India and Afghanistan.

The North-West Frontier Province government made strenuous efforts to counter talk of an "infidel vaccine".  Health workers fanning across the province last month were equipped with copies of a fatwa, or religious order, endorsing the vaccinations and signed by Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the leaders of Pakistan's most powerful religious parties.

The move reassured many doubters.  More than 5.7 million children were vaccinated in January, with another 3 million targeted in a second round due to start next Tuesday.  "The elephant is over.  We are left with just the tail," said Dr Afridi.

But the tail has a deadly sting.  Even though only 24,000 children missed the vaccine, the WHO officials said failure to vaccinate in small pockets of the country gave the virus a fresh toehold to spread.

The vaccination struggle is entangled with the confrontation between the government and powerful militants in the tribal areas.  Refusals were highest in areas where conservative clerics and self-styled "Pakistani Taliban" fighters hold sway, flouting government authority and making their own strict laws.

Almost 2,000 children were not vaccinated in Bajaur, a tribal agency on the Afghan border where US warplanes bombed a house last year in the hope of killing al-Qaida's No2, Ayman al-Zawahiri.  The jets missed their target but inflamed extremist sentiment.  Recently militants ordered Bajaur's barbers to stop shaving beards on the grounds that it was "un-Islamic".  The barbers complied.

In nearby Swat Valley, a young firebrand cleric, Maulana Fazlullah, denounced the polio campaign through a local FM radio station.  His brother was killed in a Pakistani army attack on a madrasa, or Islamic school, late last year.  Almost 4,000 children were not vaccinated in Swat.

Imran Khan, of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said: "Some people feel they are under attack here ... That is clouding their attitudes."

Demands for "assistance" from local officials and elders was the other major factor behind the refusals.  In the Mohmand tribal agency, policemen demanded their salaries before allowing vaccination to proceed.  Other villagers asked for money or the release of criminals from jail.

"Demand" refusals accounted for about one-third of cases, the WHO said.

But some brave women were uncowed by the extortion or demagoguery.  Up to 200 babies a day are vaccinated at the Khyber teaching hospital in Peshawar, where burka-clad women arrive with children in their arms.  Some arrive in secret, slipping into the clinic in defiance of male relatives who oppose vaccination.  "One woman told me, 'My husband is illiterate.  He has no idea how important this vaccine is,'" said Muhammad Islam, a male nurse.

Aid workers fear they are being pushed into the frontline of the struggle between the government and tribal militants, some linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida.  Last weekend a grenade was lobbed into a Red Crescent compound in Peshawar, damaging vehicles but killing nobody.

Some linked the attack to a fatwa issued in Dara Adam Khel, a lawless town famous for its gunsmiths, just before Christmas.  A cleric named Mufti Khalid Shah declared a fatwa on employees of the UN, WHO and all other foreign organisations.  "Killing their employees is in line with the teachings of jihad in Islam," said a notice.

"We are very worried," said Mr Khan, of the Human Rights Commission.  "You have to be very careful about admitting to working for an NGO these days."

Recently aid workers in Bannu, near North Waziristan, were sent a letter and a 500 rupee (£4.50) note, he said.  "The letter said they had a choice.  They could either stop work or buy their own coffin."

Poliomyelitis is an acute viral infection of the nervous system.  Worldwide more than half of infections are in children under five.  One in two hundred infections leads to permanent paralysis, usually in the legs.  In 5-10% of these cases the victims die when the breathing muscles are paralysed.

Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988 the number of reported cases worldwide has fallen from 350,000 to 1,968 - a decrease of over 99%.  Today it remains endemic in four countries: Nigeria, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  In 1988 affected countries numbered 125.  While there remains no cure for polio the progress towards its eradication is due to widespread use of polio vaccines.  By 2002 the WHO had certified 124 countries polio-free.

More than 2 billion children have been immunised against the disease since 1988.  The WHO estimates that because of the initiative five million fewer people have been paralysed by the disease.


Political correctness is the number one suppressor of free speech.

Comics Joking About Islam Live in Fear

February 16, 2007 - From: www.expatica.com

AMSTERDAM - Actor and stand-up comedian Hans Teeuwen has launched a solidarity campaign to support his colleague Ewout Jansen, who has been receiving death threats from Muslim extremists because of his jokes, De Volkskrant writes.

Teeuwen says he finds it difficult to unite all fellow-comedians as one force, for many seem to be afraid to speak out for the "freedom of humour".  Every comedian's agenda tells you the exact time and place where he is going to perform.  One or two phone calls with threats and he cannot perform at ease any more, Teeuwen explains.

Teeuwen will act as the spokesperson for the cabaret duo Ewout Jansen en Etienne Kemerink, to distract the attention now focused on Jansen.

Meanwhile, the threats have been addressed not only to Jansen, but targeted at every form of satire somehow touching upon Islam.

This is why Ewout and Etienne are calling upon all Dutch comedians to join in filing collective charges against a member of the Amsterdam As Soenna Mosque named Kabli and the mosque's current leadership.

At the end of January, Kabli told student magazine Folia that it was supposedly every Muslim's task to fight back if jokes were made about Islam.  Such jokes are called haram (reprehensible).  If a comedian, despite having been warned, continues with his jokes, he must be punished or even killed, Kabli said in the interview.

Kabli added that Muslims felt "powerless" next to popular performers.  "We could press charges, but any non-Muslim judge would decide against us", he said.

The Prosecutor's Office is investigating whether Kabli and the leaders of the mosque can be indicted for their aggressive behaviour.  Hans Teeuwen says an indictment in this case might only make matters worse.

There is already a lot of self-censorship among the comedians, and theatre are cancelling bookings, Teeuwen says.

"I believe the only thing that can help is a protest coming from within the Muslim community itself", he adds.



Political correctness is the number one suppressor of free speech.

Don't Confuse Terrorism With Islam, Says EU

March 30, 2007 - From: www.telegraph.co.uk

By Bruno Waterfield

The European Union has drawn up guidelines advising government spokesmen to refrain from linking Islam and terrorism in their statements.

Brussels officials have confirmed the existence of a classified handbook which offers "non-offensive" phrases to use when announcing anti-terrorist operations or dealing with terrorist attacks.

Banned terms are said to include "jihad", "Islamic" or "fundamentalist".

The word "jihad" is to be avoided altogether, according to some sources, because for Muslims the word can mean a personal struggle to live a moral life.

One alternative, suggested publicly last year, is for the term "Islamic terrorism" to be replaced by "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam".

An EU official said that the secret guidebook, or, "common lexicon", is aimed at preventing the distortion of the Muslim faith and the alienation of Muslims in Europe.

"The common lexicon includes guidance on a number of frequently used terms where lack of care by EU and member states' spokespeople may give rise to misunderstandings," he said.

"Careful usage of certain terms is not about empty political correctness but stems from astute awareness of the EU's interests in the fight against terrorism.

"Terrorists exploit and augment suspicions."

Details on the contents of the lexicon remain secret, but British officials stressed that it is there as a helpful aid "providing context" for civil servants making speeches or giving press conferences.

"We are fully signed up to this, but it is not binding," said one.

However, Conservative MEP Syed Kamall hit out at the lexicon.  "It is this kind of political correctness and secrecy that creates resentment among both the mainstream in Europe and in Islam," he said.

Meanwhile, UK Independence Party MEP Gerard Batten claimed that the EU was in denial over the true roots of terrorism.

"This type of newspeak shows that the EU refuses to face reality," he said.  "The major world terrorist threat is one posed by ideology and that ideology is inspired by fundamentalist jihadi Islam."


Note how they cut off the part that says "Who Insult Islam."  The text caption was added later.  The original URL was at: http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070307/481/mla10203070714ccc.

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