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BACKLASH FEARED
Then:
British Muslims fear repercussions over tomorrow’s train bombing
Now:
British Muslims fear arrest backlash
I am so thankful for writers like Steyn and Daniel Pipes, who keep speaking the truth in the face of the perfect absurdity of the various government and Muslim mouthpieces. I am reminded these days of the same scene replayed over and over by Clinton. Remember after every new assault against the U.S., Clinton walked to the podium and condemned the latest batch of “cowards” and promised to bring them all to justice? Over and over, the exact same words. In the same way, these days we can count on the ubiquity of “no terrorism here, move along, Muslims are worried about the backlash, and Muslims resent being made to feel guilty for the acts of those who didn’t really do anyhing anyway.” Hell, the story writes itself. Change the names and the latest country under attack.
The funniest thing I read was a comment on one of the lefty blogs I read this afternoon. All of this is just too much of a coincidence, coming just a day after Lamont scared the bejesus out of Rove and gang. Because of the outcome of a Democratic primary in the state of Connecticut, countries in Europe, as well as Britain, Canada, and the U. S. got together and decided to pull the wool over the eyes of the American electorate. Just the way Bush and Co. always does. It made me think of that scene in “Independence Day” when all the nuts were dancing on the roof of a building, waving signs for the aliens to come and take them. Do you think that the truth hit them the split second before they were vaporized?
Of course, the various governments and the Muslim community are guaranteeing the backlash they so fear with every word and deed in response to murderers. They are right to fear it.
Muslim? How do we know they were Muslim?
From the Times Online :
The majority are understood to be young British Asian men of Pakistani descent, many holding dual nationality. But residents in areas where the arrests took place identified at least one man who they said was a white British convert to Islam.
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These are the names of 19 suspects reportedly being held by the police after the foiled plot and whose assets the Treasury has sought to have frozen.Umir Hussain, 24, London E14
Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17
Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17
Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17
Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe
Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17
Cossor Ali, 24, London E17
Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham
Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17
Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17
Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington
Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17
Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe
Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10
Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe
Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe
Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17
Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5
Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham ForestNo pattern there, is there?
Bloody hell! Suicide by tolerance? What exactly do the islamists have to do before we get a little bit angry?
Logically you’d expect a few insults and the odd rock to be hurled in retaliation, but no. Instead, as we speak, I’ll bet thousands of luvvies are planning group hugs and Ramadan festivities.
When you’re being raped you’ve got two choices. Lay back and enjoy it or fight. A considerable part of the population is sharing a smoke with their attacker.
Anyhoo, it’s beer o’clock.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 11 at 03:39 AM • permalinkMuslim men accustomed to nervous looks from passers-by after last year’s transit bombings noticed they were attracting them again.
Well, sure, the Muzzies might take down the occasional skyscraper and blow up a few jumbo jets, but does that give us the right to disproportionately retaliate with the dreaded nervous glancing?
Boo.
Fucking.
Hoo.
Maybe the events that the Iranian Cockhead is talking about could have been this latest failed terrorist attack and not armagedon. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm
Umir Hussain, 24, London E14
Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17
Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17
Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17
Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe
Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17
Cossor Ali, 24, London E17
Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham
Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17
Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17
Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington
Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17
Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe
Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10
Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe
Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe
Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17
Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5
Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham ForestWhoa! Look at the strata!
Wait, I think I see a pattern now - it appears many of them are from London. Damn Londonums.
ABC radio had a ‘no common link between the individuals’ report this arvo-
‘some are students, soccer fans, even businessmen’.Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 08 11 at 04:22 AM • permalinkWTF? Muslims are anxious because the plot was thwarted?
Well, yeah. For them, it’s like finding out somebody cancelled Halloween. No masks, no passing out candy…
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 08 11 at 05:31 AM • permalinkThanks for that list, Zoe Brain. I was wondering why there was no mention on TV of the names of the actual plotters.
Posted by David McBryde on 2006 08 11 at 05:37 AM • permalinkThe ABC on PM took a strange tack in reciting the list of occupations of the arrested ones, just to show how varied they are. Gosh, they even had varied ages.
Then, just to add another layer of obfuscation they had Robert Pape on to explain it all. He is the guy from Chicago Uni who obligingly says that it would be all over if the USA and Britain just pissed off out of the Arabian Peninsula. Right. Just like Hezbollah will recognise Israel when they get She-baa Farms baa-ck!
Red Kerry ran the Pape guy last year here. He said, among other things:
“For most suicide terrorists, they don’t have evidence as the London bombers don’t, that they hate Western values or that they hate being immersed in Western society. What we have evidence for time and again across the spectrum is that they are deeply angered by military policies, especially foreign combat troops on territory that they prize and that they believe they have no other means to change those policies.”
It’s odd then that the Saudis funded the first Gulf War. They certainly believed they had no other means to change Saddam’s policy of taking over all the oil he could. Does anyone remember the left telling Saddam to stop, that it was (shamefully) all about oil then?Nine of them come from London E17.
Clearly, they turned bad because they were rejected by the boy band of the same name.
Posted by David Morgan on 2006 08 11 at 07:02 AM • permalinkReports of Al Cid being a muslin are fake but accurate.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 08 11 at 07:34 AM • permalinkI think I may have figured out what Tim’s next job is…
Been seeing all those David Tench ads on Channel 10? The show starts Thursday.
And now, Tim leaving The Bulletin.
Coincidence?
Computer says no.
Posted by ausdiplomad on 2006 08 11 at 08:01 AM • permalinkScrappleface has the inside dope on the British Parliament’s quick reaction to the failed terror plot.
On a far less humorous note, Mike Wallace gives Dan Rather a run for his money in the idiot journalist sweepstakes.
(Both links courtesy of the always valuable Powerline blog.
I look forward to the day when all muslims everywhere have genuine reason to fear a backlash against terrorist acts.
Maybe then they’ll have some incentive to put their foul house in order.Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 11 at 08:29 AM • permalinkJust watched ITV news about 15 mins ago, Nicholas Witchell reported on muslims feeling demonised, and interviewed some bloke from a muslim organisation, he mentioned Israel in the first sentence, said he was angry with Tony Blair, then spewed all the usual crap about Iraq and Afghanistan.
I realy fear for the future, if this plan had succeeded it would have been a huge victory because they would have killed thousands of westerners, when the plan is thwarted they turn it to their political advantage and also spread fear, There is no downside for them and no upside for us.
They are the stronger side in this war,not afraid to kill or die to get what they want,their persistance and violence will prevail over our pacifistic tolerance, we havent even got the death penalty for murder and they hang 16 year old girls in the street.
The more i see of muslims the more they look like the winning side.
#44, right now they ARE the winning side. And until we face the fact that we’re at war with a toxic ideology, take off the gloves and do what’s necessary, not just what whining lefties allow, they’ll continue to be the winning side.
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 11 at 08:49 AM • permalink#43: Yeah, that was pretty much my take on it, too. I also think George Galloway will soon be declared Caliph through the secret efforts of Jews working with moderate muslims (both of them), in order to give the tories a better chance of unseating him in the next election. Some of Rove’s Ohio voting machines will probably be necessary, as well, to put the tories over the top.
Geez, Egyptians on student visas don’t show up for class in Colorado. The FBI searches. One found in Minn. of all places. One gives up in Virginia. Some still missing. Saw one of them in my mall yesterday fooling with some wires. Should I have given him a nervous look? Nah, wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings.
Oh yeah. About 90% of the British electorate.
No shit. This morning on Sky News UK, the anchor, Jeremy Thompson, was rabbiting on about how the use of the phrase “Islamic Fascists” by Bush amounted to unconstructive name-calling. I mean WTF!?! WTF-ing-F!?!
This is the attitude of the anchor of the flagship Murdoch news channel in the UK! I’m telling you now: Britain is fucked.
murph, too bloody true. Unless soccer hooligans can be mobilised, that is…..
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 11 at 09:01 AM • permalinkBut he said Muslims had demonstrated after the Sept. 11 attacks and the London bombings that they would not let such trouble stop them from participating in British life.
Such as parading through the streets with signs that say: “Massacre those who insult Islam”, and “Islam will dominate the world”.
Muslims could participate more fully in British life. As lamp-post ornaments.
Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 11 at 09:13 AM • permalinkDo Muslims ever feel for anybody else except themselves?
I guess not, since the rest of us are sons and daughters of apes, pigs, and monkeys.
What a bunch of whining a-holes. They want to kill us and then ‘fear’ when we take steps against them.
Their whole philosophy is “I have the right to kill you. Your duty is to let me kill you. You have no right to prevent me from killing you or to kill me.”
Dang! Kyda beat me to the punch by a whole day on the Mike Wallace interview with the Gilligan of Persia.
I remember someone at National Review some years ago making similar comments about Wallace’s interview with the late (better late than never!) Ayatollah Khomeini. Wallace repeatedly addressed him as “Imam”. The NR author speculated on how Wallace would have addressed Hitler in an interview. “Would he have called him Fuehrer? (Mein Fuehrer?)”
When interviewing a western leader the press is all sneering disbelief, but when some foreign nutter is in the chair they go into bj mode, fawning and groveling and asking questions a 2yr old could answer.Just exactly what does Mr Wallace think would happen to a journo in Iran who came out with a fraction of the stuff our own media routinely print and say about President Bush, and does he even care.
“We are all Hezbollah”, “We are Janjaweed”
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 08 11 at 10:21 AM • permalink“Would he have called him Fuehrer? (Mein Fuehrer?)”
Prefaced only by clicking heels and a rigid extended arm. Then Mike, trying to make friends with Blondie, tried to pet it where upon the Fuhrer said, “Eva doesn’t like to be touched, there”.
You all will have to pardon, earlier posts. I was awakened in very early morning hours by two blokes and a pizza delivery person.
One screaming at the top of his lungs saying, “I wanted hand tossed, you bloody moron”. After a few more slurs and insults, the pizza delivery person said, “you want hand tossed mate, well here”.
Screams followed, while the hot cheese rolled down the half dressed bloke that had ordered the pizza.
The pizza driver, was out cold after that, a book, laying at his feet. While his walkie talkie constantly scratched out, from HQ, I presume, “Ant, are you there, Ant”.
I finally was able to return to a deep sleep.
#5 Zoe - How do we know they are Muslim? Well we can’t be sure. A recent addition to your list of terrorist suspects is -
Mr Henry Root aged 67 of 42 Brick Lane, Whitechapel LONDON E1 6RL.
Scotland Yard are baffled and have called in the Canadian police who have more expertise in the analysis of suspects from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 08 11 at 10:44 AM • permalink62 Grimmy
Well, It isn’t easy to recall with complete clarity, everything that was said, or took place, while half asleep, tripping over beer bottles, running to my window.
57 Grimmy
You haven’t listened to Shep much lately have you?
You are 100% correct. I remember Shep when he was a local newscaster at my place in Florida.
Have followed his career and it seems that the higher his star goes, the more pontificating that goes on. That nice brown tan that Shep has, is not from the Sun, but from his face being close to Rupert’s ass. He is becoming a cheap imitation of Mike Wallace.
#6 He was the token white man.
ABC Lateline tonight.McHaven’t a Klew..“British officials described what they SAY was the most serious plot..”
Miss Hucheon burbled merrily about “and most of the men had Muslim names”..most prescient Janie as the list was running on screen beside you at the time..
Next gem about the “British 9/11”.
“and APPARENTLY it was averted JUST in time”. Subtle underlying ABC message “CONSPIRACY ALERT..”In my opinion all this anti-muslim carry on is off target.
The real issue is the philosophy of Islam itself and the naive leftist ideologies of unconsidered multiculturalism and cultural relitavism.
It appears to me that Islam is not ready to engage intellectually with the modern world and needs a few more hundred years of incubation in the middle east followed by some kind of rennaisance.
I suspect that a lot of the anti-muslim talk on this page reflects more a reaction against the PC gagging of sensible intellectual criticism of Islamic beliefs than a genuine hatred of the people who by reason of fate have been born into Islamic belief.
If they are not ready to participate in (or allow us to participate in our freedoms) then why should they be allowed to participate in the benefits of our societies?
Why do we value the citizenship of our countries and the social/political/scientific achievements of our ancestors so lowly that we are prepared to allow such unconsidered mass migration to occur?
Willow, you’re more than half-right. But:
Islam… needs a few more hundred years of incubation in the middle east followed by some kind of rennaisance
In the meantime, what then? Do we have to put up with a few hundred years of them trying to blow us up? A renaissance in three hundred years is too far away. We have to address today’s problems today. And besides, they’re not just in the Middle East any more. 10% of Europe is Muslim, projected to be 30% by the year 2050. The incubation area is growing all the time. We’ve been trying to ignore them already. It didn’t work.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 08 11 at 11:18 AM • permalinkO/T David Hicks’Defence Lawyer Michael Mori to be Andy Denton’s special favourite guest next show.
ABC Radio national tonight Perspective..
Mary Rose Pascelli..Started o.k. with an examination of the word “blush” she describes as “like a delicate peach in the mouth-evocative etc”.Didn’t take long for the poison to seep in tho..we moved along to the negative aspect of blushing -shame and guilt-then zoomed into political guilt and zeroed in on “no WMDs in Iraq,children in the water,John Howard etc.”
All that in a three minute programme.
Unfortunately after that came lnl with phat phil.Started off innocently smelling like a Mary Rose.What could be more wonderful than a programme from the Brisvegas Globe Theatre discussing Shakespeare and whether he was still relevant in today’s world.
Somehow this scholarly debate morphed into a multiculti free for all for the Left.
We discussed Hamlet as a suicide bomber,a Lebanese lady (how topical) named Yvette Khouri talked of studying Will in Arabic and his popularity in the M.E.
Phat moved on to Romeo presented like West side story in Beirut..(after a passing confession to being duh a mere atheist.)AGAIN.A Chinese theatre diva discussed the relationship of Shakespeare to Marx and Engels…same old ..#66 Willow76
I suspect that a lot of the anti-muslim talk on this page reflects more a reaction against the PC gagging of sensible intellectual criticism of Islamic beliefs than a genuine hatred of the people who by reason of fate have been born into Islamic belief.
I cant speak for any of the others (cause they get mad and yell at me if I try) but I can tell you point blank, with zero hesitation that at least with me, you are dead wrong.
When it comes to hostilities its all about the simple and direct.
Those that want to harm me and/or mine? = Enemy.
Those support that enemy, stand beside that enemy, speak up for that enemy or in any other way assist, encourage, support that enemy? = Enemy.Object of war? = Destroy the Enemy by what ever means most direct and efficient. And keep on destroying them until they cease to exist, accomplish what ever it is that is deemed necessary for them to get off the Enemy list, or they can be looked in the eyes and it be verified that their spines are well and truly snapped and there’s no fight left in their entire remaining population.
Anything else fails the most basic of Darwinian tests.
Hmmmm.
If they really feared a backlash, then why do they persist on doing the same thing over and over again?
Posted by memomachine on 2006 08 11 at 11:56 AM • permalink#72 ed:
I think the tactic works this way. By them mentioning a fear of a backlash, no matter how well earned, they guarantee that the powers that be will do what ever it takes to guard them against any and all lashes to back or any other part.So, by nearly invoking the term backlash, they ensure that no such lashing can occur.
And yeah, sadly enough, we are all that stupid.
Wuzzadem has his usual hilarious take on matters (Mike Wallace edition).
W.F.Buckley, who now writes with many neurons flaked out, still gets a good line off occasionally, like, not long ago, this one :
The moment has not come, but it is around the corner, when non-Muslims will reasonably demand to have evidence that the Muslim faith can operate within boundaries in which Christians and Jews (and many non-believers) live and work without unconstitutional distraction.
#63, do you mean *this* Henry Root?
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article1348.html
That would be like Edna Everage donning a burqa, wouldn’t it?
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 08 11 at 12:37 PM • permalink#44, phillip: Good points. It analogizes well to Hezbollah’s tactics in Lebanon. When Hez kills Israeli civilians, Hez wins. When Isreal kills Lebanese civilians (or pretend civilians), Hez also wins. All these Islamic orgs with their recent whining press releases are green-helmeting the situation for maximum effect: get the western media sympathetic to their side and use them to up the grievance levels, thus ensuring more and continued participation in the Islamic project.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2006 08 11 at 01:00 PM • permalink#34, blogstrop: The ABC on PM took a strange tack in reciting the list of occupations of the arrested ones, just to show how varied they are. Gosh, they even had varied ages.
The unconscienably broad strata! Probably the intent of the news orgs who do that is to show that there is no profiling possible with terrorists- they can be anyone.
An alternate interpretation- and if the news media notice it they’ll probably stop reporting that angle- is that you can’t trust any Muslim anywhwere, no matter his socioeconomic position. However I’m quite sure that that’s not what they mean to convey.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2006 08 11 at 01:12 PM • permalinkSlightly O/T, but relevant to the general theme of isueful idiots:
Looks like a meeting of the Central Committee of the Washington Imbecilariat over in Lafayette Park today. The ANSWER crowd has coagulated for a march, I suppose. Smallish crowd, but appears larger because of some of the individual mass. Ever checked out the average ANSWER chick? Large economy size. One young rattle-head had crammed what looked to be a size 16 carcass into a size 10 Che t-shirt. Old Che-burger’s face was stretched so taut across her saggy udders it looked like a pancake with dog hair on it. Some of the guys revealed a lot of heft, too. One aging hippy looked like the Michelin Man with a ponytail. My office is catty-cornered a longish block from the White House, which I can see from my office window. Hope it doesn’t get too noisy. I hear the sniper located on top of the White House just hates noise.
#58, phillip: Just exactly what does Mr Wallace think would happen to a journo in Iran who came out with a fraction of the stuff our own media routinely print and say about President Bush, and does he even care.
Reminds me of the old Soviet joke:
American: In my country, we have freedom of speech. I am completely free to criticize my president and my government.
Soviet: Is same in Russia. I am also free to criticize your president and your government.
Multicultural etiquette of course prevents western journalists from applying western standards to non-western leaders. Well, that and the threats.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2006 08 11 at 01:23 PM • permalink#80. No. Blue-helmeting is the act of preserving an untenable status quo while retaining moral superiority. Green-helmeting is the act of milking a situation to achieve maximum victim status (see video).
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2006 08 11 at 01:31 PM • permalinkShep Of Fox News. After Katrina how could that ass-hole have any credibility? Doesn’t anyone remember him screaming from a dry spot in the French Quarter about the thousands of bodies floating by his ownself and his ranting about the murders and rape of an infant in the Superdome? Lies, all of them lies, aimed at getting him more attention. Latest Bull Shit. He announced last night in breathless tones that the Israelis were retreating from Leb. Backed up by the Scumballah strumpet Jennifer Griffen. The Jerus Post announced that Israel has decided (again) to go in full force. Somebody’s wrong. In any event, Olmert is an idiot.
81 Paco
Another fantastic gem from the one, the only, Pacooooooooooo…LOL.
I hear the sniper located on top of the White House just hates noise.
As I mentioned the other day, these stupid bastards would think the muzzle flash, was a camera going off from an ace WAPO Faux-tog.
That’s the good news. The other good news is, They’d smile for the ‘shot’.
yojimbo, good to see you. The Frisco Franchise, all yours…:). One more thing, any news from Texas Bob, or has his R & R been extended?
Are you deef? It’s not backlash, it’s
Bucksheesh!!! (HANDOUTS OR WELFARE, PLEASE!). Have you not read Mark Twain’s memoirs of his visit through the holy land, in 1867”?: “A Syrian village is the sorriest sight in the world, and its surroundings
are eminently in keeping with it….next you meet a young boy, without any clothes on, and he holds out his hand and says “Bucksheesh”!....They have the wildest horde of half naked savages we have found thus far….a begging, screeching shouting mob were struggling and blocking the way. ““Bucksheesh! Bucksheesh! Howajji,
bucksheesh”“!... eyes fierce and full of hate. Dirt,degradation, and savagery are their speciality. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs are the symbols that indicate the presence of
Moslem rule, more than the crescent-flag itself. Lepers, cripples, the blind and the idiotic, assail you on every hand, and they know but one word - the eternal ““Bucksheesh.””#74, paco, Thanks for the link to Wuzzadem. I didn’t know that Chris Wallace had said his dad was nuts! I don’t understand why these old geezers remain on the shelf so far pass their sell-by date. (I’m not quite the old geezer that Wallace is, but I’m enough of one to be able to say that with authority.) None of them seem to understand that they need to go do some gardening, or something else constructive, and leave the world they made to the children they made. Professionally, Mr. Wallace has had a half a century to make his mark. If he is unhappy with the results of his efforts, he ought to go contemplate where he went wrong and leave the clean up to those with their senses - and their rational faculty - still functioning properly.
#86 Yojimbo, Paco Enterprises wants YOU as our “new products” guy!
Che-burgers: The Revolutionary Fast Food!
Actually, I can’t take credit for the word. First saw it on the Babalu blog site (the shirt’s not there now, but the site’s got good stuff on Cuba; definitely worth a visit). Somebody was hawking t-shirts with the famous photo of the dead Che, surrounded by the Bolivian troops who shot him; hence, “Che-burger”.
#87 stats: Shep always struck me as an almost perfect example of an on-the-air-head. Maybe he should be embedded with a combat group; under the latrine would be a nice start.
#90: All those red shirts will sure give the sniper a good mark to shoot at. And considering the girth of some of these folks, he doesn’t even have to be a very good sniper; if he can hit the side of a barn, he ought to bag his limit.
#92 Salty, Wuzzadem is a photoshop genius, and the captions he comes up with sometimes very literally make me laugh out loud.
94 yojimbo
Paco Enterprises wants YOU as our “new products” guy!
Well yojimbo, can’t get any better then that, you heard it straight from the top guy.
WOW and all the ancillary things that go with it, although I’ll take this one off your hands
What great set of bongos, huh? I just named them, one is Desi, the other,
lusciousLucy.More on the white British convert:
Neighbors identified another suspect as Don Stewart-Whyte, 21, from High Wycombe, a convert who changed his name to Abdul Waheed.
“He converted to Islam about six months ago and grew a full beard,” said a neighbor, who refused to be identified. “He used to smoke weed and drink a lot, but he is completely different now.”
That is completely different.
#102 Thanks for asking, El.
He’s shipping out in September; may have to get his tonsils out before he goes (my brother, a retired Marine, said he could have it done while he’s in boot camp; he says any young Navy corpsman with a sharp bayonet would be glad to take ‘em out; my son, not surprisingly, says he thinks he prefers to have it done before he goes in).
High Wycombe and this site rang a bell, so I did a google, found this in a
Mark Steyn column.Burger King withdrew its ice-cream cones from its British restaurants because Mr Rashad Akhtar of High Wycombe, after a trip to the Park Royal branch, complained that the creamy swirl on the lid resembled the word “Allah” in Arabic script.
No wonder they figured the Brits for pushovers.
Perhaps this is some of the “backlash” they’re worried about: Italy Arrests 40 In Security Crackdown
Police said Friday they had arrested 40 people in cities across Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown launched after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot.
snip
The arrests in Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples and other cities on Thursday and Friday “as part of an extraordinary operation that followed the British anti-terrorist operation,” the ministry said in a statement.
snip
Exactly a year earlier, a similar security sweep in Italy at money transfer centers, Muslim butcher shops and similar places resulted in 141 arrests. Those raids came a few weeks after the London subway attacks.
Italy’s Islamic Anti-Defamation League criticized the latest raids.
“More than 4,000 people were stopped and humiliated to allow police to arrest 12 chicken thieves and 28 clandestine” migrants, the league’s spokeswoman Dacia Valent was quoted as saying by the Apcom news agency.
Broken windows, Dacia, broken windows.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 11 at 05:40 PM • permalinkThe UN “peace plan” is no more than an enforced break to give hezbollocks time to re-arm and reorganise.
If Olmert ok’s this, he’s gone.
And the State Dept. will have reinforced the perception that they’re lefty fellow-travellers.Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 11 at 06:31 PM • permalinkO/T David Hicks’Defence Lawyer Michael Mori to be Andy Denton’s special favourite guest next show.
Denton knows where his bread is buttered.
Obviously they will talk about how good it is to work for the US Army.A UK Moslem spokesman made some self-serving defensive remarks that went right past the subservient dhimmi ABC Friday night:
1. The Moslem kids are VERY ANGRY because Moslems are being terrorised the world over, including in Lebanon and Iraq.
Unasked Qu: You mean the Sunnis terrorising Shi-ites in Iraq, and the Shi-ite Hezbollah taking over the Lebanese Government?
2. Why does the West call it [bombing planes] terror and not address this other terror?
Unasked Qu: So you implicitly want British Moslems to fight for Hezbollah with their own anti-West terror? Or you at least ‘understand’ them doing so?
3. I talk to UK Moslems lads and say that they should try to influence the UK government through democratic means to change its polices, but I can’t get through becaue of the UK government.
Unasked Qu: Do you urge them not to destroy the country that gave them all they have, or do you worry that they are going to become terrorists within it and so do you work against this in your capacity?4. I can’t get through because you call what they plan terrorism, don’t change your policies, and I worry more that my people will be targeted with backlash.
Unstated ABC conclusion: There we have it. A UK State within a UK State.
This week’s protest sign:
ISLAM
RELIGION OF
PIECEPIECE OF
BALI
NEW YORK
WASHINGTON
MADRID
LONDON
PARIS
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Her only bargaining chip in getting O’Salad Bin Luncheon’s help is to let him `feed’ on her innermost secrets and fears in exchange for his brilliant insights into the psychotic religious mind.
beep:.....Silence Of the Islamics.
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Hi, my first post is, unfortunately, a rant. I will be more whitty later.
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My eyeballs popped out when I saw the first official statements including a series of threats from “muslim community leaders” about what would happen if there was a backlash.
Sick.
We are constantly being told it is only a “Tiny Minority of Extremist” muslims. Unfortunately the “Tiny Minority of Extremists” appear to be supported and applauded, according to the polls, by a Large Majority of “moderate” Muslims.
If the LMMM really do fear a backlash (from whom?) then they should kick the butts of the TMEM, if they were sincere.
Until then, bring on the backlash.
It is time the Jihadis stopped playing good cop, bad cop.
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Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 08 11 at 08:41 PM • permalinkIf our governments will not take the appropriate action against this cancerous Ideology wrapped up as religion. Then we should be looking at creating a political party that will defend our hard earned rights. One that represents the decent people of society but is not afraid to pass laws that will make life intolerable for the scum that pollutes our freedom.
The suspects are mostly of Pakistani origin but two are white converts to Islam. Abdul Waheed, 21, changed his name from Don Stewart-Whyte six months ago after growing up as the son of a Conservative Party official. Neighbours said Waheed, whose father died when he was 14, had abandoned a life of drugs and alcohol when he became a Muslim, and was working as a salesman at an electrical store.
Another convert, 25-year-old Oliver Savant of east London, had changed his first name to Ibrahim.
Talk about an idiot savant, eh? [And I’ll read later to see if the apparent besmirching of the Great White North above deserves a rebutal.]
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 11 at 09:08 PM • permalink118. WC, welcome. Being a card carrying member of the VRWC, when I think of Canada, its Vimy Ridge, Dieppe, Sword Beach, Korea and in the last few months, some frankly ballsy work in Afghanistan. After 40 years of Trudeaupia, a great country is re-establishing itself as an advocate for liberty, so good on ya. Now if you could just give the Kiwis a nudge, we’d be all set!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 11 at 09:10 PM • permalinkOh, “wimpy canadian” is a new hoser commenter and not related to something that our [former?] government did. Never mind.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 11 at 09:12 PM • permalinkSorry andyc, did not mean to touch a nerve!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 11 at 09:15 PM • permalinkEl Cid, from memory, I think Nunavut is what used to be called the Northwest Territories until a few years ago. In a fit of “we’re sorry about that whole Columbus thing” (hey, we do it here in the States all the time), Canada allowed it to be set up as a semi-independent indigenously governed entity with no doubt a massive inflow of tax dollars from the other provinces to subsidize the hunter gatherer lifestyle. (It has to be subsidized cuz otherwise you die at about 35, which isn’t quite what the atavists had in mind.)
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 11 at 10:01 PM • permalink#120. Waiting for a political party? Wasn’t that what the British National Party was about? The UK government presently seems to be using any means they can find to put the BNP leadership in jail. Even a self-proclaimed leftie journalist raises some concerns about the charges brought against BNP leader Griffin.
Jailing inconvenient political mavericks on trumped up charges? Never in Australia, surely.
Van o’Comm/El Cid
The area was called the Northwest Territories and was governed from Ottawa. The land area was split in into the Northwest Territories and Nunivut. The latter is probably the Inuit term for “Our Land” or such.
The negotiations were rather confused as the Feds made numerous offers to the locals and they kept responding, “We want nunivit.”Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 08 11 at 10:52 PM • permalinkI think Nunavut was a result of well-meaning Canadian government officials getting confused by the Indians’ accents:
“We’ll give you folks a semi-independent place of your own that’ll cost us nothing but let us feel really good about ourselves. How about some frigid, worthless tundra in the Arctic Circle?”
“Ugh. We’ll have none of it.”
“Nunavut it is! Enjoy!”
Speaking of cars(I did get to the caddy!) and franchises.
I want to get the Kuber liscense/transfer/registration/kickback franchise. Once that butch-dang!-once that crim-dang! once El Commandante assumes room temperature(quickness be upon it) that island is going to sink with the deluge of car collectors storming that place.
Come to think of it, I’d buy stock in the Paco Enterprises’ Rope and Yardarm Subsidiary, if it ever goes publlic. The term “backlash” may be too gentle by half for the amount of blowback that is going to take place.
#120, fat chance. As #133 points out, look what the Britgov did to the BNP—with the collusion of the courts.
We don’t need another political party, there’s enough of the scumbags already. What we need is enough irate and ballsy citizens with hemp ropes. And lamp posts.Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 08 12 at 12:03 AM • permalinkDon’t forget the pitchforks CR!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 12 at 12:17 AM • permalinkHold on a minute…Omert may be a dill, but this is the very first time an Israeli Chief of Defense has been an Air Marshall.
I have a colleague at work—and ex-IDF Tank Commander—who has pretty much laid out the “shoulda dones”.
First mistake was Halutz. I could lay out the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th—but I wouldn’t want to bore youse all…
Besides—“it ain’t over ‘til it’s over”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 12 at 12:29 AM • permalinkI hope it ain’t over. I hope it isn’t going to be another surrender. I’m so sick of surrendering and having to fight again. It is criminal. We deserve to have that sick Iranian bastard laughing at us if we can’t shove the grapefruit in his face.
The iced vodka sounded good so if this doesn’t sound right blame it on Cid. (I’ll be a lefty for the night and shift the responsibility. Gee, that was easy.)
Its “peace in our time” salty. The Hezbos won, although ABC news (US) said they hadn’t got Hezbo “concurrence” yet. At which point I was beating my steering wheel to death and foaming at the mouth…
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 12 at 12:57 AM • permalinkEl Cid #141
From the official website:
“Nunavut—“our land” in the Inuktitut language ...”Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 08 12 at 05:26 PM • permalink
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4.30pm news on 9: Leading story is about the UK plot, with those arrested being called “muslims”. They range in age from 17-35 and are all british-born.
I’m shocked - shocked! - I tell you. I would never have expected it.
/sarc.
It is about time this Tiny Minority of Extremists had their stranglehold on our lives broken.
I am sick of the costs we have to pay in insecurity, apprehension and political correctness.
It is not on that we should have to deal with this crap day in and day out.
I wish the bloody “powers-that-be” would get off their arses and get to work.
/rant