Swift Injustice: The Case of Tommy Robinson
Posted: May 28, 2018 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice | Tags: British Media, Child grooming, England, Freedom of the press, Gag order, Jihadism, kidnapping, London, Muslim, Rape, Tommy Robinson Leave a comment- The swiftness with which injustice was meted out to Tommy Robinson is stunning. No, more than that: it is terrifying.
- Without having access to his own lawyer, Robinson was summarily tried and sentenced to 13 months behind bars. He was then transported to Hull Prison.
- Meanwhile, the judge who sentenced Robinson also ordered British media not to report on his case. Newspapers that had already posted reports of his arrest quickly took them down. All this happened on the same day.
- In Britain, rapists enjoy the right to a full and fair trial, the right to the legal representation of their choice, the right to have sufficient time to prepare their cases, and the right to go home on bail between sessions of their trial. No such rights were offered, however, to Tommy Robinson.
“One potentially positive aspect of this ugly turn of events is that it turned heads that should have been turned long ago.”
In recent years, alas, Britain has deviated from its commitment to liberty. Foreign critics of Islam, such as the American scholar Robert Spencer, and for a time, even the Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders have been barred from the country. Now, at least one prominent native critic of Islam, Tommy Robinson, has been repeatedly harassed by the police, railroaded by the courts, and left unprotected by prison officials who have allowed Muslim inmates to beat him senseless. Clearly, British authorities view Robinson as a troublemaker and would like nothing more than to see him give up his fight, leave the country (as Ayaan Hirsi Ali left the Netherlands), or get killed by a jihadist (as happened to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh).
[Read the full story here, at gatestoneinstitute.org]
On Friday, as reported here yesterday, the saga of Tommy Robinson entered a new chapter. British police officers pulled him off a street in Leeds, where, in his role as a citizen journalist, he was livestreaming a Facebook video from outside a courthouse. Inside that building, several defendants were on trial for allegedly being part of a so-called “grooming gang” — a group of men, almost all Muslim, who systematically rape non-Muslim children, in some cases hundreds of them, over a period of years or decades. Some ten thousand Facebook viewers around the world witnessed Robinson’s arrest live.
The police promptly dragged Robinson in front of a judge, where, without having access to his own lawyer, he was summarily tried and sentenced to 13 months behind bars. He was then transported to Hull Prison.
Meanwhile, the judge who sentenced him also ordered the British media not to report on his case. Newspapers that had already posted reports of his arrest quickly took them down. Even ordinary citizens who had written about the arrest on social media removed their posts, for fear of sharing Robinson’s fate. All this happened on the same day.
A kangaroo court, then a gag order. In the United Kingdom, where rapists enjoy the right to a full and fair trial, the right to the legal representation of their choice, the right to have sufficient time to prepare their cases, and the right to go home on bail between sessions of their trial. No such rights were offered, however, to Tommy Robinson.
The swiftness with which injustice was meted out to Robinson is stunning. No, more than that: it is terrifying. On various occasions over the years, I have been subjected in person to an immediate threat of Islamic violence: I have had a knife pulled on me by a young gang member, and been encircled by a crowd of belligerent men in djellabas outside a radical mosque. But that was not frightening. This is frightening — this utter violation of fundamental British freedoms. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Ayaan Hirsi Ali on ‘Uncommon Knowledge’: Islam, The West & Dawa
Posted: August 8, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Reading Room, Religion, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Amaney Jamal, Asra Nomani, Assata Shakur, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Carmen Perez, Democratic Party (United States), Islam, Islamism, Jihadism, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It, Uncommon Knowledge Leave a commentAyaan Hirsi Ali joins me to discuss her new book, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Contain It and her views on the challenges facing Western civilization in regards to political Islam. She argues that Islam needs to be separated into two different parts, one part of religion and the other part, political philosophy. She concedes that many aspects of the religious part of Islam are peaceful but argues that the political side is much more concerning due to its focus on Dawa, which means “to plead or to call non-Muslims to Islam.” This call to convert people to Islam is what she argues was a driving force behind the spread of Islam throughout history.
Earlier this year Ayaan Hirsi Ali was called before Congress to testify on her book. She discusses her testimony and that although she was invited by a Democrat senator to speak “about the ideology of radical Islam,” the Democrats present didn’t ask her a single question because they were likely uncomfortable with what she had to say about Islam. She argues … (read more)
Source: National Review
[VIDEO] Linda Sarsour: ‘Muslims Should Not Assimilate’ Fighting Trump is ‘a Form of Jihad’
Posted: July 6, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: 1812 Overture, African immigration to the United States, Al Green, Alan Menken, Americans, Andy Grammer, Donald Trump, Immigration, Islamism, Jihad, Jihadism, Jim Acosta, President of the United States, Radical Islam, United States, White House Leave a comment‘Our top priority … is to please Allah, and only Allah.’
Jordan Schachtel reports: Linda Sarsour, a Hamas-tied and prominent Women’s March leader, Islamic supremacist, and anti-Semite, has called for a “jihad” (Islamic holy war) against President Trump.
Addressing the 54th Annual ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) Convention this past weekend, Sarsour delivered a 22-minute screed attacking the Trump administration and called on the Muslim community to unite against the White House.
Sarsour began the speech thanking her “favorite person in this room … Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who has been a mentor, motivator, and encourager of mine.” She does not mention that Wahhaj was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
“Why sisters and brothers, why are we so unprepared. Why are we so afraid of this administration and the potential chaos that they will ensue on our community?” she said.
Then, in a particularly vague, yet terrifying, segment of her speech, Sarsour said, “I hope, that when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.”
“We are struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad … but here in the United States of America where you have fascists and white supremacists and Islamophobes reining in the White House,” she continued. Read the rest of this entry »
‘ENOUGH’: New York Post Cover for Monday, June 5, 2017
Posted: June 5, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: Britain, England, ISIS, Islamism, Jihadism, journalism, London Bridge, Manchester, media, New York Post, news, Tabloid 2 CommentsSource: Covers | New York Post
BREAKING: London Bridge Closed Amid Reports of Car Mowing Down Crowd
Posted: June 3, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Religion, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: Amber Rudd, Ariana Grande, BBC, Islamism, Jihadism, London, Manchester, Metropolitan Police Service, United Kingdom Leave a commentLONDON – British police rushed to an incident on London Bridge on Saturday after witnesses said a van plowed into pedestrians.
Police said they were dealing with an incident but gave no further details. A Reuters reporter near the scene said she saw 10 police cars rushing towards London Bridge.
Footage from London Bridge #BreakigNews pic.twitter.com/T3KZME2QdZ
— Kaine Pieri (@PieriKaine) June 3, 2017
A witness told the BBC she saw a speeding white van veering into pedestrians. The witness said the van hit five to six people … (more)
BREAKING NEW VIDEO: several London police officers enter bar at London Bridge telling people to get down. pic.twitter.com/bjq15uVEmN
— The Rouser (@RouserNews) June 3, 2017
Source: New York Post
Islamic State Beheads Man Accused of Performing ‘Magic’
Posted: May 2, 2017 Filed under: Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Sayyaf, Arish, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamism, Jihadism, Middle East, Philippines, United States 1 CommentAli Waked reports: According to group members, IS police officers beheaded the man in the town of Tasil in the Dara district in southern Syria.
In an accompanying statement, the terrorist organization said that the man was beheaded with a sword and had performed “magic and sorcery.”
In the photos, one member of IS can be seen reading the ruling of the Sharia court, noting the Islamic penalty for the alleged transgressions.
Those who carried out the punishment of beheading, according to IS, were members of the Khaled Bin Waleed militia – a jihadist militia affiliated with IS active in southern Syria in the triangular area between the borders of Syria, Jordan and Israel. Read the rest of this entry »
Paris Shooting: Two Police Officers Killed After Incident on Champs-Elysees
Posted: April 20, 2017 Filed under: France, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: 2011 Norway attacks, Champs-Élysées, Gunman, Jihadism, Paris, Paris Shooting, Police officer, Shooting, Twitter 1 CommentA gunman has shot two police officers dead before being killed himself in an attack in the Champs-Elysees shopping district, Paris police say.
Paris police spokeswoman Johanna Primevert told reporters the attacker targeted police guarding the area near the Franklin D Roosevelt metro stop on Thursday night (local time) at the centre of the avenue, which is popular with tourists.
One police officer was killed on the scene and one died later from his wounds, police sources said.
The person who fired on police was also killed and a police source said the attacker was known to security services.
[Video: Police swarm Champs-Elysees in Paris after officers shot by gunman – ABC News]
French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said police officers were targeted in the shooting, but it is too early to say what the motive was.
A police union on Twitter said the first officer killed had been shot by an attacker driving past as the officer’s car was stopped at a red light.
Witnesses reported a helicopter flying low over central Paris, apparently part of a follow-up police operation.
Authorities called on the public to avoid the area.
Photo: A police officer stands guard after the fatal shooting fellow officers. (AP: Thibault Camus)
New shots were fired near Champs Elysees avenue, more than an hour after the original shooting a police source said.
The counter-terrorism office has opened an investigation into the shooting, the prosecutor’s office said. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] How Is Muslim Immigration to Sweden Working Out?
Posted: April 20, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, History, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Ami Horowitz, Immigration, Islamism, Jihadism, Muslim, Prager University, Rape, Sweden Leave a comment
We’ve read and watched the news of Muslim immigration overwhelming Sweden. But how bad is it really? See this firsthand account from documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz, who shows why increased Muslim immigration is leading to a spike in rapes and other violent crime.
[VIDEO] MEET THE MOTHER: The MOAB GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast
Posted: April 13, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Foreign Policy, Guns and Gadgets, Science & Technology, War Room | Tags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, Aleppo, Allison T56, BrickArms, Donald Trump, GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, George W. Bush, Iraq War, ISIS, Islamism, Jihadism, MOAB, Mother of All Bombs Leave a commentThe GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (commonly known as the Mother of All Bombs) is a large-yield conventional (non-nuclear) bomb, developed for the United State military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. At the time of development, it was touted as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed.
The bomb was designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules, primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II variants.
The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB pronounced /ˈmoʊ.æb/, commonly known as the Mother of All Bombs) is a large-yield conventional (non-nuclear) bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. At the time of development, it was touted as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed. The bomb was designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules, primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II variants.
Since then, Russia has tested its “Father of All Bombs“, which is claimed to be four times as powerful as the MOAB.
The U.S. military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday just days after a Green Beret was killed fighting ISIS there, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.
The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped in Nangarhar Province.
The MAOB (Massive Ordinance Air Blast) is also known as the “Mother Of All bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn’t been used before Thursday.
For comparison, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at Syria last week was 1,000-pounds each … (more)
Operational history
MOAB was first tested with the explosive tritonal on 11 March 2003, on Range 70 located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. It was again tested on 21 November 2003.[2]
Aside from two test articles, the only known production is of 15 units at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in 2003 in support of the Iraq War. As of early 2007, none of those were known to have been used, although a single MOAB was moved to the Persian Gulf area in April 2003.[4]
On April 13, 2017, a MOAB was dropped on a target in the Nangarhar Province inside Afghanistan. It was the first non-testing use of the bomb.
Evaluations
The basic operational concept bears some similarity to the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, which was used to clear heavily wooded areas in the Vietnam War and in Iraq to clear mines and later as a psychological weapon against the Iraqi military. After the psychological impact of the BLU-82 on enemy soldiers was witnessed, and no BLU-82 weapons remained, the MOAB was developed partly to continue the ability to intimidate Iraqi soldiers. Pentagon officials had suggested their intention to use MOAB as an anti-personnel weapon, as part of the “shock and awe” strategy integral to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] What’s Wrong With Canada’s Islamophobia Motion? A Muslim Answers
Posted: April 6, 2017 Filed under: Censorship, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Canada, Clarion Project, Free speech, Freedom of Expression, Islam, Islamofacsism, Islamophobia, Jihadism, Muslim Brotherhood, Raheel Raza, Sharia Law, video Leave a commentClarion’s Raheel Raza is unhappy with what she sees as a challenge to free speech, something enshrined in Canadian law.
[VIDEO] Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
Posted: March 24, 2017 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamism, Jihadism, Muslim, Reformation, Somali Leave a comment
“There are millions of peaceful Muslims, but Islam is not a religion of peace.”
-Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Is Islam a religion of peace? Is it compatible with Western liberalism? Or does Islam need a reformation, just as Christianity had the Protestant Reformation? Somali-born author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains.
[VIDEO] The Third Jihad: Homeland and Global Terror
Posted: March 22, 2017 Filed under: Foreign Policy, Global, History, Terrorism, Think Tank | Tags: Aid to the Church in Need, Boko Haram, CESNUR, Christian, Christianity, Christianity in Iraq, Clarion Project, Council on American–Islamic Relations, Donald Trump, Global Terror, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamism, Jihadism, video 1 Comment
In episode 11 of The Third Jihad, Clarion Project looks at the rise of homeland and global terror in the wake of 9/11 and the growing threat, seemingly ignored at home and overseas.
4 people have died in an attack in London. This video shows the moment the incident began outside the UK Parliament.https://t.co/FwKsndgisW pic.twitter.com/81srJq9yGr
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 22, 2017
[VIDEO] Krauthammer Analyzes the US-Iran Tensions Under Trump
Posted: February 2, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Global, Mediasphere, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Iran, Islamism, Jihadism, media, news, Terrorism, video 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Muslim Activist Explains Why She Supports Extreme Vetting
Posted: January 29, 2017 Filed under: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Donald Trump, Extreme Vetting, Failed State, Islamism, Jihadism, media, news, Vetting, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Women’s March Organizer Complains About 22 States Opposing Sharia Law
Posted: January 26, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Religion, U.S. News | Tags: Huffington Post, Islamism, Jihadism, media, MSNBC, National Review, news, Sharia Law, video, Women's March 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Reverend Resigns After Quran is Read in Christian Church
Posted: January 26, 2017 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Religion | Tags: BBC, Brexit, Chaplain, Christian Church, Christianity, European Union, Fox News, Islamism, Jihadism, media, Muslim, news, Queen's chaplain, Qur'an, Today (BBC Radio 4), United Kingdom, video Leave a comment
One of the Queen’s chaplains has resigned after criticising a Glasgow church for allowing a Koran reading during one of its services.
The Reverend Gavin Ashenden said he left his position in order to have more freedom of “speak out on behalf of the faith”.
“Because I think it a higher and more compelling duty to speak out on behalf of the faith, than to retain a public honour which precludes me doing so at this time, I resigned my post.”
In a blog post published on Sunday, he said: “After a conversation instigated by officials at Buckingham Palace, I decided the most honourable course of action was to resign.”
Mr Ashenden had criticised the reading of the Koran during an Epiphany service at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow earlier this month in an attempt to improve interfaith relations in Glasgow.
A student read a segment relating to the birth of Jesus Christ in Arabic. Islam considers Christ to be a prophet but not the son of God.
Mr Ashenden, who has served as one of the Queen’s 34 chaplains for nine years, said the reading had caused “serious offence”. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] 90,000 Christians Killed for their Faith Last Year
Posted: January 12, 2017 Filed under: Global, History, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism, War Room | Tags: Apostate, Christianity, Christians, Islamism, Jihadism, murder, news, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Warning, Graphic Video: Four Soldiers Killed in Truck Attack
Posted: January 8, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: Hamas, ISIS, Islamism, Israel, Jerusalem, Jew, Jihadism, Jihadist, Truck Attack, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] State Department Claims Released Gitmo Detainees Unlikely to Pose Further Threat to U.S.
Posted: August 16, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Terrorism, War Room, White House | Tags: Criminals, Cuba, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Islam, Jihadism, Prisons, Terrorists 1 Comment
Senseless Knife Crime, Motive Unknown
Posted: August 6, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Allah, Christianity in the Middle East, EUROPE, France, Islam, Islamic terrorism, Islamist, Jihadism, Jihadist, McDonalds, murder, Muslim, Syria, Takbir, Violence 1 CommentA man slashed a policewoman’s face with a machete and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before her fellow officer gunned him down in a chilling ‘terror’ attack.
The attacker reportedly walked up to two policewomen at the entrance of the police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi just before 4pm, pulled a machete from his bag and hacked at the officer.
After slamming the machete into the face of one officer, he then turned to another and began swinging the massive blade at her.
A third female officer raced to the front desk and then blasted the attacker in the chest and leg – knocking him to the ground.
Emergency crews then raced to the scene and began treating the policewomen – one of who was left with massive, deep cuts to her face.
Her colleague was only slightly injured but the attacker, who has not been named, died later in hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
Normandy Attack: Tomorrow’s Newspapers Today
Posted: July 26, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, France, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Britain, Catholic Priest, Catholicism, Christianity, ISIS, Islamism, Jihadism, media, murder, news, Newspapers, Normandy, The Daily Star, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, UK 1 Comment
Source: #tomorrowspaperstoday hashtag on Twitter
‘Lone Gunman’s Rampage Puts Munich On Lockdown’: Wall Street Journal Front Page for Saturday, July 23, 2016
Posted: July 23, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: Jihadism, journalism, media, Munich Massacre, news, WSJ Leave a comment‘Summer of Terror’: New York Post Front Page for Saturday, July 23, 2016
Posted: July 23, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: EUROPE, Germany, Jihadism, journalism, New York, New York Post, news, Newspaper, Tabloid 1 CommentMunich Shooter: 18-year-old German-Iranian
Posted: July 22, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Terrorism | Tags: Germany, Jihadism, Mass Shooting, Massacre, Munich, Olympia mall, The Washington Post 1 CommentMUNICH — A gunman carried out a shooting rampage Friday in a busy shopping area of Munich, killing at least nine people and wounding several others in an act of “suspected terrorism” before he committed suicide, police said early Saturday.
The rampage prompted authorities to lock down the southern German city and launch a massive manhunt for suspected perpetrators. Police later determined that the attack at Munich’s Olympia shopping complex was apparently carried out by a lone gunman and that he committed suicide about half a mile away.
There were no immediate details about the victims of what a police spokesman said “looks like a terrorist attack.” The Associated Press quoted Munich police spokesman Peter Beck as saying 10 people were killed in total, including the shooter.
In the absence of information about the identities of the dead and injured, about 50 family members of various ethnic backgrounds gathered at a Munich sports hall early Saturday to await official word on the fate of missing loved ones.
Much of the city was placed on lockdown as police conducted their manhunt. Despite initial reports of multiple attack sites, police could not confirm attacks in any other locations besides the shopping area.
Officials did not immediately specify how the attack unfolded or describe the full scope of the bloodshed at the Olympia mall.
But a senior security official told The Washington Post that four people were killed inside a McDonald’s restaurant and one was fatally shot outside. The official said another victim died at a hospital.
The initial investigation was pointing “in all directions,” police spokesman Marcus de Gloria Martins told reporters in Munich.
German officials said investigators were looking into the possibility that the attack might have been motivated by anti-immigrant sentiments, as well as the prospect that Islamist extremism was behind it. Language against foreigners can be heard on a recording from the scene of the shooting, but it was not immediately clear who was speaking. A German television station said a witness told a colleague that the shooter shouted “Bloody foreigners!” at the scene of the McDonald’s attack. There was no immediate confirmation of that account.
German news media reported that police found a body, possibly that of the McDonald’s shooter, about a half mile from the scene and were checking a backpack for explosives.
Hours after the attack, Martins said police were still assuming that “up to three perpetrators” were involved. “We’re definitely not assuming that it’s more than three, but it might also be that it’s fewer than that,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »