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Bradford Is Europe’s Beta Elections Model

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Bradford Votes for The Better Muslim

The English just started what will probably be an ongoing trend in European politics this next decade. George Gallaway and his “respect” party won an overwhelming victory in Bradford and the voices coming in from the victory camp are not ones that can be ignored.

First, George Gallaway is probably the most known protector of Islam in the UK, he is anti war (when it is waged against Islamic countries) and he is in full support of the Iranian regime, even declared it after the chaos and bloodshed that followed the “democratic” elections in Iran (when many were killed, imprisoned and wounded by the supporters of the current government).

He has also told the world the wonders of one Bashar al-Assad and the wonderful future awaiting Syria a few years ago, we know how that turned out. Mr. Gallaway was a target to much of the late (and great) Christopher Hitchins arrows as he stressed out that Gallaway is probably the only person to applaud suicide bombers in Syria one day and speak to an American audience with  other, softer, words the next day.

But this post is not about Mr. Gallaway and his fantastic success at the elections of Bradford, it is about what most politicians in the UK and Europe fear, the power of one ethnic group to vote as one and tilt the results of any democratic elections.

Lets not beat around the bush too long here, the “respect” party demands respect, and who best to demand something than those who think that they do not have enough of that. So it is not the democrats of Bradford or the old English populace of that place who voted for this party but Muslims who see that party as the one that will endow respect on them.

The fact that “Respect” has devastated the “Labour” party candidate, who is of Pakistani origin, but is a secular Muslim, is what sends chills down the spines of UK politicians right now, it seems that this election had nothing to do with any Bradford urgent issues but rather who is a better Muslim (Mr. Gallaway would not discuss his religion, which is his right, however he sounds like a devoted Muslim when he talks) and who cares more about Pakistan, and this is evidently the focus of the voters in Bradford who voted yesterday.

Just so the uneducated reader would understand better – the numbers of voters in this election were not on the 90% mark, more like 60%, meaning that many sleepy English voters waved their right to participate in the democratic process.

LSE Street Fight

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London School of Economics a Stage for Religious War

It seems that when getting to the Israeli Arab conflict there is always some fog around that makes the idea difficult to understand, it is almost as if every time you read something about protests against Israel you need to bend your mind to really dig at what is the actual issue at hand.

Only a coulpe of weeks ago we published news about London’s UCL Muslim pressure story and now we have news about another famous and glorious English institution of higher education, the London School of Economics (better known as LSE). This is one of the great schools in the UK, Europe and the world, and you do need to have some intellectual stamina to be included in its ranks.

This news is about a group of Arab-Palastinian demonstrators, setting up what is now already a known graphic protest, the presentation of the every day life of Palestinians under Israel occupation. This includes oversized guns and an ultra aggressive behavior that is intended on insulting and even physically attacking passers by to “show” how life really is in Palestinian areas.

Jewish and Israeli students of LSE have seen that, and knowing first hand what life is really like had their own protest, this presentation is simply false and fake they claim, and as the argument went so did blows and water balloons and such things.

This is yet another story how religion fights another religion, only this is an exceptional case, it does look like Muslims around the Western world have decided to influence public opinion, meaning they are targeting mainly Christians, to slander Israel. Why is this not political? well, because if the organizers of this protest would have been political activists they would probably worry more about the daily massacre of Syrians by their own government, just one example in an Arab world that is full of violence which is far – far worst than anything Israel is doing to some of the Palestinians living in Israel.

Another point worth mentioning is that Palestinians have (relatively) vast areas of control and self governance, areas where no Israeli (civilian or soldier) had set foot in for years, it is not even 30% of Palestinians that are facing road blocks and Israeli soldiers on a daily basis.

It is clear that these protests are being dictated from above, by someone who wants to keep an anti-Israeli agenda, while bluntly ignoring every political events in the area, the bloody, months old fight in Syria, the oppression of the same kind of protests in Jordan, the every day killings and murders of Christians in Egypt, and the political storm in Gaza, where a transition of power is soon to take place.

UCL’s Proud Past Cant Hold Back the Present

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They say the present is now, and its a gift, not much so for London’s University College London, the gem of the city’s universities, which has been the first English university to open its gates to everyone, without difference to religion, race or gender.

This university had Jeremy Bentham as one of its founders and conceptual fathers, and is currently ranked #20 world wide, #3 in Europe. It had produced over 20 nobel prize winners over the years.

And now it seems that this proud secular university is faced with a small crisis, one that has been practiced in the world a couple of times already and seems to be a very successful way of venting anger at secular and Western society.

The UCL atheist group had published a small cartoon in the university paper, it shows “Jesus and Mo” enjoying a drink at the local pub (anyone who goes to the university in the UK knows that this is as routine as writing papers), however this gave those who frantically love their religion that they can not keep from being offended in its name over and over again, a great chance to vent some anger.

And so once again we hear of how some are deeply offended by a picture, published in a paper that no one is forcing anyone to read, and that the mere knowledge that inside the pages of a paper there is an drawing of an idea that pictures someone who walked around the desert believing he has a direct line to god which no one else can hear, that knowledge is something that they can not bare.

It is of great shame to the city of London that instead of walking forward the focus needs to be on the delicate feelings of those who are constantly offended by the West and secular way of life, and not on real progress, especially when those who are so easily hurt by drawings remain stoic when viewing real photos of decapitated people.

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Anti Fascist Phase 2011

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EDL Bus Attacked by Anti Fascist "Asian" Men

This weekend I had some time to check out the news, and I saw that there was something going on in London, England. I saw that an organization called EDL (“English Defense League”) was gathering in East London to protest, but what exactly are they protesting for or against?, a quick look in the news explained that these were extreme right wing, borderline racists who are just trying to get a fight going.

Since official news do not score much points for honesty and real reporting these days I checked in even further. Turns out that this is a rather problematic organization but its leaders are mainly concerned about one thing, that the UK is turning into a Muslim state, with active Sharia law courts operating in the country, honor killings, extortion and rape of non-Muslims. This is pretty far from the regular far right nonsense of foreigners taking jobs and  crowding the streets, in fact it looks like very reasonable thinking – if its all true.

So the EDL went on to demonstrate, while “anti fascists” were counter protesting, and when I think of anti fascists I think of hippies in white dresses and people holding hands and singing. Well, not these people. When you see the photos and video you might actually think the opposite, that the far right people in the bus are the hippies and the peace loving “lets all live together” anti fascist are the thugs.

Looks like this crowd, mainly made of Muslim men, was busy counter protesting by hurling things at a bus, breaking windows and physically attacking a young female while on the ground (BBC news report here). Now this is strange. either these people just call themselves anti fascist movement members or they are seriously confused as to the manner liberals should protest and the values that they hold dear, like for example not attacking anyone who poses absolutely no danger to others, or is struggling to get to her feet after being attacked.

A protest against Sharia law implemented in the UK turns into a fascist and anti fascist confrontation in London, does that mean that anyone who opposes religion and refuses to let ancient and barbaric law to be forced upon people in his city is in fact a fascist?

In one small and powerful word – No.

Sharia law is Islam’s tool, Islam is a totalitarian philosophy, who has a full manual to every minute detail of life, it rejects democracy and is brutal in its dealing with non members, women and others. It is Sharia that is the fascist, by the very definition of the word – it is totalitarian.

To be anti fascist is to oppose totalitarianism in any form, so you actually had hard core right wing British people as the anti fascist movement and the ones who opposed them were all for fascism – difficult times we live in, ay?