TheOPINIONATOR

Why even bother prosecuting criminals?

Clearly the victims of crimes no longer have the breaching of their rights recognised by the judicial system in the UK. What a travesty of justice. Clearly Mr. Bishop wasn't thinking about his family obligations when he was out burglarising and driving dangerously.

The thunder you hear is the sound of the multitude of footsteps as criminals of all sorts are being released from jail under the "human rights act".

Partial article:

Burglar is freed to care for his children after judge rules prison breached his 'human rights'

     A burglar was let out of jail yesterday because locking him up breached his family’s human rights.

In a staggering judgment, the Appeal Court ruled that the rights of Wayne Bishop’s five children were more important than those of his victims or the interests of justice.

MPs said it opened the way to thousands more convicts claiming a ‘get out of jail card’ under the controversial Human Rights Act.

Article 8, the right to a family life, has repeatedly been used by foreign criminals to avoid deportation from the UK. But this is believed to be the first time it has been used to let a prisoner walk free from jail.

Bishop, 33, of Clifton, Nottingham, was sentenced to eight months after admitting burglary and dangerous driving. He has now been let out after only one month.

The decision was condemned by his neighbours, who described him  as ‘nothing but trouble’.

Bishop himself boasted of how he had managed to make a mockery of justice. He told the Mail: ‘I’m a lucky boy and I’m on top of the world.’

The "Arab Spring" has sprung

For all the fools that believe that democracy is behind the current  "Arab Spring" (as opposed to the fighting between muslim sects that has gone on for centuries) :

 






 








 


 






 


 


 





 


 




 



 


 





 





 


 


 






 








 


 

The Student Thought Police have jackbooted into Eau Claire Wisconsin

The Thought Police have jackbooted into Eau Claire Wisconsin ripping up the First Amendment  to the United States Constitution as they march en force.

"A UW-Eau Claire student group is worried the political opinions of a tavern owner are fostering a hateful atmosphere toward Muslims at his popular Water Street bar." -See article below

The victim/offender (of voicing political opinions) is Mr. Jed Hart; owner of The Pickle tavern.  Mr Hart's 'egregious' offense? A unproven statement that the Thought Police have deemed to be "worrisome" speech or (myth of)  Islamophobic.

 (Mr. Hart) said comments he made against terrorism were misquoted and that he didn't say anything disparaging about a religion. "It wasn't an anti-Muslim comment, it was an anti-terrorism comment," he said. "When it comes to Muslims, Catholics, Jews — none of that's on the plate. It's all about terrorism." -See article below

 Mr Hart's has made his own stance on the subject clear on his web sites:

"Hart said his views are not geared toward a specific faith or nationality, just against terrorism. "It's people that don't like America," he said. Hart's website — which can be found at alwaysremember912.com and saveanamericankillaterrorist.com — includes a timeline showing 15 terrorist acts going back to 1983. It focuses on incidents that killed Americans — including several al-Qaida attacks, but also notes the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. "- See article below

Nevertheless the University of Wisconsin -Eau Claire 'Students for Undemocratic Thought Harassment'  have deemed themselves judge, jury and executioner and have proceeded on their crusade to besmirch, censor and punish Jeb Hart...and others:

"Senior Allison Shilling, director of the Student Life and Diversity Commission, said the current effort is aimed at gathering testimony from people who witnessed discrimination at any campus-area tavern, not specifically The Pickle."

Taking it even further:

"In a letter sent in April to The Pickle, attorney Harry Hertel wrote on behalf of the Student Life and Diversity Commission, requesting the anti-Muslim behavior be addressed in sensitivity training for management and possibly a letter of apology sent to the commission."-See article below

Yes these totalitarian teens want Mr. Hart to apologize (for what? free speech? civil rights?) and attend "sensitivity" training. (Otherwise known as brainwashing)

What gives this group of youths the self appointed right to enforce Orwellian "worrisome" thought eradication? Undoubtedly most of whom have recently swapped being mollycoddled by their parents to being nestled in the arms of college 'pseudo' parents (deans, professors, residential assistants). Isn't free speech a benchmark of college life which past students have marched and protested to expand and protect?  Does anyone recall the student demonstrations for 'anything goes'from back in the 1960s?

So what is happening on college campuses that has infected these young minds to create such a disdain for free speech? And what guarantees that anyone should live their entire life without ever experiencing the offshoot of political correctness aka "hurt feelings"?

"Students are learning both from the campus environment and from administrators themselves that it is not only acceptable to silence opinions they deem offensive, but that doing so is a noble and appropriate act. This dangerous lesson is taught to students through powerful examples coupled with a systemic campaigning of inculcation and outright misinformation let primarily by college administrators. (from low level residence assistant up to the university counsel and presidents office)" Lukianoff, Greg. "Students Against Liberty?" New Threats To Freedom.  Ed Bellow, Adam. Templeton Press. 2010 p. 138.

Thus our very own colleges - once considered bastions of free speech have become the worst offenders of same and are producing a generation of Thought Police automatons who - in their  puffed up self-importance and learned intolerance - think it is their duty to squelch and punish any ideas contrary to their rote understanding of what is right or wrong -  as taught to them by erudite collegiate elites. Apparently the First Amendment has been altered to exclude comments about Islam.

Anti free speech actions, on US college campuses, have become such a threat there is now an organization whose main purpose is to register and investigate thought police attacks against college students (and clearly private citizens located in 'campus areas'):

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) ....has documented hundreds of brazen violations of freedom of speech on campus." Ibid. 139.

Is it any wonder that Islamic organizations  have found fertile ground on gag-happy college campuses? Fertile ground where administrators, faculties and students are all too willing to implement the Islamic standards for free speech (or lack thereof).  How ironic such sharia standards - which these same Eau-Claire students both extol and seek to punitively enforce on Jed Hart et al- would, if implemented in greater scope,  suppress and silence these same students thoughts, actions, feminist freedoms, Lesbian and Gay rights, etc in a millenia of negative or fatal ways.

One can guarantee that Islamists/sharia law would not give a damn about 'hurt feelings".

Eau Claire tavern owner disputes allegations he's anti-Muslim

By Andrew Dowd
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram

Updated: 10/14/2010 07:14:15 AM CDT

 

A UW-Eau Claire student group is worried the political opinions of a tavern owner are fostering a hateful atmosphere toward Muslims at a popular Water Street bar.

But Jed Hart, owner of The Pickle, at 341 Water St., said comments he made against terrorism were misquoted and that he didn't say anything disparaging about a religious faith.

"It wasn't an anti-Muslim comment, it was an anti-terrorism comment," he said. "When it comes to Muslims, Catholics, Jews — none of that's on the plate. It's all about terrorism."

The Student Senate's Student Life and Diversity Commission alleged that students heard the phrase "(expletive) the Muslims" repeatedly shouted by bar management from the DJ booth at The Pickle during a spring event. Hart said he didn't use the word "Muslims" in that chant but did say the word "terrorist."

In a letter sent in April to The Pickle, attorney Harry Hertel wrote on behalf of the Student Life and Diversity Commission, requesting the anti-Muslim behavior be addressed in sensitivity training for management and possibly a letter of apology sent to the commission.

Hart remembers getting the letter in spring, showing it to his attorney, and ultimately deciding it didn't warrant action or a response.

But now members of the commission are asking additional students who personally witnessed any violence or hate speech on Water Street to come forward.

Several UW-Eau Claire students handed out small green-colored paper fliers

Wednesday on the Campus Mall referring to discrimination and hate speech at "certain student affiliated establishments on Water Street." At a table set up by the students, there were copies of the letter sent to The Pickle in spring.

Senior Allison Shilling, director of the Student Life and Diversity Commission, said the current effort is aimed at gathering testimony from people who witnessed discrimination at any campus-area tavern, not specifically The Pickle.

"We've just heard a lot of complaints about establishments on Water Street," she said. "We're using this time to gather testimonies."

Hate speech creates a concern for student safety at businesses near campus, Shilling said, especially since the university's population of international students has been growing.

Davan Raj, president of the International Student Association, noted his concern over the anti-Muslim chant that students alleged happened at The Pickle.

In a letter sent to the university's student newspaper, The Spectator, Raj wrote, "The actions of the bar owner poses a dangerous threat to our Muslim friends."

Raj continued by writing about the danger that intoxicated bargoers incensed by anti-Muslim speech could then go looking for Middle Eastern students to harm.

Hart said his views are not geared toward a specific faith or nationality, just against terrorism.

"It's people that don't like America," he said.

Hart's website — which can be found at alwaysremember912.com and saveanamericankillaterrorist.com — includes a timeline showing 15 terrorist acts going back to 1983. It focuses on incidents that killed Americans — including several al-Qaida attacks, but also notes the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

Along with some of his employees serving in the Afghanistan war, Hart also has a personal connection to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. His uncle, John Hart, who served as a father figure to Jed, died in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

The Other 9/11 Mosque

Is another Ground Zero mosque currently under construction in the United States? 

While tens of thousands gather in protest of the New York City proposed mosque-trocity many believe there is an even more glaring example of the Islamization of our 9/11 memorials going on in Shanksville Pennsylvania - virtually unnoticed.  Those concerned fear the Flight 93 Memorial is nothing more than a shrine to Islam - an open air mosque that is thinly disguised as a memorial.

Is the Flight 93 memorial honoring the heroes who died trying to stop the hijacking Islamist terrorists from causing even more carnage? Or is this really a Islamic symbol/memorial to the murdering muslim hijackers?

Coincidence or Plan? Conspiracy or Reality?

What do you think?

Flight 93 Memorial centerpiece

Under Construction - the Other 9/11 Mosque

 By Cynthia Yacowar-Sweeney  Tuesday, October 12, 2010

With eyes on New York, it’s easy to overlook the other ground-zero mosque that is presently being built in Shanksville Pennsylvania at the Flight 93 crash site. That 9/11 site is home to what will soon be the world’s largest open-air mosque disguised as a memorial, contends author Alec Rawls. After five years of insignificant media coverage and minimal public awareness, construction of the Flight 93 Memorial centerpiece is already in progress.

The giant half-mile wide Islamic-shaped red crescent of maple trees is slated for completion next year on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when the autumn leaves of the crescent’s trees turn a brilliant flaming red. The 40 brave American heroes who seized control of the plane from Islamic terrorists and averted what would have been another 9/11 terror attack, are going to be honored with a design that features the major symbol of their murderers - a red Islamic crescent large enough to be seen from aircraft flying overhead.

According to Rawls, this crescent is one of many mosque features embedded in architect Paul Murdoch’s winning “Crescent of Embrace” design, later changed mainly in name only, to “Circle of Embrace”. Another important and mandatory mosque feature is Mecca orientation for prayer. For this memorial to be a proper mosque, it must face Mecca. And Rawls proves it does, in his book “Crescent of Betrayal: Dishonoring the Heroes”. Using math and geometry, Rawls calculates that the center of the crescent points almost exactly towards Mecca. That makes the Flight 93 Memorial a mosque. 

Another feature of paramount significance is a colossal 93-foot minaret-like tower that Rawls argues indicates time for prayer by functioning as an Islamic sundial.    The tower is shaped like a crescent with a crescent-shaped top. More crescents of trees surround the tower and together they too are oriented towards Mecca. The massive size of the tower and crescent displayed on over 2,000 acres of national park land, will undoubtedly convey a message of endorsement, proselytization, and aggrandizement of Islam that is not appropriate to the memory of the 40 American heroes. Not a peep from the ACLU – it is too busy purging the country of Christian symbols and remains silent as the huge religious symbol of Islam is being built according to plan.

The design was selected over five years ago from approximately 1,000 entries worldwide in a public design competition that was overseen by the National Park Service.  Referring to the memorial as a “terrorist memorializing mosque”, Rawls claims it is replete with Islamic symbolism of monumental proportions to emphasize triumph, and pays tribute to the 9/11 terrorists. In fact, every single detail of the design is symbolic. A string of coincidences or a conscious slap in America’s face?

Islamic imagery is certainly not foreign to Murdoch, having worked with award-winning architects Charles Moore and Arthur Erickson who did major design work in Islamic   architecture, the latter of whom designed an open-air mosque in the centre of the campus for the Islamic University of Medina. Erickson’s design appears to be the original model for Murdoch’s outdoor mosque (according to Rawls writing to blogger Hesperado). Furthermore, one of the Park’s design consultants, an expert in the history of mosque design and professor of Islamic architecture at MIT, did his Masters in Architecture at UCLA with Murdoch. Interestingly enough, the crescent and star are featured as the logo for Davis Langdon, the global construction consultant company that assisted Murdoch with the design. His landscape architect Nelson Byrd Woltz, also had a thing for crescents, according to Rawls, and incorporated many in earlier projects. Is it possible that Murdoch’s associates enabled him to properly incorporate mosque features into his design? Or was the design innocently conceived?

Intentional or not, the symbolism does matter and has remained an issue of grave concern for many, especially against the backdrop of the growing threat of Sharia Law in America - the legal code of the Quran which can be brutally oppressive when interpreted by radical Islamists who view the West as the enemy to be conquered. Just recently, on September 15th, a national security report released in Washington by Frank Gaffney’s The Center for Security Policy concluded that the threat posed by Sharia to America is critical. One way the teachings of Sharia can infiltrate and undermine western civilization is via mosques. 

If Rawls is correct in his contention that the memorial is truly a victory mosque in disguise, then there is ample reason for concern, given that many American mosques   are funded by Saudi Arabia, the country that gave America 15 of the 19 terrorists on 9/11, and are radicalized by its Wahhabi hardliners - meaning that these radicals   choose and train the imams and also write or give final approval of the sermons. The Wahhabists aren’t the only ones who have the freedom to force their hate ideology upon the mosque’s worshippers. American mosques are also being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that seeks to convert the world to Islam and to establish Sharia Law worldwide. The Brotherhood’s message of transforming the U.S. into an Islamic state (and eventually establishing a global Islamic state) became crystal clear back in 1991 when a key operative of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., Mohamed Akram, presented Islam (in his strategy memo) as a “civilization alternative” that can be “enabled within the souls, minds and the lives of the people of the country”. He wrote: “The Brotherhood must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within”. Part of that process, which Akram refers to as “Civilization-Jihad”, includes building Islamic centers and mosques. 

Paralleling the construction of the Shanksville memorial-mosque is the growing number of mega-mosques across America, especially in rural areas similar to that of Shanksville. “It does seem to be part of a larger strategy to build mosques in rural areas and create Islamic communities, large Islamic communities, in rural areas for some larger purpose,” says Rebecca Bynum, a columnist for the New English Review. The possibility of propagating radical Islam from some of these mosques is not a far cry from reality. Is it any wonder why the colossal crescent design in rural Pennsylvania has raised numerous questions and eyebrows? Has radical Islam found rural ground upon which to rear its ugly head and spread its detestable ideology?

It’s high time to more effectively address the five-year controversy surrounding the design of the Flight 93 Memorial and give it the exposure and awareness it so rightly deserves. If Americans are to protect their way of life, it is imperative they ensure that this memorial honours the heroes, not the hijackers. Questioning where the estimated $58 million needed to fund this project is coming from, is a start. Does this extravagant and expensive design really do justice to how the heroes would best be remembered? Can’t a more fitting symbol be found to honor their sacrifice? Who were the jury participants of the design competition and who chose them? Who are the university and religious scholars with whom the National Park Service consulted? What other companies did Murdoch refer to and could they have possibly collaborated to come up with a design that actually honours Islam? And if so, why would Murdoch want to infuse Islamic imagery into a design meant to commemorate the legacy of those heroes who died at the hands of radical Islam?

Questions like these, which may be too politically incorrect for many to explore, let alone utter, are finally finding a place in American society and require more attention and investigation. Radical Islam is counting on our ignorance and complacency not only in the United States, but in Canada as well. There’s work to be done, so “let’s roll”.

End of article.

Memorial does face Mecca:

Those that question the (hidden) meaning behind the design of the Flight 93 memorial - use this designer's drawing to prove the memorial does indeed face Mecca.  SOURCE

Green circle was obtained from the Salat Times utility at Islam.com. It shows the direction to Mecca from Somerset PA. The red arrow shows that a person standing halfway between the tips of the giant crescent and facing into the center of the crescent is facing almost exactly at Mecca. The meaning? A crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca is called a mihrab and is the central feature around which every mosque is built. (Everything you see in this graphic remains completely intact in the superficially altered Bowl of Embrace redesign.)

Here are some links to the war that is ongoing between the press and myself.

Yesterday's large color copy here:
http://www.crescentofbetrayal.com/WideSite-PlanAdCopyCMYK,PDF.pdf

Today's large color ad copy here:
http://www.crescentofbetrayal.com/Star+BlocksCMYK,FinalPDF.pdf

The Tribune Democrat's fact-checking free reporting here:
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_196231439.html

And here:
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_202233829.html

6000 Sign Up on Facebook for 9/11 Wear A Hijab Day

Prime example of "Islam's Useful Idiots".

Hat Tip: Durotrigan

Facebook: 6000 Sign up for Wear a Hijab Day on 911, Defy “Burn a Quran Day”

September 9, 2010

By admin

In response to the now suspended “Burn a Koran Day”, two US Churches will be holding readings of the Koran. Now some more non-Muslims have joined the dhimmi dance, as I have been notified of a “Wear Hijab on 9/11, Defy “Burn a Quran Day” Facebook page. A page which has approximately 6000 members. There are a lot of Muslim members, who of course love the support of the purposely blind to the threat of Islam crowd. But there are also a lot of non-Muslims supporting the page, which was started by a non-Muslim woman. Islam the great divider, strikes again.

Hat tip to wtd.

Wear Hijab on 9/11, Defy “Burn a Quran Day

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Name:Wear Hijab on 9/11, Defy “Burn a Quran Day”
Category:Common Interest – Politics Description:

Join us! If you are also horrified by the recent outrageous fear mongering of the right wing against American Muslims then here is a way to push back. I am not a Muslim but I plan to wear the hijab on 9/11 as a gesture to American Muslims that they are full citizens of this country and deserve the same rights as the rest of us. Concerned men might wear skull caps in solidarity with us women.

Yes, it will take some courage to make this gesture. However, I remembered how the people in Billings, Montana put menorahs in their windows to protest the anti-Semitic activities of the KKK in their town.

See http://www.facinghistory.org/explore/exhibit/stories/niot/read

Another wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping our nation, this time against Muslims. Let’s stand up and stand out to demonstrate that not all Americans are bigots.

I hope you’ll join me in making this gesture. I feel that it demonstrates true American values as written in our Constitution.

Peace, Shalom, Salaam,
~ Charell (read less)
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Website:http://www.whittierpeace.org Location:Whittier, CA

Let me make a list here.

1. Islam is not a left vs right issue. It is a threat to all of us.

2. Muslims being citizens does not mean they are loyal to America over Sharia Law.

3. If anything can be compared to a my way only ideology, like the KKK it is Islam, which has a profound hatred of Jews.

Muslim Hadith Book 041, Number 6985:
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

4. Jews were no threat to America, but Muslims and their Sharia movement certainly are. So your comparison is invalid. Using Charell’s logic, the Jews were bigots for opposing Nazism.

5. How can you say you are against bigotry, and stand up for Islam which is all about bigotry?

Koran verse 005.051
YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

5. Islam condones terrorism, terrorism, lying, and rape. Those are not the values of our Constitution, not even close. So I will not stand with you.

I have sent her the following email, lets see if she responds.

Between Charell W. Charlie and You

Christopher Logan September 9 at 7:45pm
Just saw your other page. Do you know that Islam allows lying, rape and pedophilia? That it calls for Muslims to fight and kill Jews to reach judgement day? If so, why are you standing up for it? If you do not know these facts, why are you defending what you do not know?

Thank you,
Chris

Britain Won't.....Syria Will.....Ban the Burka

Many of the British political elites are sinking to even lower levels of dhimmitude as they try to rationalize "empowering" muslim women to experience the "freedom" of wearing the burqa in the UK.   These dhimwits go so far, into the realm of ludicrousness, as to declare preventing the wearing of the burkha as being "unBritish" and "undesirable".  Yet, a nation, in the heart of the muslim Middle East, Syria, has chosen to ban the wearing of the niqab and burka at their public and private schools and universities.

"Wary of Islamic fundmentalism" Syria's sensible reason is barring the burka will help the country maintain its' secularism.

One has to wonder if the pooh-poohing of France's steps towards a niqab/burka ban and the embracing of the muslim shrouding of women in fabric prisons, by these softhead, vote-whoring, politically correct,multicultural automatons indicates that they are running in the opposite direction---embracing the Islamisation of Great Britain.

Clearly ignoring the fact that these self-proclaimed 'preservers of Britishness' are Going against the will of 2/3 of British people. Are 2/3 of Britons un-British, then?

OR when it comes to burqas and niqabs is Syria more British than Britain?

From the Daily Mail:

Now SYRIA bans the burka... as British female Cabinet Minister says freedom to wear Muslim veil is a right

By James Slack
19th July 2010

Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country's universities.

The Education Ministry's ban comes as similar moves in Europe - and calls for one in England - spark cries of discrimination against Muslims.

An official told local media: 'Our students are our children and we will not abandon them to extreme ideas and practices.'

Syria is not a Muslim country. An official at the ministry says the ban affects public and private universities and aims to protect Syria's secular identity.

Opposed to a ban: Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said women were 'empowered' by the freedom to wear niqabs, like the one above, and burkas

Sunday's ban does not affect the headscarf, which many Syrian women wear.

But the burka - the most concealing of the Islamic veils, in which women are forced to peer out at the world from behind a mesh mask - and the niqab, a veil that covers the head and mouth but leaves the eyes exposed - have both been banned.

The niqab and the burka are not widespread in Syria, although they have become more common recently.

The secular, authoritarian government has recently tried to curry favour by rallying to the cry of moderate Islam at home.

But it remains wary of Islamic fundamentalism, which is a threat to its power - especially in education.

Last month, hundreds of primary school teachers who wear the niqab were moved to administrative jobs, local media reported.

The move came as the pressure was turned up in Britain and across Europe for as similar ban.

A British Cabinet Minister today delivered a staunch defence of a woman's right to wear a burka.

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said women were 'empowered' by the freedom to wear the face coverings.

Her comments came after her colleague, Immigration Minister Damian Green, resisted demands from within the Tory party to ban the burka, which critics claim is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Mr Green said a ban would be 'rather un-British' and run contrary to the conventions of a 'tolerant and mutually respectful society'.

This is despite a YouGov survey which found that 67 per cent of voters wanted the wearing of full-face veils to be outlawed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295665/Banning-burkas-UK-British-says-Green.html#ixzz0uABGZlhN

 

EU Human Rights Court Nixes Extradition of Islamic Terrorists because USA Prisons are Prisons

Another softheaded order from the EU Court of Human Rights - this time the court has ordered Britain to delay extraditing four terrorists to the USA because US prisons might be too harsh for these sensitive criminals. 

Clearly the speculation that those who plan or help the assassins who plan mass murder might have to experience the horrors of "concrete furniture, timed showers, tiny cell windows and no communications with the outside world" causes the Court far more consternation that the image of innocent people watching arms, legs and bowels go flying by after they are targeted by a terrorist bomb.

Thus, isn't the EU Court of Human Rights declaring the faultless victims of heinous acts of terrorism have less human rights than terrorists?

Article in full:

 Court: UK must not extradite terror suspects to US

Jul 8 11:06 AM US/Eastern
By ROBERT WIELAARD

BRUSSELS (AP) - An international court on Thursday ordered Britain to hold off on extraditing four terrorism suspects to the United States, saying it must show that life terms without parole in maximum security prisons would not violate Europe's human rights charter.

The suspects include three Britons and the Egyptian-born radical cleric Mustafa Kamal Mustafa—also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, the one-eyed, hook-handed hardliner accused of setting up a terrorist training camp in rural Oregon.

The European Court of Human Rights gave Britain until Sept. 2 to respond to questions about the punishment they will face.

If convicted of charges filed between 2004 and 2006, they could get lifelong jail terms without parole in maximum security conditions, including concrete furniture, timed showers, tiny cell windows and no communications with the outside world.

Al-Masri claims he has lost his Egyptian nationality, but Britain considers him an Egyptian citizen. He has also been linked to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998 and to preaching jihad in Afghanistan.

The other suspects are al-Masri's alleged coconspirator, Haroon Rashid Aswat, and Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan. Ahmad is accused of running websites to raise money, appeal for fighters and provide equipment such as gas masks and night vision goggles for terrorists. Ahsan is charged with conspiring to support terrorists via the Internet.

Europe and the United States have long disagreed on the merit of the death penalty. Thursday's ruling opens a new front, this one over the U.S. practice of putting convicted criminals in spartan, maximum security prisons for the rest of their lives.

It is now up to Britain, presumably in collaboration with U.S. legal experts, to show it is not cruel or degrading.

After the four exhausted their appeals against extradition in British courts, they turned to the Strasbourg, France-based court.

They argued incarceration in the U.S. will be so long and harsh it would amount to a violation of article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950. The article says, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

The court dismissed the four suspects' argument that as non-U.S. citizens their trial would be "a flagrant denial of justice." It also dismissed their fear they would become "enemy combatants" or sent to a third country—past practices that have been abandoned.

It asked Britain if decades in maximum security was not inhumane, if the four suspects can ever expect "transfer to a normal prison" or see their sentences reduced.

The 70-page ruling cites the harsh conditions at a maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where the suspects will likely be sent, if convicted. Human Rights Watch, the New York-based rights group, has said the prison's conditions violate U.S. international treaty obligations.

The court is an arm of the 47-nation Council of Europe, Europe's premier human rights watchdog. Its judgment are binding on members.

Britain is holding several convicted terrorists in high-security prisons, including in the notorious Belmarsh prison in London.

Separately, the European Parliament approved a long-awaited deal to share financial data with the U.S. in suspected terrorist cases, after Washington agreed to major concessions to allay concerns over privacy.

The agreement was adopted Thursday with 484 votes to 109 with 12 abstentions and will take effect Aug. 1.

It allows U.S. officials to request financial data from European banks if they suspect accounts are being used by people with terrorist links. Officials must provide European authorities with reasons for their suspicions, rectify inaccurate data and grant legal redress in U.S. courts if information is abused.

The White House welcomed the decision, calling it an important counterterrorism tool that will makes citizens in the U.S. and Europe safer.

"The threat of terrorism faced by the United States and the European Union continues and, with this agreement, all of our citizens will be safer," President Obama said in a statement in Washington. He said the U.S. program of tracking terrorists' funds has since 2001 yielded critical leads.

Dhimmified British Police Apologize to Muslims for Security Cameras

One must comment on how low the once fine British police have sunk when they choose to apologise to muslims for security cameras.  After all it's not like British citizens haven't been blown to smithereens by muslim bombers:

 

or that groups of muslims regularly stomp through the streets of England yelling threats and insulting British soldiers.

Or that it is estimated that more than 2,000 muslims in the country ‘pose a terrorist threat’ and there are an estimated 200 trained al-Qaida operatives.

The British police, along with so many other government agencies, have been sandbagged by multiculturalism and political correctness.  There is NO doubt that the minority of muslims are considered more important and thus receive far more concern and respect, from both the police and our government, than the indigenous British people.

The police are fretting over rebuilding the trust with muslims after the installation of "offensive" security cameras yet the British people were suppose to immediately forgive and forget the 7/7 bombings and embrace all (unapologetic) muslims all while the police and government worried about the backlash against muslims after the deaths of 52 innocents. Worries that proved totally unfounded. Another indication of the 'low man on the ladder' status of the British victim of muslim violence is the fact that seven of the 7/7 victims have still not yet received compensation for the injuries - five years after the fact.  Have apologies will be issued to them? One wonders if complaints from non muslims would have seen the police apoligise for and immediately remove "offensive" security cameras. In fact according to Jackie Russell from the Safer Birmingham Partnership:

“Some people are not saying take them down. Crimes do exist in these communities.”

How many of those people who objected to the removal of the cameras were muslims?? What do you think?

The only way for the British people to regain their rightful place is to eradicate the cancer of multiculturalism and it's metasticized political correctness as well as stop the importation of a parasitic population that is hellbent on overwhelming its' host.  The clock is ticking.

Until then they will be forced to watch and endure more of this:

And this:

Police apologise for Birmingham spy camera outrage

Jul 6 2010

ANGRY residents have demanded the removal of 218 controversial “Big Brother” surveillance cameras that were installed in mainly Muslim areas of Birmingham without consultation.

The scheme sparked widespread public outrage and claims that the cameras were being used to spy on residents in Washwood Heath, Sparkbrook, Sparkhill and Moseley.

The cameras – installed in April – were put up by the Safer Birmingham Partnership after West Midlands Police received £3 million from an anti-terror fund controlled by the Association of Chief Police Officers.

Campaigners received assurances last night from West Midlands Police that 72 covert cameras will also be switched off (like the overt cameras) and that there will be no future involvement of the counter-terrorism unit (CTU).

Hundreds of residents, politicians and protesters crammed into the Bordesley Centre, in Stratford Road, to hear Assistant Chief Constable Sharon Rowe vow that West Midland Police would take total responsibility for the project.

Booed by some sections of the crowd, she said: “I recognise that mistakes have been made by West Midlands Police.

“I am truly sorry. The police are going to have to work hard to rebuild the trust. I will take total responsibility from now and I can give you some assurances.

“There will be no involvement of the counter-terrorism unit, there will be no covert cameras in your neighbourhoods and consultation will continue.

“After the consultation, if we think that it is appropriate and proportionate to continue using them then we will. But we will include members of the community in monitoring and scrutinising their use.

“The cameras are off and we will try to get them covered with bags as soon as possible.

Jackie Russell, from the Safer Birmingham Partnership, also spoke. She said: “We did get it wrong and I apologise for that.

“Some people are not saying take them down. Crimes do exist in these communities.”

A host of speakers, including Lord Nazir Ahmed, attacked the scheme. He said it was a “wholesale demonisation of the Muslim community”.

There were also angry attacks and claims that elected politicians were misled by police from former Labour MP Lynne Jones, and Springfield’s Lib Dem councillor’s Jerry Evans and Tanveer Choudray.

Director of Big Brother Watch, Alex Deane, received the first big round of applause for saying: “They suspended this scheme because you made them. It cannot be right that you are treated as a suspect simply because of where you live. The only answer is to take the cameras down.”

Salma Yaqoob, Respect councillor for Sparkbrook, said: “This is not acceptable in a free society.

“We are saying no, no, no. Retrospective consultation is meaningless. We want them redistributed in Birmingham or dismantled. If they do not remove them, will you join me this summer to take every single one down?”

Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights organisation Liberty, was also a guest speaker at the rally.

She said: “This scheme is not just dangerous and divisive, it’s unlawful. It is intrusive, disproportionate and blatantly discriminatory. You have rumbled something here in Birmingham. They are beginning to listen and you have a chance to set an example for the rest of Britain.’’

Highly-respected human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce who represented the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, also spoke at the rally.

Activist Steve Jolly, of Birmingham Against Spy Cameras, also spoke. He said: “The only satisfactory conclusion to this affair is the wholesale removal of the cameras. There is a real risk of creating a police state.”

A resolution to engage in consultation on the terms outlined by ACC Rowe was rejected by the audience.

A second proposition, calling for the removal of the cameras before any further consultation received overwhelming support.

American Academy of Pediatrics Condones Female Genital Mutilation

I am speechless...........

Cross post from the excellent UpPompeii blog:

Obamacare - Female genital mutilation is OK in America

posted by Gandalf

"Obamacare", this is how the health care reforms are referred to in America, there is now a new twist to Obamacare, apparently it OK in the US to carry out female genital mutilation and the Doctors in America will perform the cruelest cut of all

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NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International human rights organization Equality Now is stunned by a new policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which essentially promotes female genital mutilation (FGM) and advocates for "federal and state laws [to] enable pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a 'ritual nick'," such as pricking or minor incisions of girls' clitorises. The Policy Statement "Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors", issued by the AAP on April 26, 2010, is a significant set-back to the Academy's own prior statements on the issue of FGM and is antithetical to decades of noteworthy advancement across Africa and around the world in combating this human rights violation against women and girls. It is ironic that the AAP issued its statement the very same day that Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) announced the introduction of new bipartisan legislation, The Girls Protection Act (H.R. 5137), to close the loophole in the federal law prohibiting FGM by making it illegal to transport a minor girl living in the U.S. out of the country for the purpose of FGM.

FGM is a harmful traditional practice that involves the partial or total removal of the female genitalia and is carried out across Africa, some countries in Asia and the Middle East, and by immigrants of practicing communities living around the world, including in Europe and the U.S.  It is estimated that up to 140 million women and girls around the world are affected by FGM.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated in 1997 that over 168,000 girls and women living in the U.S. have either been, or are at risk of being, subjected to FGM.

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This is pure appeasement, the vast majority of people who practice FGM are from the Islamic world, many people still argue that the mutilation of young girls in the Islamic World is a "cultural thing", and as such they should be allowed to practice this barbarism, under the blanket of multiculturalism and respecting other cultures practices and beliefs.

This act by the American Academy of Paediatrics merely ligitimises the act of FGM, and takes America further down the road of surrendering to Islam.

What comes next - legalization of honour killing - why not, if America allows the butchering of young girls how can it object to them being killed by their families.

The "nick" as it is referred to in the article will do nothing to stop the practice of FGM in the Muslim communities in the USA, all that will happen is the families will have the girl mutilated again in some back street butchers shop

Taina Bien-Aime, Equality Now's Executive Director explains, "Encouraging pediatricians to perform FGM under the notion of 'cultural sensitivity' shows a shocking lack of understanding of a girl's fundamental right to bodily integrity and equality.

I notice with interest that CAIR have not made any comment on this development, and to the best of my knowledge neither has Obama or any of his administration - well we must not offend his cultural roots must we.

Muslim crescent forms logo for Pres. Obama's Nuclear Security Summit

Is it coincidence that Barack Hussein Obama, President of the world's "superpower whether we like it or not" has incorporated the crescent moon, associated with muslim nations, in the logo used for his Nuclear Security Summit? Obama's choosing to use this logo undoubtedly didn't help to make the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu feel too welcome.

Article in full:

NOW HE'S A CRESCENT LOON 
By Michael Goodwin of the New York Post

The first time I saw the swirling logo for the Nuclear Security Summit, it looked familiar. I soon figured out what it reminded me of: a crescent moon.

The kind of crescent moon you see on the flags of Muslim countries (from left: Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan).

     

Indeed, the crescent, often with a single or multiple stars, is the main symbol of Islam. So now there is something like it at an official presidential event, prominently displayed in photographs being beamed around the world.

No, I am not suggesting President Obama is a secret Muslim. But I am certain the crescent-like design of the logo is not a coincidence, especially at an event where Iran's nuclear ambition and al Qaeda's search for a bomb are prime topics.

Obama has been open about his aim to improve America's relations with Muslims. His bowing and apologies are nauseating, but they are consistent with his goal.

And so is having a crescent-like logo at an event attended by Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (above), among others. The Washington Conference Center is plastered with the design, which includes a solid white circle above the arc, all superimposed on a world map.

Consistent also is a report this week that says terms with religious connotations, such as "Islamic extremists" and "jihad," will no longer be used in National Security Council documents. The Associated Press reports the aim is to emphasize the White House desire to use more sensitive language and broaden the relationship beyond war. The phrase "war on terror" was also dropped.

"Do you want to think about the US as the nation that fights terrorism or the nation you want to do business with? " Pradeep Ramamurthy, an NSC staffer, told AP. It also reports business leaders from more than 40 countries are coming to Washington for an "entrepreneurship summit" for Muslim businesses.

Notably absent this week is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The deep freeze in his relationship with Obama is a direct casualty of Obama's courting of Muslims, which includes intense pressure on Israel to make major concessions to Palestinians.

So this is what change looks like.