Maybe former BBC presenter Sam Mason was wise in asking for a non-Asian taxi driver for her daughter ...A Sydney court has heard the driver promised the girl she could ride to his next appointment to pick up rap star Kanye West and then plied her with alcohol.
After falling asleep on a back seat, the girl awoke to find the man, Mohamed Sabra, 34, of Bexley, fondling her breasts and performing oral sex on her, court documents allege.
ARONOFF: ... your book, The World Turned Upside Down ... How did you come to write this book?A pretty good diagnosis, but a cultural defence is not enough. Demography is destiny. We need a demographic defence.
PHILLIPS: For me, it was very much a question of joining up the dots... I came to the view that all these things were actually linked: They were all issues on which it was not possible, any longer, to have a proper discussion or debate; they were all issues on which the progressive side of politics took the view that it wasn’t simply that they believed that people who dissented from their point of view were wrong, they believed that they shouldn’t be allowed to speak at all... They were all linked by the fact that they were all ideologies—that is to say, they were all governed by ideologies such as a whole range of -isms: Feminism, anti-Americanism, environmentalism, anti-Zionism, moral and cultural relativism, and so on. And all these ideologies, because they’re ideologies, basically, they start with the belief that the idea is not only correct, but can’t be challenged, whatever that idea is, and then they force evidence to fit the idea.
So anyone who subscribes to any of these ideologies basically cannot accept reality or truth, and, consequently, it’s like having a dialogue of the demented. If you’re trying to bring forward actual evidence of what actually going on—actual reality, actual truth, actual facts, historical facts, present day facts—you’re told, “No, no, no, that’s simply an opinion, because there is no truth any more.” If there are no truths, then there are no lies—so everything is simply, in the jargon of today, “competing narratives.” So you can’t have the debate, and, more than that, if you question things ... you find that you lose your friends, that your professional situation becomes very difficult, you lose your chance of promotion, you don’t get the job, you don’t get the government grant, whatever it is. It’s quite an extraordinary situation. You have a kind of totalitarian situation. So I realized that this was a kind of wholesale denial of reason that was going on, and that led me to ask why this was all going on, and how this could possibly have come about in the era in which we tell ourselves we’re living through the most advanced era of mankind, an era which is governed entirely by reason...
ARONOFF: ... you say it’s not so much between Left and Right as it is between the intelligentsia and ordinary people...
PHILLIPS: Yes. It’s something that I’ve discovered in recent years, to my astonishment, and I think it’s actually quite a significant point—a very significant point—that the people who deny reality are almost always part of the intelligentsia, that the lower down the social and educational scale you go, you find that people there are very rooted in reality. They’ve got their feet on the ground, they have no truck with silly ideas, and you find that they are sane and decent and moral. The higher up the social and educational scale you go, particularly people who have been educated in universities in the last decade or two, you find that they are people who are much more likely to have a highly ideological view of the world, to be anti-America, anti-West, anti-capitalism, and to have—most importantly— no idea what truth and objectivity actually are. They disdain the whole notion of truth and objectivity, and they’re the people who are the most vicious and venomous towards Israel... it’s where the most irrational and bigoted views coalesce under the umbrella of “being rational” and “progressive.” It’s a kind of symbol, if you like, of where we’ve lost the plot over a whole range of issues.
And all these ideologies are centered in the universities, so the universities, far from being the crucibles of reason, have become the destroyers of reason, and the intelligentsia have become the destroyers of reason. It’s because the intelligentsia—historically, I think this is true—people who live in the world of ideas, are particularly prone to believe those ideas even when they depart from reality, to believe in theory. They’re also the people who tend to be, because they’re well-educated, high-minded—and high-minded people tend to be drawn to the idea that the world can be perfected in some way. So all these ideologies—look at environmentalism, look at anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism—we may think that some of them, or all of them, are horrible and destructive, but from the point of view of people who believe in them, they are all ways in which they think the world can be perfected... But we all know, from history, that Utopia always fails—by definition, it’s an impossibility. We also know, from history, that ... whenever you have Utopias that proceed to fail, their adherents always turn upon—always make scapegoats upon whom they turn, with great venom, to express their rage at the thwarting of the establishment of Utopia. We’re living through a period in which secular Utopias are mirroring the appalling totalitarian and fascistic movements of the past, in which the thwarting, the perceived thwarting, of the perfection of life on Earth led—in different ways, very different ways—their adherents to take it out on scapegoats. We see this today...
ARONOFF: How is it that the Islamist movement that you’re talking about there, ties itself to the Left? ...
PHILLIPS: The alliance between the Left and the Islamists is pretty eye-watering ... it is extraordinary that the Left literally march on the streets of London, literally march shoulder to shoulder with the Islamists... They are all governed by this idea of the realization of some kind of paradise on Earth, and that gives them a kind of common cause. The third thing is that the idea that people on the Left have always been against violence, against tyranny, and against fascism is wrong. People on the Left have a great deal in common with tyranny and fascism. People on the Left obviously have lent themselves to tyranny during the Communist period, and, as I say, you go back to the French Revolution, you find the progressive side of politics lent itself to mass murder. The Left has always been drawn to violence, it’s drawn to the exercise of brute power, and it’s drawn to people who extol that...
ARONOFF: ... And with sharia law, in the West ...
PHILLIPS: ... One cannot have that. One cannot have a society where you have a parallel jurisdiction, because if you have a situation developing in which you do not enforce the principle of one law for all, then you stop being a democratic society, and you become, instead, a kind of Balkanized country in which you have different groups jostling with each other but are not part of the same society. This is intolerable ...
ARONOFF: ... one quick comment on the media, and its role in spreading this point of view that you’re talking about...
PHILLIPS: ... most journalists are on the Left, and most journalists, I think, are acting as fifth columnists in the war against the West, a war waged both from within and from without.
I have a book review in this week’s Catholic Herald of Roger Scruton’s The Uses of Pessimism. Professor Scruton is the leading conservative political philosopher of our age... His latest book explains how unscrupulous optimists have brought disaster on the world, from the Jacobins to the Bolsheviks, Nazis and Eurocrats, but his most controversial assertion is that mass immigration is the latest example of this utopian thinking, and doomed to never realise its unachievable aimsFile under: immigration is based on a denial of human nature.
... the optimists are behind two related utopian ideas that dominate their age. The European Union, like Soviet Communism ...As Scruton notes: “Since the 1960s western countries have adopted policies in the matter of immigration that no person schooled in the elementary truths of pessimism would have endorsed. Anybody who has studied the fate of empires, and the difficulties of establishing territorial jurisdiction over communities that differ in religion, language and marital customs, knows that the task is all but impossible, and threatens constantly to break down in fragmentation, tribalism or civil war.”
Like Communism, mass immigration was based on a denial of human nature, and an inability to distinguish between what might work in individual human relationships and in society as a whole. Just because people of different groups are capable of getting on perfectly well as individuals, becoming friends and falling in love, it does not mean that a multicultural society ... can become a racism-free paradise; anymore than the willingness of people to give money to perfect strangers means Communism can work.
Advocates for Sharia in the West, such as the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, are never confronted about their views on aspects of Sharia such as the amputation of the hand for theft, which is not negotiable in Islamic law since it is rooted in the Qur'an (5:38). This story shows, however, that Muslims are bringing such elements of Sharia to Western countries -- along with a substantial dose of conspiracy paranoia vis-a-vis the Jews, the "worst enemies" of the Muslims (cf. Qur'an 5:82).File under: Muslim community turns ... Islamic. Who was to know?
DailyMail, Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boysNow we can see what these cultural kamikazes are helping bring about. In the east London borough of Tower Hamlets, a man with reported links to radical Islamism, Lutfur Rahman, has been elected Mayor of the borough, giving him control of a billion-pound budget and thus the apparent installation of a platform for the progressive intimidation and silencing of British Muslims who do not want to live under sharia law, let alone the non-Muslim majority in the area.
... Andrew Gilligan ... writes on his blog:For the last eight months – without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman – this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - which believes, in its own words, in transforming the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed… from ignorance to Islam.” Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims.The outcome is that Britain’s establishment is actively assisting the progressive Balkanisation of Britain, in accordance with the global strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies to take over the west. Astoundingly, the security and political establishment even now still chooses to embrace the Brotherhood, treating them as authoritative Muslim spokesmen and even employing them as counter-extremism advisers, on the ludicrous basis that they are merely religious ideologues who can be used to divide British Muslims and divert them from al Qaeda...We have told how the borough’s change from a conventional council leader to a mayoral system came about as a result of a campaign led and financed by these two groups – and how the IFE, in its words, wanted to “get one of our brothers” into the position.
We have described in detail, again without complaint or challenge by Mr Rahman, his deeply problematic two years as council leader until he was removed from that post six months ago, partly as a result of our investigations. After he secured the leadership with the help of the IFE, millions of pounds were channelled to front organisations of the IFE, a man with close links to the IFE was appointed as assistant chief executive of the council despite being unqualified for the position and the secular, white chief executive was forced out. Various efforts were made to “Islamicise” the borough. Extremist literature was stocked in Tower Hamlets’ public libraries.
But of course, it is Islamophobic exaggeration and scare-mongering to say so.
Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain.Lawrence Auster, More Muhammads than Harrys
It shot up from third the previous year, overtaking Jack, which had topped the list for the past 14 years but was relegated to third spot...
A total of 7,549 newborns were given 12 variations of the Islamic prophet Mohammed’s name last year, such as Muhammad and Mohammad.
The second most popular boy’s name, Oliver, was given to 7,364 babies.
Harry and Alfie came in fourth and fifth place respectively.
What's the big deal? Why should anyone get excited or alarmed about this? The simple fact is that Muslims overwhelmingly name their sons Muhammad. Therefore if you let Muslims mass-immigrate into your country, you will end up with a sub-population that overwhelmingly names their sons Muhammad, and that name will inevitably become the most popular male name in your country. Period. A leads to B leads to C. If you have a problem with having lots of people in your country named Muhammad, then you shouldn't invite Muslims into your country. And if you have already made the suicidal mistake of doing so, you must, If you don't want to complete the suicide, recognize your error and retract and reverse the invitation.It's great here, says the mother of eight living in a £2.6m townhouse paid for by you
There is really nothing more to say about the subject. All else is escapist b.s. or dhimmi surrender.
Andrew Bolt, Visit London and breed. They’ll pay and house you wellA mother of eight has told of her ‘great’ life in a £2.6million home funded by taxpayers.
Francesca Walker receives more than £90,000 a year in benefits to pay the rent on the five-bed villa, plus other payouts...
Miss Walker, 33, has Tory leader David Cameron, actor Hugh Grant and Four Weddings writer Richard Curtis as neighbours in fashionable Notting Hill, West London.
Her four-storey home boasts five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a double living room, study and roof terrace...
None of the available council houses was big enough, so the local authority pays for her to rent from a private landlord.
... the British Government’s attempts to cut back on a welfare rort that puts welfare recipients with huge families in London houses that most taxpayers could never afford themselves...The Age, Public-housing stretch lets refugee families spread their wings
The examples are astonishing and explain much about third-world immigration to Britain, welfarism and a growing resentment of those who feel they are being taken advantage of.
A SHY smile is Saido Gali's answer, at first. The question is an obvious one: does she want more children? She has eight and another boy on the way...Andrew Bolt, Why doesn’t the ABC next run a recruiting drive for al Qaeda?
Australia's humanitarian resettlement of African refugees - 41,310 live in Melbourne - has thrown up a basic challenge for the state government: how to house the large families ...
... Melbourne's public housing high-rises are made ''a bit like Lego''. If carefully done, walls could be breached and flats joined. This meant a three-bedroom flat could become a six-bedroom home with two bathrooms and two toilets. Across the public high-rises - as the government's eight-year, $640 million renovation has rolled through - dozens of flats have been opened up in this way.
Mrs Gali, who is now raising her children alone... Of her new place, adorned with a 20-seater modular couch that hugs three walls, she says: "It is a nice place. A good place for them to grow up."
Now ABC Online uses taxpayers’ money to publish the rantings of a spokesman for an Islamist group which is so radical that it is banned or restricted in several countries and brands our soldiers as ”terrorists”.
Has the ABC lost its mind? It even fails to identify just what Hizb ut Tahrir is and stands for, describing it only in the most flattering terms: as the world’s “largest global Islamic political party”.
Relax, he's just one bad apple and not representative of Islam which is, of course, a beacon of honesty and truth.A Muslim community leader, Noor Ramjanally, who claimed he was kidnapped by members of the British National Party was caught out lying by covert surveillance cameras designed to protect him...
... he was caught out lying after detectives viewed CTTV footage from secret cameras installed to protect him after his previous claims that he was being targeted by racist opponents, prosecutors said.
The court heard that at the time of his alleged abduction he was actually “wandering around Homebase"...
... after trawling the CCTV footage, police discovered Ramjanally had walked to the spot on the edge of the forest, where he claimed he was taken by the BNP, where he was seen dialling 999.
history's value beyond an intellectual pursuit. Any moves to make it demonstrate 'impact' risk pushing it down the heritage trail . . ." Your knowledge of Medieval tax law will help you to . . . ? Your study of child rearing in the Elizabethan Age equips you to . . . ? Start training to become a reenactor. Polish up your English Civil War "armour." Get that pike out of the closet.
