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Quilliam And Maajid Nawaz Have Lost Credibility Over Tommy Robinson Insults

This is the last video on the subject (I hope) but Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz have definitely lost a lot of credibility over the insults levelled at Tommy Robinson and others in Julia Ebner’s article in The Guardian!

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The far right thrives on global networks. They must be fought online and off

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/far-right-networks-nationalists-hate-social-media-companies

Extremists Storm Quilliam Office- Press Release

https://www.quilliaminternational.com/extremists-storm-quilliam-office-2/

Maajud Nawaz Twitter

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/859440298342133760

Troll Watch 3: Tommy Robinson vs. Quilliam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFkCzwW3n3Q&t=304s

The Self-Invention of Maajid Nawaz: Fact and Fiction in the Life of the Counter-Terror Celebrity

http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/self-invention-maajid-nawaz-fact-and-fiction-life-counter-terror-celebrity

Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZwxKPv1CwA

Ex Islamic radical Maajid Nawaz at Real Time With Bill Maher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw1TLVKadzg

“Far-right terrorism is becoming a bigger threat than Jihadi terrorism”

"Far-right terrorism is becoming a bigger threat than Jihadi terrorism"

Quilliamistan Spokeswoman @julie_renbe who is taking them serious

Quilliam’s Julia Ebner Says Robert Spencer Is Alt-Right: Where’s The Evidence?

We’re still talking about Quilliam researcher Julia Ebner’s hit piece in The Guardian, which conflated critics of Islam with neo-Nazis, White Supremacists and the Extreme Right. Apart from Tommy Robinson, one of the people included in this defamation was American commentator Robert Spencer. He wrote a rebuttal, which I analyse in this video.

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The far right thrives on global networks. They must be fought online and off

Julia Ebner

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/far-right-networks-nationalists-hate-social-media-companies

Alt-right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

Robert Spencer (author)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer_(author)

Jihad Threat or “Islamophobia”? Robert Spencer at Truman State University, 4/13/17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=telHfA3i0LY

Quilliam Foundation smears Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller as “alt-right leaders”

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/quilliam-foundation-smears-robert-spencer-and-pamela-geller-as-alt-right-leaders

‘Moderate’ Muslims show their true colors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydcDbLktclQ&spfreload=10

Maajid Nawaz And Quilliam Vs Tommy Robinson: Which Side Of The Fence Are You On?

Following an article in which Quilliam researcher Julia Ebner accused Tommy Robinson of being a “White Supremacist”, Tommy and his cameraman went to the Quilliam offices to talk to her about it. They were received with aggression and butt-hurt victimism and were finally escorted out by the police. In a press release published a couple of hours later, Quilliam doubled down and continued calling Tommy an extremist. This brought founder Maajid Nawaz out onto Twitter, where he refused to accept any blame. The video evidence is clear. The Quilliam Foundation has joined the ranks of the Regressive Left and can no longer be trusted.

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Maajid Nawaz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz

Abdullah Quilliam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Quilliam

Tommy Robinson (activist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)

Tommy Robinson surprise calls Maajid Nawaz on LBC – 09/04/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-Lgz94phE

Julia Ebner

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/julia-ebner

The far right thrives on global networks. They must be fought online and off

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/far-right-networks-nationalists-hate-social-media-companies

Troll Watch 3: Tommy Robinson vs. Quilliam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFkCzwW3n3Q

Extremists Storm Quilliam Office

https://www.quilliaminternational.com/extremists-storm-quilliam-office-2/

Maajid Nawaz Twitter

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz

My Tweet

https://twitter.com/simonharris/status/859488225550897153

Will Paris May Day Riots Improve Marine Le Pen’s Chances Of Winning French Presidency?

The May Day Demonstrations in Paris yesterday turned violent as Far-Left Antifa types, who were demonstrating against Marine Le Pen and the Front National,  began throwing Molotov cocktails and attacking police. With Emmanuel Macron leading Le Pen in polls by 60% to 40%, the violence could either boost Le Pen’s support or lead more people to abstain so the Presidential Race could be much closer than it appears.

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Paris chaos as riots erupt on streets against election candidate Marine Le Pen | 01/05/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtpDMt32H0M

May Day in France: six police injured as violent group hijacks Paris march

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/may-day-violence-france-six-police-injured-armed-group-hijack-paris-march

Violent Paris riots end in tear gas and fires in the capital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gglb69wFQzQ

Nicolas Tomàs Twitter – Le Pen

https://twitter.com/nicolastomas/status/858995955231850496

France’s Undecided: Anti-Le Pen vote no longer a given (part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTl34bcp2I8&spfreload=10

Douglas Murray: Europe Signs Its Own Death Warrant

Douglas Murray: (Good article behind a paywall, so copied here)…. Europe signs its own death warrant: With the continent wrestling with mass immigration and losing faith in its traditions and beliefs, its civilisation faces collapse

Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter. When I say that Europe is in the process of killing itself, I do not mean that the burden of European Commission regulation has become overbearing or that the European Convention on Human Rights has not done enough to satisfy the demands of a particular community.

I mean that the civilisation we know as Europe is in the process of committing suicide and that neither Britain nor any other western European country can avoid that fate, because we all appear to suffer from the same symptoms and maladies.

As a result, by the end of the lifespans of most people currently alive, Europe will not be Europe and the peoples of Europe will have lost the only place in the world we had to call home.

Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument. Those in power seem persuaded that it would not matter if the people and culture of Europe were lost to the world.

There is no single cause of the present sickness. The culture produced by the tributaries of Judaeo-Christian culture, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the discoveries of the Enlightenment has not been levelled by nothing. But the final act has come about because of two simultaneous concatenations — sets of linked events — from which it is now all but impossible to recover.

The first is the mass movement of peoples into Europe. In all western European countries this process began after the Second World War due to labour shortages. Soon Europe got hooked on the migration and could not stop the flow even if it had wanted to.

The result was that what had been Europe — the home of the European peoples — gradually became a home for the entire world. The places that had been European gradually became somewhere else.

All the time Europeans found ways to pretend this influx could work. By pretending, for instance, that such immigration was normal. Or that if integration did not happen with the first generation then it might happen with their children, grandchildren or another generation yet to come. Or that it didn’t matter whether people integrated or not.

All the time we waved away the greater likelihood that it just wouldn’t work. This is a conclusion that the migration crisis of recent years has simply accelerated.

Which brings me to the second concatenation. For even the mass movement of millions of people into Europe would not sound such a final note for the continent were it not for the fact that (coincidentally or otherwise) at the same time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy.

More than any other continent or culture in the world today, Europe is deeply weighed down with guilt for its past. Alongside this outgoing version of self-distrust runs a more introverted version of the same guilt. For there is also the problem in Europe of an existential tiredness and a feeling that perhaps for Europe the story has run out and a new story must be allowed to begin.

Mass immigration — the replacement of large parts of the European populations by other people — is one way in which this new story has been imagined: a change, we seemed to think, was as good as a rest. Such existential civilisational tiredness is not a uniquely modern European phenomenon, but the fact that a society should feel like it has run out of steam at precisely the moment when a new society has begun to move in cannot help but lead to vast, epochal changes.

Had it been possible to discuss these matters, some solution might have been possible. Looking back, it is remarkable how restricted we made our discussion, even while we opened our home to the world.

A thousand years ago the peoples of Genoa and Florence were not as intermingled as they now are, but today they are all recognisably Italian, and tribal differences have tended to lessen rather than grow with time.

The current thinking appears to be that at some stage in the years ahead the peoples of Eritrea and Afghanistan too will be intermingled within Europe as the Genoans and Florentines are now melded into Italy. The skin colour of individuals from Eritrea and Afghanistan may be different, their ethnic origins may be further afield, but Europe will still be Europe and its people will continue to mingle in the spirit of Voltaire and St Paul, Dante, Goethe and Bach.

As with so many popular delusions, there is something in this. The nature of Europe has always shifted and — as trading cities such as Venice show — has included a grand and uncommon receptiveness to foreign ideas and influence. From the ancient Greeks and Romans onwards, the peoples of Europe sent out ships to scour the world and report back on what they found. Rarely, if ever, did the rest of the world return their curiosity in kind, but nevertheless the ships went out and returned with tales and discoveries that melded into the air of Europe. The receptivity was prodigious: it was not, however, boundless.

The question of where the boundaries of the culture lay is endlessly argued over by anthropologists and cannot be solved. But there were boundaries. Europe was never, for instance, a continent of Islam. Yet the awareness that our culture is constantly, subtly changing has deep European roots. We know that the Greeks today are not the same people as the ancient Greeks. We know that the English are not the same today as they were a millennium ago, nor the French the French. And yet they are recognisably Greek, English and French and all are European.

In these and other identities we recognise a degree of cultural succession: a tradition that remains with certain qualities (positive as well as negative), customs and behaviours. We recognise the great movements of the Normans, Franks and Gauls brought about great changes. And we know from history that some movements affect a culture relatively little in the long term, whereas others can change it irrevocably.

The problem comes not with an acceptance of change, but with the knowledge that when those changes come too fast or are too different we become something else, including something we may never have wanted to be.

At the same time we are confused over how this is meant to work. While generally agreeing that it is possible for an individual to absorb a particular culture (given the right degree of enthusiasm both from the individual and the culture) whatever their skin colour, we know that we Europeans cannot become whatever we like. We cannot become Indian or Chinese, for instance. And yet we are expected to believe that anyone in the world can move to Europe and become European.

If being “European” is not about race, then it is even more imperative that it is about “values”. This is what makes the question “What are European values?” so important. Yet this is another debate about which we are wholly confused.

Are we, for instance, Christian? In the 2000s this debate had a focal point in the row over the wording of the new EU constitution and the absence of any mention of the continent’s Christian heritage. The debate not only divided Europe geographically and politically, it also pointed to a glaring aspiration.

For religion had not only retreated in western Europe. In its wake there arose a desire to demonstrate that in the 21st century Europe had a self-supporting structure of rights, laws and institutions that could exist even without the source that had arguably given them life.

In the place of religion came the ever-inflating language of “human rights” (itself a concept of Christian origin). We left unresolved the question of whether or not our acquired rights were reliant on beliefs that the continent had ceased to hold, or whether they existed of their own accord. This was, at the very least, an extremely big question to have left unresolved while vast new populations were being expected to “integrate”.

An equally significant question erupted at the time around the position and purpose of the nation state. From the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 up to the late 20th century the nation state in Europe had generally been regarded not only as the best guarantor of constitutional order and liberal rights but the ultimate guarantor of peace.

Yet this certainty also eroded. European figures such as Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany in 1996 insisted that “The nation state . . . cannot solve the great problems of the 21st century.” Disintegration of the nation states of Europe into one large integrated political union was so important, Kohl insisted, that it was in fact “a question of war and peace in the 21st century”.

Others disagreed, and 20 years later just over half of British people who voted in the EU referendum demonstrated that they were unpersuaded by Kohl’s argument. But, once again, whatever one’s views on the matter, this was a huge question to leave unresolved at a time of vast population change.

While unsure of ourselves at home, we made final efforts at extending our values abroad. Yet whenever our governments and armies got involved in anything in the name of these “human rights” — Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011 — we seemed to make things worse and ended up in the wrong. When the Syrian civil war began, people cried for western nations to intervene in the name of the human rights that were undoubtedly being violated. But there was no appetite to protect such rights because whether or not we believed in them at home, we had certainly lost faith in an ability to advance them abroad.

At some stage it began to seem possible that what had been called “the last utopia” — the first universal system that divorced the rights of man from the say of gods or tyrants — might comprise a final failed European aspiration. If that is indeed the case, then it leaves Europeans in the 21st century without any unifying idea capable of ordering the present or approaching the future.

Europe has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument

At any time the loss of all unifying stories about our past or ideas about what to do with our present or future would be a serious conundrum. But during a time of momentous societal change and upheaval the results are proving fatal. The world is coming into Europe at precisely the moment that Europe has lost sight of what it is. And while the movement of millions of people from other cultures into a strong and assertive culture might have worked, the movement of millions of people into a guilty, jaded and dying culture cannot.

Even now Europe’s leaders talk of an invigorated effort to incorporate the millions of new arrivals. These efforts too will fail. If Europe is going to become a home for the world, it must search for a definition of itself that is wide enough to encompass the world. This means that in the period before this aspiration collapses our values become so wide as to become meaninglessly shallow.

So whereas European identity in the past could be attributed to highly specific, not to mention philosophically and historically deep foundations (the rule of law, the ethics derived from the continent’s history and philosophy), today the ethics and beliefs of Europe — indeed the identity and ideology of Europe — have become about “respect”, “tolerance” and (most self-abnegating of all) “diversity”.

Such shallow self-definitions may get us through a few more years, but they have no chance at all of being able to call on the deeper loyalties that societies must be able to reach if they are going to survive for long.

This is just one reason why it is likely that our European culture, which has lasted all these centuries and shared with the world such heights of human achievement, will not survive.

As recent elections in Austria and the rise of Alternative for Germany seem to prove, while the likelihood of cultural erosion remains irresistible, the options for cultural defence continue to be unacceptable. Even after the tumultuous years they have just had, the French electorate go to the polls next weekend to choose between more of a disastrous status quo or a member of the Le Pen family.

And all the time the flow into Europe continues. Over the Easter weekend alone European naval vessels collected more than 8,000 African migrants from the seas around Italy and brought them into Europe. Such a flow — which used to be unusual — is now routine, apparently unstoppable and also endless.

In The World of Yesterday, published in 1942, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig wrote that in the years leading up to the Second World War, “I felt that Europe, in its state of derangement, had passed its own death sentence.” Only his timing was out. It would take several more decades before that death sentence was carried out — by ourselves on ourselves.

© Douglas Murray 2017

Extracted from The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray, which will be published by Bloomsbury on Thursday at £18.99

Here’s a link to the original article in The Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news-review/europe-signs-its-own-death-warrant-xpg36lnxl

Apologists who describe Islam as a Religion of Peace …

Apologists who describe Islam as a Religion of Peace often paraphrase Verse 5:32 from the Quran as “Whoever kills an innocent person, it is as if he killed the whole of humanity, and if anyone saved a life it is if he had saved the whole of mankind” in order to show how highly Islam values human life.”

However, put these verse fragments together with the start and end of the verse and the part omitted from the middle and the meaning changes:

“Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.” (Sahih International 5:32)

Now we can clearly see that this statement refers to the Jews alone, who are the people most reviled by Islam, and so does not apply to Muslims at all. Even if it is applied to Muslims, the exception for “corruption”, which is also often translated as “mischief”, can be widely interpreted to allow killing for a wide range of “offences”, such as insulting Islam, Mohammed or the Quran.

If we refer this verse to the preceding verses 5:27-31, which are the story of Cain and Able, then the context of 5:32 is the slaying of a family (or community) member. Consequently, in applying 5:32 to Muslims Ibn Kathir writes in his commentary: “Sa’id bin Jubayr said, “He who allows himself to shed the blood of a Muslim, is like he who allows shedding the blood of all people. He, who forbids shedding the blood of one Muslim, is like he who forbids shedding the blood of all people.”

Furthermore, Mujahid commented on the verse “He who kills a believing soul [i.e. a Muslim] intentionally, Allah makes the Fire of Hell his abode, He will become angry with him, and curse him, and has prepared a tremendous punishment for him, equal to if he had killed all people, his punishment will still be the same.”

Thus, we can see that Islam does place a high value on human life, provided that, and only provided that, the life is Muslim.

You can find various translations of Surah 5:32 by following the link below

http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=5&verse=32

The fact that the intention of this verse is far from peaceful becomes clear if we read on to Surah 5:33

“The recompense of those who fight Allah and His messenger, and seek to make corruption in the land, is that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from alternate sides or that they be banished from the land; that is their disgrace in this world and in the Hereafter they will have a great torment.” (Qur’an 5:33)

http://www.quranicpath.com/finerpoints/cut_hands_feet.html

White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump PA Rally And Alt-Right OK Signs: Mainstream Media Have Completely Lost It!

On the 100th day of his Presidency. Donald Trump skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which ended up being a pathetic act of self-flagellation. The President chose to connect with his base at a massive rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which the press misreported as usual. Just make sure they had a Fail-Fail-Fail, the Mainstream Media were hoodwinked by 4Chan into reporting that the OK hand sign was a white supremacist symbol. This and the victim mentality paraded at the WHCA Dinner shows that the MSM are now nothing more than a bunch of out of touch social justice warriors.

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he Most Cringeworthy Moment From the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/white-house-correspondents-dinners-most-cringeworthy-moment-w479611

Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj White House Correspondents’ Dinner full monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6PLJbMnxE

Trump Ridicules Media at Pennsylvania Rally: ‘They Deserve a Big, Fat Failing Grade’

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/29/trump-ridicules-media-at-pennsylvania-rally-they-deserve-a-big-fat-failing-grade/

President Trump Full MAGA Rally Speech in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 4/29/17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3nSR_NgWC4&spfreload=10

Donald Trump attacks US media at 100-day Pennsylvania rally

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39760283

Two members of alt-right accused of making white supremacist hand signs in White House after receiving press passes

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-power-hand-symbol-cassandra-fairbanks-mike-cernovich-alt-right-white-house-a7709446.html

Austrian President Says All Women Must Wear The Hijab Headscarf Out Of Solidarity With Muslims

Austrian President, Alexander Van DEr Bellen, Says All Women Must Wear The Hijab Headscarf Out Of Solidarity With Muslims

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Liberal Austrian President Says Day Will Come When All Women Must Wear Headscarf – In Solidarity With Muslims

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/liberal-austrian-president-says-day-will-come-women-must-wear-headscarf-solidarity-muslims-islamophobia/

Austrian president wants ALL women to wear a hijab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht3BehB1tq8

Austria: Protesters denounce plans to ban full-face Muslim veils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BijZIvnW2s

Bill Nye The SJW Science-Denial Guy: Sex Junk And Transgender Cats

Bill Nye used to be the the Science Guy but since he became a Social Justice Warrior he seems to have completely lost the plot. He’s not only a rabid defender of Global Warming but now believes Gender is a Spectrum. The problem with this rubbish is it’s becoming mainstream as the case of the woman treating her cats as gender non-binary and LGBT people claiming at Science Rally that science is about telling stories.

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Bill Nye Saves The World Jumps The Shark With Cringeworthy ?My Sex Junk? Skit

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/billy-nye-saves-the-world-netflix-tv-show-my-sex-junk-skit-video-a7703236.html

My Sex Junk – Rachel Bloom – Bill Nye Saves The World

Don’t laugh: I have a serious reason for raising my cats gender-neutral

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/04/05/dont-laugh-i-have-a-serious-reason-for-raising-my-cats-gender-neutral/?utm_term=.cb434c06ee60

Transgender man addresses March for Science

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2...

100 Days Of Ivanka The Unelected! Does She Have Too Much Influence On Her Father?

This week Ivanka Trump made some untoward comments about  accepting Syrian refugees whilst at a Women’s Conference in Germany. This sent off alarm bells and made many wonder whether she has too much influence over her father. Despite there being reasons for concern, I don’t we have too many reasons to be concerned.

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Ivanka Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanka_Trump

Ivanka Trump Parts Ways With Her Father on Syrian Refugees

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/ivanka-trump-syria-refugees-humanitarian-crisis.html?_r=0

Ivanka Trump: ‘A Global Humanitarian Crisis Is Happening’ With Refugees | TODAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-yboW0nKw

JAN MOIR: I’m a fan, but so far Ivanka Trump’s only empowered herself…while the sole female cause she has advanced is her own

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4453920/JAN-MOIR-Ivanka-Trump-s-enpowered-herself.html#ixzz4fWoH8t35