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'Make Bradford British', Channel 4
Rather than provide a 'documentary' with the above title, it would be far more interesting to see a television investigation into who unmade British Bradford and why. As can be seen from the preview below, there is a certain agenda at play on Channel 4's part. However, for a more realistic evaluation of relations between the original inhabitants of Bradford and those who have come amongst them, perhaps the pupils at St Bede's School should be permitted to have their say without prompting to say the "right" thing from staff, following the unpleasant episode that unfolded there last year? A review will be posted here tomorrow evening.
Labels: Bradford, Channel 4, Indigenous Displacement, Islamisation
Review: 'Proud and Prejudiced', Channel 4 Dispatches
The publicity in advance of this documentary revealed that the makers of this programme had set out with the intent of portraying Sayful Islam's Islamists and Tommy Robinson's EDL as morally equivalent "extremists", who both should be condemned for their "intolerance". In this narrative expectation, we were not to be disappointed, although of course it was disingenuous of the Dispatches editorial team to portray the EDL as a "far-right threat" to be feared as much as England's burgeoning Islamist movement. In the opinion of the author, the EDL represent a genuine grassroots working-class movement that has arisen to fill the vacuum created by mainstream politics' unwillingness to address the real concerns that they articulate, albeit in a working-class idiom not as polished as that of the professional political class. In its treatment of the EDL, the Dispatches team on this occasion thus fell into the typical inverted snobbery characteristic of the mainstream media, treating EDL supporters contemptuously simply because of the manner of their speech. That said, this programme was in an altogether different class to Stacey Dooley's 'My Hometown Fanatics' which covered much of the same ground in a more superficial manner last week.
Robinson (real name Stephen Lennon) may have commented at the latest EDL demo in Hyde on Saturday that the title of the programme could be interpreted as representing his "pride" and Sayful Islam's "prejudice", but Channel 4 would not concur, for "a plague on both your houses!" was its effective message, echoing the standard line now peddled by the anti-democratic leftist pressure group 'Hope Not Hate'.
The documentary opened with Robinson driving through Luton town centre, noting how he used to walk through the area as a child, but could no longer do so for fear of being beaten up. Soon enough, Sayful Islam was spotted, and within a few moments he had strolled over to Robinson's car for an ill-tempered verbal exchange which ended with Islam hitting Robinson in the face. Islam called Robinson "racist", to which the latter retorted, "What race is Islam?"
Luton, intoned the narrator, has a population of circa 200,000, 15% of which is Muslim – five times the national average. Having set the demographic context the documentary moved on to the formation of the EDL in 2009 in response to a Muslim protest against a homecoming parade of the Royal Anglian Regiment in the March of that year. Throughout, the documentary tended to intercut interviews with Sayful Islam, formerly of 'Muslims Against Crusades' (now banned), and Tommy Robinson, giving their contrasting perspectives. However, Robinson tended to enjoy more of the limelight throughout.
Islam has five children and studied accountancy at local university, and worked for a time as a tax inspector:
"We wanna shake the people and wake them up from their slumber. . . . The real heroes are people who have no homes, who have been raped, who have been violated."
And when we awake from our slumbers, what would he like to offer us? An Islamic state. In that case, please do not disturb my sleep.
He grew up in Bury Park and became a disciple of Omar Bakri, founder of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun. Sayful's followers are banned from most local mosques. One of the fertiliser bomb plotters and the Stockholm suicide bomber came from Luton. He, like others of his ilk, claims that Shariah Law will deal with the problems of contemporary society, preventing drug problems, prostitution and promotion of homosexuality. He sees a society "full of sexual deviancy and every sin."
Lennon too is married and has three children. The narrator stated that he had served time for assaulting an off-duty policeman during a domestic dispute, but provided no explanation as to what had happened. Why is he alarmed about Islamisation? "If this is happening now when 3% of the country's population is Muslim, God help us if it gets to 20%!" In twenty years time, he fears that such an eventuality could unfold. As for Muslims being offended, he retorted "I'm offended when I see a woman in a burqa. . . . We're offended on a daily basis."
Returning to the genesis of the EDL, it was Muslim barracking of the Royal Anglian Regiment together with Muslims spitting in a soldier's mother's face that generated the anger that precipitated its formation. Robinson managed to gather together 200 people, mostly Luton football fans, to mount a protest calling for a ban on Islam's group, with Robinson spending £400 getting a cameraman to film the protest. This resulted in him receiving a banning order from the town centre and an ensuing "summer of tension". Two hooded men attacked a local mosque with firebombs. An imam – billed as a "moderate" - opposed Sayful Islam, and claims that had Robinson stuck to attacking "Muslim extremism" he would not have a problem with that, but in his opinion he had now gone well beyond this and started attacking Islam as a religion.
The EDL claims 100,000 supporters, and dozens of demos have been held since its inception. However, although the narrator claimed that many had turned violent, he did not explain the nature of the violence or indeed point out that on the majority of occasions when violence had flared, it had been instigated by UAF and most of those who turned out to be arrested were so-called 'antifascists'. The shadowy world of the SWP-dominated self-styled 'antifascist' movement was not examined, which constituted a serious flaw in the documentary's approach.
The documentary, as covered in the preview article and attendant clip a couple of days ago, then moved on to the 'Luton in Harmony' initiative, which has attempted to paper over the wide and deep cracks between the town's Muslim population and the rest. Lennon stated: that living in harmony wasn't a problem for "The Hindus, the Jews, the Sikhs, the gay community", but only one "with the Muslims."
Sayful Islam concurred that there was an absence of harmony in the town:
"If you want to say Luton is in harmony, then why was the EDL born here?"
On the second anniversary of the EDL's birth in 2011 Luton witnessed its largest EDL protest to date, and another one is planned for this year. As often on such occasions, UAF staged a counterdemonstration, which necessitated a massive police operation, with in excess of 1500 police being drafted in: "Luton was bracing itself for violence" intoned the narrator. Thankfully, the demonstration was remarkably peaceful. Only eight arrests were made throughout the £800,000 police operation.
That the EDL were having a political impact on the national stage appeared to be made clear by the fact that David Cameron chose to make a speech in Munich on the eve of the demonstration, stating that multiculturalism had failed (meaning nothing of the sort however, for his administration has continued to be a vigorous advocate of this policy). Lennon chose to disagree with Cameron, stating to the crowd:
"David Cameron is wrong, multiculturalism has worked. We live side by side as brothers and sisters."
However, he stated:
"Stop building mosques in our community, we've had enough of it!"
"Every single one of you is in the forefront of the struggle against militant Islam."
It seems to me however that it is precisely multiculturalism that has failed, for it is this ideology that has allowed Islamisation to take root and flourish. Lennon, it would appear, is confusing multiculturalism with multiracialism. He has always strongly objected to allegations that the EDL are racist, and was at pains to rebut this on a number of occasions, contrary to UAF claims which cited comments made on the EDL's Facebook page as evidence. As he pointed out, he and his organisation could not be responsible for every comment posted. He himself had joined the BNP for a year in 2004, but claimed that he failed to renew his membership because he objected to the way that they barred blacks not only from the party, but also from social activities.
The rest of the documentary covered a number of other protests in 2011, including the EDL Tower Hamlets demo and a MAC demo at the American Embassy. Lennon was also shown being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman in the wake of the Breivik atrocity, during which he acquitted himself well (click here for full video of the interview). Interestingly, the programme did not touch upon the EDL's proposed collaboration with the British Freedom Party announced last November. Why was this not mentioned? Will Robinson eventually declare that he will join the BFP and perhaps stand as a parliamentary candidate? If so, the documentary gave no hint of this possibility. Is however, a credible new party about to emerge which will fully address the concerns of the EDL without being as narrowly focused as the BFP? This is a distinct possibility, as is discussed here.
Overall therefore, this was an interesting documentary that gave us a view into both the EDL and to a lesser extent the world of Sayful Islam's Islamists (see 'My Brother the Islamist' for a better treatment of Islamism in England today). However, the documentary would have been greatly enhanced if it had set its subject matter against the backdrop of the real trends towards Islamisation in England today, and examined the concept of Islamisation. In all likelihood though, this would have necessitated a two-part documentary. Dispatches has produced a number of excellent documentaries on Islamist extremism in the past, but this one did not quite live up to those high standards. As such, it was something of a curate's egg.
On Thursday evening Channel 4 will be screening a documentary entitled 'Make Bradford British'. It used to be, but it is no longer. Rather like buses, it would seem that documentaries dealing with the problems posed by Islamisation (although not explicitly framed that way) come in threes, for in the past ten days we will have had two documentaries on Luton and one on Bradford. Does this tell us something significant about the public mood and the preoccupations of the mass media, or is it just coincidence?
Labels: EDL, Luton, Muslims Against Crusades, Sayful Islam, Stephen Lennon, Tommy Robinson
Beyond the Fringe: building a credible nationalist Politics (Part I)
This article and a subsequent piece will endeavour to provide an outline of the reasons for the failure of nationalist politics in contemporary Britain, more specifically, in England, and suggest a means of breaking out of this impasse. In this initial instalment, the focus will be upon the weaknesses of the BNP and other aspirant nationalist parties, teasing out those factors that inhibit them from exerting popular electoral appeal. The second piece, to follow within the next week or so, will forward a concrete proposal for creating a popular credible nationalist politics in our country, outlining the policies and tactics required to realise the as yet largely untapped potential of nationalism.
The old Westminster parties are discredited, mistrusted and unpopular, offering voters nothing more than variations upon the same set of failed policies; our economy is in protracted and serious decline; our national independence is being hollowed out by the growing strength of transnational political and economic institutions and predatory transnational capitalism. Mass immigration continues apace, and the material and cultural fissures in our society grow ever wider. Against this backdrop, surveys reveal that nationalist policies are popular, but nationalist parties are not.
The time would thus appear ripe for nationalist politics to make a breakthrough, and yet nationalism in our country lies fractured and weak, beset with internal feuding and held back by excessive egotism. A myriad of small parties and groupuscules each pronounce their own way forward, and whilst the BNP continues its long and painful death under Nick Griffin, almost all bar the BNP remain unknown and invisible to the public at large; a near-eccentric irrelevance. In this context, it is understandable that a concept such as the Centre for Democratic Nationalism (CDN) should have arisen. However, from the perspective of the author, the CDN has made a strategic error, for it is clear from what has occurred thus far that it runs the risk of becoming a forum for the concerns of the small parties of the nationalist fringe, rather than serving as an incubator for a coherent and credible nationalist programme. Moreover, it needs to foster not an alliance of the obscure and the unknown, but the development of a professional and publicly palatable party. It is the contention of the author that no political breakthrough can be secured by pandering to the preoccupations of those on the margins, but that instead, nationalists should address themselves to the central concerns of the general public, and fashion their policies and strategies accordingly.
The Failure of the BNP
A few years ago, the BNP looked as if it held out the promise of breaking into the mainstream of British politics and becoming a credible nationalist party. This is certainly what its opponents feared. Looking back, 2009 marked its high watermark, with its first MEPs being elected in the June of that year, and party membership reputedly peaking at some 14,000. At that time, it possessed an opportunity of cultivating for itself not only a better public image, but also a strong base of public support. It could have, had it chosen the right tack, transformed itself into a significant political force with the potential for real mass growth and appeal. History however, was to determine otherwise.
Despite the protestations of its Chairman – Nick Griffin – and his apologists, the subsequent collapse in the BNP's fortunes was not primarily due to concerted media and political opposition, but to problems within the party itself. These included a lack of internal party democracy; bad strategic decisions; the adoption of a number of outlandish policies peripheral to nationalist concerns, and the presence of some equally outlandish individuals with an inexplicable fetish for German National Socialism. This latter fact provided opponents of the BNP a very large stick with which to beat the party and its members repeatedly. Nick Griffin's own failure to distance the BNP from Holocaust denial and his attempt to defend David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan on the BBC's Question Time were both gratuitously unnecessary and disastrous for the image of the party. Then there were the avoidable and expensive court cases brought by Marmite and the EHRC, together with the repeated failure to submit party accounts on time, leading to the BNP's contemporary indebtedness to the tune of somewhere between £850,000 and £1,000,000.
As a direct consequence of the excessive concentration of power in Griffin's hands, the party was (and still is) bedevilled by clientelism, with promotion to the higher reaches of the party predicated more upon a slavish devotion to the person of the Chairman, than upon talent. The consequence of such a system has been that talent has not been recognised and utilised to best effect to forward party fortunes. Instead, mediocrities and oddballs have often been promoted to Griffin's inner circle, Griffin himself seemingly being mistrustful and fearful of building a capable, talented and dedicated team of nationalists. Indeed, the situation is now such that a non-party member – Patrick Harrington – wields an undue degree of influence. Quite clearly, as pointed out by Andrew Brons and many others, Griffin has no intent of going anywhere. Providing that he can make a living out of his chairmanship of the party, it matters not to him whether it prospers electorally or otherwise.
A New Party
Having ascertained that neither Griffin nor Harrington are interested in necessarily either promoting the growth of the BNP or its electoral viability, it is clear that there is no point in simply waiting for Griffin to leave of his own volition. We do not have the luxury of time. Although Andrew Brons has forwarded a credible case against the formation of yet another nationalist party, it is the view of the author that this is in fact precisely what is required, whether or not our venerable MEP for Yorkshire and Humber would wish to assume the mantle of leadership himself. One thing however is clear: it would stand a much greater chance of success were he to provide it with his blessing. There are many good and dedicated nationalists who remain within the BNP or its penumbra, whose skills and enthusiasm should be put to positive and productive use in forwarding our cause. Without a practical goal to work towards, the risk is that they will leave nationalist politics altogether, or select a party that is not a good fit for their beliefs and principles. Besides these people, there are also those who have joined other parties who could be tempted back were a suitable vehicle to emerge.
Before proceeding further, it would be apposite to provide a straightforward definition of our cause. It is this: to gain recognition of the existence of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles, and in accordance with such recognition, to assert our right to national self-determination as set out in the UN Charter. Sovereignty inheres not within the person of the monarch or in parliament, but in the body of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles themselves, whether they should so choose to define themselves collectively as British, or separately as English, Scots, Welsh and Irish. Our purpose is to defend and forward the interests of our people, with a view to securing their social, political and economic well-being.
To join a new party it should only be necessary for the prospective member to pledge to forward the cause of establishing recognition of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles, and their right to political self-determination. This would constitute the sine qua non for admission. As such, the party should be open to all citizens of the United Kingdom irrespective of their background. Upon this one principle, all nationalist politics are predicated. Irrespective of differences in other spheres of policy, this is the one principle around which all nationalists can surely unite.
There has been much discussion concerning the toxicity or otherwise of the BNP brand. Certainly, Nick Griffin is as politically toxic as a politician can be, and under his leadership the BNP will never be anything other than a pariah party that people lend their vote to as a protest, holding their noses whilst they do so. As he will not relinquish control of the party, there is no alternative but to form another. The question therefore as to whether or not the BNP brand is permanently tarnished is not a relevant one. It is at this point, that many readers will cry "but what of other existing parties?! Might not they provide us with the vehicle that we require?" My answer to this is a categorical "no".
Recently, the leadership of the Brent Group announced its decampment to the British Freedom Party, and others, as Brons has enumerated, have left at various times over the past 18 months to join the English Democrats and the National Front. Some have also managed to gain membership of UKIP, despite a formal ban on ex-BNP members, and others have joined smaller parties that realistically nobody outside of nationalist politics or those who closely observe it, such as its fervent opponents and a few academic specialists, has ever heard of. Moreover, the micro-parties on the fringe of the fringe would not attract public support if they were to be known, for after all, how much genuine appeal would a party that displays an SS Death's Head on its homepage exert? Does an answer really need to be provided to that question? If it does, the proposal that will be outlined in the article subsequent to this one will not be to your liking, and it would be better for all concerned if you were to remain pursuing your current specialist personal interests at a far remove from the political fray.
The Weaknesses of existing Parties
Returning to the question of why none of the existing parties constitute suitable vehicles for our purpose, the reasons are numerous, yet each of the candidate parties possesses a distinctive weakness rooted in its core ideology which means that it will either never reach out beyond a certain level of support to gain electoral success at Westminster, or contains values at variance with our core principle: the recognition of the right of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles to political self-determination.
UKIP is the largest of the parties popularly perceived as to some extent possessing a nationalist, or at least patriotic, orientation. However, it proves to be unsuitable for our cause for many reasons. Ideologically it is nothing more nor less than a breakaway Thatcherite Atlanticist wing of the Conservative Party, and as such, can at best be considered a civic nationalist party; it is a class-based party that looks to the interests of transnational capital with a North American colouration. As such, its model of economic development is literally bankrupt. Furthermore, it does not recognise the concept of indigenous British peoples; its activist base is weak; its membership is highly aged; it is dominated by the person of its Chairman Nigel Farage; its MEPs do not serve the national interest when they have the opportunity to do so, and as mentioned earlier, ex-BNP members are banned. Most importantly, the general public see UKIP as a single-issue party standing for departure from the European Union, and thus do not consider voting UKIP other than in EU elections.
The English Democrats could to a certain extent be characterised as a little Englander version of UKIP, but with a more rounded economic policy and drawing a clear distinction between "the English" (ethnic) and "the people of England" (civic). Despite possessing a degree of public recognition in a handful of locations across the country – such as Doncaster where the Mayor is an English Democrat – they remain generally unknown, and their membership is small. Although some well-known former BNP members such as Eddy Butler and Chris Beverley have joined, the EDs have not experienced significant growth over the past year. The party appears to be treading water, and those voters who have heard of them tend to associate it with a single issue: an English parliament and a solution to the West Lothian Question. This is predictable enough, given that this is what Robin Tilbrook and most EDs seem to be most passionate about and to concentrate upon.
The British Freedom Party experienced a painful birth that led to the creation of a smaller entity without an ideological raison d'être named the Freedom Democrats. Nonetheless, the BFP attempted to formulate its own nationalist response to contemporary demographic realities through forwarding the concept of cultural nationalism, which in essence could be described as a form of beefed-up civic nationalism. Many of its other policies, good, and in some instances bad, were directly carried across from the BNP. As such, it did look as if it possessed some potential for growth and popular appeal. However, for a number of reasons this did not occur.
After almost a year in existence, BFP meetings with figures in the counter-jihad movement led to its relaunch under the chairmanship of Paul Weston last November, with caretaker leader Peter Mullins standing down. This shift however seems to have created an even greater ideological muddle, with the BFP issuing a seemingly random melange of 'policies' in its 20 Point Programme, a number of which were mutually incompatible. In addition, this 'programme' appeared to be an unnatural graft onto underlying BFP policies, and must therefore be assumed to have sprung from the imagination of the new Chairman. Owing to Weston's personal preoccupation with Islamism and Islamisation, the BFP has fallen into the trap of fixating upon Islam, with little attention being paid to other policy issues. Whilst this focus has lent itself to a natural yet awkward tactical tie-up with the EDL, such a narrow focus will not yield general electoral success.
Weston too has acknowledged that his new model BFP is essentially "UKIP but we will talk about Islam". That, primarily, is why Weston left UKIP: other than Lord Pearson it did not take a clear position against Islamisation. Were it to do so, my opinion is that Weston would fold the BFP tomorrow and return to UKIP. If the Tories were to ever become anti-Islamisation and pro-EU withdrawal, he would in an instant join the Conservative Party. The BFP is thus driving itself into a cul-de-sac. There remains room for party growth, but ultimately it will stall and fail, stunted by its narrow vision. It does not represent the way forward for nationalism, for although the concerns of the counter-jihad movement and nationalism overlap to a certain extent, they each represent a distinct position. The BFP is at risk of becoming a small British Neocon party.
The BFP, if people have heard of it, has thus come to be thought of as "the anti-Islam party", just as UKIP is known as the "anti-EU party" and the EDs "the English parliament party". All three overly fixate upon a single issue which hamstrings their electoral prospects. As for the National Front, its brand is more toxic than that of the BNP, and in public perception is simply known as "the racist party", thus signifying electoral suicide. Any further discussion of the NF is superfluous.
Having thus surveyed the field of existing contenders for the nationalist vote in Britain and England, it is time to draw this piece to a close. The true conclusion to this article will be provided in the next two instalments, in which the focus will shift to providing a positive proposal that it is hoped readers will find both appealing and practicable. Part II will deal with policy, whereas Part III will deal with practical matters relating to strategy, tactics and tone. After a period of dispiriting setbacks, there is a basis for cautious optimism grounded in a realistic analysis of the challenges that we face. Success yet lies within reach.
Labels: Andrew Brons, BFP, BNP, British Nationalism, Centre for Democratic Nationalism, English Democrats, English Nationalism, National Front, Nick Griffin, Nigel Farage, Paul Weston, Robin Tilbrook, UKIP
Malign Gnomes spotted in Hyde
Whilst the EDL held their protest in Hyde yesterday, creatures resembling bad-tempered overgrown garden gnomes were spotted brandishing posters juxtaposing images of Anders Breivik and Tommy Robinson. It is possible that they had mistaken Robinson for a mass murderer from Norway because UAF told them that the two men were essentially the same and, of course, they're both white and thus easily confused. We do all look the same you know. If it weren't for the redbrick buildings in the photograph below, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were looking at a picture taken in Lahore, but this was not the case, despite the fact that the men depicted do believe that they live in a territorial extension of Bangladesh, or possibly Pakistan.
A handful of UAF activists turned up yesterday to distribute misleading propaganda to Muslims in Hyde before promptly departing. Their presence after all, was not required, for it is stated that some 800 "local people" (i.e. ex-residents of the Indian subcontinent and their descendents, so perhaps "local" is not the most appropriate of terms) "turned out to protect the local mosque in Hyde". Protect it from what? The EDL don't target mosques and had no intention of going near it, so were not UAF activists guilty of creating an unwarranted climate of fear amongst the Muslim residents of Hyde?
Meanwhile, in London UAF held their annual conference to fulminate against the "fascists" of the EDL and BFP. It was such a dull affair that one of their delegates was moved to write:
So bored was I during some of the eight speakers who addressed us for almost two hours in the opening plenary that I counted the number of people in the hall several times. Including people outside and in the balcony it came to about 250 on a generous count, so let's say 350 during the day – smaller than previous years and remarkably few for the conference of a campaign backed handsomely by all the major unions. (According to NUT Deputy General Secretary Kevin Courtney, the NUT alone gave UAF £55,000 this year!) Of these perhaps twenty were members of Socialist Action and a hundred members of the SWP - the two left groups which in reality dominate the leadership of the campaign.
How very revealing. For all of its funding, official backing and media opportunities, UAF even bores its own delegates and appears to be losing momentum. The above report also provides confirmation of the SWP's hold over UAF. Perhaps someone should notify Chris Grayling?
Returning to matters of a more positive nature, take a look at the two following speeches made by EDL supporters yesterday. The first, from a local lad named Jamie, and the second from Tony Curtis (naturally, not his deceased namesake).
Labels: EDL Hyde Demo, Hyde, Islamisation, UAF
EDL's Kevin Carroll: Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent
Below is a video of Kevin Carroll's speech at yesterday's EDL Hyde Demo. As with Tommy Robinson's address, its content has not been reported by the media. Angry and impassioned, Carroll opens his speech by holding aloft a card displaying two pictures of Daniel Stringer-Prince: one of him before the attack, and one after: "there is, there lies, your religion of peace!"
Carroll singles out politicians and senior members of the police hierarchy as targets for his ire, accusing them of aiding the Islamification of the country. He demanded that the media start reporting Muslim "racist crimes" against white British citizens and stated that Christianity and Islam simply do not mix. Given the problems that we already have arising from having a Muslim population at only 3-4% of the total, he stated, "When we get to 10%, it'll be too late." Clearly, he wishes to put a break upon any further growth in the Muslim population. The first section of his speech is transcribed below, followed by a selection of quotes from later in the video.
"That was his crime, walking down a British, an English street, minding his own business to get some sweets. And that is how he ends up. Now that is outrageous. Now, if that was a Muslim 17-year-old lad, I tell you now I reckon the streets of Manchester would be burning. Right? Because there is your religion of peace. That would not be tolerated and the politicians would be queuing up, queuing up fighting each other to stand to the forefront to make press releases condemning this vile racist attack. But where are you?! Where are all the politicians?! Nowhere! Because I tell you why, if you're the same colour as him, non-Muslim, it doesn't matter. It does not matter! Meaning nothing because there's no backlash from the non-Muslim community, because we are just quiet, no one complains, no one kicks off."
"Fair play to them lads and done what they done the other day [in Rochdale] because if the politicians, if the politicians and the police hierarchy, not the boys and girls on the ground because the boys and girls on the ground do a fantastic job and we support them fully, but the police hierarchy, they're just puppets themselves and they do Number 10's bidding. But if they and the politicians are not going to protect our children and our women from being raped, drugged, pimped and made to look like this when they go out the house to get some sweets, then we'll have to protect them! We will have to do it! We will have to take to the streets!"
"So the politicians, the police hierarchy, yellow cowards all of them! Pandering to Islam, they are aiding and abetting and facilitating the Islamification of this great country."
"If you're not going to protect them [our women and children], then it leaves us no choice!"
"We're not racist. We're not violent. We're just no longer silent."
Labels: EDL, EDL Hyde Demo, Kevin Carroll
Video of Tommy Robinson's Hyde Speech
In his speech at today's EDL demo in Hyde, Stephen Lennon (Tommy Robinson) laid out his thoughts on the widespread phenomenon of Muslim paedophile gangs and how the time has come to tackle them if the authorities continue to tread carefully for fear of the race card being played. Unsurprisingly, the content of the speech has not been publicised by the mainstream press or electronic media, as has proven to be the case with respect to that of the speech made by Kevin Carroll. The following quotes provide a flavour of its tenor.
"We are entering a new era. An era of counter-jihad. That's what's happening."
"What happened to this boy, and what's happening across this country is the religious persecution of non-Muslims across."
"The reason for the attack, the reason for all the hostility, is because they are non-Muslim. It's not racial it's religious."
"If you look at what is happening in our country, especially with these Muslim paedophile gangs, it is like an invading ideology; an invading ideology that's come to our country and started raping our women and nobody is doing nothing. That's how it seems."
"For thirty years there has been a conspiracy of silence from police leaders to religious leaders to facilitate the rape of our kids in every single town and city that has a Muslim community. And that's what's happening."
"What happened in Rochdale is inevitable."
Labels: EDL, EDL Hyde Demo, Hyde, Islamisation, Muslim Paedophilia, Stephen Lennon, Tommy Robinson
EDL Hyde Demo Coverage
News, including videos (at the end of the article), of today's EDL demo in Hyde will be posted as it becomes available, so check for updates throughout the day.
The police have promised a "robust" approach following unrest in Rochdale earlier this week, so hopefully all will pass off peacefully. The number of police officers involved is said to be in the hundreds, but precise numbers will not be made public until the operation is over. Although the demo is being organised by the EDL (for background to its origins please click here), a number of other similar groups are intending to send contingents to participate, thus Roxanne of Casuals United writes:
Today sees [the] EDL and various other patriotic groups travelling from all areas of the country to demonstrate in Hyde. Today's demo is aimed at highlighting various incidents in the last few weeks across the North West, where a spate of White British people have been injured in racially provoked attacks. We want the CPS and the police to sit up and recognise these crimes as Racially motivated and deal with them accordingly. Don't call them "hate" crimes, if it where the other way around, they would be called "RACIAL".
According to comments posted on the Stockport County Supporters Messageboard, a number of local businesses had boarded up their windows and doors in anticipation of trouble. Although the police had assured market traders that the EDL march would not be going anywhere near their part of the town centre, the latter fear that trade will be badly hit today.
Many EDL supporters are using Hyde Central Station as a muster point between 12.00 and 12.45pm, and will depart from there at 1.00pm for the demo site on Clarendon Street. Another report posted on Facebook at about 11:45am stated that the EDL had been informed that rather than being permitted to march through Hyde, they would instead be "kettled" in a car park. Verification of this has yet to be forthcoming from other sources.
The Hope Not Hate blog notes that Nick Griffin's attempt to tag onto the EDL demo does not appear to have been very successful, drawing in their estimate only some 50 BNP supporters. As of 12:50, Nick Griffin was reported as speaking outside of the Town Hall. Given that he has in the past made the EDL a proscribed organisation for BNP members, this is an act of blatant and very cynical opportunism. Just how many if any self-styled 'antifascists' will be present to counterprotest today is not clear, but many UAF activists will be attending their annual conference in London, where they are concentrating on planning how to portray the EDL and the British Freedom Party as the new "fascist threat" in the year ahead, now not the rump BNP has been reduced to near irrelevance. They do, after all, need some pretext to justify their continued existence.
EDL in Hyde (picture by Kim of the Hydonian blog)
BNP attempting to capitalise upon EDL Protest
According to Roxanne of Casuals United, about 400 protestors are expected today, and reports had been received that police had demanded that "all EDL and patriotic flags on trains be removed." Whether or not this means that such flags were confiscated, is unclear. The Hydonian blog claimed that as of 12:25pm "Asians" were also gathering, as well as EDL and BNP. At 1.30pm the police began to escort EDL demonstrators from their assembly area to the demonstration site. If true, the following report from the Casuals United blog posted at 1.21pm is alarming:
News has just come in that there are app 3000 members of the Muslim community congregating outside the local mosque in Hyde and approximately 200 of these people have tried to brake through police lines to charge the BNP demo. The BNP site suggests that police have instructed them to move and take down British flags which are enraging the Muslim community, but they have refused to do so and will not be moved despite police threatening physical interjection.
Elsewhere, reports that British White citizens are lining the streets of Hyde to celebrate and cheer the arrival of the EDL. Unconfirmed reports suggest that police are turning away some EDL coaches, and the North East coaches (4 of) are currently delayed and will be arriving late.
Police and EDL stewards are currently in-situ anticipating the arrival of demonstrators.
Corroboration of the above has not been forthcoming from other sources, but a tweet from the Greater Manchester Police made it clear that Hyde Mosque was surrounded by police vans, only a few hundred metres from the EDL demonstration. According to the Hydonian blog, there were reports of "fighting" at 1.35pm, but who was fighting whom was not specified.
A post on the EDL forum stated that by 1.55pm "up to 2,000 EDL" had arrived "with lots more incoming. Locals are cheering and applauding the EDL march." The question of estimating numbers is always a tricky business, but this figure is way in excess of that anticipated by Casuals United. A BBC news report issued at 2.28pm claimed that the EDL demonstration had drawn approximately 600 supporters, with the police stating that all had been peaceful so far, with no arrests being made. An independent source who participated in the demo estimates the figure as having been well in excess of a thousand, and confirms that reports of a supportive reception from amongst locals are true (thanks to Cygnus for relaying this information).
A little after 2.30pm the Greater Manchester Police reported that the demonstration was drawing to a close and that EDL supporters were being escorted back to their coaches. By 3.30pm, almost all had left. This therefore proved to be a very short protest, but speeches were made by Stephen Lennon (Tommy Robinson) and Kevin Carroll. The EDL stewards are to be congratulated for ensuring that the demonstration passed off in a peaceful manner as confirmed by the Greater Manchester Police in the following statement:
There was only minimal trouble at any point during the day and for most of Hyde, it was just a case of business as usual. And although 11 protestors from the EDL group were arrested for minor public order offences or being drunk and disorderly, the vast majority were well-behaved and compliant with police.
The first of the videos below gives a clear impression as to the size of the protest in Hyde today, which looks reasonably healthy compared to some other recent EDL protests. Video number two is of a Granada News report, which notes that there were 11 arrests this afternoon for minor offences. A video of Tommy Robinson's speech can be accessed by clicking here, and of Kevin Carroll's here.
Newcastle EDL bound for Hyde
Labels: EDL, EDL Hyde Demo
Unease in Rochdale: Riot or Legitimate Protest?
Last night, a legitimate protest connected to the trial of 11 Muslims charged with paedophile grooming and related offences was unfortunately infiltrated by a small number of troublemakers who attacked a local takeaway – Tasty Bites – on Market Street in Heywood. The takeaway had previously been in the hands of some of the accused, but is now said to be under new management. Its windows were broken, and a policeman was pelted with bricks and other missiles by a handful of the protesters, who are estimated variously as numbering 100-200. Three police cars and another car were also damaged. A 35-year-old man and 14-year-old boy were detained by police in connection with various offences committed that evening. Tonight, the police are taking precautions should there be a repeat of last night's disorder.
Justly, the police have emphasised that the majority of those who turned out to express their disquiet were not involved in the violence. The initial group of 80 later swelled as it was joined by local "youths", and it was after this that the trouble started.
The police have attempted to turn this into a 'race' issue when in fact it is clearly a religio-cultural one, rooted firmly in the 'exemplary' Prophet Mohammed's taste for paedophilia as demonstrated by his marriage to Aisha. Thankfully, I know that not all Muslims condone paedophilia, for their innate decency causes them to be repelled by it; but those of a paedophile inclination from a Muslim cultural background feel fully justified in their predatory sexual acts precisely because of the actions of Mohammed, whom they deem to be beyond criticism; they do after all, believe him to be the perfect man. Such a belief is what legitimises and normalises paedophilia, particularly when practised with children from non-Muslim – in this instance English – backgrounds. It is frustrating to have to keep reiterating this basic fact, but it does not seem to penetrate the logic-resistant minds of the defenders of Islamic doctrine and practice, both Muslim and non-Muslim alike. This sort of attitude is one of the unfortunate consequences of "diversity training". People's minds need to be purged of such false beliefs so that they may think openly, critically and logically once again.
The eleven men standing trial in Liverpool have yet to be sentenced, so we should not prejudice its outcome. However, if they are to be convicted, this will be yet another instance in a long line of such cases involving Muslim men targeting underage English girls and sexually exploiting them, in accordance, as it seems necessary to underscore once again, with the 'inspirational' example of their Prophet Mohammed.
Tomorrow the EDL will march in Hyde to protest against a vicious Muslim pack attack on Daniel Stringer-Prince and his friend Kavan Brown. This march and last night's protest were not, as the police and opponents are claiming, an attempt by 'racist' groups to capitalise upon these incidents for their own ends, but an expression of frustration over the refusal of politicians, the police and the mass media to tackle the serious issues of Muslim paedophile grooming and pack attacks, which both target English non-Muslims. These are real phenomena that need to be publicly acknowledged and tackled, instead of being ignored and swept under the carpet for the sake of so-called "community cohesion". What sort of cohesion is there, when criminal elements within the Muslim population feel that they can prey upon the English in the knowledge that politicians and the police will often turn a blind eye? This is why the EDL, Casuals United and a number of other groups sprang into existence, not because of some desire to 'scapegoat minorities' in a time of recession, as some ignorant commentators have claimed.
The EDL, Casuals United and kindred groups have the right to protest about issues that they deem to be unjustly hidden from public view, but nobody has the right of course to attack innocent individuals, businesses or the police. It was therefore unjustifiable for anyone to have attacked the takeaway in question last night, causing unwarranted fear, distress and loss of business to its proprietor and staff.
Worryingly, the police have become increasingly politicised in recent years, and this was reflected in a statement by GMP Superintendent Chris Hankinson who stated at a press conference on events in Rochdale that:
'Those that seek to use what's going on at the moment in Liverpool to further their racist agenda will be dealt with robustly'.
'People feel they can sit behind their curtains on a computer and start putting emotive language and claims on Facebook that can result in people gathering for what would appear to be legitimate reasons but can sometimes be hijacked,' he said.
'The message from me to those people is: think about what you are putting and what that reaction may well cause if you put something inflammatory on it.
'We are, as a police service, monitoring all the sites. Where we see things that are inflammatory or trying to incite or corral people for criminal activity, we will act.'
Who determines what is "inflammatory"? After all, it must be borne in mind that simply to criticise Islam is deemed "inflammatory" by the majority of people who call themselves Muslims. I consider Islam itself to be "inflammatory", so by such logic, should not all those who profess Islam be monitored? Whose sense of offence trumps the other's?
With such a serious issue as Mohammedan paedophile grooming wrecking the lives of hundreds of English girls, why is it that our Prime Minister David Cameron should instead choose to spend his time hosting a football anti-racism summit, rather than tackling the former issue? Certainly, it is unpleasant for anyone to be personally insulted through being the object of verbal abuse of whatever kind, but are the sensitivities of multimillionaire footballers really more important than the lives of young teenage girls, their happiness and well-being seemingly expendable simply because of their class and their English ethnicity? Is the safety of these girls to be deemed less worthy than the cause of "community cohesion" (i.e. winning the Muslim bloc vote)? Is the self-respect of a professional footballer really worth more than the life of Danny O'Shea or the broken bones of Daniel Stringer-Prince? The Prime Minister, for whatever reason, lacks both a sense of proportion and perspective. Will he ever comprehend the lives of ordinary English people who live outside of his cosseted Westminster world of privilege?
Riot Vans in Heywood
Labels: David Cameron, Heywood, Islamisation, Muslim Paedophilia, Rochdale
Preview: 'Proud and Prejudiced', Channel 4 Dispatches
Channel 4 has uploaded a taster of Monday evening's documentary on "extremism" in Luton (see video at the foot of this article), in which Dispatches spent a year investigating and filming the activities, personalities and views of the town's militant Islamists, such as Sayful Islam, and their opponents in the EDL led by Stephen Lennon (Tommy Robinson). The documentary is said to feature footage in which Islam punched Lennon in the face as he unwound his car window to speak to him.
The clip itself opens with a shot of a meeting of the local council's committee on promoting cohesion in the town, swiftly followed by comments from Sarah Allen, Luton's Cohesion Officer:
"We're in a time of recession. We know that in a recession, those sorts of ideas – scapegoating, racism can increase."
In this statement, Allen displays the characteristic non-thinking 'analysis' trotted out by anyone on the Left who is either unwilling or unable to grant any sort of autonomy to cultural phenomena. The EDL did not arise as a response to a downturn in the economy, and it has not sought to scapegoat Muslims for our economic plight. It arose because of a specific problem with Islamism within our shores – the desire of a section of the UK passport-holding Muslim population to Islamise our society, and to live by the norms and social practices of their ancestral familial homelands. The phenomenon of Muslim paedophile grooming – of which the current trial in Liverpool provides but the latest example – is part of this unbidden and unwelcome imported cultural assemblage.
Allen remarked of the emergence of the EDL:
"I think it just happened and it struck a chord, and that is not to be denied or to be ignored; but I don't think it is because of something to do with this town."
She is correct in thinking that the rise of the EDL is not specific to Luton, for the problems suffered by this town as a by-product of its Islamisation are painfully familiar to English residents of other towns and cities such as Rochdale, Keighley, Bradford, Derby, Blackpool, Rotherham, Dewsbury and Sheffield. The first five in the list have all have borne witness to ugly and significant cases of Muslim paedophile grooming of white English girls. This however, is not something that Allen is aware of, or seems to wish to be aware of. Those who support the EDL, Casuals United and various other nationalist groups and parties are painfully aware of the existence of this criminal problem. Muslim paedophile grooming has nothing to do with recession, and everything to do with the example of the 53-year-old paedophile Prophet Mohammed and the consummation of his marriage to his six-year-old bride Aisha at the age of nine.
Commenting on "Luton in Harmony" Allen stated that it:
"is not a political campaign. It is a media, if you like, a branding concept. Our intention is to undermine those hateful messages and to promote the unity that we know exists in our town."
Well, a true "Luton in Harmony" could exist if those troublesome elements that insist upon wishing to live their lives by Shariah were to be deported to their ancestral familial homelands where they could indeed do so. Unless that happens, there will be no harmony in Luton or anywhere else in England where Islamist fanatics agitate for our downfall and the imposition of Islamic law and governance.
The programme's executive producer Paul Woolwich told Luton Today:
"Both men [Stephen Lennon and Sayful Islam] have valid comments to make, and it's a debate that at some stage will need to be had".
"We have to try and find ways of engaging with what they are saying."
As predicted, it would thus seem that this latest documentary in Channel 4's Dispatches series, that has produced some excellent exposés over the years, has chosen to portray the EDL and Islamists as being of the same ilk, with a "plague on both their houses" attitude. Channel 4's intent seems to be to denounce both parties with a view to propping up an increasingly creaky and worm-eaten concept to which it is ideologically wedded: multiculturalism. Multiculturalism has had its day. It has failed. That, rather than any editorial voiceover, will be the real message of Monday's episode of Dispatches. A full review of the programme can be read by clicking here.
Labels: Channel 4, Dispatches, EDL, Islamism, Luton, Sayful Islam, Stephen Lennon, Tommy Robinson
Bardot for Le Pen
Brigitte Bardot, scourge of Islamisation and halal slaughter, has penned a note in endorsement of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, published today in the French regional paper Nice-Matin. In it, she appeals for more local officials to lend their signatures to Le Pen's nomination papers, for the latter is still short of the 500 required to stand. With only a few weeks to go until the 16th March deadline, there are some 60 signatures to be gathered.
Bardot in her Prime
Bardot herself is of course no stranger to controversy, having been fined on a number of occasions for 'inciting racial and religious hatred', but she has stood by her beliefs. Who after all can disagree with her statement in her 1999 "Open Letter to My Lost France" that "my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims" or her condemnation of the Islamisation of France in her 2003 book Un cri dans le silence:
Over the last twenty years, we have given in to a subterranean, dangerous, and uncontrolled infiltration, which not only resists adjusting to our laws and customs but which will, as the years pass, attempt to impose its own.
Bravo for Brigitte! Let's hope that her letter helps Marine to enter the electoral fray not only for the first round of presidential elections on 22nd April, but the second on 6th May. For more on Marine Le Pen and her presidential campaign, as well as opposition to the Front National in France, click here.
Bardot's Letter
Labels: Anti-halal Campaign, Brigitte Bardot, France, Front National, Islamisation, Marine Le Pen
Dispatches: the EDL and Sayful Islam
On Monday 27th February at 10pm, Channel 4 Dispatches will be screening a documentary on the EDL and Sayful Islam. As is to be expected, its billing reveals that its approach is not to be without a certain bias, for it has already been trailed as featuring two sets of "extremists": the EDL and Sayful Islam's Islamists. The mandatory NUJ tag of "far-right" was also appended to the EDL, so although we may expect something rather more thoughtful and considered than Stacey Dooley's primary school style 'report' on current divisions in Luton, we can be reasonably sure that a negative conclusion with respect to the EDL had been reached long before the first camera had started shooting. Then again, perhaps I shall be proven wrong, but I doubt it.
The documentary is said to have been a year in the making, so irrespective of its tone and political slant, it will be worth viewing if only to discover which tack the EDL's opponents will be taking on this occasion. On a day when the media, particularly the BBC, are refusing to use the M-word (Muslim) in connection with the 11 men from Rochdale standing trial in Liverpool for grooming and sexual exploitation, and instead slurring "Asians" en masse for this phenomenon, it would seem that the existence of the EDL is as much needed today, if not more so, than when it was established in 2009. Click here for a video preview of the programme.
Labels: Dispatches, EDL, Islamisation, Islamism, Sayful Islam
'My Hometown Fanatics' on BBC3
Stacey Dooley the documentary maker was, to put it bluntly, irritating. "Why's my hometown becoming so divided?" she chirped at the programme's outset. Perhaps I am being a little unfair in my evaluation of Dooley, so let me flesh out her character a little more, for she is more than just irritating: she is also ignorant, naïve and deferential towards Muslims and Islam. She appears to be one of those people who is so open-minded that her brains fall out, as Richard Dawkins might put it; someone ripe for conversion to Islam. Then again, this young woman is the product of a politically correct education system, so her lack of awareness vis-à-vis the fundamentals of Islam can be comprehended, if not forgiven. In sum, she's as dense as a pig of lead, and thus perfect for presenting a piece celebrating Luton's "diversity" on BBC3.
The first person she stated she wished to interview was EDL leader Stephen Lennon, whom, it transpired, she had vaguely known years before as the two of them had grown up in the same area of town. Upon his non-arrival for an interview at a local radio station she gave vent to some disparaging remarks about him, whilst savouring the opportunity to speak to the oleaginous Inayat Bunglawala who unfortunately proved to be on hand to extol the virtues of Islam. Dooley, Bunglawala and a local Muslim politician had something of a "love in", with the latter commenting with respect to the EDL: "They're not a nice bunch of people". Not as "nice" as all of those devout lovers of Shariah, needless to say.
Dooley next headed to Lennon's tanning salon, but sign of Lennon there was none. The reason for his absence and non-attendance at the radio station was, it transpired, that he had been arrested whilst protesting.
The next section of Dooley's attempt to legitimise the Islamic presence in Luton consisted of a potted and incomplete history of the Muslim settlement of the town, which she attributed to the demand for labour in the Vauxhall Cars factory which closed in 2000. The area in which they chose to settle, as every Lutonian knows, was Bury Park, which now hosts a population of 30,000 "Asians" who happen to be predominantly Muslim. Dooley commented that she had never shopped there and that "it's really interesting" as "you could easily mistake it for not being an English town". Her squeals of delight were difficult to suppress, as she revelled in revealing that there are now circa (not the word she chose to use) 30 mosques in Luton.
Dooley's next encounter was with a group of Lutonian Muslims, yelling the usual anti-British slogans and curses involving death, hell and sundry other unpleasantries. This was, apparently, a demonstration in "defence" of the wife of a Muslim resident who had bombed Stockholm. "I found their chanting provocative and extreme" said Dooley, enjoying the frisson occasioned by the slogan 'British police burn in hell!' All was not sweetness and light however, for even Dooley's dimwittedness gave way before some burka-clad harridan's injunction for the reporter to "put some clothes on" to cover up her nakedness: "I tried my hardest to sympathise with people who were different to me", stated Dooley, but her patience was momentarily wearing thin. "One of the saddest things, is that people have brought their kids along" she continued.
The next interviewee was to be Islamist windbag Anjem Choudhary, whose speech bore in its cadence a startling resemblance to that of Nick Griffin's: "If the law of the land is Islamic, we'll respect it" he enunciated, in his typically self-assured manner. Still, Dooley was undaunted in leaping to the defence of Luton's Islamic population: "Of the 30,000 Muslims living in Luton, there are less than a hundred at this rally." Furthermore, although she ventured to comment, "I do feel shocked at this protest," she was quick to emphasise her belief that it was not representative of the views of Muslims in Luton.
As was to be expected in a BBC 'documentary' of this type, the presenter paid a visit to her old school in an attempt to track down some of her old schoolmates. Strangely, she appeared to be unawares of the existence of the data protection act, so quite naturally her old teachers could not provide her with contact details of other ex-pupils. Sadly, one of them was an English girl who had converted to Islam, for which the school must be assumed to bear a considerable degree of culpability. In order to demonstrate her multicultural credentials, Dooley revealed that she had had a Muslim classmate named Amara, "what I would call a moderate Muslim." Well, she so wished to seek her out because, after all, "Sometimes, Islam gets a rough old time." How touchingly naïve of her to say so.
Unfortunately, Amara was duly tracked down, and when asked about the likes of Choudhary and Sayful Islam provided a typically slippery Muslim response which basically told us that she concurred with their views, but she'd prefer to deceive us on camera, describing them as "Not bad people, but people with different views." So, this self-styled "moderate Muslim" turned out to be just as "moderate" as one would anticipate.
Having thus 'established' that other than the hundred or so slogan-chanting bomb enthusiasts all of Lutons Muslims were "moderates" it was time to rubbish the EDL by describing them as "extremists": "Many believe they're a violent racist organisation that recruit from football terraces." Really? And what do you believe Dooley? There wasn't much insinuation at play there, was there?
Next on the list of interviewees was leading EDL spokesman Kev Carroll: "I'm not aggressive, I'm just passionate, you know?" He singles out the "Islamic community" as alone amongst immigrant groups to who have not made any effort to integrate, unlike Sikhs, Chinese and blacks. Dooley though clearly thought that he was "extreme", most likely because he didn't have a holy book to back up his beliefs. If you have a holy back upon which to base your bigotry, then for Dooley this is entirely legitimate, as was evidenced by her total lack of awareness of the theory and reality of Shariah Law. After all, as Caroll indicated, the penalty for adultery is stoning. However, not to be dissuaded from trying to understand and empathise with the advocates of Shariah, Dooley spoke to a Shariah apologist who claimed that stoning was not really a punishment because there were supposed to be four witnesses to such a crime and there rarely were, so in practice people were not stoned for the crime. Did he believe with it in principle. Well, yes, as all Muslims want Shariah. Dooley proved to be blithely accepting of Omar's explanation and naturally designated him a "moderate". With such "moderates", who needs "extremists"?
Dooley continued: "The problem with Luton, is although the central mosque preaches peace, down the road it's a different story." Down the road she happened upon Sayful Islam, a former member of Al-Mahajiroun who last year assaulted Stephen Lennon/Tommy Robinson, but he would not condescend to speak to her, claiming that he was busy. Thus, Dooley decided to speak to two others of his ilk who refused to shake her hand. They claimed that women in the UK are "degraded" and "humiliated". They don't believe in democracy and secularism and predictably claimed that "Islam is the real solution". One implied that he supported Al-Qaeda, and eventually Dooley's even chirpy, sugary idiocy dissolved: "That makes me feel that we're always gonna have issues in Luton." She suspected that they, and their kind, "would encourage and applaud others" who carried out acts of terrorism. Yes Dooley, that is how it is. You are not very quick on the uptake, are you girl?
At the central mosque, interviewees claimed that the extremists were loudmouths who were "cowardly", because although they called for people to go and fight the Americans, they would not go themselves. "It saddens me that young vulnerable Lutonians are being groomed by the radicals" Dooley opined with respect to the malign influence of these Islamist poltroons.
Strangely, she described the call to prayer as a sign of "how diverse" Luton had become. How could this be "diverse", given that it is a supremacist expression of confident Muslim monoculturalism. She then insisted on smiling at a couple of niqab-clad droids. They were, unsurprisingly, a couple of hostile individuals, who wore this garb as a deliberate statement of their rejection of the host society and its cultural norms. Dooley even went so far as to don full Islamic dress, niqab included: "I do feel so different in this. I feel like people are staring a little bit." Someone told her to take her mask off: "Why do people think that they can dictate what you wear?"
At last, the final ten minutes of the programme finally brought the much-sought-for interview with Stephen Lennon, who claimed that the EDL had put Luton on the map for a positive reason: "I love Luton, and I want what's best for Luton." Dooley, as befitting her lack of morality engendered by her surrender to cultural relativism argued that Muslims should be able to live their lives by Shariah Law, in Luton: "I persuaded Stephen to walk through Luton with me." He stated that he had not walked through Luton with his wife and kids for two years, and mentioned that she did not agree with the EDL, neither did her parents. Nonetheless, Lennon remained steadfast in his belief in the EDL's cause for "Islam rules through fear and intimidation" and there was no way that he was going to let it silence him.
Dooley continued to be excruciating, defending the niqab and the burka, and insisted on speaking to a random Muslim on the street who stated that he wanted Shariah Law, yet she still considered him to be a "moderate". More "moderates", it would seem, were in the vicinity, for "Soon several young men were following us and I was beginning to feel on edge." Muslims closed in on Lennon, attempting to intimidate him through force of numbers.
This documentary left me feeling exasperated at Dooley's wilful ignorance and stupidity. The woman appears to be incapable of rational thought, preferring instead to emote and empathise, even with those who would treat her like trash. "Ignorance is what causes extremism", Dooley concluded. Now, although I do concur with this conclusion, I do not do so in a manner that she would find agreeable, for it is the ignorance displayed by politically correct cultural relativist dupes such as Dooley that allows "extremism" to flourish. The BBC, once again, has excelled itself in producing a piece of apologia for Islam's presence, entrenchment and growth in contemporary England.
Stacey Dooley: a bit dim, or an animatronic mannequin?
Labels: Anjem Choudary, EDL, Kevin Carroll, Luton, Sayful Islam, Stephen Lennon, Tommy Robinson
EDL Hyde Demo Video
Why are the EDL planning to demonstrate in Hyde on Saturday 25th February? To protest against the type of violence exemplified by the racist pack attack on Daniel Stringer. However, the BBC reports that Peter Fahy of the Greater Manchester Police is considering applying to the Home Office for a banning order because:
"We are concerned that there could be a threat to peace and order."
"The attack was an awful crime but I'm not sure we need outsiders coming in and clearly the fear is that they are just exploiting the situation."
These claims are categorically rebutted by the EDL in a statement on its website that reads:
"Our reason for demonstrating in Hyde is not to further divide communities or win support for racial politics.
"That is why we wish to make it abundantly clear that the British National Party, or any other group with a history of racial politics or racist ideas, will not be welcome at our demonstration.
"Our reason for demonstrating in Hyde is to protest about the government, the media and the Muslim community's continued inaction in the face of violent extremism and intolerance."
Unfortunately, the vicious attack on Daniel Stringer is far from being one of a kind, and only on Saturday night another incident in Greater Manchester – this time in Chadderton, Oldham – witnessed a 19-year-old white male attacked by three 'Asian' males. This violence, sadly, soon escalated as described below by Mancunian Matters:
The white male was reportedly assaulted and later returned with a crowd of approximately 45 from the pub. The mob were forced inside as a group of possibly around 30 Asian males threw bricks, bottles and missiles at the building, leaving windows smashed and surrounding cars severely damaged.
One member of the birthday party said: "I was having a cigarette outside before the mob attacked the pub. They smashed all the windows on one side, where children and parents were inside drinking.
"They brought bricks and other weapons. If the police hadn't been called, the clash would have been fatal."
The two gangs dispersed after police managed to control the disorder. Approximately 45 officers were required to dilute the situation, as several police dogs helped to separate the groups.
The trouble occurred in the Block Lane area, an area that has seen race-related crimes in the past.
A number of arrests were made by police, however the majority of the gang members were ordered to leave the area.
Oldham Police's Chief Inspector Rob Tinsley said: "I want to reassure the community that we have also launched a full CID investigation which look into the circumstances leading up to this incident and will seek to identify possible offenders."
A ban on the EDL march in Hyde would serve only to exacerbate the sense of anger amongst indigenous working-class people derived from a feeling that they are the victims of routine racism whilst, unjustly, being branded en masse as "racist thugs" whenever they wish to draw attention to this phenomenon. Such treatment of white working class people highlights an ugly societal dual standard, in which they are treated with more contempt and brutality than any other section of the population. Naturally, it is understandable that the police fear unrest could be a consequence of Saturday's march, yet this will not issue from amongst the EDL, but from the falsely named "antifascists" who routinely seek violent confrontation with EDL supporters. Let the EDL march. Their cause is just. Some day, let us hope they will no longer have cause to march. Up-to-date coverage of the march will be posted on Saturday: please click here to view.
Labels: Anti-white racism, Anti-white violence, EDL, Greater Manchester Police, Hyde
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Today Erin Konsmo of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network tells us about the effects of pollution on the reproductive health of First Nations communities. We've got a review of To the Last Drop, a film about the impact of the Athabasca tar sands on downstream communities. And to round things off we have excerpts of a talk by Lesbia Morales of the Campesino Committee of the Highlands on Mayan resistance to mining in Guatemala — mining which is done mainly by Canadian companies.
Residents of Fort Chipewyan and their supporters gather outside the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers' investors conference in 2008 to protest the impacts of the tar sands industry.
In our latest Green Screen Movie Review, we take a look at "To The Last Drop", a film that focuses on the impacts that the tar sands industry is having on the downstream community of Fort Chipewyan.
On Friday, June 1, Lesbia Morales spoke to a crowded room in the Stanley Milner Library in downtown Edmonton. Morales had traveled from Guatemala to speak about Mayan resistance to mining in Guatemala, mining which is done mainly by Canadian companies. Morales is the president of the CCDA or Campesino Committee of the Highlands, and she described a recent march that took over 1,500 people from the Northeast of Guatemala to the capital city, to share their demands with the president and the press. Morales described the impacts of mining to campesino and Indigenous people in Guatemala and the numerous projects and initiatives that the Campesino Committee of the Highlands engages in.
An oil spill caused by a ruptured pipeline was discovered by employees of another energy company while they were flying over the site. An estimated 22 000 barrels of a mixture of oil and water have been spilled into northern Alberta's muskeg. Some have estimated this to be the third largest oil spill in Canada's history. The cause of the pipeline rupture is still unknown. The spill comes just less than a year after the Rainbow pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline Ltd., spilled more that 28 000 barrels of oil in northern Alberta.
The reason for the decline and collapse of the Harappan civilization, one of the world's earliest and least known cultures, has been discovered. The Harappans spanned what is now Pakistan and were at their height about 4000 years ago. It was an urban society with large cities, a distinctive style of writing and extensive trade that reached as far as Mesopotamia. Unlike Egypt and Mesopotamia, however, the Harappans did not attempt to develop irrigation to support agriculture. Instead, they relied on the annual monsoons, which allowed the accumulation of large agricultural surpluses — which, in turn, allowed the creation of cities. The disappearance of this once great civilization has been a mystery, until now. Scientists have discovered that there was an eastward shift of annual monsoons around 3900 years ago, which citizens of the Harappan civilization followed. Their society collapsed, and people moved eastward, living instead in small farming communities, rather than large cities. Agricultural knowledge actually grew after this move, but the civilization's culture and writing system were forgotten.
Meet Raymond Wang, a fourteen year old from Vancouver. He's a finalist at this year's Google Science Fair. His eureka moment? Rain hitting his roof. Wang invented a piezo-electric rooftop panel that generates electricity from wind and rain. He hopes to combine it with a flexible solar panel to generate power no matter what the weather outside. The grand prize winner at the Google Science Fair wins $50,000 and a 10-day trip to the Galápagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions.
On this week's show Myles talks with a previous contributor to Terra Informa, Rebecca Rooney, whose recently published research into oil sands reclamation has gained attention in the scientific community and challenged the industry's public claims regarding the quality of their reclamation practices. We also bring our focus to another devastating force in western Canada, the mountain pine beetle, in an interview with researcher Dr. Janice Cooke. All of this and our weekly eco-headlines will give you your fix for Canadian environmental news.
Mountain pine beetles are about the size of the head of a match. Even for an insect, they're pretty insignificant. But their effect on forests is hard to put into words. Over the past decade they've turned the mountains and valleys of central BC from lush green to red, wiping out the province's lodgepole pines for hundreds of kilometres on end. Now they're slowly moving eastward, with the outbreak well under way in Alberta. What does this summer hold in store for Canada's forests? And how far east will the mountain pine beetles ultimately advance? We speak with Dr. Janice Cooke for the latest on the outbreak.
This week Terra Informa correspondent Rebecca Rooney took a break from reporting on the news, and instead made some headlines of her own. Rebecca holds a PhD in wetlands ecology from the University of Alberta and is the lead author of a new scientific study on the reclamation of the Alberta oil sands. The study quantifies for the first time the changes in the ecology and ecological services offered by the areas which are to be reclaimed after mining operations are complete. Terra Informa correspondent Myles Curry met up with Dr Rooney to get a summary of what these new findings reveal about the tar sands' cumulative impacts.
Last week hundreds of protesters gathered on Parliament Hill to oppose the tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline. Terra Informa spoke to one of the activists during the protest to get a first hand report and learn why so many people were willing to risk arrest. We take a look at biomonitoring, one of the most popular approaches to ecosystem management and assessment in Canada. And we investigate the rapid development of the oil and gas industry in Alberta's Industrial Heartland.
Protesters in front of the Parliament Buildings last Monday. Photo by Greenpeace.
Last week CIBC, one of Canada's largest banks, called on the federal government to use energy mega-projects to stimulate the economy. Jim Prentice, the former federal environment minister and now vice-chairman of CIBC, made the announcement. He suggested that by providing favourable conditions for large-scale energy projects, government could create jobs without the expense of stimulus programs. Speaking on the CBC's Power and Politics, Prentice said that environmental assessments and other approvals are taking far too long. [Quote 4:28-4:34] He also stated that environmental reviews don't always take economic considerations into account, and he recommended that final decisions should be left to politicians. CIBC estimates that up to a million jobs could be created over 20 years, if government creates positive conditions for energy projects. However, one of the frequent criticisms of mega-projects is that they tend to create mostly short term jobs, and that even those, all too often go to skilled outside workers, not local communities. Prentice spoke specifically about the Lower Churchill hydroelectric project in Newfoundland and Labrador, but also mentioned a number of other controversial projects that CIBC has their eye on.
A coalition of environmental groups has gone to court to prevent the approval of two new nuclear reactors. A federal review panel recommended in August that the expansion of the Darlington facility go ahead. But in documents filed with the court, the plaintiffs say that the review could not have adequately assessed the project because no retractor design has yet been specified. They also raised concerns over its failure to consider the long term impacts of nuclear waste or to look into possible alternatives, such as green energy. The Canadian Environmental Law Association, Greenpeace, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, and Northwatch collectively filed the request for a judicial review. If they're successful, the project would go back to the review panel for further examination.
In British Columbia, two first nations have launched a lawsuit against Alcan over water flows in the Nechako River. Alcan operates the Kenny Dam which diverts water from the Nechako to power their aluminum smelter near Kitimat. The Saik'uz and Stellate'en bands say that fish stocks have declined as a result of reduced flows and changes in the river's temperature. The dam was built in 1952 and the first nations say that after decades of trying to negotiate a solution with the Alcan, the courts are the only option remaining.
Last week, protestors gathered at Parliament Hill in Ottawa to voice their opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project. The proposed pipeline would transport bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to Texas, where it would be upgraded into petroleum products. The US federal government has so far been supportive of the project with only the president's signature still required. In Canada, the federal government has also been supportive, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling the project a "no-brainer". However, several hundred protestors disagree, and they've been prepared to get arrested to demonstrate just that. Terra Informa Correspondent David Kaczan spoke to one protester, Greenpeace Climate and Energy Campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo by phone from the site of the protest last week.


PlayStation Support site, but I recommend updating the software you turn me on song first.
If you have a smart TV with embedded internet, this shouldn t be too hard. Sony, on Sony televisions, the hdmi-CEC feature is called. Try Booting into Safe Mode, just as you would troubleshoot a computer, you can launch your PS4 in safe mode in hopes of remedying the signal issues. We could also power on the TV by powering on the PS4, but the TV did not carbon poker tournament schedule switch to the correct input once powered.
During Blu-ray playback, the rocker navigational button allowed us to play and pause video. Sony's next-gen console does not include an infrared (IR) receiver that could receive a signal directly from a remote control. We could pause playback with the Back button.
Universal remote support, earlier this week, Logitech announced that it was working with Microsoft to bring day one support for its Harmony universal remotes to the Xbox One.
Just as you would troubleshoot a computer, you can launch your PS4 in safe. The PS4 requires an hdtv and only has a hdmi output, so the first way to troubleshoot is to make sure it's not your hdtv. "PS4 does support the use of compatible remote controls with limited functionality to navigate the PS4 system's user interface and some applications. It's difficult to say whether this is an issue specific to the app or hdmi-CEC implementation.
Sony's KDL-26M4000 television mohegan sun arena ct performed similarly to the Panasonic and Sony after we enabled the "Control for hdmi" option in its menu. We could select and launch the Netflix app, but the remotes would not function within the app. Two anomalies specific to this TV: hd tv video games We were unable to back fully out of any menus or apps and return to the home screen using the Return button. PlayStation 3 Users's Guide includes language similar to that in the PS4 Guide about compatibility with other hdmi-CEC devices. Samsung, after toggling the "Enable hdmi Device Link" menu item in Samsung's PN42A450P1DXZ, the television allowed us to navigate menus with the directional buttons, use the Enter button to launch apps and games and use the Exit button to return to previous menus or the. Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope, though none of the Panasonic's built-in buttons for video playback (play, pause, fast-forward, rewind, etc.) had any effect, and we couldn't leave the Blu-ray to return to the Blu-ray's or the console's menus by using the TV's remote.
As with the Panasonic, although we were able to hard rock cafe hotel hollywood fl start a Blu-ray and navigate the main menu to begin playback, we couldn't return to the menu. The functionality is limited, however, because of its inaccuracies.
The PS4 Pro s HDR, high-resolution images are great - for peo ple who can actually see. Image via m, from here, you can choose to restart the system, change resolution, update system software, restore defaults, rebuild the database, and initialize.
hard rock cafe hotel hollywood fl Through a series of tests, Polygon found that functionality seems to differ between apps, brands and setups. The TV must support hdmi-CEC and have a compatible hdmi cable linking the TV to the PS4 system. If your hdmi cable is not flush with the case, you may have a bent piece of metal inside the port. For example, hitting a directional button moves several spaces with each press, rather than just one. Polygon's PlayStation 4 review, the PS4 does not support the Bluetooth remote samsung tv with ps4 control for the PlayStation. Also, we could begin playing a Blu-ray by selecting play with the button in the center of the directional rocker, but the Return button could only play or pause playback once. Once enabled, the Input menu displayed the name of the device as PlayStation 4, and we could navigate the menus with the remote's directional buttons, select items with its version of the Enter/Return button and back out with the Return button. . In a statement to Polygon, a Sony representative specified what the technology is capable of on PlayStation.
The hdmi UHD Color feature on a Samsung. However, there are a few ways to fix the no connection alert, and I'll cover the most common solutions below. Image via m, still a no-go?
According to the online PlayStation 4 User's Guide, certain Sony Bravia televisions with the Bravia Sync-branded hdmi-CEC feature allow remote control functionality. . After we toggled the "Enable hdmi Device Link" option in the PS4's System Settings menu, we were able to navigate the console's user interface with remote controls on four televisions from three manufacturers. So, you've got a brand new PlayStation 4, but unfortunately, you've got "No Signal" now, too. For each test, the consoles were connected directly to the televisions via hdmi unless otherwise noted. For example, we were able to navigate within the Amazon Instant Video app using a remote on the Panasonic TC-50S60 but not on the Panasonic TC-P46G10.
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If you have a smart TV with embedded internet, this shouldn't be too hard to do, and it has been known to fix the issue with some users. Follow WonderHowTo on, facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and, flipboard). Check Your hdmi Port First, some people, including, iGN and the peeps over.
So yesterday My remote decided to sync and work again with my ps4. You can't las vegas outlet mall premium really game or watch movies on your new toy if you can't even bring up the PlayStation menu on your TV screen. When asked about potential PS4 compatibility, a representative for Logitech told us that the "Harmony team is still working on PS4 compatibility for the Harmony Ultimate and Harmony Smart Control" devices.
You can take a flathead screwdriver to push it down. However, televisions that include the hdmi Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) feature can receive input from a remote control and pass that information to the PS4 through an hdmi connection. If you don't have an Internet connection available on your PS4, you can also manually update the software via a, uSB flash drive. When we routed the hdmi input first through a Pioneer buffet at argosy casino VSX-523 A/V receiver and then out to the TV, the console turned the TV on and switched to the correct input, but we lost the ability to control the PS4 interface with the remote. If yours is like the second image, then you should skip down and try one of the other solutions.
The only different thing I did was, turning on the ps4 without turning. You can learn more about what each of these does on the. Because implementation of CEC commands vary greatly among manufacturers, the level of functionality and compatibility also varies.". Here's a helpful list of the trade names the functionality has on all applicable television brands.
Powering on the console also powers on the TV and switches to the correct input. Are You Sure It's the PS4? If you have another hdtv around the house, give it a try and see if it connects. Turn off the PS4 using the force-shutdown method of holding down for at least 7 seconds until the PS4 beeps twice. Panasonic, in tests performed on a Panasonic TC-50S60, in which menu settings for "viera Link" and "Power on link" were enabled, we could navigate the PS4's menus with the remote's directional buttons, select icons with the OK button and back out of menus with the.
In the first image below, the cable is not all of the way in, compared to the second image, which is how it should look. Also, try switching out the hdmi cable, which could be damaged itself.
We have a UN65MU9000 and it s been having off and on issues with the PS4. Even then, it would work only once more.
With the PS4 fort myers casino off, hold down the power button for 7-8 seconds on boot to launch into safe mode (release the button after the second beep). The only way we could get it working again was to switch to a different input, then switch back to the correct hdmi input. Disconnect the PS4's power cord from the wall outlet, then inspect the power cord for damage, including the pins where you connect it to the PS4 directly. For more information on this problem and the possible fix, check out Kotaku's video below. PlayStation 4 owners using televisions compatible with hdmi-CEC can navigate the next-gen console's operating system using their television's remote control. Kotaku, have been able to fix the "No Signal" issue by fixing the hdmi cable port inside the PS4. It then became unresponsive. Tests we performed on a Panasonic TC-P46G10 with a PS4 routed through a Denon AVR1910 A/V receiver allowed us to control the console in the same way as the TC-50S60 when it was plugged directly into the. Check if You're Blinking Blue, if your PS4 is blinking blue, and never entering the powered state (white light then it could be a power issue.
Init ially we were able to control the PS4 with the TV s remote, mainly used with the. But, it's kind of hard to update your software if you can't see the menu sportsbook vegas online on your screen. Try updating the firmware on your hdtv.
If it's like the first image, check to see if there is a piece that is out of place inside your port. Apps, remote control functionality is limited in certain apps throughout all of the televisions we tested. To activate this feature, set a checkmark in System Enable hdmi Device Link with the PS4's settings. We were able to pause playback with the Return button. If there is any visible damage, that can be your culprit.