The Iconoclast

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Much has been made of Sarah Palin and certain keywords triggering certain responses, but when it comes to answering tricky questions, can any of the candidates compete with Einstein?

Jihadis need not be "recruited." They can "recruit" themselves. Mohammad "Mike" Hawash was an Intel engineer, very successful, earning $360,000 a year. He had married an American, had three children, appeared completely "integrated." Then he began to get religion, that old-time religion, grew a beard, read and re-read the Qur'an. Why he did this isn't clear, but he might have done it for any or all of the reasons that people everywhere start to get religion or take up a Cause. Except that in the case of "Mike" Hawash, the Cause was Islam.

After the attacks of 9/11/2001, "Mike" Hawash was furious. He was not furious at the attackers. He was furious at the American government. With others, he made plans to go to Western China, and then from there to Afghanistan, to fight, not Al Qaeda, not the Taliban that supported and was supported by, Al Qaeda, but American troops -- his "fellow" Americans.

There are others like that -- in Great Britain, in France, in Germany , in India, dappertutto -- who have been picked up, or are being tracked or have neither been picked up nor are being tracked. To their number will inevitably be added many more, especially as Infidel governments seem intent on "integrating" Muslims by making sure they have every possible opportunity to acquire vocational training (education is a different thing) in computer technology, in chemical engineering, in biology, even in nuclear  technology. And those are the favorite fields for Muslims -- for some reason the history of art,  the history of anything other than Islam or subjects directly impinging on Islam, literature (unless it is the literature of Muslim peoples or the history of how, in other literatures, Muslims are so cruelly "depicted") , and even pure science is simply out - no investigation of DNA, or how humans think, no attempt around and about a unified field theory -- none of that seems to appeal. But that chemical engineering, that computer technology -- that's the stuff.

There will be many more such cases, as the push to "integrate" Muslims in Infidel lands provides them with every opportunity to acquire more --  not education, of course, but the knowledge, the means, if they choose, to do greater damage than they would, or could, had they been not encouraged but prevented from receiving such training.

I'm trying to write do this post without using the a letter E fifth letter thing in the alphabet thingy. Oh bugger sod this for a lark.

In 1969 Georges Perec wrote a three-hundred page novel, La Disparition, without using the letter e. I can't even write a single sentence. The novel was translated into English for a dare - sorry, by Adair. Somebody once lent me a copy, but I couldn't read it without feeling dizzy. I admire the ingenuity of both Perec and his translator, but don't tell me it's a good read.

Walter Motte, writing in Context magazine, reads a great deal into the absence of the E:

The absence of a sign is always the sign of an absence, and the absence of the E in A Void announces a broader, cannily coded discourse on loss, catastrophe, and mourning. Perec cannot say the words père ["father"], mère ["mother"], parents ["parents"], famille ["family"] in his novel, nor can he write the name Georges Perec. In short, each "void" in the novel is abundantly furnished with meaning, and each points toward the existential void that Perec grappled with throughout his youth and early adulthood. A strange and compelling parable of survival becomes apparent in the novel, too, if one is willing to reflect on the struggles of a Holocaust orphan trying to make sense out of absence, and those of a young writer who has chosen to do without the letter that is the beginning and end of écriture ["writing"]."

Or perhaps he wrote it because he could. Isn't that enough?

More on lipograms from Wikipedia:

"Unhooking a DD-Cup Bra without Fumbling" by Adam Adams (Monsoon Books, 2008) is a 60,000-word lipogrammatic thriller, written without the letter "E", in which protagonist Shannon Dublin swaps a quaint sanctuary in Bangkok for a hard-riding gothic road trip through Asia.

The eponymous cycle of poems from Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing) by Canadian poet Mike Schertzer was created "by a prisoner whose world had been impoverished to a single utterance... who can find me here in this silence". The 4 vowels <a e i o> and 11 consonants <c d f h l m n r s t w> of this utterance comprise the alphabet for the subsequent poems.

The Wonderful O by James Thurber describes what happens to the inhabitants of the island nation Ooroo when two pirates and their crooked lawyer forbid the use of the letter 'O', and ban every object containing an 'O' in its name. Ooroo is renamed R, while a citizen of Ooroo named Ophelia Oliver is renamed Phelia Liver, and so forth. Citizens greet each other by saying "Hell" rather than "Hello". The new laws are applied capriciously: the crooked lawyer dislikes grapefruit (which contains no "o" in its name), so he bans it by invoking the French translation pamplemousse. While not formally a lipogram, sections of Thurber's novel are devoid of "O" or otherwise subjected to wordplay.

by Hugh Fitzgerald (Oct. 2008)

“. . . idly wondered if among those churches-transformed-into-mosques any had been Methodist.” ponders Hugh in this post. 
When Lowry painted the scene below in Clitheroe Lancashire 80 years ago the building on the right was the Mount Zion Methodist Church.
Once the Medina Islamic Society have got the dosh together by next year it will be the Clitheroe Masjid.
To be fair it hasn’t been used as a church since 1940 and in between it has been a munitions store and a hijab factory. Planning permission for conversion to mosque was granted, in the face of vocal local opposition in December 2006 but with the approval of the local Methodist minister. However the condition is that the outside must remain unchanged other than the cross being removed – no dome, no minaret, no call to prayer.

Al Jolson

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Islam as a political system is getting harder and harder for the mainstream media to ignore. New Duranty:

JAKARTA — In a sign of its growing prominence, Indonesia’s Council of Ulemas moved its headquarters from the basement of a major mosque here into an expensive new office tower in the heart of downtown.

The council was established in 1975 as a quasi-governmental body of Muslim scholars by Suharto, the country’s leader for three decades, partly as a tool to keep politically minded Islamic organizations in check. But in the decade since the dictator’s fall, the group — whose leaders have increasingly espoused a radical form of Islam — has worked to establish itself as an assertive political force.

Strike "radical form of Islam" and read "Islam" instead.

The group, known as M.U.I., built an impressive network of offices throughout the country, staffed by people who promote the council’s view of Islam. It logged its first major political success this summer when the government agreed to severely restrict the activities of a Muslim sect that does not believe that Muhammad was the last prophet.

Strike "the council's view of Islam" and read "Islam."

Advocates of religious tolerance worry that the council’s new clout could signal the start of religious radicalization in a country known for its moderate brand of Islam.

For "moderate brand of Islam," read "syncretistic, selectively observant Muslims."

“Islamists use the M.U.I. as a major base of operations, coordinating support for the Islamist agenda,” said Holland Taylor, founder of LibForAll Foundation, an American and Indonesian nongovernmental group that promotes religious pluralism.

Among the goals of some prominent council members is the imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law, throughout traditionally secular Indonesia.

But other experts, even some concerned about the council’s conservative leanings and newfound influence, see the broader radicalization of Indonesian Islam as unlikely. They point out that Indonesia’s largest Islamic association, the Nahdlatul Ulama, promotes tolerance and religious pluralism and that Islamic political parties have struggled to gain ground in recent years.

Beyond that, broad antipornography legislation, which had been championed by the Council of Ulemas and its allies in Parliament, has been scaled back after a public backlash that included large street protests.

“I don’t think the Council of Ulemas is going to turn Indonesia into the Sudan,” said Sidney Jones, director of the International Crisis Group in Jakarta, citing “many other balancing forces.”

We're glad Mr. Jones is so optimistic, but he might have a look at Islam's historical record and note that in every single place it becomes established, despite the presence of  numerous "balancing forces," Islam progresses in one direction - toward more stringent Islam.

The council is an umbrella group that represents established Muslim organizations. In addition to advising the government on religious issues, it distributes fatwas, or religious directives, advising Muslims on how to practice their faith. Its fatwas are nonbinding.

Maruf Amin, the council’s deputy chairman, describes it as a moderate organization that represents the views of more than 60 Islamic groups in this overwhelmingly Muslim country.

“Our job is to communicate to the government the aspirations of Muslim people in Indonesia and to protect the Islamic population here from any bad influences that might lead them to deviate from their faith,” he said in an interview.

But some analysts who have studied the group say Islamic hard-liners have had an increasingly dominant role in the council in the last few years.

(...)

The council’s biggest coup so far was Mr. Yudhoyono’s decision in June to restrict the practices of Ahmadiya, a minority Muslim sect.

The council had been calling for a ban on Ahmadiya since 2005 when it issued two fatwas, one against the sect for not believing Muhammad is the last prophet and another calling on Muslims to reject “pluralism, liberalism and secularism.”...

Sarah Palin may use ugly non-words like "preferenced", doggone it, but at least it's fairly clear what she means. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, on the other hand, said:

"We are not legislating now on the basis that we are bringing it in now for something that might happen in the future. We are putting a provision for it if it becomes unhypothetical."

That's quite a big if. Probably. Talking of gobbledegook, Harrow Council has banned it. From The Times:

Their meaning has become one of the most perplexing riddles of modern life, but soon “stakeholder engagements” and “multi-agency approaches” could be a thing of the past, in part of the country at least.

A council has banned seven of the most bewildering jargon phrases when speaking to members of the public. Civil enforcement officers, school crossing patrollers and civic amenity sites will become traffic wardens, lollipop ladies and rubbish tips, under new guidelines from Harrow Council. The list of banned phrases was drawn up after Harrow councillors asked a panel of local people about their experiences of dealing with council staff.

Councillor Paul Osborn said: “Our residents want to hear plain speaking and that is what we’ll deliver."

Deliver? Dear, oh dear. There will have to be some improvements going forward.

I wasn't  particularly looking for a job. I already have one and it keeps me busy enough. But a job came looking for me through the email. Perhaps it's a good one, but it's hard to tell:

Dear  Job Seeker

Due to converge of our mutual interests within the boundaries of the employment process, we'd like to manifest provision of the newly opened entry, available for your immediate contemplation.

An expansion process, has inevitably triggered the underscored insurance company to form complementary positions within the market of operation.

We're providing a feasible opportunity to put your legal background to use in the insurance/accounting sphere. Undoubtedly, our ultimate aim is to bring the confort work environment, stimulating a reciprocal leap towards beneficial and justifying operating conditions.
Informational table is presented below, to briefly outline the opening.
 
* Benefits and privileges:

-Feasible career advancement opportunities.
-Extensive tutelage (probation period) for the first two months.
-Fixed payout, resulting in $ANNUAL SALARY$ annually.
-Outstanding reimbursement plan.

"Feasible" sounds good. I like a job to be feasible. And I've never had a job with tutelage before.

* Requirements:

-Accuracy and leadership in the assigned operations.
-Interpersonal and communication skills.
-Swift decision-making.
-Honesty and law obedience.

* Primary responsibilities:

-Preparing invoices, compiling itemized charges and submitting bills concerning insurance reimbursement enquiries.
-Commencing insurance operations (reimbursement cases).
-Consolidating viable documentation, records and paperwork.

Shall you have any enquiries, don't hesitate to contact our support department ONLY at e-mail: *************

We're looking forward to our further communication. 

I think they'll be talking to themselves for some time. Clearly the writer is using a dictionary from the nineteenth century, but the effect is not unpleasing.

This is interesting from The Hindu.
NEW DELHI: Evidence is mounting that recruiters for Islamist terror groups have targeted the information technology and engineering sectors, in a successful effort to give India’s jihadist movement a quantum jump in skills and ideological focus.
Most of the 15 men arrested in Mumbai on Monday, on charges of participating in the hit-teams which planted explosives in Ahmedabad and Surat, are criminals linked to Pakistan-based ganglord Amir Raza Khan.
But three men in the group were, till their arrest, believed to be model citizens. Key among them is Mohammed Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, who worked as a software engineer at multinational Yahoo India.
Peerbhoy, investigators say, sent three Indian Mujahideen manifestos that were e-mailed to the media after the terror group’s bomb attacks in Ahmedabad and New Delhi.
The investigators allege that Peerbhoy was helped by Mobin Kadir Shaikh, who also worked in an information technology firm, and mechanical engineer Asif Bashiruddin Shaikh.
With a job that brought in an annual salary of over Rs. 19,00,000 a year, 31-year-old Peerbhoy is as distant as could be imagined from the madrasa-educated, no-prospects jihadist of media caricature.
His father, Asghar Peerbhoy, made a comfortable living as a wholesale fruit supplier for the Army’s Pune-based southern command. His mother recently retired after a distinguished career as teacher in a Pune college.
With its hard-earned money, the Peerbhoy family ensured that the children received the best education and career opportunities possible. One brother is a doctor, another an architect.
Police say Peerbhoy radicalised himself, not unlike Kafeel Ahmad, the Bangalore resident who became a jihadist while studying for a degree in computational fluid dynamics and died while staging a suicide attack on the Glasgow airport in August 2007. . . In essence, Peerbhoy rejected the syncretic Islam he had grown up with.

I haven’t been posting here about the incident in the Dayton Mosque which has given rise to headlines like “Nursery gassed at Ohio Mosque” although it has been covered elsewhere.
Today the local paper reports that the canister of pepper spray was found, not near the mosque, but actually in the mosque and that the son of one of the other family’s attending the Ramadan nosh up upstairs is now being questioned.
From the Dayton Daily News
The can of pepper spray found four days after someone sprayed a 10-year-old girl in the face at a local mosque was discovered inside the mosque, a Dayton police lieutenant said.
The girl said she was sprayed about 9:40 p.m. Sept. 26 through an open basement window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, Lt. John Huber said.
The girl told police one of two men outside the basement window sprayed her with something from a white can with a red top as she watched children whose parents and relatives had gathered at the mosque to celebrate Ramadan.
A can of pepper spray was found Sept. 30 in another room in the basement inside a red and white-striped bag, Huber said. He said it was initially reported to him that the can was found near the mosque, but he later learned it was inside the mosque.
Police have interviewed a 10-year-old boy about the incident. The boy and his family are members of the mosque. Police are not ruling out that someone inside the mosque sprayed the girl, Huber said. I wonder what the motive could be. Had she spurned some lad’s advances? Was she mal-veiled and had to be punished? Had her big sister transgressed the unwritten rule?
Chief Richard Biehl has said there is no evidence the girl was the victim of a hate crime.
She and another woman were taken to local hospitals after feeling nauseous, according to police.
A few of the 300 people celebrating the last 10 days of Ramadan with dinner and a prayer session were treated for eye irritation at the scene. 

On October 6th, 1981, president Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt was assassinated by his own troops during a military parade.  Nine other people in the stands were killed by the assassins.

Sadat took part in the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk, which was partly motivated by the defeat of the Egyptians in 1948 by the Israelis.  Following the humiliating defeat by Israel in the Six Day War in 1967, the Israelis made a diplomatic offer to return Gaza to Egypt and the Golan Heights to Syria, in return for peace agreements, and to begin negotiations to define Israel's border with Jordan.  In response, the Arab Summit issued the "three no's" policy: "no peace, no recognition, and no negotiation."

Instead, Sadat planned and carried out the Yom Kippur War against Israel in 1973, in coordination with Syria and Iraq.  The surprise attack on the holiest holiday eve of Yom Kippur was chosen by the Muslims intentionally.  It also marked the beginning of Ramadan, a holy holiday for Muslims, though obviously in that case "holy" does not infer "peaceful", as Muslims regularly fight wars during Ramadan.

After some early victories in the sneak attack, Egypt's top generals such as Saad El Shazly warned against continuing the offensive, but Sadat ordered the attack to continue.  The tide turned, and the result was another humiliating rout of Egyptian forces.

In 1979, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin signed a peace treaty following the Camp David Accords with President Jimmy Carter, for which they both won the Nobel Prize (as did that other well-known peace advocate, Yassir Arafat, in 1994).  In response, the other Arab nations expelled Egypt from the Arab League and from the Islamic Conference. Muslims expressed their displeasure in time-honored fashion, as enraged crowds rioted and threatened Sadat with violence, burning buses and buildings, and destroying nightclubs.

In February 1981, rumors began to circulate about a possible coup attempt.  Sadat rounded up the usual suspects: communists, feminists, homosexuals, intellectuals, and Coptic Christians.

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman wrote the fatwa approving the assassination, in accordance with mainstream Islamic principles.  In a very precisely timed operation, during a military parade celebrating the Yom Kippur War, the assassin troops pulled in front of the review stands just as Mirage jet fighters flew overhead, distracting the crowd.  The assassins threw grenades, and then began shooting at the review stands.  Some of the assassins rushed to the stands to get a better shot.  Despite this occuring during a military parade, with literally thousands of Egyptian troops on hand, and with Sadat surrounded by bodyguards, the assassins were able to continue firing unhampered for several minutes.

Sheikh Abdel-Rahman, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and other Egyptian jihadis were arrested for their participation in the murder, but this being Dar al-Islam, they were set free just a few years later.  Abdel-Rahman was later arrested in the U.S. for planning the first bombing of the World Trade Center, and al-Zawahiri went to Afghanistan and joined up with Osama bin Laden.

We criticize our leaders for advocating war;  they criticize (well, actually, they murder) their leaders for advocating peace.

And now, let us close with some words of wisdom from Anwar Sadat, Nobel Peace Prize winner:

"Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people."

Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":

Oct 3: Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu
Oct 1: Systemic mass murder in Indonesia
Sept 30: Mohammad al-Dura Hoax
Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor
Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help

From The Yorkshire Post
A PAIR of West Yorkshire teenagers discussed spying on and then blowing up members of the British National Party after downloading a terrorist manual on how to make bombs, a court has heard.
Former school friends Waris Ali and Dabeer Hussain, (they live in Dewsbury not so far from the Markazi Mosque but they don't sound like Methodists to me. I could be wrong.) who are now both 18, chatted online about using secret cameras to film the BNP to identify targets for an attack, Leeds Crown Court was told yesterday.
(said to have downloaded the) Proper Anarchist's Cookbook to research making bombs. The manual contains instructions on how to create explosives such as pipe, nail and fertiliser bombs.
Ali is also accused of possessing quantities of potassium nitrate and calcium chloride for terrorist purposes. The defendants, denied the charges against them in court yesterday.
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow said police had recovered an online conversation between the pair where they discussed blowing up members of the BNP.
She told the court that Ali "nurtured a particular" dislike of the far-right party and had newspaper cuttings about the BNP attached to his bedroom wall at his family home in Dearnley Street.
Miss Darlow said various versions of the Anarchist's Cookbook where found on computers at both Ali's family home and Hussain's home in Clarkson Street.
She said the plan was "no hoax or schoolboy prank" but a 3,000-page manual on how to prepare, commission and instigate acts of terrorism.
The court heard that in 2007 Ali began purchasing "significant amounts" of potassium nitrate and calcium chloride from eBay and then stored the chemicals beneath his bed and under the sofa at his home. How often does his mother sweep and hoover then?
When Hussain was arrested he told police he was not involved in any terror plot and had been "showing off" to impress his friend.
The hearing continues.

I read the following and initially assumed it was PLO, that is "Palestinian," propaganda. That it is, of course, but it also a UN document.

"The Eid festival, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, is traditionally a time of celebration. However, the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip can be forgiven for feeling that there was little to celebrate at Eid this year. The reunion of families and the sharing of food, essential parts of the Eid celebration, have been rendered almost impossible by the Israeli blockade. Food prices in Gaza have risen this year by 32%, according to a recent survey undertaken by UNRWA, WFO and FAO. As a result of these price increases, Palestinians in the besieged territory are now forced to spend around 67% overall – 73% amongst the poorest sector – of their income on food.

In a response to this crisis and in an effort to alleviate the distress of some of Gaza's poorest residents, the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent (UAERC) made a generous contribution to food aid for refugees in Gaza during Ramadan. UAERC's contribution provided food parcels composed of chickpeas, cheese, luncheon meat and other items to 7,000 families from the beginning of the holy month.

The contribution has had a considerable impact on Gaza inhabitants. One beneficiary of the food aid, Siham Majdalawy, a 40 year old resident of Beach camp explained her situation, "I am a mother of 11 kids and our conditions are very difficult. We have Allah and UNRWA only. The support we receive from the UAERC and UNRWA will help us a lot". Despite the continuous evolution of UNWRA's emergency programme to ensure that humanitarian needs are met, resources are still stretched. As Ali Hassan, another 40 year old beneficiary and father of 8, explained "The situation in Gaza is continuously deteriorating and UNRWA's help is so essential but it is not enough. We hope that the agency increases its assistance and thank Allah that UAERC comes back to help us with cooperation with UNRWA".

The UAERC's contribution ensured that, for the inhabitants of Gaza, Eid was more of an occasion for celebration this year. But for many, a true Eid celebration will only be possible when they are once more independent and their lives resume a semblance of normality. The sentiments of Siham Majdalawy and Mieser Alshaer, 48 years old, echoed one another. Siham stated "my real demand is to have a job for my husband and not only to be provided with food", while Mieser will celebrate on the "joyful day when we find a job for my husband and we will not be in need for UNRWA or other associations."

Nota bene, in this article: 

"Siham Majdalawy, a 40 year old resident of Beach camp explained her situation, "I am a mother of 11 kids and our conditions are very difficult. We have Allah and UNRWA only/"

"As Ali Hassan, another 40 year old beneficiary and father of 8, explained "The situation in Gaza is continuously deteriorating and UNRWA's help is so essential but it is not enough."

___________________________________________

The Jewish villagers who once lived in Gaza, and had every right -- see the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine -- somehow managed to create farms, out of the unpromising soil, and even to grow flowers in greenhouses, to do all sorts of things. They did not, by the way, have families of 11 or 8 children, and did not attend upon aid, aid, aid from others. But the fantastic overbreeding, by the Gazan Arabs, is accompanied by an inshallah-fatalism only strengthened by their cultivated, and baseless, sense of victimhood. And so sure are those in UNRWA who produced this nauseating document, that they make no attempt to hide either the overbreeding, or the inshallah-fatalism.  Nothing is said, of course, about the greenhouses that were turned over to the Gazan Arabs, nothing said about their culture of complete dependency on an UNRWA entirely staffed, at this point, by fellow Arabs -- and no one on the UNRWA rolls ever dies, to no family is it suggested that 8 or 11 or 15 children might not, under the circumstances, be advisale, and all kinds of Arabs who never set foot in Mandatory Palestine have, in Lebanon, in Jordan, in Syria, signed up for the UNRWA goodies that are paid for, have always been paid for, by Infidel taxpayers.

The one thing that is unusual in this story is the fact that the plutocrats of the Emirates have decided to provide a little something -- a very little something, considering the hundreds of billions the U.A.E. has piled up -- that is, food parcels for 7,000 families of Gazan Arabs,  and this is hailed as generosity. UNRWA should long ago have been shut down, and the Gazan Arabs had it made clear to them that Gaza cannot sustain its present population, much less a population that keeps growing as the Gazan Arabs heedlessly engage in what they see as increasing the demographic weapon, and besides, Allah and UNRWA will always provide. Not every place on the globe can support just any number of people, and Gaza is one of those places. The sooner this is understood by the local Arabs, and they either adjust their family size, or leave the area altogether -(many of them are descemdants of Egyptians who, like other Arabs, were attracted in the period 1900-1940 to Mandatory Palestine, because of the economic bustle that was a result of Jewish immigration) -- the better. The population of Gazan Arabs at present simply cannot be sustained.

The Infidel taxpayers who largely pay for UNRWA are not required to pay indefinitely, nor to pay if the Arabs insist on these gigantic families. We in the West, after all, carefully limit our own family size, often, out of economic considerations. Why should we be paying for Arab families with those  having those 8 or 11 children, or 15, or 23? And especially when the Arab and Muslim oil countries have received, without having lifted a finger, more than eleven trillion dollars since 1973 alone? 

This makes no sense.

Die jüngste “palästinensische“ Beschwerde dreht sich darum, dass Israel nicht jeden einzelnen „Palästinenser“ aus dem Gazastreifen lässt, der – um Gottes Willen aus praktischen Gründen – erstklassige Behandlung haben will – in israelischen Krankenhäusern. Das heißt, sie wollen in den Krankenhäusern behandelt werden, sie fordern dort behandelt zu werden, von genau den Leuten, gegen sie tausende Raketen losgelassen haben und die, würden die Araber im Gazastreifen ihren Willen kriegen, vernichtet und damit für genau diese Araber nicht verfügbar werden. Sie haben keinen Sinn für Ironie, diese Araber aus dem Gazastreifen.

Pat Condell was not banned from YouTube but suspended pending. The pending is now pent and he's back with his video "Welcome to Saudi Britain":

Condell has released another video in the last week called "Stop Sharia law in Britain":

In many ways Condell still sees Islam through a glass darkly. He is inaccurate about the legal aspects of Sharia "courts" but right to be worried about them. He distrusts religion in general, and pays lip service - mental lip service, if there is such a thing - to the idea that Saudi Islam is a perversion of Islam. But the following statement shows that he has the measure of Islam. It is very British - reluctant to analyse but viscerally distrustful:

Foreigners - and Muslims - don't understand the British, but this understated "Hmm, not sure what it is but I don't much like it" speaks volumes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyu6WD0VJ2I&feature=related