My new blog, "Eye On Islam", has now gone live.
Link here.
This blog, "Race Relations", is now officially discontinued.
Have a nice day.
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Monday 16 March 2009
Where I've Been
If you're a regular reader (I guess it's possible), you'll notice that I disappeared without a trace about three weeks ago. I haven't posted in all that time, and I suppose I might as well explain why.
Recently I've been very busy. I've had a lot on my plate in terms of work, and haven't had as much time to post. I have still had time, but the heavy workload has made me completely disinclined to blog. Race-related issues are a partial interest of mine, but Islam has always been my primary focus. My expertise is in Islam and jihad, and that's what I find it most interest to research and write about. So some time in the next two or three weeks, I'm going to start a new blog on Islam-related matters. It's going to be semi-regular in terms of post output, so as not to put me under too much pressure to deliver regular new content every day. But I believe it's going to be a better blog than this one ever was. When I start the blog, I will post a link to it here so that people can be directed to the new site.
Cheers, and peace
Ben
Recently I've been very busy. I've had a lot on my plate in terms of work, and haven't had as much time to post. I have still had time, but the heavy workload has made me completely disinclined to blog. Race-related issues are a partial interest of mine, but Islam has always been my primary focus. My expertise is in Islam and jihad, and that's what I find it most interest to research and write about. So some time in the next two or three weeks, I'm going to start a new blog on Islam-related matters. It's going to be semi-regular in terms of post output, so as not to put me under too much pressure to deliver regular new content every day. But I believe it's going to be a better blog than this one ever was. When I start the blog, I will post a link to it here so that people can be directed to the new site.
Cheers, and peace
Ben
Friday 27 February 2009
Obama and Durban II
It's not funny, Mr. ObamaHere's a decent piece on Obama's apparent reluctance to rule the US out of the scheduled UN "Durban II" anti-racism conference, which Canada and Israel have already pulled out of after the last conference turned into an anti-Israel, antisemitic tirade by the Muslim nations.
Obama has got off to a pretty bad start as President, I'd say.
UPDATE: He's pulled out at last.
Monday 23 February 2009
Guess The Outcome
A white schoolboy left for dead by a hammer-wielding gang of Asians has insisted the attack was racially motivated. Fifteen-year-old Henry Webster was assaulted by a gang of 13 youths, one carrying a claw hammer, on a school tennis court in January 2007. The attackers were sentenced to only between eight months and eight years last year, but they would likely have got longer if the attack had been proven to be racist.
I wrote about this incident back when it happened, and I predicted then that there would be virtually no attention from the media or the authorities to the "racist" element, because the victim was white and the attackers Asian. Whether the attack was racist or not, something stinks here, and it's symptomatic of the entire media and legal attitude towards racism - it only ever goes one way.
I wrote about this incident back when it happened, and I predicted then that there would be virtually no attention from the media or the authorities to the "racist" element, because the victim was white and the attackers Asian. Whether the attack was racist or not, something stinks here, and it's symptomatic of the entire media and legal attitude towards racism - it only ever goes one way.
Thursday 19 February 2009
Round-up
1. A newspaper cartoon comparing Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee which was gunned down by police has sparked a race row in the U.S.
This is NOT racist, but the paper should have known better than to run this cartoon and create an unnecessarily bad reputation for themselves. I believe they should have been allowed to publish it; however, from their own point of view, it would have been better for them not to.
2. Melanie Phillips: "Our police were never guilty of 'institutional racism' and it's time this witch-hunt ended."
3. As Geert Wilders is banned from the country, look who's already here - not only Abu Qatadah, "bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", who "issued a 1995 fatwa or religious edict justifying the killing of converts from Islam, their wives and children in Algeria...[and] [i]n a 1999 sermon he called for the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans," but also Anjem Choudary, who thinks non-Muslims are not innocent people and thus can be killed with impunity, and has recently argued that people who get drunk should be flogged.
But remember, Wilders is the real dangerous extremist.
This is NOT racist, but the paper should have known better than to run this cartoon and create an unnecessarily bad reputation for themselves. I believe they should have been allowed to publish it; however, from their own point of view, it would have been better for them not to.
2. Melanie Phillips: "Our police were never guilty of 'institutional racism' and it's time this witch-hunt ended."
3. As Geert Wilders is banned from the country, look who's already here - not only Abu Qatadah, "bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", who "issued a 1995 fatwa or religious edict justifying the killing of converts from Islam, their wives and children in Algeria...[and] [i]n a 1999 sermon he called for the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans," but also Anjem Choudary, who thinks non-Muslims are not innocent people and thus can be killed with impunity, and has recently argued that people who get drunk should be flogged.
But remember, Wilders is the real dangerous extremist.
Wednesday 18 February 2009
A Nation of Cowards
"Cowards! Ner ner nee nur nur!"US Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States today as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues.
That's because most Americans, Eric, actually don't want to divide people up into races all the time and start talking about them, preferring to treat everyone as their fellow human beings rather than someone of a "different type". You call this cowardice; I call it the opposite of racism - anti-racialism.
Monday 16 February 2009
Monday Night Tarot
No, this isn't a card-reading session; it's just a couple of videos from the Finnish heavy metal band Tarot, starring the metal god that is Marco Hietala.
"Pyre of Gods":
"Ashes to the Stars":
"Pyre of Gods":
"Ashes to the Stars":
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