Eye On Islam

My new blog, "Eye On Islam", has now gone live.

Link here.

This blog, "Race Relations", is now officially discontinued.

Have a nice day.

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

Obama and Durban II

It's not funny, Mr. Obama

Here'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.

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.

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.

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 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":

Round-up

1. A council in the West Midlands has withdrawn its funding for a St George's Day parade after claims it had attracted some "racist elements".

Booga booga!

2. This is a late one, from last November: The angry mother of a man found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a bus passenger two years ago and emotional members of his victim's family confronted one another outside an Ottawa courtroom. The then-17-year-old attacker, armed with a butterfly knife, stabbed a 23-year-old once in the heart in September 2006 after attempting to steal an iPod from him as he sat in the last row of a city bus. Tempers flared when the mother and aunt of the convicted man, who are black, complained loudly to reporters about the composition of the 12-member jury, who were all white, suggesting the jurors might not have returned the same verdict if the accused was a white man and the victim was black.

This kind of manipulation, playing the race card in such a callous, cynical way, is corrosive and not far away from evil, and those who engage in it should be rejected and shunned for the pusillanimous cowards they are.

Prince Harry Cannot Be Any More Humiliated

Prince Harry is to be sent on an equality and diversity training course after being forced to apologise for using racially offensive language, it has emerged.

The world has gone mad. (Just ask Geert Wilders)

Integration Fail

By Golly, There's More!

The golliwog saga continues: Buckingham Palace has issued an extraordinary apology after the Queen's shop at Sandringham was found to be selling golliwogs.

On a related note, looking at my latest stats, someone recently found this site by Googling "Andrian Chiles is a horrible snitch".

On Militant Anti-Racism

There is a decent piece about the Carol Thatcher controversy over at - of all places - the Guardian today. It's as good an explanation of the flaws of the "anti-racist" crowd as any I've seen.

Most young people today – those I know and those I hear on radio and TV – think racism is the No 1 crime, unforgivable in any form, real or imaginary. Being old enough at 63 to be bilingual in these matters I sometimes make remarks (in private!) designed to make them flinch – just for the frisson it causes.

I respect the sentiments behind the flinch, although I doubt that racism is any worse than many other prejudices that human beings harbour against each other on bad days, sometimes with equally horrible consequences.

The idea that it is a vice unique to white Europeans or north Americans is also a bit of a chuckle, as the Chinese will one day demonstrate when their looming hegemony provides some scope. You could sniff the sense of effortless superiority in those scolding speeches this week.

Myself, I think snitching on private conversations is pretty offensive, too, a thoroughly corrosive habit in any society, however pious the motive. I realise many will disagree. Good luck. I hope it makes them happy, but it won't.

Read it all.

They've Always Been Telling Us Thatcher Was Evil...

Carol Thatcher, the daughter of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is facing a possible ban from the BBC after referring to a tennis player as “a golliwog”. The incident occurred on Thursday night after The One Show when Thatcher, a roving reporter on the programme, was in the green room with its presenter, Adrian Chiles, and other members of the production team.

Using this kind of language to describe fellow human beings is completely dumb. But this was an off-air, unrecorded statement. That's where it should stay, and to ban Thatcher or make a big deal out of this is just platitudinous political correctness.

Round-up

1. Teen pop star Miley Cyrus is in the news as pics of the 16-year-old have surfaced on the net showing her poking fun at Asians. While last year's scantily-clad photos of the teen sensation caused outrage, this time round Cyrus and a group of male friends can be apparently seen pulling their eyes to mock Asians while one Asian-American sits among them.

Yes, seriously, this is news. I have a question, though: did the Asian-American sitting among them mind?

2. See here for an example of an astonishing bit of antisemitism that was aired unchallenged and un-condemned on mainstream American TV.

Eurabia On The Horizon

Did you read the news over the weekend that the Muslim population of Britain is increasing 10 times faster than the rest of the population?

There is no doubt in my mind that as this number increases, we will see increasing demands for more and more sharia to be implemented in this country. I also have no doubt that there are Muslims within the UK who are here for this exact reason: to make Britain into an Islamic state, not by terrorism or invasion but by demographic conquest.

How can I be sure? Because they have made this abundantly clear. Euro-Arab meetings in Venice (1977) and Hamburg (1983) led to the institution of joint policies deliberately designed to increase not only the number of Muslim immigrants to Europe, in massive numbers, but also the general influence of Islam in the European political and civil spheres. Muslim immigrants were never at any point encouraged to integrate into European society – rather, the Arab countries insisted they were allowed to bring their own culture – often antithetical with Western democracy – with them and spread it through Europe. At a 1974 meeting in Lahore, numerous Muslim countries announced their plan to increase the Muslim population of Europe in "demographic preponderance".

In 1999 Guiseppe Bernardini, the Archbishop of Izmir in Turkey, claimed that at a major dialogue meeting between Muslims and European Christians, a prominent Muslim leader announced: "Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you; thanks to our religious laws we will dominate you." In 1974, the Algerian leader Houari Boumedienne said in a speech at the U.N.: "One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere to go to the northern hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory."

Europe is sleeping. Her dream is a lie. And if she doesn't wake up soon, she will die.

Palestinians Break The Recent Truce, Israel Retaliates

And the Associated Press act as if both sides are equally to blame.

Real (Obama-related) Racism Round-up

1. Man pleads guilty to Obama racism attack

2. A black American teenager had a rock hurled at him in Kelso on Sunday by a white teenager cursing both him and President Barack Obama.

3. Some idiot at a New York bakery is making cakes that are supposed to look like "black people".

As one commenter at the site says: "You know, it doesn’t much look like anything. Is he really meant to be a professional pastry chef? Geez, if you’re gonna take all that time and effort to make a racist cookie, do a good job at it. I bet Martha Stewart can make perfect looking hate filled cookies…"

Another commenter observes: "OH GOD where to begin? The glorious stupidity of the baker (”no one compained about my dead geese bread!”) The reporter sticking the cookie in otherwise unaware people’s faces (”Does this offend you!? DOES THIS OFFEND YOU!? ISN’T THIS OFFENSIVE?!)” The white people acting horrified and the black people not really caring..."

Hateful, Shameless Liars

The Jonathan Ross circus just goes on and on and on.

Now we have this article at the Daily Mail about Ross' latest "sackable" offense:

The family of an 86-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer condemned Jonathan Ross yesterday after he cracked a joke about having sex with her.

Here is the content of this "tasteless" joke:

Ross, who earns £6million a year, and his producer Andy Davies were discussing how they had spent their time during the suspension.

Mr Davies, 43, said he had done some bricklaying in the garden of his villa in Spain but kept getting grabbed by a frisky 80-year-old woman.

He said: 'There's a woman in the village who's getting on a bit, keeps trying to kiss me. Older woman, very older woman. She keeps grabbing me.

'Every time I see her now I have to run indoors. She's apparently got a thing for younger men. She must be about 80, I reckon.'

Ross declared: 'Eighty, oh God! I think you should, just for charity. Give her one last night, will you? One last night before the grave. Would it kill you?'

Now, how tame is that? You will find many much cruder jokes in a Carry On film. This is a joke about a "frisky old woman" that follows on logically from the conversation they were having; it is NOT "tasteless" or anything of the kind.

But that doesn't stop the bribed buffoons from coming out of the woodwork. Here, for example, is the old woman's son: "It is offensive. My mother's mental health should not be a subject for comedy..." It WASN'T, you bloody tool! Her dementia was never mentioned. It was not even known to anyone until the News of the World purposely went to Spain after the event and found out. And as was the case during the "Sachsgate" affair, the BBC received no complaints following the broadcast (although it did get some, I hear, after the incident gained media attention).

The coverage of the Ross affair by the media, and by the Daily Mail in particular, has been an absolute disgrace. They are literally going out of their way to lie and break every journalistic principle in order to pursue a hateful agenda against one harmless man. It is absolutely disgusting, and all involved (except Ross himself) should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Round-up

1. Here's some poll results about American attitudes towards racism following the Obama inauguration.

2. Here is both a new RAW Watch and a "subtle racism" alert.

Sheer Outrage

Geert Wilders, the courageous Dutch politician who directed Fitna, is to be prosecuted by a Dutch court for "hate speech".

You can read the details on this sickening decision here, as well as Robert Spencer's important analysis here.

As Wilders himself observes, “This is a black day for freedom.”