Everyone's Union? Everywhere Union?
Can you seriously want to conserve all this? Pickle it in aspic? Preserve it in amber?
What are our rulers thinking of? And with?

The BBC alludes to a technical hitch in the Swedish government’s attempts in 2007 to ‘promote understanding’ between Muslims and their naughty neighbours.
The story is in the news again because of this.
Seven people have been arrested in the
Nice of the BBC to clarify they weren’t planning to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting any of all those other Muhammeds that there seem to be so many of in the news these days.
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The four men and three women are all Muslim immigrants, according to media reports, though a police statement did not confirm this.
Cartoonist Lars Vilks had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog in the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper.
Islamic militants put a $100,000 (£67,000) bounty on his head.
Now, now, that’s not militancy.
It’s open-handedness perhaps, or high-rolling, or free-spending, or falling short of the ecumenical ideal, but putting up money to kill a human being for drawing a cartoon can’t fairly be called ‘militancy.’
I just wish that the BBC or I could think of a better word for it...
Ah, well.
Mr Vilks was quoted as saying he was unfazed by the arrests, which he said he thought could be linked to two death threats he had received by telephone in January.
I don’t know about you , but I’d like a little context about how a man under several death threats and whose life had been actively plotted against feels ‘unfazed,’ relaxing though the BBC makes it all sound. But with a tiny £800,000,000 per year news budget, I don’t suppose that the BBC had the resources to answer such a question. Or pose it.
Or conceive of it.
RTE said those in custody were originally refugees from
You know, one think I’d just hate would be to be slaughtered like a lamb by having my throat cut by someone who didn’t have the proper paperwork.
"I'm not shaking with fear, exactly," he told Swedish news agency TT after Tuesday's arrests.
"I have prepared in different ways and I have an axe here in case someone should manage to get in through the window."
I have got to get some of that Swedish stuff, whatever it is, and start taking it now.
He sounds so relaxed, you know? He doesn’t seem fazed at all by the thought of what the other six would have done whilst he was trying to dislodge the axe from the flopping body of Assailant Number One.
In 2007 a group linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq offered a $100,000 reward for killing Mr Vilks, and a 50% bonus if he was "slaughtered like a lamb" by having his throat cut.
It offered another $50,000 for the murder of Ulf Johansson, editor-in-chief of the regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda.
At this point, one might expect the BBC to invite comments, and open a Have your Say page with a title like;
Have you ever been threatened with death by exsanguination or beheading by Muslims for producing a cartoon or any other item of edgy popular culture? We’d like to hear your story.
Of course, one would only expect that in a world where humans had directly evolved from dinosaurs or in which Michael Foot’s slanders of the anti-Appeasement Tories never became part of official history, but not in this, fallen world of ours.
Oh, and the BBC helpfully explains what might have inspired seven human being to plan to murder someone who drew a cartoon, and also provides some much-needed context at last:
In January, one of the cartoonists whose drawing appeared in Jyllands-Posten, the Dane Kurt Westergaard, was targeted in his own home, allegedly by a Somali radical Muslim with an axe.
Mr Westergaard, who escaped unharmed, had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.
Mr Vilks told The Associated Press news agency that the telephone threats in January had come from "a Swedish-speaking Somali. He reminded me about what had happened to Westergaard and threatened with a follow-up and that 'now it's your turn'."
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So far, so dhimmi.
But the BBC droid then mentions this:
At the time, Swedish officials expressed regret at any hurt caused to Muslims' feelings, but said the government could not prevent the publication of such drawings because of media freedom rules.
To clarify this, you can follow a side link to this piece from 2007.
Mr Reinfeldt said he told the ambassadors that under the Swedish constitution, politicians were not allowed to "interfere with how the media [works] and what it chooses to publish".
Hear that sound?
That’s the sound of the liberal world government (eastern Scandinavian Branch) admitting that a minor technicality alone prevented them from allowing the head-lopping, bomb-planting, child-murdering, Jew-hating Religion of Peace from silencing another mild (and possibly ironic) allusion to something Islamic.
I was born in a country and to a civilisation that had beaten fascism and Nazism and whose leadership were at least prepared to pay lip service to the idea that freedom of expression is a valuable human right: not one in which a head of government apologizes that religio-political tyranny in Sweden has been delayed by some trivial technical detail such as the national constitution.
It won’t be delayed for long.
Picture from here.

Who could be wiser even than me?
And yeast? And Betamax enthusiasts?
It seems that some of the Rabbis of North West London are opposed to a group which is itself opposed to the political and cultural triumph of Islam.
Yes, that Islam.
Ladiezz an’ gennermen, I give you live (still) from
Rabbis attack
Leading community members in
A letter signed by rabbis Aaron Goldstein, Hillel Athias-Robles, Kathleen Middleton, Frank Dabba Smith, and Michael Hilton has offered support for the borough's Muslims.
In an attack on “those whose only purpose is to spread hatred and fear”, they wrote: “We share the desire of the Muslim community of
The rabbis represent Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue, Middlesex New Synagogue,
The group, Stop Islamisation of
The show of unity from the Jewish community is in defiance of a website appeal by SIOE for 1,000 Jews carrying the Israeli flag to turn up.
If you think that Stop The Islamification Of Europe is racist/fascist/Nazi, then you can look here and make up your own mind - about their public face at least.
You don’t have to have read either or both of the Left’s prescribed books to realise how Nazi anti-Semitism arose on the streets of
I don’t know what the Yiddlish expression for as asinine as an ant at an aardvark assembly is, but this lot deserve it.
This, however, seems to be yet another case when mainstream Jewish bodies cast their eyes humbly away from the bedrock anti-Semitism at the core of Islam, and risk encouraging that vile aspect of the ideology that threatens us all.
Here, for example, is freedom of speech hero Ezra Levant on Canadian ‘official’ Jews supporting a Muslim anti-Semite:
Last week, I pointed out that
I know, it sounds too strange to be true. But it is.
One of those Jew-haters is Syed Soharwardy, a vicious, anti-Semitic bigot who trivializes the Jewish Holocaust, spreads blood libels against the Jewish Talmud, says Israel is perpetrating a Holocaust of its own against Palestinians, publicly calls for sharia law to be implemented in Canada, and participated in a pro-terrorist rally in the Jewish neighbourhood of Calgary, replete with a flag of Hezbollah.
I first came to know this odious man up close, when he hauled me before the
Syed Soharwardy is anti-Semitic scum.
In the face of growing anti-Semitic violence such as this, and this little beauty, and this from the States, and you get the likes of Melanie Phillips having to admit that the officials are cowardly or absent altogether even in defence of Israel’s right to exist.
The officials seem to be clueless as to where this Islamic anti-Semitism comes from.
If only there were some kind of mechanical contraption that could provide speedy access to information from outside the narrow information sources shared by the mainstream media! It would be marvellous if dissenting information could thus be made available worldwide – and including to the Jewish leaders of
Here are a couple of pieces that might create the tiniest possibility of the chance of clue potential appearing inside those brilliant, brilliant minds of
By the late seventh century, and certainly by the eighth, Islamic ideas began to penetrate
Anti-Semitism of course preceded the rise of both Christianity and Islam; and Christianity itself had a long history of antagonism towards Jews well before the appearance of Islam. The antagonism was mutual, and Jewish leaders were in the early centuries as vociferous in their condemnation of Christianity as Christian leaders were of Judaism. Serious violence between the two groups was, however, uncommon; and the first real pogrom launched by Christians against the Jews in
And
Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world has often been attributed to the baneful influence of Christianity. Many analysts assert that the Islamic designation of Jews (as well as Christians) as “People of the Book” indicates a higher level of respect for them than was manifested by Christians who derided Jews as bestial “Christ-killers.” Journalist
Until the end of World War II … Jews lived safely—although submissively—under Muslim rule for 1,200 years, enjoying full religious freedom; but in the 1930s, Nazi propaganda on Arabic-language shortwave radio, coupled with slanders by Christian missionaries in the region, infected the area with this ancient Western prejudice [anti-Semitism]. After the war,
This is a common view, but in reality there is a strong native strain of anti-Semitism in Islam, which is rooted in the Qur’an. The Muslim holy book contains a great deal of material that forms the foundation for a hatred of Jews that exists independently of the Christian variety. It is also, in many ways, more virulent and harder to eradicate. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims—and there is no Muslim equivalent of the Second
It’s complex, it’s long, and it’s – what’s the expression?- nuanced. But it’s a thousand times more clued in than the Jews of Harrow, who do remind me of mice protesting against the speying of feral cats, and who seem to see only people demonstrating on their streets as a threat – and not, perhaps, part of the salvation that we all need.
And that includes the heroic majority of Muslims who aren’t interested at all in changing our country into a hell-hole of Middle Eastern corruption and cruelty.
How on earth did I miss it last year? Did I miss it at all, or are approaching old age and anger messing with my memories like
Perhaps I blogged furiously about it at the time, but supermarket budget vodka and absolutely everything that President Obama, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and the BBC have done since have wiped that spurt of fury from my recollections.
Perhaps it was because it was my birthday and I was therefore eating a curry with Mrs. Northwester and watching The Matrix or The Thirteenth Warrior or some other towering cultural item that (half) explains but (mostly) disappoints as a metaphor for our times.
Anyway, it might amuse readers to think on’t and chuckle about the BBC’s pallid cultural relativism and its moral compass stuck due Left. Are you ready for this? Are you sitting comfortably?
Then I’ll begin.
“Some Imams 'biased against women’”
Many women felt they did not get a fair hearing under Sharia law
A Muslim think tank has found some
Whatever next, O my lucky readers? What other discomforting situations might the Gramscian BBC disingenuously camouflage, soften, and excuse in their mission to see us all onto the slave block or into the graveyard?
Suggestions, please, as some of you have been in good inventive form this week. I’ll start us off, as it’s Friday and all.
“Some Russians ‘were a bit peckish’ under Soviet Communism.”
Many citizens of the new
Pounce, via Biased BBC, observes that the BBC’s all breathless about what we’ll be able watch on the big screen once the Harry Potter series ends, and guess what? It’s going to be even better!
Epic Muhammad movie in pipeline
Oh, those wags!
“Pipeline!” Get it?
The single thing that makes some Islamic countries more influential in world’s culture and civilisation than
An epic movie about Islam's Prophet Muhammad is in the pipeline, backed by a producer of the Lord of the Rings.
This I’ve got to see! Admittedly, there’s only one noticeable cute single woman in the whole Lord of the RingsMuhammad they’re going to bag her head as well. And what’s with the spelling of his name, anyway? You can never trust those dhimmis at the Beeb when they discuss matters of – well - anything at all really, and so why they chose this variant for one can only speculate, instead of Mohammad, trilogy, but in Muhammed, Mohamed, Muhammed, Muhamed, Mehmed, Muhammed, Muhammet, Muhamet, Mehmet, Mohand, Mahometus (which kinda rhymes, if you know what I mean), Maometto, Moameth, Mahoma, Mukhammad, Magomed, Maxamed, Mamadou, Makhambet. Perhaps that’s the most peaceful and loving spelling, and the variant we are least likely to associate with beheadings or female genital mutilations, honour killings and genocidal anti-Semitism I suppose.
American Barrie Osborne, who also produced The Matrix, (AKA Thu Matricks, Da Meddrigs, la Matrisse, Der Mettriks, Dumb Hat-tricks,) told Reuters the film would be an "international epic" aimed at "bridging cultures". It will also include people who don't know what the hell's going on with or without sunglasses.
Ooh goody! This is us, aren’t we lovely? films, like the Triumph Of The Will and Battleship Potemkin, or the North Korean comedy cult classic Mamma’s Got A Brand New Bag With Absolutely Nothing To Put In It.
I can imagine that the small-scale back story will be of a simple family man trying to make his way in the world and feed his family amidst titanic historical events when suddenly someone kills all his brothers and rapes and enslaves his womenfolk and castrates him for sale up North, but he dies of septicaemia on the way.
In accordance with Islamic rules, the Prophet cannot be depicted on screen. Images of the Prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims.
Here’s one, for example.
The $150m (£91m) English language film should go into production in 2011.
Qatari media company Alnoor Holdings, which is behind the plans, said it wanted to attract the "best international talent" for the film.
So, let’s see. That’s the Scientologist Tom Cruise as the voice of The Prophet (if they can’t get him that did Shrek or the lion off Madagascar or someone), and Jeff Goldblum as Abu Bakr, and the entire cast of Saint Trinian’s as The Prophet’s wives and, er, so on.
"The film will educate people about the true meaning of Islam," Osborne said.
Though these things from the BBC and elsewhere might add polish to the picture…
Raja Sharif, vice president of international projects at Alnoor, told Reuters he expected to conclude deals next year.
And just look at the geniuses they’ve got making it. What talent. What humanity. What depth. Phew.