Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Change is in the Air

The wind is shifting all across Europe. Fresh breezes are coming from different directions, bringing surprising changes:

  • Sverigedemokraterna in the Swedish Parliament
  • Minarets banned in Switzerland
  • Multiculturalism called into question in Germany
  • The postponement of the Geert Wilders case in the Netherlands, after having the Koran read into the trial record
  • Last weekend’s Counterjihad demonstration in Amsterdam, which drew massive media coverage
  • Burqa bans in a number of countries

A couple of articles just came in with further evidence of the new trends. The first is from the Dutch newspaper Dagelijkse Standaard, and was translated by our Flemish correspondent VH:

The right is peaceful, the left violent. A fact.

By Isser

Squatter scum, autonomists, anarchists, anti-globalists, so-called anti-fascists. All left-wing scum who do not eschew violence. There, exactly where the left always points to the extreme right, or extremist right, the reality proves to be different. Every sane person knows as much, except for the blindfolded part of our society. And, if there were any violence at all, then that was surely the result of disproportionate police action, or the provocative behavior of undercover agents in civilian clothing. This is the way the looking-away left reasons concerning its own violence.

The reality is different form the newspeak put out by, say, the Green Left. This is evident from the following two news bulletins:

In the Netherlands, the threat to the democratic legal order by the extreme right or right-wing extremism is minor. This is the conclusion of the AIVD [Dutch Security Service] in a report published Tuesday.[1]

“Damn it!” you hear the leftist part of the Netherlands think. But it gets even worse. Bomb after bomb explodes in Athens, or is intercepted and defused. The Dutch Embassy got off lightly, but the Swiss Embassy received the full brunt: a bomb exploded there [the Russian embassy and those of Belgium, Chile, Germany and Bulgaria received a letter bomb, and another for the Mexican Embassy exploded at a courier company]. The right wing is, even in Greece, too busy working, and thus it falls to the lazy leftist rabble to devise bombs to kill people with. Thus, the left:

One of the suspects, according to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, has ties to the ultra-leftist group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.

Typical left-wing. When they lack arguments, they resort to violence. Squatter scum, the “autonomous”, anarchists, anti-globalists, so-called anti-fascists — all may count on the sympathy of the Left. And now you know why.

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Col. Allen West’s Victory Speech

The voters of Florida’s 22nd District have elected LTC (ret.) Allen West to represent them in Congress.

As regular readers know, Col. West is a staunch Counterjihad activist with up-close and personal experience of the Iraqi variant of the Great Jihad. When he arrives in Congress, he will ably represent what this blog and others like it stand for.

Col. West also supports other positions that Dymphna and I happen to approve of: fiscal restraint, small government, and a return to Constitutional governance. If only he lived in the 5th District of Virginia!

Below is a video of Allen West’s victory speech in Florida last night. You can barely see the Congressman-elect, but the audio is mostly clear:

Hand To Mouth

** Fall 2010 Fundraiser — Day Two **

Low Grounds, 1999

Before I took up Counterjihad work, I was a computer programmer (and still am, on occasion). Before that I was a landscape artist. The painting above is an example of what I used to do before my eyes went bad and Dymphna’s illness compelled me to seek a line of work that actually involved getting paid.

For the last four years, since I quit working in Richmond in order to be close to home for Dymphna’s sake, we have been living in straitened circumstances. For the past year, since near-complete unemployment set in, we’ve been living hand-to-mouth.

Tip jarHand-to-mouth turns out not to be so hard, because it’s how we lived for the more than twenty years I spent painting pictures. I was able to sell virtually everything I painted, but never for very much, and we had to live frugally. Dymphna’s employment is what made my “career” as a painter possible, but social work is not a well-paying field, and we hovered at or near the poverty line for those twenty-odd years.

As a result, this is all too familiar territory. I gave up most of my desires for worldly goods decades ago, so it’s not hard to return to that state. Dymphna is already an expert at making gourmet meals on the cheap, among the many other skills of a thrifty housewife. I long ago learned to live without health insurance or significant savings. This is not the best way to live, but it’s doable, and it’s for a good cause.

In other words, we’ll be able to keep on going for the time being, thanks to the generosity (not to mention the gratifying moral support) of our readers.

Twenty-Nine Wars Against Europe

In the video below — recorded during last Saturday’s rally for free speech in Amsterdam — the German journalist Michael Mannheimer talks about the history of Islam, describing its bloody history of aggression and conquest in Europe. One of the interesting facts he mentions is that there were twenty-nine wars waged by Islam against Europe in the space of less than five hundred years:


The rest of Michael Mannheimer’s speech may be found in Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/2/2010

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/2/2010News about the U.S. Election will mostly be found in other posts. Short version: the Republicans won the House by a large margin, but failed to retake the Senate.

The Iranian “adulteress” who was sentenced to death by stoning and then reprieved will die tomorrow. The regime announced that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will be executed by hanging on Wednesday, November 3.

In other news, schools in the UK have been given the right to fire teachers who are members of the BNP. Such firings are not mandatory, but headmasters have the discretion to do so if they feel that the political opinions of the teachers make contact with children inappropriate.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, Caroline Glick, CSP, DF, Fjordman, Gaia, Insubria, SF, Srdja Trifkovic, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

Allen West Is In!

An authentic Counterjihad warrior has been elected to Congress: LTC (ret.) Allen West will represent Florida’s 22nd District in the House of Representatives as of January 1st.

This is an historic moment It’s like electing Bat Ye’or or Steve Coughlin to office — Allen West understands the true nature of Islam. He recognizes the menace of the Great Jihad. You can be certain that he will make himself heard on the subject in the halls of Congress.

According to the Sun Sentinel:

Allen West defeats Ron Klein
Republican to represent 22nd District


The national wave of discontent with the Democratic-controlled Congress swept through South Florida on Tuesday, costing Ron Klein his congressional seat and sending Republican Allen West to Congress, where he’s likely to get a quick place on the national stage.

In the end, it wasn’t even close. At 11 p.m., challenger West was well ahead of the Democratic incumbent. Just over 20 minutes later, West declared victory.

The outcome was obvious much earlier. By 9:45, the West campaign party was so packed that people spilled out into the hallways and lobby at the Boca Raton Marriott. The mood was glum at Klein’s party, where most of the crowd left early.

Throwing the Rascals Out

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Today is one of those rare days when my political panopticon rotates 180° to focus on my own side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Today we throw the rascals out.

The Number One Rascal from my very parochial viewpoint is Rep. Tom Perriello, who has just been successfully returned to private life — or whatever passes for private life for a international NGO careerist bankrolled by George Soros — here in the 5th District of Virginia. He will be replaced by a RINO named Robert Hurt, whose feet we will have to hold to the fire over the next two years to keep his attention on the issues that put him into office. Otherwise he will be granted official “rascal” status himself, and be subject to a Tea Party-inspired primary challenge in 2012.

As I write this, Republicans are winning all over the place. Marco Rubio in Florida, Dan Coats in Indiana, John Boozman in Arkansas, Rand Paul in Kentucky, and many others have taken Senate and House seats away from the Democrats. It looks like LTC (ret.) Allen West is poised to win in Florida’s 22nd District — which means that there will be at least one of us sworn in as a congressman come January first.

Vote Wisely While You Have the Chance

Our fall fundraiser happens to coincide with the Day We Throw the Rascals Out, also known as the Democrats’ Bloodbath.

Like most folks, we don’t care much for politicians but we love political jokes, even ones with punch lines like this one.

Thanks to Prospero for passing it on. Now we gotta go vote…

Heaven and Hell

While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator was tragically hit by a car and died.

His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

“Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.”

“No problem, just let me in,” says the Senator..

“Well, I’d like to, but I have orders from the higher ups. What we’ll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.”

“Really?, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the Senator.

“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.”

Devil: Ned FlandersAnd with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.

Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.

They played a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and the finest champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having a good time dancing and telling jokes.

They are all having such a good time that before the Senator realizes it, it is time to go.

Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, “Now it’s time to visit heaven..”

So, 24 hours passed with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.

“Well, then, you’ve spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.”

The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: “Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.”

So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell..

Now the doors of the elevator open and he’s in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.

The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulders.

“I don’t understand,” stammers the Senator. “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there’s just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?”

The devil smiles at him and says,

Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

** Fall 2010 Fundraiser — Day One **

Sheep Grazing by Stonehenge, Richard Tongue 1830

Well, that’s one way to begin our quarterly fund-raiser. As you read further, I hope the meaning becomes clearer.

During the coming week we’ll be discussing what has happened and what is to come in this dangerous world of ours. Since the start of this bleg coincides with our national mid-term Election Day here in America, I will be focusing at times on the particulars of this event. There will be lots of time to analyze what the remarkably abrupt swerve to the Right by the American electorate means for our commonweal and for the short-term future of the legislative bodies in Congress. Not to mention the “state of the states” as some of the governors’ seats and statehouses change hands. A fractured, fractious Union for sure, often held together with spit and baling wire, but held together nonetheless.

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As an introduction to this week’s fundraising posts, I offer the email below. It arrived after the events in Amsterdam last weekend. We receive many courteous emails, but this particular message touched me deeply. It appears to have changed me, but I can’t know the full ramifications of the alteration as yet; the experience is still too close to be able to say with any certainty what will be the longer-term, lasting changes.

This note arrived at exactly the right time. Unknown to the sender it came just as the Baron and I were questioning whether or not I was able to participate in a fund-raiser at present, and to what extent I could do so. If I couldn’t be of significant help, then there would be no quarterly bleg. The Baron’s time is already stretched so thin there is no more give. It follows that if there were no bleg, we wouldn’t have sufficient funds to continue to maintain Gates of Vienna for very long.

As many of you know, my health and stamina are chronically at a low ebb. I leave emails unanswered even though I would dearly love to respond. Unless it is just one of those fleeting times when my energy is sufficient for the moment, far too many messages go by with no reply from me. At times, I will promise to follow up on someone’s idea for a post only to sink back into pain and fatigue. There are days I can’t even sit at the computer.

But the email you will read below changed the physical and emotional equation for me, in a most astounding way.

In my experience with this blog, I’ve learned the hard lesson that words have tremendous power to wound. The many slings and arrows from people who’ve questioned our motives and our integrity sapped my energy and my will. We have been called names and scorned by those who are nominally on the same side in this endeavor to preserve the remnants of Western culture. The dilemma one faces on learning that one’s allies are one’s enemies is, for me, a crushing blow.

Would that I possessed the Baron’s tenacity, his ability to get up again and proceed on with his work despite the discouragement and setbacks, despite the concerted efforts of others to construct around Gates of Vienna a cordon sanitaire. At those times when I am able to distance myself from the experience it is fascinating to watch the preferred tactics of the Left applied to us by people on the Right. Unkind behavior is not confined solely to liberals. The Right is all too human in that regard.

Perhaps, for both groups, be they from the Right or the Left, the principle of scarcity is in operation. Those caught in this delusion are trapped by the deep fear that if another succeeds then one must needs fail. If another gains renown, then one must be cornered into obscurity. That is not reality, but it is the prison in which some are condemned to live — never to realize that living from a sense of abundance produces that very quality, while being trapped in scarcity means a pervasive sense of impoverishment, no matter the reality of plenty. This is a foundational understanding that dates back to America’s beginnings. It is part of her “exceptionalism” to see the prospects of abundance, based on shared effort.

This abundance is what I see the Baron practice every day. He eschews the MSM idea of “exclusive” stories or images, simply asking for an acknowledgement of any material created by him or his team members, but otherwise leaving his work for the taking.

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Tip jarNow, with the receipt of this email as this Quarter’s Funding Week begins, I have experienced words with the power to heal, to absolve, and to permit their recipient (me! — even though the email was addressed to the Baron) a surrender into the recognition, once again, that goodness does indeed exist and sometimes one’s cup is filled to overflowing, if I were only to look down at the goblet in my hand. Reading the email was one of those moments where justice and mercy followed. For the moment I am experiencing one of the three things that Isaak Dinesen claimed brought happiness: I know that I have an excess of energy for the tasks of this week as we begin our appeal for donations.

Back in the days when I was pursuing a degree in theology, there were several courses on the foundation of Christian moral theology. One professor summed up this subject better than I’d heard before (or since). He said that an authentic encounter with the reality of the Christ meant that one finally understood (in an experiential way having naught to do with Reason) that in such a numinous moment we could comprehend truly that “love is possible, evil is reversible, and we can live freed from our past”.

Monday, November 01, 2010

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/1/2010

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/1/2010The leader of the Danish People’s Party, Pia Kjærsgaard, has called for the ban of Muslim satellite television channels in Denmark. She says that stations like Al Jazeera foster negative feelings and hatred among Muslims towards their host country.

In other news, in the Russian province of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, three churches — two Orthodox and one Catholic — were set on fire by a person or persons unknown. Since Karachayevo-Cherkessia is in the North Caucasus, Muslim separatists are suspected to be the perpetrators.

To see the headlines and the articles, open the full news post.

Thanks to Bewick, C. Cantoni, DF, Fjordman, heroyalwhyness, Holger Danske, Insubria, JD, KGS, Nilk, Steen, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

Hunting the “New Laserman” in Rosengård

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In recent months the culturally enriched neighborhood of Rosengård in the southern Swedish city Malmö has been terrorized by a gunman who has been dubbed the “New Laserman” because he uses a rifle with a laser sight, in apparent imitation of a sniper who committed similar crimes a number of years ago.

Since all of the gunman’s victims or intended victims have been immigrants — what else could they be in Rosengård? — “racism” is suspected as a motive for the shootings. Some people have gone so far as to associate the New Laserman with the Sweden Democrats.

The residents of Malmö are impatient to catch the killer. They don’t want to wait for the police to arrest him, and plan to dispense some culturally enriched vigilante justice on the mean streets of Rosengård. In the news video below, the man known as the “Laser Turk” explains what he plans to do when he catches up with the culprit.

Many thanks to Hans Erling Jensen for translating this report, and to Kitman for subtitling it:



For a complete listing of previous enrichment news, see The Cultural Enrichment Archives.

The Expert Testimony of Hans Jansen at the Geert Wilders Trial

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Professor Hans Jansen, one of the most prominent and respected scholars of Islam in the Western world, was called by Geert Wilders as an expert witness in Mr. Wilders’ recently-postponed trial for “hate speech” in Amsterdam.

Just as with the testimony given by Simon Admiraal and Wafa Sultan, Hans Jansen’s words are a devastating blow to those who accuse Mr. Wilders of “insulting” Islam. Every statement by the defendant is painstakingly demonstrated to be an accurate description of Islamic scripture, law, history, and theology.

Anyone in the future who is unfortunate enough to have to defend himself against the charge of “defaming Islam” will owe a great debt to Hans Jansen and Geert Wilders. This material has been read into the official record of a court of law in the Netherlands, and thus the European Union. This is precedent.

Our Flemish correspondent VH, who undertook the massive task of transcribing and translating Dr. Jansen’s testimony, provides this introduction:

The Arabist Hans Jansen was one of the expert witnesses called by the defense at the Geert Wilders Trial. He gave explanations of Mr. Wilders’ statements about Islam and the Quran, such as “A moderate Islam does not exist.” According to Jansen, that is correct: “There are moderate Muslims, but no moderate Islam.”

On comparing the Quran with Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, Professor Jansen declared that there are more anti-Semitic passages in the Quran than in Mein Kampf. He also said that the Quran commands violence in the imperative. Professor Jansen agreed the Quran incites to hatred and murder. “As long as it only concerns unbelievers,” Jansen added.

In this four-part video, Judge Hanneke Lommen-Van Alphen reads out the report in the Amsterdam Court on October 6, 2010.

The quality of the audio in the first two parts is lower than one would like, but everything is subtitled. I’ve placed all the embedded videos below the jump, to avoid the “Blogger bug”, and they are followed by a complete transcript of all four parts. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Muslim Crime in the UK: Part 2

The following is the second part of a four-part analysis of Muslim crime in Britain. It was originally published as a pdf on the English Defence League website. Part 1 is here.

Scotland Yard’s Wanted #2

A Consideration of Muslim Crime in the UK
and the Response of the British Authorities

Part Two

By Pike Bishop


III. Two Rhapsodies on the Theme of Muslim Crime

Pimping


Among the most disgusting examples of dereliction of duty on the part of our ‘law enforcement’ apparatus is that which pertains to the pimping of underage white girls. Of course, the usual disclaimers must be made here: it is not only Muslims that pimp out these unfortunate white girls, and not all Muslims do pimp them out. However, insofar as one can discern from the limited amount of information that makes its way into the mainstream media, there are certain groups of Muslims who appear to be particularly culpable in this regard. We acknowledge the uncertainties here, and the great difficulty in trying to develop any accurate picture of exactly what is going on. As we will see, however, this lack of information is unlikely to be an accident.

Though we use the term ‘pimping’ to describe the practice under examination here, the fact of the matter is that it consists of the dragging of underage white girls into a life of sexual slavery and violence. Those who are interested in learning about it in more detail are invited to read the September 2007 Times article Mothers of Prevention by Julie Bindel4 and to watch the March 2008 edition of Panorama, ‘Teenage Sex for Sale’.5 We urge all those who read this document to familiarize themselves with the relevant material, the better to understand the nature of the multicultural paradise and glittering rainbow nation that is modern Britain.

Here, we will content ourselves with a brief summary of the essentials. Pakistani drug-dealing gangs concentrated in the north of England are orchestrating a system in which underage white girls ‘just happen’ to make friends with Pakistani boys of roughly their own age. They are then introduced to older ‘cousins’ of these boys, who are the actual pimps, and who, in time, become their new ‘boyfriends’. These men use a wide variety of techniques to control the girls and induce them to prostitute themselves out to the Pakistani community. These techniques include, but are not limited to, pretending to need money, threatening the girls, drugging them, and beating them with iron bars. Through a combination of a reluctance to appear ‘racist’ and fears of race riots of unspecified type, the British police seem to have devoted rather less than their full energies to this matter, with the result being that the Pakistani Muslim criminals in question are essentially engaging in all these criminal activities with impunity.

It is hard to avoid the impression that there is a slice of the vibrant, bustling Pakistani Muslim community of the UK that simply considers the native British population to be a resource, existing for no other reason than to be chewed up and spat out by vibrant, bustling Pakistani Muslim predators like themselves, for their sexual pleasure and financial gain. And it is far from obvious that this slice is some sort of anomaly in this population. On the contrary, the Pakistani organized crime gangs in question and their Pakistani customers seem to range from the very young (the teenage boys used to befriend the girls), to their slightly older ‘cousins’ (used to start pimping the girls), to older men still (those orchestrating these activities in the background), with the girls’ clients presumably running the gamut from young to old.

That is the depth of the slice. What of its breadth? Well, let us consider the matter. There are approximately one million people of Pakistani origin in the UK. Let us assume, not unreasonably, that half of them are male. If 5,000 child prostitutes exist in the UK,6 and the problem is particularly bad in the north of England, which appears to be the epicentre of the phenomenon, then there are perhaps 2,000 girls being prostituted there by Pakistanis (we will not dignify them by calling them Britons of Pakistani descent). How many times, on average, has each of these girls been raped by Pakistani ‘clients’? 400? 500? How many individual ‘clients’ have they been raped by? 100, with each having raped them 4 or 5 times, on average? What is 100 multiplied by 2,000? 200,000? Does that mean that 200,000 Pakistani males, or 40% of the total, have raped underage white girls in the UK? Well no, probably not, as some Pakistani males have presumably raped more than one girl. So shall we reduce our estimate by a (fairly arbitrary) factor of two to take into account this redundancy in the Pakistani raping of underage white girls? Why yes, let us do that, and generously conclude that only 100,000 Pakistani males have raped an underage white girl.7

Now, 100,000 is one fifth of 500,000. This means that, according to our estimate, one in five of the male Pakistani population of the UK is the rapist of an underage white girl. Bearing in mind that the fraction of the Pakistani population under the age of 18 is very large, and that these rapes will be predominantly committed by the population aged 18 and over (who number approximately 330,000), we must conclude that somewhere in the region of one in three adult Pakistani males is the rapist of an underage white girl. Having concluded this, and bearing in mind the various other forms of criminality and sedition that seem to be prevalent amongst ‘British’ Pakistanis that we have not even considered here, would it be unreasonable to suppose that the Pakistani Muslim population of the UK is in fact, taken as a whole, an enemy of the British people?

We seem to have arrived at a rather unfortunate conclusion. Surely there must be a mistake in our reasoning, or a mistaken premise? Very well, let us take a stab at this puzzle from a different angle. According to the information available in the mainstream media, pimping out one underage girl for one year can bring in £300,000 to £400,000. Let us take the low end of the estimate (£300,000) and see what we can conclude from it. How much does one have to pay to a pimp to be able to rape the girl under his ‘care’? Let us assume it costs £100 a time. This means that a girl being pimped out is being raped 3,000 times a year, or roughly 60 times a week. Returning to our earlier estimate of 2,000 girls being pimped out by Pakistanis, we see that there are six million occasions each year upon which a Pakistani male rapes an underage white girl in this fashion. Now, we established above that the population of adult Pakistani males in the UK will be in the region of 330,000. Six million divided by 330,000 gives us a rounded-down figure of 18, which means that the average adult Pakistani male in the UK rapes an underage white girl or girls 18 times a year. But surely there must be many adult Pakistani males who are not involved in this crime? Why yes, there must. Let us be generous and assume that half of all such people are not involved. We must therefore conclude that the remaining 50% are perpetrating an average of 36 such rapes a year. Perhaps two thirds of all adult Pakistani males are uninvolved, leaving the remaining one third to rape underage white girls on an average of 55 occasions8 a year, or more than once a week.

Dereliction of Duty

Amsterdam: EDL Van #3

Our Dutch correspondent Batavian was one of the Dutch Defence League’s organizers of the free speech rally in Amsterdam on Saturday. He sends this report in the aftermath of last weekend’s momentous events:

The demonstration is not over.

A Dutch television station followed the EDL van and recorded what happened. The tape reveals that all the violence came from the leftists. The TV people asked how it could be possible that the police allowed the leftists to attack the van, and did not escort it.

They will call the EDL later on for an interview, and want an item for tonight’s TV program to show viewers which side the violence came from. [Note: the program is airing as this is being posted. — BB]

The TV guy knows people were held up at other stations, or not allowed to enter the area at all. Why would the police allow a train with Ajax hooligans arrive at the subway station when they knew in advance that they would team up at a previous station, Sloterdijk station?

Why were they allowed to leave that train?