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Highlights of the news today Monday 18th August 2014
Church of England Attacks Government Response to Iraq Crisis
Travelodge Removes Bibles From Rooms Hodge Hill, Birmingham Tesco Store Trashed
by Gaza Protesters Netherlands: Demonstrations Banned in the
Hague Schilderswijk District Dutch Mayor Bans Pro-Israel Anti-ISIS Rally
as �Too Provocative� Sweden: �Racist� Posters Blocked From
Busses The Rev West and the comment on Islam by Dr
Rowan Williams NIGERIA: Boko Haram terrorists slaughter 1,000
Christians by shooting them, cooking them alive and chopping them up in pieces
Guide Dogs and Guns: America�s Blind Gunmen �Save us From Iraq-Syria Caliphate�, Eastern
Christians Thought for the Day � Democracy v Dictatorships?
And finally � Clean Guys jokes!
UK NEWS Church of England Attacks Government Response
to Iraq Crisis The Church of England has accused the Government
of appearing to have no ��coherent or comprehensive approach�� to tackling the
rise of Islamic extremism. In a strongly-worded attack on David Cameron�s
handling of the crisis in Iraq � backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury � the Bishop
of Leeds said ��many�� senior clergy were seriously concerned.
The Right Rev Nicholas Baines has written to the Prime Minister questioning whether
there is any long-term strategy and criticising a ��growing silence�� over the fate
of the plight of persecuted Christians�.
W@8. It is more than our life is worth to actually move in to save anything other than
non Christians or Oil.
Travelodge Removes Bibles From Rooms The decision by one of Britain�s largest
hotel chains to remove Bibles from its rooms has sparked complaints from Christians.
Travelodge, which operates 500 hotels, says the Bibles were removed for �diversity reasons,�
citing the country�s increasing multicultural influences, the Daily Mail reported.
The chain reportedly said that despite the recent uproar, the decision to remove the
Bibles was made in 2007. The company said in a statement that the move
was designed so as �not to discriminate against any religion.�
Now the Bibles, supplied by the Gideon Society, are available at the reception desks for guests
to borrow.
W@8. Travelodge are only concerned with bums on beds � so why do this? It is the only
part of Travelodge�s that was traditional the Bible in the drawer � like electricity
not many people read it it was just there. I don�t think many Muslims stay in Travelodges
do they?
Hodge Hill, Birmingham Tesco Store Trashed by Gaza Protesters
Police officers were attacked and stock was thrown around during a protest against the
Gaza conflict at a Tesco store on Saturday. Demonstrators, who want the supermarket to
stop selling Israeli food, entered Tesco in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, threw produce to the
floor and shouted at staff and shoppers. Pictures show a large number of police officers
at the scene and stock strewn across the floor of the store.
West Midlands Police said one person was arrested for assaulting its officers during the protest.
Speaking on social media, a customer said: �I was just in the Tesco in Hodge Hill,
scanning my items and I heard chanting. Then a group of Asian men holding Palestinian
flags came walking in and starting to push products over and getting aggressive with
staff and shoppers. Police officers tried to stop them but I ran
out.� About 100 people had gathered outside the
store to demonstrate, calling on Tesco to stop all trade with Israeli agricultural companies.
A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: �Our officers dealt with a protest at Tesco
Hodge Hill this morning where some disorder was reported. One arrested for assaulting
police. �The protest was largely peaceful among
the 100 protesters but some began throwing stock inside Tesco store.
W@8. If Nationalists protested like this our feet wouldn�t touch the ground and the publicity
would be an awful bunch of lies � but this lot they can and do get away with ***.
EUROPEAN NEWS Netherlands: Demonstrations Banned in the
Hague Schilderswijk District The Hague mayor Jozias van Aartsen is to ban
marches through the city�s Schilderswijk district for the time being and is supported
in his decision by the public prosecution office, Dutch media report.
He was speaking at an emergency meeting of the city council on Thursday evening, called
after riots in the district last weekend. �I am more sorry than I can say that I have
had to take this decision,� said Van Aartsen, who broke off his holiday to attend the meeting.
Last weekend�s riot broke out when around 150 Muslim youngsters began an illegal protest,
blocking the route of a legal march against Muslim radicals and the Islamic State (Isis).
The fact that Van Aartsen was on holiday and there was no statement on the incident from
the city council caused an outcry. The mayor was already under fire for not taking
tough action during an anti-Jewish rally on July 24, when demonstrators were heard chanting
�death to Jews� and protesters carried pro-Isis flags.
W@8. This makes me sick. The fact that this country has chosen a side and that side is
with the Muslims.
On the flip side, Dutch Mayor Bans Pro-Israel Anti-ISIS Rally as �Too Provocative�
While Islamic State (IS) jihadists battle their way across Syria and Iraq � beheading
soldiers and civilians, training children for jihad � their supporters across Europe
demand �death to Jews� and call for the blood of infidels.
Now, it seems, some European leaders are refusing to fight back�
The situation has become especially controversial in the Dutch political capital of The Hague,
where�pro-IS protests in July involved anti-Jewish chants and a violent attack on a female journalist
covering the event. As the Jew-hate worsened and violence intensified,
witnesses and Jewish advocacy groups�called on the mayor�s office to step in.
But Mayor Josias van Aartsen was on holiday; and his deputy, left in charge, found no reason
to intervene. Residents of The Hague, however, felt otherwise:
on August 10, a group calling itself �Pro-Patria� staged its own �freedom march� through
the same largely Muslim neighborhood (the Schilderswijk) where the pro-IS demonstrations
had been held,. The aim,�according to one organizer, was
to show �that this so-called Sharia-triangle is still Dutch land, where Dutch laws and
rules prevail.� (The Schilderswijk has been referred to as
the �Sharia triangle� frequently in the Dutch press.)
It was, perhaps, a naively optimistic notion: no sooner had the demonstration started than
pro-IS residents�began attacking,�throwing stones and starting fistfights. Six people
were arrested.
W@8. It brings me in mind of the celebrations of Armistice Day, WW1 and WW2 � all the
dignitaries are standing around with faces like Wallace & Gromit and most EU countries
without exception handed over their Jews willingly to the Germans. They are doing the same now.
Sweden: �Racist� Posters Blocked From Buses
The public transport service in Sk�ne will not allow election campaign posters from the
Sweden Democrats on their buses. Shortly after the Sweden Democrats presented
their election campaign posters, Sk�netrafiken is pulling the breaks on three of them.
The reason is that the transport service does not allow advertisements that could be interpreted
as �offensive, discriminating or racist,� the company told newspaper Dagens ETC.
Stockholm counterpart SL, however, has no problem with the party�s campaign posters.
SL told newspaper Expressen that they do not think that the advertisements are crossing
any lines. The Sweden Democrats are not happy with the
move and accuses Sk�netrafiken of acting like a political player.
W@8. They do the same throughout the EU � nationalism and patriotism are dirty words now �because
they are not backed by the majority or the corporations.
The Rev West who today talks about the statement from Dr Rowan Williams that Islam is a great
contributory factor to the unification of this country!
Rowan Williams and the belief that Mohammedanism is
a renewing and re-invigorating factor for British Values.
At the �Living Islam� festival recently held in Lincolnshire, the bygone Lord Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams, suggested that Mohammedanism is renewing and
re-invigorating British values. I wonder how so intelligent and educated a
man can be so misguided. We must be fair to Islam, certainly; however
the fact is that Islam is very different to the kind of beliefs and values upon which
modern Europe is built.
Europe is really a combination of Judeo-Christianity beliefs, on the one hand, and the classical
knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome, on the other.
Modern Europe is, in short, a mixing of Jerusalem and Athens.
These two systems of beliefs, and values, blended together and really produced a new
system in which politics and religion were separate and respectful of each other, even
though they did to a degree overlap. The temporal power, the State, gave some privileges
and protection to the Christian Church; and the Christian Faith, at times, mollified and
humanised the realm of politics which, otherwise, would have been more brutal than it in deed
was. This is a simplification, of course, but it
is nonetheless broadly true. There were exceptions, most notably the Medieval
Inquisition of the Catholic and Papal Church.
However, the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s improved the situation for both Church
and Society by ensuring the further separation of these two realms, but not by breaking the
connection totally. What the Reformation eventually gave was a
Western civilization and society moderated by Christian beliefs, and values, but not
to the extent where the Churches � Protestant or Roman Catholic - could dominate everyone;
or where the Churches could be corrupted by the temptations of temporal power and wealth.
Furthermore the naturalistic and scientific Enlightenment of the 1700s and 1800s, grew
out of Christian beliefs in the perceptible and predicable laws of a Creator-God: this
intellectual movement further clipped the wings of religious faith and, in some cases,
fanaticism; and it finally ensured a civilization which was, in some ways, very religious and
Evangelical � ending for example the slave trade - but which gave to, us all, a large
chunk of secular space and freedom. We had John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin and,
today, we have Richard Dawkins. Professor Richard Dawkins, an ardent secularist,
deeply values our Christian heritage for these reasons; even though he does not share the
beliefs from which they came.
However, all of this is threatened by �Living Islam.� How so?
Well Mohammedanism from the start was not just a religion but was, firstly, a militant
army for Allah and his Prophet and, secondly, a holistic community and civilization in its
own right, which did not recognise the separation of Church and State.
Mecca is an armed and distorted version of �Christian Jerusalem� and there is little,
if any, place there for Athens at all. The idea of the separation of religion, politics
and holy war, jihad, is just not there. Islam�s object was always to win the world
for Allah and His Messenger, by invitation at first or, failing that, by armed conflict.
The invitation to embrace Islam, though couched in euphemistic words, was really an ultimatum,
as we have recently seen in the case of ISIS. Infiltration or conquest, at first, then gradual
domination; and then, if that failed to produce wholesale conversion, the power of the sword.
Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire records that the religion of
Mohammed was, indeed, spread by the sword. That is how it quickly gained dominance over
a great swathe of the earth - from the Pyrenees to the Indus valley.
This was its golden age, as its devotees saw it, whether Sunni or Sh�ite; long since
gone and, by many, much bewailed.
However once in charge of a society the Mohammedans wrote the laws and influenced the culture
of those whom they either charmed or intimidated; and they did this both to discourage alternatives
to Islam (which by the way means submission), and to induce compliance with its, in many
ways, vicious, and in other ways sensual, creed.
After about eight hundred years - and after the Mohammedan world had transmitted ancient
Greek and Persian learning to the West - the lands that they had conquered in the 7th century
had become majority-Mohammedan societies, and had fallen into sensual degeneracy.
But the Middle World, as Tamin Ansarry refers to it, of the followers of the long-dead Mohammed,
was too committed to its prophet, and both his Koran and traditions (or Sunnah), to adjust
or to adapt. It had no Reformation in the 1600s, which
might have taken it back to the more peaceful Koranic surahs of the time when Mohammed had
been less powerful, and more peaceful, in Mecca; and it got no scientific Enlightenment
in the 1700s, or since. Islam, especially in its more ardent devotees,
is very much time-locked into the early medieval period of honour killings, death fatwas, and
religious warfare and supremacism. It is a kind of Ku Klux *** of religious
hate, as we saw over the Salman Rushdie affair, in which books were burned and the author
of them threatened, with death, here in Britain
In the early 20th century, and later, some majority-Mohammedan states have tried to modernise
by adopting some Western, that is, Christian and Humanist values, to some degree; but the
voices of the radicals - who are the traditionalist devotees of the Prophet - are now struggling
to take them back to the violent traditions of the prophet and his later revelations,
given to him when he had fled from Mecca to Medina and had become more powerful and less
tolerant. The most spectacular example of this was the
Iranian revolution, in 1979, but it is by no means confined to that earth tremor; we
only have to take note of Wahabbi Saudi Arabia, Hamas� Gaza, or, in many other places, the
current genocides against Christians in Indonesia, Iraq and the Sudan.
Even today Mohammedan Turkey still denies its genocide, in 1915, against the Christian
Armenians, in which one and a half million Armenians were put to death, and which served
as the �inspiration� for Adolf Hitler�s Holocaust against the Jews.
Iran has recently threatened to wipe Israel off of the map.
Pakistan criminalises �blaspheming�, that is, criticising the Prophet; and attempting
to leave the faith is likewise a criminal offence in this self-professed �moderate�
Mohammedan country. In many parts of the world a pure and an unreformed
Mohammedanism is flexing its muscles and demonstrating both its violent tendencies and its deeply
intolerant inclinations. In this country we have had the fatwa and
the resulting threats of *** against their fellow-Mohammedan, Salmon Rushdie, simply
for writing things of which they did not approve. This strikes at the very heart of a liberal
and democratic society in which the Enlightenment thinker, Voltaire, defined genuine tolerance
when he said:
�I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say
it�.
No: Rowan Williams is deeply wrong about that faith of militant �submission� that he
praises. Williams has been likened, when he was in
office as the Archbishop of Canterbury, to being the High Mufti of Canterbury.
It is high time that someone, like him, opened his eyes.
As Jesus said, if the blind shall lead the blind, they shall they both fall into a ditch.
Thank you Reverend West � in my personal opinion Williams is a traitor to his tribe
and his country and his religion.
WORLD NEWS NIGERIA: Boko Haram terrorists slaughter 1,000
Christians by shooting them, cooking them alive and chopping them up in pieces
Shoebat.com reported before that the Boko Haram Muslims in this same Christian village
killed 100, but now a new report says 1000. As one report�described�the slaughter:
Mbitsa, who supports Ojutiku�s grassroots Lift Up Now outreach to Nigeria, is a member
of the Church of Christ in Nations on the lower coast of Gwoza, and was away in Maiduguri
during the attack. Boko Haram killed Mbitsa�s pastor Musa Ishaya
and at least nine members of the Church of the Brethren in the attack, Mbitsa said.
He has not heard from many since, as communication towers were destroyed.
�Only my elder brother, I heard from him among my family members,� Mbitsa reported.
�Some brethren who escaped to mountains and bush for ten days now; only God knows
how they are surviving without food, water, etc.
Most of the brethren we communicate and get this information from them, their batteries
are down.� As Boko Haram blocked exit roads from Gwoza
and went door to door killing people, Ojutiku said, Nigerian military officials abandoned
their weapons and fled, leaving Boko Haram unchallenged.
�Now these weapons have fallen into the hands of the Boko Haram,� Ojutiku said.
�A few people were able to escape to the mountainside, just exactly like is happening
in northern Iraq. A few people are holding out on the mountains,
but most of the people in the village are being slaughtered.
There is no communication between Gwoza and other parts of the country.�
�I was told many Nigerian soldiers refused to go and confront Boko Haram, because their
wives protested. They felt they were just sending their husbands
to an untimely death.�
W@8. Fear is an important part of the Islamic tool kit and it works. Just look at Europe
and the UK � frightened out of our wits in reality.
Guide Dogs and Guns: America�s Blind Gunmen In the USA, being blind is no bar to owning
and carrying firearms. The blind people who do it say they are simply
exercising their constitutional right, and present no danger to the public.
When Carey McWilliams went to the sheriff's office in Fargo, North Dakota, to fill out
the paperwork for a permit to carry a concealed weapon, the staff immediately noticed he was
holding the harness to a guide dog. The woman behind the desk pointed out that
he would have to pass a shooting test before being granted the licence, but McWilliams
said he knew that. He told her not to worry. The day of the test came, and McWilliams duly
went along to the police firing range with a friend who was also trying for a permit.
The targets were half-size cut-outs of assailants, positioned seven yards (6.4m) away. McWilliams
fired a series of shots with a .357 magnum, all of which landed in the heart region of
his target. During training on the firing range, McWilliams
learned to take aim by listening to the sound of his target being wheeled back against the
wall. It served him very well. McWilliams says he
shot better than two-thirds of his class, and in his final exam scored 105 out of 100,
with one bullet somehow ricocheting and passing through the target twice.
W@8. That�ll teach the Nanny brigade!
�Save us From Iraq-Syria Caliphate�, Eastern Christians
In a letter sent to all Arab embassies in Italy and the Vatican, the Rome representative
of the Christian Melkite Church on Wednesday demanded that Muslim political, military,
and religious authorities and international bodies stop Islamic extremism and the �brutal
religious-ethnic cleansing� underway by the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq.
Father Mtanious Hadad called the silence of national and international religious and secular
institutions �disturbing�, as nothing had been done to stop the �gestation, rise
and cruel practices � medieval or even pre-historic � used within an illegitimate caliphate�
allowed to be created in Syria and Iraq. It is an �offense to the human race, to
the Muslim religion, and to its intelligence,� the letter from the Melkite Church reads.
�It is no longer tolerable that churches be desecrated, that people are executed for
being Christians, that they are crucified and that their corpses are desecrated�.
�We call on governments around the world and especially those in the Middle East,�
added Hadad, �to stop the unacceptable and shameful extortion of money that goes by the
name of �jizya�.� �What other limits,� he said, �have
to be passed before international diplomacy takes action to restore respect for human
beings and civil order, in this world where it is a crime to abandon an animal but it
does not seem to be one to establish a caliphate between two sovereign states or practice anachronistic
religious-ethnic cleansing?�. Melkites, Byzantine Rite Christians, are one
of the most widespread churches in Syria and Iraq. They view themselves as the first Christian
community, dating the Melkite Church back to the time of the Apostles.[3]
W@8. That is the one reason that the West wont really help � they are too Christian
and we never ever stand up for our own birth faith, well not in the UK we don�t.
Thought for the Day- Democracy versus Dictatorships? Along with Diversity, Multi racial communities,
Multicultural countries, Multi *** people and all that blather � the word Democracy
is continuously rearing its ugly and improbable head.
Like Communism, Democracy is the refuge of the losers of this world, the �I am not
putting my head over the parapet� brigade, the Peace lovers and the ones who want everyone
else to do the hard work and dying so they can cash in on the heavy price that Democracy
brings. Democracy and the words and deeds it entails
belong on paper � similar to true Marxism � because it cannot apply to human beings
en masse let alone entire vast countries on which it is applied by mainly the West and
its viewpoint of how everyone else should run their countries and yet fails to run its
own.
Power to the people means pure anarchy and power to a few people means democracy � it
simply doesn�t finish the way it is ever implemented or started.
One can look at Switzerland and say �Yes that is a true democracy in action� but
look at the facts. Switzerland has rarely been at war over the
last 3 centuries, no civil wars, no immigration, no colonisation and virtually no national
opinion on world matters at all. They have sat out every war in the modern
age, they also sit on vast amounts of international money from whomever cares to place it in their
banks, all their citizens are obliged to do National Service and even ordinary citizens
carry arms. Their form of Democracy has not shifted from
the Middle Ages rather like the Muslims only in a negative as opposed to positive way.
Of course they are an icon to be looked up to but if you think that what they run is
a Democracy in all but name you would be right. It is a modified Police State with everyone
having a vote and the only rumblings to come out have been over certain Immigrants they
have been forced to take and most of these are Muslim.
Now the Americans are the forerunners of Democracy and as that word evolved as they took on the
New World with mainly European refugees fleeing from sovereign states or religious pogroms
� you can see where they got it from � that very odd word Freedom.
Now I like Americans Hell I married one � but their one big mistake was in a form of interference
not seen since Hitler started marching around Europe � for the most part reclaiming various
previously Prussian ruled kinglets. And I am talking about the invasion of Iraq
under Saddam Hussein.
At the time I rattled my war sabre as well but as we all know true knowledge comes in
hindsight along with the re-writing of History. Apparently in the first months of occupying
Bagdad � there was an order to dismantle the Iraqi Army which included all forms of
uniform wearing officials and soldiers. Of course this was meant � one would hope
� so that a new form of Iraqi soldier was formed � well it wasn�t, it was done to
crush Saddam�s forces and make sure they did not rise and reclaim the land.
It wasn�t sectarian from the US�s point of view but it became sectarianism in its
purest form � as certain members of certain sects of Islam were now pariahs and we are
now reaping the whirlwind of playing chess with a huge country and its people.
In fact the US and Europe acted worse in Iraq than the pre war Third Reich � at least
the Third Reich imposed its iron will on its own country at first not thousands of miles
away in the Middle East � on a country which for years had existed on a Dictatorship/Army
rule which although not democratic worked well for the majority of its inhabitants.
At least a European could walk down the street without having his legs blown off.
We have done the same in Libya, Syria and Egypt � only now Egypt has been saved from
the western idea of Islamic Democracy by the General al Sisi who now runs an Army ruled
country. Libya now is the gateway to Europe for thousands
of migrants swarming into it and is in fact a country which is now so undemocratic that
it makes even me want to cry.
Assad in Syria has had to fight the West in all its glory just to still be in power and
bear in mind Syria was one of the only Islamic countries to still have Christians and Muslims
living together as well as other minority religions � not so now � they are being
slaughtered in the name of Islamic Democracy- which is just another name for Islamic Jihad
and sectarian *** and paybacks.
The Middle East has never been democratic even through the dawn of time � neither
has Arabia or Africa � they have either been ruled by a monarch, a general or a dictator
or in the past tribal chieftains. There has always been until the last 2 centuries
a person at the head of the pecking order and once a country, like anything - even a
political party loses its head, it loses its way.
It is by no mischance that for the most part � Africans and most Arabs still cling to
their tribal or sectarian allegiances and in doing so have survived.
Democracy is not their byword however many dollars we give them, however many of their
people we have to put up with in our own countries � simply because they are too indoctrinated
to make their own countries liveable in � so proceed to make ours unliveable in the process.
It is no wonder that there are few Arabs or Negroes who have hit the headlines for finance,
medicine, science, music, the arts or any of the things that apparently go hand in hand
with a democratic way of thinking � because it is foreign to them.
That is where Dictators win hands down and Army dictators or dictators who enlist the
help of the armed forces are a force to be reckoned with and usually popular with the
masses because they bring order and although many suffer and many may hate the man at the
top � it is better by far than a quasi foreign idea being forced on people who have enough
odd ideas of their own and are by virtue of often being Muslim � sectarian in their
outlook.
We in the West have backed and paid for and trained a whole bunch of so called �democratic
fighters� and they have all proved to be killers and rapists and had no thought of
the destruction they have wrought in the name of Democracy on their countries.
Their aim has been to commit genocide on a grand scale and get publicity for doing so
as well as arms and money from the Saudis, the UN, Nato , the US and Europe.
I am not pro Islam but if you think about it � the last 30 years have been a terrible
blot on the Middle East � and I can understand Muslim fury at this interference - if it was
just that but of course it isn�t. Islam is sectarian to a great extent and one
sect cannot stand the other and all hate the minority non Muslims � so to bring a form
of Democracy into the picture is not only divisive but laughable.
All the wars have been staged, paid for and managed on a huge scale by global conglomerates,
governments and bankers.
Whole countries have had their rulers or governments replaced by what?
Look closely and you will see. Puppets, Terrorists, Pawns and yes men.
All supposedly singing from the same hymn sheet of Democracy and Peace but all of these
countries � including the puppet state of South Africa will fail and fail miserable
as indeed Uganda , Libya, Iraq and many more fall under the sword of Democracy.
Dictators are reviled, Fascist dictators are reviled even more and we all know the failures
of the great Roman Empire � but these people did not fail in their jobs of making their
countries great or liveable � they failed when Diversity and Democracy married and set
up home � as we Brits will be privy to one day.
And finally- Clean Guys jokes?
A man having drink with his wife said that he wanted to say something.
I am a lot older then you, as you know, and I will pass on long before you.
You not only much younger,� but still an attractive women and will soon find some one
new.
I want you to promise me that when I am gone you will get all my golfing and fishing gear
together including clothing and give it all to a charity shop.
OK,� she replied I�ll do that but why are you saying this.
Well he said,� I don�t some *** using and enjoying my stuff.
What makes you think� I�d marry another *** she replied.
Dear Mr Cameron,
after 4 years of the Smoking Ban,
Ten Thousand Pubs have disappeared.
Just imagine what could disappear if you banned "Halal Meat"!
Give it some thought please!!!
A British Engineer just started his own business in Afghanistan.
He's making land mines that look like prayer mats.
It's doing well.
He says prophets are going through the roof.
You have been listening to the W@8. I am Lynne Mozar and I wish you all a very
good night.
W@8.18.08.14.