Timing, old boy, timing: ruined careers, missing Prime Ministers, death of a journalist.

Since we are to have a Judicial Inquiry into the wicked Press, shouldn’t we also have one into wicked politicians? 

Journalists can be nasty, and newspapers beastly, but their misdeeds are as nothing set beside those of governments.

Governments also hack into phones, poke their noses into our personal affairs and misuse the information they obtain.

Peter Hitchens, the Daily Mail, 17th July 2011. Daily Mail, 17th July 2011.

There is a war going on internally, with the elites of the world. It is not our war, except in the sense that it is happening in public, so we perceive it. 
The Elite of the world are not a monolithic group either in membership or methodology: they are divided at times not on ends but means and strategy, and occasionally, like through a glass darkly, we are allowed a fleeting view. 
However whatever the punch line of this fracas, there will be no good in it for NO-ONE other than THEM. Both sides are commited to the same outcome, which will mean more death, mayhem rape and pillage for US ALL. 
For the UK, this is a battle between the "liberal" and "conservative" faction for control. The Labour Party, Guardian  and  BBC is ranged against the Tories and News International. 
That;'s certainly how it appars. 
But there is something deeper: 
WHERE ARE MURDOCH's friends in all of this. NO-ONE is speaking for News International or Murdoch. And yet Murdoch is a Papal Knight and one of the most openly commited ZIONISTS within Western media circles. Where are for example the US neocons, whom Murdoch did so much for over 20 years? Where are the Jesuits, ot the spokesmen of the Vatican? Where are his Jewish Zionist neocon buddies in the NY media set?

'Someone's coming to get me': Terrified phone-hacking whistleblower feared for his life before he was found dead

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016132/Sean-Hoare-dead-News-World-phone-hacking-whistleblower-feared-life.html#ixzz1SZbuozrY

  
  

  Sean Hoare found dead at his flat in Watford, Herts

• Ex NotW reporter's claims last autumn reignited scandal

• Mr Hoare claimed Coulson's denials of phone hacking were 'a lie'

• Police probing former showbiz reporter's 'suicide'

• Friends suggest he may have died of natural causes

• Post mortem being carried out this morning

The pins are really beginning to fall. A dead Journalist, senior policemen have gone, and now the politicians are going directly into the spotlight. 

Times of India: 19th July 2011

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Hacking-row-may-singe-Cameron/articleshow/9278259.cms

LONDON: The News of the World crisis turned severe after UK's top police officer and one of his deputies resigned following allegations of taking favours from an ex-editor of the publication. Stephenson, London's metropolitan police commissioner at Scotland Yard, took responsibility for his force appointing Neil Wallis, a former deputy editor of News of the World, as a public relations adviser. 

Pointing a finger at Cameron, Stephenson suggested the PM risked being "compromised" by his proximity to former NOTW editor and Cameron's media director until January, Andy Coulson. "Once Neil Wallis's name did become associated (with hacking scandal), I did not want to compromise the PM in any way by revealing or discussing a potential suspect who clearly had a close relationship with Coulson," said Stephenson. Coulson is currently on bail. 

Where's Cameron? Skulking abroad in South Africa: 

The Metro: 19th July 2011

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/869711-david-cameron-survival-odds-plummet-after-calls-for-pm-to-quit

The odds on the prime minister leaving office plummeted after he came under fire for leaving for the trip on Sunday night and for his links to News International.

Mr Cameron is today due to return early from the planned four-day visit to Africa, and faces an emergency extra session in the House of Commons tomorrow.

Labour frontbencher Yvette Cooper said it looked like ‘one rule for the police and one for the prime minister’ – a reference to Sunday’s resignation of Met boss Sir Paul Stephenson over the scandal.

Sir Paul had aimed a barb at Mr Cameron’s ties to shamed former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who was employed as the prime minister’s head of communications in Downing Street.

Labour backbenchers Dennis Skinner and Sir Gerald Kaufman called for the prime minister to quit. ‘When is dodgy Dave going to do the decent thing and resign?’ Mr Skinner asked.

Labour leader Ed Miliband refused to call for Mr Cameron’s head. It was, however, time for the prime minister to ‘apologise’ for employing Mr Coulson, he said. Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said Mr Cameron should ‘absolutely not’ resign.

He added: ‘Let’s keep some perspective. The fear that people have is that a criminal investigation could be jeopardised by the contact between the police and media.’

Downing Street said the Africa trip was beneficial in drumming up British business opportunities. And Mr Cameron insisted he was taking ‘all appropriate action’, such as setting up a judicial inquiry into the hacking scandal.

‘I have been out there in parliament and in press conferences, fully answering the questions, fully transparent, very clear about what needs to be done,’ he added.

MPs will today quiz News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch, his son, James – chairman of News International – and NI’s former chief executive Rebekah Brooks over phone-hacking and police corruption allegations.

Bookmaker Ladbrokes yesterday slashed the odds on Mr Cameron leaving office from 100/1 to 8/1.

 

Murdoch: why hasn't Jerusalem, or Wall St. and the City of London saved him?

With thanks to aangirfan (blog - much better than mine - LINK here)  for making me think.

THE ZIONIST JEWS and their European, White acolytes OWN AND OPERATE THE MEDIA ACROSS the USA & MUCH OF THE WORLD. They admit so themselves.
 
Watch the video:

So one would imagine that Murdoch, had things been been flowing in their usual way, Rupert's Zionist pals in London and Washington could have pulled his fat from the fire.

But they didn't, even though they could, did they......

Further to my post, "There's something bigger with Murdoch than a few hurt feelings", here's something intersting from a Jewish author, which I hope you find useful in understanding the depth of anger felt by SOMEONE toward Murdoch for SOMETHING he has said or done.  

 

http://www.lobelog.com/pro-israel-groups-mute-on-murdoch/

Israeli Press Mum on Murdoch

July 12th, 2011

Marsha B. Cohen

On July 10, Anshel Pfeffer, a columnist for Israel’s reputedly most liberal news site,  Haaretz, wrote a straightforward, if scathing, news article about the accusations being levied against media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Pfeffer’s acerbic piece, aptly headlined “Shameful Journalism Puts Murdoch’s U.K. Empire at Risk,” like others making the front pages of newspapers and websites around the world, criticized the shady news gathering techniques engaged in by News of the World, a British division of Murdoch’s News International:

    "No one is coming out of this story looking good. Not the reporters and the editors of the News of the World newspaper, who hired a private detective to “hack” into the mobile phone messages of the subjects of their investigations – actors, celebrities, footballers, but also families who lost soldiers in wars and victims of murder. Certainly not the top brass of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, who pushed the Sunday tabloid into the murky depths of the journalism swamp, chasing down sensationalist headlines and higher sales.

    The power of the News International empire – which in Britain controls not just the tabloid with the biggest circulation, The Sun, but also “institutional” papers The Times and Sunday Times, as well as the BSkyB satellite television channels – was so extensive that, when the police caught a glimpse of the phone hacking affair more than five years ago, a decision was made that there were more important issues to investigate."

Pfeffer’s piece was yanked off the Haaretz English website after less than 24 hours, where many older pieces often linger for days, even weeks. Equally noteworthy is that  the article is now very difficult  to locate in the Haaretz archives. Querying the Haaretz website search box for “Murdoch” or “Pfeffer,” the default “sort by relevance” results bury Pfeffer’s article about Murdoch, which can be located easily only if searching by date.

Haaretz’s generally slipshod archiving of its published articles is irritating to researchers and writers, and is particularly unfortunate for a newspaper whose English language edition is published in coordination with the International Herald Tribune. The most interesting and provocative articles seem to be most difficult to find and to have the shortest shelf life, sometimes vanishing in a matter of hours. (This author learned long ago to print out any item  of interest appearing on the Haaretz site before it disappeared.)

Israel’s other English language news sites thus far have been offering no original commentary about Murdoch, and providing only reports or brief excerpts from wire service coverage. Curiously, neither Pfeffer nor the wire service reports point out that Murdoch is considered staunchly “pro-Israel.” In the past two years, Murdoch has been an honoree of at least two prominent  pro-Israel groups in the U.S. .

On March 4, 2009, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) presented Murdoch with its “National Human Relations Award.” (This author posted this detail in a reader comment to Pfeffer’s piece that Haaretz chose not to publish just prior to the article’s disappearance,  and also pointed it out in an e-mail to Pfeffer himself, to which he has not replied.) Speaking at the AJC awards dinner, Murdoch refuted the widely-believed myth that he himself  is Jewish, but took the opportunity to reiterate and endorse some other myths prevalent in the Jewish community:

    "In Europe, men and woman who bear the tattoos of concentration camps today look out on a continent where Jewish lives and Jewish property are under attack – and public debate is poisoned by an anti-Semitism we thought had been dispatched to history’s dustbin.

    In Iran, we see a regime that backs Hezbollah and Hamas now on course to acquire a nuclear weapon.

    In India, we see Islamic terrorists single out the Mumbai Jewish Center in a well-planned and well-coordinated attack that looks like it could be a test run for similar attacks in similar cities around the world."

On the first point, Murdoch ignored the inconvenient truth that the resurgence of European anti-Semitism has proceeded in tandem with European Islamophobia. Less than six months before Murdoch received his AJC award, the 2008 Pew Survey of Global Attitudes had revealed that Islamophia and anti-Semitism were both on the rise in Europe. As Ian Traynor of the Guardian noted at the time, “The survey found that suspicion of Muslims in Europe was considerably higher than hostility to Jews, but that the increase in antisemitism had taken place much more rapidly.” The rise in European anti-Semitism is a byproduct of Islamophobia at least as much as (and perhaps more than) it is a consequence of it.

Debate over whether or not Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon receives ample coverage on this blog and elsewhere, and elaboration of this issue would be a digression from the topic at hand. Suffice it to say that Murdoch (or any other speaker) could not, and would not dare to, address a Jewish group, particularly one that devotes so much of its abundant resources to anti-Iran rhetoric as AJC, without invoking “the Iranian threat.”

Murdoch’s mention of the attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, India strongly implied  that the Jewish house of workshop had been singled out for an Islamist terrorist attack. At least 150 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks Nov. 26-28, 2008, on a crowded train station, two luxury hotels popular with foreign tourists, a hospital and several other crowded Mumbai sites, with the Chabad House an apparent afterthought. The initial Fox News report did not even refer to the Chabad House as having been a target. Murdoch’s AJC speech also didn’t mention that Mumbai has nine synagogues attended almost exclusively by locals, which were not attacked; the only one targeted by the terrorists was the Chabad center, which was both run and frequented by foreigner visitors from Israel and Western countries.

Not to be outdone, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chose Murdoch as the recipient of its “International Leadership Award” on Oct. 13, 2010, which was presented to him by ADL Director Abraham Foxman:

    “I have come to know the man, not his image,” Mr. Foxman said in presenting the award to Mr. Murdoch.  “I learned that he cared deeply about the safety and security of Israel.  I learned that he was as distressed as I was about efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state, to hold it to a double standard, and to seek its demise by some.”

In his acceptance speech (reproduced in full by the arch-neoconservative Weekly Standard, which Murdoch’s NewsCorp had helped to get off the ground and had run at a loss for 14 years before selling it in 2009 to Philip Anschutz), Murdoch blamed anti-Semitism on Muslims, and leftists for the “soft war” being waged against Israel, conflating criticism with armed assault:

    Now the war has entered a new phase.  This is the soft war that seeks to isolate Israel by delegitimizing it. The battleground is everywhere:  the media … multinational organizations … NGOs.

    In this war, the aim is to make Israel a pariah.

    The result is the curious situation we have today:  Israel becomes increasingly ostracized, while Iran – a nation that has made no secret of wishing Israel’s destruction – pursues nuclear weapons loudly, proudly, and without apparent fear of rebuke.

Israel “ostracized” by the media? Criticism of Israel as the latest manifestation of  terrorism? Iran pursuing nuclear weapons without fear of rebuke? Murdoch ought to have spent a bit more time reading his competitors. Israeli policies and perspectives receive largely deferential treatment by western international wire services that are still dominant in global news flows — and, of course, the US new media.

Murdoch also used the occasion to take a swipe at US President Barack Obama:

    I was pleased to hear the State Department’s spokesman clarify America’s position yesterday. He said that the United States recognizes “the special nature of the Israeli state. It is a state for the Jewish people.”

    This is an important message to send to the Middle East. When people see, for example, a Jewish prime minister treated badly by an American president, they see a more isolated Jewish state. That only encourages those who favor the gun over those who favor negotiation.

Obama’s alleged mistreatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was another myth purveyed by Murdoch-owned news media. Fox News fueled the hysteria about Obama “insulting” Netanyahu by conversing with him on the telephone on June 9, 2009 while his  legs were stretched out on his White House desk, revealing the soles of his shoes, at which an Arab might take umbrage. (Since neither Obama nor Netanyahu is Arab, it was unclear why this was considered to be of any relevance.) Accompanying the article was a photo released by the White House, showing Obama at ease while communicating with the Israeli Prime Minister.

All this has apparently earned Murdoch and his empire the unswerving loyalty of Israelis and the major institutions of the “Israel Lobby” here in the U.S. Last February, a group of 400 American rabbis objected to the Holocaust terminology used and misused by then-Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck. In an open letter published in the Wall Street Journal and the Forward, the rabbis appealed to Murdoch to sanction Beck and Fox News Chair Roger Ailes. The Jerusalem Post depicted  American Jews as critical of the rabbis, rather than of Beck, Ailes or Murdoch. JP quoted the  ADL’s  Foxman as saying that he found the rabbis’ public stance  against Beck and Ailes to be bizarre: “They’re not our enemy, and they are certainly not Holocaust deniers.”

A new accusation by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asserts the Murdoch media empire may have used known criminals to conduct  illicit surveillance activities such as hacking and wiretapping in order to obtain personal information. Heartlessly shoddy and amazingly under-handed (and illegal; not to say, immoral) journalistic practices at his news sites? Who cares, as long as he’s “good for Israel”? And if Murdoch is “good for Israel,” they’d all best shut up about him.

Libya, it's all about peace, prosperity and liberty, right?

NB : I DESPISE Islam here in Western nations. What the bunch of sub human savages choose to do in their own nations, what philosophies they choose to accept, idols they worship - IN THEIR HOMELAND - I care not a jot. They have every right to live as they will, as long as they all fuck off from the West and allow us to do AS WE CHOOSE. 

There's a rule of thumb in the household of which I am the totalitarian Dear Leader, that if The Guardian is huffing out some fuckwittery about any given subject, it's generally sane to see the opposite as true.

Look at Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman PC MP, the Guardian loves her and no-one who isnt either (1) a physically and emotionally castrated man or (2) a mouth breathing closet or open bull dyke does. 

And the same is true for the whole Libya bollocks. And the whole Arab Spring crap too. If you're some Social Worker, blubber over the plight of the Yemenis, or Libyans, or Egyptians this is going to come hard to you - the whole thing is about a NEW WORLD ORDER and a billion followers of Islam are in the way.It's not about changing the world so that the lion lays down with the lamb, no-one's beating swords into ploughshares, it's about COMMUNISM.

Not the bullshit "Workers Paradise" that the sheeple, the useful idiots ((c) VI Lenin) dream of when reading Socialist Review, or the Morning Star. Anarchism, Socialism, Communism, Social Democracy, Liberal Democracy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Syndicalism, Conservatism - are all created to fool and blind the mass of people.

Oh no.

This is about communism for the RICH, the POWERFUL, the ELITES of the world. Their COMMUNISM always ensures they WIN, they remain all powerful, always in control.

The rest of us get CAPITALISM, the harshest, free market version of capitalism, the rule by faceless, impersonal, inhuman   CORPORATIONS of seven billion people. We get bled, beaten, jailed, exploited, stripped of our assets, killed, taxed, spied on, fined, starved and raped (metaphorically and literally) in one degree or another, depending on time and place.

The last standing relatively free peoples of the world are the vast swathes of the Middle East. They reject what is now the standing system of the world conomic system - the Coca Cola & Porn Free Market.

They have cranky ideas - such as Usury being an evil thing, Homosexuality being a no-no, Alcohol  being forbidden,by their god, same with pornography, and that life isn't about making the biggest  pile of gold before you die. These cranky ideas don't fit with the Jew Talmud, which declares that all other creatures except them are for use by them, live or die at their behest. For profit. 

So, retarding the Arab folk back, using IMF tactics of smashing public services, combined with the reintroduction of the more retarded flavours of Islam - from, for example, the Moslem Brotherhood and The Saudi Wahabbists (both children of MI6, now MOSSAD/MI6/CIA ) : 

"The Jesuits created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 using their fanatical, Islamic cult known as "Wahhabi Islam." Wahhabi Islam, "the Sword of the C...hurch" intended to be used against apostate, White Protestant, Western Civilization, was a creation of the Society of Jesus using certain Papal Knights controlling the once Protestant British Empire. With the Empire having been governed by the Order through Freemasonry for the last two hundred years, Wahhabi Islam was fortified during the reign of that wicked, Jesuit-controlled murderer of the Irish people, Queen Victoria of England. British SIS agent, English noble and Knight of Malta, Sir John Philby, feigned himself to be a Wahhabi among the Arabs, thereby facilitating the enthronement of Masonic Ibn Saud as the first king of Saudi Arabia. Both Freemasons Winston Churchill and, yes, Benito Mussolini, whose confessor was a powerful Italian Jesuit and the Secretary of the Company, Pietro Tacchi-Venturi, also aided in the establishment of the Masonic Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "Allied" Britain and "Axis" Italy worked together, as they would during Jesuit-trained, Jesuit-favored and Jesuit-advised, Pope Pius XII's World War II, the grand finale of the Black Pope's SecondThirty Years' War (1914-1945)."http://www.thyselfknown.com/profiles/blogs/the-muslim-brotherhood-and-the

Much of the "Arab Spring" is a sideshow: funded by and organised by MI6/MOSSAD/CIA, assisted by GOOGLE, TWITTER and FACEBOOK. The ONLY beneficiaries are the VATICAN city state, spiritual hub of the NWO, who is seeing the re-establishment of it's lost North African ancient Empire, the city state of WASHINGTON DC, military HQ of the NWO,  which gains a real foothold in North Africa, and our playmates in the CITY OF LONDON, the world financial city state, which forsees billions in cash to snap up assets in the failing western nations at pennies in the pound. 

There is one major prize: LIBYA. 

In no particular order :

(1) Gaddafi made a deal to sell LIBYAN OIL to China, boogeyman of the Neocons. 

(2) Gaddafi spent large sums on housing and welfare for the Libyan people, bad for profit.

(3) Gaddafi was attempting to build a "United States of Africa", bad for business.

(4) Gaddafi had planned for Libya to become (a) self sufficient in major foods, and then (b) for Libya to become a breadbasket for Africa. Ditto. 

(5) Gaddafi had bluntly and publicly questioned the role of the Saudi royal family in political activities. Bad news for the House of Saud. 

(6) Gaddafi took control of the crude oil under Libyan soil and has refused to allow western corporations to profit from it - Libyans have had a fair slice of the cake, as it were.... Bad for profit. 

etc. 

WATCH THE VIDEO:

No war for Israel, no war for BP. If you support the war against Libya, that's in reality what you're doing. And when these Jew owned, Jesuit controlled, bastards and children of the Synagogue of Satan, have finished with Johnny Arab, he'll turn on us. In this issue, we stand together or by God we'll hand separately.

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This person - man or woman, or collective, I know not - writes far better than I do, and he, she, they are better researched than I am. http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/

Wake up time. Repatriation now.

Awwwww ......

Record 1m pupils speak English as a second language

Almost one million schoolchildren speak English as a second language, official figures show, sparking claims that mass immigration is placing a “huge strain” on the education system. 

22nd June 2011

Daily Telegraph 

Immigrants are flooding int5o every corner of the United Kingdom. It is no longer the case that it's only London, Birmingham, Manchester and Bradford.

They are fighting a war with the womb. They are outbreeding the indigenous WHITE population by 2 to 1.

Immigrant children grow - with State aid - into Islamic adults.

Nothing by accident, all done deliberately by a small, committed group of psychopaths. This lunatic lives in Sweden. They are all across Europe, all serving the Synagogue of Satan, including Britain.

You hypoctitical bastard, David Cameron.

The Frankfurt Institute is behind the great social changes in the nations of the west since WW2. It is a COMMUNIST, JEW body whose intent is to destroy the West, and to remove the White folk from the face of the planet.

Read these if you have never heard of it:

Frankfurt Schood (Wikipedia)
Sugar daddies of feminism

Griffin's to yellow to say "Jew",so replaces Jew with Communist (which these Jews certainly were)  but he's right (taking that into account): 

For the past fifty years, it has been a deliberate State policy throughout the Western nations to destroy the role of the family, and to separate the act of conception from the long term role of the Father.

First the abortion act and the free supply of contraception.
Secondly the destruction of the moral order, via abortion and contraception, and the opening of trades and careers to women as an ALTERNATIVE to motherhood.
Thirdly  the reworking of the welfare and local authority housing system to deliberately negate the social, economic and financial facets of the family.
Finally the Legal system has made fathers second class citizens in the family courts, barring access to the father's of children where divorce or separation has arisen  on the slightest cause.

Fathers were simply made an unessential part of society, except for their role as sperm container and applicator.

And the birth rate has plummeted. So came the necessity for mass immigration - see? This all happens in the sixties as the baby boom children of the post WW2 era came into working age, so would marry and themselves have children, negating the long-term need for Negroids and Asiatics to permanently reside in the UK..... and making it far harder to rape the economy, and destroy the white race.

Like it or not.

The Jew wants a permanent end to the White race, and it's replacement will be a degraded, racially mixed mud people, ignorant, retarded, with no history, no culture other than that doled out by the Jew Media giants.

Recently, you'll remember that the Tories have repeatedly about cutting Welfare benefits: each time they've backed down. Why?

Negroes, and ESPECIALLY polygamous MOSLEMS would suffer hardest under any cuts to the Welfare system. Who, realistically, could have twelve children, or three wives and fifteen children and support thm from working?

So to hear this piece of interbred elitist trash lecture us on family and fatherhood is sickening to say the least:

Cameron condemns absent dads

 19th June 2011

Absent fathers must be treated by society in the same way as drink drivers, David Cameron argues today. The Prime Minister, defending the traditional family in an article marking Father's Day, says Britain should be made a "genuinely hostile" place for fathers who abandon their families.

Mr Cameron also reiterates his promise for tax breaks for married couples, a Tory manifesto policy which has yet to be introduced.

"I want us to recognise marriage in the tax system so that as a country we show we value commitment," Mr Cameron writes in The Sunday Telegraph.

He adds: "It's high time runaway dads were stigmatised, and the full force of shame was heaped upon them. They should be looked at like drink-drivers, people who are beyond the pale."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-condemns-absent-dads-2299751.html

Jews were at the very centre of the Slave Trade. Where's *their* guilt?

Whoever else was to blame for slavery, for both Protestants and Romanists were up to their elbows, Jews were ar the very centre of the Black Slave Trade.

It's about time Jews explain their role in history, not the Holocaust, we've already been bored tit less with that, but things such as the Slave Trade, where they should have to grovel and beg forgiveness from the groups they have abused for profit.

Just like white people are made to do.

Who is funding the English Defence Leauge? Just *what* is it's real purpose?

Comment:

I have long wondered about the English Defence Leauge.

I have no time for Islam, or Moslems and would happily see them sent back to the crap holes they crawled from, taking their moon god and book of perversions with them.

However:

Playing the "The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend" can turn into a quagmire, because dallying with the devil always extracts a price, one which may be costly.

Immigration in post WW2 Europe was the dream of left wing academics, folowing the line of the Frankfurt Institute, avowedly both Jewish and Communist in nature. The leading lights of the Anti Nazi Leauge, Communist Party and all other "anti racism" orientated bodies are Jewish.Only the street fighters are dumb goy cattle.

So: what's the end game? Why are Jews hanging around with a gang of goy cattle wo they normally wouldn't piss on?

Call it a struggle against a common foe: Islam. Or a journey into the heart of darkness. Or perhaps further proof that Europe is starting to lose its mind again

LONDON - In March 2009 a unit of British soldiers returned from a stint in Iraq and, as usual, were welcomed with a parade and reception at home - in this case in Luton, not far from London. Standing out in the crowd of civilians cheering the troops was a group of counter-demonstrators, a few dozen long-bearded Muslims who shouted slogans against the British forces and carried posters bearing messages such as "The butchers from Basra." Many in Luton were outraged, and within a few days a group organized and eventually developed into the English Defence League.

Indeed, what began as an emotional reaction turned into a popular movement which, according to the British media, is growing rapidly and now numbers thousands of supporters; it's hard core is located in Luton. The organization calls for taking action against the "Islamization of Britain" and Muslim fundamentalists. British media reports suggest that the league is a magnet for extremist right-wing activists and for unruly soccer fans. In late May the organization gained an important addition in the form of what it calls the "Jewish division." According to one member, "hundreds of Jews" joined its ranks, including "young people who are dying to do something." In the streets of England, Jews can now be seen demonstrating together with people they would have shunned in the past.

Anti-Zionist groups seized on these developments as proof of collaboration between the so-called forces of evil. But the umbrella organization of British Jewry has also been critical.

"The EDL's supposed 'support' for Israel is empty and duplicitous," Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told the Jewish Chronicle in June. "It is built on a foundation of Islamophobia and hatred, which we reject entirely. Sadly, we know only too well what hatred for hatred's sake can cause. The overwhelming majority will not be drawn in by this transparent attempt to manipulate a tense political conflict."

Roberta Moore, 39, a petite woman in a colorful outfit, speaks in a rolling Brazilian accent and works for a commercial firm. A Jew born in Rio de Janeiro, she once lived in Israel and now resides in north London. She is not exactly the stereotypical EDL member the media likes to depict, but Moore is one of the most prominent activists in the group's so-called Jewish division. In her heart she is an unrestrained Kahanist - at least according to fans on her Facebook page.

"The activity of the Jewish division is focused more on the Jewish community," she says over a pizza in an Italian restaurant in Golders Green, London's Jewish-Israeli quarter. "We always constitute a target, here and in Israel. We see a great many people who do not understand the seriousness of the situation. They are sticking their head in the ground and ignoring developments. We believe that if we call the enemy by his name, we will be able to fight him. We single out organizations that discriminate against Jews and anti-Zionist organizations, and try to explain there is no difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. We send them letters and wait for a response, and then we take action to expose them."

However, the group's main target is the Muslim enemy, though Moore first offers a disclaimer: "I had a Muslim boyfriend for four years, but he wasn't religious. He drank and ate pork like everyone else. I have many Muslim friends from Pakistan and Iraq, and also people with whom I have business connections. I get along with them very well because they do not try to impose anything. The problem is that they are being brainwashed and believe they are superior to everyone else. They have the right to think that, but don't try to force your opinions on me and tell me the clothes I wear or the music I listen to are bad. Or that my beliefs are inferior and I must not do this or that. Why do we women have to cover anything?"

You know that in Israel, too, there are groups that expect women to cover themselves.

Moore: "I know, but when I lived in Israel I refused to dress like that. I visited Mea She'arim [Jerualem's ultra-Orthodox quarter] dressed in regular clothes, and they stared and stared at me until I asked them, 'What are you staring at?' - and they left. They never lifted a hand against me."

'An eye for an eye'

"We are not anti-Muslim," Moore emphasizes. "We are anti-Islam, as everyone should be. Islam is not a religion, but a cult. It has all the features of a cult, like the religions of Jim Jones and David Koresh. It's exactly the same. But people don't understand that."

Doesn't it bother you to belong to an organization with an extreme right-wing image?

"I know the league has a bad image, but that's not because of the people in it. It's because of ignorant people who don't understand what the organization is all about. People call them fascists and racists, but really, if they were racists, we [Jews] wouldn't be there. I also thought they were racists, but I started to check them out seriously and found that they are exactly the opposite: They are fighting racism, fighting those who harass Zionists and Jews. They have balls. I am very proud of these friends. They do things that others are afraid to do. They go into the streets, they demonstrate and they are against what has become taboo here. You can't so much as mention the word 'Islam' here, because that makes you a racist. How can I be a racist when Muslims are not even a race?

"We are not fascists, because we are against a religion," she continues. "In Britain we are critical of the Muslims because they come here and get government support and then have the temerity to hurt the country and its citizens. They say, 'We will attack you, we will inflict a holocaust on you' - all that rubbish. Why should I be silent? They accuse us of everything - the Israelis, the Jews and the Zionists are to blame for everything. Their propaganda portrays us as inhuman, and we are not allowed to criticize them? Why?"

What is the problem with the Muslims in Britain?

"They are unwilling to respect the laws of the place, so why do they come here? Let them go back home. They have enough places [to go]. They probably come here because they think they will have a better life, because they can't stand their life. I am certain that everyone who lives in a Muslim country would be happy to leave if he could. They are desperate. They come to a democratic country and start to talk against the host country. That is treason. It is intolerable."

In addition to the considerable writing Moore does on behalf of the EDL online, she attends demonstrations, confronts directors of halls who host extremist Muslim lecturers and sometimes is in the very forefront of the group's struggle.

"I get nonstop threats," she says. "They harass and curse and threaten - 'We will rape you and your mother' - but I am not afraid of them. This week there was a demonstration in front of Parliament by the Free Gaza organization. There were a few thousand of them. I thought there would be more people from our organization, but I was alone with a friend in the face of all those thousands. They vilified Israel and the police did nothing, and I stood there with an Israeli flag. Someone has to do it."

Weren't you afraid?

"They surrounded me and threatened and cursed me. But I did not flinch. Not one of them dared to touch us. One of them said, 'We will kill you.' I looked at him and told him, 'Kill me now, let's see you!' He backed off immediately. I said, 'Take out your knife and try to kill me and you will end with the knife in your stomach.' One of them kicked my flag - what nerve! And then I went wild. I gave him a mouthful and said I would smash him in the face and break his teeth."

What do you say to comments by a British Jewish organization against the cooperation of Jews with the EDL?

"They are all ignoramuses and think we are fascists. They think the league is exploiting us, while it is really we who initiated the Jewish division. If anything, we are exploiting them. I will write to those people and explain what needs to be explained. They know how to be critical, but what do they do in practice? Who are they to decide for us? What the Jewish Chronicle writes about Israel is rubbish. They are a band of leftists and I don't like that. Tell the truth, don't lie. Why are you trying to deceive people? We know who the enemy is and who is killing us. We are being attacked because we are Jews."

She also criticizes this newspaper: "Haaretz writes things about Israel that are incorrect. They twist the truth and I think that's not right. In the end, Haaretz is a media outlet read all over the world, and very often people who hold anti-Israel views use texts from Haaretz and other Israeli papers to justify themselves. That is shameful. We look very bad. We have to stand up for our country."

What do you think about the situation in Israel?

"Golda Meir was the best prime minister Israel ever had. We need someone like her today. She sacrificed so much for the country and knew what to do. When I lived in Israel I met many people like her, but today many young people have been brainwashed and don't understand a thing. They think the Muslims can be your friends and that if we give up land, we will get peace. We tried that and it failed. If you repeat the same action in the hope of different results, you're dumb."

Do you, like Golda Meir, think there is no such thing as a Palestinian nation?

"I also agree with something else she said: that peace can come only when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. It's known that there were no Muslims in the Land of Israel in the 19th century. You can't play with history and twist it. We have archaeological evidence. Who are the Palestinian refugees? They are people who have a place to return to and they are not our problem. I left Brazil and chose to live in Britain, so I do not expect anything from Brazil. That is the situation of the Palestinians, but they do not respect any law."

Do you see a solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict?

"There is no solution. We have to do what we did with the Nazis - fight back! They are harming and insulting us, and we have to become stronger, to fight and that's all. Then there will be peace. It has to be made clear that anyone who touches Israel will be attacked in return: an eye for an eye. When that happens, we will no longer be in the situation in which we find ourselves today. That is the only way ... They have to respect us, because we did not disseminate terror all over the world. We disseminated knowledge and intellect around the world. We help everyone in the world. Look at Ethiopia and Haiti - the Israelis help everyone, but have you seen a Muslim charitable organization helping anyone? There is no such thing. Look at what is happening in Gaza. There is so much food there, but everyone is talking about what is lacking in Gaza, and people organize supposed humanitarian flotillas. Where is the flotilla in aid of Sudan, in aid of Haiti? I don't see any flotillas in the Atlantic Ocean. They have so much food in Gaza that they can't eat anymore; their markets are exploding but they will not help any other nation."

'Ordinary soldiers'

At this point we are joined by Alan Lake, 45, an ordinary-looking computer engineer. In a blue shirt and gray blazer, and with fair hair, he looks like thousands of other computer people you see on the Tube. No one would imagine he is one of the most prominent figures in the EDL. He terms himself an "events director" and is one of the EDL's leading spokespersons. He built its website and is responsible for recruiting soccer hooligans to its ranks.

"These guys are prepared to demonstrate, and they are already there because there is a match. This is a dirty, nasty, difficult struggle and you have to work with what is available," he told The Daily Telegraph.

"It's more of an emotional response to frustration than a genuine political movement," he says about the EDL's activities. "I am trying to formulate positions, but the organization is sometimes like an angry child that screams. There are a few points of chaos in the organization, the management is not tight enough and therefore we will not be a true political movement.

"Working with our street people, from the working class, can be very frustrating but also very satisfying," he adds. "These are individuals who care about the freedom of the British people: 99 percent of the intellectuals are a total waste of space. These workers don't know how to run a meeting or debate persuasively, but they are people who are doing something, people I respect. If there is anyone who will save this country, it is the ordinary soldiers from the working class."

So what is the problem with the Muslims, according to Lake? "They are against freedom of speech, democracy, equality before the law and cultural tolerance. In the Muslim world it's acceptable to demand that a cartoonist be beheaded or a writer executed. They declare that for them the laws of their religion take precedence over the laws of the state, so there is no possibility that they will accept secular laws. And besides, according to Sharia law, a Muslim is superior to a non-Muslim and women are inferior to men."

Is there room for concern in Britain?

Lake: "Definitely. I ask every Muslim who claims that a tolerant Islamic culture is possible to show me [today] the people that populated Persia before the Muslims: Where did they vanish to? Did they go on holiday? What happened to the Christians in Turkey? The Christians who lived in Bethlehem? There are now 99 percent Muslims in the town where Jesus was born. You expect to find a Christian community in a place like that, and there was one, but what happened to it? Why did they disappear? Could it be that violence and threats drove them off?

"Wherever Islam is the dominant culture, tolerance is infringed and non-Muslims are harmed. In the past 1,400 years, Islam has eradicated every culture, wherever it has taken over. The same process is ongoing today. Show me a place in the world where this hasn't happened. In northern Nigeria Christian villages are burned, in the Philippines women are branded, in moderate Dubai you cannot even kiss in public. I don't say that Islam should be annihilated, just as I say that we should not eradicate tigers, but I don't want tigers sitting here next to me when I eat my dinner. They're fine in the jungles of Bengal, but not here."

Labeling game

The blunt racist talk of the EDL has resulted in certain sensitive issues being put on the agenda, which many media outlets and political parties were formerly reluctant to address. However, it's doubtful whether organizations such as the EDL will encourage a proper, thorough debate of these subjects. Even when Lake puts forward a valid argument, he generally shrouds it within a scathing attack, replete with exaggerations and generalizations.

"There is clear discrimination in favor of the Muslims in Britain," he says. "Muslim women can cover their faces even when they enter a bank, in contrast to anyone else. There are special hours for Muslim women in public swimming pools; government institutions use Halal meat. In other words, I, as a taxpayer, pay for special meat on the grounds that regular meat is too contaminated for their kitchens. In effect, this is a tax paid by non-Muslims. That is gross discrimination.

"After the terrorist attacks against the London transportation system in 2005, 140 million pounds sterling was earmarked for the prevention of extremism in the Muslim community. But studies showed a large part of the money went to fundamentalist organizations: It was actually a prize for blowing up people in the underground. If I blow up people, will I get special budgets, too? Too bad I am a law-abiding citizen. The Buddhists uphold the law and the Sikhs behave in an exemplary way, so they do not get money. But in this crazy world the extremists enjoy a slice of the budget."

Lake continues: "Muslims are permitted to engage in homophobia and anti-Semitism. But if you are a Jew who wears a skullcap and visit certain parts of Britain, you will be in for a beating and the police won't do a thing. The police will say, 'Take off the skullcap' or 'Don't go there.' The Muslims have the right to throw shoes at police forces, for example. The Muslims have the right to spread hate, and I find that an intolerable situation: Everyone who incites against other groups should be punished. The time has come to stop the tolerance of intolerance."

Why does the media call you racists and fascists?

"Our message is diffuse. It is a broad movement and there are a few rougher elements in it. The British left is unwilling to confront our arguments, so they accuse us, like five-year-old children, of being racists and fascists. They think that by labeling us like that the problem will be solved. I try to get into the head of the average leftist, but I can't. I can easily get into the head of a Muslim extremist, but I find it hard to understand the leftists. They are motivated by fear, but are not ready to admit their fear. They will prefer to silence every alarm rather than cope with the danger.

"The true racism is on the left; in their eyes, anyone who does not belong to their circles is a hooligan and a racist. I have been interviewed in many demonstrations, but for some reason those interviews do not get into the final version of the articles, and instead you have people who look like thugs: Every one of those whom the average reader of The Guardian will decide in advance is violent, racist, stupid and inarticulate."

Along with its activity vis-a-vis the Muslim minority in Britain, the EDL takes a special interest in the Middle East and the Israeli-Arab conflict. Lake puts forward several rhetorical questions, such as whether there was any point in the Oslo process, because he says "those Norwegians" can't be trusted. What's the point of international decisions, Lake asks: The UN also voted for the partition of Palestine, but the Arabs then started the war.

"I don't understand why the Israeli flag doesn't fly over Al-Aqsa [Mosque in Jerusalem]," Moore remarks. "That mosque is on our land."

Maybe because that could lead to war?

Moore: "Why should it lead to war? It's my land. Get out of my country. It's the Temple Mount. They destroy whatever is there and build a mosque in its place. Look what happened in Gush Katif [the Israeli settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip]: It was blossoming, with exports worth millions. Israel left the bloc and left the Palestinians everything, gave them the businesses and the homes. And what did they do? They went in and demolished everything, smashed everything, destroyed every house. There are geniuses in Israel, in the Technion, in the Negev. They grow everything in the Negev, in the desert sand. How much land do the Arabs have? But they don't do anything with it."

Lake: "I don't understand why Gaza was given to the Arabs. I would have said that it's my land and that's that. I don't understand why there are any Muslims in Israel at all. After all, they want to destroy you. Why do you have Muslim members of parliament? You know, there are no Jewish members of parliament in any Muslim country."

What do you think should be done with the Arabs who live in Israel?

"Your problem is that you are trying to be broadminded and tolerant, but that will not produce any solution. It would be better already for you to kick them all out and build a Jewish society."

"I would put them on buses," Moore adds, "and let them choose [anywhere] from Pakistan to Morocco. They have enough places to go to. And if you want to stay, you are under our law."

"I don't understand why after two wars, you [Israelis] are so nice to them," Lake says. "I suppose your answer is that there is no choice because this is the nature of democracy and you cannot perpetrate genocide or a mass [population] transfer. But Israel is not my problem. Britain is my problem and we are too soft, we have to change so that we can stand up to Islam."

Demonstrating a presence

It's a Saturday in late July. A few hundred members of the EDL gather in London's Westminster Square for a march and demonstration in front of 10 Downing Street. They look like their detractors like to describe them: members of the British lower classes with a prominent presence of experienced soccer rioters. Roberta Moore stands out at the end of the procession with her beautiful dog, Zeus, an anomaly in the tattooed landscape.

What started out as protests on a small scale is drawing increasing attention in Britain. At the end of August, EDL plans to demonstrate in Bradford, a city in Yorkshire with a relatively large Muslim population, where there will be more than just tourists with cameras on hand. The almost daily reports about the rise of Muslim fanaticism in the U.K. (organizations are openly calling for Britain's transformation into a Muslim republic; blind people with seeing-eye dogs were recently ejected from buses by Muslim drivers in Redding; Muslim parents refuse to allow their children to take part in music lessons; etc. ) are bolstering EDL's presence in the media.

The demonstrators carry British and English flags and a few Israeli flags. Even if it's only a provocation, it is attracting attention. They are quite organized and when they march by Whitehall and shout their soccer-like chants - "E, E, E, EDL!" and "Muslim bothers off the street!" - they cannot be ignored. Opposite 10 Downing Street, about 15 pro-Palestinian demonstrators are waiting. They too have a stereotypical appearance: the liberal middle-class student. Some of them had gathered a few hours earlier to take part in their biweekly demonstration in front of a Covent Garden store that sells Israeli Ahava products from the Dead Sea.

"It wasn't serious," Moore says, "but it was important to demonstrate a presence against those losers. We went into the shop and bought some items."

"We are not racists," insists an EDL activist who is leading the march carrying an Israeli flag and the flag of St. George, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. "We are patriots."

A family of Muslim tourists, the mother with a Dolce & Gabbana scarf covering her head, watches with curiosity and apprehension. "Muslim scum," "Mohammed was a pedophile," the league members shout. "Fascist scum," yell the pro-Palestinian supporters, who do not look like Muslims at all.

The reason behind this demonstration is to express opposition to a proposal to incorporate some Sharia laws into the British legal system, but the Israeli dimension of it stands out. A female EDL demonstrator in an Islamic-green T-shirt on which the word "infidel" appears in English and Arabic, her head covered with knit hat through which only her green eyes are visible, waves an Israeli flag for the cameras and the counter-demonstrators.

"Get out and take your Nazi friends with," people on the other side of the street shout at her; the word "Nazi" is also hurled at the police. Tempers flare for a few minutes, then the demonstration proceeds to Trafalgar Square and through the city center. The hard-core EDL supporters gather outside St. James's Square for speeches, verbal abuse by the journalists and, toward the end, sporadic clashes with other, regular demonstrators outside Parliament.

"A great day out of the house," one of them sums up.

Archbishop: More than one law

Earlier this year, the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, said in a BBC radio interview that adoption by the British legal system of certain aspects of Sharia law would help preserve social cohesion in the country. For example, he suggested, Muslims could choose to have financial or marital disputes resolved under Islamic law rather than in British courts. Muslims, he said, should not have to choose between cultural loyalty and loyalty to the state.

Dr. Williams also sought to correct the impression his remarks could stir by explaining, “Nobody in their right mind, I think, would want to see in this country a kind of inhumanity that sometimes appears to be associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states – the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women as well.”

At the same time, he noted that there is a danger in the approach that, “there is one law and only one law for everybody.” He called for finding a constructive way to address some aspects of Islamic law, “as we already do with some aspects of other religious law.”

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