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> source:
http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/thoughts-on-Islam-London-mayor-Boris-Johnson.htm
>
> The Qur'an
>
> "To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia fear of Islam
> seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is
> intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture to say nothing
> of what is preached in the mosques it is the most viciously
> sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers.
> As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim's mother this week in a
> Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise,
> because she was not a Muslim.
>
> "The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that
> it is widely sup****ted in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the
> enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process
> of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is
> someone going to get 18th century on Islam's mediaeval
> ass?" (Spectator, 16 July 2005)
>
>
> 7/7 Bombings
>
> "... it is no use the Muslim Council of Great Britain endlessly saying
> that 'the problem is not Islam', when it is blindingly obvious that in
> far too many mosques you can find sermons of hate, and literature
> glorifying 9/11 and vilifying Jews." (Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2005)
>
> "The Islamicists last week horribly and irrefutably asserted the
> supreme im****tance of that faith, overriding all worldly
> considerations, and it will take a huge effort of courage and skill to
> win round the many thousands of British Muslims who are in a similar
> state of alienation, and to make them see that their faith must be
> compatible with British values and with loyalty to Britain. That means
> disposing of the first taboo, and accepting that the problem is Islam.
> Islam is the problem." (Spectator, 16 July 2005)
>
>
> Religious Hatred Bill
>
> "The proposed ban on incitement to 'religious hatred' makes no sense
> unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself.... Militant Islam has
> been ****elded from proper discussion by cowardice, political
> correctness and a racist assumption that we should privilege the
> beliefs of a minority, even when they appear to be mediaeval." (Daily
> Telegraph, 21 July 2005)
>
>
> The Trouble with Islam
>
> "What makes modern Islam so politically troublesome is that some
> Muslims can be induced to take offence not just at an insult to Islam,
> but at any injustice suffered by one of their co-religionists, and it
> is this deep personal sense of outrage scarcely explicable to our
> post-enlightenment souls that helps the whacko imams to warp the
> alienated young men into becoming suicide bombers...." (Daily
> Telegraph, 21 July 2005)
>
>
> Invasion of Afghanistan and the 'Clash of Civilisations'
>
> "Messrs Bush and Blair have a nightmarish diplomatic battle on their
> hands to persuade the Muslims that this is simply a response to
> terror. That task is made infinitely more difficult by the unsayable
> truth, which any student of the Koran will recognise: that this is, to
> some extent, a clash of civilisations. It is a crunching of cultural
> tectonic plates that has been going on, intermittently, since
> Mohammed's followers warred with Charlemagne." (Daily Telegraph, 18
> October 2001)
>
>
> Iraq and the 'War on Terror'
>
> "To the paranoid Muslim mind, the evident bogusness of the 'war on
> terror' in so far as it applied to Iraq suggested that the war was
> really about something else: about oil, about humiliating and
> dominating the Islamic world.... To keep talking of war plays on
> militant Muslim paranoia, and, incidentally, since it is a key point
> of Islamic theology that the suicide bomber may not be called a
> martyr, and therefore entitled to his ration of virgins/raisins,
> unless he dies in 'war', we are by our own vocabulary offering these
> people an incitement to murder." ( Spectator, 16 July 2005)
>
>
> Foxhunting Ban and Halal Slaughter
>
> "I looked at all those Labour members, gibbering and hooting like a
> bunch of flea-ridden gibbons, taunting Nicholas Soames and other
> Tories brave enough to stick up for an ancient way of life. Would they
> dare to attack halal? Would any of them, in their largely urban seats,
> with their sizeable Muslim minorities, ever have the guts to denounce
> Islamic ritual slaughter? Like hell they would." (Daily Telegraph, 5
> December 2002)
>
>
> Multiculturalism and immigration
>
> "As Theodore Dalrymple pointed out in last week's Spectator ... young
> Muslim girls are routinely taken out of school, before the age
> prescribed by law; they are taken off to Pakistan and obliged to marry
> men they have no wish to marry. Does it show a pleasing multicultural
> tolerance, that we allow this to go on?
As W F Deedes has recently
> pointed out, multiculturalism is the wretched consequence of Enoch
> Powell. After his inflammatory 1968 speech, it became almost
> impossible to talk about immigration." ( Daily Telegraph, 1 November
> 2001)
>
>
> Multiculturalism and 'Britishness'
>
> "... too many Britons have absolutely no sense of allegiance to this
> country or its institutions. It is a cultural calamity that will take
> decades to reverse, and we must begin now with what I call in this
> morning's Spectator the re-Britannification of Britain. That means
> insisting, in a way that is cheery and polite, on certain values that
> we identify as British. If that means the end of spouting hate in
> mosques, and treating women as second-class citizens, then so be it.
> We need to acculturate the second-generation Muslim communities to our
> way of life." (Daily Telegraph, 14 July 2005)
>
> "We've all got to be as British as Carry On films and scotch eggs and
> falling over on the beach while trying to change into your swimming
> trunks with a towel on. We should all feel the same mysterious pang at
> the sight of the Queen. We do indeed need to inculcate this
> Britishness, especially into young Muslims.... We should teach British
> history. We should think again about the jilbab, with the signals of
> apartness that it sends out, and we should probably scrap faith
> schools. We should forbid the imams from preaching sermons in anything
> but English; because if you want to build a society where everyone
> feels included, and where everyone shares in the national story, we
> cannot continue with the multicultural apartheid." (Daily Telegraph, 4
> August 2005)
>
> "... here is how John Reid could prove that he was really tough. Here
> is the bravest thing he could possibly say. He should say that the
> real problem in our society, and the reason we have so many
> disaffected and alienated Muslim youths, is that for a generation he
> and people like him sup****ted the disastrous multicultural agenda. The
> reason that 40 per cent of British Muslims would like some form of
> Sharia law in this country is that the Left has traditionally
> deprecated British institutions and even the teaching of English. A
> truly brave John Reid would now publicly grovel to Ray Honeyford, the
> Bradford head who called for teaching in English and who was vilified
> and persecuted by the Left." (Daily Telegraph, 16 November 2006)
>
> [Note: In a notorious article published in the Salisbury Review in
> 1984 Honeyford claimed to expose "the real educational consequences of
> the general acceptance of the notion that multi-racial inner cities
> are not only inevitable but, in some sense, desirable". Re****ting on a
> meeting with Bradford Asian parents at his school, he wrote: "The
> hysterical political temperament of the Indian sub-continent became
> evident an extraordinary sight in an English School Hall." Honeyford
> denounced as "totalitarian" the proposals that "schoolbooks with a
> racist content should be scrapped" and that "racist teachers should be
> dismissed". This is the man Johnson hails as a hero.]
>
>
> Faith schools
>
> "... he worries about schools that, without proper regulation, might
> encourage divisions between communities. He does not mean Jewish ones.
> 'It's pretty obvious what I'm talking about,' he says, rather gruffly.
> Indeed it is. 'I do worry there are some communities, where faith
> schools that aren't properly regulated and controlled could be places
> that encourage more division...'." (Jewish Chronicle, 7 September
> 2007)
>
>
> Shabina Begum
>
> "This ludicrous and lamentable case had nothing to do with 'modesty'.
> I don't believe she wore the jilbab to 'regain control of her
> body'.... This case wasn't even about religion, or conscience, or the
> dictates of faith. At least it wasn't primarily about those things. It
> was about power. It was about who really runs the schools in this
> country, and about how far militant Islam could go in bullying the
> poor, cowed, gelatinous and mentally spongiform apparatus of the
> British state.
>
> "
the Court of Appeal was quite wrong in its *****sment of Shabina's
> human rights. Yes, she has the right to freedom of religion, but she
> could not manifest that freedom in such a way as to prejudice the
> school's ability to ensure discipline and order, and to run things in
> the way it wanted. Even in Strasbourg, home of the European Court of
> Human Rights, there is a long-standing tradition of upholding the
> discretion of educational establishments in matters of dress not least
> in several im****tant cases defending the right of Turkish universities
> to ban headscarves.
>
> "How could the Court of Appeal have missed this? Is it really possible
> that British appeal court judges have less robust common sense than
> the judges of Strasbourg? Or is it also that our judges suffer, like
> other parts of the British Establishment, from a certain leeriness and
> timorousness about Islam?" (Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2006)
>
>
> Ken and Qaradawi
>
> "I can think of plenty of things for which I would like Newtzilla to
> apologise ... his cheerleading for anti-Semitic Muslim clerics such as
> al-Qaradawi, who sup****ts suicide bombers and the beating of
> women." (Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2005)
>
>
> Local Control of the NHS
>
> "... you could imagine in a totally devolved system that Islamic
> zealots might take control of some inner-city area". (Daily Telegraph,
> 5 October 2006)
>
>
> Israel and the War on Lebanon
>
> "Israel provides a focus for the resentment of a Muslim civilisation
> that finds itself materially and intellectually humiliated by the
> achievements of America and the West.... Whatever the hideous shambles
> of the past few days, it is still true, in principle, that when
> Israeli rockets kill civilians, they have missed their targets, and
> that when Hizbollah rockets kill civilians, they have scored a
> deliberate hit." (Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2006)
There is hope then. He has more sense than I thought.
R
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