May 10, 2005
U.K. Elections: What The
Problem Is, And Isn't
Various people have
expressed concern about
British National Party gains in the U.K. elections.
One commentator seemed to be
missing the point here:
“Check out
the BNP results here. Notice that the BNP is up in
nearly every district compared to 2001: 16.9% in
Barking; 13.1% in Dewsbury; 9.7% in Dudley North where
their raw vote count more than doubled over '01. And
this is during good economic times in a country free of
jihad attacks.”
Ah, but it doesn't take jihad terrorism, as such, to
cause people to see fringe parties as the answer. It
takes a combination of two things:
-
Immigrant
crime, preying on
the natives
-
A
bipartisan refusal of major parties to do
anything.
And later in an update, the same commentator said
“But another party
without their historic baggage could tap into the same
issues and emotions if these are not addressed in a
responsible way. Ignoring, mocking and dismissing the
people who voted for the BNP is a mistake.”
Yes—a big mistake. One that's been made by
neoconservatives in the US, and Tories in Britain.
However, the BNP still gets less than one percent of the
population.
Another group is much larger in British politics:
Muslims. According to the New York Sun,
“Across the country,
city after city with a large Muslim minority showed an
above average swing against Mr. Blair and Labor. It
seems pretty clear that the great majority of Britain's
2.5 million Muslims obeyed the instructions of their
imams or
community leaders and voted en bloc for whichever
antiwar party seemed to have the best chance of
defeating the Blair government.” [Islamism
Brews in Britain,
by Daniel Johnson]
So, perspective time.
BNP voters, and the BNP, are a small group, no real
threat to anybody.
Muslim voters, and radical Islam, are supportive of
international terrorism, and the enemies of Britain
and America.
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What War? HE!D! Said
Slip of the
Derbez tongue. I noticed this too, but Heidi said if
first and best: while Mexican Foreign Minister was
calling for the prosecution of the Minutemen, he said
this
“‘Because [the
Minutemen] feel frustrated or whatever reason they are
doing this,’ Derbez said. “They are trying to take
the war into their own hands.’"
HE!D! wrote:
“Did you catch his
wording?! What war, we might ask!? Is there a war going
on for our country that the American people aren't even
aware of? The Mexican Foreign Minster seems to think
so!!!! The literal invasion [see definition: The
dramatic increase in the number of individuals in a
non-native population, accompanied by an expansion of
range] of our nation by 25 million illegals would
appear to support that, too!” [Mexican
Foreign Secretary envisions the inevitable INTEGRATION
of U.S. and Mexico]
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Arnold's Shadow
Via
Day By Day cartoons and
Patterico, I learn that the LA Times is
playing the Nazi Arnold card. After criticizing
Schwarzenegger for supporting the Minutemen, and for
complaining about the "Los Angeles, CA, Mexico”
billboard, LA Times
writes "And as someone born and raised in the shadow
of the Third Reich, he should also know better than to
be fanning this anti-foreigner frenzy."
[May
2, 2005,
Easy Target, Cheap Politics]
But Arnold wasn't born and raised in the "shadow of
the Third Reich," he wasn't even born until 1947.He
was raised in the shadow of the Soviet Union,
which was
occupying Austria until 1955, and represented a
constant threat of invasion for over thirty years.
Perhaps that experience has made him a little suspicious
of the current Mexican attempt at
Anschluss.
The Queen of Denmark: “There are some things for which
we should display no tolerance."
Queen Margrethe of Denmark was recently the subject of
an authorized biography. She is
quoted as saying that people have to take the
"challenge" of Islam seriously: "We have to run
the risk of being labeled in an unflattering way,
because there are some things for which we should
display
no tolerance."
A
Muslim living in Denmark has said that what she really
meant is that she is opposed to
"radical Islam."
The problem with this distinction is that radical
Islamists are supposed to be ten percent of the Muslim
population, which means that every hundred thousand
Muslims will contain ten thousand radicals, which is a
lot.
(Something to
think of when formulating immigration policy.)
“He said the
government has enacted laws that many Muslims see as
unjust and discriminatory.
“‘A law, for instance,
gave private companies the right to reject the
employment of any applicant without citing the reason,
which is tailored for hijab-clad Muslim women. In the
past, no one dared to fire or reject an employee because
of his/her ethnic backgrounds,’ said the Muslim
activist.”
[Media
Distorted Queen's Islam Remarks: Danish Muslim}
This is amazing. This makes Denmark much freer in its
employment laws than the
United States, where employers are
persecuted by lawsuits, and by the
Justice Department, if they are accused of firing
the
wrong people, or not hiring enough of the right
ones.
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