The Arrest of Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim

Commenting on Friday's arrest and 11 hour detention of Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim - the son of SCIRI president and United Iraqi Alliance leader, Sayyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim - spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Lou Fintor said:

"What I can tell you is that at this point we understand that Mr. Hakim was arrested by soldiers who were doing their duty. He was not singled out, and we understand the soldiers were following standard procedure since the border was closed."
This is simply untrue. Sayyed Mohsen Al-Hakim, said that his older brother was unlawfully arrested and detained along with several bodyguards in Badre, located in the border between Iran and Iraq on the pretext that his passport had expired, even though it expires in September 2007 and that in any event, it is not the responsibility of the Occupation forces to check passports at entry points; that responsibility belongs to the Iraqi police. Moreover, both the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Massoud Barzani, have denounced the arrest as illegal.

Talabani’s office issued a statement declaring:
"President Talabani judges that the treatment of Seyyed Al-Hakim was uncivilized and indecent, and he has demanded that the American leadership hold those behind it responsible".
Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim said of his arrest and detention: "Senior (U.S.) officials intended to arrest me, and these officials gave instructions to personnel at the site." He also asked: "Is this the way to deal with a national figure? This does not conform with Iraq's sovereignty".

This was undoubtedly a deliberate preplanned act of aggression against the SCIRI, the United Iraqi Alliance, the Iraqi government (including the PUK and KDP), Sayyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and the Shia. The United States has publicly accused Iran of interfering in Iraq's internal affairs and supporting the insurgency. A claim that was dismissed on Saturday by Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim as "unfounded and mere propaganda," and has never been supported by the Iraqi government, President or Prime Minister. Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim also stated that Iran is a friend of the Iraqi people and a benevolent country.

In fact, the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has previously accused the Occupation forces of destabilising region, saying: "If anyone is responsible for the poor security situation in Iraq it is the Coalition".

Moreover, if there was ever any question as to the United States implacable hostility towards Shia Islam and the Islamic Republic Iran, President George W. Bush, spelt it out in his State of the Union Speech 2007 when he stated: "In recent times, it has also become clear that we face an escalating danger from Shia extremists who are just as hostile to America, and are also determined to dominate the Middle East." Bush also attributed much of the blame for this too the Islamic Republic of Iran, notwithstanding that the elected Iraqi government is predominately Shia and pro Iranian, hence the very people whom Bush refers to as "Shia extremists". In fact, not only is the United Iraqi Alliance pro-Iranian, so too are the main Kurdish parties, the PUK and KDP.

Far from supporting the elected Iraqi government, the Occupiers are actively undermining it. The United States is not interested in stabilising Iraq; quite the reverse, the United States is opposed to an autonomous Shia government of Iraq - much of the anarchy in Iraq can be attributed to this. Thus General Sir Richard Dannatt statement, "we can’t wish the Islamist challenge to our society away and I believe that the army both in Iraq and Afghanistan and probably wherever we go next, is fighting the foreign dimension of the challenge to our accepted way of life", applies not only to the insurgents in Iraq but also to the elected "Islamist" Iraqi government.

Over eighty percent of the popular vote in Iraq's last national election went to political parties with close political connections to Iran and the Shia constitute over sixty percent of the electorate and even more of the population - individuals of Iranian descent were denied Iraqi citizenship under Saddam Hussein, a policy that has been continued by the Occupiers. Conversely the United States is regarded as a colonial occupier, which has fermented ethnic and sectarian factionalism.

Recent U.S. allegations that Iran's Pasdaran Qods force has supplied EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) to Iraqi insurgents, which have been flatly rejected by the Iraqi government, are part of a concerted propaganda campaign to demonise Iran. The United States has used these allegations as a pretext to carry out illegal raids on an Iranian diplomatic mission in Arbil, in which five Iranian diplomats were abducted, and on an SCIRI compound, in which two Iranian diplomats were abducted. Moreover, earlier this month, U.S. warplanes attacked a PUK guard post in Mosul killing eight Pesh Merga after President Talabani visited Iran. These acts were all clearly designed to serve as warnings to Iraqi politicians not to engage with Iran.

The arrest and detention of Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim has to be seen in the same light: as a warning to his father, Sayyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, vis-a-vis his strong political relationship with Iran. However, the United States massively underestimated the significance of abducting Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim. The reaction from within the Iraqi government has been robust and defiant. President Talabani demanding the culprits be punished and the SCIRI calling for the occupiers to leave Iraq has ended all pretense that the Iraqi government and the United States are on the same side. The U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad was forced to issue a speedy apology and to preposterously claim that the United States did not "mean any disrespect to Abdel Aziz al-Hakim or his family". It is very significant that Kurdish and Shia politicians have rejected the apology and explanation; the balance of power has now firmly shifted into Sayyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim favour.

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War with Iran

Despite the Bush administration’s sabre rattling, it is far from certain that the United States will go to war with Iran; in fact, there is every indication that it will not be able to do so during George W. Bush’s presidency. For it is important to recognise that for this current U.S. administration, diplomacy is war by other means. Their belligerence is not incidental, it is intentional; this administration is fundamentally Zionist and hegemonic, and have repeatedly demonstrated a disinclination for diplomacy where they believe strategic or ideological objectives could be realised through force of arms alone. Furthermore this administration is committed to the overthrow of the legitimate and democractically elected Iranian government (Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005). From the Bush administration’s perspective, they are already at war with Iran; in fact, George W. Bush used his State of the Union Speech to emphasis that point, broadening the enemy to Shia Islam. Thus, this begs the question: why has this U.S. administration not already launched an attack against Iran?

If one sees the United States as already at war with Iran, as this administration does, then it is clear that they are losing. U.S. diplomacy and economic warfare has failed to prevent Iran from enriching uranium and will not stop Iran from continuing its nuclear fuel programme, as both the Bush administration and European Union have already conceded; in fact economic warfare has shown that Iran does not need European investment or European custom. Conversely, the European Union and Turkey are very venerable to an Iranian oil and gas embargo. Hence the avoidance of military action to date is very telling. It would be extraordinarily naïve to think that Bush has thus far been prevented from trying to emulate Alexander the Macedonian by the niceties of international law, which he ignored when he waged war on both Afghanistan and Iraq.

In fact, whilst the Bush administration has been able to manipulate a series of confrontations and fabricated confrontations with Iran to its advantage in the English speaking media – hence they have been able to present an image of Iran (and thus Islam) as inherently evil - there is still little domestic support in the United States for military action against Iran - U.S. public opinion is very much opposed to military action against Iran. Moreover, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi has stipulated, George W. Bush categorically does not have the legal authority to launch a military attack on Iran, without the House’s approval. Thus the likelihood of war with Iran during George W. Bush’s presidency is not a measure of his intent; it is a measure of the willingness of the House of Representatives to authorise such a course. The Iranian government does not believe that they would and with good cause: any attack would run contrary to the U.S. national interest unless it brought about regime change in Iran and regional stability to the Middle East, which even the most optimistic of Pentagon military strategists do not envisage.

The U.S. military is currently hampered by its occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan; even were this not so, any U.S. force invading Iran would be heavily outnumbered. Moreover, whilst 52% of the U.S. military consists of badly trained and poorly motivated reservists and National Guard (46% of the US army in Iraq in 2005), Iran conversely has a highly motivated and well trained army, Pasdaran (IRGC), and Basij (volunteers), as well as an armed civilian population, with nearly every man having served two years in the military. The recent Israeli invasion of Lebanon saw the Iranian trained Hezbullah guerrilla force, outnumbered 20 to 1, yet they defeated the U.S. armed Israeli army in the battlefield within 34 days. That is a good indicator of the utter infeasibility of a U.S. invasion and occupation of Iran - the United States simply does not have the military capability.

Moreover, not only would the United States need exponentially more men under arms to occupy Iran than it presently has to commit, the likely reduction in Iranian oil and gas production on its own would send the energy markets spiralling out of control, however the consequences of an invasion are likely to lead to anarchy and insurgency throughout the Middle East. There are 200M Shia in the World over 100M situated in the Middle East, as the map indicates Shia are sitting on the majority of the World’s oil and natural gas reserves. Even most Saudi oil is situated is the predominately Shia Eastern Province, in the Qatif and Abu Sa'fah oil fields. A Shia uprising would certainly disrupt Middle Eastern oil and natural gas exports - most the World’s natural gas reserves are held by Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan – and both the U.S. and European economies are utterly dependent on Middle Eastern oil. For this reason, any U.S. military attack on Iran that threatens Middle Eastern oil exports would be economic suicide.

Therefore the most likely scenario for a U.S. military attack would be an aerial assault against the nuclear facilities in Bushehr, Arak, and Natanz in the aim of destroying them. However, it is hard to see what strategic benefit this would be: at the most this would only set Iran’s nuclear energy programme back, although the Israeli attack on the Iraq nuclear facilities in Osirak in June of 1981 failed to set back Iraq’s nuclear programme. Iran would still have the technology and would be able to resume its nuclear energy programme unabated outside of the auspicious of the IAEA.

Moreover, Iran would almost certainly respond militarily. Iran has already demonstrated this week the ability to sink U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf at will and thus block off the passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The situation in Iraq is precarious enough for the U.S. military, were the United States at war with Iran, the Shia population would rise up and the situation would be unmanageable. Furthermore, Iranian forces can easily cross the border into Iraq, should they so desire and U.S. military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are venerable to Iranian missile attacks. Even were Iran only initially to target the U.S. military in Iraq, the potential for escalation is obvious. Thus once again raising the prospect of a conflict that would destabilise the entire Middle East, which the United States cannot afford. Hence it is more likely that the Bush administration will to continue to support terrorist attacks in Iran by groups like Monafiqeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah under the guise of the Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005, since these are deniable and unlikely to provoke a severe response.

Recalling the Bush administration’s view that diplomacy is war by other means - whilst attacking Iran would require an even greater degree of folly than the occupation of Iraq – the more unlikely it is, the keener they will be to inflate the possibility. This strategy is foolhardy and risks the law of unintended consequence. This said it is still hard to envisage the House of Representatives disregarding all reason and authorising a military attack on Iran during Bush’s presidency.

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Wiped Off the Map

"Imam ghoft: 'een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad'."

The official translation of what president Ahmadinejad said in October 2005 during the "A World without Zionism" conference is: "Imam said: 'This Qods occupier regime must be eliminated from the surface of the Earth'."

In fact, an exact translation would be "Imam said: 'This Qods occupier regime must be eliminated from the pages of history'" the offical translation is based on what Ahmadinejad intended to say rather than what he did say. He intended to say "Imam ghoft: 'een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az sahneh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad'" but instead misquoted nad used Imam Khomeini (ra) and used "safheh-ye" instead of "sahneh-ye". There are disputes whether this ought then to be translated as "wiped off the map"; although give the official translation of: "eliminated from the surface of the Earth," I can see no objection. However, what is clearly beyond dispute is that he did not say "Israel".

The statement is available here in Farsi:


After almost a year, the Western media are finally addressing this deliberate mistranslation, largely due to an article by Jonathan Steele in the Guardian. Steele became aware of the issue after it was highlighted in the blog of professor Juan Cole, however as he points out, even the Zionist propaganda service MEMRI, concedes in its translation (available since the 28 October 2005) that President Ahmadinejad did not say Israel; preferring, "this regime occupying Qods". Steele also suggests that the BBC were aware at the time of publication, that he had not called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

In fact, the BBC received many complaints over its translation. I provided the official translation in the comments section of a BBC article posted on the net; this comment did not pass the censor, nor did any other comments with the official translation. This lie, for this is what it is, has been often repeated in BBC broadcasts, from news programmes to the Moral Maze, all without being checked. However it was not only the BBC, which as an apparatus of British state propaganda might be forgiven for using the British foreign office mistranslation; it was a lie carried by every mainstream British and US media broadcaster or publication that cared to comment on the matter.

This ought to be shocking; that is, if one believes that Britain and the United States do not have a media that would deliberately disseminate Zionist propaganda to galvanise public into supporting wars in the Middle East. However, I doubt many people would be shocked to learn that there is a pernicious Zionist influence in the British and US media, or come to that, in the British and US governments.

It is interesting that now this lie has been exposed in the mainstream media. Ethan Bronner, writes in the New York Times, one of the publications that perpetuated this lie, still finds himself incapable of honesty:

"So did he call for Israel to be wiped off the map? It certainly seems so. Did that amount to a call for war? That remains an open question."
This is after he concedes that Ahmadinejad did not mention the word Israel, thus no amount of obfuscation or sophistry, can change the fact that he simply did not call for "Israel to be wiped off the map". This is not the first groundless accusation made against President Ahmadinejad or Iran, they are made are a daily basis.

Not only were President Ahmadinejad's words deliberately mistranslated they were flagrantly misrepresented. After quoting, Imam Khomeini (ra), he added:

"This sentence is very wise. The issue of Palestine is not an issue on which we can compromise."
Thus, it was the Qods Occupier regime that he suggested must be wiped from the map. Moreover, President Ahmadinejad was not saying anything new, this is not only the stated view of Imam Khomeini (ra); it is the view of Ayatullah al-Uzma Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, and the official position of the the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Had "Qods Occupier regime" been used in the Western translation, instead of Israel, very few people would have had any difficulty grasping, that he was calling for regime change. Nor would any person who read the totality of his speech, perceive that he was suggesting that Iran has any intention of attacking Israel.

In fact during that conference, "A world without Zionism", he said:

"The Palestinian issue has not ended. It would end when a government belonging to the Palestinian people takes over, the homeless return home and a free election is held to form a government representing all people."

A point later repeated during his speech at "The Third International Conference on Qods and Support for the Rights of Palestinian People":

"Only a government chosen by the people can resolve the problem of Palestine and the people of the region. The right to govern belongs to all people of Palestine and they must decide the governing model of their choice and elect their own officials. For this purpose, there must be an opportunity for all genuine Palestinians; be they Muslims, Christians, or Jews, residing in Palestine or in Diaspora, to participate in a referendum to decide the political system of their choice and elect their leaders."

"Ever since the Palestinian nation focused attention on promotion of an Islamic atmosphere and attitude, day-to-day success and progress have been witnessed among Palestinians."
Hence what he was calling for was democracy, and the right of return; yet suggesting that Palestinians would bring this about through their own endeavor; particularly, since they had turned away from the Arab Nationalism of Fatah and turned to the Islamic political movements. He also described the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as a "trick," designed to elicit recognition of the Zionist regime of Israel, from Islamic states.

He warned,
"The world arrogant powers founded the Zionist regime at the heart of the Muslim world as a base for their own expansionist intentions."
Moreover, what President Ahmadinejad said on the demise of this "fictitious regime" was no more or less than he said during his speech at "The Third International Conference on Qods and Support for the Rights of Palestinian People":
"The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering. The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm."

"A regime based on injustice and threat cannot survive. Today all conditions for the freedom of Palestine are on hand and available. Vigilance, unity and resistance are the keys to victory."
The truth then, is that his opposition is to a Western imperialism and a "Jewish State", which excludes the religious and racial identity of the majority of the indigenous population. He is not talking of the destruction or exclusion of Jews from Palestine; far from it, he is talking of integration; it is Israel that is committed to apartheid, ethnic-cleansing, genocide and belligerence.

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The Western Misrepresentation of Iraqi Factionalism

If you were inclined to accept what you read in the Western mainstream media (MSM), regarding Iraqi factionalism, you could be forgiven for believing that the Police Commando Death Squads are Shia militiamen from the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigades; you could also be forgiven for believing that the death squads operated with the approval of the Interior Ministry and the Shia Alliance; you could also be forgiven for believing that most of the deaths in Iraq were caused by these Shia militias; and you would also be forgiven for thinking that the Kurdish region is relatively free from ethnic conflict and that Kurds play no part in the "insurgency". In the regard the Western MSM is guilty of perpetuating a lie - there is enough information coming out of Iraq for the Western MSM to know this is palpable nonsense.

Firstly, death squads are not limited to one ethnic group or religious sect; all militias are involved in sectarian and ethnic violence, none more so than the Kurdish Pesh Merga. Even prior to the invasion of Iraq, the Kurdish Pesh Merga with the support of the United States had adopted a policy of ethnic cleansing. The United States refers to the policy of supporting friendly death squads in Iraq as "the Salvador option". However, the Western MSM consistently links the Police Commando Death Squads, to the Badr Brigades and the Mahdi army and hints at Iranian involvement, which is exemplified in the New York Times article, "Oil, Politics and Bloodshed Corrupt an Iraqi City", notwithstanding that not evidence has been produced to prove this sectarian assertion. Not even scant regard is given to Sayyed Abdul Aziz Hakim, the leader of the SCIRI, emphatic denial of Badr involvement and accusation that the United States is obstructing the Ministry of the Interior and therefore exacerbating the conflict, made in an interview with the Washington Post. Apparently the Bush administration has more credibility than the senior figure in the Shia alliance and brother of the Shia political leader, Ayatullah Sayyed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim (ra), until his assassination in August 2003, which the United States are widely suspected of having a hand in.

What is notable about the Police Commando Death Squads is that they wear police commando uniforms and balaclavas. Why is this?

Having spoken to many Iraqis, both living in Baghdad and Basra, I am struck by the logical paradox with the Western MSM assertion: neither the Badr Brigades nor the Mahdi Army would have any need to wear the Police Commando Uniforms. They do not need the uniforms to travel incognito; they are able to pass themselves off as Arabs with a greater degree of success than occupation forces, due to the rather obvious fact, that in the main they are! Nor is it a sensible means of concealing their sectarian and political affiliations, given that they are associated with the police commandos. It is far more likely that these death squads are populated by Occupation forces and Kurdish Pesh Merga, both of whom are would need to obscure their faces to conceal their ethnicity, as is evident when the British SAS were caught carrying out an attack on a police station in Basra. Moreover, should the Badr Brigades and Mahdi Army wish to carry out attacks, they have previously always done so openly and not in disguise.

Yet it would suit US foreign policy for the Kurds to be dissociated from both the "insurgency" and inter factional violence (or civil war), a view the Western MSM largely perpetuates, notwithstanding that it is palpable nonsense. The attempt to create a Kurdistan is arguably the greatest obstacle to peaceful resolution to the civil war in Iraq. The Assyrian media publication, AINA describes the present situation thus:

"In the bizarre and twisted reality of Iraq, the indigenous people of Mesopotamia (including Iraq), driven to the brink of extinction by genocide, are today humiliatingly reduced to just "another minority" seeking power. This by the Kurds no less, who have been painted as the victims of the Middle East, instead of genocide deniers and occupiers, which in fact, they are. Thanks to the same Western lobby groups paid by the billions of dollars the Kurds have reaped from northern Iraq's natural resources and border tariffs which they've controlled since the Safe Haven was established. Also thanks to the U.S. Administration and its allies eager to topple Saddam and find in Iraq their "Northern Alliance"."


Hamid Afandi, PDK minister of Pesh Merga affairs describes Kirkuk as the "most important place to Kurdish people", it is also the most important place to the Sunni Arabs and Turks, who are indigenous to the region, since it is an oil rich city. An independent or fully autonomous Kurdistan would be less attractive to foreign investors and Kurds without Kirkuk, yet it is inconceivable that Sunni Arabs would or could concede this territory to the Kurds. Thus Afandi says of Kirkuk and Mosul:

"We'd use the Saddam plan, not America's plan. I would send more than 10,000 peshmerga and we'd destroy them. We'd kill them in the middle of the street and make the people afraid. The U.S. should attack the families of terrorists, and knock down their houses".


The internal Kurdish conflicts are hardly alluded to in the Western MSM, yet this undermines the very concept of a Kurdish region. At present there are effectively two Kurdish regions, one run by Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani and the PUK and the other by the pompously described, Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister, Massoud Barzani and the PDK . The cease fire between these two factions is tentative at best. 1996 during a civil war in the then autonomous Kurdish region, the PDK with the approval of the United States and the assistance of the Iraqi army tried to massacre the more Left Wing PUK. At present, the Kurdish region is essentially two separate corrupt fascist dictatorships.

"Each party set up its own capital and formed its own cabinet, a divided situation that still exists today. The parties control virtually every aspect of Kurdish life.

For the December 15 elections, the two parties were merged together to increase their seats in parliament, and forced the small ones to do so as well. After the Kurdistan Islamic Union, a small party in PDK territory, pulled out of the coalition, their offices in five separate cities were simultaneously shot-up and torched. According to news reports, four Islamic Union party members were killed--two shot in the head." ( "Bush's Hopes in the Hands of Kurdish Gangsters" - The Brooklyn Rail).


The PDK is rarely referred to at all in the Western MSM, with good reason given its sixty year history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and organised crime. When it is mentioned it is usually described as a rival Kurdish political movement to the PUK, in truth the PDK is better described as a private militia run Barzani family. Whilst both these political organisations have come to a political accommodation with Iran, particularly the PUK, and no longer seek expansion into Turkish territory, the Kurdish PKK terrorist group that has declared war on Turkey, Syria and Iran maintains bases in the Kurdish region, and is largely allowed to operate unfettered. Moreover, not that you would know it from reports in the Western MSM, al-Qaeda in Iraq (Tawhid and Jihad) is a Kurdish group, as is Ansar al-Islam. Hence the reason that so much of al-Qaeda in Iraq's attacks, target the Kurdish Pesh Merga and the PUK and KDP, including the reprisal for the assassination of al-Zarqawi's. Yet, al-Zarqawi and al-Qaeda in Iraq are always identified as an extreme faction in the Sunni insurgency and never as part of the Kurdish insurgency, notwithstanding that there is no relationship between Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Sunni resistance.

Another even more absurd Western MSM distortion is that the United States is seeking to bring an end to factionalism and arrest the current civil war. Nothing could be further from the truth, the United States has actively destabilised the Iraqi government. It was the Occupiers and not the Iraqis electorate that determined the balance of power in the Iraqi election. Both Iraqi national elections have seen the Shia Alliance achieve a majority of the popular vote, something the Labour Party did not come close to doing in the British 2005 election, yet both Shia Alliance administrations have been forced into an unhappy and ultimately futile coalition with other political entities, and have been cobbled by US interference, which has exacerbated instability and sectarian and ethnic conflict.

Notwithstanding the conflicts between SCIRI, Fadhila and Dawa, which are not irresolvable, the Shia Alliance, if allowed and with Iranian support, could at least make the greater part of Iraq governable, rather than just the green zone. Nor is a compromise with the Sunni Arabs insurmountable; in essence, they not unreasonably want an autonomous region that includes Kirkuk and Mosul and an end in sight to the occupation. Yet the United States is hostile to Shia hegemony in the region, preferring to give tacit succour to Kurdish expansionism, whilst not fully supporting it, and blaming Iran for the current state of anarchy in Iraq , when in truth, it is Iran that is preventing all out civil war.

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Reporting Lebanon

If one looks to the British Mainstream Media's (MSM) reporting of the current Zionist attacks on Lebanon and Palestine, one would remain forever in ignorance. Whilst it is not possible for the British MSM to sanitise or ignore the Zionist atrocities in Lebanon, as it does so often with Palestine, it still seeks to place them in the context of the quasi-moral justification that "Israel is defending herself"; yet never entertaining the reverse position that Hezbullah is defending Lebanon from Zionist aggression.

The British MSM has consistently placed issues in a pro Zionist context and seeking to counterbalance Zionist aggression, with unfounded assertions of Hezbullah's barbarity. There is nothing new in this racism; the British MSM has always projected a "culture of barbarism" upon the "Other" (in this case Muslims).

This is more than xenophobia: it is a colonial chauvinism. By projecting barbarism upon a people, colonial aggression against them can be justified along the lines that their culture is barbaric so civilising them is benign. Those that resist, must prefer to live as savages and can be regarded as subhuman. Thus their destruction or exploitation is morally equitable.

The Zionist invasion and bombing of Lebanon was presented as an attempt to free the two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbullah - again with no regard to the fact that Israel has also taken Palestinians and Lebanese hostage. Yet this could not have been the Zionist raison d'être, for they have made no effort to recover these prisoners. Had they have wished to do so the only logical option would be to exchange prisoners. Israel by its own admission cannot rescue these prisoners; it does not know where they are being held. Nor does Israel believe that its onslaught will lead to their recovery. Thus it is demonstrably false to suggest that this is the case.

Moreover, entwined with that deception is another deceit, namely, that the Zionist bombardment of the civilian population and entry and exist routes was aimed at preventing the transportation of the two prisoners out of Lebanon. This is palpable nonsense, bombing the routes in and out of Lebanon has not stopped a mass exodus to Syria. So quite clearly should Hezbollah wish to relocate these prisoners to another country it could and still can do so. Therefore, this Zionist targeting of routes in and out of Lebanon has to be seen as a willful act designed to maximise civillians causalities.

Even were we to regard, this Zionist onslaught as a response to the capture of these two soldiers, it would have to be regarded as collective punishment. Whilst the British MSM has gradually can to accept this, it still persists on the unqualified acceptance that "Israel is defending herself" and maintains the mantra that Hezbullah instigated this conflict.

Yet in reality, the reverse is true. It was the Zionist regime that initially took Lebanese and Palestinians hostage, that prompted Hamas and Hezbullah into a retaliatory response. Therefore, it is a gross distortion to suggest that "Israel is defending itself"; this simple is not the case. Moreover, to suggest that Hezbullah are terrorists and that Zionist militarism is not, is a racist use of the pejorative.

Furthermore, the British media negates to mention that in Iraq under the auspices of the Occupation Force (United States), more civillians are dying in that conflict than in Lebanon and Palestine combined. The three principle players in that occupation are the United States, Britain and Israel, which all have Zionist governments. The attack on Lebanon is an extension of that war - The War on Islam.

It is notable that the Zionist regime wishes to present Hezbollah as a greater threat to its occupation of Palestine than Hamas. The reason for so doing is a clear statement of intent, Hezbullah are Shia (the predominate sect in Lebanon), as are the majority of the population in the Middle East. Moreover, the most powerful state inthe Middle East and only truly independent Islamic state is Iran: a Shia country.

Whilst the United States has installed unrepresntative puppet governments in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the emirates states that are willing to acquiesce to Zionist interests, Shia Iran will not. Thus whilst Palestinians through there very existence pose the greater threat to the continuation of the State of Israel, the Shia present the greatest threat to Zionist ambition. Hence the reason that the United States persistently tries to undermine and emasculate the Shia Iraq government and sow discord between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Yet the British MSM ignore this glaringly obvious fact, and can describe a proposed multinational force, as a peace keeping force; rather than an attempt to escalate the war and inveigle others to do what the Zionist cannot: occupy Lebanon.

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Lies, Lies and Damned Statistics

Is there really a rise in anti-Semitism or is this just sophistry? Anti-Semitism has long been used as a convenient accusation to throw at all critics of Zionism, but now this slander is wearing thin and anti-Semitism has but disappeared, organisations like the CST would have us believe that it is once more on the rise. They attribute this largely to the rise in radical Islam but is there any evidence to support their accusations?

certainly there has been desecration of a hundred gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Manchester earlier this year, which was keenly seized upon by Zionist politicians and the media as evidence for the rise of anti-Semitism (or more accurately Judeo-phobia). Detective Inspector Simon Collier of Greater Manchester Police stated: “I think it is a racist incident”, despite having no evidence to support this conclusion. For all the Greater Manchester Police know it might have been a Zionist organisation who carried out the attacks to promote their cause - this has happened before.

This crime, which is utterly appalling, may or may not been an incident of Judeo-phobia; it rather depends upon the motives of the person or persons who committed this crime. Even, if it was an act of Judeo-phobia there is no reason to suppose the motive was racial, the motive could just as easily been religious or political.

This is not a pedantic point; the law treats these crimes very differently. It could have also been a random act; most grave desecrations are considered to be random acts of desecration, although there have been exponentially more desecrations of Muslim graves post the 11 September 2001 than there have been of Jewish graves. Moreover, there have been several occasions where the perpetrators of alleged Judeo-phobic crimes have been discovered themselves to have been Jewish.

Indeed, if one looks at most of the “incidents” of Judeo-phobia in Europe over the last few years, one finds that these “incidents” are usually legitimate political or religious criticism, rarely would such “incidents” constitute criminal offences, hence the term “incident” rather than “crime”. Yet the European Union has been at pains to promote the myth of a rise in Judeo-phobia and to equate the same with racism, yet simultaneously failing to acknowledge the provable rise in Islamophobia.

In Britain, the Government is clearly complicit in the conflation of Judeo-phobic incidents and crimes; whilst both are proportionately low, the latter is virtually non-existent. The British government maintains national records of and publishes the number of alleged racially and religiously aggravated crimes reported to the Police, those that result in prosecution and those that result in a successful conviction and those that are discontinued or result in an acquittal. Consequently, the British Government has sufficient available data from the Crown Prosecution Service, to identify both the race and religion of victims in all successful prosecutions of racially and religiously aggravated crime, yet unfortunately they have thus far not be prepared to reveal these figures. So we are unable to say how many successful convictions there have been for racially or religiously aggravated crimes perpetrated against Jews. This notwithstanding, there has not been a single conviction for a racially or religiously aggravated assault against a Jewish person in the UK in 2004 reported by the BBC.

Yet the Government did very little to contest the assertions made by the Jewish organisation “Community Security Trust”, which were widely repeated in the British media that there had been a dramatic rise in the number of Judeo-phobic incidents occurring in Britain during 2004: the CST reported a total of 532 incidents, a rise of over a third from the previous year, of these incidents 79 were described as assaults and 4 as serious assaults, the most prolific incident were abusive behaviour of which they reported 272. The police dismissed the figures as merely a rise in the number of incidents that were reported to the CST but to date neither the Government nor the police have pointed out that not all 532 reported incidents would meet the legal definition of a crime, as the CST defines an “anti-Semitic” incident as "any malicious act aimed at the Jewish community or Jewish individuals".

In fact, if one looks at the Metropolitan Police Service’s official figures of the 12,637 recorded allegations of racist incidents for the year 2004, only 323 allegations were made where the alleged victim was Jewish. Conversely, one can reliably surmise from that in the majority of these cases the alleged victim was Muslims, if one accepts that at least ninety percent of the Arabs, Egyptians, Iranians, Turks, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indonesians, Afghanis, Albanians and Kurds living in London are Muslims. Hence, Jews who constitute 2.1 percent of London’s population (according to the 2001 census) account for 2.5 percent of recorded racist incidents whereas Muslims who constitute 8.5 percent of London’s population (according to the 2001 census) account for well over fifty percent of all racist incidents, possibly over eighty percent. Therefore, if all 323 alleged incidents were proved, which are course they are not, this would still hardly give rise to the assertion that Judeo-phobic crime is a significant problem: clearly it is not.

However most of these recorded racist incidents would not be so regarded by a court: more allegations of racial and religiously aggravated crimes are rejected by the Crown Prosecution Service than are proceeded with. Moreover, the CST also acknowledges that “Reports are received from the victims themselves, third parties, the Police and from the media” thus its figures are clearly padded out and are unverifiable, which is exacerbated by the British government affording this dubious organisation with third-party reporting status; thus it is able to report incidents on behalf of an alleged victim, without that persons identity ever being revealed. Yet the CST, is not only a data recording service, it also briefs the media on security matters affecting Jews living in Britain, which includes largely attributing its unsubstantiated claims of an increase in Judeo-phobic incidents and assaults to a rise in “Islamic extremism”.

The CST annual national figure of 532 Judeo-phobic incidents is extraordinarily low, so low in fact that the continued existence of the organisation is clearly unnecessary. The organisation’s raison d'être is to promote the fallacy that Jews are a victimized religious minority in Britain are to correlate that with anti-Zionism and Islam. Therefore the integrity of the CST is somewhat in question, all the more so, given that its figure for Judeo-phobic motivated crime is exponentially at odds with corresponding criminal convictions.

Moreover, the evidence in the vast majority of recorded Judeo-phobic crimes is by no means substantiated. In many cases the only evidence of Judeo-phobic malice is that the victim is Jewish, and in other cases there is nothing more than the alleged victim’s word that a crime even took place. Indeed, it is extraordinary that the CST have not complained about the non-existent conviction rate for Judeo-phobic assaults, particularly, as four of these assaults were described as “life threatening”. Nor has the CST taken account of the fact that at least some of its recorded incidents are undoubtedly malicious allegations, made for political motives as well as personal motives. After all, the CST is in no position to check the veracity of an allegation before recording it, which the organisation fails to acknowledge.

There are in fact good reasons to believe that many of the CST recorded Judeo-phobic incidents are fabricated, it is the declared position of the Zionist government that European criticism of Zionism is motivated out of “historic anti-Semitism”, which is in resurgence, particular where there are large Muslim minorities. Therefore it is not unreasonable suppose that those with connections to the Zionist regime would fabricate Judeo-phobic incidents to promote the Zionist cause. This has proved to be the case in France, where Alexandre Moïse, president of the Zionist Federation of France, was arrested and convicted, after having sworn out warrants because of numerous threats, that he had sent himself, in order to appear a "Jewish victim".

Contrary to Jewish claims, hardly any of the recorded incidents of “anti-Semitism” involve the vilification of Jews because of their Jewish ancestry or perceived ethnicity, yet they are still recorded as racist incidents. This is inherently dishonest; vilification of a group because of their religious or ideological beliefs is manifestly different from racism. The French government attributes its alleged rise in Judeo-phobia, mainly to disaffected young Muslims and correlates this with anti-Zionism. Therefore such incidents would have to be considered politically motivated rather than racially motivated. However, this is politically inconvenient because the majority of so called “anti-Semitic incidents” are in reality non-violent political or intellectual expression; so if they were to be defined as anti-Zionist or anti-Judaic rather than anti-Semitic they could no longer be perceived as contravening the anti-vilification laws of either country. Instead, they would be legitimate acts of dissent.

It is also significant that despite claims of a rise in French Judeo-phobia, the US State Department in its Human Rights report on France cites only fifteen criminal convictions for anti-Jewish racist assaults for the year 2003, none for the year 2004 and only one murder in the last ten years. Therefore it is entirely fraudulent to pretend that Judeo-phobia is a significant phenomenon in either France or Britain. Yet, alas, both governments are complicit in this wilful deception.

However, it suits Jewish propaganda that Jews are always portrayed as the victim rather than victimiser; yet in truth, Jews, as a religious group, have been both victim and victimiser during the Twentieth Century and are unquestionably the victimiser in the Middle East today. Hence, one should be very wary of claims of Judeo-phobia because they are grossly overstated and invariably used as a means of deflecting criticism from Zionist acts of religious persecution, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Arabs and Muslims. Moreover, Judeo-phobia is being used as the pretext to proscribe legitimate Muslim organisations and to curb free speech.

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The Protocols in Perspective

The "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" have been roundly denounced as an anti-Jewish Tsarist propaganda and the Elders of Zion are similarly dismissed as a myth. There is not a shred of evidence to support the authenticity of the protocols or to establish that any organisation called the Elders of Zion ever existed. However, the secularisation of France, the Bolshevik revolution, the British and French colonisation of the Middle East, the Zionist colonisation of Palestine and British entry into the Second World War were events, principally engineered by Jewish conspirators for the advancement of Zionism and Jewish hegemony.

In the former Soviet Union, one would be shot on the spot for owning a copy. Moreover, Jewish organisations have campaigned to criminalize the dissemination of the Protocols and more worryingly any tacit association with Jewry and cabal like behaviour; the Lebanese satellite television channel, al-Manar, was banned from broadcasting in France mainly because it showed the Syrian film "Al-Shatat", which Jewish campaigners claimed was based on the Protocols. Yet this film did not ever mention the Protocols.

In brief the Protocols is a document that purports to be a summary of the minutes of a secret meeting, held by a Zionist organization that details a Jewish conspiracy to manipulate political and economic events to establish Jewish hegemony throughout the World. It can be summarised as follows: destabilising the then existing World order by fermenting political discord and revolution, promoting liberalism and democracy, and undermine the social stratification of the state; eliminating religion in favour of atheistic worldviews, such as secularism, Darwinism, Communism and anarchism; promoting economic globalisation, usury and corruption; manipulating the public and influencing political policy through control of the media; encouraging and facilitating wars between nations; encouraging over indulgence, alcohol dependency, sexual licentiousness and idleness. The purpose of which is to bring down the then existing order, particularly the hegemonic European nation states, with the aim of replacing them with a de facto but covert Jewish government.

The Protocols appear to have been first published in Russia, in the newspaper “Znamia” (Banner) in 1903 and then in the book “The Great in the Small: Antichrist considered as an imminent political possibility” by Sergei Nilus in1905. Nilus suggested that the Protocols were chapter eighteen, the work of The First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897. Yet this was a public meeting attended by several non-Jews and not one reported such a manifesto. Whilst this does not disprove that such a document was issued it certainly makes it unlikely and we are again left with the complete lack of any evidence to verify their authenticity.

However, the most popular argument against the authenticity of the protocols is the assertion that they were either directly plagiarised from Maurice Joly’s "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu" (Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu), which was allegedly published in Brussels in 1864, or from Hermann Goedsche’s "Biarritz" (A Fantastic Novel) allegedly published in 1868. In fact, only one complete copy of Joly’s pamphlet is known to exist, the 1865 copy in The British Museum, yet this has never been independently authenticated; there are suspicions that it is itself a forgery. Again, no original 1868 copy of Goedsche’s "Biarritz" has ever been produced. Moreover, both these texts surfaced in 1921, although both were allegedly discovered by Lucien Wolf in 1920. However, it is Phillips Graves not Wolf, who is generally credited with discovering Joly’s "Dialogue", which is extraordinary, given that Graves’ account of this discovery is entirely fictitious and deliberate omits to mention his real source: Wolf.

In any event, there is still no good reason to give any credence to the Protocols or to even believe that the Elders of Zion existed, however to suggest that there is no connection between Zionism, communism and an international Jewish financial cartel is simply untrue.

If one considers that Jews were expelled from England in 1290 and France in 1306 and again in 1615 and were not officially readmitted into England until 1664 or France until the French Revolution of 1789, and that neither country had a significant Jewish population until the Nineteenth century, it is staggering that by the 1870’s, that prominent Jewish bankers, particularly the Rothschilds, were effectively bankrolling the governments of both countries. In France, Adolphe Thiers, the French Premier, remained in power due to the influence of Alphonse Rothschild, the head of the international banking syndicate, which placed the "Liberation loans" following the Franco-Prussian War. Whilst in Britain, in 1875, the Jewish Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, borrowed £4,000,000 from Lionel Rothschild, on a few hours notice, which allowed the British government to become the principal stockholder in the Suez Canal Company.

Such was the dependency of the British and French government’s on the Rothschilds that neither government could pursue its foreign policy agendas without their financial assistance. Thus, the head of the Rothschild family in Britain, Lionel Rothschild - who was regarded by the establishment as the leader of British Jewry - was able to manipulate British foreign policy to suit the Zionist agenda, and Alphonse did the same in France. The result of which was the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, the British occupation of Iran (also negotiated with the Jewish Bolsheviks); and the Balfour Declaration.

In France, the Dreyfus Affair, far from epitomising French anti-Judaism, demonstrates the sway of Jewish influence over the French government; the charges of treason against an obscure French artillery captain would have been of no international significance had he not been Jewish. Thus, it was precisely because he was Jewish that this incident attracted international prominence and was ultimately brought about the transformation of France from a Catholic Christian State into a secular state.

The secularisation of France was a seismic political event that repercussions are still felt today, the European Union is very much moulded on French secularism; it is also a significant factor in the birth of fascism and communism, as well being a contributory factor in the Russian revolution. Therefore it a measure of Jewish influence in France that secularisation (the biggest constitutional change in French history since the 1789 revolution) arose out the protestations of Jews and Jewish sympathisers.

In France, as elsewhere in Europe, secularisation of the state was strongly advocated by prominent Jews, who wished to decapitate the influence of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, organisations which diametrically opposed to Judaism and the influence and socio-political integration of Jewry. The Dreyfus Affair, rather than being the catalysis for political Judaism and secularisation was a pretext for it. Dreyfus' innocence or guilt was never significant to either side; it was a straight forward power struggle between the Catholic Church and the French army on one side and Jews and secularism on the other: Jews and secularism clearly won.

In 1893, Alfred Dreyfus, a Captain in the French artillery, assigned to the general staff in Paris, was charged with treason. He was accused of having been the author of an anonymous bordereau containing a list of secret French military documents that were scheduled for delivery to the German Embassy in Paris. In 1894 Dreyfus was found guilty by a court-martial, reduced in rank, and transported to Devil's Island, where he was to be imprisoned for the rest of his life.

At the first court hearing the evidence against Dreyfus was compelling and the verdict of the court martial was not unexpected. The event would not have drawn international notoriety had Dreyfus not have been Jewish and the allegation in 1896, by the head of French Military Intelligence, Lieutenant Colonel George Picquart, that he had uncovered evidence that implicated Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, as the true culprit. However, Picquart was dismissed from the French military having failed to substantiate the charges against Major Esterhazy.

In 1898 due to pressure from the French Jewish lobby and secularists, Esterhazy was put on trial for treason by a court martial. The disgraced Zionist politician and newspaper editor, Georges Clemenceau, who had previously been driven out of office after accusations that he was in the pay of the British Foreign Office, as well as having been denounced by his detractors as a protégé and close associate of Cornélius Herz, the Jewish financier primarily responsible for the collapse of Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique in 1892, writing in his Paris newspapers La Justice and L'Aurore, was particularly vociferous in defending Dreyfus. His newspaper L'Aurore also published in 1898 Émile Zola’s libellous letter, entitled "J'accuse", denouncing both the both the military and the French government as anti-Semites and liars.

Neither Picquart or Dreyfus’s supporters could produce evidence that would substantiate Esterhazy’s guilt, consequently the court martial acquitted Esterhazy, which led to Picquart’s arrest. Once again the French military and government came under considerable pressure from the Jewish lobby. Later that year, Lieutenant Colonel Hubert Joseph Henry, the then head of French Military Intelligence, inexplicably confessed that he had forged documents implicating Dreyfus.

His confession reamins suspicious, after all, it was likely to earn him the death sentence. Moreover there is no explantion for why he should suddenly succumb to a pang of conscience. In any event, his confession was not tested he, as he was found dead in his cell in suspicious circumstances; his death was officially attributed to suicide. Due to political pressure Esterhazy was dismissed from the army and left France altogether, deciding to settle in England. In 1898 the case was once again reignited, leading to the Dreyfus case being brought before the Cour de cassation, which ordered an immediate retrial. Although, the second court martial, like the first, once again convicted Dreyfus.

This verdict inflamed political tension; the Jewish and liberal elements within French society constantly used the Dreyfus affair, as a denouncement of the Catholic Church and the French military, consequently ten days after the trial, a new liberal Government was elected, headed by Premier Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau and President Émile Loubet, who pardoned Dreyfus. Later that year Esterhazy was to confess that he was the spy and a wave of anticlerical legislation was introduced culminating in the separation of Church and State in 1905. Clemenceau, despite his ignominious political record, was elected senator for Var in April 1902, off the back of his support for Dreyfus. Indeed, in 1906, Dreyfus was vindicated by a judgment of the Cour de cassation and restored to the army with the rank of major, and decorated with the Legion of Honour. Picquart too was reinstated and promoted to the rank of general, later serving as Minister of War in the Cabinet of Georges Clemenceau.

Yet apart from the unlikely are rather suspect confession of Etsrhazy, no credible evidence exists that he was the culprit. No evidence from the Prussians (or Germans) provides any illumination in this matter and the handwriting on the bordereau has never been positively identified. Moreover, contrary to popular assertions the Dreyfus Affair is not proof of widespread French anti-Judaism; rather the opposite if one considers the outcome. This is not to say that Dreyfus’ was not a convenient scapegoat for a crime that he did not commit and may not have been committed at all; this is likely the case. However, there is no evidence that the motive for the accusation was to ferment anti-Judaic feeling. If is more likely the motive was to detract from the incompetence and failings of the French general staff and his being Jewish made him a convenient scapegoat, given that Jewish financiers were involved with both sides during the Franco-Prussian war.

The Dreyfus Affair was not the impetus or raison d'être for Theodor Herzl’s 1896 Zionist pamphlet "The Jewish State", as is suggested in Zionist mythology, the French Emperor Napoleon had advocated the idea of Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1799; as had Benjamin Disraeli in his Zionist novel "Tancred" in 1847 before becoming British Prime Minister; Moses Hess, a friend and co-worker of Karl Marx, in "Rome and Jerusalem: A Study in Jewish Nationalism" (1862); Leo Pinsker in the 1881 pamphlet "Auto-Emanzipation". Moreover, the Dreyfus affair was never pivotal in the history of Zionism: the Rothschilds, in particular, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, had been financing Zionist settlements ten years earlier in the 1880’s. In fact, most Jewish immigrants to Palestine were of Eastern European origin, and the USA remained the preferred destination. Certainly, there was no Jewish mass exodus from France, if anything France was a more attractive nation for Jews to live in after the Dreyfus Affair: they enjoyed disproportionate political influence, with a de facto Jewish government.

In truth, the Dreyfus affair, spelt the end of Catholic religious hegemony in France and led to anti-Catholic purges in the establishment. The Dreyfus Affair, was significant in so far as it tightened Jewish control over the French government, the Jewish international financial syndicate were in a position to dictate terms to the Government from the 1870’s. Whereas, the significance of the disestablishment of the Catholic Church from the State was nothing short of revolutionary, it not only ended Catholic religious hegemony in France, it disenfranchised the Catholic Church from the mechanism of government and removed the last obstacle to the establishment of a Zionist dominated French state. Thus during the First World War under the Clemenceau regime, France pursued a Zionist imperialist agenda in the Middle East and North Africa at the cost of the near collapse of the French state.

Moreover, it is an incontrovertible fact the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia was a Jewish enterprise; the majority of the Bolshevik leadership, including Lenin, were of Jewish origin, although ostensibly atheists, most like Lenin were Jewish supremacists; and the international conspirators who financed and orchestrated the Bolshevik revolution were also Jewish. It is also true to say that like the communist, socialist and anarchist revolutionary movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century movements were principally Jewish movements. Even ardent Zionists such as Churchill were willing to concede this. Although as an apologist, Churchill tried to draw a distinction between the international Jew and national Jew – the former being the revolutionary or discontent like the Bolsheviks who he labelled "international conspirators" and "criminals" and the latter, the settled Jew loyal to the nation that he lived. However, Churchill omitted to include into this equation those international Jewish financiers and Zionists whom bankrolled his entire political career.

The Russian revolution was not only an undeniably Jewish affair, it also brought about an atheist state, predominately run by Jews, that prohibited in the strongest terms anything conceived as anti-Jewish. Christianity and Islam were outlawed throughout the former Soviet Union, whereas prior to the ascendancy of Stalin, Judaism remained unfettered. The purges that took place in the former Soviet Union, account for verifiable deaths exceeding ten million. This is the single largest verifiable account of genocide perpetrated by a state against its own citizens.

Moreover, it was clear that revolutionary movements threatened the existing hegemony throughout Europe during the 1920s and that most of the main agitators were Jewish and most revolutionary terrorist groups were predominately Jewish. Prior to the Bolshevik revolution, Jewish revolutionaries had been responsible for several significant assassinations, including that of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881 by the "People’s Will" and that of US President William McKinley in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz incriminated the anarchist and suspected Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman in the assassination, yet despite sufficient evidence to charge her with murder and treason, she was inexplicably released without charge. There is only speculation as to why this was allowed to occur.

It is also notable that most of the international Jewish conspirators involved in the Bolshevik revolution resided at some point in the USA, particularly New York, including Jacob Schiff, the main financier. Schiff was the head of the bank Khun, Loeb, and Company, a front company for N M Rothschild and Sons, and was amongst the most important Railroad bankers in the USA: he was the financier behind the notorious rail magnate E H Harriman, throughout the latter career, it was Schiff who financed Harriman’s abortive attempt to take control of Northern Pacific Railroad, which resulted in the 1901 stock market crash.

Schiff’s financial dominance is evident in that he was chiefly responsible for securing two-hundred Million dollars in loans for Japan in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War. His role as principle financier for the Bolsheviks revolution, was known by both the US and British government, it was also known that most of the Bolshevik leadership, including Trotsky, had resided in New York’s Lower East Side and were members or connected to organised crime, particularly to Arnold Rothstein, who was also an associate of Schiff’s. Instead of arresting Schiff and his co-conspirators and putting them on trial, which one might have expected, particularly given the anti-Bolshevik climate during the 1919-1921 “Red Scare”, yet he was to remain invulnerable until his death in 1920.

Furthermore, Zionists manipulated the Bolshevik revolution to secure a commitment from the British for the Jewish colonisation of Palestine, a move that was contrary to the wishes of Parliament. The Bolshevik revolution occurred in October 1917 and the Balfour Declaration was made in November 1917, the two correlated. Whilst Balfour was an undoubted Zionist and Islamophobe, his promise to Lord Lionel Rothschild was only possible because of the fear generated by the Bolshevik revolution; even so, the Balfour Declaration was widely regarded as treachery, and most imprudent.

Had Schiff‘s role in the Bolshevik revolution been disclosed at the time, the ramification for British Jewry would have been enormous, Schiff’s financial connections to the Rothschilds would have certainly implicated them in the affair, and by association most of the key members of Lloyd-George’s Government, at a period of time when Britain was effectively at war with the Bolsheviks. This would have been viewed as far more compelling evidence of a Jewish conspiracy than the Protocols.

Moreover, Jewish migration from Russia to Western Europe, Palestine and the USA exponentially increased after the Bolshevik revolution, so much so that every country introduced laws to curb it; however these were only ostensible measures; anti-immigration laws did little to curb the illegal immigration that continued at even more dramatic rate. The consequence of illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine can be measured in the current Zionist occupation of that land and the genocide that has been perpetrated against its indigenous Arab population.

In no short measure, both the US and British governments conspired and actively assisted Jewish illegal immigrants to settle and colonise Palestine. Zionism, which emerged as a political phenomenon in the Nineteenth Century, was financed by the Rothschilds, without their financial support, the early Jewish settlements would not have been possible, as previously stated, it was the Rothschild financed British and French governments who agreed to the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

It is pregnant that at the end of the First World War, the French Premier, Clemenceau; the British Prime Minister, Lloyd- George; the Soviet Chairman Lenin; and the US President, Woodrow Wilson were all Zionists and all financed by the same international Jewish financial cartel.

It is also evident that the outbreak of the Second World War was in no small part attributable to Jewish agitation. In fact, the principle international and national Jewish organisations throughout the World had declared war on Germany as early as 1933. This was only an economic and propaganda war until 1939 but Jewish organisations were not coy about their intention to escalate this into a military war. The British Prime Minster, Neville Chamberlain, stated that it was Jewish and American pressure that forced Britain into declaring war on Germany in 1939. He profoundly believed that it was not in Britain’s interest to enter into a war with Germany and that doing so had been a grave mistake. In terms of political economy, loss of life and international influence, he was correct.

Furthermore, recently released British intelligence documents prove that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, deliberately undermining the British Government’s attempts to appease Germany and instead, actively promoted the Jewish war agenda. SIS also conducted surveillance and intercepted the communications of prominent anti-Jewish figures, such as newspaper proprietor, Lord Rothermere.

Yet had Chamberlain not been forced into declaring war on Germany in 1939, against his better instincts, there simply would not have been a Second World War. This is not to say that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were not destined to clash over hegemony in Eastern Europe and ideology, their war was a Teutonic-Slavic affair; or that Japan and the USA, whose strategic and colonial interests conflicted, would not similarly be destined to fight a pacific war: rather, these two regional conflicts would not have merged into a War that engulfed much of the globe had it not been for British involvement. Arguably, the war in Western Europe may have been averted altogether had France and Britain not declared war on Germany, in any event, it would not have escalated had Britain conceded defeat after the fall of France and the ignominious defeat at Dunkirk in 1940. So it is no exaggeration to say that British and U.S. involvement in the Second World War was an international Jewish conspiracy. This is precisely how Chamberlain viewed it.

Moreover, Chamberlain’s successor as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, inveigled his way into the position, contrary to the will of his party, Parliament and the British public. Churchill’s appointment is staggering if one considers that he had been living in political obscurity since 1929; his ignominious role in the Dardanelles fiasco during the First World War, for which he was forced to resign as First Lord of the Admiralty; and that he was pervasively despised by his peers for being an unscrupulous self-publicist, charlatan and blunderer, he was also considered by many of his critics, with justification, to be as corrupt and treacherous as his ancestor John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. Yet through the treachery of the Intelligence Services and the assistance of Zionist conspirators, including Lord Balfour, Churchill was able to effect a bloodless coup d'état and replace Chamberlain as Prime Minister.

Winston Churchill was a staunch Zionist with dubious financial connections to Jewish financers. The Spencer Churchill family was financially indebted to the Rothschild family, who helped Schiff finance the Bolshevik revolution and Winston Churchill himself, was financed throughout his political career by Zionists, particularly Sir Ernest Cassel. Moreover, Churchill was known political associate of Chaim Weizmann, then president of the World Zionist Organisation, at a time when Zionist terrorists were effectively at war with Britain in Palestine. As Prime Minister, Churchill often put Zionist ambition above British national interests: he obstinately refused to sue for peace, against the wishes of his war cabinet; he was one of the principle players in the Zionist occupation of Palestine; architect of the Jewish Brigade Group; and was personally responsible for genocides against Arabs, Kurds and Iranians.

Thus, whilst the Protocols of Elders of Zion were undoubtedly a fabrication, the insidious influence of Zionism on Western foreign policy; its conspiratorial, elitist and nihilistic nature and Jewish political subversion in Europe during the Twentieth Century were not.

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Challenging the Dogma of the Holocaust

The Holocaust was a post War conception to describe the deaths and ethnic cleansing of Jews at the hands of the Third Reich; if taken in the context of the Second World War, it was a minor event. Yet the Holocaust has obtained a mythological and elevated status. The Holocaust has more to do with Zionist mythology than it has to do with history. Challenging this dogma is necessary to reclaim the historical context of the Second World War, which is constantly presented in patently false terms of good and evil. The reality of course, is that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were as much the architects of the Second World War as Hitler; and it was they who committed the greater acts of genocides throughout that War. However, the Holocaust is more than an ex post facto justification for Allied atrocities during the Second World War: it is used to give moral credence to Zionism and Western imperialism.

However, challenging the Holocaust is not easy; there is no other episode of history so void of academic scrutiny or so heavily politicised. In much of Europe, it is actually unlawful to question the varsity of the Holocaust. Often, as is the case in Germany, one cannot even question the uniqueness of the Holocaust. This amounts to State enforced mythology.

Events in History, do not lend themselves to single interpretations, particularly when the interpretation is placed within an exclusively Jewish context. The systematic killing of Jews, whilst tragic, cannot be afforded an elevated status over and above the systematic killing of non-Jews nor does it justify Zionism - an ideology that is no less genocidal or xenophobic than Nazism.

Even, in Britain where it is still currently legal to challenge the veracity of the six million figure the Jewish lobby are arguing that this should be classified as a hate crime. Yet why should the Holocaust not be subject to historical comparisons and critical analysis? The lack of scrutiny, the failure to distinguish between the objective and the subjective, the uncritical acceptance of questionable evidence, the lack of tangibles, the discounting of counter-evidence, the overvaluation of secondary evidence, and the over reliance on wartime propaganda in relation to the Holocaust undermines the integrity of Western academia, pedagogy and journalism. So pervasive is the Holocaust political indoctrination that it not only goes unchallenged; it also goes unrecognised. So much so, that it is without any irony, that accusations of anti-Semitic political bias are levied against anyone who dares to challenge the official Holocaust dogma.

In any other field of history, it is accepted that two historians, having assessed the same evidence, may take opposing views. If they have arrived at different positions, having assessed largely different evidence, this might even be expected. In fact, one of the arguments for a Holocaust denial law is that future generations may doubt that it took place because of the lack of evidence, therefore by that rationale, it must be at the very least, reasonable to take an opposing view. Thus the true objection to Holocaust revisionism is not that it is predicated on anti-Jewish prejudice or even that it is unreasonable interpretation of events; rather that any revisionism that rejects the central dogma of the Holocaust, also rejects the main Western justification for the Zionist colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Hence without the veil of the Holocaust, Zionist aggression against the Palestinians can only be viewed in terms of genocide against an indigenous population by a colonial invader. Therefore the historicity of the Holocaust is irrelevant: it is a necessary Zionist myth and apologia. Hence the Holocaust dogma is also veiled in sophistry; the central facts are unverifiable and predicated upon a subjective Judeo-centric interpretation of history. The Holocaust dogma in essence can be summarised thus: the Nazis systematically exterminated six million Jews during World War Two; that most of the six million died from gas inhalation in Nazi death camps; and they further planned to exterminate World Jewry. The first two are unprovable and the third is untenable.

The six million figure is pure mythology, plucked out of the air, there is no possible way to verify this figure: it is not as if six million Jewish corpses have ever been recovered or that there are any German records in existence that confirm the execution of six million Jews. Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in an open letter to the Jewish community, dated the 6th March 1996, states: "the Yad Vashem Centre in Jerusalem has only ever been able to compile the names of a mere 2.5 million murdered European Jews".

In fact, such figures only establish that millions of European Jews were unaccounted for after the Second World War; there is no way to definitively determine how many of them actually died during that war and certainly there is no evidence to establish the manner of death. Many people presumed dead during the Second World War were later found to have relocated. The six million figure is also not supported by census data; it is reliant, firstly upon us accepting that millions of Jews, for whom we have no tangible evidence ever existed, did in fact exist, and secondly, that they were killed during the Second World War, notwithstanding that there is also no tangible evidence that they died. In the absence of both cadavers and documentary evidence to substantiate the number of Jewish dead during the Second World War, the six million figure is nothing more than pure conjecture.

The alleged plan to exterminate World Jewry is something for which no contemporaneous evidence exists. There are no documents or radio intercepts that indicate such a plan; there is undoubtedly evidence of transportation to Eastern Europe and of massacres of Jews during the course of the Second World War. Nor has any contemporaneous evidence to indicate that Hitler gave such an order been discovered. Therefore the presumption that Hitler authorised the extermination of European Jews in a single order is based upon speculation that an oral order was given, which was deliberately never written down, nor referred to in any document or over the radio, and which no one has ever testified to having ever heard.

In contrast, there is an abundance of evidence to prove that the Nazis used concentration camp prisoners as slave labour and that rations, however basic, were being supplied to the concentration camps because had this not have been the case, then there would have been no survivors at any of the camps when they were liberated. Therefore, it is irrational to conclude that there was a plan to exterminate World Jewry, such a plan would have been an illogical solution to the Jewish Question in the context of the war: the majority of Jews lived outside of Nazi territory. In fact, most were living in the USA, yet Germany had no territorial ambitions in the USA.

Conversely, Jewish expulsion from Nazi territory had proved successful hence Jewish migration to the USA was of no consequence to the Nazis. If anything it was beneficial, the more Jewish migration to New York, the more anti-Jewish resentment, and the greater the sympathy for the Germany. It has to be born in mind that whilst the war with Japan was popular in the USA, the war with Germany was less so. A further problem is that there is no cogent reason why such a plan should be kept secret. There is certainly no indication that this would have been an unpopular policy; if anything, it would have been welcome in Germany and much of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe, particularly after US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, announced his intent to castrate all German males and place Germany under the control of Jewish US Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Junior, if the Allies won the war.

Clearly, there was no need for Hitler to be concerned that the Allied Forces (United Nations) would find out: after all, they were already at war. In fact, it would have been to his advantage that they should know; if saving World Jewry was perceived to have been the raison d'etre for the war, it would have sapped British and US public support, particularly given that Churchill and Roosevelt were related (distant cousins) and both men were known to have been heavily associated with the Rothschilds and other prominent members of the international Jewish financial cartel and Zionists, through financial, political and family connections.

Roosevelt's Jewish ancestry and connections to the New York based Jewish crime syndicate were perceived in the USA to have been a motivating factor in his desire to involve the USA in a war with Germany. Churchill, also faced accusations of treachery and being an agent of Chaim Weizmann, who was variously the President of the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency and the Zionist government in Palestine. The Nazi policy of Jewish expulsion from Western Europe was well attested to prior to the war; both the British and US government's played down this as a motive for war because they knew it would not be well received, it was certainly a popular policy throughout Nazi occupied Europe. Therefore, it was not to Hitler's advantage to conceal a policy to exterminate World Jewry; there is no evidence that he concealed such a policy; and there is no evidence that such a policy existed.

It is undoubtedly true that the Nazis used gas chambers to exterminate handicapped people as part off their euthanasia plan; it is also plausible that they used this method to execute large numbers of political prisoners, including Jews, at concentration camps but again the evidence is rather lacking. There is no indication in the Auschwitz death book or any other document of anyone being gassed at any concentration camp; there are no post mortem of any corpses that indicate this as cause of death. When someone is said to have died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz or Treblinka this is conjecture. It is impossible to know whether an inmate died of gas inhalation or whether they died of some other cause, such as: as malnourishment, fatigue, exposure, dysentery, typhus, or bludgeoned to death by fellow inmate or guards. In fact, of all the corpses found in concentrations camps after they were liberated, none had died from gassing. Moreover, not all the European Jews that died during the Second World War were killed in concentration camps: it is impossible to say how many died of natural causes; as the result of bombing; were killed in combat; were executed; were murdered; committed suicide; or died in accidents. Therefore, to declare that a particular individual died in a gas chamber in a concentration camp is beyond absurd it is dishonest. Consequently, estimates of the number of inmates who died in gas chambers are equally fraudulent.

If one strips away the dogma what is the Holocaust? It is a subjective and Judeo-centric narrative of history. The term holocaust, literally "burnt offering", might be seen to be a more apt description of another episode in European history: that of the Inquisition, where victims were burned at the stake in a religious sacrifice known as an auto de fe (act of faith). It is often believed that the term Holocaust, arises from an association with the crematoriums of the concentration camps, in fact the term Holocaust was first used to describe the Nazi book burning fest, in 1933, it later use stems from wartime propaganda that Jews were being burned to death in their millions by the Germans. To extend the definition to accommodate non-Jews who died in Nazi concentration camps detracts from the pseudo-religious mythology of the Holocaust.

The myth of Jewish exclusivity is integral to the supposed uniqueness of the Holocaust, in truth there was no Holocaust, what there was, was a war that encompassed much of the World, and resulted in more civilian loss of life than any other before or after it. It is often overlooked that the Allied Forces were no more restrained than the Nazis, in regard to the loss of enemy civilians; in fact, they were a great deal worse. It was the USA who dropped atomic bombs of the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it was the British who carried out the punitive genocide of the civilian population of Dresden.

Moreover, Dr. Mohammad Qoli Majd's research that including recently released US government documents reveal that under British occupation the Iranian population decreased from twenty million to eleven million between 1914 and 1919, an occurrence that can be directly attributed to a deliberate policy of mass starvation and genocide under British military rule between 1917 and 1919. During this period eight to ten million people died, mostly of malnutrition or related disease, these deaths were largely avoidable, the British government withheld Iranian oil revenues, horded food supplies, and stopped food distribution, which resulted in a famine. Even the lower figure of eight million exceeds the highest estimates of the total Jewish loss of life during both World wars, and also exceeds the total number of combatants who lost their lives during the First World War. In addition, another overlooked fact is that is although the total number of Iranian death under Allied occupation during the Second World War remains to this day unknown, cemetery records alone reveal a figure of over three million, which exceeds the total number of verified Jewish deaths in Nazi occupied territory during the same period.

Incidentally, whilst the USA was prepared to estimate the number of Jewish dead during the Second World War at 5.7 million, they are not prepared to estimate the number of Iranian deaths, although they have more reliable evidence for Iran during this period. Therefore, the concept of a unique Jewish genocide, in the context of the Second World War is derisible. Not only is it historically unsustainable, it is premised upon the unsavoury moral qualification that Jewish life has greater sanctity than non-Jewish life. The juxtaposition of this is the rejection of any moral relativism between Jewish and non-Jewish suffering, the corollaries of which are all too obvious in the Middle East.

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Islam and the freedom of expression

One of the main criticisms of Islam and the Shari ‘a in the West is that Islam is undemocratic, which is fundamentally untrue; democracy is the will of the majority (or the rule by the populous), ergo if Islam is chosen by the majority as the means of governance then it is democratic. The other objection is that Islam represses the freedom of expression, which is true enough, Islam does. Yet this is hardly extraordinary.

The freedom of expression is not an inalienable, universal or moral right, it is a philosophical concept within jurisprudence; the very concept of legal rights exists only in jurisprudence; and all moral rights are abstract legal rights. This might rattle a few Americans, but nevertheless it is an important philosophical point: rights are not universal unless the corpus juris (body of law) is universal. Universalism is dependent upon the concept of a God viz., a supreme moral being. Without, some universal basis to morality, the ethos of a particular society may or may not be transferable but would not be universal, unless universally and necessarily accepted by every society.

If this were the case then every society would have already adopted them, for they could not have established any alternative ethos. Yet this is clearly not so. Therefore, there are no such things as inalienable rights without the existence of God. If one accepts the existence of God, then one can talk of inalienable rights as a matter of theodicy: yet, in which case one would have expected them to be known a priori or to have been revealed. Again as this is not the case, so it is rather strange that anyone could claim that these are divine rights.

Thus rights, such as the freedom of expression are civil rights ergo they only pertain to a particular civil society at a particular point in time. So when we look at the freedom of expression, as a concept of jurisprudence, we can ask ourselves is it ever right to suppress the freedom of expression? No civil society that I am aware of has ever existed that does seek to suppress the freedom of expression to some degree. Thus the freedom of expression is at best the freedom to do anything that one so desires, so long as it does not harm or impede anybody else’s liberty. The question here is harm: we are free to express any view (like Galileo) unless (like Galileo) we are deemed do harm; then we are not allowed to express ourselves at all. The sum of which is that the freedom of expression is the freedom to say anything the law allows you to say.

In the US the freedom of expression is intrinsically linked to the freedom of the press, a right that is superseded by treason, libel, obscenity and national interest. Constitutional freedoms are a matter for civil society, in the UK freedom of speech is even more curtailed; the Government will slap a D notice on anything it thinks it can get away with. The UK libel laws are the most pernicious in the West if not the World, yet until the Mac-libel case, a defendant did not receive public funding in libel cases. Also, in both the US and the UK there are pernicious anti-vilification and anti-incitement laws. These are major infringements on freedom of expression.

It is frankly ludicrous to think that there is freedom of expression in any country; the reality is that every country has varying degrees of freedom of expression that pertain to the civil society; it is also rarely the case that one nation’s freedoms are greater or lesser than another’s; it is better to say that they are different. For example the US has the most restrictive patent laws in the World that is a major restriction on the freedom of expression. Potentially the most oppressive restrictions on the freedom of expression are the anti-terror laws: acts preparatory to terrorism, indirect incitement and conspiracy.

It is necessary for every civil society to reflect upon freedom of expression, the fact that nations change in character and composition only reinforces this. In the US and France, which are both legally secular states, blasphemy laws are an anathema, however in the UK where blasphemy, sedition and libel are very much part of the statute books: in fact restrictions on the freedom of expression account for more statues than property (or so the rumour goes – I doubt anyone has actually counted). Yet I very much doubt in the US or France that one could indulge in a bit of iconoclasm in a Catholic Church or desecrate the Bible in a Lutheran Church without being arrested.

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British Islamophobia post the 11 September

Since the events of the 11 September 2001 in the USA, there has been in Britain, an exponential rise in anti-Islamic polemic and Islamophobia, which eclipses even the Salmon Rushide affair. Only in part, can this resurgence in Islamophobia be explained as the corollary of the events of the “11 September”. Islamophobia was already a subterranean inherency of the body politic. In truth, the “11 September” has just provided a pretext for the legitimisation of Islamophobia; it is now politically acceptable to be overtly anti-Islamic. This represents a significant development in the dynamic of British Islamophobia, as a socio-political phenomenon. For it is no longer politically necessary to address the concerns of the British Muslim Community, it is far more politic to criticise the Muslim community.

Indeed, “Islamophobia” is now a pervasive and overt socio-political phenomenon amongst much of Britain’s polity, media and intelligentsia. It is quite apparent that since the “11 September”, that the Labour Government and most of the media have quite shamelessly been engaging in anti-Islamic rhetoric. One of the most concerning and damaging polemics has came from the Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, whilst speaking as Minister for Europe, on the BBC’s “Breakfast with Frost” programme, 12 May 2002 – Hain remarked:
“We need to work much harder to integrate Muslims in particular with the rest of society. We very much welcome the contribution that the Muslim community makes to British culture. They enrich our culture. They are welcome here. But there is a tendency amongst a minority to isolate themselves and that leaves them vulnerable to either exploitation by Osama bin Laden-type extremists and fanatics on the one hand, or targeting by racists and Nazis on the other.”
This was obviously a quite deliberate statement, as it was largely reiterated by Hain in an interview with “The Guardian”, published on the 13 may 2002, in which he made the accusation that:

“Some Muslims are cutting themselves off and feeding both rightwing politics and their own extremists. We need an honest dialogue about the minority of isolationist, fundamentalists and fanatics who open the door to exploitation and who provide fertile ground for al-Qaida extremists.”

Hain’s comments are quite clearly xenophobic, which is all the more concerning given his prominent role in the anti-apartheid movement. His assertion that the Muslim community is particular need of being integrated with the rest of society is quite unfounded. The majority of British Muslims are perfectly competent English speakers. Moreover, Muslims are professionally diverse and representative of British society – despite racial and religious discrimination in the work place. Also British Muslim children are mainly educated in secular schools. Indeed, there are far less Muslim children than there are Christian or Jewish children educated in single faith schools.

Not only are Hain’s comments fallacious, they are divisive and irresponsible; Hain is holding the whole of Britain’s Muslim community accountable for the actions and views of a small minority. This is ridiculous; Hain has not made similar comments about Britain’s Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Hindu or Sikh communities. However, the British Muslim community has the least history of sectarian violence. Yet conversely, it is the Muslim community that are, proportionally, the greatest victims of xenophobic violence.

Britain’s Muslim community represents a significant proportion of the British population, particularly amongst ethnic minorities and thus is an integral and indivisible part of British society. The British Muslim community is Britain’s largest “minority” group. Yet, rather than welcoming its contribution as Hain suggests, the polity and media marginalize and react against it.

Hain remarks were symptomatic of the Labour Government’s exploitation of British cultural Islamophobia for political ends. It is evident that the British Muslim community is growing exponentially in comparison with the Christian majority, altering Britain’s religious demography. Whilst statistically, Islam is a long way off reaching demographic polarity with Christianity in Britain, on a global level, Islam is a more vibrant religion than Christianity. Islam the fastest growing religion in the World and is set to replace Christianity numerically as the World’s foremost religion in the near future. Moreover Islam already has more “practicing” adherents than Christianity; it is well established that the majority of those who denote themselves as Christians, are non-practicing, indeed many are agnostics.

Thus, Islamophobes fear that the growing cultural fusion between British Muslims and non-Muslims will ultimately lead to the Islamic dilution of the national culture. However, within Islamophobia, there is a strong element of racism – the majority of British Muslims come from ethnic minority groups. Therefore Islamophobia provides for many a politically acceptable and legal form of racism. Whilst racial discrimination and incitement to racial hatred are unlawful religious discrimination and incitement to religious hatred are lawful. It is therefore legal to incite anti-Islamic hatred and to discriminate against Muslims, yet unlawful to incite anti-Jewish hatred and to discriminate against Jews because they are bizarrely held to be a racial and not religious minority group.

Therefore, it is politically advantageous for the Government to pamper to this anti-Islamic xenophobia, portraying the British Muslim community, as bearing some responsibility for the “11 September” attacks. Hence, when Hain refers to: “the minority of isolationist, fundamentalists and fanatics who open the door to exploitation and who provide fertile ground for al-Qaida extremists”, he is deliberately misrepresenting the situation, he knows that there is no evidence to link more than a handful of Britons to al-Qaida. This hardly constitutes “fertile ground for al-Qaida extremists” or for terrorism per se.

Yet, it is clear that there is a growing political schism between Muslims and the Labour Government due to the Labour Government overtly anti-Islamic agenda. Nowhere is this more evident than in relation to Labour’s foreign policy. The Labour Party has always had strong Zionist ties, ergo the Labour Government pursues a particularly virulent pro-Zionist and pro-Israeli foreign policy agenda. This of course presents an inherent incompatibility with Labour’s supposed commitment to an ethical foreign policy, racial and religious equality, democracy, indigenous self-determination, human rights, anti-apartheid and anti-fascism.

Moreover, the Labour Government’s commitment to a pro-Israeli foreign policy also runs contrary to the position of other European States. The pervasive view in Europe is that the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East is Zionist intransigence and expansionism. Consequently there is more support in Europe for the creation of a viable Palestinian State, without the Israeli precondition of an end to Palestinian militancy.

Pre “11 September”, there was widespread apathy amongst the British public to the Middle East conflict - the majority of the British public being decidedly agnostic upon the issue. Whereas there is enormous support amongst the British Muslim community for Palestinian nation-statehood; “the right to return” of the five plus million Palestinians living in the Diaspora; and the Palestinian right to armed resistance against the continued illegal Zionist occupation and oppression. Consequently, there is utter disdain and contempt for the Labour Government pro-Israeli and anti-Palestinian agenda.

The Labour Government consistently refuses to impose arms sanctions, let alone economic sanctions against Israel, despite Israel’s flagrant abuses of UN resolutions and even though Israel uses British bought arms against the civilian population in the illegally “occupied territories”. Moreover, the Labour Government has been quick to condemn Palestinian resistance movements as “Terrorists”; yet conversely has not censured Israel for its human rights abuses, its policy of apartheid, and its perpetration of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinian civilian population. Nor will the Labour Government condemn the Israeli Prime minister, Ariel Sharon, for his role in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity. Indeed, Cherie Blair, the Prime Minister’s wife has effectively been censured by Downing Street, for her comments expressing sympathy with the plight of the Palestinians and the hopelessness that drives some Palestinians to become suicide bombers. Notwithstanding, that she made the comment in her capacity as a leading human rights lawyer and not as a representative of the Labour Government.
There is also widespread discord in the British Muslim community, with Britain’s role in America’s “War on Terrorism”, which is in truth, a thinly veiled “War on Islam”. There is huge concern that the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, leant British military supported the USA in a war against Afghanistan, an Islamic nation. Notwithstanding that there was no evidence of any Afghan involvement in the “11 September” attacks – the pretext for the war. Indeed, the USA has not provided publicly any credible evidence to link Al-Qaida or any other Islamic organisation to the “11 September” attacks.

Therefore, it is politic for the Government to socio-politically isolate the Muslim community from the rest of British society. Thus, Hain’s polemic against Muslim isolationism is in essence a polemic against “political Islam” and Islamic dissent. That is to say, that rather than allowing that the Muslim community has legitimate grievances against the Labour Government on foreign policy; Hain is presenting all Islamic dissent as “Isolationism”. Hence, Muslims are being marginalized and scapegoated for exercising the democratic right to object to Government policy and for political heterodoxy.

The Labour Government is also exploiting this Islamophobia vis-à-vis its asylum and immigration policy. The Home secretary, David Blunkett, presents an image of Britain, as a country overwrought with bogus asylum seekers, whom he conveniently labels: “economic migrants”. The Government also draws attention to the fact that the majority of asylum seekers are Muslims, yet fails to draw attention to the fact that only a small minority of Muslims are asylum seekers. This reinforces the perception of Muslims as “undesirable aliens”, parasites, and criminals. Whereas conversely, the Muslim community, which generally has more dealing with asylum seekers, tends to hold the view at that the British Government deliberately and unfairly denies asylum to deserving applicants for xenophobic reasons.

However, Islamophobia is not unique to this Labour Government, successive British Governments have continued a policy of marginalizing and ignoring domestic Islamic political issues. Despite being Britain’s most prominent non-Christian religion, Muslims are not recognized in law as an ethnic group, whereas conversely, Jews and Sikhs are. Yet, whilst neither Jews nor Muslims are a single race of people, both groups define themselves culturally by religion, tradition, and cultural heritage. Hence, the rationale that allows the Law to accept that Jews are a distinct ethnic group ought to apply equally to Muslims.

Moreover, it is patently clear that English family law is anti-Islamic – there can surely be no justification for the refusal to recognize the validity of the “Shari ‘a” (Islamic law) in Muslim marriages and in relation to Muslim children. Instead, family matters involving Muslims are invariable adjudicated by non-Muslim judges, even when the marriage itself is an Islamic marriage.

Moreover, English Family Law is itself quasi-Christian. Therefore, somewhat perversely, a marriage entered into between consenting adults in accordance with the “Shari ‘a” is recognized as legally valid, yet if the marriage breaks down, the “Shari ‘a” is dismissed and the matter is judged according to quasi-Christian law – notwithstanding the inherent incompatibility with the terms in which the marriage was entered into in the first place. There is a strong sense in the Muslim community that Muslim family matters should be dealt within accordance with the “Shari ‘a” in Islamic courts, which could easily be incorporated into the English legal system. After all, English Family Law is essentially detached from the main corpus juris.

Nor indeed is there any justification for the continued rejection of polygamous marriages in a “secular” society. It can hardly be said that the legal recognition of polygamous marriages would be economically burdensome; currently a British Muslim man could have four de facto British wives, all with children, and all living in different houses, and all recipients of various social security benefits. If anything, it would be less economically burdensome for the legal recognition of polygamous marriages.

It is clear that this Labour Government that has no desire for the Muslim community to be integrated into British society. It is the Government that is taking a leading role in isolating the Muslim community for its own political ends. Instead of condemning irresponsible and inflammatory anti-Islamic journalism, the Government has contributed to it. The Government could and should have demanded the release of British citizens illegally detained in camp X-ray; it could and should have refused to support US military action in Afghanistan and proposed US military action in Iraq; and instead of providing arms to Israel, it could and should have supported military intervention to protect the innocent Palestinian civilians from Israeli genocide. Yet it chooses not to.

Thus the Labour Government has sought not to embrace the British Muslim community; rather it has sought to suppress the rise of Islamic culture and politics. So it is “assimilation” and not “integration” that the Government is seeking: Muslims are being asked to abandon core religious, political, cultural and moral beliefs, and to instead accept those of the “majority”. This is nothing short of ethnocide, not to mention, fundamentally undemocratic. Moreover, the Labour Government has demonstrated all too clearly that it is prepared to resort to Machiavellian tactics, fuelling racial and religious tension, in order to facilitate its anti-Islamic agenda. Therefore, it would be forlorn for Muslims to look to the Government for any respite in this unfounded wave of anti-Islamic polemic, as it is clearly Government led. If Muslims are to engage effectively in the democratic process, Muslims need to vote for Muslims candidates in every possible election, regardless of party-political affiliations, so long as the candidate is prepared to support Muslim political issues.

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