"Caliphate Conference" Seeks to Islamize Europe, U.S.

STONEGATE Institute
by Soeren Kern
February 21, 2012 at 5:00 am

The explicit aim of the Istanbul Process -- currently backed by the Obama administration -- is to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.

A Muslim fundamentalist group is organizing a conference focused on turning Austria and other European countries into Islamic states.

The "Caliphate Conference 2012" will be held on March 10 in the Austrian town of Vösendorf, situated just south of Vienna. The main theme of the event will be "The Caliphate: The State Model of the Future."

The conference is being organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir [Party of Liberation], a pan-Islamic extremist group that seeks to establish a global Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by Islamic Sharia law.

Hizb ut-Tahrir -- which is banned in many countries, including Germany, but is free to operate in Austria -- is virulently opposed to Western capitalism and democracy and seeks to extend the future caliphate to Europe and the United States.

According to a promotional video (in German) for the conference, "the Islamic Caliphate is the only social and political system that has the right solutions to the political, social and economic problems of humanity."

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned from holding a similar conference in Belgium that had been scheduled for March 4. The group also organized a Caliphate Conference in Amsterdam last July, 2011, and well as a year earlier inChicago in June, 2010.

Analysts say the open nature of the conference in Vienna indicates that Hizb ut-Tahrir is enhancing its recruiting efforts among European Muslims.

According to Steven Emerson, a leading authority on Islamic extremist networks, Hizb ut-Tahrir is emulating the three-stage process by which Muslims established the first Islamic caliphate after the death of the Islamic Prophet, Mohammed, in the year 632.

During the first stage, Hizb ut-Tahrir builds a party by cultivating a small number of supporters to engage in recruitment and propaganda. In the second stage (which Hizb ut-Tahrir is now entering in Europe and the United States), the group educates Muslims in order to recruit a larger group of people to join Hizb ut-Tahrir and support its revolution. Finally, having won the support of Muslims, Hizb ut-Tahrir moves to establish a Sharia-ruled Islamic government.

While Muslims are busy working to Islamize the West from within, they simultaneously insist that Westerners should not be allowed to criticize these efforts.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a group of 57 Muslim countries that purports to be the collective voice of the Muslim world, sponsored an anti-Islamophobia symposium in Brussels on February 15 and 16, 2012.

The first-of-its-kind event was entitled "Smearing Islam and Muslims in the Media," and was "aimed at establishing information mechanisms to face up to the slanderous campaigns against Islam in the media."

The workshop was part of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.

The explicit aim of the Istanbul Process is to enshrine in international law a global ban on all critical scrutiny of Islam and Islamic Sharia law.

Based in Saudi Arabia, the OIC has long pressed the European Union and the United States to impose limits on free speech and expression about Islam.

But the OIC has now redoubled its efforts and is engaged in a determined diplomatic offensive to persuade Western democracies to implement United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) Resolution 16/18, which calls on all countries to combat "intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of … religion and belief." (Analysis of the OIC's war on free speech can be found here and here.)

Resolution 16/18, which was adopted at HRC headquarters in Geneva in March 2011, is widely viewed as a significant step forward in OIC efforts to advance the international legal concept of defaming Islam.

However, the HRC resolution -- as well as the OIC-sponsored Resolution 66/167, which was quietly approved by the 193-member UN General Assembly on December 19, 2011 -- remains ineffectual as long as it lacks strong support in the West.

The OIC therefore scored a diplomatic coup when the Obama Administration agreed to host a three-day Istanbul Process conference in Washington, DC on December 12-14, 2011. In doing so, the United States gave the OIC the political legitimacy it has been seeking to globalize its initiative to ban criticism of Islam.

Following the Obama Administration's lead, the European Union now wants to get in on the action by hosting the next Istanbul Process summit.

Up until now, the European Union has kept the OIC initiative at arms-length. But Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the OIC, says the EU's recent offer to host the meeting represents a "qualitative shift in action against the phenomenon of Islamophobia," according to the International Islamic News Agency (IINA), the OIC's official news and propaganda organ.

According to the IINA, "The phenomenon of Islamophobia is found in the West in general, but is growing in European countries in particular, in a manner different from that in the US, which had contributed to drafting Resolution 16/18. The new European position represents the beginning of the shift from its previous reserve over the years over the attempts by the OIC to counter 'defamation of religions' in the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations."

The IINA report continues: "Officials in the Cultural Affairs Department of the OIC said that the European Union's offer to host the third meeting (the first was in Istanbul in July, and the second in Washington, DC last December) is considered a promising new possibility of solving this problem. The 'Istanbul Process' will have an added momentum by holding the meeting in Europe, which is more affected by the phenomenon of Islamophobia and hostility towards Islam."

According to the OIC, the anti-Islamophobia workshop in February was of "particular importance" as it was held only weeks before the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva from February 27 to March 23, during which time Resolution 16/18 will come to a second vote.

In September 2011, an OIC organ called the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (IESCO),organized a seminar in Brussels on "how to deal with stereotypical images of Islam in European television programs."

The seminar was designed to help European journalists "identify characteristics of stereotypes about Islam in European television programs, highlight the dangers of defamation of religions, and clarify the distinction between freedom of expression and the right to cultural difference, the commitment to the Islamic cultural identity and the struggle against racism and hatred."

In her latest book titled "Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate," Bat Ye'or, a leading scholar on Islam in the West, writes that the OIC is essentially a "would-be universal caliphate" which exercises significant power through the European Union, the United Nations and other international organizations.

Ye'or describes an OIC strategy manual, "Strategy of Islamic Cultural Action in the West," in which the OIC asserts that "Muslim immigrant communities in Europe are part of the Islamic nation." The document goes on to recommend "a series of steps to prevent the integration and assimilation of Muslims into European culture."

According to Ye'or, "The caliphate is alive and growing within Europe…It has advanced through the denial of dangers and the obfuscating of history. It has moved forward on gilded carpets in the corridors of dialogue, the network of the Alliances and partnerships, in the corruption of its leaders, intellectuals and NGOs, particularly at the United Nations."

Soeren Kern is Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.

I'm still trying to figure out what race Islam belongs to?  


http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2866/caliphate-conference 

"BEHEADING APOSTATES SHOULD BE EASIER THAN CUTTING BUTTONS OFF THEIR SHIRTS, SAYS THIS MUSLIM CLERIC

This is the true face of Islam. Wake up America, Wake up world to the real evils we are facing from this evil Ideology.

Paris Street becoming Slums for Muslims

Bare Naked Islam
February 20, 2012
French suburbs are becoming ‘Muslim no-man’s land’, says French journalist and historian Alexandre Adler. Adler also said that many French Muslims want this, and that he’s concerned about the self-administration against the State in those neighborhoods.


Wake Up America, Our country like France is under assault by Islam. We can still take back our country from these invaders but we must act now. France maybe be too late to save itself unless they take drastic measures.

http://barenakedislam.com/2012/02/20/france-suburbs-are-becoming-violent-crime-ridden-muslim-ghettos/

State Web Site Tracks Mexican Cartel Violence Along Border

CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
Judicial Watch Blog
February 17, 2012

Officials in Texas are under attack from a mainstream newspaper critical of a state web site created to track Mexican drug-cartel violence that’s transformed the southern border into a war zone.

The Texas Department of Agriculture started the web site to keep farmers and residents informed about the growing danger created by Mexican drug cartels illegally crossing into the state. It’s occurring at an “increasingly alarming rate,” according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples and Washington is ignoring the crisis.

The cartels are invading Texas farms and ranches, threatening citizens’ lives and jeopardizing the nation’s food supply, Staples says, adding that the web site, created less than a year ago, documents true stories of the constant danger along the border. The agriculture secretary also takes the opportunity to “implore the federal government to enforce our laws and secure our nation’s borders.”

A few months ago his agency released a report, ordered by the state legislature, assessing the impact of illegal activity along the Texas-Mexico border on rural landowners and the agriculture industry. The details are downright appalling and reveal that shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common in the area. In fact, drug-cartel violence is so severe that Texas counties along the Mexican border are under attack around the clock.

It’s difficult to dispute the findings since the probe was conducted by two reputable military veterans of varying political affiliations. One of them is a retired four-star Army General (Barry McCaffrey) who served as Bill Clinton’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The other, retired Army Major-General Robert Scales, is the former commander of the U.S. Army War College.

Yet the mainstream media is critical of the way Texas is handling the situation, implying in story after story that the crisis along the southern border is a fabrication of a racist, right-wing movement. This week one of the nation’s largest newspapers published a piece questioning Texas’s web site as a way to “publicize the assertions by farmers and others that violence from Mexico’s drug war has spilled over the border.”

It also blasts the Texas Department of Agriculture for its involvement in the “controversial realm of domestic security” when it’s supposed to be concerned with “detecting plant diseases and regulating grain-storage warehouses.” The piece skeptically goes on to say that the agency “paints a frightening portrait of life along the 1,254-mile border that Texas shares with Mexico.” The reporter never bothered considering that it’s reality.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/02/state-web-site-tracks-mexican-cartel-violence-along-border/

Harvard hosting conference to promote Israel's destruction

Israel Matzav 
Sunday February 19, 2012

 On March 3 and 4, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government is hosting a conference on the 'one-state solution.' That would be the state that makes the 'Palestinians' of Judea, Samaria and Gaza intoIsraeli 'Palestinian' citizens, allows millions of descendants of 'refugees' to return and then calls a plebiscite to negate the idea of Jewish self-determination. The conference, which is an officially sanctioned event at Harvard, does not have a single pro-Israel speaker on any of its seven panels. So much for academic integrity.

According to the working definition of anti-Semitism developed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), and recognized by the United States Department of State, the One State Conference, in implicitly “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,” is an exercise in anti-Semitism. 

The One State Conference website boasts the logo of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and has been in the planning for a year. According to The Jewish Advocate, Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood released a statement, saying:

I want to emphasize once again that Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School in no way endorses or supports the apparent position of these student organizers or any participants they include. We hope that the final shape of the conference will be significantly more balanced.

Furthermore, the university is quoted saying that the event is being at least partially underwritten by “modest” funds set aside for student activities. According to Melodie Jackson, Associate Dean for Communications, also quoted in The Jewish Advocate: “Generally administrators try to be supportive of student ideas for events that they are planning.”

Increasingly, assaults on Israel's legitimacy and survival are promoted by academics, including at the nation's most prestigious universities.

Read the whole thing.

I guess they don't teach students to think anymore at Harvard. After all, if they could think, they could be entrusted to hear two sides of a story and to choose the right one.

Labels: Harvard University, liberal academia, one-state solution

MUST SEE: Leader of the new British Freedom Party has harsh words for the Islamic plague currently engulfing the West

From Bare Naked Islam Blog

February 18, 2012

In the video below, Paul Weston gave an impassioned yet highly controversial speech in Amsterdam about the rapidly growing danger of Islamization. Had he given it in Britain, he probably would have been arrested.

http://barenakedislam.com/2012/02/18/must-see-leader-of-the-new-british-freedom-party-has-harsh-words-for-the-islamic-plague-currently-engulfing-the-west/

Teenagers Kidnapped and Raped by Muslim Gang

Europe news 

By Cheradenine Zakalwe

Two teenage girls ‘taken to flat and raped by gang who thought they could do as they pleased’
Two teenage girls were lured from their home town to a dingy Birmingham flat where they were subjected to a degrading weekend of sexual attacks by a group of men who "believed they could do with them as they pleased”, a court was told yesterday.
The girls, aged 15 and 16, were driven from Telford, Shropshire, to the flat by two men who used them for sex before "offering them up to their friends”.
The men said that they were part of a violent gang and "used their strength in numbers” to persuade the girls that "resistance or escape was hopeless”.
Alex Chalk, prosecuting, told a jury at Birmingham Crown Court that the six men in the dock had "not a shred of respect” for their victims, who were targeted because they had "rough edges” and came from difficult backgrounds. "These men made an assessment . . . that if they ever did complain, their backgrounds and demeanour meant they would attract little sympathy,” he said.
What ensued was a weekend of "sustained degradation and humiliation” during which the teenagers, at times sobbing and begging to be left alone, effectively became the sexual toys of their assailants. Shamrez Rashid, 20, Amar Hussain, 21, Jahbar Rafiq, 28, Adil Saleem, 21, Aqueel Rahman, 20, and Amer Islam Choudhrey, 20, each deny child abduction in relation to the 15-year-old girl, who was reported missing by her mother.
The six are also charged with 14 sex offences, including seven rapes, attempted rape and five sexual assaults.
The court heard that the 16-year-old initially agreed to become a Facebook "friend” of Mr Rashid, who used the false name of Adam, after meeting him at a theme park in the Midlands.
Some months later, in November 2009, he phoned and arranged a meeting in Telford. Mr Rashid arrived in a car with a man he introduced as his cousin and invited the girls to travel with them to Birmingham.
Mr Chalk said that the girls were flattered but wary. They pretended that the younger girl needed to be home by 9.30pm because she was babysitting. The men promised that they would bring them back in time. The teenagers were taken to a dirty two-room flat which had a mattress in the downstairs kitchen and a bed with no mattress in the bedroom above.
Mr Chalk described a series of sexual attacks that were allegedly carried out by Mr Rashid and Mr Hussain before more "cousins” and friends arrived "with sex in mind”.
At different times more than a dozen men, "no doubt summoned by the good news” of the girls’ helpless presence, are said to have sought gratification from them. Both teenagers, at various times, were crying and during the night they discussed trying to escape from the flat to walk back to Telford, but they "realised that they didn’t have a clue where they were”.
At one point two men forcibly had sex with the 16-year-old in the kitchen while other men "kept coming downstairs to watch through the glass door”. It made her feel "horrible and upset”.
The girl later told police that she faced "a dilemma — should she do what the men wanted in the hope that they would leave her alone? Or would that just encourage them to come back for more? She felt like she wanted to jump out of the window.”
The case continues.

Posted February 17th, 2012 by pk