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Everything you need to know about why the Islamist terrorists continue to strike is in these 2 headlines

The two stories leading the Jerusalem Post online news at 15:00 today explain everything you need to know about why Islamists are winning in their battle to terrorise 'Infidel' nations. The first story is about an Israeli soldier arrested for killing a terrorist who had stabbed a colleague seconds earlier*, and the second is about a London man arrested for "inciting racial hatred on social media" after sending  a tweet criticising a Muslim woman he spoke to who would not condemn the Brussels terrorists.

Leftists are proud of these stories (look at the triumphant tone of moral superiority in the Jerusalem Post report which talks about the "ghastly shooting of a Palestinian knife attacker") because in their eyes it demonstrates 'our' moral righteousness even when under attack by 'them'.  They think these kind of stories show why the Islamic terrorists can never 'win' because even in the face of terror 'we will still uphold the democratic process and fight racism'. But the exact opposite is true. For a start these prosecutions have got nothing to do with justice, democracy and fighting racism. They are all about signalling our righteousness and appeasement to the Islamists - and even the suppression of our own values of free speech. In reality they signal our weaknesses to the Islamists, along with the fact that we do not even acknowledge that we are fighting a war against an enemy dedicated to our destruction.

*remember that every Palestinian terrorist who attacks Israelis is guaranteed to become a very wealthy man/woman if they survive the attack. So think about that if you just saw a terrorist stab your mate.

Turning Paris attacks into narrative of Muslim heroism and victimhood

Anybody who spends most of their online time reading pro-Israel blogs like this one - or whose main Facebook 'friends' are Israel supporters - will be unaware that there is a very concerted effort in the rest of the blogasphere and Facebook to turn the narrative of the Paris attacks into one of Muslim heroism and victimhood (much of this is being promoted by left-wing Jews).

For those of you with teenage children (curiously especially Jewish ones) on Facebook, you will find that by far and away the most popular and frequent story about the Paris attacks they will see is the one about the 'hero' Lassana Bathily - a Muslim from Mali - who worked in the kosher store and who helped a number of customers avoid the attacker by hiding them in the freezer room. While very welcome, as explained very well by Daniel Greenfield, this incident doesn’t disprove Islamic anti-Semitism any more than the actions of Oskar Schindler disproved Nazi anti-Semitism.

The other stories dominating the Paris attack narrative are those about the terrible Islamaphobia that Muslims now face. Yet nobody can find any evidence of actual Islamaphobia, whereas Jews in France are actually being murdered and require police protection at all their institutions... and the BBC seems to think this is something they deserve because of the way "Jews treat Palestinians". In fact, while the mainstream media totally missed the irony of arch terrorist supporters and abusers of journalists (like Abbas and theTurkish and Qatar delegates) attending the Paris rally yesterday, plenty took the the trouble to spew their hatred at Benjamin Netanyahu attending - accusing him of being the terrorist.

What makes this narrative especially cynical is that - in the acres of coverage of the Paris attacks - few media outlets are reporting the following REAL stories which demonstrate the centrality of anti-Semitism to Muslim terrorism in Paris and the extent to which it is supported by other Muslims:

• The only woman murdered at Charlie Hebdo was singled out because she was a Jew
• What really happened in the kosher store and the level of anti-Semitism involved
• The celebrations of Muslims kids in Paris outside the kosher store while Jews were being murdered
• The kosher store terrorist tried to attack a Jewish school the day before
• French Muslim students refuse to honour moment of silence for victims

See previous posts: 

Netanyahu: "France has right to exist but response is disproportionate" 
Paris attacks: Do not jump to conclusions...it could be "right-wing extremists 

Islamaphobia

The gloriously misnamed "Islamic Human Rights Commission of the UK" is a Khomeinist  Iranian Government sponsored group that organises the annual 'Death to Israel' march through the streets of London.

It also (as noted here) has just announced its "Islamaphobia Awards 2014"

By presenting their list of nominations they are at least providing a great service in alerting us to some of the best writers on the subject of the threat of violent Islam (the objective being to silence them of course) and also some of the most heroic political campaigners against Islamic violence (who already pay with having to have 24 hours security).It is worth looking at the full list but there is one entry that stands out as genuinely bizarre, namely

Barack Obama, for mostly everything

(there's gratitude for you!).

To give a feel for the fine justifications they make for the nominations, they say of Douglas Murray

for everything he's ever written in The Spectator

It is interesting that they also nominate Daniel Greenfield (aka Sultan Knish)

for vilification and inciting hatred against Muslims in Front Page Mag

Daniel - who I regard as the most brilliant and prolific blogger of all - must be doing something right  if he has got under their skin to this extent. It is good to see him finally getting the recognition he deserves.

Imprisoned in the UK for criticising Islam

The national UK media has had almost nothing to say about the astonishing case of Darren Conway who on March 6 was sentenced to a year in prison for posting 'anti-Islamic materials' in the window of his ground-floor apartment in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.  There is a very good piece by Bruce Bawer about the case in which he wonders why no information about the actual posters has been provided in any news reports. He suspects that the material is simply standard factual information about Islam and Mohammed (including the fact that, by having sex with the  9-year old Aisha, Muhammad would be classified as a pedophile in any Western society).

In order to find out exactly what the posters were I have just filed a Freedom of Information Request to the Crown Prosection Service -anyone else can do this by completing the form here (you can send it by email). The details needed for the form are no more than provided above.

Obviously I will post the response here when I get it.

Update: The Crown Prosecution Service has its own report about the case on its website here. However, it also provides no concrete details about the posters beyond the quotes of Prosecutor Judith Walker who tells us that "Although they were targeted at Muslims, they would cause offence to virtually anyone that saw them." Sounds a very grand claim.

Update 15 March 2012: Arrested in the UK for criticising Iran

Update 5 June 2012: I have had a response from The Crown Prosecution Service. They have refused the request form information about the posters on the grounds that it is 'not in the public interest'.