Even the "brothers" aren't buying it

Friday, January 09, 2009

Even the "brothers" aren't buying it

The dhimmi media may be buying into Pallywood, but even the "brothers" are turning away. This is from a Bradford forum:

A sincere, active brother from Bradford has informed MPACUK (Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK) that the MP for Bradford, Gerry Sutcliffe, has had only 2 complaints about Israel! MPACUK asks - are the Muslims in Bradford asleep!? Bradford has the fourth highest proportion of Muslims in England. Over 100,000 Muslims, yet only 2 complaints against Israel! Absolutely disgraceful.

Gerry Sutcliffe is meeting the Foreign Office today. Ring him now before 2:30pm today on 01274 400 007 and ask him to condemn the Israeli invasion and attacks on Gaza. Start complaining now.

But even if you didn't do that its still not too late. Here are some of the things that the sincere, active brother from Bradford has suggested that Bradford Muslims can do. Bradford Muslims if you care about justice, please heed his words:

"There were 3000 people protesting in the Bradford March, yet how many have contacted their MP or MEPs?

This Saturday, 10th Jan, are the surgeries of Terry Rooney and Gerry Sutcliffe. The people of Bradford should go to the surgeries and express their opinions, if possible sign petitions and present them.

It is the job of MPs to represent their British constituents not the interests of Israel, many MPs are putting the views of Israel over and above the views of British people - is this democracy??

MPACUK should ask Muslims around the UK to do this in all cities, this should be happening across the country.

What is also interesting is that, unlike 2006, the UN resolution passed last night is having no political traction at all. This is possibly because the UN has abandoned all pretence at neutrality and is now so obviously partisan that even its tarnished credibility is being shot to pieces.

When it becomes the prime propagandist for the Hamas message, even though the medialap it up, the shadow of Qana looms large, with the spirit of "Green Helmet" all too evident.

But, it appears, you can play the "ghoul card" once to often. In its quest for "another Qana", Hamas tactics - even with the willing help of the UN - are all too transparent, leaving the MSM and the tranzies as the only apostles of their homicidal creed. Even leftoid readers of The Independent find "The 20 best players outside the Premier League" more interesting than the UN resolution (pictured).

As regards the UN, it would be a delicious irony if that organisation, supposedly dedicated to peace, but now joined in common cause with the murderous Hamas to destroy Israel, should itself be destroyed the cause it has taken up. Soon, we will have to insist that its own mercenaries should swap their blue helmets for green helmets. The final transition will then be complete.

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Bluff and double bluff

The Daily Express is on the case today, headlining a warning about the EU's attempts to grab control over our energy supplies.

The threat is real, albeit ill-defined and lies essentially in the UK government's propensity to roll over for its tummy to be tickled every time the EU says "boo!". In other times, it would have been called appeasement. Now it is still appeasement, although there is no opposition in our toy parliament which is prepared to call a spade a spade.

What is intriguing is that the EU is probably as much motivated by desperation as it is political ambition. The member states, having let themselves be sidetracked by their obsession with global warming (to call a spade a spade), have neglected energy security in the fond but entirely unrealistic hope that Russia would be there to bail them out and protect them from the consequences of their folly.

The nature of the EU's predicament is nicely spelt out in a recent edition ofNewsweek. In an article headed, "Russia's Big Energy Secret," it tells us that, far from being the universal supplier of endless energy to the shivering Europeans, Russia itself is short of gas – having enough only to supply its own domestic market.

In order to export gas to the European, Russia is having to buy gas from central Asia, its wealth arising from the mark-up it is putting on the gas as it passes through its territory. Now, however, the Central Asian republics are seeking to do direct deals with their own customers – China in particular – cutting Russia out of the loop and leaving it short.

The current dispute between Russia and Ukraine, therefore, it not entirely the "bilateral" issue that Barroso would have us believe. There are undercurrents here which threaten the entire European energy strategy. And Barroso knows it. This is why he is bluffing his way into an urgent "European solution".

At the heart of that is the doctrine of "sharing the pain". If Europe is to go short of gas, we should all go short, rather than have some member states still burning while others freeze. The idea is, of course, cloaked in Euro-rhetoric, but that is what "solidarity" actually means - if one freezes, we all freeze.

Britain, nevertheless, has problems of its own. With its energy policy a shambles, electricity power cuts looming and an over-reliance on gas for electricity generation, it is in no position to help out the freezing Euro-weenies. Thus, Barroso either needs to be able to blag his way into convincing the UK to sacrifice itself pour les autres or he must wait until theconstitutional Lisbon treaty is ratified.

The powers Barroso needs were in the original constitution and they are still there in Lisbon, with which he can finagle a deal using qualified majority voting that will strip away Britain's control over its own energy reserves.

The only good thing here is that our energy policy has been so mismanaged that, by the time the "colleagues" get their way, Britain will have very little to give. Thus, when we come to sit in the dark, freezing cold, with our generators idle, we will at least have the small comfort of knowing that much of Europe will be in a similar condition – except of course France, which can rely in its nukes.

That apart, one can almost see the merits of a "European solution", if it means exporting the consequences of our own mismanagement to the continent. Added to theirs, this should make for a formidable combination which, very rapidly, should ensure the downfall of the whole shooting match. If there are no atheists in the trenches, there is no apathy when the lights go out.

Horse-drawn tumbrels will, by then, look to be a very attractive proposition.

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