A quote from a comment at the Gates of Vienna blog, 31 October 2007

VJW [Vlaamse Jongeren Westland, a group of Flemish “Solidarists”] is a repulsive mix of nationalism, socialism, anti-Israel and anti-USA (lots of burning USA flags), but mostly, as far as I can see, it is a bunch of twenty-eens who haven't outgrown the leftist education which was pumped into them in high school. Still, their pages have moments of high comedy, see (seriously, don't miss this one) the excellent comic of Asterix halfway down [this] page

A quote from Corriere della Sera, 30 October 2007

There are now 3.7 million legal immigrants in Italy, an increase of 21.6% in one year. The figure represents 6.2% of the overall population – the EU average is 5.6% – and puts the Bel Paese at the top of the European table of growth rates. The estimate is in the 17th report on immigration, drafted by Caritas Italiana and the Fondazione Migrantes, and published on Tuesday.

A quote from The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2007

Islam is the greatest challenge to old politics since the fall of communism. It has scrambled categories of right and left. The right steals the left's language to allege that Muslims do not fit in because they do not respect Western values of pluralism, women's rights and even gay rights.

Some of this is an expedient platform on which to oppose Muslims, but not all. It is a conservative government in the Netherlands that makes would-be immigrants watch a film on Dutch culture showing a topless woman sunbathing and a male couple kissing.

A quote from Spengler in The Asia Times, 30 October 2007

Rafsanjani's dialogue with Berlin was the last, best hope of the anti-war faction in the West. One winces at the chagrin of the German partner in this relationship, given that Rafsanjani likes the Germans because he admires what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews of Europe. On October 5, Rafsanjani told Iranian television in a clip posted by MEMRI:

A quote from Manfred Gerstenfeld in The Jerusalem Post, 30 October 2007

The European Union and its member countries have been subsidizing various opponents of Israel for many years. A study, just published by the Dutch Center for Documentation and Information on Israel contains perhaps the most detailed investigation of one such case.

A quote from Daniel Hannan MEP at his blog, 30 October 2007

For the past 48 hours, our television studios have been filled with well-fed, sleekit men in pinstripes telling us how critical Saudi Arabia is to British interests. “British interests” is, of course, a much nicer phrase than “my place on the board of a Saudi-funded company”, which is often what they really mean, but never mind. […]

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, Europalia.Europa and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels have organized ‘The Grand Atelier: Pathways of Art in Europe (5th to 18th centuries)’, which naturally presents a view of pan-European identity and artistic exchange. Indeed, it is hardly surprising to find Dominique de Villepin’s L’Homme Européen in the exhibition’s gift shop.

A quote from EUobserver, 29 October 2007

Russian president Vladimir Putin has suggested setting up a Russian-funded institute in Brussels or another European capital to keep an eye on human rights issues in Europe. “With the aid of grants, the EU helps develop such institutes in Russia,” Mr Putin was cited as saying by Reuters, after an EU-Russia summit on Friday (26 October). “I think the time has come for Russia, given the growth in our financial capabilities, to make its contribution in this sphere as well”, he added.

Paul Belien's analysis of the EU Inquisition and the racist smears thrown at the Vlaams Belang party should be required reading for all, so called, conservatives, who are really economic capitalists and social marxists. For such conservatives, even as important as George W. Bush or as useful as Charles Johnson, often harbor a tangle of unexamined liberal-egalitarian assumptions wrapped around an inner strongbox of shallow shibboleths that they haven't either the intellect or the civic courage to examine.

A quote from Albert Speer (1905-1981), Nazi Germany’s Minister for Armaments 1942-45, Inside the Third Reich, chapter 6

Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs. When the Mohammedans had attempted to penetrate beyond France into Central Europe during the eighth century, his visitors had told him, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours. Had the Arabs won this battle, the world would be Mohammedan today. For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. The Germanic peoples would have become heirs to that religion. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.