A quote from French Socialist presidential frontrunner Ségolène Royal, 13 October 2006

The capitalists have to be frightened. There is no alternative. They can’t just dispose of people as they wish. They have to be held accountable.

In al-Britannia, you end up in jail if you complain that immigrants do not speak English, but if you are saying that those who insult Islam should be killed, it’s OK.

A quote from The Manchester Evening News, 12 October 2006:

A teenage girl was questioned by police after allegedly making a racist remark to Asian students in the classroom. The 14-year-old pupil had refused to take part in a science tutorial with five other students at Harrop Fold High School, Salford, after claiming they didn't speak English. After questioning by police she was released without charge but the school say they are investigating the matter.
 
[…] Head Dr Antony Edkins said: “An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark by one student towards a group of Asian students new to the school and this country.”

Belgium introduced voting rights for non-Belgian residents in order to counter the “islamophobic” and Flemish secessionist Vlaams Belang (VB). As a result multitudes of Muslim candidates were elected in major cities in last Sunday’s local elections. In Antwerp the immigrants are now demanding an alderman’s post in the city government, which consists of the mayor and ten aldermen. In Brussels the Parti Socialiste (PS) is embarrassed at the election of Murat Denizli as a Socialist councilor. Denizli is a hardright Turkish extremist belonging to the Grey Wolves. In the Netherlands political parties are facing serious problems with Turkish candidates who refuse to acknowledge the 1915 Armenian genocide.

2006 will go down in European history as the year when Muslims as a group became a dominant factor in elections. The demographics indicated this long ago, but it still came as a surprise to many multiculturalists that Muslims tend to vote primarily along ethnic lines: Muslims vote for Muslim candidates, even if the political parties give the latter almost unelectable places on the list of candidates. As a consequence the Muslim candidates got elected to the detriment of indigenous politicians. Party leaders, who used to be able to get those candidates elected which the leadership favoured, have been taken by surprise by Turks voting only for Turks and Moroccans voting exclusively for Moroccans. The parties that put Muslim candidates forward are being “cannibalized” from the inside. They risk being taken over by radical Muslims. This is what is happening to the Socialist parties in Belgium and the Netherlands.

I have been asked to comment on the recent Conservative Party Conference. My answer is that I have no comments left to make. The Party is no longer even formally conservative. Therefore, I see no point in lamenting its actual state of affairs.

Below is an essay I wrote when Mr Cameron first became Leader. I see no reason for changing a word – with one exception. For what it may be worth, I predict that the next Prime Minister will be Jack Straw. He is, after all, the only leading member of the Government left who looks even vaguely like a Prime Minister. He will call an early election and bury the Conservatives. The Establishment may not need them after all. They will then have to think up another childish scheme to get back into office.

A quote from AEI resident fellow and former White House speechwriter David Frum in National Post (Canada), 7 October 2006

Ironically, the figure David Cameron most closely resembles is one few British voters feel much affection for: the Governor George W. Bush of 1999-2000, who excited Clinton-battered Republicans with promises of a new “compassionate conservatism.”

Like the early Bush’s, Cameron’s big ideas come concealed in a thick haze of evasive verbiage. [...] [Cameron] has learned a lesson from [Tony Blair]’s experience. You cannot let people down, if you offer them nothing.

A quote from French Socialist presidential frontrunner Ségolène Royal, 11 October 2006

The world needs Europe, the only peaceful power able to represent an alternative to the American hyperpower.

I know that in Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Belgium and so on the state funds the official churches and religions, but yesterday’s statement by Ruth Kelly, the British Minister for Women and Equality, that “our strategy of funding and engagement must shift significantly towards those [Muslim] organisations that are taking a proactive leadership role in tackling extremism and defending our shared values” is utterly wrong. It is not the business of the state to fund religions. Engagement maybe, but funding no way. Surely that is half the problem.

There again the comments by the chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, Massoud Shadjareh, were priceless. The government, he said, should not use its “financial muscle to socially engineer a new brand of Islam which will be subservient to its foreign policy.” After all, it seems to me that all this ruddy government ever tries to do is to socially engineer the populous into a client fiefdom.

(source unknown to us - tbj)

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

A quote from Gideon Rachman on his blog, 10 October 2006

[Last Sunday, T]he EU’s environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, [lamented] the fact that Europeans aren’t allowed to vote in American elections. Ain’t life a bitch, as they say on the other side of the Atlantic. Maybe the EU should take the issue up in trade talks with the United States. Perhaps there could be some sort of reciprocal arrangement. Greeks like Mr Dimas get to vote in the American presidential election – and in return Texans get to vote in the French presidential election.