No further comment from me.

​Just watch this and marvel.


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The woman being interviewed referred to the following song in the video:

The "Song of the Party" (German: das Lied der Partei), also known as "Die Partei hat immer recht" (English: The Party is always right) was the party song of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling party of East Germany. It was written by composer Louis Fürnberg. It is best known by the first line of its chorus: Die Partei, die Partei, die hat immer recht (English: The Party, the Party, is always right). 

Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern have a great deal in common. This should worry us, especially when it comes to matters surrounding Islam, unwise immigration and the multi-culturalist worldview. Can you really "have it all" and maintain the very things that make your country a place people want to live in?

Prime Minister Trudeau is keen to move his country into a more evolved understanding of its national identity. The problem with his vision is that it virtually deconstructs Canada's historic self-understanding, which is in no way an insignificant matter. This recent 6 minute video clip features several people - including two Westernised Muslims - who are strident critics of this new phase of Canada's evolution.

​There may be a lesson for us in this.

Most people haven't heard of Pallywood, but it is important as this deceptive industry plays a major part in how we in the West view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A glaring example comes to mind for me. A couple of years ago I saw a TV news item by Orla Guerin of the BBC. She did a voice-over of a scene where a nice young Palestinian bloke was showing an Arab camera & sound crew around a damaged area after a battle during Operation Cast Lead, when the Israeli Defence Force entered Palestinian areas to fight Hamas.

The nice young man was filmed showing the crew some damage when we are told a shot from an Israeli sniper rang out. The young man is then shown lying on the ground and waving weakly for help. We do not hear the shot, we do not see him go down, nor see any blood. The crew withdraws and another piece of footage shows the now dead body of the nice young fella lying still. We are told he was shot again, fatally this time, by the same Israeli sniper. Despite the camera being apparently trained on him we do not see him get shot, we do not hear the shot, we do not see any blood. 

Ms Guerin simply trusted her Palestinian crew to provide reliable footage and information. I'm sorry but I simply don't believe this story. What kind of sniper would carefully shoot an unarmed civilian with a camera crew only feet away? Would we expect a new Zealand soldier to commit such a crime? There are plenty of ex-IDF Israelis travelling around our country this time of year. Having got to know a few I find it no more likely that they would perform such an act than one of our fellas would. So why do we so easily swallow this story?

Remember Mohammed Al Dura, the little boy who was "shot" by "Israeli soldiers" in 2000 as he hid behind a barrel with his father? That whole episode may not be at all as it was portrayed to us. This 14 minute video will present some unsettling information for you.

Watch the Palestinian cameraman's explanations surrounding the infamous  affair - because this may very well be how a Palestinian looks when he performs taqiyya.

Have you noticed how often men become quiet when they hear another man talk about his difficult relationship with his father? I watched the recent film on Winston Churchill, The Darkest Hour, the other day. In it Churchill was asked about what his father was like. His answer may strike a nerve with some, especially of the older generation: "My father," he said "was like God. Occupied elsewhere."

How commonly the distant, disinterested father somehow unconsciously imprints upon us a similar picture of God. How distressing for us. How distressing for God. Especially in this broken world where pain and loss of meaning seem to compose so much of our lot. He knows that we need to know that we matter.

Yesterday I also watched a chat by Rev Andrew White, the "Vicar of Baghdad". He mentioned a time when ISIS came to one of his Arab Christian congregants and told him they would kill his children if he did not renounce Christ and repeat the Shahada. To the man's grief he felt he had to do so in order to save his children (alas study of the bitter realities of such situations leads me to the conclusion that doing such a thing is never a useful expedient or the lesser of two evils) - he thought they were all free.

However the next day ISIS found his 5 children and directed them to renounce Christ or die. But the children said that they loved Jesus, that they talked to him and he talked to them and that they would not renounce him. So the jihadis did what they have so often done throughout history. Based on the Sunna of the prophet, they killed the children and cut off their heads. Knowing they were about to die the children sang one of the only English language songs they'd been taught, Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Then they were cut down.

Was God occupied elsewhere?

A short time later Rev White states that two of the other children he had pastoral care for both had a dream the same night where they saw the children dancing with Jesus in heaven. Dancing! No, God was not occupied elsewhere.

One of the daily emails that lands in my inbox is from a group started by the late Chuck Colson, one of President Nixon's corrupt cohorts in the Watergate affair who famously came to Christ before being sentenced to prison for his part in the scandal. Recently they wrote:

         Chuck Colson and his friend Richard John Neuhaus used to remind people that despair is a sin. Now if you define “despair” as extreme sorrow or grief, then calling it a sin seems cruel and unfeeling.

But that’s not really what despair is. In the Christian view, despair is the opposite of hope. Thomas Aquinas wrote that despair “is due to a man’s failure to hope that he will share in the goodness of God.” For Aquinas, despair was more dangerous than even unbelief or hatred of God because “by hope we are called back from evils and induced to strive for what is good, and if hope is lost, men fall headlong into vices, and are taken away from good works.”

For Aquinas, “nothing is more execrable than despair. For he who despairs loses his constancy in the daily labours of this life, and what is worse, loses his constancy in the endeavour of faith.” As the sixth-century theologian Isidore of Seville put it, “to commit a crime is death to the soul; but to despair is to descend into hell.”

There is one Christmas carol that always touches me. It is God Rest ye Merry, Gentlemen, and it is because of these lines:

God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Saviour
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray
Oh tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh tidings of comfort and joy

There are some Christian songs the words of which I cannot sing because they are too raw for me and the words above always have this affect on me. I can't repeat them as I sing the carol, neither can I read them without tearing up. Because I remember too well going astray and being in Satan's power - the horror of it, the agony of it, the despair of it. I also remember receiving the Word of Life into the centre of my being and finding him to be true and powerful. How he fought for me and freed me from that wretched state.

And now I have these "tidings of comfort and joy" for everyone who, as I was, is held fast in the merciless fist of an enemy too strong for them. There is real hope in the living God. ​So remember the five children, hold fast, there's a bright morning ahead. Do not give in to dismay or despair.  Our God is with us and he is keenly interested in our predicament. Talk to him about it. He is not occupied elsewhere. 

To modify the the words of King Theoden at his death, where he had looked forward to joining his fathers, we can now say: 
I go to my five small brothers and sisters from Baghdad,
in whose mighty company
I shall not now feel ashamed.

​We will yet dance.

Merry Christmas.

Jewish American academic Dr Daniel Pipes offers some comments on the resistance in Europe and the rise of nationalism, which so many of our media, academics & politicians tell us is most definitely a very bad thing. Once again we find ourselves asking, "are you sure about that?"

Dr Pipes coins the phrase "civilisationist" to describe the response many Western Europeans have to seeing their nations transformed without their permission. He has had quite a bit to do with the "far right" European parties so often singled out for criticism and has useful insights for us including the role of Antisemitism and of Mr Putin in such countries; whether such parties are fascist; the inability of Europe in its current state to assimilate this large Islamic influx; the fetters of political correctness; and his opinion of somebody named George Soros.

Via the Middle East Forum this article will I hope help bring some balance and perspective to the issue.


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Europe Wake Up!
Controverso Quotidiano (Italy)
December 15, 2018

Interview conducted by Niram Feretti. Original Italian title: "Europa svegliati."

Controverso Quotidiano: You have written much recently about Europe's nativist-nationalist-populist-far-right parties, which you call civilizationist. Why do you use this term?
Daniel Pipes: Because none of the other words you used describes these parties precisely; their focus is on preserving Western civilization, making civilizationist most accurate.

CQ: Some important civilizationist parties – the National Rally in France, Freedom Party in Austria, Fidesz in Hungary, and the Alternative for Germany – retain an antisemitic element. Is this permanent or transitory, growing or decreasing?


Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein, expelled from the Alternative für Deutschland.

DP: That element is undeniably present but most civilizationist parties are making an effort to expunge it. For example, the Alternative for Germany just expelled Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein due to her connections to Verein Gedächtnisstätte, a Holocaust-denying organization. It's a constant battle but, over time, the parties appear to be less antisemitic. One cannot expect too much, however, for what political party in Europe is not to some extent Europe antisemitic?

​CQ: Clear ties exist between Putin's Russia and such civilizationist parties as the National Rally, Fidesz, and Italy's League: how much should this worry us?
DP: Plenty. Putin is taking advantage of the civilizationists' isolation and financial neediness to win influence over them. The solution lies not in further marginalizing them but in bringing them into legitimate politics, so they don't feel the need to turn toward an external dictator.
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CQ: What do you think of Hungarian-born George Soros, an outspoken advocate for immigration into Europe, who last year bestowed $18 billion on his Open Society Foundation to build an "open society" without borders?
DP: Given that Soros funds personal attacks on me, I naturally have a very dim opinion of him. The anonymous website dcleaks.com in August 2016 released a confidential file from Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) that included an internal 2011 memo, "Extreme Polarization and Breakdown in Civic Discourse," which discussed a $200,000 OSF grant to the Center for American Progress (CAP) to "research and track the activities" of the Middle East Forum and other NGOs combating Islamism. Later in 2011, CAP published a 138-page report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, which characterized me as a "misinformation expert" whose "alarmist rhetoric" encourages anti-Muslim stereotyping, charges that a follow-up report repeated in 2015. ​Beyond this personal reason, I see Soros' goal of a borderless society, via what is humorously known as his "Open Borders Foundation," as a perfect vehicle for the destruction of Western civilization.

CQ: Please comment on this statement by Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative for International Migration: "Sovereignty is an absolute illusion that has to be put behind us. The days of hiding behind borders and fences are long gone. We have to work together and cooperate together to make a better world. And that means taking on some of the old shibboleths, taking on some of the old historic memories and images of our own country and recognizing that we're part of humankind."
DP: Peter Sutherland should work for Soros. It's a match made in heaven.

CQ: And comment on this statement by Douglas Murray in The Strange Death of Europe: "The world is coming into Europe at precisely the moment that Europe has lost sight of what it is. And ... while the movement of millions of people from other cultures into a strong and assertive culture might have worked, the movement of millions of people into a guilty, jaded and dying culture cannot."
DP: I emphatically agree. I have pursued this same angle in a blog (which quotes Murray) begun in 2005, "British Culture – Worth Saving?"

CQ: Outspokenness takes a toll. For example, Thilo Sarrazin, a Social Democrat, published Deutschland schafft sich ab ("Germany Abolishes Itself") in which he argued that low German birth rates and high levels of Muslim immigration are fundamentally transforming German society; for this, he had to resign from the Bundesbank's executive board. Renowned French historian Georges Bensoussan said that antisemitism is a permanent cultural feature of Islamic culture and was dragged into court on charges of racism. These and many other instances raise the question: How much does political correctness serve the Islamist agenda?
DP: A lot. The Rushdie Rules, the Islamist crackdown on the open discussion in the West of Islam and related topics, began with Khomeini's notorious edict on Salman Rushdie in 1989. At that time, the Left stood quite robustly with Rushdie. (Norman Mailer, the American novelist: "It is our duty to form ranks behind him, and our duty to state to the world that if he is ever assassinated, it will become our obligation to stand in his place. If he is ever killed for a folly, we must be killed for the same folly.") Thirty years later, the Left would not offer this solidarity. Its rejection of the open discussion of Islam neatly complements that of the Islamists.

CQ: How are we to fight political correctness?
DP: By encouraging more conservatives to become intellectuals.

CQ: The Left regularly accuses the leaders of civilizationist parties of fascism. For example, Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy's League and the interior minister who has made it his priority to stop uncontrolled immigration, is depicted as heir to Benito Mussolini. Is there any truth to this charge or is it ridiculous?
DP: It's ridiculous. With its emphasis on state power as a living faith, fascism destroys Western civilization while Salvini and other civilizationists want to save it. Clever, those leftists: they accuse someone of wanting the opposite of what he actually wants. I too have experienced this; a recent example was my being characterized as far-right by, of all people, the descendants of Nazis in the German and Austrian media.
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CQ: How serious is the risk of Islamization in Europe?
DP: Very serious. It is inevitable unless civilizationists manage to control the borders and integrate Muslims.

CQ: What are the remedies for Islamization?
DP: Europeans waking up and voting to take the necessary steps.

A spokesperson for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has stated that Europe needs Muslim migrants to prop up its dwindling population and provide for elderly Europeans in the years to come. This despite the fact that migrants have proven to be an overall drain on the economies of their host countries in recent years. As Christine Douglass-Williams notes:~

     What is missing from the OIC’s argument is the common-sense measure of differentiating between immigrants. Europe needs immigrants who will work and pay taxes. Out of the 1.2 million migrants who flooded into Germany in 2016, only “34,000 or 2.8% have found a job,” while only one-third of 1% found jobs in Sweden. In Britain, migrants were found to be “a net drain…on the order of between £115 and £160 billion.” Still, Akeel makes a broad sweep and accuses “right wing parties” of lying about immigration “from the third world.”

      Europe needs immigrants who are skilled, law-abiding, loyal to its countries, and respectful of its constitutions, under which human rights for all and equal rights for all are protected. This includes gays, women, apostates, infidels and anyone else, regardless of creed or race. Unfortunately, Islamic supremacism and jihad attacks have played a central role in increasing opposition to Muslim mass immigration into Europe. This opposition has nothing at all to do with being anti-immigrant or anti-Third World. It has everything to do with preserving Western civilization.

Europe’s new "far-right" should admit that Muslim migrants can benefit the continent eh? Hmm... here we have once again those who have legitimate concerns over Islamic migration being automatically stigmatised as "far-right" but we should be well used to this tactic of mis-labeling and guilt by association by now shouldn't we?

Meanwhile, there are some voices of rationality.

Lord Pearson is interviewed below by Carl Benjamin (he who was recently kicked off Patreon) and covers some extremely urgent considerations for all countries that have a growing Islamic population. The first (very interesting) 10 minutes is on Brexit and the EU but from 10:20 on focuses on the Islamic issue, which covers 26 minutes or so. It also covers the part education has played in preparing much of the population to accepting sub-optimal (as Jordan Peterson might say) outcomes in our larger society.

So what about the concerns of those who have problems with observable realities and the continuation of historic trends and doctrines in our own Western sphere? What about the quarter of a million Sikh, Hindu and white girls raped by predominantly Muslim gangs in Britain in the last 15 years? What about the very real plans Lord Pearson mentions of many Muslims, we could also go back for example to 2006 by Colonel Qaddafi, to dominate and change European countries by having more kids and dominating the ballot box?

​This is an encouraging and informative discussion.

BTW, the clip mentions Muhammad's marriage to Aisha when she was 6 but neglects the larger issue around this. Even if Muhammad was following common practise of his day by doing so, the bigger issue is that because Muhammad is the example in this - as he is for everything else - Islam as it stands will forever defend and copy his behaviour which is at odds with our own very dim view of paedophilia. That's the big problem here.

Boring bit: first a word on my health (and my ongoing inactivity). I had a CAT scan and consulted a specialist and we now know that there's nothing terribly amiss with the brain (contrary to popular opinion!) but we still don't know what the problem really is. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a blanket term for things doctors can't diagnose and I was advised to watch my diet and given a couple of options for medication. 

While I think I am slowly improving my health fluctuates a lot. Yesterday after what was for me a great night's sleep (7 hours) I got up, had breakfast and felt like going back to bed by 9AM. The day was pretty much a write-off. Today I feel a bit better and thought I'd do a post while I could. Tomorrow who knows? After nearly 4 months of sitting and watching life go on without me it is beginning to become a little tedious - I have things I want to accomplish, contributions I hope to make. But I take comfort in the fact that no suffering (or death) is meaningless in our Lord's sight.

Jesus had three disciples that were closer to him than the others, Peter, John and John's brother James. I'm encouraged when I read that James - who had spent 3 years living closely with the Saviour & knew him well - was the first apostle to be martyred and this only a matter of weeks after Jesus' ascension (Acts 12.2). When I read that I wonder at the apparent waste of such a great man - what an amazing influence he could have had on history had he lived. Yet God had other ideas. (It is common at such moments to quote Isaiah 55.8 "for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways" declares the Lord. However this is to rip the verse from its context, which is God reprimanding his people and demanding that they live their lives in a way that reflects his nature). So I simply rest in the knowledge of God's love for me and that he sees things I don't. It's not over 'til it's over and I can't see the end from here.

Now onto today's brilliant short video from Dr Wood on the motivation of the Strasbourg jihadi...

Let's look at one of those hadith that jihadis so frequently base their actions on:~
Sahih al-Bukhari 2796: "The prophet said, 'A single endeavour (of fighting) in Allah's Cause in the afternoon or in the forenoon is better than all the world and whatever is in it.'"

If you try really hard & squint your eyes just right & use lots of imagination you might be able to see how someone could just possibly misunderstand this peaceful verse to mean that it is better to engage in killing Allah's enemies than to possess the whole world can't you?

Of course your average reader would never manage to twist this perfectly irenic hadith into such a malformed and hateful thing, but there seem to be a large number of people - lone wolves and often with mental problems to be sure, millions of them in fact - who for some reason manage to totally misunderstand the peaceful nature of this statement attributed to Islam's "perfect man".

I mean you'd have to suffer from mental problems or take this out of context or contort it well beyond its natural reading to get a commendation from Allah to be violent from this verse wouldn't you? Wouldn't you?

Good grief. It's so simple a child can understand it, but counter-terrorism chiefs just find the whole thing impenetrably dense. The problem isn't "radicalisation" the problem is the sacred scriptures of Islam. The problem is the central person in Islam: Muhammad.

​If you refuse to look there you simply have no idea what is going on or how to respond. None.


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On December 11, 2018, a young Muslim named Chérif Chekatt shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, killing three, leaving one brain-dead, and wounding many more. On the evening of December 13, Chekatt was killed by French police. David Wood discusses the issue.
WEBSITE: http://www.acts17.net

Having just completed Raymond Ibrahim's new book Sword and Scimitar I can highly recommend it - as I do all his work - and I hope you can find time to watch this brief discussion of the book.

To go to the approximately 10 minute interview click here.


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Video Interview: “Is Islam a Religion of War or Peace?” The Historic Evidence
​Gary Lane, the host of CBN News’ “Global Lane,” recently interviewed me about my new book, Sword and Scimitar, in the context of current events. The video follows; our 11-minute segment — titled “Is Islam a Religion of War or Peace?” — begins around 12:35.  (My earlier interview on the 700 Club with Pat Robertson can be viewed here.)

The lady you can see below is an Iranian Baha'i sports champion wrongfully arrested this past Sunday.

The 6 minute video below gives some details of the human rights abuses she and her family are going through and here is the link to the page where you may sign a petition to protest her treatment and remind the Iranian regime that someone is watching them - even if the Heritage media choose not to. The blurb below is also from the petition web page.

Any international attention to such people will do some good, as we saw concerning the persecution of Asia Bibi in Pakistan.

It just takes a minute to help or you could choose to decline - and what a decline that may be.
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Demand for Immediate & Unconditional Release for Jailed Female motocross champion​

​Target: Antonio Guterres, Javaid Rehman, Michelle Bachelet, OHCHR , HRW
Region: Iran
Website: www.icbhr.com

Iran: Female motocross champion arrested over her her faith
ICBHR: The female motocross champion Shahrzad Nazifi was arrested by security agents in Tehran on Sunday, November 18, 2018.

Agents transferred Shahrzad to Tehran Evin prison, according to ICBHR quoted by HRANA. They raid her house after the arrest, and seized her personal belongings, including books, cell phone, and lap top during an inspection which lasted about 5 hours.

She, the women’s motocross champion and coach, was arrested because of her faith in Baha’i. In recent months, IRI’s authorities have brought pressure upon Baha’I community across the country, which led to arrest dozens of Baha’I citizens.

"Shahrzad Nazifi, her husband Mehrshad Naraghi and their daughter Noora Naraghi are all motocross champions of Iran. Both mother and daughter are pioneers of women’s motocross in the country", says Iran Wire.
Iran judiciary has experienced to lash out heaviest sentences against members of the community.

WHEREAS: Shahrzad Nazifi has been arrested on Sunday, November 18, 2018 for unknown reasons;
AND WHEREAS: Her imprisonment is therefore ILLEGAL under Articles 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 18, 19, 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
AND WHEREAS: Her unclear situation is also ILLEGAL according to the Articles which are pointed above;
THEREFORE: We, the undersigned, demand that the international community bring all possible pressure to bear upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to honor its binding human rights by IMMEDIATELY and UNCONDITIONALLY releasing Shahrzad Nazifi from jail, canceling her ILLEGAL suspended detention and dropping all equally ILLEGAL charges against her.