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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1124996)3/16/2019 6:35:40 PM
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UK: What British Muslims Really Think
by Soeren Kern
April 17, 2016 at 5:00 am


https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7861/british-muslims-survey

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The 615-page survey found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts. Moreover, only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists.

"[W]e have to adopt a far more muscular approach to integration than ever, replacing the failed policy of multiculturalism... Britain's liberal Muslims are crying out for this challenge to be confronted. ... There is a life-and-death struggle for the soul of British Islam -- and this is not a battle that the rest of us can afford to sit out. We need to take sides... We have 'understood' too much, and challenged too little -- and in doing so are in danger of sacrificing a generation of young British people to values that are antithetical to the beliefs of most of us, including many Muslims." — Trevor Phillips, former head of Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission.

The survey does show that 88% of British Muslims believe Britain is a good place for Muslims to live. According to Philips, this is because the tolerance they enjoy in Britain allows them to do whatever they want.


Many British Muslims do not share the values of their non-Muslim compatriots, and say they want to lead separate lives under Islamic Sharia law, according to the findings of a new survey.

The poll — which shows that a significant part of the British Muslim community is becoming a separate "nation within a nation" — has reignited the long-running debate about the failure of 30 years of British multiculturalism and the need for stronger measures to promote Muslim integration.

The survey was conducted by ICM Research for the Channel 4 documentary, "What British Muslims Really Think," which aired on April 13.

The 615-page survey found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts. Moreover, only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists.

In addition, 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations.

On social issues, 52% of the Muslims surveyed said they believe homosexuality should be illegal, compared to 22% of non-Muslim Britons. Nearly half believe it is unacceptable for a gay or lesbian to teach their children. At the same time, almost a third (31%) of British Muslims think polygamy should be legalized. Among 18-to-24-year-olds, 35% think it is acceptable to have more than one wife.

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Thirty-nine percent of Muslims surveyed believe women should always obey their husbands, compared to 5% for non-Muslims. One in three British Muslims refuse completely to condemn the stoning of women accused of adultery.

The poll also found that a fifth of British Muslims have not entered the home of a non-Muslim in the past year.

Of the British Muslims surveyed, 35% believe Jewish people have too much power in the UK, compared to 8% of non-Muslims.

In an essay for the Sunday Times, Trevor Phillips, the host of the documentary and a former head of Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission, warned of a growing "chasm" between Muslims and non-Muslims in Britain that "isn't going to disappear any time soon."

Phillips wrote that the poll reveals "the unacknowledged creation of a nation within the nation, with its own geography, its own values and its own very separate future." He added: "I thought Europe's Muslims would gradually blend into the landscape. I should have known better."

Phillips was referring to his role in commissioning the 1997 report, "Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All." Also known as the Runnymede Report, the document popularized the term "Islamophobia" in Britain and had a singular role in silencing criticism of mass immigration from the Muslim world. Twenty years later, Phillips now concedes that he has had a change of heart.

In an essay for the Daily Mail, Phillips, wrote:

"There is a life-and-death struggle for the soul of British Islam — and this is not a battle that the rest of us can afford to sit out. We need to take sides.

"Four per cent — the equivalent of more than 100,000 British Muslims — told the researchers that they had sympathy for people who take part in suicide bombing to fight injustice. Asked if they knew that someone was involved with supporting terrorism in Syria, just one in three would report it to the police.

"There is one truly terrifying finding. Muslims who have separatist views about how they want to live in Britain are far more likely to support terrorism than those who do not. And there are far too many of the former for us to feel that we can gradually defeat the threat.

"Liberal-minded Muslims have been saying for some time that our live-and-let-live attitudes have allowed a climate to grow in which extremist ideas have flourished within Britain's Muslim communities. Our politicians have tried to reassure us that only a tiny minority hold dangerous views.

"All the while, girls are shipped off to have their genitals mutilated, young women and men are being pressured into marriages they do not want, and teenagers are being seduced into donning suicide vests or becoming jihadi brides.

"We have 'understood' too much, and challenged too little — and in doing so are in danger of sacrificing a generation of young British people to values that are antithetical to the beliefs of most of us, including many Muslims.

"In my view, we have to adopt a far more muscular approach to integration than ever, replacing the failed policy of multiculturalism."

Philips added:

"Muslims want to be part of Britain — but many do not accept the values and behaviors that make Britain what it is; they believe that Islam offers a better future. And a small number feel that these sincerely held beliefs justify attempts to destroy our democracy.

"Britain's liberal Muslims are crying out for this challenge to be confronted. The complacency we've displayed so far is leaving them to fight alone, and putting our society in danger. We cannot continue to sit on the fence in the hope that the problem will go away."

The survey does show that 88% of British Muslims believe Britain is a good place for Muslims to live. According to Philips, this is because the tolerance they enjoy in the UK allows them to do whatever they want.

Some British Muslims have rejected the conclusions of the survey, which they say uses a flawed methodology because it was conducted in areas where Muslims make up more than 20% of the population, compared to 5.5% overall. They say the survey results are skewed because they are indicative of Muslims in these areas and not of British Muslims as a whole.

In an interview with CNN, however, ICM Director Martin Boon said that more than half of all British Muslims live in areas that are more than 20% Muslim and that the survey findings are sound. "In my view, this is the most rigorous survey of Muslims outside of the largest and most expensive surveys conducted by the UK government," Boon said.

The president of the British Polling Council, John Curtice, told CNN that ICM had followed standard methods of polling ethnic minorities in the UK.

Unlike many other surveys of Muslim opinion, which have usually been conducted by telephone or online, ICM used face-to-face, in-home research to question a representative sample of 1,081 Muslims across Britain.

The Muslim population of Britain surpassed 3.5 million in 2015 to become around 5.5% of the overall population of 64 million, according to figures extrapolated from a recent study on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe. In real terms, Britain has the third-largest Muslim population in the European Union, after France, then Germany.

In a statement, the Muslim Council of Britain (which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood) claimed the poll lacks "academic rigor" and warned it would "do nothing but harden attitudes on all sides." It continued:

"Many British Muslims will find it bemusing that commentators and the media have constantly tried and failed to paint a picture of British Muslims at odds with the rest of the country. The way this poll has been formulated and presented in this climate of fear against Muslims is most unfortunate."

In an opinion article for the Guardian, Miqdaad Versi, the assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, argued that Philips "lacks nuance" and has a "distorted interpretation of the UK's diverse Muslim communities." He wrote:

"Discussions and proposals to promote integration and cohesion are always welcome. But the starting point should not be that Muslims are the problem, not quite British enough, and must be civilized into a pre-existing notion of Britishness."

By contrast, Sir Gerald Howarth, Tory MP for Aldershot, said:

"Three cheers for Trevor Phillips. I think he is absolutely right. There's an element in the Muslim community which reject our values, while enjoying our tolerance.

"We are a tolerant nation because we are routed in the Christian faith, which is a tolerant religion. As our own religious observance declines, a vacuum is being created into which the hardline Islamist community is stepping.

"We have been a very complacent society."

Allison Pearson, a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, called for an immediate ban on all Sharia courts in Britain and called on the government to ensure that all citizens are subject to British law. She summed up the British predicament:

"This is serious. Unless we succeed, the live-and-let-live attitude which makes Britain such a great place could end up being its death warrant."

Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter. His first book, Global Fire, will be out in 2016.

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  • To: sylvester80 who wrote (1124996)3/17/2019 11:48:55 AM
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    Beto O’Rourke, the Dangerous Fake - Western Free Press 8 westernfreepress

    By Donna Garner

    I am a Texan, and we Texans know a true left-leaning Democrat when we see one. Please believe me when I say, “Beto O’Rourke is one!”

    Beto is not “born to do this” as he stated in the recent edition of Vanity Fair where he told about his decision in glitzy and glowing terms to run for the President of the United States. What is Beto O’Rourke really? He is a huge but dangerous fake.

    BETO O’ROURKE’S EARLY LIFE

    Robert Francis O’Rourke (a.k.a., Beto) has no Hispanic blood in him and is a fourth-generation Irish-American. When young, the Spanish nickname Beto was given to him to differentiate him from another family member. Even though he chose to go by Robert or Bob in college, his politically savvy father told him to change his name back to Beto to gain political stature when he returned home to largely Hispanic El Paso.

    [Even though Beto’s father died in 2001, his advice lived on when Beto decided to use his vast campaign funding from people outside Texas to pay to have his one word “Beto” blood-red campaign signs planted all over Texas six months before the 2018 mid-term elections to establish name recognition, particularly with Texas Hispanic voters.]

    Of course to set the scene for Beto to run for the Presidency on the Democrat ticket, the leftist media has to explain away the fact that he went to an elite boys’ boarding school and to Columbia University in NYC – both very expensive ventures.

    The media must try to figure out a way to make Beto look as if he is a common man who relates to the downtrodden — not someone who comes from “White privilege.” The facts indicate that he actually came from a wealthy family with lots of political pull and with possible ties to the El Paso/Mexico cartels. [No wonder Beto “loves” free trade with Mexico!]

    Because Beto exhibited early signs of rebellion against societal norms, had several altercations with the police, misbehaved frequently, lacked self-control, and was involved in alcohol/drug abuse, his step-grandfather (ex-military) wanted to “rescue Beto from himself” by sending him to the elite boys’ boarding school for the last two years of high school. He graduated from Virginia’s Woodberry Forest School in 1991.

    Beto graduated from Columbia University in 1995, and he was arrested soon after that for committing a burglary at the University of Texas El Paso with two other people.

    His father, Patrick Francis O’Rourke, was the El Paso County Judge. While a radio was being installed in his car, a white-powdery substance (described at the time — 1983 — as probably heroin) was found; a close friend who was a police officer flushed the substance down the toilet and was later suspended for the incident. The matter was silenced so that Judge O’Rourke never had to experience any political fallout from it.

    Beto’s mother owned a large and lucrative furniture store, pled guilty in 2010 to federal violations for issuing fake invoices on merchandise sold to people from Mexico to avoid paying sales tax, had potential ties to drug cartels, and was basically forced by the IRS to sell the store and accompanying shopping center (co-owned with Beto) right before he announced his run for the U. S. Senate against Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 mid-terms.

    BETO’S REBELLION

    Beto has a history of marijuana, alcohol abuse (1995, 1998, 2012), and was arrested for breaking and entering/burglary (1995). Police records show that in 1998, Beto was speeding in a 75 mph. zone on Interstate 10 in Anthony, Texas, lost control of his car, and hit a truck. A witness told police that Beto “attempted to leave the scene.” According to police records, Beto’s blood alcohol level was 0.136 and 1.134 (0.10 is legal limit), and he was “falling down drunk.”

    One has to ask whether Beto still uses drugs and/or alcohol heavily since there are many photos showing him sweating profusely while standing next to people who are not. (Alcohol, marijuana, Morphine, and Oxy can all cause profuse sweating.)

    Beto was in a punk rock band in 1994 (a video of his performance shows complete chaos). To this day, he continues to use foul language and the “F” word in public and also in front of young children.

    BETO’S O’ROURKE’S POLITICAL LIFE

    In 2005, Beto married Amy Sanders; her father is Bill Sanders who is considered to be a multi-millionaire and a real estate tycoon. Beto (who has reported that his net worth is about $9 Million) was on the El Paso City Council when he deliberately did not object to the El Paso mayor’s threat to seize property from owners through eminent domain and sell it to the real estate investment trust started by…guess who? Beto’s father-in-law Bill Sanders…

    In 2010, Beto upset U. S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes in the Democrat primary. Reyes was a weak candidate who had publicly embarrassed himself in 2006 as chair of the House Intelligence Committee when he did not know the difference between Sunni and Shiite when discussing Al-Qaeda. Beto’s father-in-law, Bill Sanders, funded heavily a Super PAC that targeted Rep. Reyes.

    When Beto decided to run against U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 mid-terms, many El Pasoans were highly frustrated because they knew that much of his funding was coming from Hungarian and anti-Israel billionaire George Soros who founded Open Society Foundations.

    On 8.30.18, Beto tweeted a photo of himself skateboarding on a campaign stop as a snub directed at Sen. Cruz with whom Beto had refused to schedule a public debate on a Friday night. The tweet stated, “Sorry, I’m going to have to skate on the debate Friday. I just got this killer board. I’m sure the voters won’t mind.” In actuality, Beto was afraid to debate Sen. Cruz and tried to limit those debates to as few as possible.

    Beto lied about not taking PAC money during his failed campaign against U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz when in actuality Beto spent $18 Million on a consultancy firm. Beto also lied when he said that most of the $70 Million in his campaign fund came from Texans. In actuality, the records show that a large percentage of Beto’s campaign funds came from ActBlue which is another project of George Soros’.

    Even though the leftist media loves to say that Beto came so very close to beating U. S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 mid-terms, the truth is that Sen. Ted Cruz beat Beto O’Rourke by 219,427 votes. To put that number in more understandable terms, Sen. Cruz beat O’Rourke by close to the same number as the entire population of Baton Rouge, LA. — babies and all.

    O’ROURKE’S DESIRE TO TEAR DOWN EXISTING WALLS

    Beto O’Rourke, who is from the border city of El Paso, has taken an extreme position on the wall; he wants to tear down the wall protecting his city from Juarez.

    The El Paso Times reported on 1.3.19 that Juarez had almost 200 homicides per month in 2018 with a blindfolded and barefoot man found hanging from a bridge the week before. People in the Juarez area have been restricted from traveling outside the city limits after dark. Gang wars over crystal meth seem to be contributing to the huge homicide rate.

    Meanwhile, El Paso (with its wall) has been designated in the Top Ten List of the safest places to live, having received the National Civic League’s 2018 All America City award.

    On 11.2.18 with multiple caravans of invaders marching toward our border, Beto and 107 other Democrats sent a letter to then Sect. of Defense Gen. James Mattis, stating their objections to Pres. Trump’s deployment of U. S. troops to the border.

    Why would Beto deliberately want to make the drug cartels happy by taking down the wall unless he has ulterior reasons? People need to remember that Beto is the same fellow who is tied to George Soros’ far leftist “open borders” platform and is financially obligated to him.

    BETO O’ROURKE SUPPORTS

    Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal which bans fossil fuelSocialized healthcare and single-payer plan with huge tax increases to pay for itLate term abortions — (National Right to Life gave Beto a 0% rating for six years while he was in Congress. NARAL Pro-Choice America gave Beto a 100% rating during that same time.)Open borders — says illegally coming into the U. S. should not be a crimeSpoiled millionaire athletes kneeling during the National AnthemLegalizing marijuana and expunging records of those in prison for possession of itO’ROURKE’S LEGISLATIVE VOTING RECORD

    Opposed the massive tax overhaul that became law in 2017Voted for taxpayer-funding of Planned ParenthoodVoted against efforts to repeal ObamacareVoted against Keystone XL pipelineVoted against legislation to cut off federal grants to sanctuary citiesVoted against a resolution honoring the brave men and women of ICE and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement AgencyVoted against legislation to stop the Pentagon from spending taxpayers’ hard-earned tax dollars on sex changes in the militaryBrags about having an “F” rating from the National Rifle AssociationOn 8.10.18, Beto O’Rourke made this false claim at a town hall meeting:

    “Black men, unarmed, black teenagers, unarmed, and black children, unarmed, are being killed at a frightening level right now, including by members of law enforcement without accountability and without justice.”

    That is a total lie and is a disgusting smear against the brave men and women in law enforcement.

    Even the left-wing outlet Mother Jones and the Washington Post said O’Rourke’s statement was false.

    MY CONCLUSION

    I am trying to picture Beto O’Rourke as President (or Vice-President) of the United States skateboarding up to the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to discuss the terribly serious topic of denuclearization. Beto has on a loose, sweat-saturated t-shirt, is carrying a guitar in his hand, has a marijuana cigarette hanging out of his mouth, and is holding a beer.

    Somehow I doubt that Beto would portray to Kim Jong-un any fear of “peace through strength” or “trust but verify.” King Jon-un would never believe Beto if he were to say, “Choose denuclearize or hard sanctions.”

    I know that Kim Jong-un would not have listened to Beto the way he did to President Trump: 6.13.18 — “Nukes or Thriving Hotels” — By Donna Garner — EdViews.org — educationviews.org

    In fact, does Beto even know anything about foreign affairs at all? How could we possibly count on him to keep us out of a nuclear war when Beto cannot even see the real threat of the caravan invaders with their fentanyl, opioids, meth, heroin, cocaine, human trafficking, MS-13, dangerous communicable diseases, STDs, criminals, cartels, and ISIS operatives?

    Amnesty International has reported that 80% of women experience rape and/or sexual assault during the migration process. Doctors Without Borders has stated that Central American mothers routinely give their girls heading north massive amounts of birth control pills because they know their daughters will be raped on the way to the U. S. border.

    Does Beto have any idea how terrifying all of this is — not just for the caravan invaders but also for the citizens of the United States who have the right to protect our sovereign nation, our own families, and our borders? Try as we may, we cannot take in the entire world into the United States; and it proves Beto’s myopic thinking to think we can.

    Beto O’Rourke is unfit to be the President or the Vice-President of the United States of America



    To: sylvester80 who wrote (1124996)3/17/2019 11:49:47 AM
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    Beto graduated from Columbia University in 1995, and he was arrested soon after that for committing a burglary at the University of Texas El Paso with two other people.

    His father, Patrick Francis O’Rourke, was the El Paso County Judge. While a radio was being installed in his car, a white-powdery substance (described at the time — 1983 — as probably heroin) was found; a close friend who was a police officer flushed the substance down the toilet and was later suspended for the incident. The matter was silenced so that Judge O’Rourke never had to experience any political fallout from it.

    Beto’s mother owned a large and lucrative furniture store, pled guilty in 2010 to federal violations for issuing fake invoices on merchandise sold to people from Mexico to avoid paying sales tax, had potential ties to drug cartels, and was basically forced by the IRS to sell the store and accompanying shopping center (co-owned with Beto) right before he announced his run for the U. S. Senate against Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 mid-terms.

    BETO’S REBELLION

    Beto has a history of marijuana, alcohol abuse (1995, 1998, 2012), and was arrested for breaking and entering/burglary (1995). Police records show that in 1998, Beto was speeding in a 75 mph. zone on Interstate 10 in Anthony, Texas, lost control of his car, and hit a truck. A witness told police that Beto “attempted to leave the scene.” According to police records, Beto’s blood alcohol level was 0.136 and 1.134 (0.10 is legal limit), and he was “falling down drunk.”

    One has to ask whether Beto still uses drugs and/or alcohol heavily since there are many photos showing him sweating profusely while standing next to people who are not. (Alcohol, marijuana, Morphine, and Oxy can all cause profuse sweating.)



    To: sylvester80 who wrote (1124996)3/17/2019 12:08:34 PM
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    College cheats gave to Trump's opponents

    Thanks to Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, a conservative group, I can report that most of the parents accused of trying to bribe and cheat their children's way into college are Democrat donors.

    Not a single one of these accused and alleged sneaky, lying, privileged white parents donated to President Donald John Trump, Kerpen reported.



    Phil Kerpen

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    Quick search of presidential donors among people indicted today for allegedly bribing their kids into college:

    Hillary Clinton: 6
    Mitt Romney: 6
    Barack Obama: 5
    Marco Rubio: 1
    Donald Trump: 0



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    He said six donated to Hillary, six to Mittens, five to Barack Hussein Obama, one to Marco Polo Rubio, and not a single one of them donated to Donald Trump.

    So enjoy this brunch cuppa Trumpenfreude today. It's on me. Well, it's actually on the innocent-until-proven-guilty liars and cheats.

    But wait.

    There's more.

    The New York Post reported, "Here’s a political endorsement Dems don’t want. Alleged college scammer Jane Buckingham — the marketing CEO accused of paying $50,000 for her son to get into the University of Southern California — was a co-host of a Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand fund-raiser days before the indictments hit.

    "Buckingham is listed as a co-host for a high-end Beverly Hills, Calif., event at the home of Los Angeles FC owner Larry Berg and his wife, Allison, last Saturday to fund Gillibrand’s exploratory 2020 presidential run.

    "Co-hosts also included Will Ferrell, 'Scandal' creator Shonda Rhimes and her über agent Chris Silbermann, plus Harvard MBA and author Samantha Ettus. It cost donors $2,800 to be a co-host of the event."

    Democrats replaced Hillary with Gillibrand in the Senate. Now we know why. She's a grifter too.

    Hillary Junior.

    I wonder who took her SAT so she could get into Dartmouth.

    Finally, a question for readers. Now that Aunt Becky from "Full House" has been fired from "Fuller House" over this scandal, shouldn't they change the name to "Not As Full House"?