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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Wilders Trial (II): the Subversion of the Law

Continued from Part I

On the eve of his trial Wilders had the fighting spirit. He's going for nothing less than an acquittal. "The truth about Islam must be told, even if this displeases some," he told a press agency

Another well known Islam critic, Daniel Pipes has disclosed in an article in Middle East Forum his Legal Project has worked on Wilders' behalf, raising substantial funds for his defense and helping in other ways as well:

"We do so convinced of the paramount importance to talk freely in public during time of war about the nature of the enemy".

Evidently appeasers are willing to evade any sustained effort. "War? What war?" All they see are individual, unrelated, criminal incidents involving disenfranchised victims and 'extreme right-wingers' using distasteful epithets.

NRC newspaper opines Mohammed Boyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh may be able to leave high security jail for a few hours to take the stand at the Wilders trial. That would be the next best thing to having on the stand Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, Khamenei's most important supporter, as Afshin Ellian suggested. Word from the Court room had it that both were indeed on the expert-witnesses list, but the Prosecutor has rejected Bouyeri (he's no expert, and insane to boot).

The law in the Netherlands has collapsed, subverted as it is by postmodern infiltrators. At some point in time 'the group' was introduced as an operative unit; one of the charges against Wilders is "group slander". In doesn't get any more subjective than that! It has no place in a free country based on individual rights and equality before the law!

Also the very point of the law - objectivity, one law for all as symbolized by Lady Justice's blindfold - has been abandoned. As a consequence Judges no longer judge on principle. Instead lawsuits are judged on a case by case basis 'in context'. There's a real danger of legal distrust, even arbitrary law, and the worst form of legal inequality, discrimination by the state. 'Quality newspaper' NRC observes:
"The judge examines whether a statement is “unnecessarily offensive” in relation to public discourse. Judges then carry out a “contextual examination”: who says it, what he says, and what is the origin of the statement. Politicians, artists, columnists, imams and other professional participants in public debate get extra leeway.
Kustaw Bessems in an article in De Pers hits on it, but fails to fathom the impact. Ranting about Wilders' second target - progressive elites, their attitude of "nanny knows best" and it's bastion, the law - he goes on to remark that:
"(...) Verdicts always have something subjective about them. The Court in Amsterdam is partly itself to blame for the public anger, by issuing an indictment that is in effect a political conviction, even before the trial against Wilders has even begun".
"Subjectivity is also inherent in the kinds of crimes Wilders is allegedly guilty of: group slander, incitement to discrimination and hatred. There's no smoking gun, just words and a video (Fitna). And the questions that need to be answered are almost philosophical: what constitutes slander? What is discrimination? What's hatred."
"Almost philosophical" ... tentatively ventures a junior journalist! Still, he's about the only one touching upon the problem. I thought we were paying philosophers of law good money to preserve the orthodoxy! Also subverted by "speculative philosophers" no doubt.

Bessems commentary on the trial itself is worth quoting:
Wilders will try to turn the tables and put Islam on trial instead. Witnesses like Islam critic Arabist Hans Jansen, Salafist Sheik Fawaz Jneid, and Van Gogh assassin Mohammed Bouyeri will be called in order to prove that collating Islam with fascism, is not as far fetched as it may seem. (...) Wilders will qualify any outcome but an acquittal, the bankruptcy of the judiciary. (...)
- Caption: Geert Wilders (right) and defending council Abraham Moszkovicz (left) (AP) -  
This will probably not be the final verdict. There'll be an appeal and the case may end up at the European Court. But the test, the question if our judiciary system will hold, will be answered. This is the elite's last stand.
Well, I don't know about that. This country has a long history with oligarchies, commonly referred to as 'regents'.

While the defense was concentrating today on questioning the standing of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal in the case, the Prosecution demanded the trial to be postponed, enabling further investigation and interrogation of the defendant. The latter declined the invitation, since "all that needs to be said, has already been said."

The trial was adjourned until February 3.

Let's wrap up with a few choice Wilders quotes that were tweeted out of Court:
"I've devoted my entire life to the freedom of expression; I don't want to hurt anyone; I've got nothing against Muslims".
"It's everyone's right and duty to speak up against an ideology that is a threat to the rule of law".
"Is it true what I'm saying? If so, how come it's against the law".
The entire text of Wilders' speech in Court yesterday is now also available in English.

Continued in Part III.

Related:
- Facebook Group "Today I am Geert Wilders" (avatar in picture)
- Wilders' Freedom Party website

Earlier on the Wilders Trial:

- "The Wilders Trial (I)"
- "Team Wilders Versus Pomo Law"
- "Wilders is Fighting Back"

Related articles:

- International freedom fighters comment on Int'l Free Press Society (Allen West, Bat Ye'or, Clare M. Lopez, Daniel Pipes, David B. Harris, David Yerushalmi, Diana West, Helle Brix, Mark Steyn, Nidra Poller)
- NRC: "First day in Wilders trial"
- NRO: "Bat Yeor: Geert Wilders and the fight for Europe - Does defending Western values constitute “inciting hatred”?"
- NRO: "Lights Out on Liberty", by Mark Steyn

Related dossiers:

- "Ellian Blogs" (compilation)
- "In Defense of Liberty"
- "Legal Jihad"
- "The Unholy Alliance"
- "Antisemitism"
- "Eurabia"
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

The Wilders Trial (I): the Expert Witness

Next Wednesday January 20 marks the beginning of a political show trial the likes of which have not been seen in the Netherlands in living memory.


While the Public Prosecution Service studied the case at length and declined to act on it, some postmodern zealots managed to get a minor Amsterdam Court to take up their miguided "anti-fascist" crusade.

Some have detected the insidious hand of the Organization of Islamic Congress (IOC) in the text of the indictment. Others stick to an ideological cabal in the governing coalition in which some have an interest in curbing free speech.

The Charges brought against Wilders are, "insult of a religious group, inciting hatred and discrimination". The text specifically states:
"(...) the Court of Appeal considers criminal prosecution obvious for the insult of Islamic worshippers because of the comparisons made by Wilders of the Islam with the Nazism."
Regrettably the law has abandoned objective principle, and instead decided to review complaints in "context" on a case by case basis. So we are assured that present spectable will be repeated numbers of times, which in itself will have a chilling effect on the freedom of expression.

Self censorship among pundits and artists has already become common practice. No one considers the use of the politically correct Index for the media an intolerable infringement on the freedom of the press. But then, that is how incremental nudging works.

Klein Verzet Blog elaborates on a legal precedent involving "group insult" and the all important differentiation between man and his ideas. Catholics, usually good philosophers, have always understood the difference between sin and sinner.

Prof. Afshin Ellian has had a bright idea. On Friday on his blog on Elsevier (in English) he proposed as follows:

Those in power in Islamist Iran represent a pure form of political Islam. It is a unapologetic form of Islamofascism, which includes antisemitism. The self-appointed President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad often expresses himself in antisemitic terms. (Iran's ruler) Ayatollah Khamenei is supported by other antisemitic clerics holding an ideology that is apocalyptic in nature. They believe that the appearance of the 12th Imam must be triggered through strife and mayhem (like all other collectivist, Utopian narrative, CT).
Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi is Khamenei's most important supporter. He's a member of various bodies of Government. In an address on January 5 he elaborated at length on the Jewish question. (...)  Geert Wilders MP should subpoena Mesbah Yazdi as an expert witness. Mesbah Yazdi must be questioned about his views on Jews. Are they rooted in the Koran?
The proceedings must be broadcast live. Islam will be on trial.(...) Let defending council Abraham Moszkowicz question him about the Jews and their tragic fate. Wilders should show him historical material and videos of murdered Iranians. Then the parallel between Nazism and Islamism will become apparent.
There are indeed philosophical parallels between Islam(ism) and Western totalitarian ideologies, such as fascism, National Socialism and Communism. The evil only differs in detail and in degree. Reduced to the root these are the common basics:
  • anti realist metaphysics;
  • socialist and anti free market capitalism in economics;
  • an anti reason, relativist and subjectivist epistemology; 
  • a view of man as a socially constructed victim. 
But it gets at its most problematic when it comes to ethics: i.e.
  • collectivism and anti individual rights.
To date in world history there has never been any benign collective, ever. And therein lies the clash of the ummah with liberal-democracy: the former is a collective, the latter rests on individual rights. These cannot be conciliated without laying the ax at the root of Western civilization.

Muslims must be given to understand that the price for living in freedom, is mutual toleration. Westerners must learn that the price of tolerating intolerance, is freedom. And freedom is the ground on which common prosperity rests. These are not vague abstractions, but very real concepts.

We shall be reporting throughout on the Wilders trial. One commentator has detected a certain tension at the Court: these people are "scared to death!" Last Wednesday during Wilders' appeal against the indictment, journalists were shut out of Court House, ostensibly for his safety. But as the pundit remarked, since when do journalists pose a security risk? The actual reason is - and this is our conclusion, not the pundit's - the Court is not only fearful of offering Wilders a platform from which to proclaim his 'abject ideas' - they're also terrified the presence of the press would reveal the event for what it is, a political show trial.

Continued on Part II

Related:

PVV information on planned demos at the Court (Dutch)
- Wilders' Freedom Party website (English)

Earlier on the Wilders Trial:

- "Team Wilders Versus Pomo Law"
- "Wilders is Fighting Back"

Related articles:

- NRO: "Bat Yeor: Geert Wilders and the fight for Europe - Does defending Western values constitute “inciting hatred”?"
- NRO: "Lights Out on Liberty", by Mark Steyn
- Politeia: "The Roots of the Unholy Alliance"
- Politeia: "The Mdina Precedent for Holocaust and Genocide"

Related dossiers:

- "Ellian Blogs" (compilation)
- "In Defense of Liberty"
- "Legal Jihad"
- "The Unholy Alliance"
- "Antisemitism"
- "Eurabia"
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Bloggers Against Legal Jihad

Geert Wilders, Dutch MP and producer of the short film "Fitna," a video document which explains the perils of Sharia law for democratic values (can be seen here), has received a summons from a lawyer to pay radical imam Fawaz Jneid before next Sunday an advance payment of EUR 20,000 in compensation for damages the imam suffered through accusations Wilders made against him in "Fitna." In total the damages claimed amount to EUR 55,000.

Prime Minister Balkenende, currently attending the Sarkozy 'Club Med' circus in Paris, will come to speak with Jordan's PM about the Jordanian decision to seek Wilders' prosecution through the kingdom's Courts.

Hate imam Fawaz Jneid who is associated with the infamous As-Souna Mosque in The Hague has cursed defenders of Western values like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Theo van Gogh and Afshin Ellian in truly shocking terms. Wilders in a reaction speaks of moral inversion. He isn't impressed and vowed to pay not even 55 cents.

- Caption: cartoon of Wilders by Kurt Westergaard -

The issue doesn't stand on its own. Articles dossier "Legal Jihad" lists many such matters from all over the globe. But personal damage claims do seem to be a new trend in the war on the West. Pamela Geller, over on Atlas Shrugs relays a similar case.

"Litigation jihad is one of the most venal and effective weapons in the jihad assault on Western civilization. Hamas is suing UK blogger over a tiny detail (...) The little guy up against those bloody petrol dollars. One has to wonder if Hamas is using US State department funds to pursue this?" Yeah, or Dutch and EU development funds, for that matter?


"A British blog called Harry’s Place is being sued by Mohammed Sawalha for posting a variant of a translated phrase from one of the plaintiff’s speeches. Lest you think of Mr. Sawalha as an innocent lamb, consider that even the BBC (yes, even the Beeb!) says that he “master minded much of Hamas' political and military strategy” and in the UK “is alleged to have directed funds, both for Hamas' armed wing, and for spreading its missionary dawah”.

Dangerous stuff, we're trying to get as many bloggers as possible to react to it. Join the list of supporting blogs. The British blogs have already amassed together. A blogburst has been started at NeoConstant in support of Harry’s Place (and here's the original blogburst post) (...).

It looks like Harry’s Place is going up against some pretty top-notch lawyers on this one, and they’ve got guts, but as the post goes on to say: If Mr Sawalha persists in attempting to silence us with this desperate legal suit, we will need your help. We won’t be able to stand up to them alone. This is why we’ve started this blogburst, to get the word out that we won’t let members of Hamas or any radical terrorist group censor us or any of our fellow bloggers.

If you’d like to add your site to the blogroll, simply email us at admin@neoconstant.com, and include your site’s URL. Then copy and paste this entry into one of your posts. Future posts will be emailed to you. Thanks, and don’t forget to head over to Harry’s Place to show your support of their freedom of speech!


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Monday, June 30, 2008

More Charges Against Wilders Dropped: blow for theofascism

After having been acquitted of charges brought by the Dutch Islamic Federation (NIF) of disseminating hatred and calls for violence against Muslims in April by a Dutch Court, today the Public Prosecutor also dropped charges against Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders.

The Public Prosecutor had been trying to put a case together against Wilders since 2006. Mainly after the publication of the short film "Fitna" and an op-ed in a Dutch newspaper, dozens of charges were brought. But in a press conference today in Amsterdam the Chief Prosecutor said neither the video nor Wilders' statements about Muslims and the Koran in general are deemed unlawful.

All together some forty charges were brought by lawyers, Muslim and student organizations and individuals. In the op-ed 'Enough is Enough' in August last year Wilders wrote inter alia that the Koran constitutes a "fascist book," on par with Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and should be banned.


The Prosecutor has now established that Wilders did not break any European anti-discrimination laws. An appeal is still possible.

The Freedom Party leader is not surprised by the ruling. "From the outset I knew I kept within the framework of Dutch law. I am pleased the Prosecution Office sees that as well," Wilders said.

Besides the appeals there is still the matter of the Jordanian Court requesting the extradition and prosecution of Wilders for racism, incitement to hatred and insulting Muslims and Islam.

In the matter of the ongoing legal jihad against the West these rulings are not without significance: they are a victory for liberty and democracy and hopefully the beginning of the end of the theofascist inroads by the forces of darkness.

Update on the day after:

Elsevier today opines a ruling would have created clarity and jurisprudence, and would therefore have been preferable. Given the number of appeals, they might get their wish after all.

A public media commentator yesterday represented the worst the country has to offer by way of embarrassed pussy-footing - an interpretation to the effect that "the judiciary chose not to become a party in a political debate."

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Liberty Ditched for Sausages: boycott these cowards!

Last Friday we reported here that Jordan is seeking the extradition and prosecution of Dutch Freedom Party politician Geert Wilders on three counts:

- racism - incitement to hatred - insulting Muslims and Islam -

An Amman Court last Monday accepted the charges against Wilders on account of the short film "Fitna" pressed by a Jordanian group called "The Messenger of Allah Unites Us." "Fitna" outlines the dangers of radical Islam for democratic society. (Link to "Fitna")

Today we know which Dutch companies have 'distanced themselves' from Fitna. Politeia proposes a ban of its own against these companies which sell out democratic principles for sausages:

- Caption: "We Will Not Submit!" -
- Zwanenburg (Zwan sausages and luncheon meat)
- KLM (KLM-Air France-North West Airlines)
- Philips ("We make things better")
- Friesland Foods (dairy products:
- Friso (Nutricia, Olvarit, Nutrilon, Bambix dairy and baby foods)
- Milupa (Aptamil - we believe the latter two are all one and the same parent company Nutricia, now part of Danone)

The companies advertise their condemnation of Wilders' equation Islam=violence and distribute posters, stating that the film only serves to provoke.

President Zakaria Sheikh of "The Messenger of Allah Unites Us" is calling for the travel industry to ban KLM.

The publisher of weekly Fact International says the film has no relation with the freedom of expression. "Wilders has insulted all Muslims. He must be punished."

At the companies no one was available for comment, writes De Volkskrant. A KLM spokesman repeated an earlier statement that the airline is unrelated to political and religious movements and distances itself from this controversial film."

Post will be updated throughout.

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who
maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

Dante Alighieri
Italian national epic poet (1265 - 1321)

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Wilders Prosecuted by Jordanian Court (I)

Elsevier Magazine is reporting that Jordan intends to seek the prosecution of Dutch Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders in relation to "Fitna," a short film produced by Wilders that outlines the dangers of radical Islam for democratic society. (Link to "Fitna")

An Amman Court on Monday accepted the charges against Wilders pressed by a Jordanian group called "The Messenger of Allah Unites Us."

Wilders is accused of racism, incitement to hatred and insulting Muslims and Islam. This will be an important test-case in respect of legal Jihad.

According to Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant both the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the terrorism czar are on the case because of the implications the matter could have for freedom of expression in the Netherlands. For once it seems the Government is siding with liberty instead of signaling inter-religious solidarity.

Wilders, fearing arrest, has welcomed the Government support. "Fortunately it's taken seriously. This is hugely impacting my activities as a politician," Wilders said.

He fears the court will proceed quickly with issuing an international arrest warrant. He expects it next week.

Jordan has several options to get Wilders extradited: to have the request distributed via Interpol, or issue direct requests to countries where Wilders is visiting.

As long as Wilders remains in the Netherlands there is no problem.

The Jordanian group behind the indictment is also organizing a boycott against Dutch products.

Here's a link to a speech Wilders' recently delivered in Copenhagen, explaining his reasons for producing the film.

Continued and updated in Part II.

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Monday, April 7, 2008

"Fitna": of Farce and Fall-out IV

- Continued from Part III -

Geert Wilders has today been acquitted of charges brought by the Dutch Islamic Federation (NIF) of disseminating hatred and calls for violence against Muslims. Wilders is delighted with the verdict. The judge has found Wilders "provocative from time to time" but ruled that a Member of Parliament must be able to express his point of view. In a response Wilders said he never had the feeling he crossed the line in the debate over Islam in any way.

- Caption: the new cartoon by "Scarlet Pimpernel" -

NIF's original objective was to restrict the screening of the film "Fitna", but Wilders published the film on the eve of the lawsuit on the Internet. A new lawsuit brought by NIF wanted Wilders muzzled altogether, but the Court deemed Wilders' opinions not unlawful. NIF charged Wilders' collating of the Koran with Fascism, and calling Mohammed a barbarian, as unlawful. According to the verdict Wilders does not need to rectify, as that would amount to an apology. Such would go against the freedom of expression.

Wilders yesterday published a rectified version of "Fitna" (see part III). In a few days we will post in these pages an English translation of an in-depth article about the meaning of the term fitna, which to Muslims is just as significant as Jihad.

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Update: The importance of this verdict cannot be overestimated! It shatters Leftist Pavlovian propaganda that attacks every and any opponent as Fascist, whether appropriate or not! Take this commentary as an example:

Prague Daily Monitor: "Racist, xenophobic, legal"

The far-right National Party has published a controversial anti-Muslim film by a Dutch MP on its website in a bid to attract attention that could help it gain seats in parliament some day. The Workers' Party, siding with neo-Nazis, never hesitates to throw offences at minorities. "[These parties] have a chance to succeed in regions with a high crime rate and ethnic problems," says political analyst Miroslav Mareš. >>>

N.very B. I don't care to know about the Czech (Rightist Socialist) Workers' Party, but again for the hard of hearing! WILDERS IS A LIBERTARIAN, his operative unit is the individual, not the collective, and he is pro CAPITALISM!!!! Fascism and National Socialism are part of the Socialist family too: both collective, both anti-capitalism. Ever heard of Mussolini's creation, the Socialist Republic of Italy? Read political philosophy! The "extreme Right" strategy ("fasc!") has collapsed with this verdict!

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Progress Report (3): the Assault on the Rule of Law

Continued from Part 2: "Plugging the Holes Against Reality"

Politicians enforce the idea on entire societies that lumping innocent Muslims with their co-religionist terrorist counterparts is unfair. At this point the reasoning is reversed and the terrorists are collated with the innocent. This has four dire consequences: 1. a moral choice between the innocent and the terrorists is abdicated; 2. the terrorists get a free pass; 3. the innocent, thus lumped with the radicals, remain unsupported and have no other option than to submit to their will; 4. Westerners, defending the values of liberal democracy against Sharia type onslaughts and subjective, Muslim demands of religion based privileges are increasingly harassed by radicals in any available manner: cyber and legal jihad (frivolous lawsuits), after which they can get beaten up by the new stormtroopers. On top of that they are actively criminalised through legislation.

- Capture: Themis, Goddess of Justice traditionally blindfolded, signifying objectivity: equal justice for all -

They are thus caught between a rock and a hard place. They might seek protection from the radicals, making appeals at the official channels for security. But what, if those are concurrently threatening to clasp counter jihad bloggers in irons? (Read the continuing story of Lionheart.) What, if the political and legislative branches of said officialdom are responsible for a home grown branch of Al Qaeda taking hold on European soil? From the looks of it, far from conducting a war on terrorists, Europe for one, has unleashed a wave of repression on their critics!

Dr Darko Trifunovic from the Faculty of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade is delving deeper and deeper into the origins, ambitions and operating methods of what he terms "White Al Qaeda". The involvement of Wahhabi and Iranian 'volunteers' during the disintegration wars of the former Yugoslavia, has been well established.

A source beyond suspicion (if that is possible, given the prevailing puritan trend) is former journalist, and present Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism (no, not an oxymoron apparently) Stephen Schwartz. He recently published a fierce plea for Kosovo independence in "Keeping Moscow at Bay - In Kosovo" on Pajamas Media. (Also by Schwarz: "The Failure of Europe in Bosnia, And the continuing infiltration of Islamic extremists", The Weekly Standard on 20th June 2005).

In an earlier article, "Wahhabism and al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina" published on the site of the Jamestown Foundation (Global Terrorism Analysis) in 2004, Schwartz in some detail provides a description of the situation there, and concedes that ...

"(...) Saudis and Wahhabis (...) flooded into Sarajevo after Dayton. The Saudi High Commission for Relief (...) occupied a major structure in the town (...) Wahhabi missionaries spread throughout the Muslim zone (...) In the aftermath of September 11, two major events occurred (...) officers raided the offices of the Saudi High Commission for Relief (...). Documents seized by the Sarajevo authorities provided a fascinating insight into the scope and actions of the Saudi-backed Wahhabi jihad in the Balkans during the previous decade; the materials included the "Golden Chain" roster of original financiers of bin Laden's operations. Then, early in 2002 a group of six Algerians were arrested and deported to Guantanamo at the instance of the U.S. Embassy. Most of them had held Bosnian citizenship (...)."

Also holding Bosnian citizenship was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, former 'Operations Chief' of Al Qaeda and Bosnian war veteran. According to a post on the Terror Finance Blog submitted on behalf of Dr Darko Trifunovic, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed took over the leadership of the Al Qaeda media campaign ('the Committee') during the planning of the 9/11 attacks, starting around 1999.

According to Trifunovic Interpol in Wiesbaden, Germany "sent a request to the Bosnian authorities on 18 September 2001 to verify the identity of a certain Mr. Atta, who according to their information used to reside in the hamlet of Bakotić, 8 km outside Maglaj, in 1999." Evidently, Mohammed Atta had been residing in Bosnia prior heading for Hamburg, his launchpad for the US and his fatal mission.

On 12th October last year in our exclusive "The Clinton Legacy" on the presentation of Chris Deliso's book "The Coming Balkan Caliphate", we reported on the public secret that during the 1990 Yugoslav conflict, the Western powers conspired to allow Muslim Afghan war veterans to enter the territory, as an easy way to counter the Serb attempts to keep the federation of Yugoslavia together while countering internal Muslim harassment of local Christian populations. At the time the situation was said to be fluid.

Deliso also asserted direct links between Islamic radicals who were imported into Bosnia as a consequence of said Western policy, and the attacks of 9/11, the Madrid train bombings and the London attacks. We hardly need to be reminded that another Bosnian connection recently came to the fore, the foiled attempt on US Fort Dix, followed up by the scantly publicised matter of a Bosnian arrested in Vienna, Austria for a thwarted attack on the US Embassy in that city.

With the knowledge of the UN interim governors in Kosovo Albanian-American radicals were actively recruiting terrorists for 'the war against America' prior to the 9/11 attack, of which they had foreknowledge. The UN did nothing.

To paraphrase aforementioned Stephen Schwartz, Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, "a vast quantity of ink has been expended" on the subject of Islamist involvement and its expansion within Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere in the Balkans. That the campaign of intimidation and harassment didn't stop there is evidenced by reports that counter terrorist experts say to be the subject of cyber attacks by an Al Qaeda related organization. OSINT Analyst Ioannis Michaletos, like Dr Trifunovic associated with the Athens based Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), specifically mentions a Sarajevo based organization, the AIO (Aktivna Islamska Omladina) [1], who have targeted Trifunovic as well.

- Caption: Maps courtisy FAOA -

FAOA posits that "Its Islamic weekly magazine SAFF [2] and organization's website, have been fronts of radical Islamic preaching, gaining notoriety for publishing interviews with terrorists who have fought against US forces in Iraq and expressing solidarity with the jihadists and suicide bombers in Israel." FAOA also links the AIO with members throughout the Bosniak diaspora in Europe and the US.

One such is the CNAB, claiming to represent some 350.000 Bosniak refugees in the US and Canada. Trifunovic qualifies them as a new jihadi organization. He specifies four members in particular, who are one way or another involved in Islamist activities. Terror Finance Blog in "Bosnjaci.net Attacks on Darko Trifunovic" has the specifics.

Reading the accusations directed at Trifunovic, what stands out is that for the most part, these are formulated in non-existent legalistic terms. I do reserve some sympathies with the families and survivors of the sacking of Srebrenica, after the supposed neutrality of the safe haven proved to be vacuous. But the accusations of hate monger, persistent enemy, culturocide, ecocide, ethnocide, urbicide and elitocide are beyond sobriety?

More serious however are the frequent references to Srebrenica denial, equated with Holocaust denial. It is our understanding that Trifunovic, far from denying the events at Srebrenica, has been conducting further research into the matter. His scientific findings may evidently differ from the present official rendition. Research is an ongoing process. Even now archaeologists are delving into ancient digs to unearth evidence that may provide a new perspective on one historical event or other. The right of scientific enquiry is a precious principle, not to be jeopardized by frivolous lawsuits!

The recent legislation of postmodern surrogate morality, as laid down in laws such as these - criminalising subjective emotions as Islamophobia, hate en war-mongering, etc. etc. - will be a fine job for the Courts to disentangle in the coming years. Given the Latvian requests to include Stalinist genocide in the law have stranded on the criterion of the racist principle, one wonders how exactly the religion related outlawing of Islamophobia will fare. And will the emotion squad be preferable to the thought police?

In the US and elsewhere the legal systems are currently clogging up with frivolous lawsuits, one infamous case being one brought on by three of Canada's many human rights commissions against Mark Steyn for a sentence in his book "America Alone". In a rebuttal in the Calgary Herald Steyn explains that in the fateful sentence "The number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes" he was actually quoting a prominent Scandinavian Muslim, Mullah Krekar, who had it that Muslims were changing Europe, Western women producing only an average of 1.4 children against Muslimas 3.5.

To bring on a lawsuit on such a basis is careless to say they least. That's the result if money is no object, as in the case of the publicly funded human rights commissions. That frivolous cases are financed by Saudi (and other) sources reveals their secondary purpose: if the case is won, the advantage is favourable jurisprudence; if lost, the sued party is intimidated and diverted, and may hence serve as a reminder to others like him.

Totally beyond the order are the practices of witch hunter Dr. Richard Johnstone, lawyer by occupation, human rights activist by nature. His list of signatories led by a few stooges, is for the remainder made up by politically and perhaps even racially motivated Bosniaks headed by Muhamed Sacirbey, freshly out of jail after a hat trick gone awry. Johnstone proves beyond reasonable doubt that the 'human rights' movement has now firmly passed out of the realm of fake idealism, into the disconsolate depths where nihilism de-masks and hopes to die: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

- Caption: map of Dante's Hell by Barry Moser, c.1980, from Mandelbaum's translation -

Returning for a moment to the Trifunovic case, it is remarkable that until he was invited to sit as a public speaker on one of the forum debates during the upcoming 11th European Police Congress to be held on 29-30th of January in Berlin, he was able to do his research work from the University of Belgrade's ivory tower, in reasonable tranquility. The moment however that the opportunity arose to discuss his findings in public, spanners were thrown into the works to prevent it. Not only is he under cyber attack and legal intimidation, requests have also been directed at European Commission members, discrediting him as a person and as a scholar with the object of getting him banned from said convention.

Apart from the personal injury done here to Trifunovic himself, the public damage is two-fold: researchers are being harassed to prevent them from doing their jobs, thus interfering with the right of enquiry. The consequences of such actions on the academic level could well be considerable. The second part is even worse: the intimidation of officials conducting criminal enquiries, undercutting of the rule of law, leading ultimately to mob rule.

On the political level, the West is working hard to provide expanding Islamism with a state in the heart of Europe, smack in the middle of the traditional powder-keg - the Balkans - no less! The ultimate purpose of the diplomatic exercize in brinkmanship is as yet covered in geopolitical nebula. But never mind the increasing Wahhabi influence, Al Qaeda cells declaring war on Serbia, the traditional Turkish style mosques being stripped to make them Wahhabi compliant, the Serbian heartland of Kosovo being subjected to the rule of the fifteen crime families of Albania who are upto their eyeballs involved in heroin trafficking, or that the current leader of Kosovo once led the bin Laden funded KLA.

- Caption: Courtisy Anamnesis/Cartoons -

The creation of an independent Greater Albania with its fingers in the annual $40 billion criminal drug trade steamrolling through the Balkans, is a very progressive and enlightened ideal.

The conclusion of this three part progress report: we can all go safely to sleep tonight - all is quiet on the Eastern front ...

Related files:
- The Balkan Caliphate
- Blog Censoring and Cyber Jihad
- Legal Jihad
- The Propaganda Hirabah: the Media War
- The Liberal Dictatorship: Legislating Surrogate Morality

Updates: Have moved to the summary version.

- Filed on Articles in "Progress Report: Summary", cat. Balkans/E.Europe, GWOT, Moral Legislation, Neo Totalitarianism, Terrorism -

 
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