Dan Freeman. For my money, this is a very significant event. Father Gabriel Naddaf, is a native of Israel and a pro-Zionist Greek Orthodox priest – a friend of Jews and Israel. Independently, I do know that on Monday British PM David Cameron announced his government’s new plan to fight “Islamist extremism,” and that it was widely reported in the UK press (but not here naturally.) Judging by Cameron’s words, Britain has finally decided it’s had enough, and “Islamic extremism” has become a threat to their country and way of life they won’t tolerate anymore. This is quite a turnabout for a nation that only yesterday was inured to Islamic beheadings, child grooming rings, no-go zones and Muslim attempts to take over British school systems. This means that England and its leaders have just leapfrogged the duplicitous Barack Hussein Obama and the PC-infected American people. Maybe, if and when Obama leaves office, we can summon up our own disgust and get the Islamist monkey off our backs too.
By Father Gabriel Naddaf
In a truly remarkable and historic speech, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron dealt head on with the issue of extremism today and what underlies it, whilst introducing his national Counter-Extremism Strategy.
“What we are fighting, in Islamist extremism, is an ideology. It is an extreme doctrine. And like any extreme doctrine, it is subversive. At its furthest end it seeks to destroy nation-states to invent its own barbaric realm. But you don’t have to support violence to subscribe to certain intolerant ideas which create a climate in which extremists can flourish” said Mr Cameron. “Ideas based on conspiracy: that Jews exercise malevolent power; or that Western powers, in concert with Israel, are deliberately humiliating Muslims, because they aim to destroy Islam. In this warped worldview, such conclusions are reached – that 9/11 was actually inspired by Mossad to provoke the invasion of Afghanistan; that British security services knew about 7/7, but didn’t do anything about it because they wanted to provoke an anti-Muslim backlash.”
He went on to speak about the misconceptions that people have about what causes extremism today, pointing out that it is not “because of historic injustices and recent wars, or because of poverty and hardship”. People who use this argument should be reminded that 9/11 happened before the Iraq War and that many terrorists come from affluent families who were university educated, said Mr Cameron, so, it cannot be used as justification. “No, we must be clear. The root cause of the threat we face is the extremist ideology itself.”
The British Prime Minister also spoke of the phenomenon of young people being drawn to this ideology and he said that “like any extreme doctrine, it can seem energising, especially to young people. They are watching videos that eulogise ISIL as a pioneering state taking on the world, that makes celebrities of violent murderers.” He went on to say that “we must de-glamourise the extremist cause, especially ISIL. This is a group that throws people off buildings, that burns them alive, and as Channel 4’s documentary last week showed, its men rape underage girls, and stone innocent women to death.”
The speech could not be more honest about what underpins this ideology also. “It may begin with hearing about the so-called Jewish conspiracy and then develop into hostility to the West and fundamental liberal values, before finally becoming a cultish attachment to death.” The British Prime Minister also spoke of the damage that “passive tolerance of practices” do to these communities and how “groups and organisations that may not advocate violence, but which do promote other parts of the extremist narrative” must be confronted.
“If you say “violence in London isn’t justified, but suicide bombs in Israel are a different matter” – then you too are part of the problem. Unwittingly or not, and in a lot of cases it’s not unwittingly, you are providing succor to those who want to commit, or get others to commit to, violence.”
“We must demand that people also condemn the wild conspiracy theories, the antisemitism, and the sectarianism too. Being tough on this is entirely keeping with our values. We should challenge every part of the hateful ideology spread by neo-Nazis – so why shouldn’t we here?”
We are not sure if any other Prime Minister, with the exception of few, would had the bravery and courage to deal with this issue with so much wisdom but also honesty, so we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to Mr Cameron for doing so and for standing up for the truth.
What can I tell you, my totalitarian friend. Some people are just born to lead. You have anointed me Leader Of Inertia, and I am humbled.
The above comments ignore what Father Gabriel Naddaf actually wrote. That is quite arrogant.
Of course babushka represents and leads the narrow outllok that does not seek change. Going ont he basis of what Father Gabriel Naddaf writes above Babuhka is myopic. This is not to say that Cameron has it at last about Islam. No if he had he would be inviting experts like Bostom in to talk to the British. But you lie about the words above of Father Gabriel Naddaf
Right on, Babushka! There is no such thing as “radical Islam” or “non-radical Islam” or “moderate Islam” or “immoderate Islam”. Islam is the belief system based on the Koran and Muhammad’s hadiths, and it is what it is. Moslems, as people, can be “radical” or “moderate” in their behavior, whereby the “radicals” follow Islam’s sacred commands closely, and the “moderates” do not. A Moslem can be moderate only to the extent that he dos not follow the jihadist doctrines which his religion says he is supposed to follow.
The problem is not “radical Islam”. The problem is “Islam”. No Western leader has the courage to tell that forbidden truth, so things will continue to deteriorate.
Cameron’s policy is doomed to failure because he still considers Islam to be a religion of peace and that the problem comes only from “Islamists” or “extremists”. In fact, the sacred doctrines of Islam which are preached in all mosques is the source of the problem and will always produce more Moslems who take those doctrines seriously. The Koran is the root of the problem.
Ted, I know the writer. His name Dan FRIEDMAN. But the writer appreciates the attribution anyway.
I agree that this is a most important development. This is an affirmation of everything that many have been saying for many dreary years and it is in total conflict with in particular the whole philosiophy of the BBC.
Can this be taken seriously though when it was the same Cameron and his Home Secretary Teresa May who was behind the banning of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer two years ago? That is they banned from Britain two of the people who had the expertise to explain to the British the origins of Islamic Supremacism.
Perhaps a Split opens up between May and Cameron. Or both have really changed their position. Or Cameron says this today and does differently tomorrow.
To sum up the only proof is in pracice. Will Britain end and apologise for the ban on Pamela and Robert NOW?