Coming only weeks after the riots in Britain, which destroyed $300 million in property, scenes of Muslims storming through the streets of Paris are a troubling reminder of how the states of Western Europe run the risk of splitting apart. Recently several hundred Muslim men were filmed, gathered in the streets to protest the ban on praying in the streets. One Muslim man complained that members of his religion were “oppressed.”
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September 24, 2011
French Muslim protesters defy ban; threaten to take “up arms soon”
March 12, 2011
Wikileaks, the Conspiracy Theorist, and the new Anti-Semitic Myth of World Power
Last week WikiLeaks’ former “no. 2″ Daniel Domscheit-Berg said that Julian Assange, the organization’s chairman, “sought out” Israel Shamir for collaboration. Shamir, A Russian Jew who converted to Christianity, is best known as an anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist conspiracy theorist, and author of numerous articles and several books in this genre. According to Domscheit-Berg, Assange had read Shamir’s works and found them “compelling.”
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March 6, 2011
Gaddafi’s Ghost: Neo-fascists Re-emegre Globally as “Anti-Zionists”
Although infamous in Britain for the Lockerby bombing, in the 1980s Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi provided an array of extremist groups in Europe and North America with financial assistance. These included communist, Black nationalist, and even neo-Nazi organizations. These were ideological rather than terrorist organizations – anti-Western, Third Worldist, and anti-Zionist and/or anti-Semitic.
Despite some common ideological ground, to bring such an array of organizations together under one roof might seem an impossible task. However, as Warren Kinsella describes in his book Unholy Alliances, in 1987 Gaddafi managed just that. Gathered in an army barracks in Tripoli, ostensibly to commemorate the bombing by the US a year earlier were members of the Black nationalist Nation of Islam, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Irish Republican Army, and a British Labour MP. “[K]eeping a low profile”, Kinsella notes (p. 2), “were a dozen or so members of the Nationalist Party of Canada, a neo-Nazi group based in Toronto.” (President Ronald Regan had ordered the attack on the barracks in response to the Libyan-tied bombing of a Berlin nightclub popular with US servicemen.)
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