Video: Islamist parasite critiques Blair’s speech on Sky News
posted at 2:14 pm on December 9, 2006 by Allahpundit
Charles is spotlighting an interview in which the editor of Al Jazeera blames Israel for literally all of the Muslim world’s problems as proof of why AJ should never be carried by an American cable company. The other side of that coin is the extent to which Islamic fundamentalists already have a platform in some western nations’ media. Case in point: Tony Blair delivered a momentous speech yesterday repudiating his party’s longstanding uncritical support for multiculturalism and demanding that immigrants do more to assimilate. The full text is here. The final paragraphs:
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. So conform to it; or don’t come here. We don’t want the hate-mongers, whatever their race, religion or creed. If you come here lawfully, we welcome you. If you are permitted to stay here permanently, you become an equal member of our community and become one of us. Then you, and all of us, who want to, can worship God in our own way, take pride in our different cultures after our own fashion, respect our distinctive histories according to our own traditions; but do so within a shared space of shared values in which we take no less pride and show no less respect.
The right to be different. The duty to integrate. That is what being British means. And neither racists nor extremists should be allowed to destroy it.
So whom did Sky News invite on shortly before the speech for color commentary? Jihadist dirtbag Azzam Tamimi, who told the ExpoIslamia convention this summer “we are Muslims in Europe, not European Muslims” and who was last seen on this site alleging that the UK airplane plot was a hoax. LGF has a lengthy archive on him; scroll down and you’ll see he’s appeared on the BBC and MSNBC (where Tucker Carlson has whacked him around), has been published in Time, and has been used as an expert on Islam by — guess who — the Associated Press. He’s identified as an “Islamic expert” in this clip, too. Watch as the interviewer treats him with utter credulity and lets pass without comment his statement that the London bombings wouldn’t have happened if Britain hadn’t invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
And before you blame this on Britain’s liberal media, please note — Sky News is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Thanks as always to kasper kasper for the clip.
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Someone needs to publish his collectied speeches. They are always brilliant.
Coyote D. on December 9, 2006 at 2:39 PM
Blair, that is.
Coyote D. on December 9, 2006 at 2:40 PM
I hop[e he meant blair
Defector01 on December 9, 2006 at 3:16 PM
Blair rules.
quax1 on December 9, 2006 at 3:22 PM
“And now, for a counterpoint, we’d like to introduce Jihadist apologist and reknowned terrorist sympathizer, Azzam Tamimi! Welcome to our studios, you Ninny. Before we begin, are there any recent mass-murders you’d like to try to justify, or any tortured and broken children on whose graves you would like to piss?”
And then I snapped back to reality, where the fawning sycophants of the apocalypse read the news…
Merovign on December 9, 2006 at 3:44 PM
First, he states he doesn’t like the word “integration” because it is racist and then the dumbass says he doesn’t what to be seen as “an obstacle to integration.”
Jimmy Carter on December 9, 2006 at 3:56 PM
Jimmy Carter, your handle s/b John Kerry for a moment – he was against integration, before he considered being for it…
Entelechy on December 9, 2006 at 3:59 PM
Blair’s speech means nothing. He’s slated to leave power soon, if memory serves correctly, which means he’s in no position to dictate anything to the multi-culti kooks. Rest assured the destruction of Britain will roar forward with all due speed. The education system, the bureaucracies, the media–all will continue to serve as apostles of multiculturalism no matter what Tony Blair says or does.
Multiculturalism is so entrenched that it will take a lot more than a speech to dislodge it. Nothing less than a total transformation of the abovementioned organs of the state would have to take place. Even if this were to occur, which it won’t without a revolution or some similar society changing event, the milquetoasts in the European Union certainly would have something to say about it.
We can’t get rid of multiculturalism here, and that’s after the planes slammed into the WTC and Pentagon. That’s how entrenched this satanic dogma is in western civilization.
jaleach on December 9, 2006 at 5:21 PM
jaleach—-pretty damned entrenched.
Merry Christmas!Happy Holidays!seejanemom on December 9, 2006 at 5:42 PM
Blair’s got nothing left to lose. He has in a sense already resigned, that his date of exit is next year doesn’t matter much. Sad to see the only respectable politicians in the world always being marginalized to the point where they have to resign. Blair, Bolton, Hirsi Ali, etc. ad infinitum.
xyan on December 9, 2006 at 6:13 PM
I noticed that Azzam “Tahini” Tamimi brought out the “R” card, or “Race Card,” declaring he does not like the word “Integration” because he thinks it is racist.
Racist?
How so?
Muslims have been marching in the streets spewing hate speech, calling for Jihad, calling for the murder of fellow Brits, supporting terrorists, carrying placards calling for beheadings of those who “insult” Islam, planning and murdering fellow Brits, and planning the execution of more terrorism in the air.
The Brits now ask permission-approval from Muslim community “leaders” before carrying out raids on suspected houses of terrorist activity.
Yeah, Tahini Tamimi, you don’t like the word integration because you think it is racist, even though it has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with culture.
So, Tamimi really does not wish to see Islam be anything but the big dog on the block, separate and superior to his host country’s culture and peoples, therefore no integration, no respect for the culture and nation he and his fellow Muslims are living in, but yes to deception and yes to the promotion of and dominance of Islam.
William
William2006 on December 9, 2006 at 6:25 PM
He really couldn’t wait to defeat his own point. Stating the government fails to consider the impact of it’s foreign policy on the people of Britain simply implies British muslims feel more loyalty to the Arab world than to Britain. They have not integrated into British society, and foreign policy isn’t going to change that in a positive or negative way, nor does it have any impact on those who refuse to accept British culture in the first place.
thedecider on December 9, 2006 at 11:37 PM
When did Britain start having “cultures“?
That’s the fatal flaw in all of these pleas for “more immigrants”.
Assimilate what you already have before you add more to the mess.
If juggling three multi-cultural chainsaws is already chopping you to shreds, why add a fourth? Or fifth? Or millionth?
What was so wrong with England, circa 1960 or so, that they had to invite in their own doom with antagonist “cultures”?
(The U.S. is going down the same fragmenting road as little slower, but just as suicidally surely.)
profitsbeard on December 10, 2006 at 12:59 AM
Bravo William.
FTA – “…you become one of us.”
BBBBZZZZZTTTTT! Sorry, wrong answer. In Europe, there is still a class system. It’s not as bad as the caste sytem in India, but it’s there. You will always be an immigrant, even if you were born in merry olde England. English is a nationality. You’ll never BECOME English. Just like if I move to Japan, I do not BECOME Japanese. But in the U.S. and Canada, you move here from China, you become an American. You move to Canada from Iran, you become Canadian. But if I move to Sweden, I don’t become Swedish. Especially if you’re not caucasian. Sorry to say, Europeans ARE racists. Minorities ARE second class. Not to the same extent that you’d be treated as a dhimmi in a muslim country. So it’s pretty hypocritical for muslims to complain when they’re treated better in Britian than a Brit would be in dar-el-islam by the ummah.
Suggested reading for HotHeads and AirHeads – “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bower.
Speakin’ of airheads, this’ll be off topic but I gotta somebody who’ll actually get it: I was chit chatting with a female coworker of mine about our spouses, I said “My wife is the Emelda Marcos of purses.” Well she replies “Yeah? I’m like the Emelda Marcos of shoes.” I’m just sitti’ there starin’ at her. I mean, howdaya respond to that? I said “The … ? … nevermind.” That’s like sayin’ – “I’m the Micheal Jordan of basketball.” Sheesh. No wonder people get into the Internet so much. Almost all of my real world friends are libs who don’t know anything about the world we live in other than what they see on “Hollywood Insider”. That’s why I love HotAir! You guys (mentally) kick ass. You intellectually challenge my brain. I learn from you. Thank you HotHeads and AirHeads for my free education.
Tony737 on December 10, 2006 at 7:52 AM
I wonder, who could possibly have seen this coming?
Say this twenty years ago, what would the reaction have been?
Racist! Nativist! Segregationist! Xenophobe!
Try to say these words here and see the reaction.
Not to mention in a few short years to come.
Speakup on December 10, 2006 at 10:25 AM
more of the “it’s britain’s own fault they got bombed” babble.
Kind of reminds me of when I was in Jr High and some kid punched me. It was my fault because I wouldn’t take any lip from him. I told him to stuff it. he hit me, and I got in trouble for fighting back in a rather weak form.
Should have made it worth my while if I was going to get punched AND get in trouble. Should have broken the kids nose.
That’s exactly the point we’re missing.
These guys hurt us. We retaliate. We get in trouble with “the world opinion”.
If we’re going to get blamed for being a victim as is so popular a track in the US lately lets at least make it worthwhile and make sure when we retaliate they can’t hit us back afterwards.
What’s the UN going to do?
sic france on us?
BWAHAHAHAHHAH!!!
One Angry Christian on December 10, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Welcome to “moderate” Islam.
Timber Wolf on December 10, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Tamimi is “Exhibit A” for an argument that henceforth all Muslim immigrants should be expelled from Europe and only non-Muslim refugees from Moslems countries should be accepted anywhere in the non-Muslim world in the future.
ptolemy on December 10, 2006 at 12:47 PM