1389 Blog is all about hard news, focusing on the Counterjihad. On a holiday or any other day, if you visit 1389 Blog, hard news is what you will find. This hard news is very hard indeed. It goes far beyond any wrongdoing that you might expect to find on “Santa’s naughty list” for 2011.

Follow each link to learn the details – not for the fainthearted:

• IOTW has this story on Muslim corruption of children:
  “Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief’s hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged…”
• IOTW asks: Seriously, Civilization, What Is Our End Game Here?
  “Dutch TV hosts resort to cannibalism to survive… in the ratings.”

Taboos are taboo for a reason. The continued functioning of civil society requires that violators of such taboos be punished severely.

Human existence in communities and societies that condone or promote such heinous behavior becomes solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Some jurisdictions lack specific laws against cannibalism, simply because no legislators foresaw that anybody in the modern world would be perverse enough to commit it.

You may ask: What does cannibalism have to do with the Counterjihad?

• Weasel Zippers has the story on jihadi cannibalism: “UN-Backed Report: Pakistani Taliban Fighters Cut Breasts Off Woman Seen Breastfeeding, Ask Other Women To Eat The Pieces…”

More Muslim violence:

• Muslim Persecution of Christians: November 2011 “Everyone is Born a Muslim”
• No visitation allowed to blasphemy victim Asia Bibi in jail on Christmas:
  “Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five children, sentenced to death on blasphemy and waiting for her appeal in Lahore High Court LHC in high security cell in District Jail Seikhupura will not be able to offer Christmas services or to see her daughters and husband as it is not permitted by authorities in Punjab.”
• Sultan Knish on Rafiqi Islam
  He is the Emirati Muslim who cut off his wife’s fingers to stop her from getting an education.
• ACT For America: British Court Denies Philandering Biological Father Custody of His Daughter to Prevent Honor Killing
• ACT For America: Groomed for sex then thrown into a canal and killed: Life for man who murdered white girl for ‘shaming’ Asian family
• BNI: UK MUSLIM illegal alien who hacked off his neighbour’s head with a meat cleaver has his sentence CUT by six years

Sheik has the story at Winds of Jihad.

From Blazing Cat Fur:

h/t Vlad & Sheik

Cheradenine Zakalwe has the story:

Since the Islamic AKP party has formed the government in Turkey and its leader Erdogan has been president, relations between the former allies Turkey and Israel have degenerated rapidly – and the Jewish minority in Turkey is coming under increasing pressure. Especially in view of the current escalation and Ankara’s open threats against Israel – while Turkey simultaneously makes threatening military gestures against EU member Cyprus – the almost 20,000 Jews living in Turkey feel ever more uneasy, anxious and threatened.

Many of the 20,000 Jews living in Turkey are seriously considering emigration to Israel. The member of the Knesset Danny Danon said on Wednesday that Israel must prepare for a massive Alijah (Homecoming) of Turkey’s Jews.

“Turkey is trying to damage Israel, and we must be prepared for a further deterioration in relations, which could have a negative impact on Turkey’s Jews”, said the chairman of the immigration committee of the Israel parliament. “We need to set up a support hotline to prepare the Turkish Jews for their Aliyah,” said Danon.

More here.

Please visit these links:

• Jawa Report: Breaking: Credible Terror Threat for 9-11
  Also see:
  Winds of Jihad: How the hell did they get in?
• Phyllis Chesler: A Decade Later and We Are Still All Israelis
• Zilla of the Resistance: I Will ALWAYS Be A New Yorker – My September 11, 2001 Story
• Ryan Mauro: Fighting Islamic Terror: A Personal Duty
• Lawrence Meyers: Reminder: We Are at War
  (but see this comment)
• EDL: September 11th 2011 (h/t: Gates of Vienna)
• Blazing Cat Fur: Canadian PM Stephen Harper to Attend 9-11 Memorial Event in NYC
• K. T. McFarland: My 9/11 Lesson — We Are Never Powerless, Everyone Can Do Something

Your support means more to me than you will ever know.

Support from other spokespersons, bloggers, and commenters is what keeps me going in what might otherwise seem like a thankless task.

I won’t be posting excerpts. Please visit the links and read the articles, which contain much more useful news and information.

• Sultan Knish: Remembering Muslim Colonialism on September 11: Knish asks why our foreign policy supports Muslim colonialists at the expense of their victims, including Christian Serbs.
• Winds of Jihad: The Magnificent Oscar Freysinger: Oskar Freysinger is the man behind the successful bid to get a referendum on banning minarets in Switzerland, which passed. Kudos to Freysinger for speaking up on behalf of the Serbs, and kudos to Sheik yer’ Mami for publishing his speech.

Although I never watch the tax-payer-funded ABC I was alerted to a show they ran tonight.

It seems that Geert Wilders is coming to Australia after being invited by Liberal Party Senator Cory Bernardi.

(Please note that in Australia the Liberal Party is the Conservative Party.)

This text from the ABC site:

H/T: SheikYerMami

A controversial Dutch politician who’s been prosecuted for hate speech says he’s coming to Australia.

Geert Wilders, who controls the balance of power in the Netherlands’ parliament, has outraged Dutch Muslims by comparing the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and calling the Prophet Muhammad a paedophile.

But Wilders has his supporters, among them Liberal Senator, Cory Bernardi.
(pictured above).

by Eric Campbell

Audio here.

Further reading – Senator Cory Bernardi:
Australia: No Place for Sharia Law

Obama’s Odd Family and Media Shyness About Them

(h/t: Winds of Jihad)

Also see:

• The Obama Family Circus
• Obama Family Tradition
• Obama’s uncle called a fugitive from deportation since 1992

Indonesia: Halal Sex

(h/t: Winds of Jihad)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Uploaded by france24english on Jul 25, 2011
INDONESIA : Hallal sex. Saudi men travel to Indonesia for sex tourism. And so they don’t break any religious laws: they marry the prostitute for a day or two…

From Newstime (NZ):

“France 24 TV goes undercover in Indonesia to explore a bizarre trend in the country’s sex tourism industry. A growing number of Saudi Arabian men are temporarily marrying according to Quran Chapter 4 Verse 24 “… agree Mutually (to vary it), …” (Mu’ta marriage 4:24, temporary) Indonesian prostitutes to have sex with so that they don’t technically engage in non-marital sex. Therefore, in their opinion, their sexual relations with a prostitute are religiously lawful.”

According to Wikipedia…

Nikāḥ al-Mutʿah (Arabic: نكاح المتعة‎ “marriage for pleasure”), is an extremely controversial fixed-term marriage system in Shi’a Islam, rejected in Sunni Islam. The duration of this type of marriage is fixed at its inception and is then automatically dissolved upon completion of its term. The marriage is contractual and is subject to renewal. Financial payments may be made between the couple, usually with the male paying the female mahr or dower.

It’s All About the Rupiah and the Rial:

Despite the fact that both Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are both Sunni Muslim countries, when there is money to be made from sex tourism, the supposedly Shi’ite-only practice of Mut’ah is considered halal nonetheless. Go figure.

Mut’ah is a ‘rial’ moneymaker for the imams in Shi’ite Iran:

Winds of Jihad: ‘Muta’, Temporary marriage or legalized prostitution

Holy Shiite! Pious pilgrimage just got more exciting at Imam Reza’s shrine in Iran, where for a reasonable fee (see price list below) a mullah can join any eager pilgrim in holy matrimony of “temporary marriage” with his choice of a lovely, fully hijabed, and properly veiled prostitute for a period between 5 hours to 10 days. Pedophiles welcome: girls as young as 12 years of age are standing by. Not to worry, the mullahs got them covered: all “temps” under 14 must show a written consent from their fathers or male guardians (no doubt on advice from the recently fired, now freelancing ACORN specialists).

We are not making this up…

Ayatollah Khomeini’s ‘temporary marriage’ to a four-year-old girl

Khomeini Sexually Assaulting Crying and screaming 4 year old Girl – with parental consent

Click here to view the embedded video.

Uploaded by blogspotKitmanTV on Sep 6, 2010

More about Khomeini´s sick teachings on marriage and child molestation: http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2010/09/latest-from-kitman-tv-on-youtube.html

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Supreme Leader of Iran, the Shia Grand Ayatollah, 1979-89 said in his official statements:

“A man can quench his sexual lusts with a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. Sodomizing the baby is halal (allowed by sharia). If the man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister. It is better for a girl to marry when her menstruation starts, and at her husband’s house rather than her father’s home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”

Speechless…

Also see:

• NewStatesman: Ziauddin Sardar: Will you marry me – temporarily? Note: This is a truly creepy article by a Muslim who thinks these temporary marriages are a great idea. He contends that males are obligated to care for the offspring of these sexual unions. But as the next article indicates, it doesn’t work out that way in real life.
• She Found Prostitution Among Iran’s Holy Men
• References for Trafficking and Prostitution in Iran

From Winds of Jihad:

AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally: Stand Against Ground Zero Mosque, and Durban III, Stand for America

And if you’re in Germany on the 3rd of September, the Parteitag of Die Freiheit is the place to be:

NEW YORK: The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting its second annual 9/11 Freedom Rally on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway.

Free citizens are coming from all over the U.S. to attend the rally. “It is crucial to stand for freedom on this tenth anniversary of the heinous 9/11 jihad attacks,” said AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller. “We must show the jihadists we are unbowed in the defense of freedom. As a judge yesterday dismissed a suit by a New York firefighter challenging the construction of the mosque, the last legal hurdle blocking it has been removed. But we are not giving up. It is time for free citizens to make a stand.”

AFDI and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program are encouraging all Americans to stand against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero and the anti-Semitic Durban III conference that will be held in New York City at the same time, and for American values on the tenth anniversary of the worst attack ever on American soil.

The confirmed list of speakers includes 9/11 family members Alexander and Maureen Santora, who lost their firefighter son Christopher; Sally Regenhard, whose son Christian was killed on 9/11; Nelly Braginsky, who lost her son Alexander; and others.

Other speakers include former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (video message); German MP René Stadtkewitz, leader of Germany’s Freedom Party; the courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Wafa Sultan; war hero and North Carolina Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano; former prosecutor and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy; popular radio host Joyce Kaufman; Darla Dawald, National Director of the Patriot Action Network; James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST); Coptic Christian activist Joseph Nassralla; Iraqi ex-Muslim Paul Gaynos; and others.

Hosting the rally are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.

Building the Ground Zero mosque is not an issue of religious freedom, but of resisting an effort to insult the victims of 9/11 and to establish a beachhead for political Islam and Islamic supremacism in New York. Cordoba Initiative board member imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Sharia, Islamic law, a system that denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. Given the thousands of triumphal mosques that have been built on the cherished sites of conquered peoples throughout Islamic history, the mosque leaders’ claim that this mosque would be understood differently by Muslims worldwide lack foundation.

The Durban III conference follows upon two previous conferences that scapegoated and demonized the state of Israel in service of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacist interests. The rally will defend Israel against the defamation to which it will be subjected at this conference. It will also call upon the city to remove roadblocks to the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 and since then mired in bureaucratic red tape that has prevented its rebuilding – in stark contrast to the help Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials have given to the Ground Zero Mosque project.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America’s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

Not to worry:

Sheik yer’ Mami down but not out

Our host has taken the site down due to constant overloads, which caused other sites to crash. We were running out of bandwidth! It’s nice to be popular, and we appreciate the increasing interest from our regular readers and the wider community.

Thanks to Vlad I’ll be posting here [at Vlad Tepes Blog] until Winds of Jihad is back up. I was told it could be up to 24 hours to be back online.

We will do whatever it takes to bring the counter-jihad to the worldwide community of infidels, because we must. We cannot afford to lose this war against the global jihad, a war which was declared on us in the 7th century, not the other way around.

Islam has destroyed many cultures and civilizations because people were deceived into believing that a peaceful coexistence is possible. The depredations of dhimmitude and chastened subservience however make that impossible. Islam seeks domination by all and any means and does not grant Christians, Jews, Buddhists or Hindus equal rights, they are unbelievers who must be forcibly converted or killed. This is now self-evident in all the lands where Muslims have the upper hand.

To give in to their demands would dishonor our ancestors who fought valiantly to keep our countries free of the Islamic scourge. Our children will never forgive us for being such cowards in the face of such an implacable enemy.

You must remember that it is not our words, but the silence about the dangers of Islam which has the most negative influence on our societies. Feeding the crocodile will not keep us safe, and the appeasers will follow the quislings down the memory hole.

Unfortunately, due to our popularity, we now have to pay a whole lot more to get our message out. I hope that those of you who appreciate what we’re doing will chip in to keep us going. So far we never had a fundraiser, but every little bit helps. Yes, we do take credit cards and we do have a PayPal account.

FYI: We also have an emergency site, called Moe’s Jihad News, where I will post the most relevant updates while the main site is down.

In closing, I’ll post the most cheerful message I have seen for a long time, from the most courageous freedom fighter I ever had the pleasure to call my friend, Robert Spencer:

Victory is in sight

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi

We have no money. We have no powerful friends. We have no media connections. We have no resources.

All we have is the truth. And that means that victory is assured.

Last night I posted this comment:

The media had it wrong on the “lone perpetrator”…

Apparently I wasn’t the only person who had trouble believing that both attacks could be the work of a single person. Et Norsk Troll comments on Blogmocracy:

6 people have been arrested in Oslo in connection with the bombing (Just like Rodan said: there will be more people who think this way). They are of Eastern European backgrounds. They were taken away in their underwear.

The police have coordened off quite a distance from the place of the arrest. The Oslo Bomb Squad is at the scene…

Update:

According to the UPDATED version of the following article, chemical containers were found at the address that was raided, but no explosives. Those arrested were released.

Ingen eksplosiver funnet (Norwegian language)

Convicted anti-Israel terrorist Lars Gule says he debated with Breivik online

Breivik’s ideas ‘shared by many’

Anders Breivik’s extreme ideology is shared by many people in Europe, according to a philosopher who took part in online discussions with someone he believes was the Norwegian mass-murderer.

Speaking to John Humphrys, Dr Lars Gule said Breivik’s views “did not stand out with a particularly aggressive or violent rhetoric… he was quite mainstream”.

Lars Gule himself is quite a piece of work:

Religious Freedom Watch: Terrorist Lars Gule

In 1977 Lars Gule embarked on a mission to bomb a hotel where certain Israeli citizens were scheduled to meet. His mission was foiled by Lebanese Customs officials who caught Gule attempting to board a flight with 800 grams of explosives in his possession. Gule was convicted, sentenced to prison, and labeled “Norway’s first international terrorist. ”

When caught by Customs officials in Lebanon, Gule at first lied and claimed that he was not aware that he was carrying the explosives found hidden inside some books in his luggage. He claimed that he was given the books by some people he had met in Beirut. Only after his arrest did Gule confess to the truth.

Gule admitted to having spent 15 to 20 hours being trained by a terrorist organization on weaponry and sabotage tactics in preparation for this mission. The organization purportedly asked Gule to carry out the task as a “propaganda-action” to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 1967 war. They informed him that the target of the action was a hotel used as a conference center and meeting place by certain Israelis…

Also see: Wikipedia: Lars Gule.

The media had it wrong on who the victims were!

The media have been referring to Utøya as a “youth camp” island – and sometimes as a “children’s camp.” (Note: It was the English-language media, NOT ME, who called it a “children’s camp.) Perhaps programs and events for children have taken place there at various times. But the camp program in progress at the time of the attack seems to have been a program for young adults, not for children at all.

The Utøya victims are being presented as “children” when this was evidently not the case. Why? Perhaps the motive is to cast the attack on Utøya as an episode of mindless cruelty rather than the carefully-targeted act of political violence that it was, or perhaps it is to sell more newspapers and garner a larger audience by tugging at our heartstrings. Either way, the media are never to be taken at face value.

I should not have to make any disclaimers here, but making the statement that the victims were young adults, not children, does NOT constitute excusing or condoning the attack upon them.

Commenter Ingenjören says that the term “youth camp” refers to a camp for persons age 15 and up. The English-language media, nonetheless, refers to the victims as “children” but has not reported any breakdown on the number of victims by age.

Sheik asks some uncomfortable questions about the Norway attacks, and especially about the media spin being placed on them:

Winds Of Jihad: Norway updates

The enemedia keeps repeating that “Anders Behring Breivik, targeted children”- but nobody has actually seen these ‘children’.

Whereas the MSM had no compunction to display the blood-splattered bodies of white Norwegians from the Oslo bomb attacks, there appears to be a strange timidity to display close-ups of the socialist indoctrination camp, where ‘children’ are taught to boycott Israel and other important multicultural stuff.

Al Jizz had quite a few video’s up, and they showed surviving witnesses. There was an Arab and 2 colored girls, one speaking with an American accent, all in their mid-twenties. Does that make them ‘children?’

Here’s another one, but he doesn’t look Norwegian either: Alhamdullillah! At Long Last the Enemedia ‘s Got Their “Right Wing Christian” Terrorist!

It would be interesting to know why we are told that the victims are ‘children’ when they’re obviously not.

Samuel Muyizzi (30) is one of the surviving ‘children’ from the Marxist paradise island…

Much more here.

Is speed-dating a typical childhood or adolescent activity?

Regarding children, mind you, that speed dating was on the Utøya agenda for Wednesday night.
(h/t: Coffee)

Also see:

• American Power Blog: Anders Behring Breivik – No Clear Ideological Program
• Atlas Shrugs: SIOE Barred suspected Norway Shooter from forum
• Bruce Bawer: A Double Tragedy for Norway
• Gates of Vienna: Fjordman: Thoughts on the Recent Atrocities
  (Note: Comments are entirely closed at Gates of Vienna for the time being. 1389 Blog continues to accept comments on all blog posts, including this one; comments are moderated.)
• Gates of Vienna: Fjordman Welcomes Our New Readers

Oslo bombing and Utøya youth camp attack:

• Blazing Cat Fur: Oslo Norway – Explosion Rocks Government Buildings..BBC reporting 4 dead in shooting
• The Jawa Report – Terror in Norway
• Gates of Vienna: No Jihad Angle – Or Is There?
• Gates of Vienna: Terror Attack in Central Oslo
• Blogmocracy: Bombing in Norway
• Blogmocracy: Breaking News: Now youth camp attacked in Norway
• Blogmocracy: Amy Winehouse dead at 27, and comments on Norway killings
• Winds of Jihad: multiple articles
• Weasel Zippers: Terror Attack in Norway
• EuropeNews: multiple articles
• R.S. McCain: Death toll now reported at 91 in Norway ‘Christian Fundamentalist’ terror attack

US deficit/debt negotiations:

• 2.0: The Blogmocracy: multiple threads
• Noisy Room: The American People Expect Better, Once Again the Senate Has No Plan

Arrest of Goran Hazdic:

• Gates of Vienna: Serbia jumps through endless hoops
• ADN Kronos: Serbia: EU enlargement commissioner cold to Serbian membership

Statement regarding the Utøya youth camp attack:

There has been a plethora of speculation and allegations bandied about in the media and the blogosphere with regard to the identity and motives of the Utøya youth camp attacker(s). Let me point out that we don’t have all of the facts yet (or perhaps any of them).

Just for starters, there hasn’t been a trial yet. Only the trial can establish whether the person arrested (namely Breivik) was the actual shooter (assuming that there was only one shooter, which we still don’t know).

We also don’t know who actually left the comments that were purportedly made by Breivik.

Nor do we know the extent to which the police and the judicial system in Norway are honest. These cases become political footballs. There have certainly been enough problems with that in the US, especially with regard to high-profile crimes and assassinations.

We don’t know whether the Oslo bombing, the youth camp attack, or both, could have been “false flag” operations. Even if they were not, there is always the danger that they could eventually be used as a “Reichstag fire” incident.

Anybody can leave comments on just about any website, forum, or blog that allows comments. They can leave comments under somebody else’s name if they feel like it, and the website owner generally won’t know.

Let me point out something else: A blog, forum, or website is not responsible for the mental health (or lack of it) of its commenters. We don’t know who those people really are. Some commenters are undoubtedly imposters.

At various times, we’ve had some looney tunes commenting on 1389 Blog, which is, of course, a counterjihadist site. Even though a few such commenters seem to have agreed with our viewpoint (at least to the extent that we can figure out what they are talking about), we don’t like getting comments from people who seem to be incoherent or mentally unbalanced. That is partly why we moderate the comments. If we were to accept no comments from anybody at all, that would cut us off from any dialog with our audience, and that would cut down on readership.

I will make two further comments:

Whoever left the comments under the name of Breivik was not connected with the counterjihad movement to any real extent, simply because he (or they) would know by now never to use Little Green Footballs as a source of information.

Whoever shot up the youth camp wasn’t a Christian, despite what he (or others) might claim. That isn’t something that a Christian would do. Nothing in Christian doctrine allows it.

-Blog admin 1389

I recently blogged about why non-Muslims should avoid halal food. Acceptance of halal food leads to pressure for more Muslim immigration and for the gradual expulsion of non-Muslims from the food industry.

Those are not the only reasons to shun halal food. I noticed this unappetizing story on the RSS feed from Winds of Jihad:

Halal, the Dirtiest Grub in New York City

NY POST: Worst of the wurst: NYC’s dirtiest ‘alfresco’ food cart vendors

(hat tip Pamela Hall via Pamela Geller)

That’s wheely gross. Mobile food vendors racked up a stomach-turning 2,517 violations this year — ranging from poor personal hygiene, to serving up mystery meat, to live rodents — but the city Health Department doesn’t grade them or let the public know just how filthy they are. [emphasis added]

Sheik yer’mami has classified information that in Germany the tax-authorities, who are after small business like blood-hounds, have strict guidelines not to investigate Mohammedan businesses who are known tax-cheats……

In just four months, sidewalk slinger Bulent Isci earned 16 violations, making him the city’s vilest vendor, according to records obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information Law request.

Isci manhandled food on the southeast corner of West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue, instead of using a utensil, and failed to wash his hands “after visiting the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking [or] preparing raw foods,” records show. After his first inspection in January, he failed to clean up and was cited during three more inspections in March and April.

Mubarak Ahmed broke the health code 14 times in a two-month span at his stand on West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue, according to records. His offenses included inadequate personal cleanliness and the absence of a required sink for hand-washing.

When a Post reporter stopped by Ahmed’s stand Friday, he was scarfing down lunch — a rice-and-meat dish from a neighboring vendor — and tore an orange open with dirt-caked fingernails before serving a customer…

What’s the real problem here?

Food trucks, halal or not, “enjoy” a dubious reputation for sanitation, partly on account of the lack of hand-washing facilities. It is possible (though not necessarily cheap) to equip a food truck with a lavatory. This involves a potable-water tank, a small water heater, a water pump, the lavatory itself, and a holding tank, plus paper towels and a soap dispenser. At least in South Carolina, it’s is required by law.

I mentioned the issue of dirty halal food to Bunk Strutts, who reminded me, “Unsanitary conditions aren’t limited to halal joints. It’s not an ethnic food thing either.”

Bunk is certainly right about that! Here’s the video he sent me, featuring hilarious re-enactments of real restaurant inspection reports. A Persian pizza place is pilloried at 3:28, but, as Bunk indicates, eateries of every variety are among the guilty.

Amazing Restaurant Inspections

Click here to view the embedded video.

Uploaded by chadlnc on October 4, 2006

TRUE health inspection violations from inspectors around the country. From mice in the marinade to lettuce fished out of the garbage.

Any prepared food nowadays – not just ethnic food – is likely to have been handled by people – some from Third World countries, but by no means all – who may carry communicable diseases, who have not been trained in proper sanitation, or who disregard such training after having received it because that wasn’t the way they were raised. It takes good supervision and management to ensure compliance, which is unlikely to happen if the owners of the establishment are of the same unwholesome mindset – or if they don’t expect the laws to be enforced.

After looking at all of this evidence very carefully, I have concluded that food trucks, cafeterias, and restaurants that serve halal food might not be significantly dirtier than those that serve non-halal food. Instead, halal food is exposed to contamination before it gets to these establishments.

As Sheik pointed out above, there seems to be a double standard of enforcement, in which governmental authorities are slow or reluctant to enforce the laws and regulations, or to notify the public, when the culprits are Muslim. And that’s the real problem here.

Okaaaaay. The following incident took place in 2008, and we don’t hear about it until 2011? Even the UK Muslims themselves were well aware of issues with unsanitary halal food, as long ago as 2004.

Northampton Chronicle: Dirty fridges, out of date milk and packaging gnawed by rodents at Halal butchers shop

Published on Thursday 5 May 2011 02:10

INSPECTORS found a catalogue of hygiene breaches at a Northampton shop, including dirty fridges, out-of-date milk on sale, and mouse droppings in bags of food, a court heard.

An inspection at Kenya Halal Butchers, in Wellingborough Road, in January 2008, found packaging that had been gnawed by rodents, mouse droppings inside bags of maize, dirty kitchen utensils, cultured milk on sale that was more than six weeks out of date, and dirty floors, fridges, storage cabinets and food preparation surfaces.

Co-owner Mohammed Ayub, aged 66, of Berkeley Avenue, in Greater London, appeared before magistrates in Wellingborough yesterday and pleaded guilty to six charges of breaching food safety and environmental health regulations, including failing to comply with a hygiene improvement notice served by Northampton Borough Council in September 2007. He was fined £1,320.

His son, fellow owner Mohammed Shazan, was fined £2,500 in August 2008 for similar offences…

Sometimes it involves deliberate fraud. This happened in Australia last year:

Sydney Morning Herald: Caught red-handed in a meat makeover scandal

HEATH ASTON, NSW POLITICAL EDITOR
April 25, 2010
EXCLUSIVE

BUTCHERS are using the illegal preservative sulphur dioxide to make old and greying meat look fresh. A butcher in Yagoona has become the latest to be caught using the toxic additive – a major ingredient of battery acid – on beef mince.

Toufic Elarab, the owner of Yagoona Halal Meats, was also found by NSW Food Authority inspectors to be storing meat in an unsanitised shopping trolley while beef hung on rusty hooks was allowed to rest against filthy, blood-splattered walls in a storage area.

The butcher is the latest to fall foul of health restrictions against the use of sulphur dioxide to disguise old or inferior raw meat.
[…]
The NSW Food Authority warned that sulphur dioxide carried the risk of serious allergic reaction…It is banned from all raw meats, including mince, sausages, rissoles and hamburger patties.

NSW Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan said: “While the vast majority of licensed operators do the right thing, it takes just one dodgy operator to put the community at risk from food-borne illness, which can have a devastating effect.

This is a clear message to those few rogue operators who continue to do the wrong thing: we will get you.”

Yagoona Halal Meats was fined $4800 and and ordered to pay $2000 in costs by the Chief Industrial Magistrate’s Court, which had previously found against the company over six other offences. The Food Authority gave evidence that the storage area had “rusty hanging hooks and a rusty handsaw contaminated by old, dry meat”. The walls were “unclean and found to have debris and dried blood on them”.

Having failed a string of inspections over the past few years, the Yagoona butcher is one offence away from being shut down, according to sources at the Food Authority…

Will anyone go on record to tell us exactly what it takes to get an egregiously filthy halal butcher shop shut down? Did the authorities recall any of the tainted meat that had been sold by Yagoona Halal Meats? If not, why not?

Another halal food warehouse is being sued by the State of Texas, following a pattern of violations dating back to 2001:

Food Safety News: Texas Sues Halal Group Over Food Safety

by Helena Bottemiller | Dec 02, 2009

The state of Texas is suing a Halal food establishment and its business partners for several food safety violations, including holding food in an extremely unsanitary warehouse, Courthouse News Service reported yesterday.

Halal Import Food Market’s warehouse was inspected after a Texas state trooper found 148 dead goat carcasses stacked inside an unrefrigerated van. Health inspectors not only found filthy conditions at the warehouse, but discovered that 102 dead goats and boxes of organs had disappeared in transit.

According to Courthouse News Service, the complaint describes the warehouse as having, “dead birds and bird droppings on food products…live bird flying around the warehouse and resting on food products,” and points to “trash piled 6 feet deep in some places.”

The complaint also adds that inspectors found “numerous dead rodents, numerous rodent droppings along with gnawed materials and debris,” and meat rotting in a grinder.

“Cigarette butts, rotting fruit, peels, partially eaten chicken and other food,” were also scattered about the warehouse, according to the complaint.

Texas is suing Halal Import Food Market, Zamzam Supermarket, World Food Market (the two stores the state believes received the missing goat meat), Adel, Sam, Nihaya, Jamal and Shoukry Mohammed Qaddura and Riyad Ibrahim.

Halal Import Market has been cited for food safety violations since as early as 2001.

The state is seeking fines of up to $25,000 per day from each defendant for each violation of safety regulations and wants all the contaminated food destroyed.

E. coli O157:H7 – It’s what’s for dinner!

Fecal coliform bacteria are an indication of fecal contamination and of poor sanitation in general. Certain strains of E. coli are dangerous, while others are not. Among the pathogenic E. coli strains are O104:H4 (the culprit in the deadly 2011 European outbreak) and O157:H7.

According to Wikipedia:

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an enterohemorrhagic strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli and a cause of foodborne illness. Infection often leads to hemorrhagic diarrhea, and occasionally to kidney failure, especially in young children and elderly persons. Transmission is via the fecal-oral route, and most illness has been associated with eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef, swimming in or drinking contaminated water, and eating contaminated vegetables.

Burnaby Now puts it in somewhat plainer terms:

Food contaminated with E. coli might not look or smell spoiled.

Consumption of food contaminated with the bacteria can cause serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses.

Symptoms include severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. Some people may have seizures or strokes and some may need blood transfusions and kidney dialysis. Others may live with permanent kidney damage. In severe cases of illness, people may die.

Notice how one Canadian halal meat purveyor managed to evade further accountability for tainted meat:

Food Safety News: BC Meat Processor Drops Federal Inspection

by News Desk | Jan 25, 2011

A meat processor that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency suspected had an E. coli contamination problem last November is opting out of federal inspection entirely and will be regulated only by the Province of British Columbia.

Provincially regulated plants are not required to test for the E. coli bacteria. Federally licensed meat processing plants in Canada, however, are required to test for E. coli O157:H7, and report positive results to CFIA.

Pitt Meadows Meats, Ltd, one of BC’s largest meat processing plants, has been under scrutiny for not immediately reporting lab results when they turned up positive for E. coli O157:H7 last fall. The company is known for its “halal” beef and lamb products, made in accordance with Islamic law and sold in many Middle Eastern food markets in the greater Vancouver area.

After the test result Sept. 9, Pitt Meadows destroyed 61 cases of product, but did not notify CFIA. Then an employee whistleblower turned Pitt Meadows into CBC News. The company told the CBC it had questioned the validity of the test results, and suspected an employee might be trying to sabotage its operation.

After it became aware of the possible contamination, CFIA issued a public health warning Nov. 9, advising the Vancouver Islamic community not to eat meat from the plant.

Later tests were all negative for E. coli. Pitt Meadows was closed down for a month, but re-opened Dec. 6.

There were no reports of illnesses associated with Pitt Meadows meats last fall, but CFIA officials say the only way to know now if there is E. coli contamination at Pitt Meadows will be after someone gets sick. [emphasis added]

Or after a LOT of people get sick.

Readers of public health journals learned over a decade ago that pathogen-tainted halal food is a widespread problem, and not a matter of isolated instances. But somehow this information never made it into the mainstream media or reached the general public. Wonder why not!

Microbiological investigation of halal butchery products and butchers’ premises

(Communicable Disease and Public Health, Vol. 2 No. 2, June 1999, full text available at the above link)

Summary: Halal butchers’ premises were investigated as they had not been represented in a recent study of butchery products and butchers’ premises conducted by the Local Authorities Coordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards and the PHLS. This study examined 183 raw prepared meats and 212 environmental samples from 105 halal butcher premises. Only raw meats were prepared on 97 of the premises visited; and the types of meat prepared on the remaining eight premises was not specified. Four halal butchers sold cooked meats prepared elsewhere. Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. were detected in 12 (7%) and 52 (28%) of the 183 raw meat products, respectively. Five raw prepared meats (3%) contained both salmonella and campylobacter. Vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli O157 was isolated from a raw meat product that also contained campylobacter. No cooked meat products were available for collection. The physical separation of raw and unwrapped cooked meat products in premises that prepared raw and sold cooked meats was not recorded. Apron cloths were the most heavily contaminated environmental samples examined; hygiene indicator microorganisms indicated an increased risk of cross contamination. Managers in 85 premises had received no food hygiene training and 88 premises had no hazard analysis system in place. Improvements are needed to reduce the risk of cross contamination…

Improvements are needed… Gee, ya think?

Oh, and by the way, you won’t automatically know when you’re getting halal meat. Just sayin’.

Daily Mail (UK): Chicken McHalal: An MoS investigation reveals that halal meat IS used in one of McDonald’s most popular meals

Fast-food giant McDonald’s has admitted selling halal chicken without telling its customers. The poultry was used in popular menu items such as Chicken McNuggets and the McChicken Sandwich in its 1,200 British outlets.

The admission comes three weeks after the company categorically denied to this newspaper that it used any halal meat. Now McDonald’s has revealed that the firm that supplies its poultry, Cargill, produces halal chicken at one of its abattoirs.

In a statement to The Mail on Sunday, McDonald’s said: ‘As a result of your enquiries, our investigation has confirmed that some halal chicken has entered our supply chain without our knowledge, and we apologise to our customers for this.

Food chain: Halal poultry has been used in popular menu items such as Chicken McNuggets and the McChicken Sandwich in its 1,200 British outlets

‘While is it not a quality issue, halal chicken is outside of our specification. We have received assurances from Cargill that halal meat production from this abattoir has now stopped.’

McDonald’s says all the chicken in its restaurants comes from poultry which has been stunned before slaughter. Meanwhile, Asda, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain, has admitted that much of its lamb and chicken is slaughtered according to Islamic ritual…

Also see:

• Bare Naked Islam: UK: Parents outraged over HALAL-ONLY food being forced on their children in schools fight back
  (Warning: Graphic slaughterhouse images/videos)
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Services
• Food Establishment Inspection Scores (USA)
  (h/t: Bunk Strutts)

Bon appétit!

YouTube: Robson & Fatah on Toronto mosqueteria

(h/t: Blazing Cat Fur)

Yes, it’s true. Imams are conducting Muslim prayers every Friday in the cafeteria of the Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. And yes, female students must sit in the back, and females who are menstruating must sit even further back and are forbidden to participate in the prayers. (See SteynOnline: How Unclean Was My Valley.) As you can imagine, the mosqueteria controversy is still going on.

No, I most certainly do NOT agree with everything Tarek Fatah says in the above video – though he has a valid point in objecting to discrimination against women and girls. But Tarek Fatah is completely incorrect in claiming that discrimination against women and girls is non-Islamic. (See “Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid” and Winds of Jihad: Islam in Canuckistan: Menstruating Females Squat in the Back.)

Oh, and by the way, I keep asking whether halal food is being served in school cafeterias, and if so, who is paying for it. But I never seem to get an answer.

More links on other topics – please visit them all!

I am waaaaay too busy to do a proper blog post on each one of these issues at the moment. But there’s a superabundance of news and views that haven’t been covered here yet.

• Blazing Cat Fur: Ezra Levant speaks on the July 13 Mumbai attack
• We the People: Obama’s bumblers damage military voting rights
• We the People: Obama’s Tear-Jerking Story About His Uninsured Dying Mother was a Lie
• The Jawa Report: Every Time the Taliban and al-Qaeda Kill Someone, It’s With the Help of Namecheap in Los Angeles
• WaPo: US recognizes Libyan opposition as legitimate government of Libya (h/t: doriangrey; what the story fails to mention is that these Libyan rebels are linked with al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.)
• EuropeNews: Srebrenica: Bosnian Muslim Jihad killings of 3,500 Christians (h/t: Just Journals)
• Big Peace: Michael Totten and the Muslim Brotherhood