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“Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.” — Menachem Begin - Israeli Prime Minister 1977–1983
Incidentally Menchem Begin also won the Noble Peace Prize
March 23rd, 2009
“Ultimately, how you define who’s a terrorist and what constitutes a terrorist act all comes down to the politics of the day.”
- Aldo Borgu, Understanding Terrorism:20 basic facts, Australian Policy Strategic Institute
Publication Details and full report download
September 11th, 2008
“. . . we have underestimated the importance of 800 years of Islamic society and culture in Spain between the 8th and 15th centuries.
Many of the traits on which Europe prides itself came to it from Muslim Spain. Diplomacy, free trade, open borders, the techniques of academic research, of anthropology, etiquette, fashion, alternative medicine, hospitals, all came from this great city of cities. Mediaeval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians to practice their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West.” - HRH, The Prince of Wales, Islam And The West 27th October 1993
Full transcript
May 8th, 2008
“The collective white man’s history has left the non-white peoples no alternative, either, but to draw closer to each other. Characteristically, as always, the devilish white man lacks the moral strength and courage to cast off his arrogance. He wants, today, to ‘buy’ friends among the nonwhites.
He tries, characteristically, to cover up his past record. He does not possess the humility to admit his guilt, to try and atone for his crimes. The white man has perverted the simple message of love that the Prophet Jesus lived and taught when He walked upon this earth.” - Malcolm X
February 11th, 2008
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind…. I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet’s biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life. - Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in ‘Young India,’1924
October 8th, 2007
“My adherence to Islam is the best guarantee that I can afford anyone on the face of this earth that I will engage with them in a manner that protects their honour, dignity and their life.” - Wassim Dourehi - Lateline (ABC TV) 06/07/07
Full transcript and video here
July 9th, 2007
The meeting had gone on for five grueling days with no compromise in sight. So one night in late November 1922, Cox, Britain’s representative in Baghdad, summoned to his tent Sheik Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud, soon to become ruler of Saudi Arabia, to explain the facts of life as the British carved up the remnants of the defeated Ottoman empire.
“It was astonishing to see [ibn Saud] being reprimanded like a naughty schoolboy by His Majesty’s High Commissioner and being told sharply that he, Sir Percy Cox, would himself decide the type and general line of the frontier,” recalled Harold Dickson, the British military attaché to the region, in his memoirs. “This ended the impasse. Ibn Saud almost broke down and pathetically remarked that Sir Percy was his father and mother who made him and raised him from nothing to the position he held and that he would surrender half his kingdom, nay the whole, if Sir Percy ordered.”
Within two days, the deal was done. The modern borders of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait were established by British Imperial fiat at what became known as the Uqauir Conference. - Journalist Glenn Franke
February 15th, 2007
“We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source, of at least a proportion of the oil which we require.” — British Royal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill’s policy towards Iraq, 1913
“What we want to have in existence, what we ought to have been creating in this time is some administration with Arab institutions which we can safely leave while pulling the strings ourselves; something that won’t cost very much, which the Labour government can swallow consistent with its’ principles, but under which our economic and political interests will be secure. […..] If the French remain in Syria we shall have to avoid giving them the excuse of setting up a protectorate. If they go, or if we appear to be reactionary in Mesopotamia, there is always the risk that [King] Faisal will encourage the Americans to take over both, and it should be borne in mind that the Standard Oil company is very anxious to take over Iraq.” — Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Head of the British government’s ‘India Office Political Department.’ 1919
” [Middle East oil is] a stupendous source of strategic power, and one of the greatest material prizes in world history.” – U.S. State Department, 1945
“If they turn on the radars we’re going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace… We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need.” –U.S. Brig. General William Looney (Interview Washington Post, August 30, 1999) [Referring, in reality, to the brutal mass-murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during 10,000 sorties by American/British war criminals in the first eight months of 1999]
“Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” –Henry Kissinger
November 1st, 2006
I agree with the majority of you. We Muslims do not belong here in this God forsaken country. But before we go back, could you force the Australian government to stop bombing our countries. Stop supporting politically and economically the dictators and royal families we seek to overthrow. Stop supporting Israel politically, economically and militarily with its barbaric occupation of Palestine. Until then, we will grow stronger in this country, become more organised, have more influence and, God willing, change it for the better. Oh, by the way, I do not agree with the mufti’s comments, that women are to blame for being raped for the way they are dressed, even if they are prostitutes. But cmon, lets be real here, most Aussie blokes (and some lesbians as well) do see women as pieces of meat on certain nights of the week, to fulfill their desires. If you don’t think so, take a video camera out on a Saturday night to a nightclub or trendy bar and the next day when your sober, watch and listen.
Posted by: KD of Adelaide 11:37am today - Source
October 30th, 2006
“There are people who control spacious territories teeming with manifest and hidden resources. They dominate the intersections of world routes. Their lands were the cradle of human civilizations and religions. These people have one faith, one language, one history and the same aspirations. No natural barriers can isolate these people from one another… if per chance, this nation were to be unified into one state, it would then take the fate of the world into its hands and would separate Europe from the rest of the world. Taking these considerations seriously, a foreign body should be planted in the heart of this nation to prevent the convergence of its wings in such a way that it could exhaust its powers in never-ending wars. It could also serve as a springboard for the West to gain its coveted objects.
Sir Campbell Bannerman Bio
October 6th, 2006
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