Whoring Boris Johnson Appointed British Foreign Minister

Boris Johnson  British Whorin'  Foreign Minister Whoring Boris Johnson Appointed British Foreign Minister WikiLeaks Cables Source | @WikiLeaks OFFENDS LIVERPOOL Kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on 16 September 2004 Kenneth John Bigley Jack Hensley, USA Eugene Armstrong, USA civil engineers working for Gulf Supplies and Commercial Services company involved in reconstruction projects in Iraq Beheaded by Tawhid & Jihad (Oneness of God & Jihad) Islamists Islamists groups demanded release of Iraqi women prisoners held by coalition forces threat to kill Western captives within 48 hours Captives beheaded: - 20th Sept, deadline:  Armstrong, Eugene (USA) - 24 hours later:  Hensley, Jack (USA) - over 2 weeks later:  Bigley, Kenneth John (UK) Bigley executed despite intervention of: -  Muslim Council of Britain - British govt (indirect) CIA (using voice recognition tech) claimed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Jordan) carried out beheading of Armstrong MI6 launched rescue op enabled Bigley to escape briefly but he was recaptured at roadblock taken to safehouse & beheaded shortly thereafter source includes video ( ... disturbing, not watching ) http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f237/beheading-video-great-britains-kenneth-bigley-17131/ Boris Johnson unpopular in Liverpool    PRINT FRIENDLY    EMAIL STORY Correspondents Report - Sunday, 24 October , 2004  Reporter: Kirsten Aiken HAMISH ROBERTSON: Finally to Britain, where there's a tradition of enjoying the spectacle of high profile and opinionated public figures making complete fools of themselves. Boris Johnson's attempts to rationalise the central point of an article in his magazine the Spectator, which attacked the people of Liverpool for over-reacting to the gruesome death of British engineer Ken Bigley in Iraq, included a visit to the home city of the Beatles to make a grovelling apology. But as one newspaper later reported, Liverpudlians who'd been stung by the severity of the comments were split between those who loathed Boris Johnson and wished he'd go home, and those who loathed him and wished he'd never come in the first place. Here's our London Reporter Kirsten Aiken. KIRSTEN AIKEN: A taste for controversy is how the conservative Spectator magazine promotes itself. This past week it could be said to have satisfied a very large appetite after accusing Liverpudlians of too extreme a reaction following the beheading of one of their former residents, British engineer Ken Bigley, who was murdered by Iraqi insurgents earlier this month. The magazine, edited by the Conservative frontbencher Boris Johnson, touted: "we've lost our sense of proportion about such things" – because a minute's silence was held to mark Ken Bigley's memory in an international football match in the days after the horrific incident. And the anonymously written article didn't stop there. "The fact that such a tribute was demanded emphasised the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood."  [comment:  what an assh*le article.  This would be fair comment if he The Specator were talking about the anti European victimhood propaganda the state and corporate media propaganda machine pushes while pushing an agenda of European divestment, but the article's referring to the barbaric slaughter of an Englishman.] It was too much for Liverpudlians, whose sporting fans were also accused of contributing to the Hillsboro football tragedy in which more than 50 people died.  [comment:  I've not read the article, but I'm assuming there was maybe a commemoration for the sporting fans that were killed in a crush?  Although (generally speaking) I find what you might call victimhood status generation and public displays of victimhood unattractive, the politicians and their corporate media scribes are first to use victimhood propaganda to shape public opinion, so why are they on the offensive in this instance?  Political reasons.  It involves Muslims who have been permitted to colonise and buy Britain.  Muslims who are actively encouraged by politicians and the government to invest money in Britain.  So this is about politicians pimping the heritage of Britons, in exchange for MONEY for the ruling elites.  Therefore, politicians are also invested in putting out any 'fires' that may potentially put at risk the monetary rewards the political and economic elites anticipate to receive, as they sell the heritage from under Britons. ] Not sure what was going on with Boris Johnson in relation to Muslims back in 2004, but I expect as Mayor of the Muslim stronghold in Britain, it would have been much the same as today:  a desire for influence over an enormous Muslim settlement in London and a desire for MONEY  / INVESTMENT from Muslims abroad. EDIT / COMMENT: The biggest factor at play in Britain at that time would have been British politicians and media intent on disseminating propaganda to ensure continued illegal British military presence in Iraq, as the British Ruling Capitalists have sunk a total of £9.24 billion of British taxpayer money into the illegal Iraq war). more | here DAILY MAIL "I'm the first London Mayor of 'Muslim extraction', Boris Johnson boasts as he pleads for Arab investment in the capital" ...  his great-great-grandfather Ahmed Hamdi, a Muslim entrepreneur who made his money in beeswax His great-grandfather ‘grew up knowing the Koran off by heart and he would have been stunned to find that his descendant had gone on to become Mayor of this city, and even more amazed to find that the world had so progressed that today we are welcoming the world’s first Islamic Economic Forum to take place outside the Muslim world’. Mr Johnson announced a £100million fund to encourage tech start-ups from the Muslim world to move to Britain. It comes after David Cameron unveiled a £200million new Islamic bond - known as a ‘sukuk’ - which complies with Islamic rules on investments and said the London Stock Exchange will launch a new Islamic index alongside the FTSE. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480251/Boris-Johnson-Im-London-Mayor-Muslim-extraction.html Jihad Watch "London Mayor: Islamic State flag shouldn’t be banned because UK is free country" July 9, 2015 The UK is a free country. Sure. It’s a free country if you preach hatred, jihad, and Sharia. But if you dare to point out that Islam has a doctrine of violence against unbelievers, then no, it is not a free country at all. Jihad Watch Thought the above couple of random articles might explain Johnson's political position.  I'm pretty sure Johnson is of Jewish origins. Well, it appears that Boris Johnson can call up whatever part of his ancestry serves his political purpose. Jerusalem Post "London Mayor Boris Johnson confirmed on Wednesday during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem that he has Jewish ancestry." 07.13.2016 | 7 Tammuz, 5776 “Yes, I have Jews in my family from Moscow, some of them rabbis,” he told Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall and holy sites. “That’s on my mother’s side.” http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/At-Western-Wall-London-mayor-affirms-his-Jewish-ancestry-432666 http://archive.is/nRLGX On mother's side would make him Jewish, according to Jewish law.   -end comment-  ] It saw locals criticise Boris Johnson for a lack of tact and timing. [ ...] KIRSTEN AIKEN: A bumbling Boris Johnson did apologise for causing offence, but insisted he couldn't retract the thrust of the argument, which sought to point out an apparently new British trait of blaming others for one's misfortunes.  [comment:  Boris Johnson's (and his magazine's) deliberate castigation affront to the Liverpool community's grief, in response to the barbaric murder of a Liverpudlian Englishmen, is POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.  This man is a pig, and so is the British government and its politicians, who have SOLD OUT ALL BRITONS for ARAB MONEY.   ] Because Ken Bigley chose to work in one of the world's most dangerous places, against the advice of the foreign office, the article suggests he contributed to his death. It also sought to point out the true mark of maturity in civilization is to cut out ignorant sentimentality.  [comment:  Again, politicians and the British Foreign Office are quick to use 'sentimentality' when it serves their political proposes, selling war abroad or selling invasion at home.  F*cking assh*les.  Why is this journalist selling the VICTIM-BLAMING narrative of the British Foreign Office swine who sell out Britons EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, as they destroy their ancestral homeland?  Australian news is cucked as.] But timing, it seems, is everything – a point that wouldn't have escaped Boris Johnson as he later handed out prizes to children at an event titled 'Learn from our mistakes'. This is Kirsten Aiken in London for Correspondents Report. http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2004/s1226141.htm Johnson comments that probably aren't politically motivated would be: The remarks Johnson made about Papua New Guinea's cannibalism and chief killing, which are probably factually correct.  So I don't see the problem with that ... although it might be seen as tactless of a politician that is required to display grovelling Culturally Marxist sensibilities at all times. 'Watermelon smiles'?  Not sure what that's about, but there's a stereotyped association between Africans and watermelons (probably evolved in the American south).  However, I doubt Johnson's intent was to offend. Judging by these remarks, Boris Johnson could prove an entertaining foreign minister. Entertainment aside, Boris Johnson's appointment in such a senior and critical position, when he has an official history  of lying & of being sacked from the Tory front bench for lying, is of concern. At first I was prepared to laugh off Johnson's extramarital-affair, as it's humorous and doesn't seem too important from what is a safe emotional distance of not having the misfortune to be involved with the cheating assh*le that is Boris Johnson. Now I don't like this guy at all, and I don't trust him. Boris Johnson's an anti-social whore in more ways than one and it is his potential political whoring and lying that is sure to come to the forefront of foreign affairs issues.  More on Johnson's lying, in case my Boris criticism appear too harsh: " ...  what did we expect from a man who has been fired not once but twice for lying? In 1988 the young Johnson was sacked from The Times for fabricating a quote in an article, and in 2004 he was “relieved of his duties” as shadow arts minister of the Tory Party for allegedly lying about an extra-marital affair." [Independent] Oh, look, the invasion of yet another European nation continues unabated, alongside empty politician promises: "... pre-Brexit Johnson promised greater controls on the number of migrants entering the UK. Come Monday, he wrote that migrant numbers won’t fall. Instead the UK will introduce an Australian-style points based immigration system. The very system in which the economy, not the government sets immigration targets. In fact counties which have adopted a points-based system have higher levels of migration."  [Independent (as above)] I feel sick in the stomach reading that. So European nations are being destroyed for what they call 'the economy'? Without a nation to speak of, what sense is there in the existence of an economy? Boris Johnson is Anyone's Ooooh, look ... Boris Johnson's Hasidic when it's politically expedient to be: Boris Johnson Britain's Scooting Skirt-chaser      Must keep an eye on naughty Boris  ;) Think I might flip back to being pro-Boris ... he's being criticised by the Germans and the French, so that's a positive (and he was pro Brixit, so maybe that makes up for his philandering?  ... LOL). Dislike the French and German politicians more than Johnson's whoring ... I think. But being party to the implementation of an invasion of Britain and selling out the British for the sake of Arab money is harder to overlook. [Fixing typos takes me forever, because I make more typos as I fix typos ... because I've got music blaring in my headphones & two senses don't work as effectively as one.  But I like it.  LOL OMG ... pasting in a few small codes to house quotes has been a massive edit job because something was out of whack (probably my not removing all block code), so Blogger than spits out what it wants ... and it takes forever to fix.  Blogger's giving me anxiety, LOL   ]

Former MI6 Boss Backs Brexit - Ease of Deportation & Border Control

Article SOURCE Former MI6 Boss Backs Brexit - Ease of Deportation & Border Control Daily Mail Quitting EU would make Britain SAFER, says former MI6 chief: Sir Richard Dearlove suggests Brexit would make it easier to deport terrorists and control our borders By James Slack and Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail Published: 10:53 EST, 24 March 2016 | Updated: 12:38 EST, 24 March 2016     Former head of MI6 demolished the security case for staying in the EU     Sir Richard Dearlove said Brexit would make it easier to deport terrorists     Added British intelligence services 'give much more' than they get in return     Washington was a more important counter-terror ally than the EU, he said By James Slack and Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail Published: 10:53 EST, 24 March 2016 | Updated: 12:38 EST, 24 March 2016 The former head of MI6 yesterday demolished the security case for staying in the EU – saying Britain could be safer out. Sir Richard Dearlove said Brexit would make it easier to deport terrorists and control our borders. He added that Europe could not turn its back on Britain if it left the EU because our intelligence services 'give much more' than they get in return. In any event, Washington was a more important counter-terror ally, he said. The former spy chief also dismissed suggestions that Brexit would harm our relationship with the US and likened the EU's various intelligence bodies to the 'leakiest ships of state' and colanders riddled with holes. David Cameron and other senior ministers have relied heavily on claims that Britain is more secure inside the Brussels club because of measures like the European arrest warrant. But, in a devastating intervention, Sir Richard said: 'Few would notice its passing.' His assessment was backed by a government minister and London Mayor Boris Johnson – who warned EU judges were making it harder to throw out fanatics. Sir Richard, who was chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, wrote in the current affairs magazine Prospect: 'Whether one is an enthusiastic European or not, the truth about Brexit from a national security perspective is that the cost to Britain would be low. 'Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains: the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights – remember the difficulty of extraditing the extremist Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park Mosque – and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union.' He adds: 'Britain is Europe's leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than it gets in return. 'It is difficult to imagine any of the other EU members ending the relationships they already enjoy with the UK.' He says liaison between allies is partly driven by 'moral considerations' – so that if Germany learns of a terrorist plot against London, it would not withhold the intelligence from MI5 simply because the UK is not in the EU. Sir Richard concludes: 'Would Brexit damage our defence and intelligence relationship with the United States, which outweighs anything European by many factors of 10? I conclude confidently that no, it would not. 'There would be disapproval of Brexit in Washington, and some disappointment too, but the practical consideration of living in a dangerous world and depending on true friends would win out. In short, Europe would be the potential losers in national security. But if Brexit happened, the UK would almost certainly show the magnanimity not to make its European partners pay the cost.' Theresa May yesterday said EU membership – and access to its intelligence – was 'of benefit' in thwarting terror plots. The Home Secretary told MPs: 'I think there are a number of mechanisms that we are part of within the EU that do enhance our security.' But Boris Johnson and farming minister George Eustice both warned that EU membership was harming national security. The London Mayor told MPs: 'I've seen various people quoted as saying that remaining in the EU is essential for security. 'I think it's important to put a countervailing point which is that there are some ways now that the European Court of Justice is militating against our ability to control our borders in the way we want to and indeed to maintain proper surveillance. 'If you look at the case of Abu Hamza's niece, who tried to smuggle SIM cards to him in prison, we couldn't deport her not because of the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights but because of the European Court in Luxembourg, which is now able to adjudicate on the entire corpus of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.' Mr Eustice said the Schengen zone of passport-free travel on the continent meant terrorists could move more freely within the EU.' Yesterday Belgium's ambassador to the UK, Guy Trouveroy, also conceded that free movement increased the risk of terrorist attacks. He said: 'There is no hiding... It is an issue.' But No.10 pointed to comments by David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terror laws, and former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, who both insisted Britain would be safer inside the EU. Mr Anderson told the BBC that the UK, which is not in the Schengen zone, is 'much easier to defend' because of our sea border despite the huge cost and inconvenience to travellers. Last night former Home Secretary Lord Howard called the EU a 'failing project' that is 'failing to keep its people safe'. The former Tory leader said Schengen was akin to 'hanging a sign welcoming terrorists to Europe'. Attempts by some Out campaigners to link the EU's free movement rules to the atrocity were criticised by Mr Cameron, who said it was 'not appropriate' to score political points. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3506991/UK-safer-Europe-says-former-MI6-chief-Sir-Richard-Dearlove-suggests-Brexit-make-easier-deport-terrorists.html -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT It's the perfect time to push the issue that Dave Cameron's trying to dismiss: "Mr Cameron ... said it was 'not appropriate' to score political points." Even though the ex-MI6 guy, Richard Dearlove, is associated with what they call the 'sexed up' intelligence report ahead of the Iraq invasion 2003, what he says re Brexit makes perfect sense. That David Cameron is a slimy weasel. Sir Malcom Rifkind doesn't sound much better: "Two years later, Rifkind advocated British military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, with or without a mandate from the United Nations." [source] Rifkind was also involved in lobbying for the destruction of Libya, by 'neutralisation' of Gaddafi's conventional forces. So Europe probably has him to thank for the tidal wave of non-Europeans pouring into Europe, together with the terrorists among them. Why is he so bent on remaining in the EU, when Dearlove has made it plain that Brexit's the go and the security gains outweigh the non-existent costs? Rifkind was appointed Chairman of Armor Group (US-owned), one of the largest security groups in Iraq -- here. So this is the British-American revolving door? There's something unseemly about such an appointment, as it gives the impression that former politician war-hawks get rewarded by the sector that they previously enriched by lobbying for war while in office. Perhaps Rifkind has an American bias, now that he works for an American firm? Americans are described as likely to be 'disappointed' should Britain exit the EU, so the EU thing must serve them and their interests. Bet the Americans are behind the invasion of Europe -- as in, they're most likely funding and arranging the mass movement, whether directly, through third parties, or in partnership. Read somewhere that the US and Britain want a weakened German EU partner.  But that doesn't explain the destruction of Sweden. Maybe they just want a weak European native population?

Transcript - 'Mosque in Athens' Debate (2012)

ꕤ Transcript SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNo59pQcyKE 'Mosque in Athens' Debate  27 Nov 2012 Douglas Murray British writer, journalist and commentator atheist ('cultural Christian', formerly Anglican) Douglas Murray's comments re Islamic extremism in Netherlands mean that he has to have a police guard when travelling there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Murray_%28author%29 TRANSCRIPT [for quotations, confirm audio] 25:39 Douglas Murray There, that's better.  Apologies for not being able to speak Greek and for not being able to work the microphone. It's very nice to be in Athens. I want to open by thanking the organisers for inviting me, for inviting our side, particularly thank, obviously, Intelligence Squared and also the British Council. I should also say at the outset, I also feel rather sorry for our opponents tonight, who have been appallingly set up, clearly, by the motion that we have been given. The motion that we are debating tonight is not whether or not the mosque should be built, the motion is that only good can come from building it. And it seems to me, that the only people who could possibly believe that are people who are extraordinarily naive, people who are extraordinarily ignorant, or something altogether worse. Now, I'm not a cultural relativist. I don't believe that all civilisations are equal.  I don't believe all cultures are equal.   That doesn't mean I don't believe we can't all get along. But I don't believe that we have to pretend, among other things, in debating things like this evening's motion, that we do not ourselves in Europe have a history that we would wish to defend, a culture we might wish to be proud of and to protect, and even to make value judgements about other ideas, other religions, other cultures. Now, it's my belief that Europe is based on the fundamental principles of Judeo-Christian civilisation and of Greek culture, and from this wonderful symbiosis of values, the history of Europe, the culture of Europe, has emerged. I believe, furthermore, that states have the right to decide, to at least have a say, in their own future; that waves of illegal immigration do not mean that cultures which have had such immigration immediately have to concede to the incomers. It's also, I should stress at the outset, is an important debate to have, because there is a problem that Europe is experiencing with Islam.  And I think we have to tackle this head-on. Islam is a very, very complex thing. Let nobody say that we on this side are essentialising Muslims, or generalising about Muslims, or aren't aware of the huge variety of practices and beliefs within Islam. But to create a massive centre at public expense in Athens at this moment should at least be questioned. We should at least be able to address whether or not it would seem to us to be like a good idea. Let me give you an example -- from my own country, from Great Britain -- of this kind of thing going on, because in Britain we have many mosques, many Muslim organisations are funded by the government, and I wanted to give one example of the sort of thing which the Athens mosque might yet become on this benevolent idea that if the government is behind it, only good can come from it. There's a mosque in London called East London Mosque.  The London Muslim Centre is attached to it. It has received a lot of public funding.  It's routinely hosting all sorts of great dignitaries, from the British political class -- and outside. The American Ambassador in London recently graced it with a visit.  The shadow Justice Minister recently graced it with a visit.  The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, graced it with a visit.  Even Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, is a regular. There's a veritable drive time at this mosque.  It's hard to get to it for the number of dignitaries cars that are forever drawing up outside. But is it the case that despite all of these grand official benedictions, it is a place from only which good can come? No.  Not at all. You just have to look at the type of people who preach there. I'm just looking over the last few years. Recently, Sheikh Khalid Yasin a popular preacher, who also preaches the virtues of public beheading, saying that it would be a grand thing to have in Britain because it would teach people not to murder if they saw heads rolling down the streets. It's hosted Sheikh  Al-Sudais, who believes that Jews should be annihilated. It's hosted Yasir Khadi, who's a holocaust denier. It's hosted among others, Bilal Philips, who is a proponent of suicide bombing. And it's also, perhaps most famously, hosted Anwar al-Awlaki, a man who is currently on the kill or capture list of that notorious hawk, President Obama. Just earlier today in London, a young man called Rajib Karim, was convicted of an attempt to bring down airlines -- blow up airline planes -- with the assistance of that man, Anwar al-Awlaki. So, it's clearly not the case that just because officialdom is involved that mosques are centres of wonder, loveliness and peacefulness, a sort of Anglican Church meets the Green movement. [audience laughter] It's also, I think worth noting, one or two of the oddities of Islam internationally at the moment and particularly in this regard. Islam, when it is in a minority, is extremely good at talking about tolerance. In a minority, Islam loves to talk about the tolerance that people must show towards the minorities. One of the things, however, if you look around the world -- and I'm sure I don't need to tell you this -- is that whenever Islam is in the majority, minority rights are nowhere to be seen. It's a one-directional talk of minority rights. When Islam is in a minority, it talks of the importance of human rights. When it is in a majority, those human rights -- including the most basic human rights, like the rights of women to be considered equal beings -- are thrown right out the window. And I think we also have to bear in mind that there is a problem in the world today of the direction in which organised Islam across the globe is growing. I think that there are many problems in the religion, as in most religions. Most religions have problems of some type to get over. But in Islam there is a particular problem of a magnetic literalism, which keeps on drawing people back to the violent tenets of the faith. You'd better hope, ladies and gentlemen, that your mosque here is a first internationally and that nobody with any unpleasant statements -- any unpleasant ideas -- could possibly come to it. You'd better hope that it's not like the US, for instance, where the Muslim Brotherhood movement, for instance, which Tariq's grandfather founded, recently was unearthed as saying that the job of Muslims was to make a civilisation conquest in the West. You'd better hope, ladies and gentlemen, that nobody would agree with, for instance, with Prime Minister Erodogan -- not a minority, not an unimportant figure -- when he says the mosques are our barracks, the domes are helmets, the minarets are bayonets and the faithful are soldiers. And, finally, you'd better hope that one of the most influential men today in Islamic terms, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi wouldn't have anything to get near this mosque -- any excuse to get near it -- because he said just recently in a fatwa on the signs of victory of Islam:      It means that Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and a victor, after having been expelled from it twice.  Once from the south from Andalusia and a second time from the east, when it knocked several times on the doors of Athens. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to be naives and you don't have to be ignorant to notice that knock is happening again, and you don't have to open the door to it. Thank you. [applause] 34:35 ___________________________________ Khalid Yasin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Yasin Sheikh  Al-Sudais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Al-Sudais Anwar al-Awlaki (al-Qaeda), Yemen cause of death:  Hellfire missile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki Rajib Karim - British Airways terrorist plot http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/28/british-airways-bomb-guilty-karim Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips  - Jamaican-born Canadian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_Philips Said Ramadan Egyptian  - major figure Muslim Brotherhood {son-in-law of Muslim Brotherhood's founder, Hassan al-Banna} {father of Tariq Ramadan, prominent Egyptian-Swiss academic / Prof. Contemporary Islamic Studies} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Ramadan Tariq Ramadan prominent Egyptian-Swiss academic Prof. Contemporary Islamic Studies Oxford lecturer Islamic Studies {MA in Philosophy & French literature / PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies} advisor to the EU on religious issues sought for advice by EU on commission on "Islam and Secularism" 2005 - UK government task force European Muslim Network - founder & President (Brussels-based think-tank that gathers European Muslim intellectuals and activists) Govt Prohibition List 2009 - persona non grata in Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria. Persona non grata in Israel. prolific writer authored over 30 books, mainly in French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ramadan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers..." 1998 conviction & minor jail-term for inciting religious hatred. [Isam-Watch] *Switzerland banned minarets in 30 November 2009 referendum, claiming that it's a symbol of Islam's political domination.  [Isam-Watch] Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi Egyptian Islamic theologian radical Muslim Brotherhood ideologue based in Qatar http://archive.adl.org/nr/exeres/788c5421-70e3-4e4d-bff4-9be14e4a2e58,db7611a2-02cd-43af-8147-649e26813571,frameless.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ꕤ

UK - BORIS JOHNSON LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

Boris says EU deal to get power back is 'easy' BORIS Johnson last night said it should be “easy” to claim British powers back from Brussels. By Sam Christie / Published 8th August 2014 He urged the Prime Minister to “go hard into the tackle” in his talks with EU leaders. Mr Johnson has been accused by some Tories of trying to set a trap for David Cameron with unrealistic demands for changes in Brussels.  [Cameron's already set that trap, hasn't he?  He was the Juncker challenger recently and he supposedly wants British to have more say.] But the London mayor said: “I’m not so pessimistic. If you don’t go in hard to the tackle, you are never going to come out well. You’ve got to go in hard and low.” This week Mr Johnson announced he is to stand as an MP in the election. While many Tories believe that BoJo is paving the way for a leadership charge, he insisted he was committed to supporting Mr Cameron. He added: “When Dave steps down in 2030 or so, I will be too old. There’ll be a very wide field, probably including babies yet unborn.” Nonetheless, pals reckon he will play a key role in the battle against Ukip. And, if the Tories win, he could be rewarded with a role in the Cabinet. But Lib Dem boss Nick Clegg took a swipe at BoJo yesterday. Speaking on his regular LBC radio phone-in, Mr Clegg said: “He treats his political ambition a bit like he treats his hair. “He wants everyone to think that he doesn’t really care, but he actually really, really does care.”  [LOL] http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/393298/Boris-EU-deal-to-get-power-back-easy

Should be dirty and very interesting fight then.  Bring it on!   LOL

UK CONSERVATIVES - LONDON MAYOR BORIS JOHNSON - MAKING MOVE ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

INDEPENDENT ARTICLE ... Moving away, for just a moment, from the cynical manoeuvrings of a politician on the make, it is an insult to Londoners that their Mayor should be trying to combine a vital – full-time – job with his race to the Commons, and thence, he may hope, to No 10. Boris, as he must love being known, clearly thinks he can look after this great world city in his spare time, but he is wrong, and his many apparent protestations that he would not attempt to combine both careers is a poor reward for Londoners who placed their faith in him. More widely, it will have done his reputation no good, nor the Tories’ chances of hanging on to the mayoralty next time around. But what is his reputation? Borisologists are divided about what makes this man tick. They say he is authentic, but is he? Is he, as many say, a clever man playing the buffoon? Or is he in fact a buffoon pretending to be a clever man playing a buffoon, even if he can quote Latin at will? He is not, it is fair to say, the latest attempt by the Conservative Party to ape Tony Blair and create a cloned copy of a leader in his somewhat tarnished image. To that extent, yes, Boris is authentic, original, almost refreshing – and this goes some way to explaining his electoral triumph in London, not usually promising territory for a Tory. ...  will have enjoyed his ridiculing of the Coalition as being like a Conservative bulldog mating with a Liberal Democrat chihuahua. They do not appreciate his liberal line on immigration, however, and the more censorious (i.e., all of them) are prudish about his private life. All of us worry about Boris’s urge to display his jocularity at every occasion, no matter how sombre. Mr Cameron finds it much easier to be, or at least to appear, sincere and “prime ministerial”. Mr Cameron may well not be the competition, however. On the Michael Heseltine principle that the assassin never succeeds in inheriting the crown, Mr Johnson will have to wait for a vacancy to arise (which does not preclude him from trying to create one). If Mr Cameron wins big at the general election, then Boris will have a long wait. If he loses, then Boris could be ensconced in the leadership by around this time next year. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/mayor-culpa-boris-johnson-is-an-exceptional-talent-but-he-is-doing-voters-a-disservice-in-being-a-parttime-leader-of-london-9652829.html

COMMENT

Boris Johnson's the Mayor of London
Conservatives
Took over from Ken Livingstone
His dad:  European Parliament; European Commission; World Bank.
Oxford Uni / Eton College
Worked at journalism (Times etc), History (book; documentary) - get a load of this:

first documentary series, based on his book The Dream of Rome, comparing the Roman Empire and the modern-day European Union, was broadcast in 2006.

See, it's all about imperialism.  LOL


Haven't followed the links to explore his book etc.

Check out this wikipedia info:

Johnson explained his political philosophy in 2010, linking it to the One nation conservatism of Disraeli:

"I'm a one-nation Tory. There is a duty on the part of the rich to the poor and to the needy, but you are not going to help people express that duty and satisfy it if you punish them fiscally so viciously that they leave this city and this country. I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.^"

Of late, Johnson has been the subject of numerous rumours as to the future of his political career, and the possibility that he would stand to be the head of the Conservative Party. In 2012 Grant Shapps claimed that Johnson lacks many of the skills that are needed as the leader of a political party and prime minister.

Stuart Collier

Johnson was criticised in 1995, when a recording of a telephone conversation made in 1990 was made public, in which he is heard agreeing under pressure to supply to a former schoolmate, Darius Guppy, the private address and telephone number of the News of the World journalist Stuart Collier. There is no evidence that Johnson supplied the requested information, even though he promised under duress that he would. Guppy wished to have Collier beaten up for attempting to smear members of his family.

Not known if info passed on and nothing happened to the NOTW journo.

More controversies at the wikipedia link ... rather fancied this one:

"Chicken feed" remark

In a July 2009 interview with Stephen Sackur on the BBC programme HARDtalk, Johnson referred to the £250,000 per annum income he receives from his side job as a columnist for The Daily Telegraph as "chicken feed," suggesting that he wrote the columns "as a way of relaxation ... on a Sunday morning," and that he wrote "very fast" so the columns did not take time away from his duties as Mayor.

The big deal was the recession at the time.  But to me the big deal is the amount of cash in journalism.  Wow!  And the cross-over between journalism and politics.


This is new to me, so I could be wrong:

Get the impression this guy is all about 'imperialism' in one form or another:  his background; his interest in Rome; his Conservative politician status; his Disraeli thing (got impression Disraeli very much the imperialist) .. his 'dynamic' competitive London thing .. ie  it's all about business.