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Radical Islam vs. Civilization http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=2/a/v/040220071 Text of Speech at Debate with London Mayor Ken Livingstone, 20 January 2007 By Daniel Pipes Thank you so much. I'd like to begin by thanking Mayor Livingstone for his kind invitation to join you today and I thank the Greater London Authority for the hard work it put into what is obviously a successful event. I am delighted by the interest that you, the audience, has shown. And I'm grateful to my supporters who have come from four different countries to be with me today. The Mayor is an optimistic man. I'm generally invited...

The American journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) once said: “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” So, here we are, defending Ken Livingstone, the extreme-left London Mayor.

Support the police, treat Muslims with respect and pull out of Iraq Ken Livingstone Thursday August 4, 2005 The Guardian It is four weeks since bombers indiscriminately killed and maimed ordinary Londoners. Protecting London from terrorists requires the best possible policing - which, in turn, needs the greatest possible flow of information from all communities. It also demands that we shrink the pool of the alienated that bombers draw on by treating all communities as equal parts of British society - not only theoretically, but in reality. And it means withdrawing from Iraq. All are interrelated. Acceptance that the invasion...

MAYOR Ken Livingstone faced calls to quit last night after trying to justify suicide bombings. He said: “Given that the Palestinians don’t have jet fighters and don’t have tanks, they only have their bodies to use as weapons. “In that unfair balance, that is what people use.” Last night Lord Janner of the World Jewish Congress said: “His sad attempt to justify Middle Eastern suicide bombers is a betrayal of the hundreds of innocent people who suffered from this terrorist barbarism in London.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews added: “It is absurd he should parrot this apology...