There is a key battle unfolding in Sweden. The municipality of Botkyrka is going to permit the Muslim prayer call to descend over the neighborhood. If this is permitted to stand, they will soon have it all over Sweden, and from there, all of Europe.

Rest assured that this stunt was planned by the Muslim Brothers and the OIC.

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"Allah is greater in Fittja" Bat Ye'or

Breakthrough for Islamic supremacy in town south of Stockholm

It looks as if Sweden is ready to stress the peaceful and benevolent character of Muslim immigration to this Lutheran Nordic country. According to the Swedish daily Aftonbladet (September 27), the town of Fittja south of Stockholm is planning to allow prayer calls from the minaret of its mosque. The spokesman for the local Islamic organization, Ismail Okur, rejoices and claims that the Muslim prayer call is like the Christians' church bells.

Except that church bells don’t speak, they toll, whereas the Muslim prayer call proclaims a belief: There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God. But this ‘Testimony’ is only an introduction to the prescribed prayers. Every prayer should contain the first sura (chapter) of the Koran, a sura that must be repeated at every prayer and at least five times a day. It says:

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being,
the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate,
the Master of the Day of Doom.
Thee only we serve; to Thee alone we pray for succor. Guide us in the straight path,
The path of those whom Thou hast blessed (the Muslims),
not of those against whom Thou art wrathful (the Jews),
nor of those who are astray (the Christians).

This, to say the least, is a strange encouragement to interculturalism and living together.

While the Muslim prayer call was accepted in Christian Constantinople during the tenth century, church bells were forbidden in all Christian lands conquered by jihad from the eight century. They were only allowed in parts of the Ottoman Empire from the 1860s under strong European pressure.

This novelty met with resistance and often provoked bloody retaliation against Christians. The fourteenth-century Muslim traveler, Ibn Batutta, hearing the sound of bells for the first time at Kafa, a port on the Black Sea, was so alarmed that he asked for the Koran to be read from the top of the town's only mosque. It is comforting to think that such fanaticism has disappeared from Europe. Alas, it is alive and well in territories dominated by Islam. The much-praised "Arab Spring" has brought back an orgy of bloody religious cleansing.

But I am sure that our European leaders will rejoice in this type of abject surrender. They have already sacrificed so much of their own peoples' values, history and security that a further push towards the final collapse of Western civilization won’t matter much.

The burning question remains -- are there more empty headed (empty chairs) voting on November 6, or rational thinking Americans? The choice could not be more clear, despite the tsunami of disninformation and propaganda from the enemedia.

UPDATE: David Wood on "Eastwooding" here:

"Judge rules in favor of AFDI, orders WMATA to post ads by 5 P.M. Monday" Washington Free Beacon

Update 4:40 P.M.: On Friday, U.S. District Court judge Rosemary Collyers ordered that the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority must post the ads in question by 5 P.M., Monday.

Federal Judge Rosemary Collyer declined to decide at a Thursday hearing whether to issue an injunction forcing WMATA to run the controversial ads, but said she would issue an order and written decision soon.

The ads, which have already stirred considerable controversy in New York City, display a quote from Ayn Rand: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.” The quote is followed by “Support Israel. Defeat Jihad,” placed between two Stars of David.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group founded by conservative activist Pamela Geller, attempted to buy advertising space from WMATA for the ads. WMATA initially consented, but after anti-American riots exploded in the Middle East last month, blamed partly on an anti-Muslim film produced in the U.S., the transit authority told the AFDI it would postpone placing the ads until November.

The AFDI, represented by the American Freedom Law Center, sued WMATA, arguing the ads were core political speech protected by the First Amendment, and that delaying their placement resulted in “irreparable harm.”

WMATA argued during Thursday’s hearing that the incendiary ads could provoke fights around the subway platforms, causing safety risks. It also said it had received memos from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warning that it was at risk of terrorism.

“We’re not trying to close the forum to end debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict,” WMATA lawyer Philip Straub said in the hearing. “We’re merely saying these words used in this ad—‘savage,’ ‘war,’ ‘defeat’—echo so closely to the video that’s resulted in protests and deaths overseas, and, as we were notified by DHS, the threat of terrorism on U.S. soil, that these words could not be displayed in our system until passions have cooled somewhat.”

The warning from DHS was a sealed exhibit and not available to the public.

WMATA argued the ad constituted “fighting words” and also cited cases restricting protests outside of abortion clinics. It argued its decision was not based on the content of the ad, but on an interest in the safety of its passengers.

“There is no more compelling interest for WMATA than the safety of its passengers,” Straub said.

Judge Collyer seemed to agree with most of WMATA’s legal arguments, but was skeptical of its “fighting words” claim. She also called the advertisement “hate speech.”

“Let’s talk about it first as political speech, because I read it and I also see hate speech,” she said to AFLC lawyer Robert Muise. “Now I know that the First Amendment goes that far, but when you defend this as core political speech, I do have a problem with that, given the message that I glean out of this advertisement, which is not core political speech, but it’s really hate speech, isn’t it?”

When Muise explained the quote in question was from Ayn Rand, Judge Collyer, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, interrupted.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. I understand that,” she said. “Wonderful. My point is it all depends on context. In the limited words in the ads the context of those terms seems to me to be hateful. Let me be very clear, the First Amendment protects your client’s right under the scenario I’m questioning you about, but nonetheless it seems to me it connotes a hateful message, so then I have to ask, ‘When I’m looking at it, does that make a difference?’”

In July, a U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of the group, saying the New York City Metro Transit Authority’s policy was overly broad and the ad’s content was core political speech.

Muise argued WMATA’s restriction was indeed based on the ad’s content and that its logic failed to tie any imminent threat of violence to the ads themselves.

“At best, [WMATA] speculates that there might be threats based on a video,” Muise said. “We don’t have any verified acts of violence, and this isn’t the video.”

He also disputed the relevance of the abortion protest cases. “We’re not talking about Ms. Geller showing up with 50 protesters and blocking a subway platform,” Muise said. “We’re talking about a poster.”

Collyer said she would wait to issue her judgment. “I don’t find [the case] as straightforward as plaintiff,” she said, referring to the AFLC. “But I don’t find it as defensible as WMATA.”

If Judge Collyer grants the AFLC’s request for an immediate injunction, WMATA will be forced to place the ads right away. If the request is denied, they are still scheduled to go up on Nov. 1.

Outside of the courtroom, Geller said the ads are also running in San Francisco now, and are supposed to run in Portland as well. She disputed the judge’s characterization of the ads as hate speech and defended their content.

“I think acts of jihad and killing innocent civilians are hate,” Geller said. “The blowing up of a bus in Bulgaria full of Israeli tourists is savage. The killing of a U.S. ambassador is savage. The acts of jihad are savage.”