Author: Mick Hartley

  • On treaties

    Worth knowing. There can, says Ahmad Musa Jibril, be no permanent treaty between Muslims and infidels: they're just temporary, until the Muslims are strong enough to break them. Because the only possible future is one in which Muslims are supreme, and Islam is triumphant. 

    Michigan Islamic scholar Ahmad Musa Jibril discussed the “ruling on normalization treaties” in the first of a series of lectures posted on March 11, 2024 on Shaykh Ahmad Musa Jibril on X (formerly known as Twitter) in honor of the month of Ramadan. In the lecture he said that there can be no permanent treaties between Muslims and the infidels and that when the Muslims grow strong and feel it is beneficial, then they must inform the enemy that “this treaty has come to an end.” He said that the Prophet Muhammad “dismissed” the treaty of Hudaybiyyah, once it was merely rumored that the Jewish tribe had killed one of his Companions. Jibril continued: “It was war until the death of every last one of them.” He said that the purpose of normalization with Israel is to “Judaize” the minds of the Muslims. The lecture was also posted on other social media accounts associated with Ahmad Musa Jibril. Ahmad Musa Jibril served six and a half years in prison for conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and possession of firearms and ammunition. He is considered to be the inspiration for several Jihad attacks and initiatives in the West.

  • In the book of medical disgraces

    Janice Turner – One day, we’ll look back on era of puberty blockers with horror:

    In 2017 I interviewed Bernadette Wren, then head of psychology at the Tavistock Gids clinic, and asked what effect puberty blocking drugs have on the adolescent brain. Looking highly uncomfortable, she replied that the evidence so far was only anecdotal but that the clinic would study its patients “well into their adult lives so that we can see”.

    Even back then, before whistleblowers had exposed the rush to medically transition children, it was alarming to hear that heavy-duty GnRH agonists such as triptorelin — used to treat advanced prostate cancer and “chemically castrate” sex offenders — were being prescribed to arrest puberty in hundreds of children as young as 11.

    Moreover, they were being used “off-label” before any clinical trials. And the long-term study Wren promised never materialised: Gids (the Gender Identity Development Service) routinely lost touch with patients, and the 44 it did follow reported little long-term mental health improvement.

    This shocking chapter in medical history, where the ideological objectives of trans rights campaigners trumped the welfare of disturbed children, is coming to an end worldwide….

    Yet the question remains: how was this ever allowed to happen? For years, puberty blockers were cheerily billed as a mere “pause button”. In 2014, Dr Polly Carmichael, the last head of Gids before the Cass review ordered its closure, went on CBBC in a show called I Am Leo, saying of blockers: “The good thing is, if you stop the injections, it’s like pressing ‘start’ and the body carries on developing as it would if you hadn’t started.”

    The BBC permitted her to make this unevidenced claim to an impressionable audience of six to 12-year-olds. Imagine hearing this as a developing girl, freaked out by your new breasts and periods. No wonder Gids referrals subsequently rocketed….

    This repellent experiment — in which girls who like trucks or little boys who dress as princesses, and who invariably grow up to be gay, are corralled inexorably down a road towards life-changing treatments — belongs in the book of medical disgraces. As do the cheerleaders who raised money for Mermaids and those who persecuted whistleblowers or damned journalists asking questions as transphobic.

    In 50 years, chemically freezing the puberty of healthy children with troubled minds will be regarded with the same horrified fascination as lobotomies — which, never forget, won the Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel prize.

  • Closing all the loopholes

    dysphoria, on demand.”

    Bev Jackson, co-founder of LGB Alliance, said that allowing online clinics to keep prescribing puberty blockers would “make a mockery” of the NHS guidelines.

    She said: “If these drugs cannot be provided on the NHS they should not be obtainable anywhere, particularly not by rogue private clinics operating largely online. We call on the prime minister to support the Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill on Friday that would make these drugs unlawful. Hundreds of vulnerable young people have already been harmed. Rishi Sunak can ensure that no more children join their ranks.

    “We have to close this loophole. If not, then everybody who is convinced they need these drugs will try to get them somewhere else.”

    Faye McGinty, of Women’s Rights Network, said puberty blockers “locked children into a lifetime of medicalisation”, adding: “If it’s not appropriate for the NHS to prescribe puberty blockers then it’s certainly not right for private providers, some of which are located overseas in order to evade controls, to do so.

    “There are many side-effects and the treatment remains off-label in the UK for children with gender distress. It can’t be right that private clinics continue to expose children to harmful interventions that are not proven to be in their best interests.”

  • Fruit Merchants of Hanoi

     Aerial photos in Vietnam from Trung Dong:

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  • Tibet dam

    From the latest Private Eye (no. 1619):

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  • It was always insane

    longer function in the way that you, and billions of other humans, have always known them to? Are panic-stricken nine-year-olds world experts on gender as a social construct?

    When you think back to your schooldays, were your peers dropping like flies due to the absence of life-saving gender affirming care? It’s either that, or the entire concept of puberty suppression — one that has been supported by countless adults and institutions that ought to know better — is ludicrous….

    It is staggering to realise just how flimsy the evidence in favour of all this was. Experiments have been conducted on the bodies of children due to the political cowardice of adults. Humans cannot change sex. We cannot go through any other puberty than the one our body is destined to go through. This is what makes us adults. It is obscene that so many have lied to children, and by doing so put them at risk of so much long-term damage.

    Right now, social media is awash with ideologues insisting that children will die because of this decision. On the contrary: lives will be saved, and it will be due to the work of campaigners who kept naming the madness even when told they had no right to speak.

    They will not be thanked for it; far more likely is that they will be blamed for stoking a culture war which made due diligence impossible. Anyone who lies to children about their own bodies will have no difficulty lying about the part they played in this scandal. Still, some part of them will know: it was always insane.

  • The stench of the bourgeoisie

    t treating a dog as a family member who eats and sleeps with the family is incompatible with the socialist lifestyle and should be strictly avoided,” a source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Mar. 8, speaking on condition of anonymity.

    According to the source, the practice of keeping pet dogs began in North Korea in the early 2000s. At that time, the government did not consider it a problem because it was mostly officials and donju who needed guard dogs to protect themselves and their property from thieves.

    “There have always been families who had cats to catch mice, but there weren’t many families with dogs. But that number has gradually increased, and recently there’s been a noticeable rise in foreign breeds of dogs such as Pomeranians and Shih Tzus, which used to be a rare sight in North Korea,” the source said.

    North Korean authorities responded by condemning pet dog ownership as an non-socialist behavior, but that had little effect. More recently, however, the authorities have taken more proactive steps to control the practice, which they describe as having “the stench of the bourgeoisie.”…

    “Dogs are basically meat that’s raised outside in accordance with their nature and then eaten when they die. Therefore, such behavior is totally unsocialist and must be strictly eliminated,” women’s union authorities stressed in the message.

  • A step in the right direction

    a human rights organisation that campaigns for clarity in the law, said: “This a momentous development in the course correction of NHS England’s approach to treating childhood gender distress.

  • No more puberty blockers

    This is very good news:

    Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed.

    The ban was welcomed by the government as a “landmark decision” that would help ensure care was based on evidence and was in the “best interests of the child”….

    Fewer than 100 young people are presently on puberty blockers. They will be able to continue their treatment and are being seen by specialist endocrine services at Leeds and University College London Hospital.

    NHS England is understood to be hoping to have a study into the use of puberty blockers ready by December.

    The health minister, Maria Caulfield, said: “We have always been clear that children’s safety and wellbeing is paramount, so we welcome this landmark decision by the NHS.

    “Ending the routine prescription of puberty blockers will help ensure that care is based on evidence, expert clinical opinion and is in the best interests of the child.”

    Rather than the best interests of trans activists, or Stonewall, or Mermaids…

    And the leading comment:

    Well done all the brave women, and some men, who have spoken out at genuine personal risk to bring this about