I have contacted my MP for Durham City, Roberta Blackman-Woods, on many occasions and on many subjects. I have written, or rather e-mailed, on Social security, the EU & Turkey; on holding armed police to account for their actions; on our membership of the EU, regarding battery-caged hens and the Court of Protection. I have received many replies, most of which are frustratingly anodyne, and most of which never answer the straight-forwards questions which I ask. But I never fail to receive a reply, sometimes delayed, but never ignored!

Except once! Only one query has resulted in a stultifying silence, with no response, comment or justification! I copy the letter below, and simply ask; ‘I wonder why there has been no response?’

I write in connection with the reported voting fraud in Tower Hamlets, as listed in the ConservativeHome Blog and would wish to address several questions to the Home Secretary

•        Why have all enquiries known about so far resulted in no prosecutions whatsoever in the field of electoral fraud or ‘personation’?
•        Why have the police not instituted, despite documented evidence, enquiries leading to prosecutions in this matter?
•        Why have polling stations in the Tower Hamlets area not been freed of voter intimidation as alleged on the blogsite; as well as the arrest of any person deemed to be harassing a prospective female voter on the grounds of ‘not being modestly dressed’?
•        May I also enquire, through your office as my M.P., why the Electoral Commission has not been directed by the Home Office to institute a thorough and all-encompassing enquiry into the allegations of fraud within the Tower Hamlets area?
•        Finally, will you ask the Home Secretary if any Police actions or investigations have been curtailed because of ‘cultural awareness’?.

If such questions can be asked within the House of Commons, or alternatively by written questions, I, as well as many, many others, would agree that true democracy is being served!

Regards.

I give you Geert Wilders, a brave man; one who is willing to stand up and be counted. Amongst his ‘medals and decorations’ he can proudly state that he was banned from entry to Britain by the Home Secretary, but came later, showed his film and said his piece, and the world did not fall apart; despite what Lord Ahmed said.

And so, courtesy of Fox News, Mr Wilders:-

As you know, there was a gathering of hard right organisations in Denmark protesting against the Islamification of Europe. Here’s an example of the sort of outrageous messages they were sending. Lock ‘em up, that’s what I say…

I see that militant Islam in the Midlands has been active;

Six men have been charged with terrorism offences, including a suspected suicide bombing campaign, West Midlands Police have said. Four of the men were charged with preparing for an act of terrorism in the UK, and two with failing to disclose information. It follows a police operation in Birmingham last week.

The six, all from Birmingham and aged between 25 and 32, will appear at West London Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Irfan Nasser, 30, of Sparkhill, and Irfan Khalid, 26, of Balsall Heath, are accused of preparing for an act of terrorism, including travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism, making a martyrdom video and planning a bombing campaign. They are accused of constructing a home-made explosive device for terrorist acts and stating an intention to be a suicide bomber.

Ashik Ali, 26, of Balsall Heath, is accused of preparing for an act of terrorism, which involved planning a bombing campaign, providing premises for the planning of terrorist attack and stating an intention to be a suicide bomber. Rahin Ahmed, 25, of Moseley, is accused of helping fund terrorist acts. Mohammed Rizwan, 32, and Bahader Ali, 28, both of Sparkbrook, are both charged with failing to disclose information about potential acts of terrorism.

Congratulations to our Security services for breaking up this Jihad plot – once again we see the enemy within seeking ways to kill us.

It’s reported that a major terror plot in the UK has been averted. Can you guess who was behind it?

Police have arrested and detained six men and one woman in Birmingham as part of a large anti-terrorism operation, it has been confirmed. West Midlands Police said the suspects – aged between 25 and 32 – were being held at or near their homes on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK. The arrests were the result of an intelligence-led operation. One of the addresses searched by police today is registered to Mohammed Irfan – previously jailed for his part in plotting to kidnap a Muslim British soldier and behead him live on the internet.

Mmm…Mohammed, that name popping up again in the same sentence as the word terrorism….again.

Last week the Egyptian military aided terrorists that crossed into Israel and attacked civilian targets, at least seven Israelis were killed and dozens were wounded in a sophisticated multi-stage terrorist attack, believed to be perpetrated by almost two dozen attackers and launched from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel last Thursday afternoon.

The attacks commenced at about noon on Thursday, when three terrorists wearing military vests and armed with assault rifles, RPGs, roadside bombs and bomb belts, crossed into Israel near the Netafim Border Crossing along Route 12 between Mitzpe Ramon and Eilat.

The terrorists spread out about 200 meters from one another and began attacking passing vehicles. They first opened fire on Egged Bus 392 which was packed with civilians and soldiers. At least 10 passengers were wounded, most of them lightly to moderately, after the bus driver continued driving.

Moments later, one of the terrorists opened fire at an empty bus that drove by and detonated the bomb belt he was carrying, killing himself and the bus driver. Another terrorist opened fire at a passing car and killed the female driver.

One of the two remaining terrorists opened fire at a passing car, killing four people. An IDF jeep from the Golani Brigade then arrived at the scene and ran over the terrorist, killing him.

Egyptian military fired across the border at the responding Israeli Soldiers, the Israelis crossed the border and killed 3 members of the Egyptian Military and destroyed two Military Jeeps.

Add to this yesterdays statements from the Mad Little Persian:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was determined to eradicate Israel, ISNA news agency reported Thursday.

“Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating the Zionist regime (Israel) as symbol of suppression and discrimination,” Ahmadinejad said in an interview with a Lebanese television network, carried by ISNA.

“Iran follows this issue (the eradication of Israel) with determination and decisiveness and will never ever withdraw from this standpoint and policy,” the Iranian president added in the interview with the Al-Manar network.

The remarks by Ahmadinejad came one day before the annual anti-Israeli rallies named Qods (Jerusalem) Day, which are held nationwide in Iran on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Ahmadinejad on Monday said that Iranians and Muslim nations worldwide should hold Qods rallies and show their willingness to dispose of this “infectious tumor and this regime full of rascality.”

The Iranian president provoked international condemnation in 2005 when he said that Israel should be eliminated from the map of the Middle East and transferred to Europe or North America.

It’s Time to stand up and be counted, lock and load fellas.

You have to hand it to militant Islamists - they are ingenuous in their utter depravity.

The assassination of Ghulam Haidar Hamidi, Kandahar’s mayor, by a bomber with explosives hidden in his turban is the second use of the tactic in the city in a fortnight.

Both times the new killing method has proved to be deadly effective in a society where it is disrespectful to ask a man, particularly an elder or cleric, to remove his turban.

Wednesday’s attacker was apparently able to evade several layers of security using the tactic and reach a closely guarded official who had escaped at least one attempt on his life and the assassination of two deputies.

Two weeks ago the head of the city’s clerical council, Hekmatullah Hekmat, was killed by a similar turban bomb in the city’s Red Mosque at a memorial service for Ahmed Wali Karzai.

The SHEER EVIL of planting a bomb on top of their own head is staggering. Just WHERE could they have gotten such an idea?

I know, I know. It is so passe amongst enlightened liberals to discuss the problem with Islam when we can now all agree that “far-right” extremism presents an equally global terror problem. That said, I wonder did you read this story….

Among at least 24 aid workers killed in Somalia this year was one who was beheaded last month specifically for converting from Islam to Christianity, among other charges, according to an eyewitness. 

Muslim extremists from the al Shabab group fighting the transitional government on Sept. 23 sliced the head off of Mansuur Mohammed, 25, a humanitarian aid worker, before horrified onlookers of Manyafulka village, 10 kilometers (six miles) from Baidoa.

The militants had intercepted Mohammed and a driver, who managed to escape, earlier in the morning. Sources close to Mohammed’s family said he converted from Islam to Christianity in 2005.

Suffice to say this is the bleeding obvious but it merits repetition;

The UK is “something of a hub for the development of terrorists”, the Government’s former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said. Lord Carlile QC said Islamic extremism “remains far and away the greatest, and the least predictable” terrorist threat to the UK and most terrorists were home grown.

Got that? These are Islamic terrorists bred in Britain, cor blimey Jihadists, natural born killers.

Writing the foreword to an overview of the UK’s links to Islamism-inspired terrorism worldwide, Lord Carlile said: “We should not lose sight of the clear evidence provided by the report that a majority of terrorists in the UK are ‘home-grown’, and have not been trained abroad. ”Unfortunately the evidence reveals the UK to be something of a hub for the development of terrorists who export their activities to other countries: several examples are given from 2010.”

So what do we DO about this? Nothing. Government is afraid to move against Islam, and Islam is determined to continue the Jihad as commanded in its holy book.

Just one of those questions the media tends not to explore;

Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training centre in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least 70 people in the bloodiest attack in the country since a U.S. raid killed Osama bin Laden. A suicide bomber detonated one of the blasts at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped, but frontline force in Pakistan’s battle against Al Qaeda and allied Islamist groups close to the Afghan border.

The pathological mindset of Al Queda is writ large in this mass slaughter. It simply seeks to kill, or in its own language “we love death like they love life”. The reality is that those killed in this homicide bombing are Muslims, killed by fellow Muslims, in the name of Mohammad. All those guilt stricken hand-wringing western leftists miss the central point heere – namely that a section of Islam chooses death, murder, self detonation of their belief system.