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Andy Hull Writes to the Papers

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips from Harry’s Place Jews and Muslims are familiar with it. The pig’s head desecrating the place of worship. That’s what happened at the Finsbury Park Mosque, last month. The perpetrators of this criminal and disgusting act have yet to be caught. However, the mosque has a very good idea of [...]
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Guardian censures Quilliam Foundation for doing its job!

Brian Whittaker on CiF writes: Islamist ideology certainly needs to be challenged. The question is whether its nonviolent form should included in an anti-terrorism strategy. But does the Guardian actually challenge Islamist ideology at all? In the last two days two articles have appeared in both its print and electronic channels which suggest that far from challenging [...]
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A reduction of reality at the Guardian?

This is a cross-post by Shiraz Maher from the StandPoint blog Oh dear, it really hasn’t been a good week for the Guardian. On Monday Comment is Free invited Gerry Adams to pontificate about – would you believe it – the killing of civilians. Yes, really. Since when did the Guardian recognise Gerry Adams as the moral [...]
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A Depressing Little Story in the Sunday Times

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips of Harry’s Place The Sunday Times today (behind a paywall) breaks the news that Home Office adviser, Sabin Khan, has been suspended. You will remember that the Home Secretary, Theresa May, excluded the Indian hate preacher, Zakir Naik, from the United Kingdom in May. This is what happened behind the [...]
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“Violent” and “Non Violent” Islamists

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips at Harry’s Place So, it is almost that Global Peace and Unity time of year again. Regular readers of Harry’s Place will remember that, every year, the Islam Channel invites some of the most extreme and nasty Islamists – supporters of attacks on our troops, of terrorism (outside the UK, [...]
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Old Red Eyes is Back

The IFE stalwart and major Anwar al-Awlaki fanboy, Azad Ali, has resurfaced as the newly elected president of the Muslim Safety Forum. Andrew Gilligan writes: Scotland Yard will now face pressure to renounce Azad Ali, the new chair of the Muslim Safety Forum, which is recognised by the Met under a formal written agreement as “the [...]
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Tower Hamlets Stands Up to Haters

This is a cross-post by habibi from Harry’s Place Here is some news from East London: TOWN Hall leaders tonight have called for an Islamic conference to be scrapped in London’s East End on June 20, in the wake of a demo planned outside by the English Defence League. The date was deliberately chosen by the EDL to [...]
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Sing When You’re Losing!

Sunny Hundal is overjoyed. Evidently Amnesty International have published a report detailing their human rights activism in Afghanistan. Hundal seems to be suggesting that publication of this report legitimises Amnesty UK’s partnership with the jihadi pressure group Cageprisoners: Wait! I thought they were in league?? I’m getting all confused here, because according to certain defenders of human [...]
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“Every Muslim Should Be A Terrorist”

Zakir Naik, the Indian-born tele-evangelist for Peace TV, whose inflammatory remarks include extolling Muslims to “terrorise terrorist America” and who states western women make themselves “more susceptible to rape” by wearing revealing clothing, has been allowed into the country. Naik will be appearing at Wembley Arena in London and in Sheffield on his British tour. David [...]
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Amnesty: working against oblivion?

This is a cross-post by Gita Sahgal from Open Democracy Salman Rushdie has said, ‘When people are told that they cannot freely re-examine the stories of themselves, and the stories within which they live, then tyranny is not very far away’. Forty nine years ago, this week, Peter Benenson struck a blow against tyranny by announcing [...]
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