A while ago I blogged about the handsomely named Islamic Human Rights Commission and a briefing they had put out accusing the Community Security Trust of “demonising Muslims”.
The briefing was poorly researched, wilfully inaccurate rubbish. This didn’t stop Islamophobia Watch and Bungles from giving it a ringing endorsement.
Now the CST have responded.
CST wholly denies the entirely unfounded allegations made by IHRC. The IHRC briefing is full of basic errors, distortions and misrepresentations that completely alter the meaning of the articles that it claims to analyse. It contains supposed quotes and arguments in CST articles that do not exist; and omits relevant context from the quotes and articles that it claims to analyse. Worst of all, however, the IHRC makes these claims in order to accuse CST and its staff of propagating Islamophobia, when nothing could be further from the truth.
As my correspondent put it, critiquing the IHRC briefing is like shooting fish in a barrel. Rather too easy but still able to provide some guilty pleasure.
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UPDATE:
Habibi has his say over on Harry’s Place.
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Anything that comes from this nutcase crowd of Islamist sympathisers is bound to be trashy, poorly researched and agenda driven. Their fundamental premise is as follows;
‘The Jews have used anti-semitism as an excuse to silence all criticism of Israel and the actions of Israeli supporters in the West. Why don’t we do the same with Islamaphobia, i.e. whenever anyone is remotely critical of our little campaigns we just pull out the ‘Islamaphobe card’ to silence them’.
There are a number of obvious flaws with this idea but it explains why they are so annoyed when fellow Muslims criticise them because then they can’t use this favoured trick so instead they call them other names. I know its sad but so are they.