Bob Pitt of Islamophobia Watch and Inayat Bunglawala of iEngage are two peas in a pod. But where Bob is obsessed with defending Islamists, Bungle’s obsession is the Quilliam Foundation.
Progress Online carries details of a fringe meeting to be organised by the Quilliam Foundation at the Labour Party conference next month on ‘How should the Left engage with British Muslims’.
The speaker line up includes: Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government; Ed Husain, Co-director, Quilliam Foundation; Martin Bright, Tahir Abbas, Birkbeck, University of London.
The choice of Martin Bright (pictured) is a very notable one. Martin Bright is, of course, an enthusiastic supporter of the Quilliam Foundation.
ENGAGE readers will be aware that Bright also happens to be the notorious author of the very ill-informed, highly offensive and deeply mischievous 2001 New Statesman cover story ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’. Bright’s arguments were openly ridiculed and debunked by the very scholars – including his own former SOAS tutor, Professor Gerald Hawting – whose work he drew upon to support his crude hatchet job on the Qur’an.
These is something particularly remarkable about Bungle’s attempted hatchet-job; he prioritises attacking the Quilliam Foundation over discussing the fact that this event is taking place at the Labour Party Conference and the Quilliam Foundation’s co-hosts are Progress – “Labour’s Progressives” as they like to call themselves.
Why does Bungle attack the Quilliam Foundation so vehemently for their role in organising an event with Martin Bright yet not bother to mention that it’s being held at the Labour Party Conference and Quilliam’s co-hosts are Progress, a Labour party organisation. Does he think that the governing Labour Party is less important in the lives of British Muslims than the Quilliam Foundation?
Most likely, Bungle found himself trying to reconcile a desperate desire not to undermine the MCB’s (for which he is spokesman) attempts to reestablish themselves in Westminster with the equally desperate desire to attack the Quilliam Foundation and the result is that he finds himself ranking the Quilliam Foundation as more important than the Labour Party. Not exactly the message one imagines he’s trying to propagate.
So, Inayat (and I know you read the Spittoon) would you care to explain why you are untroubled by Progress’s role in inviting Martin Bright, why you are untroubled that John Denham will happily share a platform with him and that the Labour Party will provide that platform – and why you have chosen to spend your time attacking a thinktank instead? And also, why – when we all know that it’s you running iEngage – do you try to keep your name away from it? I write anonymously because I like to keep my blogging life separate from my working and personal lives – but what’s anonymity got for you?
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verily it is full of the most accurate info. on islamist groups.
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i was a lost muslim but now, thanks to spittoon, i identify with britain and its tradition of fairness and honesty.
may our troops be victorious over the taliban, that are linked to the nazis.
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hmmmm…
this is suspicious.
personal opinion – inayat is a nazi. possibly? probably?
verily, i say it is the truth.
inayat is secret luftwaffe model plane collector. he aspires to genocidal naught aspirations.
spittoon, i say vigilance!