This is a guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri
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The Muslim Council of Britain, the UK’s pre-eminent Jamaat-e-Islami front-group, has issued an incisive press-release on the much-debated question of whether or not Geert Wilders should be allowed into the UK:
The Muslim Council of Britain today re-iterated the widely held view that the far right Dutch politician Geert Wilders is a relentless preacher of hate. The MCB neither condones nor condemns the decision to allow him into the United Kingdom, but it objects to the rapturous welcome he is receiving in the name of free speech.
It neither “condones nor condemns” the decision to let Wilders into the UK? What sort of nonsense is this?
The MCB is obviously in a quandary about whether to suck up to government (and much of the media) by supporting the decision to let him in, or to play to the Muslim activist gallery by saying that he should remain barred from the country. However, it has now apparently chosen the worst of all options: to issue a press release officially stating that they have no opinion on the matter to officially state.
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“or to play to the Muslim activist gallery by saying that he should remain barred from the country”
yes you are right cos its only Muslim” activists” who oppose Wilders a man who calls for a ban on the Quran (which perhaps you are unaware is the holy book of all Muslims) and on hijab and preaches relentless hate against Muslims
The MCB really cant win with you bigots can it? If it supported Wilders coming in you would accuse it of sucking up to the media or of indulging Islamophobes and use that as jutification for your own Islamophobia and spport for Wilders. If it supported him being banned you would scream in the best Spitoon/Daily Express headline about “Muslims threatening our freedom of speech”
Given Spitoons calling for bans on various Muslim preachers coming here your support for Wilders’ entry is hypocritical and highly revealing
Amir.
Just yesterday I posted about how it is intrinsically wrong to demonise Muslims and I linked to this article at Left Foot Forward. Given that I’ve also written about how foreign preachers should not be banned from the UK if they have not broken British law then it would probably be best if you toodled off quickly.
Just to be clear, I think Wilders is wrong about Islam. I think his views about Muslims are reprehensible. But he should be allowed into the country so long as he does not break the law. Hopefully he’ll be challenged by British citizens everywhere he goes so that we can tear apart his rubbish arguments and ill-informed views without turning him into a “martyr” for free speech.
So, Quilliam is wrong in saying that Qaradawi should be banned and Wilders not?
I think the MCB dud indeed make an incisive point. It refused to give in to the game played by you and the hyena’s of the media and their friends at Islam4uk
Qaradawi has directly advocated, endorsed and encourage the use of violence – see, for instance, his advocacy of violence against women and homosexuals or his support for the use of suicide bombers against Israeli civilians and by the Iraqi ‘resistance’ (by which he only means Arab Sunni jihadists – he gets cross when Kurds or Shias use violence to defend themselves). There is therefore no comparison with Wilders who has not directly called for attacks against people on the basis of their gender, religion, political agenda or sexual orientation. You may believe, as I do, that some of Wilders’ statements risk inciting hostility towards Muslims, but that is a separate issue.
Didn’t Bunglawala write in favour of letting him into the country?
Is Bunglawala still with the MCB?
Oh dear Amir. The MCB and their supporters have indeed fallen on hard times. People have seen through their double-speak and the just don’t know how to react anymore. He is tries to please everyone ends up pleasing no – one.
Err..
One could hardly describe it as ‘weighing in’?
I’d have thought that Amir is caught between a rock and a hard place. Either you agree with the idea of free speech, absent hate speech, or you don’t. Whether that criteria distinguishes Geert Wilders from some of the more insane Islamists is, perhaps, moot.
One could hardly describe it as ‘weighing in’?
Quite right. It’s like standing in the corner like a bunch of wet willies afraid or unable to formulate a solid rationale on whether to support the ban (and burn themselves at the hands of their resident mentalists) or go against it (and contradict their own position on al-Qaradawi and Delwar-Hussain Sayeedi).
Decisions decisions.
Or Feert Wilders as al-Jazeerah recently dubbed him:
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News/2009/March/12%20n/US%20Zionist%20Islamophobe%20Losers%20Find%20New%20False%20Prophet%20in%20Feert%20Wilders.htm
Just to let you know that al-J are entirely impartial about such things, of course.