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The rise of the far-right and anti-Muslim bigotry

By Shikwa | Published: August 11, 2009

Last weekend saw some ugly scenes in Birmingham when a group calling itself Casuals United held a protest in the City Centre. There was a similar protest held in Birmingham last month well.

Casuals United say they are only opposed to Islamist extremism but that is not the case. The group is little more than a fascist front, opposed to all Muslims in Britain as this clip of their protest last month demonstrates:

Notable chants in the video come at:

  • 6:26 – I just want Muslim scum to go (a person off camera says this to whoever is filming)
  • 6:48 – We want Muslims out
  • 7:42 – Who are you? Who are you? (The implication being that Muslims are not British)
  • 9:08 – Muslims out
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Yahya Birt hits the nail on the head

By Shikwa | Published: August 8, 2009

Last month the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) published a report on the BNP authored by Edmund Standing which caused quite a stir. The controversy stemmed from a baseless and, frankly, absurd allegation that CSC was deliberately seeking out to minimise and downplay anti-Muslim bigotry. The insinuation behind that charge is pretty clear and you don’t need me to spell it out.

Two things need to be said about Standing’s report. The first is that it does cite examples of the BNP’s anti-Muslim bigotry and these are mentioned throughout the report. The second is that the report itself never set out to provide a conclusive study on the BNP’s ideology – it was instead an investigation of their ‘online fascist network’ exploring the views of BNP members, sympathisers and supporters on places like YouTube and the blogosphere.

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Posted in Anti Muslim bigotry, Democracy, Politics, UK Politics | 22 Comments

Friday Caption Competition – 07/08/09

By Shikwa | Published: August 7, 2009

Due to site maintenance we couldn’t run the Caption Competition for a few weeks but alhamdulillah it’s back now.

This week we’re featuring the lovely Abdurahman Jafar who is friends with Bungles and involved with the Muslim Safety Forum. Incidentally can anyone help Jafar in his search for someone to keep him company “on this beautiful journey called life”. It’s such a beautiful thing, isn’t it?

As ever, captions in the comments section below.

AJ1

UPDATE:

It seems that brother Abdurahman Jafar has pulled down his matrimonial page. I can only assume that one of our many female readers simply couldn’t resist and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. But, just in case he pulled it for some other reason – as I suspcted he might – I took a picture for posterity (click to enlarge).

Abdurahman Jafar, on a beautiful journey called life...

Abdurahman Jafar, on a beautiful journey called life...

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More Hizb ut Tahrir entryism

By Shikwa | Published: August 4, 2009

Majed Iqbal is a typical Hizb ut Tahrir entryist.

Majed Iqbal, Hizb ut Tahrir entryist

Majed Iqbal, Hizb ut Tahrir entryist

He’s a busy boy in his hometown of Rochdale these days – what with trying to create a Caliphate and all that, it’s remarkable he has time for anything else. But he does. By night Majed moonlights as a journalist, trying to pass off his wildly racist views as dispassionate and objective reporting.

Now then, he doesn’t exactly write for a major broadsheet (or, dare I say, a weekly political magazine) but instead peddles his nonsense in the ‘Asian Leader’ newspaper in Rochdale. Does it really matter then? I think it does.

Rochdale has a large Muslim population and is one of the areas where the government is concerned about the spread of radical Islamism. Majed is effectively being allowed to spread his message there under the guise of an impartial journalism.

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Monday humour

By Shikwa | Published: July 20, 2009

Cartoonists are very clever, aren’t they? I saw this and it made me laugh. I thought I would share it with you.

Iran Mullahs

From The Times.

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Bunglawala, he’s not Bright!

By Shikwa | Published: July 19, 2009

Earlier this week, Inayat “Mr Bean” Bunglawala’s Engage wrote a characteristically stupid piece libelling Martin Bright under the headline:

“Veteran Islamophobe Martin Bright criticises MCB libel win”.

Martin was rightly upset with that slur observing:

“I object in the strongest terms to the way the insult  “Islamophobe” is thrown around so casually. It is essentially a charge of racism: the cheapest of shots and utterly without foundation”.

He was much too kind. The charge was not just without foundation – it was an outright lie. At the Observer, Martin mentored the headscarf wearing Fareen Alam. And, while he was Political Editor at the New Statesman regularly gave a voice to newly emerging Muslim voices including: Ed Husain, Shiraz Maher, and ‘Umm Mustafa’ (a pseudonym).

The Engage article nonetheless made a number of lazy accusations, one of which said:

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The Friday Caption Competition – 17/07/09

By Shikwa | Published: July 17, 2009

This week’s competition is dedicated to Abdul Rehman who enjoys it so much.

The picture is of Massoud Shadjareh, head stooge of the Khomeinist, Islamic Human Rights Commission. This week his outfit issued a sick and grovelling (not to mention belated) press release on events in Iran.

As ever, captions in the comments box below.

massoud shadjareh

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Fascists in Europe

By Shikwa | Published: July 15, 2009

The British National Party took their seats in the European Union yesterday marking a real low-point in the modern history of British politics.Full credit to Diane Dodds, the Democratic Unionist, who refused to take up her seat next to BNP member Andrew Brons.

The tireless campaigners from ‘Hope Not Hate‘ also submitted a petition with 88021 signtures to the European parliament opposing the BNP’s presence there.

But, what really caught my eye was this list of ten questions being circulated by the campaign group ‘Nothing British about the BNP‘. It’s being run Tim Montogmerie and James Bethel.

1. You claim to be patriotic yet you consort with racist and neo-Nazi organisations in Europe and the United States.  When will you condemn rhetoric that is hostile to British values?

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Dog Bark Politics

By Shikwa | Published: July 10, 2009

I’m replicating below an important and brilliant post by Dave Rich of the CST. You’ll remember, this is the same CST those insane fools at the IHRC falsely accused of ‘Islamophobia’ before we dismantled their arguments here and the CST blew them out of the water here.

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On Wednesday Nick Griffin, BNP leader and newly-elected Member of the European Parliament, told the BBC that boats carrying illegal immigrants to Europe should be sunk as they cross the Mediterranean. In an attempt to show his humane side, he insisted that he did not want anyone to actually die: “they can throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya”.

He has followed this up with an interview four Channel 4 News, in which he described Islam as a “cancer” that needed to be treated with “global chemotherapy”:

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The Friday Caption Competition – 10/07/09

By Shikwa | Published: July 10, 2009

It’s that time of the week again folks!

This week we’re featuring “Dr Evil” from Hizb ut Tahrir. The picture below is of its media spokesman, Dr Imran Waheed, a man whose massive ego is eclipsed only by the expansiveness of his waistline. Pity him, its been a bad week for his jihad-loving outfit.

As ever, captions in the comments box below.

Waheed

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