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The Black Knight Has Friends

By Yossarian | Published: June 24, 2009

Inayat Bunglawala has been having a bit of a rough time recently. I suppose it’s at times like this that he needs his friends and family around him. Which is convenient, because that’s what he’s been doing throughout his career as Britain’s leading purveyor of incoherence.

Shikwa recently pointed out that Bungle has been using his Saudi-backed iEngage website to hype a report from Redbridge Faith Forum on PVE policy whilst failing to mention his wife’s work at Redbridge Council as “a consultant Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) Project Manager”. It all smelt rather like a tupperware containing three week old haddock. Today I had a bit of a dig around on the internet and, as it turns out, the whole affair actually smells much worse.

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Clearing up a few things

By Yossarian | Published: June 23, 2009

From the Latin American Herald Tribune:

MADRID – The “Dictionary of Islam and Islamism” prepared by doctor of Arab philology Luz Gomez Garcia is the first compilation in Spanish of more than 500 terms that ease the understanding of Islamic traditions, history and culture.

Through a bibliography grouped by subject and a chronology of the history of Islam since its beginnings in the year 610 A.D., Gomez reviews the terms used by the media “that don’t always have an easy translation.” …

The confusions begin with the distinction between Islam and Islamism, terms that the Royal Spanish Academy defines as synonyms.

“In Islamic tradition Islam is related to strictly religious aspects such as doctrine, theology, philosophy and even sociology, while Islamism is the ideological adaptation of Islamic precepts for political ends,” the author told Efe.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir America Goes Public

By Yossarian | Published: June 21, 2009

Hizb ut-Tahrir, the global Islamist revolutionary group founded by an Islamo-Stalinist and famed for its incessant calls for Khilafah (Caliphate), appears to have gone public in the United States. Whereas HT had previously operated in America only from behind aliases and front groups, now it is operating openly and in its own name. As Shikwa has explained here before, this is a development which should concern all Americans.

Here is the promotional video for their inaugural event: Khilafah Conference 2009 – Fall of Capitalism & Rise of Islam

It will be held on Sunday, 19th July at Aqsa School, a private co-educational Islamic school in Bridgeview, Illinois which has only 301 students; HT America is clearly not expecting the kind of attendance HT Indonesia managed to gather in 2007. Indeed, it looks like they’re expecting an exraordinarily pitiful number of attendees. That said, the fact that HT America feels confident enough to move into the open, rather than cowering in the shadows, is a depressing development.

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Respect Party: Disrespecting Women

By Yossarian | Published: June 12, 2009
Pots, Prams and Politics. Flyer for RESPECT Youth event tomorrow.
Pots, Prams and Politics. Flyer for tomorrow’s RESPECT Youth event.

Respect Youth are holding a women only event in Bethnal Green tomorrow to support Abjol Miah’s bid to succeed George Galloway as Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. Here is a flyer (pdf) for the event.

If their website is to be believed, Respect are committed to equal rights for women. They claim to want to see a world in which a woman’s contribution is fully valued and rewarded. Noble stuff, but not exactly borne out by the evidence of this flyer.

Entitled “Pots, Prams and Politics”, it is a fairly shocking example of sexism. Not only does the title make painfully clear what Respect considers a woman’s role to be (in the kitchen/looking after children/getting Respect re-elected) – there’s a not-so-progressive subtitle too.

Behind every man is a Woman and behind every leading woman is her Respect.

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