Category Archives: Anti Fascism

The hijab, Sarkozy and all that

By Zorro | Published: June 25, 2009

Sarkozy’s call for a ban on the veil has indeed opened up a number of issues and perspectives, even if he may well have had his own motives for doing so!

We have had the normal reaction on the left to condemn him, the reaction from the right in the UK to call for a ban and even claim Muslims support them and this has caused a little stir amongst Islamists.

iEngage for example originally followed the 1st electronic print of the Express article stating that Ghaffar Hussain from the Quilliam Foundation had stated that the Burka/Burqa was a cultural practice and not sanctioned in the Quran, but then went further and mistakenly claimed that he supported a ban. This has subsequently been “corrected”, by both the Express and iEngage.

A number of ancilliary discussions have persisted some of which are quite interesting, hypocritical and opportunistic.

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Also posted in Anti Muslim bigotry, Democracy, Ethics, Exegesis, Freedom of Expression, Hermeneutics, Human Rights, Islamism, Politics, Secularism, Sharia | 4 Comments

“Ignorant backward savages”

By Faisal | Published: June 16, 2009

MPACuk are a clutch of nasty, pro-jihadi buffoons who like to call themselves the “biggest Muslim group in Britain”. They are led by the fantasist, Asghar Bukhari who is serially courted by the BBC whenever Newsnight needs a rent-a-gob Islamist to peddle their putrid, incendiary bigotry.  In his personal psycho-dramas, Bukhari believes his enemy is the “right-wing press”. But this hasn’t stopped him from donating money to the far-right neo-Nazi revisionist, David Irving and publishing antisemitic material copied from European and US neo-Nazi websites.

In a characteristic display of intolerance and misogyny, MPACuk proceeded to publish a series of private photos from the facebook account of Shifa Patel.

Shifa Patel, who dressed for work in a traditional hijab (head covering) and full-length robe, was targeted after photographs of her with short hair and wearing a shirt and trousers were copied from social networking site Facebook.

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Head to Head on Banning Extremists

By Retired | Published: June 11, 2009

David T of Harry’s Place and I went head to head yesterday on the question of whether it is right to ban extremist speakers from the country and, if it is not, what can be done to challenge extremist speakers such as those attending the iERA tour covered here over the last few days. (See here, here and here)

It is a massively important topic which rarely comes up for debate. So, what do you think?

Also posted in Freedom of Expression | Tagged | 1 Comment

Men questioned in UK over white supremacist terror plot

By Houriya | Published: June 10, 2009

Nicky Davison, an 18 year old from Durham County, accused of plotting a terror attack, appeared in Westminster court yesterday.

Nicky – initially arrested for inciting racial hatred – and his father, Ian Davison, were arrested on the 6 June 2009 under the Terrorism Act 2000, on suspicion for being part of a global network of white supremacist terrorists, plotting to attack ethnic minorities by using the deadly substance ricin. A tiny grain of ricin is enough to kill someone if they came into direct contact with the substance. Police found in the men’s home a jam jar that contained the poison, and is believed to have been kept in a kitchen cupboard for two years.

In uncovering the white supremacist plot, Durham’s assistant chief constable Mike Barton rightly stated “This shows that the terrorist threat in the UK is real and present.”

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The old new face of British politics

By Faisal | Published: June 8, 2009
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Fascist MEP, Andrew Brons

Andrew Brons of the BNP is the second of two newly elected MEPs in the Euro elections. The other, of course, is Nick Griffin. There is more on Brons from HopeNotHate.

Brons, 61, started his nazi career in the National Socialist Movement, an organisation that was deliberately founded on Hitler’s birthday by Colin Jordan, the British nazi leader who died in April aged 85. NSM members were responsible for an arson campaign against Jewish property and synagogues in the 1960s.

Brons appears to have approved. In a letter to Jordan’s wife, Brons reported meeting an NSM member who “mentioned such activities as bombing synagogues”. He declared: “On This subject I have a dual view, in that I realise that he is well intentioned, I feel that our public image may suffer considerable damage as a result of these activities. I am however open to correction on this point.”

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Also posted in UK Politics | 4 Comments

Towards a Reasonable Discussion on Immigration

By Guest | Published: May 25, 2009

This article by Edmund Standing is cross-posted from Harry’s Place.

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This post follows on from a previous post of mine entitled Taking the BNP seriously: Simplistic condemnation is not enough and is cross-posted from Pro-British, Anti-Extremist.

An excellent dialogue on immigration between David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, and the novelist Lionel Shriver can be read at Standpoint Online. Entitled ‘We Need to Talk about Immigration’, the piece offers a rational discussion which challenges some central taboos surrounding this emotive issue.

Shriver makes the following important point:

I would like us to deal with the feelings that native-born people have of having their generosity strained in a way that isn’t totally judgemental. We have to take the condemnation out of the argument, if we’re going to have the argument at all. We can’t immediately knee-jerk and say: “OK, you don’t want a lot of Muslims in your country, so you’re just a xenophobe and a racist, and you’re a bad person, and you probably belong to the BNP.” If you keep telling people they don’t have a right to feel the way they feel, they will end up in the BNP.

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Also posted in Islamism, UK Politics, Your View | 2 Comments

Daily Express – With extremists, against law and order.

By Retired | Published: May 20, 2009

Why is it that the media keep paying so much attention to the tiny group of extremists al-Muhajiroun/whatever name they’re going by this week? It is very clear that the only beneficiaries are Anjem Choudary and his chums, who get free publicity for their views, and an array of other people of varying degrees of unpleasantness who can use events like the Luton protest to advance their own agenda.

First it was the BNP. I’m not going to link to their website to avoid helping its google ranking, but coverage of this story is unsurprisingly unpleasant. It is replete with lines like:

The shocking anti-British army protest by a group of Muslims in central Luton is a portent of what is to come unless the Islamification of this country is halted

This is in addition to references to “the colonisation of this country by Third Worlders” and “Luton is well known as a heavily Muslim colonised town” as well as dark warnings from their defence spokesman.

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Nothing British about the BNP

By Shikwa | Published: May 15, 2009

Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome has launched an excellent campaign this morning challenging the BNP on the ‘Nothing British’ website.

There’s more over at the Telegraph.

Also posted in Democracy | 2 Comments

FOSIS’s Annual Conference

By Retired | Published: May 14, 2009

I recently blogged about the individuals Queen Mary’s Islamic Society has been inviting to address its members. At the end of the piece, I suggested that the NUS or FOSIS, the Federation Of Student Islamic Societies, should encourage the Islamic Society to invite speakers who condemned all forms of terrorism, did not spread outlandish conspiracy theories and promote community cohesion.

David T, of Harry’s Place, responded in sceptical terms:

But FOSIS is hardly going to lay down the law to QMUL’s ISOC, considering they lay on events with similarly vicious speakers.

Now, there are people who condemn FOSIS for its close links to the Muslim Brotherhood and because it is affiliated to the MCB, who don’t exactly have the best reputation at the moment.

And there are those who point to FOSIS’s support for overturning the NUS ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir.

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