Category Archives: Anti Muslim bigotry

EDL Supporters – Friends of Racists and Extremists

By Guest | Published: August 29, 2010
Video Update: We often hear that the EDL protest the growth of political Islamism and extremism exclusively and non-violently. This man from the EDL might have reason to differ:
Also posted in Anti Fascism, Racism | 1 Comment

The forces of unreason descend on Ground Zero

By Guest | Published: August 24, 2010
This is a cross-post by Edmund Standing from Harry’s Place The Daily Mail reports on ‘The moment an angry crowd protesting against Ground Zero mosque turns on man in a skullcap… because they think he is a Muslim’. I hope Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are suitably ashamed. The so-called ‘anti-jihad’ movement spearheaded by these two characters [...]
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religious people need to recommit to and engage with critical thinking

By bananabrain | Published: August 23, 2010
following an unusually thoughtful broadcast last week by richard dawkins (he’s obviously trying to take on board how much his militancy turns people off by some of the pleas he made on behalf of sacred texts as fine language, cultural literacy and so on) i am grappling again with some of the issues raised by [...]
Also posted in Antisemitism, Blogosphere, Christian Evangelical Nutters, Democracy, Exegesis, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, Hate Speech, Hermeneutics, Human Rights, Interfaith, Islamism, Jewish Extremism | 16 Comments

“So, you’re offended? So fucking what?”

By Faisal | Published: August 20, 2010
I am amazed that the Park 51 Community Centre or the so called “Ground Zero Mosque” debate in still chundering on, with no end in sight, despite the paucity of cogent arguments on why it should be opposed by those who oppose it. Alex Massie’s comment on the “Ground Zero Mosque” is spot on: One of the [...]
Also posted in Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion | 76 Comments

Exclusive: Tower Hamlets communities unanimously reject IFE!

By Ziryab | Published: August 13, 2010
Having become sick of the IFE and their Islamist entryist tactics, community groups in Tower Hamlets have got together and issued the following press release: PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TOWER HAMELTS COMMUNITY STANDS UP TO FIGHT FASCISM IN ALL ITS COLOURS: The entry of the English Defence League (EDL) into Tower Hamlets to protest against a meeting at the Troxy in [...]
Also posted in Activism, Anti Fascism, Entryism, Islamism | 45 Comments

Veiled Values

By Guest | Published: August 9, 2010
This is a cross-post by Kenan Malik In his bestselling book America Alone, the Canadian writer Mark Steyn fantasises about the state of Europe in 2020. The Islamists have stormed to power right across the continent. No English pub can sell alcohol. Holland’s gay clubs have been relocated to San Francisco. And every French woman is [...]
Also posted in Fashion, Feminism, Freedom of Religion, Human Rights, Identity Politics, Islamism, Moral relativism, Multiculturalism, Secularism | 15 Comments

The Anti-Muslim Bigotry of Pickled Politics

By Faisal | Published: August 8, 2010
Pickled Politics’ blogger earwigca has posted an article which contains this passage: The problem with feminism is feminists. [...] Feminists like Dr. Aisha Gill, friend of Gita Sahgal, who worked tirelessly on the pr in support of the islamophobic attack on Amnesty International. The wording is inexact but the unscrupulous motivation is obvious. Is the writer suggesting that Gita Sahgal and [...]
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Is this the “counter-Enlightenment”?

By bananabrain | Published: August 6, 2010
i’ve not posted for a while, mostly because of pressure of work, but there are a number of things which are currently causing me to more or less lose sleep. recently, i gave up posting on pickled politics, partly because of the level of personal animosity i was facing, but mostly just in frustration at my [...]
Also posted in Anti Fascism, Antisemitism, Blogosphere, Christian Evangelical Nutters, Civil Rights, Democracy, Entryism, European Fascism, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, Human Rights, Identity Politics, Interfaith, Islamism, Jewish Extremism, Moral relativism, Multiculturalism, Obscurantism, Sectarianism, Secularism, The Far Left, The Regressive Left, UK Politics | 37 Comments

NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Defence of Ground Zero Islamic Centre

By Faisal | Published: August 4, 2010
New York’s Mayor Bloomberg gets it right. The freedom to worship is a fundamental principle of secularism, the separation of church/mosque/synagogue/temple from state, and to infringe that principle is to capitulate to the extremists and the terrorists. From the Huff Po: Speaking on Governor’s Island, misty-eyed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised a decision to allow an [...]
Also posted in Secularism | 1 Comment

Those who benefit from Islamophobia

By Faisal | Published: August 4, 2010
Yesterday the Guardian reported on a poll on public perceptions on Muslims, carried out for the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iEra). The report revealed high levels of bigotry and hostility to Muslims in Britain, as well as antagonism towards Islam as a belief. George Readings, of the Quilliam Foundation, made some essential observations about the [...]
Also posted in Islamism | 5 Comments