Category Archives: Anti Muslim bigotry

is honest dialogue compatible with the exposure of dishonest dialogue?

By bananabrain | Published: May 12, 2011

we at the spittoon seem spend a lot of time both criticising people who appear to be disingenuous, swivel-eyed fundamentalist weasels and their stooges, as well as calling for honest, open-hearted dialogue and support for a stronger, more liberal society in which both jews and muslims have a role to play, not just as citizens, but as jews and muslims. we believe both in the robust defence of liberty and the principles of democracy as well as aspiring to a better, more peaceful future in which people of differing religions, cultures and points of view will be able to live together – call it a messianic vision, if you like, or even “roddenberry-lite”, but we don’t see why people can’t “sit under their vine and fig-tree, with nobody to make them afraid“.

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Also posted in Activism, Antisemitism, Blogosphere, Civil Rights, Democracy, Entryism, Freedom of Religion, Human Rights, Identity Politics, Interfaith, Islamism, Jewish Extremism, Multiculturalism, Racism, UK Politics | 27 Comments

David Miller of SpinWatch Spins More Lies

By Effendi | Published: March 15, 2011

A shoddy piece of smear-mongering against The Spittoon perpetrated by Professor David Miller of the University of Strathclyde has recently come to our attention:

It has also exposed The Spittoon, a McCarthyite operation run by members of Centre for Social Cohesion in collaboration, for a while at least, with members of the government funded Quilliam Foundation.[25] This expose was not well-received by the interests behind The Spittoon. The website first tried to intimidate the Powerbase researcher who had made the discovery with threatening emails, followed by a smear campaign, which was coordinated with an allied attack blog, Harry’s Place.[26] Shortly afterwards a similar smear campaign was also directed against the founder of Powerbase. Several neoconservative operators have also tried to use legal threats to shut Powerbase down. In June 2010, Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens of the Centre for Social Cohesion, a frequent contributor to The Spittoon, successfully pressured Powerbase’s British domain name registrar to temporarily shut down the website.

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Also posted in Antisemitism, The Far Left | 7 Comments

A Pair of White Muslim Extremists Threaten Usama Hasan

By Effendi | Published: March 6, 2011

The campaign to hound Dr Usama Hasan out of Masjid Tawhid in Leyton as well as to excommunicate him from the mosque and even going as far as to declare him a murtad (an apostate) and a kafir (unbeliever) has grown apace in the beardier parts of the British Islamic blogosphere.

We have already met the salafi jihadi Abu Zubair, who is on record for calling for Usama Hasan’s death both publicly on the premises of Masjid Tawhid and online.

Hitching themselves to this cowardly crusade are two indigenous English converts to Islam, who like to see themselves as white Muslim examples of Malcolm X’s “field Negroes” because these two brave white men “don’t take shit from the Man”, don’t you know.

First off, Dawud [David?] Mannion aka Daw’ud Abu Abdillah Al-Injaliziy, who issued this diatribe called Usama Hasan and his call to Kufr on his blog The Islamic Standard, of which he uses to criticise British troops and praise terrorists. This is his description of the public reaction to Dr Hasan’s lecture on evolution at the Tawhid Mosque:

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“Islamophobe” is the new “Neocon”

By Guest | Published: February 21, 2011

This is a guest post by Mr Happy

One of my earliest memories of censorship occurred when I was in high school. I was debating the merits of military intervention in Iraq with a select group of friends. The first thing that struck me was how lonely my point of view was, I couldn’t, not for one second, understand how one could justify the continued existence of the Saddam regime.

“Even if there aren’t any weapons of mass destruction, Saddam had previously used such weapons, twice. He is uniquely evil to the region.” I remember stating, rather proudly.

And at that very moment, someone called me a neocon. I didn’t know what a neoconservative was (if I did, I would have perhaps defended the term better). It was clear it was meant to be a negative word.

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Also posted in Islamism, The Regressive Left | 1 Comment

The EDL Flop in Luton

By Effendi | Published: February 5, 2011

Read Nick Lowles’ commentary.

I’m really pleased to report that it seems that today has passed off peacefully. The people of Luton have rejected the provocation of the EDL.

One of the main reasons for this was the great work done in the Muslim community to keep their youth off the streets. Hundreds of stewards and dozens of mediation teams were out to reduce tensions and refute the rumours that were circulating. Community elders stood hand in hand to calm youngsters down and encourage people not to rise to the EDL’s bait.

Cross and girdle

Also posted in Anti Fascism | 4 Comments

Tommy Robinson of the EDL: How boring can a guy get

By Guest | Published: February 2, 2011

This is a guest post by Mr Happy

Anyone who watched Newsnight tonight (February 1st 2010) saw the piece they had on the English Defence League. The report was interesting but the interview was quite revealing. EDL leader Stephen Lennon aka, Internet pseudonym, Tommy Robinson was, well, just awful.

The interview went along the lines of Paxman asking rather simplistic questions on Islam and then Tommy whipping out the ‘OMG! Sharia Law is here’ card. Sharia by the way, is pronounced “sha-ree-yah”, but informed Tommy gives it the “I-raq” treatment by pronouncing it as if it were to rhyme with the word ‘pariah’. He also mispronounced the word “Imam”, giving it the EDL-kick of “Inam”. But, these are all forgivable shenanigans.

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Posted in Anti Muslim bigotry | 40 Comments

Baroness Warsi Has Some Explaining To Do

By Effendi | Published: January 21, 2011

Baroness Warsi, the Conservative party chair and minister “without portfolio”, leaked a sneak preview of her “Islamophobia” speech to the Telegraph the day before she delivered the full speech at the University of Leicester yesterday.

Warsi is right to speak out against the kind of casual anti-Muslim bigotry which has become increasingly noticeable in the day to day language of Britain. We are now living in a climate where  phraseology invoking ”fucking Muslims” is commonplace – and you don’t have to be Muslim to pick up on it. And this is to say nothing of the heightened levels of Muslim baiting which passes for journalism on the pages of the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. The content on both of these organs are both a barometer and weather vane for gauging society’s prejudice du jour. We know from them that English exceptionalism is fickle when it comes to the fear and loathing of minorities which has passed in the space of a generation from jews to blacks to southasians and now, currently, to muslims.

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Also posted in The Regressive Left, UK Politics | 4 Comments

Rahul Gandhi: Pissing Off the Pundits

By avicenna | Published: December 19, 2010

Wikileaks of cables from the US Embassy in Delhi have elicited angry reactions from the Hindu religious far-right, particularly Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and Gujarat’s chief minister. What has irked the two high-priests of Hindutva religious fundamentalism?

Rahul last year told US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that “the growth of radicalised Hindu groups” may be a “bigger threat” to India than support to some Islamic terror groups from the Muslim community, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

Rahul told Roemer that although “there was evidence of some support (for Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba) among certain elements in India’s indigenous Muslim community, the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalised Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community”, the Guardian reported on Friday.

Modi’s reaction:

“Through the WikiLeaks expose, it has been revealed who has given all the information to the US. Now, it is clear why the US is backing Pakistan,”

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Stop the Preacher of Hate from entering Britain

By Cross Post | Published: December 12, 2010

This is a cross-post of a letter by Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate

Dear Home Secretary,

"Protect Freedom of Speech - Burn a Quran!"

In early February the Florida-based Pastor Terry Jones intends to travel to the United Kingdom to address an English Defence League rally in Luton. His anti-Muslim views made international news in early autumn when he proposed making the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack an “International Burn a Koran Day”. This brought international condemnation and eventually he was forced to back down.

Now Pastor Jones wants to give a speech attacking Islam at an EDL rally in Luton. The EDL emerged in Luton in May 2009 and its first demonstration ended with 250 people going on the rampage through a predominantly Asian area of the town. Since then it has become a national organisation and is the single biggest threat to social cohesion in this country today.

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Islamists and Islamophobia

By Cross Post | Published: November 26, 2010

This is a cross-post by Amjad Khan from Harry’s Place

It seems that entryist Islamist groups like the MCB and MAB are focusing all their energies on exposing incidents of ‘Islamophobia’ nowadays. They have helped to fund an outfit called the EMRC (European Muslim Research Centre) which masquerades as a research centre but in truth does little more than political advocacy for Islamist groups and individuals. Together they are working on a 10 year (that’s right 10 year) project called ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies’. MAB is arranging seminars up and down the country to expose the rise of ‘Islamophobia’ in the UK. So what is this all about?

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