Category Archives: Anti Muslim bigotry

The EDL Uncovered

You don’t have to look far into the English Defence League to find its nasty underbelly. And once you find it, it’s not an edifying sight. This is English racism at its most visceral and cowardly and this particular manifestation of it is specifically directed at Southasians, but Southasian muslims in particular. We in Britain haven’t [...]
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Tower Hamlets Stands Up to Haters

This is a cross-post by habibi from Harry’s Place Here is some news from East London: TOWN Hall leaders tonight have called for an Islamic conference to be scrapped in London’s East End on June 20, in the wake of a demo planned outside by the English Defence League. The date was deliberately chosen by the EDL to [...]
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religious idiots round up: vengeful volcanoes

of course, nobody should be surprised that when a natural disaster occurs, the usual suspects jump on the bandwagon to explain why it proves their wacky theologies and that G!D Is Having a good old Smite at people of whom they disapprove or, alternatively, that it’s all part of the dastardly plans of the illuminati [...]
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America’s Non-Controversial Christian Censorship

Glen Greenwald debunks the notion that censorship and religious offence-taking is now the mainstay of Islam alone. In particular, Greenwald dismantles Ross Douthat’s (of the New York Times) accusations that only Islamic sensibilities are granted special privileges, as the tribalistic and selective tropes of a right-wing Christian fundamentalist hack. Douthat writes in the New York Times: In a way, [...]
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Disgusting

This is a guest post by Edmund Standing **** Manchester Evening News: Vandals carried out two attacks in one night on a mosque. They were captured on camera as they removed fencing and threw bricks through the windows. The vandalism is the latest in a spate of racially-motivated attacks on the premises in Liverpool Road, Eccles. CCTV cameras [...]
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BNP = British Nutters Party

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Criticism does not exclude Muslims from the political process

This letter has been published today in The Guardian **** We are disturbed by the visible rise, in some parts of the country, of anti-Muslim bigotry resulting in sporadic attacks on Muslims and their places of worship. We deplore this and condemn it unreservedly. However, the authors of the letter you published (Islamophobia is a threat to democracy, [...]
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Has the BNP had a Damascene conversion?

This is a cross-post of an article by Edmund Standing **** BNP Leader Nick Griffin has issued a ‘Special Easter Message from the Chairman‘ in which he is now presenting himself as something like the Christian equivalent of an Islamist. Misrepresenting the BNP’s true beliefs as usual, Griffin has now attempted to create a ‘Christian’ smokescreen in [...]
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New Anti-BNP Blog

The BNP is going through a rebranding process just as its predecessor, the National Front, put itself through in the 1980s. The white supremacism and the race politics  of the National Front, the BNP and whatever it is currently morphing into remains fundamentally equivalent. To highlight the mendacity of the real BNP, here is a new [...]
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Did Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, rape a nine-year old girl called Aisha?

This is a guest-post by Tarek Fatah **** The allegation that the Prophet Muhammad married Aisha in the year 624AD when she was only a nine-year old girl, is not new. However, the fact this controversy has surfaced on rightwing blogs, is something that has caught a lot of Muslims by surprise. It was sparked by a lecture [...]
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