Category Archives: Anti Muslim bigotry

Take a look at this video of British “comedian” Pat Condell’s rant on the side of those who oppose the “Ground Zero Mosque”.

There is very little in Condell’s subjective and skewed diatribe that are not the rehashed arguments of the anti-Ground Zero Mosque movement. Reworking the same tired themes of the “offensive” nature of a building that is neither a mosque nor on Ground Zero, that is an “insult” to the “sensitivity” of Americans. The bulk of this comment contains the “Muslims and the granting of special privileges” screed that is pure Daily Express material.

Pat Condell is a member of the National Secular Society. Some years ago, the NSS applauded his video, The Trouble With Islam. Condell was also nominated by the NSS for their Secularist of the Year award, because he has:

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 has spawned this kind of mindless bigotry and thuggery by continually blurring the line between ordinary Muslims and Islamists.

I am opposed to Islamism, and I am also opposed to Islam. However, I am not opposed to people having the right to practise Islam or any other religion. The hysteria against human beings who identify as Muslims increasingly seen at events organised by groups such as the worthless ‘Stop Islamization of America’ is an utter disgrace and undermines the principles that lie at the heart of the liberal, democratic West.

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 Aisha Gill are “islamophobic” [sic] or is she making that accusation of the “attack” on Amnesty International? Either way, how does she come to this conclusion and what is her evidence?

Of all the accusations and smears made of Gita Sahgal by her many detractors after she took the matter of Amnesty International’s partnership with the jihadist pressure group Cageprisoners to the public, the charge of “Islamophobia” has been the most baseless. Unfortunately, it also is the most pernicious since it requires little or no evidence for the smear to stick.