Category Archives: Entryism

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, Anti Muslim bigotry, Islamism | 45 Comments

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 [...]
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Another story of government advisers undermining government ministers (this time in the battle against extremism)

By Ziryab | Published: August 4, 2010
This is a cross-post from Conservative Home By Tim Montgomerie Hats off to The Sunday Times (£) for yesterday’s scoop exposing senior Home Office officials who rubbished the Home Secretary to supporters of the Indian Islamist leader Zakir Naik – after she had banned him from coming into the country because of his extremist preaching. The pair – both [...]
Also posted in Activism, Politics, UK Politics | 4 Comments

seven modest proposals for the british jewish community

By bananabrain | Published: March 16, 2010
the ferocious but charming miriam shaviv over at the jc is blogging a number of “daily proposals to transform the british jewish community” during march. i was discussing this with my redoubtable other half over friday night dinner and we thought the following might be worth submission: 1. transparency at the jewish leadership council ok, we know [...]
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how to complain before you see the programme!

By bananabrain | Published: March 2, 2010
now, i haven’t seen the “dispatches” programme yet, it’s on my sky+ box waiting to be viewed. however, i was quite amused to be warned by one naeem darr, who i understand is some sort of spokesman for our old friends the muslim safety forum, to have my complaint ready. helpfully, he then went on [...]
Also posted in Activism, Farce, Freedom of Expression, Identity Politics, Islamism, Media, PVE | 5 Comments

“well, they’re a bit extreme, but they do such good work bringing people back to judaism!”

By bananabrain | Published: January 29, 2010
david t from harry’s place forwarded me this cartoon by eli valley, whose satirical strips appear monthly in the leading us jewish magazine “the forward”. on reading it, i didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. on one hand, it’s a caricature of the position of the kiruv (“outreach”) organisations, but on the other hand, once you [...]
Also posted in Freedom of Expression, Identity Politics, Interfaith, Jewish Extremism, Obscurantism, Politics, Sectarianism | 57 Comments

More Hizb ut Tahrir entryism

By Shikwa | Published: August 4, 2009
Majed Iqbal is a typical Hizb ut Tahrir entryist. He’s a busy boy in his hometown of Rochdale these days – what with trying to create a Caliphate and all that, it’s remarkable he has time for anything else. But he does. By night Majed moonlights as a journalist, trying to pass off his wildly racist [...]
Also posted in Islamism, Media | 66 Comments

Has Tower Hamlets Council been Infiltrated by Islamists?

By Faisal | Published: June 15, 2009
Information about the high levels of interwoven activity between Labour Party councillors working for Tower Hamlets council and Islamist activists in East London Mosque (London Muslim Centre) appears to be reaching the public domain. An article in the Sunday Express yesterday, by Ted Jeory, details the extent to which the Labour party in Tower Hamlets is [...]
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