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Friends of Raed Salah: Labour MPs

By Cross Post | Published: October 28, 2011

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips at Harry’s Place

Yesterday, I asked a question:

If a person denies clear evidence of racism, defends a racist, and attacks a leading anti-racist institution, is it fair to conclude that they are in fact a racist?

It is a genuine question. The answer in some cases will, undoubtedly, be yes. However, others may find themselves in the position of supporting a racist and denying their racism, and attacking anti-racist organisations: because they believe that a little racism is necessary, in furtherance of a greater political cause. Those people are not racists themselves. They are merely tolerating and facilitating racism, making it more difficult to challenge, giving it an alibi.

Yet others may honestly fail to recognise racism, or may not believe the evidence of racism. It is quite easy to tell who those innocent endorsers of racism are. They’re the ones who, once they realise their error, are the keenest to correct it, publicly.

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Ayesha Siddiqa on the meltdown in Pakistan

By Effendi | Published: October 28, 2011

It is with some quiet satisfaction that I read this article by the highly regarded Pakistani journalist and commentator Ayesha Siddiqa. The points I have been making on Pakistan over the past year, she confirms. She writes forcefully, but not without a hint of resignation and sadness, on two main points:

1) The public institutions of the judiciary, executive and military have been infiltrated by far-right religious-nationalist groups (such as the Jamaat or Tehreek-i-Taliban – let’s use the term Islamists  to define them) to such an extent that the autonomy and legitimacy of civil institutions have been deeply compromised.

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Raed Salah: Kick This Racist Scum Out Now

By Cross Post | Published: October 27, 2011

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips from Harry’s Place

Raed Salah has lost his ill conceived attempt to prevent his deportation from the United Kingdom. Despite being the subject of a banning order, you will remember that the hate preacher was accidentally admitted to the United Kingdom.

He has had his fun. It is now time for him to sling his hook.

This is what the court found:

We are satisfied that the appellant has engaged in the unacceptable behaviour of fostering hatred which might lead to intercommunity violence in the UK.

“We are satisfied that the appellant’s words and actions tend to be inflammatory, divisive, insulting and likely to foment tension and radicalism.

I urge you to read the response of The CST to the judgement.

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On Drone Strikes

By Effendi | Published: October 23, 2011

In Pakistan, drone strikes have killed hundreds of non-combatant civilians. This means many more victims than have been previously reported, including the deaths of 168 children. The deaths of these non-combatant civilians should be challenged by every sensible person.

The responsibility is on the US and Pakistan governments, together, to try and reduce the numbers of these deaths; a point made by Christopher Rogers of CIVIC:

In a recent study by the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict (CIVIC), report author Christopher Rogers said: “It’s almost certain that US drone strikes are causing more civilian casualties than the US has thus far admitted”.

He told Channel 4 News “faulty intelligence” could be leading to civilian deaths.

He said: “In our research… in a number of instances there was no doubt that faulty ‘intel’ was to blame – hitting a pro-government peace committee member’s house, for instance. In other cases, though victims stated that militants were indeed killed in the strike, non-combatant civilians were hit collaterally. i.e. a militant car passing by a house that collapsed from the blast.”

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Two Headed Turkey

By Effendi | Published: October 19, 2011

Here’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Islamism’s favourite democratic politician, talking big on the issue of Palestinian self-determination:

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told Arab foreign ministers in Cairo that recognition of a Palestinian state was “not an option but an obligation”.

“It’s time to raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations,” Mr Erdogan told his audience. “Let’s raise the Palestinian flag and let that flag be the symbol of peace and justice in the Middle East.”

The prime minister’s appeal significantly raised the diplomatic temperature days before Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is due formally to submit his statehood initiative to the Security Council.

And here’s where his actions speak louder than words on the issue of Kurdish self-determination:

Turkish troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships have pursued Kurdish rebels into Iraq.

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Daud Abdullah Defends Police Spy

By Effendi | Published: October 18, 2011

Today we saw Daud “Istanbul Declaration” Abdullah defending Bob Lambert, the agent provocateur and police spy, in the Guardian.

Daud writes that Lambert is the victim of a “smear campaign” by neocons and makes this amazing claim:

“If at any point [Lambert] was involved in the infiltration of legitimate protest and political groups while being a special branch officer, then that was wrong. That being said, the political authors of such a policy should bear the full responsibility for it and not any single officer.”

Yes Uncle Daud, because Britain is a police state of the Syrian kind in which the government is involved with running operational policing tactics!

More hilarious even than Daud’s paranoiac bellowing are the readers’ comments that follow. This one by AbuJasoos, who refers to the article’s subtitle “Those of us who worked with Lambert knew of his police past. What matters is how his approach kept Muslims from extremism”:

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On the “Martyrdom” of Anwar Al-Awlaki

By avicenna | Published: October 8, 2011

Some interesting reactions from the Al-Muhahajiroun posse of the targeted killing of Al-Qaeda theoretician Anwar Al-Awlaki.

First off, someone who goes by the nom du guerre of ‘Abu Abdullah Al-Britani’:

And followed by Sheikh Andy Al-DailyMail Chaudri:

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Faith Matters challenges the Islamist narrative

By Cross Post | Published: October 6, 2011

This is a cross-post from Faith Matters website

Faith Matters is launching its paper that offers a brief insight into the Secular reforms of the Ottoman Empire, in order to analyse and debunk claims by extreme groups like Al Qaeda of it being an Islamic Caliphate, strictly governed by Shariah Law. The Ottoman Empire is often presented, by such groups as a model political system upon which to re-build a global Caliphate. Osama bin Laden marked the decline of the Ottoman Empire as the fall of Islam – that the Islamic world “has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more than 80 years” and that “the righteous Khilafah will return with the permission of Allah”. Through the implementation of an Islamic legal and political system, extreme groups who mis-use the Islamic faith call for the rejection of liberal values and the current systems in place, which do not fundamentally clash with Islam.

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Also posted in History, Secularism | 3 Comments

The Wrath of Plod (or ex-plod Bob Lambert)

By Guest | Published: October 5, 2011

This is a guest post by Chris Blackburn

On Monday, British Islamists and their supporters under the banner of the Bangladesh Crisis Group gathered at the London Muslim Centre to preach to their flock that Bangladesh was committing serious human rights abuses in their desire to finally try the perpetrators of the genocide of 1971.

This group of supporters of radical Islamism have finally crossed the Rubicon and they have potentially shot themselves in the foot by amassing Jamaat and Muslim Brotherhood leaders together. Strategically, for them, it is bad to inject them into the highly contentious issue of their fellow Islamists committing genocide in Bangladesh. The genocide happened. It’s been well documented. Arguing against it is like trying to push the tide back. It’s irrational. It obviously has Islamist leaders worried. They are claiming there are mass human rights abuses by the Bangladesh government and that there is massive US counter-terrorism involvement in the tribunals as a way of gathering support from useful idiots in Britain’s academia.

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Jamaat-e-Islam’s “Bangladesh in Crisis” Rally

By Guest | Published: October 4, 2011

This is a guest post by Ashik

Last night I went along to a political rally organised by the Bangladesh Crisis Group which is an offshoot of the British Jamaat-e-Islam front, Islamic Forum Europe. I arrived at the Water Lily Centre which was the advertised venue to be told that the event had been moved to the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel. It was later expressed in the rally that the meeting had been moved because of “political pressure”. My guess is that the Water Lily Centre, which is controlled by Awami League supporters, decided not to host any political lobby involving Toby Cadman in case it irritated their leaders in Awami League HQ in Dhaka.

I thought that it was fitting that the rally had been moved back to London Muslim Centre, the nerve centre of the Jamaat-e-Islam in the UK. After all, it was the DCLG which correctly observed that the ELM/LMC is the base for Jamaat-e-Islami in the UK.

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