Category Archives: Politics

The David Kelly conspiracy

By Ziryab | Published: August 22, 2010
This is a cross-post from Harry’s Place According to the Daily Mail (ho, ho ho), only one in five of you believe David Kelly committed suicide. According to an exclusive Mail opinion poll, only one in five people accepts the Hutton Inquiry’s finding that the government weapons inspector took his own life. The survey also reveals that eight [...]
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is digging mass graves for American soldiers in preparation for a war over its nuclear programme, according to a former senior commander.

By Ziryab | Published: August 15, 2010
This is a cross-post by Richard Spencer. The scene in the south of Iran where hundreds of mass graves have been dug General Hossein Moghadam, the Guard’s former deputy chief, was speaking after film footage showed strings of freshly dug graves in the south of the country. They were close to the site of war graves for the [...]
Also posted in International Affairs | 2 Comments

The Mughal Caliphate

By Ziryab | Published: August 14, 2010
This is a re-post of an article by Raziq first posted in January 2010 **** Islamist groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir, Al-Muhajiroun and the Muslim Brotherhood claim that Muslims were ruled by a single political leadership which started from the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century and lasted until the last days of the Ottoman [...]
Also posted in Education, History, Islamism | 21 Comments

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, Entryism, UK Politics | 4 Comments

meanwhile, in israel…

By bananabrain | Published: June 4, 2010
with the flotilla imbroglio (or fiasco, if you prefer) in full swing, yours truly has just arrived back from the zionist entity, where numerous representatives of clan bananabrain continue to live as normal a life as one might expect in what hussein shobokshi of asharq al-awsat describes as “a state established on a lie based [...]
Also posted in Civil Rights, Democracy, Freedom of Religion, International Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Extremism | 13 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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“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 Entryism, Freedom of Expression, Identity Politics, Interfaith, Jewish Extremism, Obscurantism, Sectarianism | 57 Comments

a few good rabbis?

By bananabrain | Published: January 18, 2010
for those of you who aren’t aware of it, this has not been a good couple of years for the orthodox, “strictly-”orthodox and ultra-orthodox communities. corruption around kosher slaughterhouses and conversions, sex scandals, money-laundering, drug smuggling, you name it. all the usual justifications are made, of course, all the usual people accept them and all [...]
Also posted in Activism, Education, Ethics, Interfaith | 3 Comments

Saudi deradicalisation initiative

By Effendi | Published: January 12, 2010
Shiraz Maher has a piece over at the Wall Street Journal explaining why Saudi “deradicalisation” prisons are failing. I’ve reproduced it in full below. It is now clear that the failed terrorist attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day was directed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The reasons for the sudden resurgence [...]
Also posted in Islamism, Terrorism | 59 Comments

Press TV sinks to new lows

By Effendi | Published: January 7, 2010
Well, this is just pathetic. Few things have angered me as much as watching this outrageous clip from Press TV. It is the worst and most blatant propaganda I’ve seen for years. Exactly the kind of rubbish I’d expect from a station that is little more than a mouthpiece for Ahmadinijad’s murderous regime. Ofcom has rules on [...]
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