Category Archives: The Far Left

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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Support Gheyret Niyaz

By Faisal | Published: July 25, 2010
Here’s a story of Islamophobia and brutal state-oppression of Muslims. The intellectual, Gheyret Niyaz, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for endangering state security, a vague charge that is often used by officials to lock up people they deem political threats. The sentence was especially severe given that Mr. Niyaz was not accused of taking [...]
Also posted in Anti Muslim bigotry | 3 Comments

Has beens and wanabees

By Guest | Published: May 30, 2010
This is a cross-post by Terry Fitzpatrick There is an air of desperation about the announcement of a conference at The Camden Centre next Saturday the 5th of June. Announcements in the Morning Star and on Socialist Unity meant that the omens were not good and the line up of those speaking confirms that. Islamophobia has, it [...]
Also posted in Islamism | 1 Comment

Respect No More

By Effendi | Published: May 15, 2010
The ship of fools that is the RESPECT Party could be sinking if not sunk. Following its abysmal performance in last week’s elections comes news that its financier and chairman of the Tower Hamlets branch, Azmal Hussain, has resigned. A local chairman and a financier of the Respect Party has told BBC London he is to [...]
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George Galloway: Expect More Lies

By Guest | Published: April 27, 2010
This is cross-post by Terry Glavin: **** Fiction: Reported in the Globe and Mail: “I didn’t give any money to Hamas, I gave it to the ministry of health in Gaza to pay for the salaries of the doctors and nurses who hadn’t been paid. By the way, we’re talking about 20 odd thousand pounds, not millions. [...]
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Defend David T

By Guest | Published: March 19, 2010
This is a cross-post by Rumbold **** David T of Harry’s Place is being sued by George Galloway and one of Mr. Galloway’s collegues, Kevin Ovenden. They are demanding £50,000 for a comment left on another blog. The comment he made wasn’t nice or correct, but as Richard Bartholomew put it: The legal threat seems to me to [...]
Also posted in Lawfare | 19 Comments

Liberal Confusion

By Faisal | Published: March 12, 2010
Terry Eagleton is interviewed by the Culture Editor of the New Statesman. Asked about his very public spat with Martin Amis two years ago, Eagleton replies: I’m interested in the way a whole stratum of the liberal literati (Rushdie, to some extent Ian McEwan, A C Grayling, obviously Amis and Hitchens) – the very people you’d [...]
Also posted in Moral relativism | 4 Comments

IW Gets a Well Deserved Kick in the Pants

By Effendi | Published: February 9, 2010
Bob Pitt is the far-Left blogger who furiously documents any criticism of Islamism on “Islam0phobia-Watch”. Pitt publishes his anti-Muslim/pro-Islamist screed under the nom de guerre of Martin Sullivan. Pitt/Sullivan published this childish rant in response to Gita Sahgal lambasting of Amnesty and Moazzam Begg: Gita Sahgal is a member of a nutty group called Women Against Fundamentalisms. [...]
Also posted in Islamism | 11 Comments

ray hanania on the stupidity of pro-hamas leftie activists

By bananabrain | Published: January 14, 2010
well, no surprises here – ray hanania, writing in the jerusalem post, finds plenty to criticise about the sort of activist that is perpetuating the sad situation in the gaza strip, in the now-established tradition of leftie imbeciles sucking up to clerical fascists as an act of anti-imperialist egotism. and, of course there’s none more egotistical [...]
Also posted in Activism, Farce, Islamism, Israel/Palestine, Terrorism | 3 Comments

Time for Atonement by Viva Palestine

By Guest | Published: January 9, 2010
This is a guest post by Eyal **** Following the riots by Viva Palestine supporters, Egyptian authorities have declared George Galloway a persona-non-grata in Egypt. The latest news now is that as a result of Viva Palestine’s behavior, Egyptian authorities have decided to ban all aid conveys through their territory. Well, those pro-Hamas “human-rights” folks can really pat [...]
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