Category Archives: UK 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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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, Entryism, Politics | 4 Comments

“Violent” and “Non Violent” Islamists

By Guest | Published: July 25, 2010
This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips at Harry’s Place So, it is almost that Global Peace and Unity time of year again. Regular readers of Harry’s Place will remember that, every year, the Islam Channel invites some of the most extreme and nasty Islamists – supporters of attacks on our troops, of terrorism (outside the UK, [...]
Also posted in Islamism | 11 Comments

Is DCLG’s Senior Muslim Advisor Mohammad Abdul Aziz an Islamist Supporter?

By Guest | Published: June 7, 2010
This is a guest post by a brother from East London Mohammad Abdul Aziz is a Senior Muslim Advisor at DCLG. He is also a honorary trustee of East London mosque (ELM) and the London Muslim Centre (LMC), as well as having been an advisor to the MCB. He was formerly an executive committee member of [...]
Also posted in Islamism | 10 Comments

Smearing the new MP

By Guest | Published: May 23, 2010
The journalist Ted Jeory has started ‘Trial By Jeory‘, a new blog about politics in East London. This is a cross-post. **** I first met Rushanara Ali, Labour’s new MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, three years ago when she was campaigning to become the party’s parliamentary candidate for the constituency. I was at the East London [...]
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Hizb-ut-Tahrir: Jihad, Caliphate and the Tories

By Guest | Published: May 17, 2010
This is a guest post from Raziq, a former member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir **** Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT) is an anti-Semitic, separatist and divisive group which justifies the use of violence. Ideologically it has the same goals as al-Qaeda (i.e. the creation of a super expansionist Islamist state) only the methods differ. HT is not a terrorist [...]
Also posted in Islamism | 8 Comments

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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The IFE Crushed in Tower Hamlets

By Effendi | Published: May 11, 2010
The Islamist powerplay of the Jamaati-Islami entryist group, the IFE, in Tower Hamlets has come to a dismal end with this piece of news: Lutfur Rahman, the Labour leader of Tower Hamlets council backed by radical Islamists, has lost his job. At last night’s Labour group meeting, he was replaced as leader by another Labour councillor, [...]
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Reasons To Be Cheerful

By Effendi | Published: May 10, 2010
Whatever the outcome of the post-election horsetrading now in full swing between Lib Dems and the two other major parties, there were some election results that deserve to be celebrated. First of all there were the utter defeat of the two extreme, sectarian parties of the BNP and Respect. BNP Smashed! Not only did the BNP fail [...]
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