Tag Archives: SIOE

Hope not Hate in Harrow

By Faisal | Published: December 14, 2009

SIOE Leader Stephen Gash had said that the SIOE demo at Harrow Central Mosque yesterday would attract 2,000 supporters out of the 3,200 he claimed as total membership for his organisation. However, the BBC reports that fifteen SIOE protesters turned up in Harrow. Although from my estimates, fifteen is possibly overly generous of Aunty.

Asim Siddiqui sees at least one encouraging sign in the rise of white-race supremacist movements of the far-right resurgent all over Europe and now getting its freak on in Britain:

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Posted in Activism, Anti Fascism, Anti Muslim bigotry, Antisemitism, Feature | Tagged | 2 Comments

Anti-Muslim Bigotry, Plain and Nasty

By Yossarian | Published: September 11, 2009

This summer has been a bad one for people proud of Britain’s multiethnic, multifaith identity. Especially if you have any attachment to Birmingham where the actions of some anti-fascists have proved a propaganda boon for the far right anti-Muslim bigots of the English Defence League, BNP and Stop Islamisation Of Europe (SIOE).

Today there is a major risk of serious disturbances in Harrow and all, these organisations say, because they hate “Islamist extremism”.

A common criticism made of people who oppose Islamist extremism is that they blur the lines between Islam and Islamism so as to attack all Muslims. The Spittoon has often been accused of this, an accusation which we entirely reject. But the EDL and its anti-Muslim fellow travellers of the BNP and SIOE do not just blur the line, they ignore that such a line exists and trample it into the dust.

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Posted in Anti Fascism, Anti Muslim bigotry, UK Politics | Also tagged | 24 Comments

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