Why we have to get over our fear of Islamophobia

By Effendi | Published: November 7, 2011

Rania Hafez

When this article was published this morning, the subs at the Indpendent gave it the title ‘Why we have to get over our fear of Islamophobia‘. Twelve hours later, they’ve renamed it to ‘Islamophobia: Why we have to get over our fears‘. Whatever they choose to call it, this is an amazing article. The author of the piece is Rania Hafez, a teacher educator and academic and founder and director of ‘Muslim Women in Education’.

‘Islamophobia is the new racism’ is now a seeming truism, or so Baroness Warsi and many others would have us believe. She claims that Islamophobia has ‘passed the dinner table test’ and that anti-Muslim prejudice is now normal and uncontroversial in respectable society. Warsi’s views are echoed by many British Muslims, who claim to experience such prejudice daily.

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The Fabled Superiority of Islam

By avicenna | Published: November 7, 2011

From Annaqed (“the critic”) comes this excellent analysis of the roots of Islamic supremacism, by Louise Palme. Here is an excerpt but I urge you to read this superb piece in its entirety.

Cracks in the Façade

While maintaining the image of religious superiority was easy when there was little contact between the Muslim world and the non-Muslim world, advances in transportation and communication have increased this contact exponentially.  Here are some of the cracks in the façade of Islamic superiority:

Golden Age of Islam –  During the first five hundred years of Islam, the Islamic world made remarkable accomplishments in science, medicine, and architecture, due in part to their affluence as a result of “booty” and their conquest of highly educated populations.  These accomplishments later stimulated the European Renaissance.  But in the 20th and 21st Centuries, the contribution of the Islamic countries in these fields has been meager.  Out of the 797 Nobel Prizes awarded to individuals for accomplishments in science and other fields since 1901, Muslims can boast only 8, or one percent from a population that comprises 20% of the world’s population.  A recent United Nations Human Development report found that the countries in the Middle East only surpass Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of education and other human development measures.

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The Return of Goebbels

By Effendi | Published: November 6, 2011

Sarmila Bose, the Indian genocide denial merchant, has made it her life’s work to disguise the unholy stench of genocide with the air freshener of insipid historical revision. With the International Crimes Tribunal underway in Bangladesh to try 4 leaders of Jamaat-e-Islam, Sarmila Bose’s efforts to deny the crimes of these genocidaires is more in the public eye than ever thanks to her efforts with various lobby groups. Bose’s revisionism of Pakistan’s culpability in the genocide of 1971 is hardly in danger of gaining acceptance. But the one thing her work has in its favour are her formidable networking skills with high-powered friends in high-powered places from patronage by the American right-wing think tank – such as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Unfortunately for Ms Bose, it doesn’t take much to discern between credible historical revision and a woefully biased hack job.

Here’s an understated savaging of Bose’s thesis by Maskwaith Ahsan:

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SpinWatch Retracts Support for Bob Lambert

By Effendi | Published: November 4, 2011

SpinWatch, which is run by Professor David Miller of Strathclyde University, has a disgraceful record of attacks on Muslim liberals who oppose terrorist attacks. Furthermore, Miller’s site presented the views of the prominent neo-Nazi academic Kevin MacDonald, to explain the political behaviour of Jews.

Last week SpinWatch gave Bob Lambert space on their website to apologise for his “former” career as a Police spy. But that was then. It now transpires that SpinWatch has retracted its support for Lambert in a new statement. The reasons for their abrupt turnaround are these:

The delay of the publication coincided with the publication of the SpinWatch open letter and a comment piece by Lambert himself. This was followed by a flurry of stories in the Guardian featuring further details about his infiltration and the damage done by the 18 month relationship he pursued as part of his cover (for an overview see the Lewis and Evans’ Undercover blog).

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Fastest Growing Apostasy

By avicenna | Published: November 4, 2011

On facebook, increasing numbers of young Muslims are turning away from Islam, says this report:

A handful of Pakistani Muslim youths are beginning to question the existence of God and in the process giving up Islam to become atheists.

Still a small number, the trend seems to be telling of pressures that the image of militant Islam has had on them. A Facebook group has been floated for Pakistan’s agnostics and atheists by Hazrat NaKhuda, a former Pakistani Muslim.

At last count, the group had over a 100 members. In a thread started on the discussion board on “How did you become an atheist”, Hazrat writes, “I used to be a practicing Muslim. I used to live in Saudi Arabia. I have done two Hajs and countless Umrahs. Used to pray five times a day. When I turned 17-18, I realized that the only reason I was a Muslim was because my parents were Muslims”.

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Who Betrayed Raed Salah?

By Effendi | Published: November 3, 2011

This short, succinct film was sent to us by an anonymous genius. It is based on the Home Office’s decision to ban the Palestinian hate-preacher and anti-semitic religious leader, Raed Salah, from the UK.

graphisme web design

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Livingstone: The Police Spy Who Loved Me

By Effendi | Published: November 3, 2011

Martin Bright has an amusing piece on Ken Livingstone’s new auto-hagiography, Ken thinks he was never wrong. I beg to differ. Livingstone unkindly calls Bright a “minor intellectual”, an appellation Bright reclaims.

This is Bright on Livingstone’s favourite Islamist copper, Bob Lambert:

Bob Lambert, the Islamist copper, completed his doctorate on his own police work when he left the force but soon established himself as a regular Guardian commentator. He also set up the European Muslim Centre at Exeter University, with money from the Islamist Cordoba Foundation and Islam Expo, although he had to issue an apology for the first piece of work there after complaints from councillors in east London and local MP Jim Fitzpatrick who were wrongly described as Islamphobic.

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Support Charlie Hebdo

By Effendi | Published: November 2, 2011

100 lashes if you don't die of laughter

From the Huffington Post:

The Paris office of the satirical French MagazineCharlie Hebdo has been firebombed and its website has been hacked. It follows the announcement thatthe magazine would be ‘guest edited’ by the Prophet Muhammad.

It has been reported that the office was gutted by fire at around 1:00am Paris time, but there were no injuries.

Patrick Pelloux, a witness to the attack, told the AFP news agency that a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window.

“Everything was destroyed,” he said.

According to the Associated Press the director of the magazine said “the material damages are large”.

On Tuesday the magazine said that the Prophet Muhammad would be editing the magazine in “honour” of Islam’s role in this year’s uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and other Islamic countries.

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Britain should become more Christian, says Baroness Warsi

By Effendi | Published: October 31, 2011

How will Britain cure itself of its social ills? Baroness Warsi has the answer: By becoming more Christian.

Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, she says: “We need to create a country where people don’t feel like they have to leave religion at the door. That means being proud of Christianity, not downgrading it. It means encouraging people to say that their faith inspires what they do.

Lady Warsi said it was a “mistake to assume that you compromise your identity the more you try to understand others”. “The stronger your understanding of your neighbour, the stronger your own religious identity becomes.

Warsi sounds quite sensible in print. But it is on televised appearances where she is not afraid to be  far more candid about what she really means:

conférence

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SpinWatch Lobbying Event Cancelled

By Effendi | Published: October 29, 2011

It could have been a great photo opportunity for David Miller, the self-styled lobby group guru behind the shady SpinWatch outfit, to pose, all smiles, in front of the camera with the Cordoba Foundation, the pro-Hamas lobby group, and Bob Lambert, recently exposed police spy. But unfortunately this happy confluence of Islamist lobby groups, police spies and putative anti-lobby group academics that had been arranged around a book launch event at the Jamaat-controlled London Muslim Centre this month will not be going ahead. The Cordoba Foundation have posted an announcement to say that the event has been cancelled due to “Unforseen circumstances”.

The Cordoba Foundation regretfully announces that the forthcoming event on the 8th of November ‘Launch of Two Ground Breaking Pieces of Research’ has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any incovenience caused.

Lucy Lips explains what these “unforseen circumstances” could be

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