Friends of Raed Salah: Labour MPs

By Cross Post | Published: October 28, 2011

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips at Harry’s Place

Yesterday, I asked a question:

If a person denies clear evidence of racism, defends a racist, and attacks a leading anti-racist institution, is it fair to conclude that they are in fact a racist?

It is a genuine question. The answer in some cases will, undoubtedly, be yes. However, others may find themselves in the position of supporting a racist and denying their racism, and attacking anti-racist organisations: because they believe that a little racism is necessary, in furtherance of a greater political cause. Those people are not racists themselves. They are merely tolerating and facilitating racism, making it more difficult to challenge, giving it an alibi.

Yet others may honestly fail to recognise racism, or may not believe the evidence of racism. It is quite easy to tell who those innocent endorsers of racism are. They’re the ones who, once they realise their error, are the keenest to correct it, publicly.

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Ayesha Siddiqa on the meltdown in Pakistan

By Effendi | Published: October 28, 2011

It is with some quiet satisfaction that I read this article by the highly regarded Pakistani journalist and commentator Ayesha Siddiqa. The points I have been making on Pakistan over the past year, she confirms. She writes forcefully, but not without a hint of resignation and sadness, on two main points:

1) The public institutions of the judiciary, executive and military have been infiltrated by far-right religious-nationalist groups (such as the Jamaat or Tehreek-i-Taliban – let’s use the term Islamists  to define them) to such an extent that the autonomy and legitimacy of civil institutions have been deeply compromised.

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Posted in Islamism, Jamaat-e-Islam | 5 Comments

Beyond Parody

By Effendi | Published: October 27, 2011

And now for something completely different. There is plenty of parody jihadi material doing the rounds on YouTube but the unintentional humour of Sheikh Abu Waleed from MAC (Munching A Chicken-wing) never fails to delight.

The only difference is Abu Waleed isn’t doing parody. His stuff is for real!

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Dirty Kuffar

By Effendi | Published: October 27, 2011

There’s the parody of the parody, ragga-stylee:

And then there’s the acoustic parody of the parody of the parody:

h/t: A & S (The Glimmer Twins)

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Raed Salah: Kick This Racist Scum Out Now

By Cross Post | Published: October 27, 2011

This is a cross-post by Lucy Lips from Harry’s Place

Raed Salah has lost his ill conceived attempt to prevent his deportation from the United Kingdom. Despite being the subject of a banning order, you will remember that the hate preacher was accidentally admitted to the United Kingdom.

He has had his fun. It is now time for him to sling his hook.

This is what the court found:

We are satisfied that the appellant has engaged in the unacceptable behaviour of fostering hatred which might lead to intercommunity violence in the UK.

“We are satisfied that the appellant’s words and actions tend to be inflammatory, divisive, insulting and likely to foment tension and radicalism.

I urge you to read the response of The CST to the judgement.

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Victims of the Arab Spring

By avicenna | Published: October 26, 2011

The Arab Spring has been successful in getting rid of totalitarian regimes in the Arab world. This is largely a cause for celebration but there are many who lived in those regimes for whom life was safer before the Arab Spring. They are the victims of the Arab racism.

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Jamaat seeks Presidential pardon for Mumtaz Qadri

By Effendi | Published: October 25, 2011

As the Jamaat-e-Islam here in London gear up their lobby groups to agitate for impunity for their Bangladeshi numbers involved in genocide, their fellows in Jamaat-e-Islam Pakistan are calling for their assassin, Mumtaz Qadri  to be pardoned by presidential decree. Qadri, you will remember, was the bodyguard of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, whom Qadri shot in broad daylight. Taseer was killed because he publicly criticised Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law which has been used as a blunt tool to repress religious minorities. JI says anyone can file a pardon plea on behalf of the sentenced person whether they wish it or not.

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Iran from 1970 to 2009

By avicenna | Published: October 24, 2011

Is this a picture of transformative success or the success of backwardness? I vote for the latter.

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SpinWatch Supports the work of Bob Lambert, the Police Spy and Lobbyist

By Effendi | Published: October 24, 2011

On David Miller’s SpinWatch site is an open letter to spy master Bob Lambert, soliciting him with an opportunity to clear his name in the face of recent “allegations”.

Miller opens the letter with some boilerplate text about being firmly opposed to “the infiltration of activist groups by the forces of the state, corporations and the private security industry”:

Spinwatch has – from the very beginning in 2004 – been involved in investigating the infiltration of activist groups by the forces of the state, corporations and the private security industry.  One of the earliest cases we examined was the infiltration of London Greenpeace, with which you have reportedly been associated. Since then we have done extended work on the infiltration of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (The Threat Response Spy Files) and most recently on the 2010/11 case of police spy Mark Kennedy. We have done this work in close collaboration with the activists who have been infiltrated, destabilized and betrayed. Spinwatch stands in solidarity with the infiltrated.

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More Revelations On Lambert Surface

By Effendi | Published: October 24, 2011

New revelations of Bob Lambert’s activities as a Special Branch cop when he led a number of infiltrators into left-wing organisations in the eighties are beginning to surface. But it is his own work as a police spy when he posed as a member of London Greenpeace which has brought out the most damaging allegations. Not least of these comes from Bob Lambert’s ex-girlfriend:

"High Moral Code"

A former police spymaster who spent years living deep undercover in the protest movement has confessed he tricked an innocent woman into having a long-term relationship with him, as part of an elaborate attempt to lend “credibility” to his alter ego.

Bob Lambert, who adopted a false identity to infiltrate leftwing and animal rights groups, said he had the 18-month relationship with the woman, who was not herself involved in political activism, as part of his cover story.

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