Category Archives: Right wing

‘Look who’s versed in hatred’

Posted on by Bob Pitt

allison pearson“Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, leader of the Muslim Council of Britain, has the cheek to compare modern Britain to Nazi Germany. ‘Every society has to be really careful so the situation doesn’t lead us to a time when people’s minds can be poisoned as they were in the 1930s. If your community is perceived in a very negative manner, then Muslims begin to feel very vulnerable,’ he says.

“Hang on. How vulnerable do the rest of us feel hearing that at least 2,000 of our fellow citizens are involved in terrorist activity? In Nazi Germany, Dr Bari may recall, it was Jewish children who were rounded up to be killed. Not the Jewish children who were trained to do the killing.

“Still, I’m glad to see Dr Bari is worried about minds being poisoned. Maybe he is familiar with the poetry of Samina Malik, a 23-year-old self-styled ‘lyrical terrorist’. Say what you like about Pam Ayres, she never wrote a poem called How To Behead: ‘It’s not as messy or as hard as some may think/It’s all about the flow of the wrist. No doubt that the punk will twitch and scream/But ignore the donkey’s ass/And continue to slice back and forth.’ Miss Malik shared her charming light verse with other like-minded people on the internet, before being arrested and convicted a few days ago under anti-terrorist laws.

“The news that Samina Malik held down a job at WHSmith at Heathrow on the air-side, for crying out loud, proves just how insanely tolerant Britain is, despite the intolerable provocation of men like Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari.”

Allison Pearson in the Daily Mail, 14 November 2007

Update:  See “Comparisions with the 1930s”, MCB press release, 15 November 2007

Muslim minister sues over claim of intimidating voters

Posted on by Bob Pitt

Britain’s first Muslim Government minister yesterday launched a libel battle in the High Court over claims that he organised “gangs of Asian thugs” to intimidate voters in a local election.

International Development Minister Shahid Malik is said to have “overseen and directed” up to 200 Asian Labour activists to help secure victory for a Muslim councillor. The men are said to have breached electoral rules by escorting voters to the polling station while telling them in Urdu to choose the Muslim Labour candidate. Mr Malik is also accused of encouraging ethnic division in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, by urging Asians to vote for “their Muslim brother” rather than according to their political opinion.

The allegations were first made by former Conservative councillor Jonathan Scott in a letter to the Dewsbury Press newspaper, after he was unseated as a local councillor. It describes how “Malik’s ethnic entourage behaved no better than BNP thugs” on polling day in the Dewsbury South ward of Kirklees Council. The letter – and a follow-up news story on the same topic – went on to claim that “Malik convinced local Asian voters to vote for Labour candidates… on the grounds that those candidates were ‘Muslim brothers'”.

Mr Malik appeared in court in London to give evidence against Mr Scott, the newspaper and the newspaper’s editor. Mr Malik’s lawyer Adam Wolanksi said the allegations were untrue and caused the 39-year-old MP for Dewsbury to be seen as “a racist and dangerous extremist who is unfit to hold public office”.

Daily Mail, 13 November 2007

British Muslims – ‘not victims but victimisers’

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“Britain’s two million Muslims are being led astray. Instead of facing up to the problem of extremism in their own ranks they are being encouraged to wallow in an imagined sense of victimhood. The result will be an even bigger divide between Islam and mainstream British society and a growing regret among non-Muslims that this country should ever have allowed a substantial Muslim population to spring up in its midst…. Dr Bari was seeking to appropriate for Muslims the role of victims. In fact, because of the growing numbers of militants within their ranks, they are much more accurately cast as victimisers.”

Patrick O’ Flynn adds his ten cents to the misrepresentation of Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari’s views.

Daily Express, 13 November 2007

‘Only people stoking anti-Muslim feeling are idiots like Bari’

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Jon Gaunt and SunHOW dare Muslim “leader” Muhammad Bari use the eve of Remembrance Sunday to compare the persecution and eradication of six million Jews in Nazi Germany to the way Muslims are being treated today in Britain?

This opinion is almost as ludicrous as his haircut. Or is it just a bad wig? Not only is he insulting the Jews, he is also attacking every one of our forefathers, of all religions, who fought the Nazis to protect free speech in this country. The same free speech and democracy that allows this pious prat to mouth off and insult us all.

Muhammad, I know that you are a teaching assistant. So here’s a quick history lesson for you.

I don’t recall Jews carrying out suicide bombings or calling for their own form of law in Germany. Come to think of it, I don’t think there were stupid Jewish girls using public money to bring court cases about their rights to dress like Daleks in the classroom, or not show their hair if they wanted to be hairdressers. I also don’t think that Adolf would have tolerated “lyrical terrorists” working at Berlin airport, writing poems or threatening to kill Kaffirs (non-believers).

So for Bonkers Bari to suggest that this country is becoming like Nazi Germany, and that people’s minds are being poisoned against Muslims as they were in the Thirties, is just absurd. This is the most tolerant nation in the world. The only people promoting anti-Muslim feeling in the majority population are fools like him, who think that we should all adopt Islamic practices such as arranged marriages and the banning of alcohol.

Instead of telling the nation that has offered him a home how to run itself, Bari should be trying to put his own house in order and clearing the extremist literature off the shelves of the bookshop in the mosque he chairs. But no, he would rather tell us that suicide bombers are really “vulnerable” and isolated. My heart bleeds.

But silly me, of course it’s entirely our fault, or at least the fault of our foreign policies. It’s us who have turned these ordinary British-born and bred lads, who love cricket, into the arms of the extremists. Stone me for daring to believe that we have provided a society in which all religions co-exist, rather than a one-religion state that enforces only one world view through a systematic form of terror and barbaric punishments.

If Bari wants to live in a country like that he should proceed to the door marked Exit and take his Stone Age ideas with him. But no, he would rather stay here and bleat: “There is a disproportionate amount of discussion surrounding us”. I agree.

So I tell you what, Bari, I’ll stop using a disproportionate amount of my time discussing Muslims when some Muslims STOP using a disproportionate amount of legal aid to bring ridiculous cases to court, when they STOP getting disproportionate amounts of time to air their grievances on the BBC and when councils and governments STOP spending disproportionate amounts of my cash and time on trying to appease a minority religion in a Christian country.

But until that happens shut up, Wiggy, for Allah’s sake.

Jon Gaunt in the Sun, 13 November 2007

“How dare Muslim ‘leader’ Muhammad Bari use the eve of Remembrance Sunday to compare the persecution and eradication of six million Jews in Nazi Germany to the way Muslims are being treated today in Britain? This opinion is almost as ludicrous as his haircut. Or is it just a bad wig? … for Bonkers Bari to suggest that this country is becoming like Nazi Germany, and that people’s minds are being poisoned against Muslims as they were in the Thirties, is just absurd. This is the most tolerant nation in the world.”

Well, if it is, that’s because the majority of us are intelligent enough reject the bigoted ravings of idiots like Jon Gaunt.

In any case, none of the Telegraph‘s quotes from Dr Bari make any specific reference to the Nazis. What he said was: “Every society has to be really careful so the situation doesn’t lead us to a time when people’s minds can be poisoned as they were in the 1930s.” If Gaunt really thinks that bigotry and hatred towards the Jewish community during that decade was restricted to Germany, then you can only suggest that he’s in need of a history lesson himself.

Update:  See “Comparisions with the 1930s”, MCB press release, 15 November 2007

Call to ban council staff from wearing the burka

Posted on by Bob Pitt

A group of councillors are proposing that staff at Calderdale Council be banned from wearing the burka and niqab.

Coun Allen Clegg has demanded staff be stopped from wearing the religious Muslim dress because “it intimidates people.” He likened the niqab – the face veil – and the burka, the garment that cloaks the entire body, often including the face, to outfits worn by the Ku Klux Klan.

He told the Courier: “Council workers are often facing the public and I don’t think the public feels comfortable or safe facing someone they essentially cannot see. It’s a matter of common sense. How would you feel if a social worker turned up at your door wearing something that resembled a Ku Klux Klan outfit?”

Halifax Evening Courier, 12 November 2007

Muslim brands Britain ‘Nazi’ – according to the Express

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“War widows and MPs reacted angrily last night after a Muslim leader warned Britain was becoming like Nazi Germany. Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said perceptions of Muslims were so negative there was a danger that people’s minds would be ‘poisoned as they were in the Thirties’. His comments, made on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, came as a Sunday Express poll showed the Conservatives surging into an eight-point lead over Labour on the back of public concern about immigration….

“Tory MP David Davies described Dr Bari’s comments as ‘extraordinary’. He said: ‘If there is a backlash in this country, it will come because of comments like this. Britain led the world against Nazi Germany. It is extraordinary that this man should be given a platform for his views and that the Government is affording him respect. The message has to go out that no one invited Muslims into this country – they chose to come here for a better way of life. Anyone who comes here has to learn our language and respect our way of life and traditions. There are far too many people who seem to think they do not have to obey our rules but demand that we change our way of life to suit them. It has got to stop’.

“War widows gathering for the national remembrance service at the Cenotaph in London also voiced anger. Kathleen Woodside, 87, from Liverpool, who helped to found the War Widows Association of Great Britain after her husband Charles was killed on the last day of the war in Italy on March 1, 1945, said: ‘I am against this kind of talk. It is as if the Muslims want to take us over’.”

Sunday Express, 11 November 2007

Update:  See “Comparisions with the 1930s”, MCB press release, 15 November 2007

Islamophobia on the internet – even the Mail draws the line at Jihad Watch

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Jihad Watch logo

The Mail on Sunday examines the hatred generated by the right-wing internet campaign against the so-called “Rage Boy”, Kashmiri Islamist protestor Shakeel Ahmad Bhat:

“Don’t you hate Islamic Rage Boy? ‘MoBlows’, writing on the Jihad Watch website, certainly does. ‘I just want to put my fist down his throat’, he says. The ‘boy’ in question rose to prominence earlier this year when he was photographed at a demonstration in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir…. On Jihad Watch, which says its aim is to bring public notice to the role that jihad theology and ideology play in the modern world, ‘The Goobs’ writes: ‘Can you IMAGINE how nasty it would smell standing next to this nutter? Whatcha wanna bet he hasn’t ever owned a can of Right Guard?’ … Many other internet postings about Rage Boy are so revolting that they cannot be published in a family newspaper.”

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is indignant that his hate-filled website should be criticised in this way (particularly by the Mail, which he regards as “a cut above the general run of clueless, collaborationist and dhimmi fishwraps”). He writes: “As I’ve said many times, I believe in free inquiry, and that the antidote to bad speech is more speech, not forcible silencing.”

Bushra Noah case – ‘nothing to do with race or religion’ says Tory

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“The owner of a hair salon in London’s King’s Cross is being sued for not hiring a Muslim girl who refused to take off her headscarf. Sarah Desrosiers, 32, runs Wedge, a salon specialising in cutting-edge, urban, punky styles. One glance at 19-year-old Bushra Noah will tell you she is none of those things.

“Yet she is suing for £15,000, claiming that she’s the victim of religious discrimination. Poppycock. This case has nothing to do with race or religion, but plenty to do with an ill-suited job applicant using their faith as a means to extort money aboard Britain’s Great Grievance Gravy Train. What next? Ugly Betty suing for not getting the top job at Vogue?”

William Hague’s former press secretary Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail, 10 November 2007