Category Archives: Right wing

Sookhdeo calls for ban on Qur’an

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Noble Qur'anPatrick Sookhdeo talks to the Telegraph:

“The whole approach towards Muslim militants was based on appeasement. 7/7 proved that that approach does not work – yet it is still being followed. For example, there is a book, The Noble Koran: a New Rendering of its Meaning in English, which is openly available in Muslim bookshops. It calls for the killing of Jews and Christians, and it sets out a strategy for killing the infidels and for warfare against them. The Government has done nothing whatever to interfere with the sale of that book. Why not? Government ministers have promised to punish religious hatred, to criminalise the glorification of terrorism, yet they do nothing about this book, which blatantly does both.”

Sunday Telegraph, 19 February 2006

The reference is evidently to a translation of the Qur’an by two Sufi scholars, Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley, which has been praised in the Middle East Quarterly for its “excellent, readable English”. (The MEQ, if you didn’t know, is published by the Middle East Forum, whose director is Daniel Pipes.) And Sookhdeo proposes, in all seriousness, that the government should ban it!

This proposal, predictably, is enthusiastically endorsed by the BNP, who (as we have noted before) are great admirers of Sookhdeo. As usual, though, the fascists feel that he fails to draw the necessary conclusions: “we believe that nothing but total separation of the majority of Muslims from the secular and Christian West will ensure the latter’s survival…. The pattern of very recent mass migration from the Islamic world into the west must be at first halted and then reversed.”

BNP news release, 19 February 2006

90% of UK Muslims ‘loyal’ to Britain: poll

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A sweeping majority of 91 percent of British Muslims are “loyal” to Britain and 80 percent still want to live in and accept Western society, a new poll showed on Sunday, February 19. The ICM survey, which has been conducted for Britain’s Sunday Telegraph on 500 British Muslims, also found that some 80 percent of them want British troops pulled from Iraq immediately.

Nearly two thirds further thought the recent video of British troops beating Iraqi youths was symptomatic of a wider problem in Iraq. Half did not think the soldiers would be “appropriately punished.” A video obtained by Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper News of the World showed UK troops dragging four young protesters off a street and into an army compound where they were ruthlessly punched, kicked and hit with batons.

Labour MP Sadiq Khan said the main single issue that respondents objected to was the government’s foreign policy – notably towards Iraq.

The survey found that 99 percent of British Muslims believe the July 7 bombers were “wrong” to carry out the atrocity. A fifth, however, showed sympathy with the “feelings and motives” of the four bombers who attacked London’s underground system last July 7, killing 52 people. Only one percent felt the attacks were “right.”

Islam Online, 19 February 2006

Contrast this with the coverage in the Torygraph itself, where the poll is reported under the headline “Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK”.

Sunday Telegraph, 19 February 2006

Full poll results here.

‘Muslim nation’ remark provokes anger in Australia

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Australian politicians and a Muslim leader condemned on Tuesday comments by a government lawmaker who suggested that allowing an abortion drug could lead to a disproportionate growth of the Muslim population.
Australia’s main opposition Labor described the comments by former veterans affairs minister Danna Vale as “dopey”, ignorant, offensive and “seriously weird”.

Vale was accused of fueling racist, anti-Muslim sentiments after she said she was concerned about the ramifications abortion would have for the future make-up of Australia, where Muslims currently comprises 1.5 percent of the population of 20 million.

Vale said she had read in a Sydney newspaper a comment by an Muslim imam that Australia would be a Muslim nation in 50 years. “I didn’t believe him at the time, but when you actually look at the birth rates and you look at the fact that we (non Muslims) are aborting ourselves almost out of existence by 100,000 abortions every year,” Vale told reporters late on Monday. “You multiple that by 50 years, that’s 5 million potential Australians we won’t have here.”

Vale’s remarks came ahead of a vote by the lower house of parliament this week on whether to scrap a government veto on abortion drug RU-486. The upper house Senate voted last week to remove the power of the health minister – conservative, Catholic, anti-abortionist Tony Abbott – to veto applications from firms and doctors who want to import and prescribe RU-486.

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Danish paper slams ‘special treatment’ for Muslims

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The editor-in-chief of the Danish daily embroiled in the cartoons row claimed on Wednesday, February 15, that the press was giving Muslims a special treatment, as his cultural editor defended the decision to commission the lampooning drawings of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

“It turned out that the freedom of the press crumbled much more quickly than I thought,” Jyllands-Posten Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste told the Danish Christian daily Kristelig Dagbladet, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). “It seems to me that the freedom of the press the world over is being limited as Muslims are being given special treatment.”

Islam Online, 16 February 2006

Islamophobia in New Zealand

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The election of Aysser Aljanabi, a young Muslim woman, as head girl of St Mary’s College, a Catholic high school in Wellington, has provoked a hostile response in some quarters. “Given what’s going on internationally I can understand some people’s reaction”, Catholic Education Office chief executive Pat Lynch was quoted as saying.

To Patiently Explain, 15 February 2006

‘What awaits us all’

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“Tiny little Israel is one of the few reasons that ISLAM has not yet fully conquered the West. But once this nation has succumbed, swallowed up by the ferocious hate-filled forces of ISLAM, the way will be free for ISLAM to swallow up the rest of the Western world. Once they have beaten the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel, securing victory in the Middle East, there will be little to stop them on their path to bring the whole Western World into subjection, and then become the conquerors of the whole world, exactly as they all believe Allah has long intended that they will do.”

Jan Willem van der Hoeven of the International Christian Zionist Center holds forth about the threat posed by the Muslim hordes.

Israel Insider, 13 February 2006

Freedom to hate?

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Freedom to hate?

By Jamil Hussein

Morning Star, 14 February 2006

The right-wing Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten sanctioned the inflammatory cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed to stir up controversy. The intention was to offend.

It is peculiar that, having succeeded in offending Muslims, the Danish paper and its right-wing counterparts in Europe were angered by the “expected” response and decided to reprint the same images – causing more offence.

In Britain, the issue escalated when a small number of ill-informed Muslims hijacked a march in London with abusive slogans, with the mainstream media depicting them as the voice of Muslims all over – something like assuming that Nick Griffin and his motley crew are representative of all white people.

Even though most Muslims warned beforehand that the reprinting of the pictures would be fodder for the trouble makers, the onus fell on Muslims to explain the backlash and condemn the “extremists.”

There have been subsequent “peaceful” marches, including a 10,000-strong demo on Saturday, but the mainstream press continue to concentrate on the few from the week before.

Having shown restraint in not publishing the caricatures, certain sections of the UK media have seized the opportunity to attack Muslims by focusing solely on the demonstrators and ignoring the initial “cause” of the demonstrations.

So what was the cause? Setting aside Islamic tradition, which bans any images of the Prophet to prevent idolatry, the caricatures themselves were offensive, insulting and provocative.

One of the pictures shows the Prophet with a bomb inside his turban with the Khalimah (the Islamic creed) on his forehead.

The Khalimah is one of the major pillars of Islam, a declaration of faith uttered by all Muslims. “There is no god except Allah and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah.” We Muslims live our religion on a daily basis and try to emulate the prophet, who we believe to be the model human being, in everything that we do.

So the message in the caricature was simple – all Muslims are terrorists, since the founder of the faith was one.

It was not a constructive critique of Islam. Muslims would encourage that kind of discourse.

It was instead pure hate propaganda akin to the caricatures published by the nazis’ Der Sturmer, which evoked the myth that all Jews practised ritual religious murder.

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More disgusting bigotry from Mark Steyn

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“From Europe’s biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ‘Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag.’ Not literally ‘blasted’ in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet. Quite how Britain’s Muslim Association found out about Mustafa Shag in order to be offended by him is not clear. It may be that there was some confusion: given that ‘blowup males’ are one of Islam’s leading exports, perhaps some believers went along expecting to find Ahmed and Walid modeling the new line of Semtex belts.”

Telegraph and Spectator columnist Mark Steyn, upholding the values of western civilisation in the New York Sun, 12 February 2006