Category Archives: Right wing

Terrorism and its supporters

Posted on by Bob Pitt

MassacreJeff Barak of the Jewish Chronicle resumes the apparently endless campaign against the Mayor of London for welcoming Yusuf al-Qaradawi to City Hall.

Yes, we have the usual reliance on Peter Tatchell and his spurious claim that “2,500 leading Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries who signed a petition to the United Nations naming Qaradawi as one of ‘the theologians of terror’ and accusing him of ‘providing a religious cover for terrorism’.”

Livingstone’s entirely accurate observation that a dossier attacking Qaradawi relied heavily on misinformation from the Middle East Media Research Institute, an organisation headed by a former colonel in Israeli military intelligence, is characterised by Barak as an encouragement to “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories”.

Aren’t people getting a bit tired of this repetitive nonsense by now?

Independent on Sunday, 11 December 2005

While Barak waxes indignant that the Mayor should welcome a supporter of suicide bombing to London, he denies with equal indignation the accusation that Ariel Sharon is a war criminal (“Sharon is strong enough to brush off the shrill comments of a die-hard anti-Zionist like Livingstone”). Given that the Sabra and Shatila massacres of 1982, for which Sharon was responsible as Israeli defence minister, have been characterised as war crimes by Human Rights Watch and other organisations, it would therefore be reasonable to describe Barak as an apologist for terrorism. According to his own criterion, he too should be banned from City Hall.

More on the Muslim ‘Project’ for world domination

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“… anyone who believes in the establishment of the Global Caliphate must by that token believe that the Caliphate will in the fullness of time encompass Aberystwyth. However, I do not think that anyone at all has any practical plan based on the demand that the town of Aberystwyth must submit to sharia law.”

Daniel Davies on the Muslim plan to conquer the world (see here and here) uncovered by Scott Burgess and Melanie Phillips.

Crooked Timber, 8 December 2005

See also Lenin’s Tomb, 10 December 2005

‘Enormity of Muslim threat unrecognized’

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“Since the 9-11 Muslim terrorists attacks against the United States, I have been seeking to warn Americans in general, and Christians in particular, of the enormous threat posed to our country by radical Islam…. Though there are ‘moderate Muslims’ within the communities here in the United States, they are easily frightened into silence by the radical Muslims who dominate the teaching and direction of most of the mosques. And they are required by the doctrines of Islam to contribute money that is then cleverly funneled by the radicals into support of terrorist regimes worldwide.”

Hal Lindsey in World Net Daily, 8 December 2005

Nazis warn of Sharia threat to Britain

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Another plug from the British National Party for Patrick Sookhdeo of the Barnabas Fund, whose warnings about the “threat of Sharia law” in Britain they repeat. (Rather belatedly – the original report was in the Church of England Newspaper back in September.)

BNP new article, 7 December 2005

We look forward to the BNP, Sookhdeo, Outrage and the Worker Communist Party of Iran launching a joint campaign on this issue.

Mad Mel denounces ‘racist hate-mongers’

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madmelRemember this conference, reported in the Times under the headline “Muslim peace rally attracts thousands”? Well, Melanie Phillips has got round to offering us her take on the proceedings: “The people participating in this hate-fest need to be exposed for the racist hate-mongers that they are.” And of course we’re all familiar with Mel’s firm stand against racist hate-mongering, aren’t we?

Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 7 December 2005

Was Phillips actually at the conference, then? No, of course not. She relies for her information on Carol Gould, a US rightwinger temporarily resident in London who recently wrote warmly about meeting a BNP-sympathising taxi-driver and expressed anxiety that the Mayor wants better representation for minority ethnic communities in the capital’s taxi fleet (see here).

For Yusuf Smith’s comments, see Indigo Jo Blogs, 7 December 2005

Guardian letters on Hirsi Ali and religious hatred

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A couple of interesting letters in the Guardian, from Lord Avebury and Liz Fekete of the IRR, replying to Timothy Garton’s Ash’s article on Dutch right-wing politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the proposed new law against incitement to religious hatred.

Avebury points out that the article “wrongly implies that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others like her who robustly criticise religious beliefs, customs or sacred objects would be silenced by the racial and religious hatred bill”. Fekete argues that “for ordinary Muslim women, who face daily abuse for wearing the hijab, the ‘thoughtful, calm’ Ayaan Hirsi Ali is more provocateur than liberator”.

Guardian, 7 December 2005

‘Acquitting a terrorist’

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AAH logo“This case was a big blow for the war on terrorism…. Sami al-Arian was a major player on the wrong side of this war. Because someone like him – someone who was so blatantly involved in terrorism – was acquitted, the Justice Department may think twice before bringing future terror cases to trial. And that undoubtedly will embolden the enemy.”

Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate – an organisation that devotes itself to spreading hatred against Muslims – bemoans the fact that an innocent man was found not guilty of terrorism charges.

Front Page Magazine, 7 December 2005

Cf. Eric Boehlert’s account: “Al-Arian didn’t call a single witness on his behalf. That might have been because prosecutors, who had tapped Al-Arian’s phone for years and collected 20,000 hours of conversations, failed to present a single phone call in which violent terrorist acts were plotted.”

Huffington Post, 7 December 2005

‘The Project’: an Islamophobic conspiracy theory

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“Muslims may not be on course for another set of gas chambers as some seem to think, but Islamophobia in Europe is taking on yet another of the characteristics of traditional European anti-Semitism: the conspiracy theory.”

Yusuf Smith comments on the Muslim plot to conquer the world uncovered by Scott Burgess and Melanie Phillips.

Indigo Jo Blogs, 5 December 2005

US Muslim group urges release of Iraq hostages

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The leading US Muslim civil liberties group has called for the immediate release of four Christian peace activists kidnapped in Iraq and threatened with murder.

“Those who left the comfort of their homes to advocate for the rights of others that do not share their faith, ethnicity or language should be celebrated and honored by Muslims, not humiliated by being made captives or, God forbid, killed,” Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told a news conference Sunday, December 4.

“As a leader of the American Muslim community and the head of America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group, I make a personal appeal to the captors of the four members of the Christian Peacemakers Teams – release our brothers in humanity immediately and unconditionally,” he said in a statement posted on CAIR’s Web site.

Islam Online, 5 December 2005

Over at Jihad Watch that well-known scholar of all things Islamic, Robert Spencer, asks: “Has CAIR ever protested against the kidnapping of anyone else in Iraq? … this protest of the kidnapping of the collaborators is the first one I personally can recall ever seeing from them.”

Jihad Watch, 5 December 2005

Well, I claim no expert knowledge of CAIR myself, but a quick google reveals several examples of the organisation condemning hostage taking in Iraq. For example here, here, here and here.