The Sunday Times report that the Muslim proselytising organisation Tablighi Jamaat is hoping to raise finance for the construction of a new mosque as part of the Olympics redevelopment in London doesn’t find favour with the extreme Right. One website quotes that reliable source the Middle East Quarterly (founder: Daniel Pipes) to the effect that Tablighi Jamaat provides the ideological inspiration for al-Qaeda. “No wonder they want to erect a giant mosque and Islamic complex at the Olympic Games 2012. And the multiculturalist appeasers in Newham council, assisted by the appeasing fools in Blair’s government, will probably be jumping for joy to prove that Britain is tolerant of Islam by encouraging the construction of this proposed temple of terrorist ideology.”
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Dar Al-Taqwa bookshop – PCC rules against Evening Standard
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint by Samir El-Atar, managing director of Dar Al-Taqwa bookshop, about an article headlined “Terror and hatred for sale just yards from Baker Street”, published in the Evening Standard on 28 July. As a result of the article, which falsely accused the bookshop of stocking literature advocating terrorism, “abuse and threats of violence had been made against staff and it had been necessary to invoke police protection”.
‘The first step to Britishness is your poppy’
Carol Gould claims she got into an altercation with “a young Arab man” on London’s Edgware Road because she was wearing a Remembrance Day poppy. Fortunately help was at hand, in the form of a BNP-sympathising taxi driver:
“I hailed a taxi and, thankfully, my pursuer, who was by this time shouting, did not get into the taxi. The driver was enormously sympathetic but told me that I had been ‘asking for it’ by walking in what he called ‘Little Beirut’. He then told me that we were in World War III. His white, working class anger at what he perceived as ‘the Islamic takeover’ of Britain was palpable. He was not the first London cabbie who has told me he would gladly join the far-right British National Party if pushed.
“(It is worth noting in this context that London Mayor Ken Livingstone is trying to institute an initiative to bring ethnic minorities into the taxi fleet, to tackle its almost exclusively white domain. Keeping in mind that Washington D.C. has one of the worst taxi systems in the world, in part because most drivers can barely speak English and do not know the meaning of the words ‘cordial’ or ‘polite’, especially where female passengers are concerned, one prays the Livingstone initiative will be approached with caution.)
“The driver dropped me at Marble Arch. I decided to walk back slowly should my scary have made his way in my direction. As I walked, I realized that not one of the hundreds of Middle Eastern and British-born Muslims who run all of the establishments along Edgware Road was wearing a poppy.”
Nordic views on Islam sour after global attacks
In October, leading Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten stirred emotions when it defied Islam’s ban on images of Prophet Mohammad by printing cartoons depicting him in various guises, including one where his turban appears to be a bomb.
In Norway, the anti-immigration Progress Party won a record 22 percent of parliamentary seats in a September election.
A poll by Sweden’s Integration Board in September showed that while the country was more tolerant towards foreigners, it had grown less positive towards Muslims, with 40 percent saying they did not want a mosque in their neighbourhood.
“Islam has become the bottom of the pecking order, a type of new enemy,” Helena Benauda, head of the Swedish Muslim Council, said when the poll was published. “I fear it will get even worse after the terrorist attack in London this summer.”
Anti-Muslim ‘racism’? There’s no such thing, Daniel Pipes assures us
Daniel Pipes complains: “My talks at university campuses sometimes occasion protests featuring Leftists and Islamists who call me names. A favorite of theirs is ‘racist’. This year, for example, a ‘Stand up to Racism Rally’ anticipated my talk at the Rochester Institute of Technology, I was accused of racism against Muslim immigrants at Dartmouth College, and pamphlets at the University of Toronto charged me with ‘anti-Muslim racism’.”
And it’s not just Daniel who is traduced in this way: “When U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo raised the idea of bombing Islamic holy sites as a form of deterrence, a Nation of Islam leader in Denver, Gerald Muhammad, deemed his comments racist.”
Pipes has the answer to these slanders. “Islam being a religion with followers of every race and pigmentation, where might race enter the picture?” he demands.
New York Sun, 22 November 2005
This is, of course, precisely the argument used by the Nazi BNP to evade Britain’s racial hatred laws. According to Pipes’ reasoning, those of us who argue that the fascists’ hatred of Islam is inspired by the fact that the vast majority of Muslims are non-white are guilty of misrepresenting poor innocent Nick Griffin and his friends as racists.
Sky censured for ‘Muslim wrestler’ show
Sky Sports has been censured by a media watchdog for resurrecting a character from the larger than life world of American wrestling who had been “killed off” after being accused of inciting anti-Muslim sentiment among fans.
World Wrestling Entertainment, the successor to the World Wrestling Federation franchise that became popular in the UK during the 1990s, was forced to axe the character of Muhammad Hassan from the ring after complaints in the wake of the July 7 London bombings.
But Sky Sports was yesterday censured by the media regulator Ofcom after the digital channel included the character in a programme which went out just over two weeks later on July 25.
The Great American Bash, a highlight of the WWE calender, brought together characters from its Raw and Smackdown strands of programming.
The character, played by an American, Mark Copani, entered the ring wearing an Arab headdress and surrounded by a phalanx of masked men in combat clothes who were described by the commentators as his “sympathisers”.
There was also use of emotive language, including the words “martyr”, “sacrifice” and “infidel” and footage of a previous clash between him and another wrestler was set to music that sounded like the Muslim call to prayer.
After the programme, Sky approached WWE to ensure the character would be withdrawn, and it ended his contract.
‘Moslem’ rioters driven by hatred of indoor plumbing – shock claim
“The rioters in Clichy-sous-Bois are immigrants alright, immigrants (or the children of immigrants) from North Africa – Moslem immigrants driven by the same burning hatred of the West (democracy, tolerance, sanitation, in-door plumbing) seen in the streets of Tehran, Ramallah, Jakarta and Islamabad.”
Don Feder in Front Page Magazine, 21 November 2005
Mad Mel finds a co-thinker …
… and no, we’re not talking about Nick Griffin. Mel has found an interview with French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut in the Israeli paper Ha’aretz that she claims supports her own view that it was Islam, not poverty, discrimination and alienation, that was behind the unrest in France.
Melanie Phillips’s Diary, 21 November 2005
In reality, Finkielkraut’s take on the riots, bad though it is, still falls some way short of Phillips’s unhinged Islamophobia: “I have not spoken about an ‘intifada’ of the suburbs, and I don’t think this lexicon ought to be used.”
Finkielkraut’s main concern is to “wage war on the ‘war on racism'”. You can understand why he might not be happy about anti-racist campaigns. On the subject of football, he offers the following insight:
“People say the French national team is admired by all because it is black-blanc-beur [black-white-Arab]. Actually, the national team today is black-black-black, which arouses ridicule throughout Europe.”
Mayor launches Islam Awareness Week
A leading Islamic organisation was today kicking off its nationwide awareness week in the capital in an effort to promote better understanding of the religion and its historical links with Britain.
Mayor Ken Livingstone was launching Islam Awareness Week at a ceremony at City Hall with the message “One London”. Guest speakers at the ceremony include author and leading historian Professor Nabil Matar and secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain Sir Iqbal Sacranie.
Shafeeq Sadiq, national co-ordinator of Islam Awareness Week, said: “We need to remember the positive spirit that embraced the nation, and especially the capital, after London won the Olympic bid. It is with such optimism and hope that we will defeat terrorism.”
Now in its 12th year, the Islamic Society of Britain’s initiative aims to bring Muslims and non-Muslims together through a host of events and activities being held in towns and cities across the country.
During the week, the capital will see an east London mosque throw open its doors to the public, the staging of Islam-themed exhibitions and lectures and the screening of a film exploring the life of a great Muslim philosopher.
Nazi embraces Sookhdeo
BNP leader Nick Griffin warns of the threatening Muslim conquest of Europe, taking as his text an article by “Patrick Sookhdeo, the brave International Director of the Barnabas Fund”.
Der führer applauds Sookhdeo’s prescience: “Dr. Sookhdeo published his essay on ‘The Islamization of Europe‘ on August 11th, several months before the start of the weeks of carefully orchestrated violence by Muslim ‘youths’ in hundreds of French towns and cities gave us a glimpse into what we must all expect as the Islamists’ drive to take over our European homelands moves into its next phase.”
Griffin is not entirely uncritical, though: “Dr. Sookhdeo is to my mind downplaying his case – perhaps on account of not being in a position to keep such a close eye as ourselves on the multi-culti Islamophile activities of Britain’s liberal elite.”
Still, overall it’s an enthusiastic thumbs-up to Sookhdeo’s analysis from the fascists.
Sookhdeo must be really proud of himself. Invitations from Boris Johnson to write for the Spectator, applause from Melanie Phillips, and now endorsement from the BNP. Evangelical Christians, Tories, right-wing Zionists and Nazi racists all coming together in one big happy Islamophobic family.