“British Muslims are beginning to become accustomed to attacks on their most beloved institutions. Over the last year, they’ve seen right-wing and Zionist assaults on their scholars (Shaikh Qaradawi), their charities (Interpal), their religion itself, and their organisations and leading individuals.”
The Muslim Association of Britain replies to the Times report “British Islam colleges ‘link to terrorism’”.
“Two British universities have given their approval to a pair of Islamic colleges with close links to fundamentalist scholars and political movements…. Tim Collins, the Shadow Education Secretary, said he was extremely concerned about the colleges. ‘There needs to be an urgent investigation by the Charity Commission, the Department of Education and the Home Office into the exact nature of these institutions, how they came to be sited in the UK and whe-ther their presence threatens peaceful community relations in this country,’ he said. ”
“There’s no plot, says Anthony Browne: Islam really does want to conquer the world.”
So reads the standfirst to Browne’s Spectator article.
The article concludes: “In the last century some Christians justified the persecution and mass murder of Jews by claiming that Jews wanted to take over the world. But these fascist fantasies were based on deliberate lies, such as the notorious fake book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Now, many in the Muslim world are open about their desire for Islam to conquer the West.”
US talk show host Jackie Mason states that “the whole Muslim religion is preaching and teaching hate, terrorism and murder”.
“It’s not unusual to find sections of the British press displaying Islamophobic or racist sentiments – we all know about the Daily Express and its long-standing vendetta against immigrants, and at the other end of the scale Polly Toynbee in the Guardian with her hostility to all religion, at least when it comes in contact with the state. Recently though, the Daily Telegraph has been playing host to a far more extreme anti-Muslim bigot calling himself Will Cummins, and some of the letters in reply to him have been worse still. It’s real foaming-at-the-mouth stuff.”
Yusuf Smith at Indigo Jo Blogs.
Will Cummins responds to Jenny McCarthy.
Jenny McCartney replies to Will Cummins.
“The Islamophobia embraced by the BNP as a surrogate for its formally disavowed racism is by no means confined to the wasted landscapes of former working-class communities. It is deeply rooted and widespread, as was revealed by the success of Ukip (just listen to Robert Kilroy-Silk assert that “Muslims everywhere behave with equal savagery”).
“Indeed, Islamophobia is the only form of prejudice to which the middle class can readily admit: a religion which is perceived as advocating repression of women and hatred of gays renders acceptable forms of prejudice that would be unthinkable if directed against any other social group.”
Jeremy Seabrook writing in the Guardian, 23 July 2004
“The Conservative Party should stop playing the Muslim Block Vote’s game of divide and conquer. As the by-elections show, the party will only ever gain a small number of Muslim supporters. Breaking with the Umma would be a radical move that millions of voters would respond to. Do the Tories not sense the enormous popular groundswell against Islam?
“Charges of ‘racism’ would inevitably be made against the party but they would never stick. It is the black heart of Islam, not its black face, to which millions object.”
Opinon article by ‘Will Cummins’ in the Sunday Telegraph, 18 July 2004
“Since September 11 2001, Islamophobia – fear and hatred of Muslims – has been on the rampage across the Western world. In the UK, racist tabloid newspapers daily churn out frenzied reports of Muslim clerics declaring jihad against the West. The scaremongering of newspapers like the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express has succeeded in inciting widescale violence and abuse directed against the entire Muslim population.”
Eddie Truman in Scottish Socialist Voice.