Category Archives: UK

MCB advocates ‘Taliban-style conditions’ in state schools, claims Express

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Express Muslims Tell Us How to Run Our Schools“Demands for a ban on ‘un-Islamic’ activities in schools will be set out by the Muslim Council of Britain today.

“Targets include playground games, swimming lessons, school plays, parents’ evenings and even vaccinations. And the calls for all children to be taught in Taliban-style conditions will be launched with the help of a senior Government education adviser….

“Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society said the report was a ‘recipe for disaster’…. ‘The MCB shouldn’t try to force its religious agenda on children who may not want it. The Government needs to send the MCB packing’.”

Daily Express, 21 February 2007

For the MCB’s actual position, see here.

For the inspiration this sort of irresponsible press coverage provides for the far right, see here.

For a demolition of the Express‘s lies, see Five Chinese Crackers, 21 February 2007

Islamophobia Watch uncovered – shock revelations!

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Over at Western Resistance (and the right-wing US website Family Security Matters) Adrian Morgan exposes two of the evil geniuses behind Islamophobia Watch.

Apparently Eddie Truman is “both a member of Britain’s Communist Party and spokesman of the Scottish Socialist Party”. This will come as a surprise to other leading figures in the SSP, who were under the illusion that Eddie was solely a member of their own party. Now that Morgan’s careful and painstaking research has uncovered this double-dealing, no doubt the SSP will be taking disciplinary action against the two-timing Truman.

As for yours truly, I was “formerly secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party”. Damn! All those years secretly operating at the head of the WRP, hiding behind the cunning pseudonym “Gerry Healy”, and now I’ve finally been rumbled.

Though, to be fair, Adrian Morgan isn’t opposed to all lefties. He applauds certain “Marxist members of the left” who have condemned the alliance between socialists and Muslims that arose out of the anti-war movement, and he provides a link to an article by Alliance for Workers’ Liberty guru Sean Matgamna (or “Sean Mantegna”, as Morgan prefers to call him) which describes the SWP as the “socialist outrider for Islam in Britain”.

First Melanie Phillips expressing her admiration for him, and now Western Resistance – my, isn’t Sean a popular figure among Islamophobes.

Veil is ‘mark of separation’ says Lord Ahmed

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Lord AhmedThe veil is a mark of separation and defiance against mainstream British culture and should not be used, according to Britain’s first Muslim peer.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham called for a sensible and sensitive debate among Muslims on whether veils were needed in today’s society.

Lord Ahmed made his comments after leading a debate in Doha, Qatar, on Monday in which he spoke first on the motion: “This House believes that niqab (the face veil) is a barrier to integration in the West.”

Lord Ahmed, who became the first Muslim peer in 1988, told the Yorkshire Post: “The veil is now a mark of separation, segregation and defiance against mainstream British culture.”

“We need to re-engage as responsible British citizens and be seen once more as contributors to society rather than people who are a burden, living parallel lives,” he told the paper.

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Hitch condemns Muslim masochism

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Hitchens“We are supposed to watch what we say about Islam, lest by any chance we be considered ‘offensive’. A fair number of authors and academics in the West now have to live under police protection or endure prosecution in the courts for not observing this taboo with sufficient care.

“A stupid term – Islamophobia –  has been put into circulation to try and suggest that a foul prejudice lurks behind any misgivings about Islam’s infallible ‘message’. Well, this idiotic masochism has to be dropped.

“There may have been a handful of ugly incidents, provoked by lumpen elements, after certain episodes of Muslim terrorism. But no true secularist or even Christian has been involved in anything like the torching of a mosque….

“But where are the denunciations from centers of Sunni and Shiite authority of the daily murder and torture of Islamic co-religionists? Of the regular desecration of holy sites and holy books? Of the paranoid insults thrown so carelessly and callously by one Muslim group at another? [Er … here, here and here, for example? – ed.] This mounting ghastliness is a bit more worthy of condemnation, surely, than a few Danish cartoons or a false rumor about a profaned copy of the Quran in Guantanamo.

“The civilized world – yes I do mean to say that – should find its own voice and state firmly to Muslim leaders and citizens that respect is something to be earned and not demanded with menace. A short way of phrasing this would be to say, ‘See how the Muslims respect each other!'”

That well-known representative of the civilised world, Christopher Hitchens, lectures Muslims on the meaning of respect.

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Dudley mosque to be backed – UKIP and BNP protest

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No mosque here 3Plans for an £18 million mosque and community centre in the Black Country are to be recommended for approval.

Protesters have handed in petitions with more than 1,000 signatures and written hundreds of letters of objection. But sources have revealed planning officers are set to give the scheme, for derelict land between Hall Street and the Flood Street island in Dudley, the green light.

Ukip councillor Malcolm Davis, who has led opposition to the multi-million pound proposals, said recommending the scheme for approval would be a “monumental disgrace”.

Express & Star, 19 February 2007

The fascists of the British National Party – who claim that they have been “leading the collection of signatures by residents concerned that the town centre will be Islamified” – are also outraged: “The news of the mosque go-ahead comes just days after a Times story warned that thousands of Christian churches could close in the next decade and that the Christian landscape is in retreat.”

BNP news article, 19 February 2007

For the BNP campaign against the Dudley mosque see here.