Category Archives: UK

MAB calls for broad coalition to defend civil liberties

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MAB demonstrationMAB calls for the formation of a broad coalition made up of elements throughout society, that will work to defend and uphold our civil liberties and freedoms. MAB has begun making contacts with a number of groups and organisations in this regard and will be making further contacts over the coming days and weeks, ensuring that this coalition reflects the diverse and colourful face of Britain and its people.

MAB will be co-organising and calling for a national demonstration on the 24th of September, in which the main banners will be in support of our civil liberties, support of the victims of the London bombings, the condemnation of terrorism and the call to show solidarity with the Muslim community in Britain who have been the brunt of a vicious attack from a variety of sectors since the bombings. The demonstration will also be calling for the withdrawal of our soldiers from Iraq as one solution to the problem persisting there. This demonstration will be used to show national unity and accord on the main and vital issues facing our country, and the importance of having the people, rather than laws and security measures, at the heart of any solution to the problems we face.

Muslim Association of Britain news article, 8 August 2005

FOSIS takes on Times over Anthony Browne

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FOSIS’s letter of complaint in response to Anthony Browne’s Times article attacking the Muslim Association of Britain and Yusuf al-Qaradawi has received a reply (pdf) claiming that “neither The Times nor Mr Browne is pursuing an anti-Muslim agenda” and, even more bizarrely, that Browne’s description of MAB as “Islamic fascists” did not “amount to trying to undermine the good work that the Muslim Association of Britain is doing”!

MEMRI stitches up Azzam Tamimi

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Azzam Tamimi“In an August 29, 2005 article in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-‘Arabi, titled ‘The London Bombing: Harm Is Brought Upon the Muslims Only by Their Own’, British Islamist Dr. ‘Azzam Al-Tamimi argues that Muslim critics are Islam’s worst enemies….

“Al-Tamimi is referring primarily to liberal Arab and Muslim writers who, following the London bombings, criticized the previous long-standing British policy of tolerance towards Islamist preachers of hatred and violence. He calls these liberal writers traitors….

“Al-Tamimi’s argument echoes a similar accusation by Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, termed ‘the notorious fundamentalist’ by the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. Following the London bombings, Bakri, the head of the Islamist Al-Muhajiroon movement in Britain, fled to a Lebanon hideout from his London base of activity of many years.”

MEMRI, 7 September 2005

Front Page Magazine reports the MEMRI piece under the heading: “British Islamist calls moderate Muslims ‘traitors’.”

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Outrage! lie reaches US

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Illustrating the accuracy of Mark Twain’s observation that a lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes, Outrage’s slander about Dr al-Qaradawi has now reached the US, where a gay website informs its readers:

“According to media reports by London gay rights organization OutRage!, following a public outing in the Middle Eastern newspaper Aljazeera, Muslim fundamentalist scholar Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a statement that the Crown Prince of Qatar should be stoned to death for being gay.”

GayWired.com, 8 August 2005

Multiculturalism – Torygraph returns to the attack

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“Multiculturalism was a non-policy. It was a vacuum, a retreat from thinking that there was any need for a solution. The pretence was that there was no problem, because to admit that there was one was tantamount to saying that immigration was a problem, and that you were going to have to do some serious thinking about its consequences. The idea that many cultures could coexist in one country, going their own ways, living by their own values, and cultivating their own disparate and distinct identities, was always a cop-out.”

Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph, 7 August 2005

Teenagers to swear allegience at Citizens Days

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“Every youngster in the UK will be required to take part in citizenship ceremonies under a radical government plan to boost ‘Britishness’ and combat extremism, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Ministers are considering the controversial move following the bomb attacks in London by UK-born Muslims, which have placed unprecedented focus on the question of British identity. Experts have warned that the bombers are the product of Britain’s ghettoised urban culture, which has failed to provide national symbols around which to unite.”

Scotland on Sunday, 7 August 2005

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Ban public servants wearing headscarves – Dutch opinion poll

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A majority of the Dutch public wants a new law to ban public servants from wearing headscarves or “other Islamic attire”, a new poll has found. Polling organisation TNS Nipo carried out the research for the latest edition of independent magazine Binnenlands Bestuur.

Expatica, 5 August 2005

Needless to say, this meets with approval of Rebecca Bynum: Dhimmi Watch, 7 August 2005

The news is also greeted enthusiastically by the fascists of the BNP, who seem to be getting a lot of their inspiration from Ms Bynum and her colleague Robert Spencer these days: “Once again plucky Netherlanders are unravelling the multi-cultural experiment forced upon them by decadent and traitorous politicians. Seen for years as the most easy going, tolerant and liberal nation in Europe, the Dutch people are fighting back to reclaim their society from the twisted multi-culturalists.”

BNP news article, 7 August 2005

However, a closer reading of the Expatica report indicates that it wasn’t in fact “the Dutch public” whose views were surveyed: “TNS Nipo questioned 433 adults – 292 government employees and 50 municipal aldermen – for the poll.”

‘Islamofascism poses a serious and imminent threat’

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“I was phoned by a contact of mine last week. Won’t mention his name. He’s the director of a pressure group, prominent in the media, well-connected and desperately scared – and I really mean scared – that racial war is breaking out in Britain…. he wasn’t talking about white racism; he was talking about Asian racism, British Asian racism…. Hatred of white people (and black people) is, he insisted, rampant among Britain’s Asian community and Islamofascism poses a serious and imminent threat to public order.

“This was not a Tory MP or a member of the BNP, but a rational, well-connected, media-friendly liberal intellectual. And he is not alone. A number of politicians are getting worried too, like the north of England left-wing Labour MP Ann Cryer who spoke out last week about the subjugation of Asian women and the growth of extremism.”

Iain MacWhirter in the Sunday Herald, 7 August 2005

Update:  Read Sohaib Saeed’s response here.

Britain faces ‘full-blown Islamist insurgency’

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“Intelligence chiefs are warning Tony Blair that Britain faces a full-blown Islamist insurgency, sustained by thousands of young Muslim men with military training now resident in this country…. A well-connected source said there were more than 100,000 people in Britain from ‘completely militarised’ regions, including Somalia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa, and Afghanistan and territories bordering the country. ‘Every one of them knows how to use an AK-47,’ said the source. ‘About 10 per cent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives. That adds up to tens of thousands of men’.”

Independent on Sunday, 7 August 2005

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