The Muslim hijab will remain banned from tae kwon do tournaments in Quebec despite an offer of compromise in the guise of a sporty, head-hugging head scarf used in international competitions, provincial officials ruled yesterday.
Fighting fascism
Fighting fascism
By Ken Livingstone
Morning Star, 28 April 2007
THE local elections next month provide an opportunity to reject the racist politics of the fascist British National Party.
The BNP is a fascist organisation.
At the general election, the fascists stood convicted criminals as candidates in some seats, only removing them when they were exposed as such.
The BNP is racist. The BNP stands for an all-white Britain, which could only be achieved by using violence.
David Copeland, who carried out the London nail bombings in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho, said: “My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war … then all the white people would go and vote BNP.”
Six million Jewish people were murdered in the nazi Holocaust, but BNP leader Nick Griffin was convicted for inciting racial hatred after a magazine that he published denied the reality of the Holocaust.
The BNP has scored more electoral success than any other British fascist party in history and it is essential that the anti-fascist vote is mobilised.
The BNP wishes to present itself as a respectable party but, in fact, this is just a lie – it is engaged in a deception of the public and the media.
Writing in 1999, Griffin revealed his strategy for the BNP, which was to cloak the party in respectability in order to take the fascists closer to their ultimate objectives.
“Politics is the art of the possible, so we must judge every policy by one simple criterion – is it realistically possible that a decisive proportion of the British people will support it?
“If not, then to scale down our short-term ambitions to a point at which the answer becomes ‘yes’ is not a sellout, but the only possible step closer to our eventual goal.”
Griffin sees short-term fake respectability as a tactic towards ultimate goals that have not changed.
Muslim woman sues judge over veil
DETROIT – A Muslim woman whose small-claims court case was dismissed after she refused to remove her veil sued the judge Wednesday, saying her religious and civil rights were violated. Ginnnah Muhammad, 42, of Detroit, says in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit that Judge Paul Paruk’s request to remove her veil – and his decision to dismiss her case when she didn’t – was unconstitutional based on her First Amendment right to practice her religion.
Muhammad wore a niqab during the October hearing in Hamtramck, a city surrounded by Detroit. She was contesting a $2,750 charge from a rental-car company to repair a vehicle that she said thieves had broken into. Paruk told her he needed to see her face to judge her truthfulness and gave her a choice: take off the veil while testifying or have the case dismissed. She kept it on.
Muslims and anti-fascists unite to fight BNP
Muslim community leaders united with anti-fascist campaigners during Friday prayers yesterday and called for a vote against the far-right British National Party on May 3.
Mad Mel’s damaging gibberish
“I waited for some time to pick up my copy of Melanie Phillips’s book Londonistan, largely because I have a conscience about paying for books which are as full of damaging gibberish as this one is.”
Yusuf Smith reviews Melanie Phillips.
Fox reports parody about Muslims as real news
Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime. This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school’s intention to “create an anti-ham ‘response plan’.”
On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime … or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”
Update: See “Fox sued for airing fake ‘ham sandwich’ story”, Think Progress, 2 July 2007
Update 2: See “‘Gullible’ Fox & Friends escape lawsuit for repeating yet another false news story”, Media Matters, 6 June 2008
‘Racism’ row over Preston mosque vote
The controversial decision to allow a mosque to be built in a Preston conservation area has taken a new twist with politicians turning it into a race row. Conservative councillor Geoff Driver was accused of racism after he named Labour councillors he had spoken to about their roles in the approval of the place of worship in Watling Street Road, Fulwood. At a Town Hall meeting yesterday, he claimed one member of the planning committee, Coun John Browne, had abstained because of the “power of the Muslim vote.”
Coun Driver, who represents the Greyfriars ward of Fulwood, said: “The decision made by the planning committee was an absolutely outrageous one that defied all logic, all planning regulations and went dead against the advice of the officers. It leads you to ask why would that happen? Perhaps there’s a sinister reason why it was approved and I think there was. I’m of the opinion that if any other application had been made, even if it had been a Christian place of worship, it would have been rejected.”
Muslim schools – ‘a ticking time-bomb waiting to explode’
Speaking at a seminar on the subject of segregation, Nick Johnson of the Commission for Racial Equality asked: “If a Muslim child is educated in a school where the vast majority of other children are also Muslim, how can we expect him to work, live and interact with people from other cultures when he leaves school? This is a ticking time-bomb waiting to explode.”
See also Daily Express, 27 April 2007
Which of course ignores the findings of a recent study by Dr Andrew Holden who stated: “The greater degree of racial tolerance in an overwhelmingly Asian/Muslim populated school again calls into question the common sense assumption that mixed schools represent the most tolerant environments.”
Race hatred behind No.10’s mosque petition
Lester Holloway exposes the race hatred of far-right blogger Jill Barham, the woman behind the “mega mosque” petition.
Blink is urging its readers to email Downing Street to urge that this petition is amended to remove the reference to “terrible violence and suffering” and that the words “KILL ALL NIGGERS” are removed from the signature list.
Blink news article, 26 April 2007
Update: The “English Rose” blog is now back online under the rather more straightforward title of “White Information Link“.
Fascists wake up to threat of Islamic finance
“Another day and yet another concession to Islamic forces in Britain from the Labour regime. In a desperate bid to woe [sic] Muslim voters the Treasury want all types of government-sponsored savings products to be accessible to those who adhere to Islamic Sharia law…. Mr Balls is expected to announce the moves today at a conference hosted by the Financial Services Authority.”
BNP news article, 26 April 2007
Er … except that Ed Balls announced his proposal (for a new Sharia-compliant government bond) three days ago, on 23 April. I ask you, how can we expect to resist the Islamification of our glorious island nation if the defenders of our cultural heritage are so slow on the uptake?