Comments on: Ed stifling debate again http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/07/25/ed_stifling_debate_again Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Islamicpolitik http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/07/25/ed_stifling_debate_again#comment-785 Islamicpolitik Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:17:00 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2008/07/25/ed_stifling_debate_again#comment-785 Looking through the QF website, its obvious that they have totally grasped the concept of publicity with non-Muslim audiences. Earlier in the year, Shiraz Maher (nearest thing to a one man QF) had an unpublicized event at Cambridge university (not supported through the ISOC). It was absolutely ridiculous; he had alluded to the lack of security at the event, stoking up fears of unseen Islamist lurkers ready to wreck havoc at Trinity College. The mostly non-Muslim audience just lapped it all up, heavy clapping an all. Looking through the QF website, its obvious that they have totally grasped the concept of publicity with non-Muslim audiences.

Earlier in the year, Shiraz Maher (nearest thing to a one man QF) had an unpublicized event at Cambridge university (not supported through the ISOC). It was absolutely ridiculous; he had alluded to the lack of security at the event, stoking up fears of unseen Islamist lurkers ready to wreck havoc at Trinity College. The mostly non-Muslim audience just lapped it all up, heavy clapping an all.

]]> By: Ali Abdullah http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/07/25/ed_stifling_debate_again#comment-784 Ali Abdullah Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:45:40 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2008/07/25/ed_stifling_debate_again#comment-784 For Ed, just being invited gives credibility - he can put it on his website, like the ISB event! Then, if he isn't challenged, well, even better! Giving in to his demands and then giving him an easy time makes it look as though the organisation that invited him agrees with what he says. This is the impression given by what Ed wrote in page 6 of Pulling Together to Defeat Terror: "There are already positive signs emerging in British Muslim communal discourse with groups such as the City Circle, JIMAS, Radical Middle Way, and sections within the Islamic Society of Britain pushing for a more Western Islam, relevant to our lives in the West, away from the influences of Indian and Arab cultural practices." These groups need to make a statement on where they stand regarding the Quilliam Foundation because praise from Ed is as useful as a knife in the back! For Ed, just being invited gives credibility - he can put it on his website, like the ISB event! Then, if he isn’t challenged, well, even better! Giving in to his demands and then giving him an easy time makes it look as though the organisation that invited him agrees with what he says.

This is the impression given by what Ed wrote in page 6 of Pulling Together to Defeat Terror:

“There are already positive signs emerging in British Muslim communal discourse with groups such as the City Circle, JIMAS, Radical Middle Way, and sections within the Islamic Society of Britain pushing for a more Western Islam, relevant to our lives in the West, away from the influences of Indian and Arab cultural practices.”

These groups need to make a statement on where they stand regarding the Quilliam Foundation because praise from Ed is as useful as a knife in the back!

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