Inayat Bunglawala drew our attention yesterday to an apology published in the Spectator, a British right-wing political magazine (a tedious rag where people flaunt whatever privilege and bigotry they might have). It reads: Stephen Pollard and the Spectator apologise for the unintended and false suggestion in a blog published on 15 July 2008 that Islam […]
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France’s ban on the Islamic veil has little to do with female emancipation | Law | guardian.co.uk Joan Wallach Scott, the author of The Politics of the Veil, on the real motivation behind the move to ban the niqaab in France: The national assembly’s action came on July 13, as the country prepared to celebrate […]
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This is something I got through a tweet from 5CC or Tabloid Watch, but Osama Saeed jogged my memory about it. An election campaign card which was used by Phil Woolas during his (successful) campaign against the Lib Dems in Oldham in May has just come to light in which he claims that the Lib […]
Yesterday the Daily Star (the Black Hole to you and me), a London tabloid from the same pig-sty as the Daily Express (AKA Daily Spew), ran a story about the “scandal” of the borough of Harrow in north-west London serving up halaal meat in all but one of its ten secondary schools, and from the […]
Since my last entry on the bigoted ravings of Christina Patterson in last week’s Independent, Patterson herself has written a follow-up piece on all the demented people who have written to her and blogged about her and called her a b*tch, etc., and of course there are a number who have written to her privately […]
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I was alerted to an article by one Christina Patterson (former director of the Poetry Society and literary programmer at the South Bank Centre in London) setting out what she considers the “limits of multi-culturalism”, which ends before you get to what she sees as the insulting stand-offishness of the Orthodox Jewish population of North […]
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I wrote an article on the English Defence League, the racist football hooligan gang that holds riotous “demonstrations” against Muslims around the UK, at the request of Amad at MuslimMatters regarding the rise of the so-called English Defence League, discussing how much of a threat they pose and how we (Muslims) should deal with it. […]
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Today the Guardian carried a front-page story about how various Tory MPs and activists are being given training by an offshoot of the party’s youth wing, Conservative Future, named the Young Britons’ Foundation ([1], [2]). The group’s leadership regards the NHS as a waste of money, disbelieves global warming and condones waterboarding on the grounds […]
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Various newspapers have reported that two sculptures to be erected at both ends of Brick Lane in east London, a narrow street which has become a trendy hang-out place and which is supposedly full of Bengalis, have been dubbed the “hijab gates” and have become the focus of a lot of local opposition. Quoted in […]
In 2002 Teresa May, the chairwoman of the Tory party appointed by Iain Duncan Smith, told the party’s conference that people called her party the “nasty party” and that their base was too narrow as were their sympathies on occasion. Norman Tebbit noted that this “nasty party” won three general elections but that it was […]
Rod Liddle has managed to outdo himself this past week, with two shockingly bigoted and ignorant articles on the Spectator’s website the same day. One of them is in support of the ban on minarets which was passed the Sunday before last in Switzerland; the other is a short blast about black crime and black […]
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I’ve been asked to offer my opinion on the result of yesterday’s referendum on minarets in Switzerland, perhaps inevitably. I had expected such a law to be passed, contrary to the opinion polls which suggested that it wouldn’t, because a country where a major party can use such openly racist imagery as the “black sheep” […]
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Kevin Myers: ‘Fear of Islamophobia stopped Hasan’s superiors from disciplining him for his jihadist outpourings’ - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie Kevin Myers, a columnist on the Irish Independent (a paper whose website is suspiciously similar to the Independent in London) who has also written for the Telegraph in the UK, raises a fairly common […]
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So, I’m sure everyone in the UK has heard that Anton du Beke (a BBC presenter and Strictly Come Dancing contestant) told his partner Laila Rouass, after she had applied a fake tan, “you look like a Paki”. This has caused quite a bit of controversy, as you might expect, with some calls for him […]
Mark Steel: So has anyone really been ‘Islamified’ against their will? - Mark Steel, Commentators - The Independent Mark Steel tears into the ridiculous myths about the ‘Islamification of Europe’ peddled by some on the far right (HT: Julaybib): The arguments of the far-right groups are already obviously ridiculous. The latest slogan they march under […]
BBC NEWS | England | London | Man hurt in mosque ‘race’ attack Another Asian man has been attacked near a mosque in Tooting: this time, a 30-year-old, attacked by ‘youths’ after taraweeh at 10:15pm on Tuesday. The attacker is described as a black teenager and police are treating the attack as racially motivated. This […]
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A culture of fear — from Saturday’s Guardian Pankaj Mishra had a lengthy article published on the rise of Islamophobia across Europe in Saturday’s Guardian which covers the gamut of issues raised by Islamophobia from demographic scaremongering through debate on the hijab that left out the women who wear it to the resilience of the […]
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Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch on his ongoing debate with Edmund Standing, a contributor to Harry’s Place and author of a recent think tank report which plays up the BNP’s anti-Semitism and plays down its Islamophobia, explains that the BNP’s shift towards Islamophobia is not just a vote-winning move: I also agree with the article’s […]
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Enforced marriage law forces couple apart This is the story of a couple consisting of a British man and his Canadian bride, who married quite legally in the UK last year, and their marriage was delayed because of paperwork getting lost. Four days after their marriage, new rules […]
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Dispelling the Myth of Eurabia — Newsweek.com This is the lead article from the current edition of Newsweek, in which scare stories about Europe being taken over by Muslims by means of immigration and breeding are debunked: A much-cited 2004 study from the U.S. National Intelligence Council outlines a number of possible scenarios. Its most […]
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