Category Archives: Islamophobia

Baron-Cohen on Anders Breivik

Posted on 2nd December, 2011 by

Indigo Jo

Anders Breivik: cold and calculating, yes – but insane? (from today’s Guardian) This article by Simon Baron-Cohen appeared in today’s Guardian and questions the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia given him by “independent” experts in a 1,518-page report this week. According … Continue reading →

Posted in "Eurabia", Asperger's / autism, Terrorism |

Flather’s attack on Muslims is not brave

Posted on 18th September, 2011 by

Indigo Jo

UK immigration: Polygamy, welfare benefits and an insidious silence | Mail Online This article by former Tory peer, Baroness Shreela Flather, appeared in the UK Daily Mail on Friday, and consists of a broad-brush attack on Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Media, Secularism, Windbags, Women |

Tagged baroness flather |

Eurabian nightmare

Posted on 12th September, 2011 by

Indigo Jo

The end of Eurabia - FT.com Ths image is from the Spectator, the British political magazine, and represents what passed for journalism on the European and American right during the post-9/11 era. The occasion for this was a series of … Continue reading →

Posted in "Eurabia", Media, Terrorism, Windbags |

The offender and the offended

Posted on 6th January, 2011 by

Indigo Jo

Warning to the US: Don't Play by Islamic Rules (from Standpoint magazine) This article is Douglas Murray’s treatment of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy, in which he smears Muslims by equating them with al-Qa’ida, praises Newt Gingrich as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Douglas Murray, Islamophobia, Terrorism, USA |

Clamp down on imaginary Islamisation, says Torygraph

Posted on 29th December, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - ‘David Cameron must face the challenge of Islamisation’ says Torygraph The Telegraph published an interview with Marine Le Pen, daughter of the French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, and yesterday followed it up … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Media |

Yes, the law DOES apply to middle-class White people

Posted on 14th November, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

This past week or so, there have been two major news stories in the UK about men arrested for saying things on the Internet that made a strong suggestion of violence that may not have been meant, but because of … Continue reading →

Posted in Extremism, Islamophobia, Racism, Terrorism, Transport |

Cameron won’t speak to me, Murray whines

Posted on 11th October, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

Blackballed by Cameron | The Spectator Some years ago Douglas Murray gave a speech in the Netherlands in which he called for sweeping restrictions on Muslims, among them an end to immigration from Muslim countries and a deportation provision for … Continue reading →

Posted in Douglas Murray, Islamophobia |

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Park51 turning into Abbey Mills re-run

Posted on 5th October, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

I haven’t commented on the Park51 affair yet — the 13-storey mosque and community centre that some group wants to put up in Lower Manhattan — mainly because other Muslims (and others) have said it much better than I can. … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Organisations & Leadership, USA |

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Get your halal veal at Wembley Stadium

Posted on 19th September, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

Britain goes halal (…but nobody tells public) | Mail Online The front page of today’s Mail on Sunday was dominated by the above story: the revelation that a number of entertainment venues, such as Royal Ascot and Wembley Stadium, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia |

Sweden: exposing Sharia and rape myths

Posted on 18th September, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

Swedish elections: The impact of immigration | World news | The Guardian This is an article about the rise of the “Sweden Democrats”, a far-right party which has been increasing its share of the vote in its country over the … Continue reading →

Posted in "Eurabia", Europe, Gender, Islamophobia |

Spectator forced to apologise to Islam Expo

Posted on 29th August, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia |

France niqaab ban “not meant to help women”

Posted on 27th August, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Islamophobia, Niqab (face-covering) |

Let in immigrants, get extremists

Posted on 15th August, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Immigration, Islamophobia, Politics |

Let them eat halaal meat

Posted on 7th August, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Islamophobia, Windbags |

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Christina Patterson again: London’s human zoo

Posted on 5th August, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Media, Windbags |

Tagged christina patterson |

Haredis and FGM: like a newly caught fish

Posted on 1st August, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Media, Windbags |

Tagged christina patterson |

Me @ MuslimMatters: How should we respond to the EDL?

Posted on 11th June, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia |

Tory think tank compared to “madrasa”

Posted on 6th March, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Tory stuff |

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“Hijab gates” bring out the bigots

Posted on 16th February, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, London life, Women |

The nasty party begins to re-emerge

Posted on 5th February, 2010 by

Indigo Jo

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in Islamophobia, Tory stuff, Windbags |