{"id":209,"date":"2008-06-30T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T21:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/06\/30\/rolled-up_trousers_centre_for_social_cohesion_exposed"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:15:24","slug":"rolled-up_trousers_centre_for_social_cohesion_exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/06\/30\/rolled-up_trousers_centre_for_social_cohesion_exposed","title":{"rendered":"Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2008\/06\/centre-for-social-cohesion.html\">Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Osama Saeed, who recently helped to establish the <a href=\"http:\/\/scottishislamic.org\/\">Scottish-Islamic Foundation<\/a>, replies to accusations from the likes of the &quot;Centre for Social Cohesion&quot; that they are some sort of Islamist &quot;front&quot; with links to all sorts of people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt the same time, we were baffled by a briefing put out by the gloriously named &#39;Centre for Social Cohesion&#39; warning people against us. They don&#39;t have as wide a remit as their name suggests, a quick scan of their website shows almost everything is on the topic of Islam and Muslims, and very few escape their wrath.<br \/>\nTheir &quot;research&quot; was in reality nothing more than a quick Google job, and a negatively screened one at that. The tactic of these kind of hatchet jobs which emanate from London is to smear by association. Attaching Muslims with someone controversial is like the &quot;six steps to Kevin Bacon&quot; test. It&#39;s a modern day McCarthyism.<br \/>\nWe could disavow the A-Z of Muslim groups that are blacklisted, and one or two groups in London have gained celebrity criticising other Muslims on the drop of a hat in a game that never ends. They as a result have no friends, while we&#39;re committed to working with our community in improving things wherever necessary. If there&#39;s criminality involved, then let the police deal with it, but there&#39;s not a hint of that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These kinds of hatchet jobs, although those in the UK tend to emanate from London, seem to have their origins in the USA, where guilt-by-association smears are a routine tactic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/04\/shoddy_joe_kaufman_cuts_my_wor\">certain pro-Israel agitators<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion Osama Saeed, who recently helped to establish the Scottish-Islamic Foundation, replies to accusations from the likes of the &quot;Centre for Social Cohesion&quot; that they are some sort of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisations_leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-3n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41814,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/41814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}