{"id":444,"date":"2007-11-11T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/11\/11\/sunday_spew_on_abdul_bari_see_the_irony"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:25:25","slug":"sunday_spew_on_abdul_bari_see_the_irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/11\/11\/sunday_spew_on_abdul_bari_see_the_irony","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Spew on Abdul Bari: see the irony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"Islamophobia Watch - Home - Muslim brands Britain 'Nazi' - according to the Express\" href=\"http:\/\/www.islamophobia-watch.com\/islamophobia-watch\/2007\/11\/11\/muslim-brands-britain-nazi-according-to-the-express.html\">Islamophobia Watch &#8211; Home &#8211; Muslim brands Britain &#39;Nazi&#39; &#8211; according to the Express<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Islamophobia Watch prints an extract from today&#39;s sanctimonious carping from the Sunday Express in reaction to the comments by the MCB&#39;s secretary-general, Muhammad Abdul-Bari, on Friday.  Abdul-Bari was comparing the climate of hostility to Muslims today to that in pre-war Germany &#8211; a far-fetched comparison I&#39;ll admit.  However, an important aspect of the build-up to any genocide (both Nazi Germany and more recently, like Rwanda) is media demonisation of a minority, which is something the Spew has been carrying out against Muslims and others (like Gypsies) for years.  Don&#39;t they see the irony, when they&#39;re the most given to hatemongering of all the British media?  If there were ever a racist, fascist dictatorship in this country, the Express would likely be their preferred propaganda organ.<\/p>\n<p>They also get David Davies, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.david-daviesmp.co.uk\/\">moronic Tory MP for Monmouth<\/a>, to come out with this gibberish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe message has to go out that no one invited Muslims into this country &#8211; they chose to come here for a better way of life. Anyone who comes here has to learn our language and respect our way of life and traditions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact is that a large proportion of the Muslims in this country were born here, and did not &quot;come here in search of a better life&quot; even if their parents or grandparents did &#8211; and actually, they were invited because of a post-war labour shortage.  So you are not talking to people who &quot;came here&quot;, Davies, you ignoramus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamophobia Watch &#8211; Home &#8211; Muslim brands Britain &#39;Nazi&#39; &#8211; according to the Express Islamophobia Watch prints an extract from today&#39;s sanctimonious carping from the Sunday Express in reaction to the comments by the&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41940,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/41940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}