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Some Tories seem keen to adopt the tactics of their friends in the GOP, complete with the required hatred for Barack Hussein Obama.
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And I here I was thinking only Muslims are stupid enough to become brainwashed by extremist preachers:
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The words of one Guramit Singh of Nottingham, speaking at a recent English Defence League (EDL) rally:
“God bless the Muslims… they’ll need it when they burn in fucking hell.”
Bolton Council has also asked the Home Secretary to ban the planned EDL rally in the city.
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Interesting piece from Paul Sagar (a blogger from the left I highly recommend), on whether patriotism can combat anti-Muslim bigotry.
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Remember this next time you see a British politician stand up and declare that some other country is flouting international law, or a threat to world peace:
Of course, whenever the misdeeds, crimes and muderous behaviour one of our dubious chums (Saudi Arabia, Israel) is brought up for questioning, it becomes “politically motivated”. But when we need to invade other countries, whether it is to grab resources or continue promoting our delusional sense of self-importance, we will dress it up with all the appeals to international law, peace and security.
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Malaysia defends inaction over Catholic ‘desecration’:
The archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Murphy Pakiam has criticised the government’s “failure to act” over the incident, in which the pair joined a Catholic service to investigate claims Muslims were illegally converting.
“The journalists have displayed utmost disrespect for the Catholic community when they admit receiving and spitting out the Holy Communion,” he told a press conference Thursday.
However, the government’s top lawyer, Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail, said the pair did not understand the significance of the wafer, which Catholics believe represents the body of Jesus Christ.
“The actions of the two reporters may have hurt the feelings of the people but I was satisfied that they did not intend to offend anyone. It was an act of sheer ignorance,” he said in a statement late Thursday.
According to the BBC report the two journalists spat out the communion wafer.
Not that some Muslims, and certainly not those in Malaysia, have a reputation for getting upset at something they deem offensive.
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Another leader with the doomsday warning.
“It’s not an accident that a great earthquake took place in Chile,” Farrakhan, 76, said an hour into his three-hour address. “It was a precipitate of what I have to tell you today of what’s coming to America. You will not escape.”
“I will speak to the kings and rulers of the world. I will speak to the pope and the religious leaders because you have to know that your time has come,” he said. “I desire to guide you and warn you of things that are coming that you must try to prepare yourselves for because we are absolutely living in the change of worlds.”
Ah, the business of religion!
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A new poll on the attitudes of religious people to the main political parties has been published by Theos. Here’s the ‘Muslim bits’:
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Reason #4,593 why Rupert Murdoch is a cancer on society.
As usual, there is some brilliant commentary by Septic Isle on this.
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Sir Salman Rushdie has issued a statement over the spat between Amnesty and Gita Sahgal.
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The collapse of the Dutch government over The Netherlands’ role in Afghanistan is being seen by some pundits as a chance for Geert Wilders to enter a future coalition government.
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It’s ‘bad’ when public figures say they can ‘understand why people may become suicide bombers’
But it seems perfectly ok for boorish bigots like Bruce Anderson to openly fantasise about torturing someone’s wife and children; or perfectly ok for warmongering bastards like Nick Cohen to pretend to debate the ethics of torture.
Enlightenment, anyone?
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Warmongers and advocates for torture, on both sides of the Atlantic, discover ‘human rights’.
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Moron:
This thinking gives Singh an affinity with even the most diehard BNP members. He’s been to several party meetings and says he never feels awkward in their company. “They treat me normally,” he insists. “I feel at home.” I ask if he thinks many BNP members can tell the difference between Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims. “They might think of me as a Paki,” he replies. “I’ve had people shout ‘Paki Go Home!’ when I walk down the street. But that speaks much about the ‘Paki’ reputation – it’s a negative reaction to Pakistan.”
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Maybe Quilliam need to update their FAQ explaining the role of warmongering Tory politician Michael Gove on their board of advisers?
The shadow schools secretary, who warned that the west was facing a “total war” from Islamists in his book Celsius 7/7, had initially refused to take sides in the dispute over proposals to build a mosque next to Sandhurst barracks in Camberley, Surrey. But this week he said he had been convinced that the strength of feeling was threatening the area’s “good community relations” and called on local Muslims to withdraw the application.
“The issue has become a flashpoint and people from inside and outside the community were making statements that I did not think would further community relations,” he said.
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David Miliband and Alan Johnson whine and moan about being outed as friends of torturers.
Justin McKeating points out that New Labour’s attempts to cover up torture is nothing new.
And we should not be surprised at all that William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, is keen to “draw a line under this episode”, when clearly this is not one incident, but a repeated pattern. No doubt, when the Tories get into power (as they are likely to in the forthcoming General Election) they don’t want to be asked the same uncomfortable questions. (Not forgetting these are the same Tories who also voted for an illegal war, and would happily go to war against Iran.)
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Well that was quick: Iraqis speed up their progression to an ‘advanced’ democratic society:
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Alan Dershowitz moans about how Britain’s libel laws (which do need fixing) are being used by ‘radical Islamists’ to silence critics.
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Conor Foley also writes in defence of Amnesty International.
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In response to the Binyam Mohamed court case verdict, Con(man) Coughlin complains:
Why don’t our judges just come clean and sign up with the Taliban?
I would like to respond with a complaint of my own: why doesn’t Con(man) Coughlin come clean about the fact that he is nothing more than a propaganda shill for the security services:
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Iran hanged two men at end of January.
…whatever their earthly crimes were, the two men executed last month were also accused of another offense far more serious than simply protesting against a government.
They were convicted of being “mohareb,” enemies of God.
That is the worst possible crime in Shiite Muslim law, according to Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian studies at Stanford University.
The legal implications are clear, he said.“A mohareb, according to Shiite law, is executed,” he said.
That the regime is labeling its opponents enemies of God is a sign of how rattled it is by the protests, he said.
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I laughed when I read this:
Denis MacShane, the Labour MP for Rotherham and staunch defender of free speech and human rights…
Heh:
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Andy Worthington writes in defence of Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International.
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I found this on a thread at DeenPort:
“Civil society is the deodorant of kufr.”
It is a ‘contention’ (see #70) by Timothy Winter. Sadly, there wasn’t much of a follow up discussion at DeenPort to the initial posting.
What do readers of Talk Islam make of this? The implications seem quite severe on the face of it, if you follow through on the argument being proposed.
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Some brilliant news:
In a ruling that will cause deep anxiety among the security and intelligence agencies, they rejected Miliband’s claims, backed by the US government, that disclosure of a seven-paragraph summary of classified CIA information showing what British agents knew of Mohamed’s torture would threaten intelligence sharing between London and Washington, and therefore endanger Britain’s national security.
One of the key paragraphs states that there “could readily be contended to be at the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of Binyam Mohamed by the United States authorities”.
Clive Stafford Smith discusses the implications of this ruling.
David Miliband’s statement in response to this was horrible. Why did he continue to defend the indefensible? (This is a New Labour disease, and all the more reason to hope New Labour chokes to death on its own vomit at the next General Election.)
The Foreign Office
propagandaTwitter outlet seems awfully quiet about this too, with a solitary tweet on Miliband’s statement.
