Islamophobia Watch

"As a Muslim, Ms. Manji has the right to criticize Islam more harshly than the rest of us. Her book, however, dredges up ancient history and events in poverty stricken, underdeveloped dictatorships supposedly to advance the idea that, in order to modernize, Muslims must become more self-critical. The brutal history of Christian European nations is barely mentioned."

Linda Belanger comments on Irshad Manji's Book The Trouble With Islam.

canpalnet, 1 January 2005

In October 2004, Alliance for Workers' Liberty supporter Alan Clarke persuaded the national executive committee of the National Union of Students to adopt a resolution calling for leading Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan to be banned from speaking at the European Social Forum, which was to be held in London later that month. It quickly became clear that the motion had been based on an entirely false account of Professor Ramadan's views.

Documented by Bob Pitt on the What Next Journal website

NUS press release on overturn of resolution

"That the Revisionist-Zionist extremist Daniel Pipes has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps isn't a big surprise. That a mainstream American newspaper would publish this David-Dukeian evil is. Of course, this is also a man that President Bush appointed to a temporary vacancy at the United States Institute of Peace, after the Senate understandably balked at a regular appointment for him."

Juan Cole on Pipes' plans for incarcerating Muslims.

Informed Comment, 31 December 2004

Read Pipes' article here

"EVER SINCE Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi was welcomed to London’s City Hall by Ken Livingstone last July, Peter Tatchell and the gay rights organisation Outrage! have waged an obsessive campaign against this respected Muslim scholar. Unfortunately, their obsession is not matched by an equivalent concern for accuracy. The picture of Dr al-Qaradawi presented by Tatchell in the November issue of Labour Left Briefing (''Qaradawi Not Welcome') is nothing but an Islamophobic caricature which he uses as the basis for a more general attack on Muslims, their beliefs and their organisations."

Peter Roberts as documented on Bob Pitt's What Next Journal website

French socialist and feminist Catherine Samary defends Tariq Ramadan's presence at the 2003 European Social Forum.

See here

For an English translation see here

"Over the last four years, I have visited the United States more than 20 times. I have lectured on philosophy and Islam at numerous academic institutions from Dartmouth to Stanford and at organizations from the Brookings Institution to the United States Institute of Peace. I was invited to a meeting organized by former President Clinton, and I spoke before officials of the CIA."

Tariq Ramadan in the Los Angeles Times, 21 December 2004.

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Last thoughts on the man who might have been a professor at Notre Dame from Jihad Watch vice president Hugh Fitzgerald.

Dhimmi Watch, 23 December 2004

"May we ask no questions about Islam, its theology, history, and current relationship with politics, not least of which is terrorism?" Front Page Magazine objects to a United Nations seminar on Islamophobia.

See Alexander H. Joffe, 'Islamophobia's Big Day at the UN'

Tariq Ramadan, the leading Muslim academic, has resigned his professorship at an American university after authorities refused to give him a visa.

Polly Curtis in Education Guardian, 17 December 2004

"... one of the symptoms of the chronic immigration syndrome is that the intelligentsia of the host-country refuses to discuss, or even permit discussion, of its long-term consequences. Instead there is much witless, liberal maundering about the unassailable virtues of a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-ethos society.

"Well, my little liberal friends, it hasn't turned out like that. Opinion polls show that 11 per cent of Britain's two million Muslims approved of the attacks of 9/11, and 40 per cent support Osama Bin Laden. Nearly 1,200 British Muslims have been trained in terror camps in Afghanistan; three British Muslims have become suicide bombers. British police are – finally – investigating 122 possible 'honour killings' of women in immigrant communities."

Kevin Myers in the Sunday Telegraph, 19 December 2004