Islamophobia Watch

Oriana Fallaci claims that when she interviewed George Habash in 1972 he let slip the Muslim grand strategy of conquering Europe by breeding.
At first she thought the leading Palestinian politician was just talking about terrorism but now she realises that he “also meant the cultural war, the demographic war, the religious war waged by stealing a country from its citizens … In short, the war waged through immigration, fertility, presumed pluriculturalism.”
This of course fits in with her statement that Muslims have "multiplied like rats" in Europe.
If only she'd spotted it then, she could have told, and presumably saved, the world.
And of course the dear old lady is "stricken with cancer and has been hounded by death threats and charges of 'Islamophobia'".
We're genuinely regretfull about her medical condition; the longer Oriana Fallaci is on this earth spouting her foul racist poison, the more the true motivations of the Islamophobes are exposed.

LA Weekly piece on Oriana Fallaci
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Islamophobia Watch articles on Oriana Fallaci here

While the rest of us were applauding the withdrawal of Condoleezza Rice's invitation to visit Masjid Al Hidayah in Blackburn, Melanie Phillips saw it as another example of intimidation by Muslims hostile to western values.

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Johann Hari offers his assessment of last Saturday's protest. "Communists mingled awkwardly with fascists", he tells us approvingly, though unlike Tatchell he does at least have the honesty to admit that fascists participated in the demonstration. Hari complains that a member of the Worker Communist Party of Iran was arrested for provocatively brandishing "silly cartoons of the Mohammed that some fundamentalist Muslims have declared to be blasphemous". The cartoons in question were in fact the most explicitly racist of the series published by Jyllands-Posten: one of the Prophet with a bomb as a turban and another of a wild-eyed Prophet wielding a knife, with two terrified veiled women cowering behind him – the implication of course being that Muslims are terrorists and misogynists. We look forward to Hari defending the right of anti-semites to parade round Trafalgar Square with a caricature of a hook-nosed Jew counting money. After all, we have to defend freedom of expression at all costs, don't we?

Evening Standard, 31 March 2006

The protest over the proposal by a student group at New York University to display the Danish cartoons has been successful. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute is not happy: "Wednesday, in a shameful act, NYU broke its own official policy and denied free speech to its students. After having approved the display of the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad for a panel discussion on free speech hosted by a student group, NYU's administration reversed its decision in the face of Muslim protests."

Front Page Magazine, 31 March 2006

Posters with the phrase "America's latest hero is a Muslim straight out of jail" has been banned from the Tube by London Underground (LU). LU said it will not show the posters from a £1m advertising campaign for new TV series Sleeper Cell until creators remove the word Muslim from the text. It claims it will offend people and it is trying to be sensationalist.

BBC News, 30 March 2006

Yet another entry on Dhimmi Watch I imagine.

Success!
MPACUK are happy to announce that following pressure from local Ulema, the local Blackburn community (SubhanAllah), Blackburn with Darwen Stop the War and MPACUK, the invitation to Condoleezza Rice's visit to Masjid Al Hidayah has been withdrawn.
It has come to MPACUK's attention that the spin being applied to the withdrawal of the invitation from the Foreign office and the Masjid Committee is that "an invasion of the Mosque was planned at Fajr time". We can ensure the FO and the Masjid Committee that we will leave invasions to the specialists, Messers Straw and Rice.
A number of us had planned to spend some time after Fajr at the Masjid, read a little Quran, a few Nafl etc.
We hope that Masjid Al Hidayah's late foray into the world of Dawah will continue as they stated in their justification for the invitation. They should perhaps start in tackling the segregated nature of Blackburn and try to bring communities together.

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MPACUK rightly claiming a major victory for Muslim autonomus organisation.

Nasfim Haque decides she is going to do what no other Muslim has done before and become a PR woman for Islam in the UK. Under the guise of her PR company Jihad Media, she sets off to spread the word.

BBC3 tonight, 12.30 am

See also Asians in Media, 27 March 2006

"Voltaire" – i.e. Peter Risdon of the "March for Free Expression" – has launched a new blog called Toonophobia. The definition it offers of the term is a parody of the 8-point Runnymede Trust definition of Islamophobia. Yes, positively Wildean in its wittiness, Peter.

Still, Peter has gained one new admirer, who writes: "Previously voltaire has stayed away from giving the impression that muslims are wrong in any way. Could this be the begginings of a tacit acceptance that people who follow a terrorist paedophile who openly raped the wives of his victims after beheading them, might not be the best bedfellows a country could ask for?"

BNP and Me, 30 March 2006

European Muslim thinker Tariq Ramadan and the leader of the Greens in the European Parliament (EP), Dany Cohn- Bendit, held a two-hour debate on Islam in Europe in the EP in Brussels Wednesday night.

Islamic Republic News Agency Report

Letter in Socialist Worker, 1 April 2006:

The organisers of the protest for "freedom of expression" in Trafalgar Square last Saturday claimed to be standing up for free speech after the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed in Denmark. But what they were really doing was standing up for their rights to insult and offend Muslims, and increase Islamophobia in Britain.

The organisers had originally asked people to bring placards containing the cartoons to Trafalgar Square. But the day before the protest they had had to backtrack on this. One of the organisers admitted that many Muslims, including secular ones, were extremely offended by the cartoons that depicted all Muslims as terrorists.

The call to protest over this issue had opened a Pandora's Box of racism and nationalism. The Civil Liberty website, run by Nazi BNP member Kevin Scott, had urged people to demonstrate on the day.

A strange mix of right wing libertarians and middle class liberals joined the rather small protest – which unlike the multi-racial anti-war protest that had filled Trafalgar Square the previous week, was mainly white.

I was particularly disappointed with gay campaigner Peter Tatchell who happily spoke alongside right wing nutcases from the Libertarian Alliance and the Freedom Association. Tatchell continually criticises the left, including Socialist Worker, for forming alliances with supposedly "reactionary" Muslims. He told the rally, "Free speech does not include the right to incite hatred and violence against other human beings." But that was exactly what the cartoons were published to do – to make people see Muslims as the enemy within.

Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance defended the rights of BNP leader Nick Griffin, Holocaust denier David Irving and disgraced racist lecturer Frank Ellis to "speak their mind". The crowd cheered him. Mark Wallace of the Freedom Association also spoke. This is a notorious right wing group that campaigns for the "freedom" to speak out against the "tide of immigration".

The real undercurrent of this rally was the racist idea that the main threat to all of our liberty is "reactionary Islam". While some speakers denounced the "war on terror" most of the focus was on Muslims. Everyone involved with this "unholy alliance" should be ashamed of themselves.

Katherine Branney, East London