Author Archives: Eddie Truman

Drink-soaked popinjay may initial Euston Manifesto

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HitchDrink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay (not our description) Christopher Hitchens today teased the 977 lonely hearts the Euston Manifesto has brought together with a suggestion he may consider initialing the document. “So call me a neo-conservative if you must: anything is preferable to the rotten unprincipled alliance between the former fans of the one-party state and the hysterical zealots of the one-god one.” Hitch reveals that he has “been flattered by an invitation to sign it, and I probably will”.

There will be sighs of relief amongst many on the left who were likewise flattered to be asked to sign an attempt to establish a left neo-conservative grouping in the UK but read the manifesto and instantly realised what was going on.

See Christopher Hitchens, “At last our lefties see the light”, Sunday Times, 30 April 2006

Martin Sullivan adds:  And now Mad Mel has declared herself “delighted” by the Euston Manifesto – “it’s great to see such a brave statement of decent principles and an open denunciation of the left for being on the wrong side of history. Such a challenge from within its own ranks is essential if the left is ever to stop causing so much lethal damage to the west”.

Meanwhile, online signatories to the Euston Manifesto have been outlining their motives for signing. Harriet Baber explains that “we liberals need to take back the Enlightenment” – which apparently means supporting human rights, “not peace, non-interference in the business of sovereign nations or respect for other cultures”. Neil Denny has signed in protest at a situation in which “to declare a support for Enlightenment values is to seemingly out oneself as an Islamophobe and a racist”. And Aidan Fleming adds: “The curse of democracy is the Qur’an. All supporters of the Euston Manifesto Group should read, The Sword Of The Prophet by Serge Trifovic. It should be declared that ISLAM is not a religion but a non-democratic political organisation.”

Concerns raised as innocent Muslims detained

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Senior members of Scotland’s Pakistani community last night revealed that they had approached the chief constable of Strathclyde Police to complain about the number of innocent Muslims being detained at Glasgow Airport. Ashraf Anjum, president of the Glasgow Central Mosque, the largest in Scotland, said he had personally raised the issue with Sir Willie Rae last month in response to a growing number of incidents being reported to him.

Sunday Herald, 30 April 2006

The birth of a global civil society

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Soumayya GhannoushiSoumaya Ghannoushi, writing for Al Jazeera, has an extremely astute analysis of the world in the early 21st century. The whole article is worth reading but there is one section that is particularly pertinent to the analysis that Islamophobia Watch has carried of the trajectory of some on the socialist left:

“Some from the Left have deserted their old positions and have moved to the side of power and big business, turning into cheerleaders for wars of aggression and the trampling of the principle of national sovereignty and norms of international law. While speaking the language of liberalism and tolerance, these have recycled rightwing racist clichés about Islam to dismiss the rapprochement with Muslims as an ‘unholy alliance’.”

Al Jazeera, 5 April 2006

Success! Condoleezza Rice Masjid visit cancelled!

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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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Oriana Fallaci: Muslim takeover of Europe was planned by Palestinians

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Oriana FallaciOriana 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 regretful 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, 15 March 2006

Use the LA Weekly Feedback facility to let them know what you think about this ultra racist garbage being given credibility.

Islamophobia Watch articles on Oriana Fallaci here.

Surge in stop and search of Asian people after July 7

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The number of Asian and black people stopped and searched in London streets by police using anti-terrorism powers increased more than 12 fold after the July 7 bombings, The Guardian has learned.

In the two months after three underground trains and a bus were bombed more than 10,000 people were stopped and searched by the Metropolitan police. None of the searches resulted in an arrest or a charge related to terrorism.

Before the attacks Asian people were already more likely than their white fellow Londoners to be stopped under counter terrorism powers, according to police figures. But the gulf grew bigger after the attacks. According to Met figures 2,405 Asian and black people were stopped while walking, compared with 196 last year.

Guardian, 24 December 2005

Leadership required to create calm – Australian Arabic Council

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The Australian Arabic Council (AAC) today voiced concern and alarm at reports that text messages are remaining to circulate in Sydney and spreading to Melbourne and other Australian cities.

Speaking for the AAC, Chairman, Roland Jabbour said the riots, must be condemned by all, recognised for what they are as ‘racially motivated’, and long-term not quick fix solutions found.

“These events of the last few days have exposed the anti-Arab racism that exists in Australia. Arab Australians have had to cope for sometime with vilification, racism and abuse after numerous international and domestic events. We are more than anybody aware of the fringe elements of society that have racist agendas and prejudicial propensities.

“This reality must now be recognised by political leaders and government agencies as a significant impingement on the rights of Arab and Muslim citizens.

“The AAC has for some time predicted the occurrence of events over the last few days. We are now concerned that similar sentiments and ‘calls to action by people with racist agendas’ are now spreading to Melbourne and other cities.”

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At last a secularist / humanist voice of reason

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Sir_Bernard_CrickJust when it appeared that the secularist & humanist movement had fallen to the tidal wave of intolerance, racism and Islamophobia (see here and here), Bernard Crick writes in the Guardian:

“To work with those of other beliefs implies, of course, tact and courtesy to mute immediate criticism of what for the time and purpose at hand are irrelevancies. It is historically and psychologically foolish for secularists to believe that criticism of all religious belief is an effective way of combating violent fanaticism.”

Sir Bernard clearly understands that the racist attacks on Muslims by those claiming adherence to humanism and secularism are not acceptable.

This age of fanaticism is no time for non-believers to make enemies