Muslim in Dublin has closed
I’m sorry to announce that Muslim in Dublin will no longer be updated.
Meanwhile, at lenins tomb
Lenins tomb highlights a couple of things, but most notably, this “During New Labour’s first term in office, the police killed about 300 people, most of them in custody. Between April 2004 and March 2005, about 100 died as a result of police action. Aside from deaths resulting from asphyxiation positions, violent altercations and wilful neglect of those needing treatment, there are a huge number of deaths that result from lawless police driving.”
Let’s thank Jack!
That friend of the Muslim people, especially the Uzbek Muslims, Jack Straw has again come to the aid of the Muslim minority. The rich inheritor of a large estate informs us that there is no longer a “sense of class” amoung the peasant propertyless underclass, and that a “stronger sense of shared British identity” was needed. Perhaps he wants Muslims to join in the violence that accompanies British football clubs abroad, perhaps he he wants British Muslims to contributemore to the gun and knife crimes. Maybe he wants them to sell drugs.. or, more probably, he is trying to invoke a simpleton US style blind patriotism.
Considering it has come from Straw, chances are it will be ignored fairly swiftly, but, it is worth reminding ourselves as to how Straws previous “debate” affected that section of the British populace…
An eight-year old-boy was left terrified by racist thugs who punched him in the face and pulled off his mosque cap.
Mohammed Tamazul was attacked whilst on his way to his uncle’s home on Stockport Road Levenshulme, Manchester where friends and family gathered for special evening Ramadan prayers.
As he made his way Mohammed noticed three teenage boys following him on mountain bikes.
One of them got off and asked if he was Muslim.
A Muslim woman was prevented from getting on a bus in Greater Manchester because she would not remove her veil.
The 22-year-old Manchester University student from Oldham says other passengers laughed when the driver refused to let her on because he could not check her identity with her bus pass.
A leading Muslim has blamed Jack Straw’s comments for an attack in which a woman’s veil was torn from her face.
The woman was attacked in Liverpool by a man shouting racist abuse, the day after the former foreign secretary criticised veils that cover the face.
Thugs burst into a mosque and savagely attacked the imam and several others as they prayed. One man was taken to hospital and at least three others were also hurt at the Eccles and Salford Islamic Centre
A Muslim family of four were shot at when their car was hit by a bullet while out shopping in west London, The Muslim News reports exclusively in this week’s issue of the paper. The incident, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the latest wave of Islamophobia attacks in the UK, took place, when the family from Bosnia were loading items in their car at Denham Car Boot Sale, near Uxbridge.
A 20 year old Muslim student was arrested under Britain’s terrorism law for taking photographs in east London for his university project before being released without charge.
A man has been arrested following reports that worshippers at a mosque on Tyneside were being racially abused. Officers were called to the west end of Newcastle after it was reported that a man was shouting racial abuse at visitors to the building. A 38-year-old was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment and is currently in custody assisting police with their inquiries.
A 53-year-old imam has been punched and kicked by a man who entered a mosque in the west end of Glasgow. Strathclyde Police confirmed that the incident, at the Dawat ul Islam centre, happened at about 1800 BST on Friday.Full story here
A white Muslim convert was spat on and racially abused in front of her young children as they travelled home after attending a commemoration of the victims of the July 7 terror bombings.
Michelle Idrees, dressed in a traditional burkha, was targeted by a father and his two sons as she travelled on a Thameslink train travelling out of London. She was returning to her home in Luton, Bedfordshire, when Charles Adams called her a “Muslim bitch” before spitting on her face.
A Teesside family have returned from holiday to find their house daubed with anti-Muslim graffiti. The Joacph family home and its neighbouring garage, in the Saltersgill area of Middlesbrough, were covered with messages. These claimed that the family were terrorists, and also called for the killing of Muslims.
Thats really just a selection… On top of that, there was the Daily Express… a selection of whos’ covers I shall now repost..
On a more positive note, Straw did see support from his political rivals the BNP, but that ultra socialist leader of the opposition,David Cameron, suggested too many politicians are “piling in” to the debate on Muslim women who wear full-face veils. Perhaps the reactions detailed above are the British values Straw wants to embolden within his peasants, or maybe he’s just spouting ignoratn populist tribe with a view to becoming deputy leader, who knows?
Goldfinch makes the Jewish News
Anyone in the UK should pick up a copy of the current edition of the Jewish news. They have an article on the Niqaab by our very own Goldfinch, which is well worth the read!
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Least shocking news I’ve Heard All Day.
Lenin phrases it:
Victims of police shooting not evil paedophiles after all.
The man, shot by the Police when Two Hundred and Fifty of them raided his house to stop an “imminent” chemical attack.. which which involved a weapon that could disperse chemicals.. quickly.. a weapon which turned out not to exist, and the chemicals, and indeed entire “plot”, which transpired to be fictitious.
After the police realised they’d destroyed two innocent men’s homes and reputations they managed to find child Porn images on the phone and PC of one of the Men… only, the images weren’t sent by Text message, or by blue-tooth.. they were “embedded” into a phone (Which, coincidentally, means that the date the images were placed on the phone cannot be ascertained, and also, only someone working with the Phone Company, or the police, would have the technology to actually embed the images into the phone.)
I can’t really say I’m surprised at this, its what the British establishment are best at.. Mudslinging and character assassination.
Aoife Anderson becomes the Hijabi Herald Hack.. for a day.. well, nearly a day
Proving nothing, and for no apparent reason, Aoife Anderson, one of the Evening Heralds staffers, donned a hijab for a day. This took up a full page in today’s Evening Herald, Dublins biggest selling daily paper (and only evening paper), half of said page was taken up with four photos, two of her with Hijab (Including one of the most awkward smiles I have ever seen – as she receives ‘helpful advice from Ali Selim’ {why didn’t she ask.. you know.. a Hijabi for helpful advice anyway?}) and then a further two of her without a hijab. I’ve no idea what the point of this was, there are plenty of Hijabis articulate enough to write a significantly better article than this who could perfectly explain what its like to wear a Hijab, there are even plenty of “Hijab-on-friday” women who can write about the differences in behaviour towards them when wearing one and when not. Half a days wear proves absolutely nothing. I’m going to repost this below as there is no Online version of the Herald.
Daily Star Hacks prevent Anti-Muslim broadside.
The Socialist Worker has reported that members of the National Union of Journalists have prevented a derogatory and offinsive piece on “What the Daily Star would look like under Muslim Law” from being published in Wednesday, 18th Octobers edition. The NUJ website says “The NUJ has strongly condemned moves by the Daily Star to publish a page in today’s issue of the paper which could be viewed as racially prejudiced and provocative and has congratulated the NUJ chapel there for acting swiftly to prevent it…. It included material that would have given great offence to the Muslim community. NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear said: This was an outrageous and hugely irresponsible idea which fortunately our chapel courageously resisted..The union’s code of conduct condemns this sort of gratuitous material which is likely to encourage discrimination and hatred in our society.”
The Socialists for their part have said that their sources indicate that the Star is trying to have it forced into tomorrow, Thursdays, edition. We shall see.
Open Letter by Stop The War coalition
Below is the text of an Open Letter from the Stop the war coalition concerning Islamophobia and the so-called “War On Terror”, the letter is an indication of the coalitions solidarity with the Muslim peoples and its opposition to Racism and Islamophobia. Read it!
The coalition recommend that people print off the letter (PDF here), sign it, and send it back to them at “Stop the War Coaltion, 27 Britannia Street, London N10 2BS”.
Scottish Socialists give their tuppence worth
Just some opinions given in the Scottish Socialist Voice – They will be removed from the site next month, so I am posting them below.
Muslim Students ‘more tolerant’ – UK Government wants Unis to Spy on them.
Two news stories of interest, the first from the BBC;
Muslim pupils are more liberal and tolerant than non-Muslim pupils, a Home Office-funded study has found.
The research, involving 400 15-year-olds, was carried out by Lancaster University in a two-year project after the 2001 Burnley riots.
It found that nearly a third of non-Muslim pupils thought one race was superior, compared to a tenth of teenagers in a mainly Muslim school.
He spoke to pupils from three schools in Burnley and Blackburn. One had mainly white pupils (School A), one mainly Asian students (School B) and the third a mixture (School C).
The survey found that 8% of pupils at school A and 12% in School C expressed an interest in finding out about other people’s religious beliefs, compared to 42% at the mainly Asian school.
At School A, 29% of the pupils questioned were in favour of different faith communities working together to create a better society, compared to 76% at School B.
Now, on to a story in the Guardian
Universities urged to spy on Muslims
Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on “Asian-looking” and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned.
The document says potential extremists can be talent-spotted at campus meetings then channelled to events off campus.
The document gives five real-life examples of extremism in universities. The first talks of suspicious computer use by “Asian” students, which was reported by library staff. In language some may balk at, it talks of students of “Asian appearance” being suspected extremists.
Charming, really.