Islamophobia - the Facts, Part II - Updated 20th Jan2012

FIRST THE CLUMSY ACTIONS & STATEMENTS, THEN THE MOCKING, ALARMIST TALK
AND FINALLY THE ABUSE, PHYSICAL DAMAGE, VIOLENCE

Most recent update: 20th Jan 2012- see section ' THE ABUSE, PHYSICAL DAMAGE, VIOLENCE....[Schoolgirl attacked]

For Part I prior to July 2010 click
http://blogs.salaam.co.uk/article.php?story=2009111015080338

Muslim-bashing in the media:

"the British press has a long history of megalomaniacal, reactionary and criminal proprietors. Some, such as Conrad Black, ended up in prison ñ or, in the case of Robert Maxwell, would have done if he hadn't died. Others, such as the migrant-and-Muslim-baiting pornographer Richard Desmond, merely emphasise how narrow and dysfunctional media ownership is in Britain." [Seamus Milne in The Guardian]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/20/scandal-exposed-scale-elite-corruption

" ...the supposed Islamisation of Europe, the classic conspiracism of the 'Eurabia' takeover fantasy, the racist hysteria about the Muslim birthrate, the inevitable clash of civilisations, the hatred of 'multiculturalism' and the supposed appeasement of Islam by the European elite, which is meant to have fostered a climate where it's impossible to speak about immigration. All these themes are of course staples of conservative newspapers, commentators and websites... the continuum between the poisonous nonsense commonplace in the mainstream media in recent years, the street slogans of groups like the EDL and Breivik's outpourings is unmistakable". [Seamus Milne]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/28/rage-muslims-no-loner-breivik

"Many a morning I've hit my speed dial button to Muslim rent-a-rant Anjem Choudary to see if he fancied pulling together a few lines about whipping drunks or stoning homosexuals. Our caustic 'us and them' narrative needs nailing home every day or two, and when asked to wield the hammer I was too scared for my career, and my bank account, to refuse." [ Richard Peppiat, in his resignation letter to Daily Star boss Richard Desmond]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/04/daily-star-reporter-letter-full
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/08/ex-daily-star-reporter-hate-messages

Wobbly church fathers,monks and rabbis!

Stephen Pollard - the Tory guru, Spectator columnist and JC editor, president of the Centre for the New Europe - has been quick to cast some Muslims as fascists....for example IslamExpo - but is himself paradoxically illiberal - supporting the right- wing Polish MEP Michal Kaminski , urging HMG to isolate the Muslim Council of Britain, iron-fisted about the illegal war in Iraq ("Americans have bled to free Iraq, and we won't hesitate now to use overwhelming force to stop a few cowards from ruining what our own dead helped to achieve..." )
and now wobbling on Torture! How shameful.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/244595/How-Guantanamo-caught-Geronimo

What makes the news and what doesn't? Salaam Blogger sniffs around...

A summary of articles and analyses related to Muslim affairs

The Foreign ministers of a number of EU countres have now declared that communist crimes "should be treated according to the same standards" as those of Nazi regimes.

DISCLOSURES: 3rd Feb 2011

SUBJECT: CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER ON AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN 9th April 2009

SUBJECT: REPORTS THAT BRITAIN IS IMPORTING PAKISTANI IMAMS
ARE EXAGGERATED, 24th April 2008

SUBJECT: PROPOSALS FOR AMBASSADOR'S CT FUND 18th April 2008

SUBJECT: ANTI-EXTREMIST CAMPAIGN TO REVERSE UK RADICALISATION, 5th Jan 2008

SUBJECT: EUR SENIOR ADVISOR PANDITH AND S/P ADVISOR COHEN'S
VISIT TO THE UK, OCTOBER 9-14, 2007

SUBJECT: (U) TENSIONS RISE BETWEEN BRITISH MUSLIMS AND HMG
IN THE WAKE OF THWARTED TERRORIST ATTACK 14th August 2006

US Diplomats quote neocon thinktank
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In the course of a discussion with US Special Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in April 2009, David Cameron ñ then leader of the Opposition - ìsingled out XXXXXXXXXXXX as groups that the government should not be dealing with as conduits [sic] to the Muslim communitiesî (Wikileaks). On 30th November 2010 the Guardian stated that the redacted Xs in the US Embassy despatch masked the names of two organisations, Hizb ut-Tahrir and the Muslim Council of Britain.

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In his recent interview to Indiaís Outlook magazine (1 November 2010), Noam Chomsky, after having spent three weeks in India and a week in Pakistan, has compared the Engish language media between the two contries. Noam Chomsky an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist found media in Pakistan more open, free and vibrant than that in India....

At one time, the Western stereotype of the Oriental Muslim was the debauched, sensuous crazy person -now it seems there has been a 180 degree turn...