Islam Expo clears its name

Stephen Pollard's polemics have landed the Spectator magazine in trouble.

And who is this gentleman?

He is the one who once said: "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..."

Afghanistan met General Guthrie's 'just war' criteria! Sir John Keegan, military historian, thought 'orientals' prefered treachery and deceit as the best ways to overcome an enemy!

Veteran Catholic economist donning Neo-Con plummage, Michael Novak, rationalised "that a limited and carefully conducted war to bring about a change of regime in Afghanistan was morally obligatory."

Read on.....[Part VIII of a multi-part dossier]
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Speaking in rather fraught Urdu at a public meeting in Pakistan: “…mai nay abhee apnee tareef kee hay, apnay mulk kee tareef kee hay…” - an obvious slip up [“I have just praised myself, praised my country”].

She added that “a single woman can freely go anywhere even at night in Britain”, and that Pakistanis should learn from this.

The narrative runs like this: ‘look at me, the daughter of a labourer [mazdoor]; Britain has given me the opportunities to become a cabinet minister; there are more Islamic values to be found in Britain than in other Muslim countries’.

“There is a sense that Government has sought to engineer a ‘moderate’ form of Islam, promoting and funding only those groups which conform to this model. We do not think it is the job of Government to intervene in theological matters…” (House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee - Preventing Violent Extremism, March 2010)

On 18th June 2010 the British Muslim community learnt – from the columns of the Daily Telegraph – that the Home Secretary had issued a banning order on the well-known Islamic scholar Dr Zakir Naik of India, thus preventing him from taking up speaking engagements in Britain. The reasons given were his “unacceptable behaviour”, so that his visit “would not be conducive to the public good”.

"A judge today blocked the extradition of the former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic from the UK to Serbia, ruling that the charges he faces in Serbia for alleged war crimes could be motivated by politics."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/27/extradition-bosnian-president-serbia-blocked


The court hearings in London instigated by the Serbian Government against former Bosnian President Dr Ejub Ganic have concluded in London. He had been on bail in London since earlier hearings in April this year as a result of the British Government’s decision to comply with a request that he be extradited to Serbia.

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It would be travesty if he is extradited to Serbia, where there remains deep animosity towards the Bosniaks. Britain must remember that it is the Serbian leaders who were responsible for ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 1990s war.

Part VII of an eight part dossier
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When the MCB convenes its ‘Muslim Leadership Dinner’ on 22nd February there will be Jack Straw MP taking the lectern representing Labour, and later in the proceedings, so will the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP. Noticeably missing from the stage will be any senior representative from the Tory front bench. An oversight by the MCB or is this David Cameron’s policy decision?

The front page of the Jewish Chronicle (22nd Jan 2010) has as its headline ‘Muslim Council deal row’. The article by Martin Bright cites a “strongly worded” letter from the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Communities Secretary John Denham. If accurate, it marks an unprecedented intrusion to shatter good interfaith relations.

Prince Charles's voice of moderation and understanding charmed Muslims gathered at a gala dinner organised by Islamic Relief on 17th December 2009