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 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


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

Wobbly church fathers,monks and rabbis!

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

Most recent update: 27th Jan 2012- see section ' THE ABUSE, PHYSICAL DAMAGE, VIOLENCE....[Dewsbury attack on family]

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

For Part II prior to July 2010 click
http://blogs.salaam.co.uk/article.php?http://blogs.salaam.co.uk/article.php?story=20120206154535430

Inayat Bunglawala at the Leveson Inquiry, January 2012:

“I can fully accept that newspapers are there to report stories and if Muslims are involved in those stories, there will be facts about Muslims or the faith of Islam which they need to touch upon, especially in a time when we're facing a terror threat from Al Qaeda. It would be impossible for newspapers to avoid the subject of Islam and Muslims. Where I think a line needs to be drawn is on a clear falsehood on - where newspapers just tell plain falsehoods in their headline, where they seem to be fermenting prejudice, whereas if we replace the word "Muslim" with another minority group, we would very quickly recognise this is unacceptable. So I think the same standards should be applied to Muslims as to any other faith group or any other minority group community”.


“...Mr Desmond made clear – the proprietor of the Express made clear - in his own testimony here, he has withdrawn his newspapers from being allowed to be adjudicated by the Press Complaints Commission, which again strikes us as a most mystifying position for us to be in, because the Daily Express and the Daily Star are perhaps two of the most egregious offenders when it comes to stories which are mistaken or incorrect or inaccurate when it comes to reporting about British Muslims, and now the PCC has no jurisdiction over them, which is a very odd situation to be in....”

http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-24-January-2012.txt

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....