Yet another counter-productive and utterly clueless Western government program in the post 9/11 world: A key government policy on countering extremism in Britain has “stigmatised and alienated” Muslims and undermined community relations, a Commons report says today. Many Muslims told the cross-party committee of MPs that they believed the purpose of the Prevent programme was…
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Hatred and fear of Islam in Switzerland is connected to previous hatreds
Swiss-based journalist Shraga Elam comments on the growing problems inside Switzerland, in a speech he gave in Geneva on 19h March: The huge wave of Islamophobia rolling over Switzerland should be compared to other forms of racism prevailing in this country especially with Judeophobia, with its long history. It would be wrong to speak in…
The danger of rampant Zionism catching on in middle America?
Leading Australian thinker and academic Scott Burchill comments on the recent revelations that American General David Petraeus is publicly linking the Middle East conflict and Washington’s failures in the Muslim world: Assuming that [Mark] Perry’s report is accurate – and it apparently is – it’s quite a significant development. If the Pentagon decides to flex…
Which Middle Eastern country forces women to sit at the back of the bus?
The growing public anger over gender segregated buses in Israel signifies the profound hypocrisy of those in the West who complain about gender apartheid in the Muslim world and remain mute over Israel’s ultra-Orthodox insanities. Here’s a trailer from a documentary about the issue, Black Bus:
The Left is a source of all evil (says extreme rightist)
Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick – there’s nothing like a good bombing to get her out of the bed in the morning – increases her rhetoric to the point of, well, you decide: Israel is not the only target of the Red-Green alliance. Its operations span the globe. Sometimes, as in the case of the…
Dershowitz urges, “Middle East Apartheid Education Week”
The growing global effectiveness of Israel Apartheid Week is pleasing. Suffice to say, this doesn’t please Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: Every year at about this time, radical Islamic students—aided by radical anti-Israel professors—hold an event they call “Israel Apartheid Week.” During this week, they try to persuade students on campuses around the world to…
Wilders likes the idea of a very white Christmas
Dutch politician Geert Wilders is enjoying great political success in his country, spewing anti-Islam hatred. Islam is a “fascist ideology”, he says, but “I have nothing against Muslims.” Indeed. Many on the Right back Wilders and we should ask why. Demonising Islam is easy. Suggesting all Muslims have a secret Islamist agenda is absurd. Imagine…
Challenge Israel, be called a Nazi
The wonderful Max Blumenthal: In the days leading up to Israeli Apartheid Week’s opening event at Columbia University, leading anti-Muslim blogger Pam Geller posted an image of an SS officer with the name of one of the event’s speakers, Ben White, emblazoned on his uniform. (The image recalled placards held by far-right settlers depicting Yitzhak…
When the mosques are being attacked, Israel is going too far
An interesting report on… Al-Jazeera on Israel’s increasing targeting of Muslim houses of worship in the occupied territories. As… my tipster tells me: I was in Cape Town a couple of years after the formal end of apartheid and visited an area which had been seized from its “coloured” inhabitants for the exclusive use of whites.… Every…
Australia needs to find its voice over Israel (but it ain’t likely)
A fine letter in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald: Finally, Kevin Rudd has done the unthinkable and questioned Israel about its actions (”Betrayed PM should not be taken for granted by Israel”, February 26). As Peter Hartcher points out, this is not the Prime Minister’s style. Mr Rudd seems to have a distorted his Christianity by…