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Stephen Timms MP pulls out of IslamExpo

Stephen Timms MP, the Minister of State for Employment was scheduled to give an address at the Opening Ceremony of IslamExpo, this evening.

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He has now pulled out of the event, and his name has been removed from the programme.

Comments

Trundlemaster    
  11 July 2008, 12:40 pm

Looks like Timms knows what side his bread is buttered on as usual.

I bet Livingslime won’t pull out and as for Galloway, the only way to separate him from dictatorial bum would be surgically.

Maven    
  11 July 2008, 12:44 pm

David T, what a wonderful job you’ve done against Hamas UK to get Timms to pull out of his own volition. What a blow for the Islamist that the ALMOST snared some mainstream people to support their radical Islamist agenda. “Govt Minister meets Hamas” wouldn’t play well.

What we need is a mainstream paper like Mail/Express/Telegraph to give this further publicity and expose the radicals.. I see Stepehne Pollard has support for you too.

Will anyone be monitoring the sessions and material for hate speech and literature I wonder.

These are interesting times.

Mark T    
  11 July 2008, 12:47 pm

Good stuff.

C Powell    
  11 July 2008, 12:55 pm

I see that that ghastly woman, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, is speaking. Is Simon Hughes still going?

Fabian from Israel    
  11 July 2008, 12:57 pm

Winning streak!

David Boothroyd    
  11 July 2008, 12:58 pm

Good on him.

tim    
  11 July 2008, 12:59 pm

Theres a few people on that list who wouldn’t like the terms of a Muslim Brotherhood morality court .

David T    
  11 July 2008, 1:00 pm

Were I Simon Hughes, I’d be very worried about attending an Islamist event: what with their views on the need to keep society “pure”.

JuliaM    
  11 July 2008, 1:03 pm

Excellent hat trick! :)

David T    
  11 July 2008, 1:04 pm

Yes, good for Stephen Timms.

The trouble is: these MB/;Hamas linked groups keep putting together new front organisations. When Timms accepted, he’d have thought it was all about nice cooking, and a pleasant Islamic garden, and building bridges. That is, after all, what they lying say that IslamExpo is about.

If only these guys would just come out and say:

“Yes, we’re a theocratic political movement which is working to create a state in which equality and human rights will be seen as a Jewish plot, and we teach that killing civilians will earn you a place in paradise”

then government ministers wouldn’t make mistakes like these.

tim    
  11 July 2008, 1:13 pm

One of the Directors of Islam Expo Ltd is Ismail Patel of the Friends of Al Aqsa.
Is that another MB/Hamas front?

Danny Smircky    
  11 July 2008, 1:17 pm

I make it
HP 3 - 0 Hamas (UK)

Alec Macpherson    
  11 July 2008, 1:21 pm

The trouble is: these MB/;Hamas linked groups keep putting together new front organisations.

Fortunately, we have you. You’re cool!

David T    
  11 July 2008, 1:21 pm

I believe it is.

Here’s Patel arguing that Brits who go to fight for Hamas shouldn’t be treated as terrorists:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/dec/05/foreignpolicy.israel

Here he is rubbishing Abbas and the peace negotiations:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/29/peacetalksdoomedtofailure

More Pro Hamas stuff:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/22/theguardianhasachievedwhat

There’s just loads of this.

ami    
  11 July 2008, 1:22 pm

Hard for them to keep up; Martin Bright and Murray still on the billing

Tory    
  11 July 2008, 1:26 pm

‘One of the Directors of Islam Expo Ltd is Ismail Patel of the Friends of Al Aqsa.’

Speaking for the ‘friends’ are Azzam Tamimi, Ilan Pappe, Nur Masalha and Jenny Tonge. Chair: Ismail Patel.

Is Jenny ‘Kaboom’ Tongue the token white person?

Also, the conference ends with a bang, no pun intended, the Green Party are talking about a ‘Green Jihad’. The roots of a new movement? Hamas wear Green dont they?

Herman    
  11 July 2008, 1:26 pm

I bet Bob Pitt is upset

Alec Macpherson    
  11 July 2008, 1:28 pm

Hopefully he’ll have an apoplexy and lapse into unconsciousness.

David Boothroyd    
  11 July 2008, 1:32 pm

Friends of Al-Aqsa are largely based in Leicester. When HAMAS founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Yassin was killed by an Israeli missile strike, they organised a rally in Town Hall Square (Leicester Mercury, 27th March 2004). They hosted a debate during the Leicester South byelection in 2004. Their bank account was closed by Royal Bank of Scotland in January 2005, but after a protest, reinstated them.

However it’s important not to confuse the Friends of Al-Aqsa with the Al-Aqsa Foundation; the latter is a Netherlands-based group which had its accounts frozen in May 2003 over links to terrorism but has no particular connection to Britain. The Friends of Al-Aqsa thought the RBS closure was due to confusion with them.

Dave Rich    
  11 July 2008, 1:33 pm

Ismail Patel is the man who put Holocaust Denier Roger Garaudy on his reading list.

unseen    
  11 July 2008, 1:35 pm

Friends of al Aqsa isn’t a Muslim Brotherhood front, it’s basically a vehicle for the nutty Ismail Patel. It is close to both the Brotherhood and to the Khomainist IHRC /InMinds lot but is its own thing.

Patel is fond of quoting convicted holocaust denier Roger Garaudy as his guide to the Middle East. See:

http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=832

and

http://www.aqsa.org.uk/Portals/0/Books/Nakba_Report_final_4web.pdf

a book on the “Nakba” full of citations of Garaudy (and introductions by Richard Burden and Jeremy Corbyn, as well as Jenny Tonge).

KB Player    
  11 July 2008, 1:37 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/11/islam

“Soumaya Ghannoushi will join John Esposito, Alastair Crooke, Martin Bright and Robert Leiken to debate “The Islamic threat: myth or reality?” at IslamExpo in London tomorrow. The expo runs from today until Monday at Olympia in Kensington”

The Guardian, one step behind as usual.

David T    
  11 July 2008, 1:38 pm

I bet Sawalha and Tamimi take the piss out of Patel behind his back.

No evidence. Just a feeling.

tim    
  11 July 2008, 1:45 pm

I wonder where all the cash from Islam Expo Ltd goes.
And for that matter, comes from.

Chris    
  11 July 2008, 1:46 pm

The entire event should be canceled by the U.K. govt. Terrorist linked groups should not be allowed to spread their propaganda in our countries.

Dave Rich    
  11 July 2008, 1:47 pm

I think this weekend it will be Sawalha who will have people talking behind his back.

“That’s the idiot who lost us our minister” etc.

Chris    
  11 July 2008, 1:47 pm

We have the same problems here in the USA with Muslims.

For more on the subject.

http://www.islaminaction08.blogspot.com

Shmuel    
  11 July 2008, 2:04 pm

Are you sure he was ever scheduled to speak? Although his name seems to appear on the schedule it may be a typo. Perhaps they wrote “Stephen Timms” went in fact they meant “Bagels and Coffee”.

tim    
  11 July 2008, 2:04 pm

Chris,
The far right groups behind this event command about 7% support amongst the Muslim Community.
Thats all.

David T    
  11 July 2008, 2:06 pm

You might as well condemn all the British because about 7% of us vote for white Fascist parties!

Andrew Coates    
  11 July 2008, 2:22 pm

Surely *Unseen* Garaudy must be a very elarned and great man: he’s in the Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame !

Patel could well argue that the prosecution for denying the Shoah, upheld by all the legal instances, right up to the European Court of Human Rights, was an affront to justice.

Er, actually it wasn’t: if there is one person who merits the words “utter filth”, it’s Garaudy. And he was that when he was a Stalinist and when he was a Catholic well before he converted to Islam. And probably was when he was playing hopscotch during the recree.

modernity    
  11 July 2008, 2:26 pm

unseen,

damn silly of Jerry Corbyn to put his name to a publication linked to Garaudy, I doubt he would have done the preface if David Irving had been quoted left right and centre, remembering this:

“PARIS 17 MARCH (IPS) Roger Garaudy, a French philosopher formerly Communist turned Muslim was recently fined in a Paris Court to 120.000 French Francs fine because in a recent book “Political Myths of the State of Israel”, in which he contested the existence of gas chambers in Hitler’s Germany as well as the number of the Jewish population eliminated by the Germans in different concentration camps and elsewhere.”

http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/vaziri_garaudy.html

Roley Poley Dahl    
  11 July 2008, 2:28 pm

Great job David T., Dave M. and everyone else at Harry’s Place who is involved.

Neil D    
  11 July 2008, 2:32 pm

Chris,

Get a fucking grip of yourself man! Problems with Muslims? Who has a problem with Muslims?

You ought to remember why the Pilgrim fathers landed in the US for a start.

unseen    
  11 July 2008, 2:39 pm

modernity, I agree. Odd of Richard Burden and Jeremy Corbyn to have agreed to do this. Jenny Tonge I’m not surprised about at all, though.

David T    
  11 July 2008, 2:39 pm

You ought to remember what the Pilgrim Fathers believed, for that matter. They were the Taliban, more or less!

Andrew Coates    
  11 July 2008, 2:46 pm

Wonder if Blogs are posting the claims that Mr Sawalha’s British Muslim Initiative are suing Harry’s Place on? I’ve just noticed that Shiraz Socialist are doing do and daring the Islamicist bigots to sue them.

abcdef    
  11 July 2008, 2:55 pm

testing … abcdefghijklmnop

old Labour    
  11 July 2008, 2:55 pm

I see Douglas Murray is still down to speak on Monday, in spite of his professed withdrawal.

Hope that someone is on hand to give an impartial report on what actually happens at this Islamofash fest.

Mark Gardner    
  11 July 2008, 2:59 pm

I’m thinking that all of this may well encourage Mohamed Sawalha to blame the “evil Jew” for the withdrawals.

Mark Gardner    
  11 July 2008, 2:59 pm

Oops, my apologies, that should have read “Jewish lobby” of course.

Mark Gardner    
  11 July 2008, 3:00 pm

..and of course, then Greesntein etc can blame the Zionist HP for encouraging antisemitism. Isn’t it nice how everything comes together?

Tory    
  11 July 2008, 3:01 pm

David T, I have heard you say numerous times that you dont support a no platform policy. Surely better to face them head on, anyone?

old Labour    
  11 July 2008, 3:08 pm

Surely better to face them head on, anyone?

Yes indeed, but only on neutral territory where the debate can be run in an impartial manner and where every other speaker is not a hardliner.

These Islamofash ‘debates’ are nothing of the sort - run and dominated by the worst elements in British extreme Islam, with an audience which probably reflects the same.

David T    
  11 July 2008, 3:14 pm

I’m all for facing people head on.

However, it makes it difficult to do so if the other side are suing you for libel, doesn’t it?

David T    
  11 July 2008, 3:17 pm

There’s also a difference between “no platform” (which I oppose) and “not speaking on a fascists platform” (which I generally wouldn’t do)

The main reason that I think it is futile to speak in debates organised by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood or Hizb ut Tahrir is this. They typically set up debates in which a non-Muslim puts the case for, say, secularism against a Muslim arguing for Islamism. The purpose of these debates is to create a false dichotomy: the Muslim v the Kaffir. The message they’re trying to push is “If you’re a good Muslim, you’ll side with us”. That’s crap and I don’t think there’s much point in helping them achieve that aim.

Colin    
  11 July 2008, 3:35 pm

I’ve asked Laurance Robertson MP why the Conservatives are happy to see two Tory spokesmen share a platform with Hamas-tainted speakers. I mentioned noting Labour and Lib Dem collaboration but why on earth Tory? With Timms going, and hopefully Simon Hughes, what grounds will be left?

Trundlemaster    
  11 July 2008, 3:40 pm

I’m surprised at Hughes allowing self to be manipulated by this mob. He is normally a shrewd operator.

Sue R    
  11 July 2008, 4:02 pm

Dave T: Check under your car every time you go out, won’t you?

tim    
  11 July 2008, 4:09 pm

Would you like me to ring George Galloways office and warn him that he’ll be attending a front for a far right anti semitic organisation?

old Labour    
  11 July 2008, 4:11 pm

Would you like me to ring George Galloways office and warn him that he’ll be attending a front for a far right anti semitic organisation?

George Galloway already fronts a far right anti semitic organisation.

ami    
  11 July 2008, 4:22 pm

Jenny Tonge lashed out in the Lords this week at the power of the Israel lobby here and in the USA, who take vindictive action against critics, get them removed from positions and prevent them speaking.

Mark Gardner    
  11 July 2008, 4:32 pm

Old Lab: I thought Galloway had split from SWP. Blimey its hard to keep up with these things.

E.D. Kain    
  11 July 2008, 4:38 pm

Countersuit? In any case, good job, keep up the fight! Likely their lawsuit will turn out to be extremely bad exposure for them….

M o r g o t h    
  11 July 2008, 4:59 pm

However, it makes it difficult to do so if the other side are suing you for libel, doesn’t it?

On that note, would it be handy for the two/three threads in question to be stickied?

John P.    
  11 July 2008, 5:38 pm

Er, actually it wasn’t: if there is one person who merits the words “utter filth”, it’s Garaudy. And he was that when he was a Stalinist and when he was a Catholic well before he converted to Islam. And probably was when he was playing hopscotch during the recree.

When ageing half-wit leftists have exhausted any and all ways of fucking up the world, they retire by converting to Islam.

Garaudy became some sort of weird Protestant before ‘discovering’ all the delicious jew-hatred hatred to be found in Islam.

And he still swore by Stalin even after the russian communist party had denounced Stalin’s countless atrocities.

You just can’t get dumber than that!

You ought to remember what the Pilgrim Fathers believed, for that matter. They were the Taliban, more or less!

I shall take that as sarcasm.

As for the list of guest speakers, I see that John Esposito is there.

This little twerp rims Saudi arse so hard and so intensly, his mouth looks like that of a toddler who’s been eating chocolate ice-cream.

Every word Esposito utters about Islam is a complete lie.

Ben    
  11 July 2008, 5:48 pm

Excellent. Truly excellent. Well done Stephen Timms. If this was a boxing match, they’d be reeling and about to collapse to the floor.

Looking at the list of speakers, it really does contain a large number of some of the worst misanthropes in Britain today, from both the Islamist and dodgy-liberal fronts. It’s a concentration of lunacy so dramatic that I wouldn’t be surprised if it caused a rift in the space-time continuum.

tim    
  11 July 2008, 6:14 pm

I like the balanced look of this debate

11.45 - 13.00 Sponsored by The Cordoba Foundation: Iraq 5 Years on: Stability or Chaos? Lecture Salah El-Sheikhy, George Galloway, Andrew Murray and Jonathan Steele . Chair: Anas Altikriti

Nick (South Africa)    
  11 July 2008, 6:25 pm

If ever ‘making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear was an apt expression, making Islam seem in any way wholesome, is, perhaps a little ironically, it!

Good work on flushing these fascists out.

Roley Poley Dahl    
  11 July 2008, 6:28 pm

John P. - you are right about Esposito. Wonder if Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) will be drafted in to fill the gap by singing more of his sixties hits than “Morning has Broken,” now Stephen Timms has done the breaking. I understand from Andrew Anthony’s book “The Fallout” (he has interviewed Yusuf) that he is a Moon Shadow of his former self.

Boogski    
  11 July 2008, 6:51 pm

It’s a concentration of lunacy so dramatic that I wouldn’t be surprised if it caused a rift in the space-time continuum.

Lol!

Roley Poley Dahl    
  11 July 2008, 7:27 pm

On the subject of Nick Cohen’s thread that “libel is the last refuge of the scoundrel,” it appears on Yusuf Islam’s official website that he has won damages from World Entertainment Network because they fabricated a story last year that he does not speak to unveiled women. Good to know.

Mark T    
  11 July 2008, 7:58 pm

Looks like Timms has been replaced by an ‘Alfred Agius’.

Who, apparently, is the former bassist with ‘The Fixx’.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Alfie+Agius?anv=Alfred+Agius

Mark T    
  11 July 2008, 8:00 pm

Either that, or he’s the Director of Westminster Interfaith, an agency of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster.

Doesn’t really matter, does it?

Alan Ji    
  11 July 2008, 8:01 pm

A better link for Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP for East Ham would be to his own website:

http://www.stephentimms.org.uk/faiths

It tells you almost everything that you could want to know about Stephen, except his clothes sizes and that he’s a Baptist.

East Ham is one of the most ethnicallly diverse constituencies in the UK. It’s MP is no shorter of people who can give him advice on “spot the Islamist” than of people who can give him advice on “spot the trot”.

Stephen Gash    
  11 July 2008, 8:36 pm

Anybody fancy a demo outside the venue?

Catherine Fieschi    
  11 July 2008, 9:33 pm

In the name of freedom of expression your server is refusing my post…

Mark T    
  11 July 2008, 9:49 pm

In the name of freedom of expression your server is refusing my post…

But not the post you’ve just posted?

Eh?

Jabar    
  11 July 2008, 11:05 pm

You chaps are obsessed with these Islamic Groups. Let me say that you people, from the perspective of those of us who are Muslim and are opposed to Islamism, simply do us no favours. I vehemently oppose Islamism as a social, cultural and political force but any nation, Muslim or not has the right to defend itself from British, Israeli, American or Indonesian etc, etc aggression or occupation. You White Middle bloggers should stick to doing what you do best….

Neil D    
  11 July 2008, 11:20 pm

I vehemently oppose Islamism as a social, cultural and political force but any nation, Muslim or not has the right to defend itself from British, Israeli, American or Indonesian etc, etc aggression or occupation.

You seem to be missing the fairly important point that both the Afghanistan and Iraq nations are fighting with the British/Americans, not defending themselves from them.

Greg    
  12 July 2008, 12:54 am

but any nation, Muslim or not has the right to defend itself from British, Israeli, American or Indonesian etc, etc aggression or occupation.

God forbid Israel should defend itself from Muslim aggression though, eh? And, given that most Muslims who are being killed unlawfully are being done so by other Muslims, instead of bitching about America, Israel etc. how about putting your own house in order? The voices of those who are “Muslim and are opposed to Islamism” are pretty god damn quiet.

habibi    
  12 July 2008, 12:58 am

Good for Mr Timms!

There is no need for HMG to parley with al-Tikriti, Sawalha, Tamimi and other similar Islamists. Nothing will be gained. They are fanatics, not for turning.

For the publicly HMG-constrained, parsing words to pulp, lending them even a hint of legitimacy by sharing a platform is silly fluffiness at best and very risky at worst.

The cold shoulder, instead, is entirely appropriate and likely to be effective over time.

Let them get on with their legal political activities, but no more, just like the BNP.

Anyway, what was the Home Office thinking, back in the day, giving indefinite leave to remain in the UK to Hamas operative Sawalha?

David All    
  12 July 2008, 4:16 am

For those looking for something to do this Saturday, July 12th in London, there will be a protest at 2:30PM at the Pakistani Embassy against the ongoing campaign of murder of Pakistani Shias in NW Pakistan by the Taliban. See “Takfiri War on Pakistani Shia” at http://www.iraqimojo.blogspot.com for details.

lbnaz    
  12 July 2008, 4:42 am

Let me say that you people, from the perspective of those of us who are Muslim and are opposed to Islamism, simply do us no favours.

How should we who aren’t Muslim support Muslims opposed to Islamism, from your perspective Jabar? As for the perspective of other Muslims opposed to Islamism what makes you think you speak for them? And Jabar, will you be attending Islam Expo this year?

Alan Ji    
  12 July 2008, 8:45 am

Here’s a naive commentator, number 2 on the Lib Dem MEP list for London in 2010, as in 2005, who doesn’t seem to have noticed a slight problem:

http://jonathanfryer.wordpress.com/

“IslamExpo
Posted by jonathanfryer on Friday, 11th July, 2008

This evening I was at the Opening Ceremony and pre-reception of IslamExpo at London’s Olympia, which proclaims itself to be Europe’s largest celebration of Islamic heritage, culture and traditions under one roof. It’s certainly an impressive operation, running until Monday, with hundreds of stalls, exhibits, gardens and cafés, as well as a rich and eclectic programme of lectures, seminars and entertainment.”

davem    
  12 July 2008, 9:41 am

Jabar, is that you (comment 5th May 2008, 8:32pm)?

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/05/05/breathing-in-syria/#comments

5th May 2008, 8:32pm
“This is rubbish and a lie. I went to see this show twice! live and there were no gasps when he mentioned his name. Hamam went onto to denounce Khaddam for his political hypocrisy i.e. how he economically benefited immensely from the regime etc…to applause.

As far as “pains” to display loyalty are concerned, I don’t think this is true either. Hamam writes his own stuff and is the star of his shows. He is a patriot and will be on the receiving end if the Muslim Brotherhood is legalised as the UK/US wants.

On this basis I don’t know whether to accept the rest of what you have to say is correct. It comes across as a Memri/MI6 report using Al-arabiya as a cover for impartiality.

Also Syrian productions are amongst the most popular in the Arab world (and that includes your UK puppet states), this did not come out of thin air. There are very serious issues that Syria needs to answer for but your presentation is purely propagandistic.

Jabar”

Dave    
  12 July 2008, 10:15 am

But, Jabal, would you be equally happy to suggest that only white people and/or Christians should oppose the irrational chauvinism of the BNP? Isn’t it useful to continually point out that, contrary to the propaganda of the BNP and the Islamists, Muslims and Islamists are not one and the same, and that, in fact, the main threat that the Islamists present is not to Western liberal/social democracy–they are too weak philosophically and militarily–but to large groups of disempowered Muslims around the world? And isn’t it useful for the middle classes also to be involved in this twin-pronged attack to counter the myths of these separate groups of reactionary racists, the fascists and the Islamists?

Dave    
  12 July 2008, 10:17 am

Sorry, I meant “Jabar”, not “Jabal”.

John P.    
  12 July 2008, 1:36 pm

I understand from Andrew Anthony’s book “The Fallout” (he has interviewed Yusuf) that he is a Moon Shadow of his former self.

Cat Stevens was a total burnout long before his conversion.

Were one to flip open the top of his cranium and peer inside, one would see nothing but a smoldering cinder.

Poor Cat came so close to accidentally dying on a couple of occasions, that he hit upon the idea that to remain alive he’d have to stop living (convert to Islam).

And so he did, and in the process converted this life into a mere ante-chamber to death.

Both the quantity and quality of his musical production these past 30 years attest to that!

He’s not really alive, just sort of ‘undead’.

For those looking for something to do this Saturday, July 12th in London, there will be a protest at 2:30PM at the Pakistani Embassy against the ongoing campaign of murder of Pakistani Shias in NW Pakistan by the Taliban. See “Takfiri War on Pakistani Shia” at http://www.iraqimojo.blogspot.com for details. David ALL

If one is going to demonstrate at Pakistan’s embassy, then at least do so for the sake of the country’s 3 million strong Christian minority, who are horribly mistreated by ALL of the country’s muslim denominations.

Kidnappings, beatings, murder, forced conversions, destruction of property…..these things happen every day to Pakistani Christians.

The worst are the abductions and forced conversions of children, particularly young girls.

Abductions and forced conversions gleefully carried out by Sunni and Shia alike.

Pakistan is a filthy, backward, human rights hellhole; it is Islam at its finest.

Alan Ji    
  12 July 2008, 4:02 pm

John P, I know a few Pakistani Christians in this part of London. I remember meeting several at a Pakistan Association do to rasie funds for the victims of the eathquake 3 or 4 years ago. They seemed quite happy to attend a predominantly Sunni Muslim event, as were other people with no family connections there.

If your wild allegations are accurate, how is it that in Pakistan that lawyers have been the foremost opponents of military rule?

John P.    
  12 July 2008, 4:33 pm

If your wild allegations are accurate, how is it that in Pakistan that lawyers have been the foremost opponents of military rule?

Yes, they’re *allegations*, and very *wild* ones at that!

The treatment meted out to Christian minorities in Muslim-majority countries is just miserable.

It’s an issue HP can’t quite bring itself to admit even exists.

Egypt’s Copts…..the indigenous inhabitants of Egypt….will be holding a demo in Washington on the 16th to highlight and denounce the treatment they recieve at the hands of Egypt’s ’secular’ gov’t.

Were the Muslim broderbundt ever to take power, the community would probably leave.

Killing, oppressing and harassing Christians is, to all evidence, still considered acceptable.

Imagine the crass level of ignorance when incidents of anti-christian violence occuring all the time in Muslims-majority nations are portrayed as *wild allegations*

That’s like saying that 911 was but a *wild allegation*.

Unbelievable.

Alan Ji    
  12 July 2008, 6:26 pm

Calling Egyptian Christians “original inhabitants” is a bit like calling the Welsh the original inhabitants of England.

It is quite true, but is not very relevant to the present situation, and hasn’t been for centuries.

mrs Ben    
  12 July 2008, 7:02 pm

Still no doubt Ken L did not withdraw so all is well

mrs Ben    
  12 July 2008, 7:04 pm

I must be having a senior moment, I thought the former Cat Stevens was a Greek Cypriot.

mrs Ben    
  12 July 2008, 7:12 pm

In any case I think some of you have been spending too much time listening to your Tea for the Tillerman album. Not only is Stevens a supporter of Hezbollah he also supported the “death fatwa on Salman Rushdie. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens’_comments_about_Salman_Rushdie)

though why anyone should be interested in the witterings of a half educated musician defeats me (same goes for Paul Weller bless him, why on earth should his political views matter to anyone he has only ever been a musician).

Roley Poley Dahl    
  12 July 2008, 7:33 pm

John P. - Thanks for the update on the late Cat Stevens. I thought something must have been going wrong for him in the seventies when the happy-clappies started singing “Morning has Broken” as some kind of Christian hymn.

On Pakistan, I always wonder whether the BBC pays cry-baby Barbara Plett any danger money or a hardship allowance for being removed from Israel to report from Islamabad instead.

David T    
  12 July 2008, 9:02 pm

Greeks are essentially the same as Turks, so Cat had only a very short distance to travel, on the Road to Findout.

I long for the day when a one state solution is visited on Greece, and this wafk is re-integrated into the Ottoman Empire.

Roley Poley Dahl    
  12 July 2008, 9:59 pm

Ah David T.; Another Saturday Night and I Ain’t Got Nobody/ I got some money coz I just got paid/ How I wish I had someone to talk to/I’m in an awful (well not so bad actually) way.

Maybe Cat should have had a quiet word with Turkey’s Mr. Eczevit while he owned his Greek holiday island. Maybe he still has it, but clearly Islam Expo has greater claims on “the undead.”

George of Currumbin    
  12 July 2008, 10:45 pm

Is there no end to islaMIC SUBTERFUGE?
‘Is radicalisation a failure of Multiculturism’ !!
That should be a big thank you very much

me    
  12 July 2008, 11:41 pm

If only these guys would just come out and say:

“Yes, we’re a theocratic political movement which is working to create a state in which equality and human rights will be seen as a Jewish plot, and we teach that killing civilians will earn you a place in paradise”

Why should they when thats a lie? You campiagn against the MB whilst blatantly lie about what they believe.

Change Jewish to Gentile and you have the state of Israel in a nutshell

“They typically set up debates in which a non-Muslim puts the case for, say, secularism against a Muslim arguing for Islamism. The purpose of these debates is to create a false dichotomy: the Muslim v the Kaffir. The message they’re trying to push is “If you’re a good Muslim, you’ll side with us”. That’s crap and I don’t think there’s much point in helping them achieve that aim.”

David T simply cannot hide his deep hatred of Muslims (the Muslim vs the Kaffir indeed). If Muslims dont want to support political islamic groups good for them;but the idea theyd be on the side of a Muslim hater like David T is laughable

Mohammed Dean    
  13 July 2008, 12:45 am

Attended the Expo today, fantastic turnout, excellent exhibitors, enlightening debates and no doubt plenty of cash at the door. Which I hope allows this Islamic extravaganza to become sell-suficient and sustainable without any external funding. Come on guys we are here to stay, lets be friends…

Judy    
  13 July 2008, 1:30 am

Great hat-trick, David T. I think Stephen Timms is basically a good guy– the fact that he has a strong faith of his own may have made him susceptible to invites from the likes of Islam Expo. But it still leaves questions about just what is the attitude of our current government to sidling up to Islamist groups in the name of promoting “engagement” with Islamists and deterring young Muslims from becoming Jihadis.

As for being surprised that Jeremy Corbyn would turn up as a speaker at Islam Expo, is that at all surprising? He’s pretty well a fixture at Stop the War rallies and demos–and Stop the War is co-sponsored by the Muslim Association of Britain, the mothership in the UK of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Oniad    
  13 July 2008, 5:04 am

“as for Galloway, the only way to separate him from dictatorial bum would be surgically.”

-don’t say that - PETA will start protesting about mulesing again.

Alan Ji    
  13 July 2008, 8:05 am

John P, you’ll notice that no-one else has joined in.
I occaisionally look at the Barnabas Fund website. I find Dr Patrick Sookhdeo on the same wavelength as you. However, Baranabas Fund publishes allegations that have places, dates and times. Yours don’t and that’s why I call them wild.

Roley Poley Dahl    
  13 July 2008, 8:05 am

Mohammed Dean - so you went to “Kaboom’s” teqqiya lecture then. Are you, perchance, related to the Deans of Messrs. Dean and Dean?

Roley Poley Dahl    
  13 July 2008, 8:38 am

Dave M. - Sorry I am being a bit slow on a Sunday morning, but Mohammed has just alerted me to the reason Messrs. Dean and Dean probably took their name, given that it is an Islamic staffed law firm with Iranian-born Dr. Sean as the solicitor named so far. Doesn’t Diyn mean law in Arabic? Not entirely the same nomenclature motivation as Mr. Justice Judge. Always wondered what if former Manchester United footballer Dennis Law were to qualify as a solicitor. How about “Law Associates.”

John P.    
  13 July 2008, 1:53 pm

Come on guys we are here to stay, lets be friends…

Actually you’re not here to stay.

Have you forgotten Andalusia?

That’s the model to follow.

You see, you are not civilisationally house-trained, and so no matter how much you attempt to fit in, sit up straight and beg, some of you will always ruin the moment by relieving yourselves on the livingroom floor.

These ‘accidents’ are known colloquially as ‘terrorist attacks’.

No amount of islam expos will ever disguise, dissimulate or mask your penchant for civil incontinance.

Get lost, dirtbag.

Sue R    
  13 July 2008, 5:14 pm

@Morning has broken’ was written by Eleanor Farjeon as a hymn in the 1930s or thereabouts.

Roley Poley Dahl    
  13 July 2008, 6:25 pm

Didn’t know Morning Has Broken was a real hymn. Only knew about it through Cat’s popularised version. Curious then, that the man primarily responsible for bringing it to a wider convertible audience and making enough money to buy a Greek island in the process should subsequently become an apostate from Christianity. Especially since Cat’s version includes the give-away line, “Where His feet pass.” Hardly Cliff Richard.

Sue R    
  13 July 2008, 8:25 pm

We used to sing it in morning assembly at school. I thnk it’s still on the CofE list of approved hymns. (Hymns Ancient and Modern).

David Boothroyd    
  14 July 2008, 12:13 am

The Guardian reports that the Government has now decided that due to “reservations about the organisers of the event”, no Minister will attend. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/islam.race

SDiizle    
  14 July 2008, 12:15 am

There are few comments on here that i wish to comment on.
Firstly i agree that Yasmin AB is no oil painting.. she is also a self appointed expert on Islam. Fortunately she is unknown and largely ignored by the majority of Brit Muslims.
Secondly Islam EXPO is nothing but a concert with a few knock off goods for sale. It does NOT represent Islam.
Lastly any event with Tariq Ramadan who openly states that God made laws are for ‘past times’ and that we should modernise our belief system, is Anti Islam.
Guys be ready to take your book in your left hand.. ( for you who dont know what i mean.. google it)

Mohammed Dean    
  14 July 2008, 2:07 am

Come on guys we are here to stay, lets be friends…

‘Actually you’re not here to stay. Have you forgotten Andalusia?

Why John P that’s not a very hospitable thing to say. My children are British Muslims, I am a British Muslim…your going to have one hell of a legal battle on your hands trying to get rid of me. Unless you envision a spate of ethnic cleansing in the not so distant future, where the roaming mobs will have Islamist detectors. And you know how I would HAVE to react to that sought of slight on the honour of my family and faith??? So again I extend the hand of friendship, peace and harmonious neighbourliness. My fellow beloved countryman have nothing to fear from me, I love fish & chips, Heinz ketchup, beans on toast, halal steak & kidney pie, the Carry on Films, Del from Only Fools & Horses, the three little pigs (though I wouldn’t eat the filthy buggers), a summers day out on Brighton pier etc etc. However I do object through debate and discussion and the offering of an alternate way of life, to illicit, extra-marital sexual relations, the scourge of adultry, the drunken foul-mouthed abuse of mothers and fathers, the weeing and fighting after a ‘night ouuuut’ on the town, where inhibitions and morals disintegrate, to be surpassed by base desires of whim and carnal instinct, fuelled by cocktails of JD, Strongbow and Tennents, and the infatuation with all things materialand superficial with an utter disregard for the Hereafter and the life to come. But hey, I hope I am entitled to my opinion.

‘No amount of islam expos will ever disguise, dissimulate or mask your penchant for civil incontinance.’ John P

Doesn’t matter John P, the community will keep organising such events, and in all honesty I personally don’t give a shit if no ministers turn up…what makes me smile with glee is that the community, the families, the children attend in their thousands of droves. And no doubt much to your regret, the numbers of non-Muslims who attended this event was very high, I saw loads during the lectures. So you and your cohorts can perpetuate this scaremongering generic Islamist myth as much as you want, but this is a battle of truth and falsehood and God-willing the truth will prevail. Again I am a British Muslim who loves his country, but am also religously bound to speak out against injustice and tyranny, whether that be against ignorant, malicious zealots who kill innocent people inthe name of religion by blowing themselves up, or state terrorists who kill thousands in the name of democracy and freedom.

‘You see, you are not civilisationally house-trained, and so no matter how much you attempt to fit in, sit up straight and beg, some of you will always ruin the moment by relieving yourselves on the livingroom floor.’ John P

Sound like an expert out of British imperialist novel, how quickly you have forgotten the excesses and inequities perpertrated in the name of Britiannia. I gues this what they used to write of the millions of human beings that the British killed, maimed, subjagated and enslaved in India, South Africa, Austrailia or America. I am sure the aboregines, the native Indians and the Indians of the sub-continent were spoken about in a similar fashion. Dude you are from a another era ;)

‘Get lost, dirtbag.’ John P

Come on Johnny, where exactly am I meant to go???

Zin    
  14 July 2008, 4:16 am

The “Support Harry’s Place Blogroll” is absolutely fucking hilarious.

The first blog on the roll is a wild eyed Zionist nutbar site.

QUOTE: “In an age of rogue nations armed with WMD, a worldwide Islamic jihad… how long before someone will successfully enact Hitler’s ‘final solution’?”
http://adeeperlookweblog.blogspot.com/

The second is, well, an anti-Muslim conspiracy site.

QUOTE: “Muslims can earn goodwill by helping to stop the crescent plot… Al Qaeda’s 9/11 sneak attack cast suspicion on all Muslims. After the hijackers hid amongst us, pretending to be trustworthy friends while plotting acts of war, how can we know that other Muslims are not doing the same? …American Muslims could undo much of this suspicion by helping to expose the terrorist memorial mosque that architect Paul Murdoch is trying to plant on the Flight 93 crash site… loyalty to America is what is what the rest of America wants to see. Is it what our Muslim countrymen want?”
http://newdefender.wordpress.com/

Well, is it? Our towell-headed friends really ought to say.

The third blog is simply bizarre.

QUOTE: “What’s significant now is the increasingly deep documentation of Obama’s early affinity and indoctrination to Marxist-Leninist ideology. For more, see “What Barack Obama Learned From the Communist Party.”"
http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/

The blogger describes himself as a “pro-victory Associate Professor” who loves his country, “fully supports current US military operations”, “despises hard-left radical agenda and discourse”…

…and “abhors irrationalism in argumentation”

As we can see.

The fourth blog is, if anything, even further to the right.

Quote: “PRO LIFE, PRO GUN, RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN. ANY QUESTIONS?”
http://olbroad.com/

I didn’t have any, so I took one last look at the charming little flashing icon “Reject the UN, Reject the UN”, and logged off.

The firth blog is a climate-change-denying nest of extremist loonies. Apparently Iran wants Israel to nuke the Middle East to dust! I kid you not.

QUOTE: “So the world is deluding itself and refuses to acknowledge the possibility Iran will destroy the Jewish state with one or two nukes? NO, my theory is they want the Jewish state destroyed knowing that in the process Israel will fire off nukes taking out the hubs of Islamic jihad (and optimistically the holy shrines of Islam as well). How happy would the world be to rid itself of the half of the world’s Jewish population (echos of last time - then and now) and have the Jews in the throes of annihilation mop up their mess remove the Islamic knife at their collective thoat. But at that point Islam could not be stopped ……….. next stop the Islamic Republic of Europe.”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

Or maybe just the Strand, eh Mr T?

Well folks, that’s just the first five on the list. What delights will the other fifty reveal?

SAVE HARRY’S PLACE!
DOWN WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF EUROPE!
STOP THE MARXIST-LENINIST SEIZING THE WHITE HOUSE!
HITLER IS A BAD MAN!
JUST LIKE CHAVEZ!

M o r g o t h    
  14 July 2008, 9:17 am

My children are British Muslims, I am a British Muslim

You see, Mohammed, this is where you first shoot yourself in the foot and slip up and reveal your true agenda. Anyone else, who wasn’t in thrall to a genocidal 7th century paedophile, would define themselves as “British” full stop. That you see your primary identify as “Muslim” is indicative of the fact that you DON’T have loyality to this country.

And no doubt much to your regret, the numbers of non-Muslims who attended this event was very high, I saw loads during the lectures.

Yeah, those were the ones where you handed out the yellow stars to them, no doubt.

whether that be against ignorant, malicious zealots who kill innocent people inthe name of religion by blowing themselves up

It is nothing to do with the “name of religion”, they are blowing themselves up BECAUSE of your religion. Religion of peace my fucking arse.

or state terrorists who kill thousands in the name of democracy and freedom.

And here we have Islamist buzzword bingo. The mask has slipped.

Why is it that Muslims like Mohammed Dean are perfectly happy for their co-religionists to slaughter millions of their co-religionists?

The biggest killer of Muslims in the 20th century have been Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomenei. But did the likes of Mohammed Dean raise a single finger in protest about them? Did they like fuck.

I gues this what they used to write of the millions of human beings that the British killed, maimed, subjagated and enslaved in India, South Africa, Austrailia or America

Millions? really?

If we’re really going to get into bodycounts, can we talk about the hundred million killed by Islam in the sub-continent?

I am sure the aboregines, the native Indians and the Indians of the sub-continent were spoken about in a similar fashion.

As if any brain-dead follower of the paepophile prophet ever gave a shit about India, other than use it for a slaughtering ground for the delusional and genocidal whims of the chief pig-fucker.

John.P.    
  14 July 2008, 1:18 pm

So again I extend the hand of friendship, peace and harmonious neighbourliness.

Uh…like I’ve already stated; get lost you filthy dirtbag.

And take your extended bloodstained hands of “friendship” with you.

You see, Moe, you have nothing to offer humanity.

Your prophet was a miscreant, the incarnation of pure evil, and the world this filthy piece of shit ‘created’ produces nothing, invents nothing, generates nothing and inspires nothing.

You are worthless and useless, and thanks to your arrogance and you pig-headed supremacism, you and many other mohamedeans in your shoes are now compelled to compose themselves with a world and a modernity that neither they nor Islam had any role in creating!

You are totally irrelevant to humanity, at best, and murderously parastic, at worst.

You and your offspring ( is the wife yer 1st cousin?) should be forced to live in one of the 57-odd stinking shitholes that constitute the ‘fruits’ of someone who was clearly a 7th century psychopath.

You can never belong to The West because your *religion* will never permit you to inhabit The West. All you can do, owing to the fact islam have no real civil culture, is to live in The West with lips firmly attached to the teat.

So wolf down some fish ‘n ships, you vulgar, grasping barabrian, and then get fucking lost.

M o r g o t h    
  14 July 2008, 1:43 pm

Oh come on John P.lets face facts…the only reason your lot aren’t doing the same is because you couldn’t get away with it.

You’re just as idiotically brain dead and retarded as Mohammed Dean, franky. A plague on both your houses.

Iftikhar Ahmad    
  14 July 2008, 4:32 pm

Salaam

In the next Gernal Election, Muslims of East ham are not going to vote for Tim. Muslim community needs a Muslim candidate who knows their needs and demands.

Alan Ji    
  14 July 2008, 7:08 pm

Iftikhar Ahmad: Everybody with their ear to the ground knows that you don’t bother to vote. So why would they be impressed by your advice to other voters?

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