More Double Standards in the Far Left-Islamist Alliance
This is a cross-post from Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
The Times reports today that former London Mayor Ken Livingstone will spearhead tomorrow’s Unite Against Fascism protest against Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC’s Question Time. Considering his role in giving Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal a platform in the New Statesman, his objection to giving the same treatment to the BNP smacks of the double standards we have come to expect from the far left-Islamist alliance.
Quoted on the UAF website, Ken tells us that:
The BBC should withdraw its invitation to Nick Griffin to appear on Question Time. A court ruled this week that the fascist BNP’s membership rules illegally discriminate on grounds of race. This is only part of the picture. When the BNP is given a major media platform for its message of bigotry, race and religious hatred, hate attacks by thugs on the streets increase.
The public do not pay license fees to have them abused by the BBC to help people spread hatred and intolerance. If the BBC continues with this policy it will share responsibility for the crimes against minorities which will follow.
There are a couple of things to pick up on here. Firstly, it is true that a court ruled against the BNP’s membership rules. But, as Ken is well aware, the European Union have ruled that Meshaal’s organisation is a terrorist entity. Ken may or may not agree with that ruling, but by his standards as laid out in the above quote, surely Hamas must also be boycotted?
Ken has also given his backing to George Galloway’s ‘Viva Palestina’ initiative, which has broken UK law in the past by giving money directly to Hamas. Ken cannot realistically pretend to care about UK court rulings, and no one should fall for his charade.
In Ken’s fawning interview with Khaled Meshaal in mid September, the Hamas Politburo head came out smelling of roses. This was mainly down to Ken’s avoidance of any incisive or hard hitting questions on, say, his party’s extreme reaction earlier that month to the prospect of teaching the Holocaust to children in Gaza. For anyone who missed that story, Hamas MP and cleric Yunis al Astal said that his party refused to take part in "marketing a lie". Or perhaps Ken could have made more about the little problem of the hardcore antisemitism on Hamas’ official TV station, al-Aqsa TV, where children are indoctrinated to hate Jews and love death.
On Question Time tomorrow, Griffin, like Meshaal before him, will try to present a moderate and sensible side of the BNP. It is the responsibility of his co-panelists to prevent him from doing so and therefore succeed in exposing his fascist ideology. Were he not an apologist for Islamic fascism, Ken would have done the same with Meshaal. Rather than accusing the BBC of "sharing the responsibility" for the crimes that will follow what he sees as an endorsement of the BNP, he should look at the role he has played in helping Hamas deceive the west while they impose strict religious codes on their citizens, kill political opponents and murder Israeli civilians.
Yunis al Astal:
Comments
| 21 October 2009, 7:08 pm |
It’s all well and good saying Ken, and other leftists, who pursue relationships with nasty Islamists, but, though his case may seem hypocritical, or even relativist, it can not take away from the fact that Ken’s reasoning (appealing to legalities, and not taste) to call the BBC up on banning the BNP from our screens is correct.
| 21 October 2009, 7:18 pm |
Livingstone & Griffin are much the same.
Griffin claims his Jew hating is in the past.
Livingstone just cuddles up to Jew haters.
They’re even both hostile to the Afghan
operation which is trying to bring decency to
that terrible country & deal with terrorists
there, instead of here.
I won’t protest about Question Time.
Islamofascists are regular panellists.
I’ve just seen the vile Panorama programme
where a couple of muslims provoke the dregs
of the underclass, & it’s presented by some
lachrimose Pakistani woman in islamic uniform
as proof of our “racism”
As Hitler remarked “Communists make the
best Nazis”
| 21 October 2009, 7:49 pm |
I don´t disagree with AMH about this.
I just get the feeling, this might not be the right fight to pick.
| 21 October 2009, 7:56 pm |
On the other hand, maybe there could be a Far Left, Far Right, Religious Extremist free for all on the Beeb or maybe even a Convention with speeches and balloons.
Folks could get to know each other, trade salutes, etc, and discuss The Protocols which I think they all read, although in the case of the Far Left they don’t seem to realize when they’re actually quoting not from Chairman Mao but from Stormfront.
This way it could all be out in the open.
| 21 October 2009, 8:07 pm |
Let’s not forget it was tongues between Livingstone and the suicide bomb out troops, and “kill Israelis” supporting cleric Qaradawi.
| 21 October 2009, 9:39 pm |
Thank God this idiot is no longer representing London across the world
| 21 October 2009, 9:57 pm |
This post is right…or rather correct… in every ..er….respect.
Ken’s an odious fascist apologist and is again showing his undemocratic tendencies.
| 21 October 2009, 11:05 pm |
Given the acquiescence and cordiality (tea and biscuits, Sir?) Red Ken has bestowed on various extremists, fascists and bigots, he’s got a lot of nerve lecturing the BBC which type of nasty people he thinks are suitable to do business with.
Boris is a bit of an idiot, but it’s no wonder the London public saw through the “piece of work” that is Red ken and voted him out.
Live long…and keep exposing the hypocrisy of the Left-Islamist alliance.
| 22 October 2009, 7:52 am |
I don’t have a link yet but bit of google around Michael Savage radio show archives should find his interview of Geert Wilders yesterday where Geert talked a bit about the Left sellout to Islamism.
I’m sure that the interview would cause a storm in UK if broadcast here.
As for the HP discussion about Wilders banning the Koran, since Wilders likened it to Mein Kampf, Wilders explained that Dutch law does allow for book banning. Hence his call was in the context of Holland and not globally.
| 22 October 2009, 8:41 am |
Odious Livingstone was on the Today prog just now saying that any violence which occurs tonight will be the BBC’s fault. Toe-rag.
PS I will eat my hat if he actually “interviewed” that Hamas guy. I’m sure he emailed his soft questions over and someone – who knows who it actually was – wrote some answers.
| 22 October 2009, 8:56 am |
Ah, such a touching sight.
***warning::ready the sick bag****
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40375000/jpg/_40375525_hug_203.jpg
| 22 October 2009, 9:33 am |
Alexander Hitchens works for a think tank run by someone who thinks all muslims should be deported from the UK.
how’s that for no-platforming fascists?
| 22 October 2009, 10:07 am |
In fact Qaradawi makes Nick Griffin look like a saint in comparison. This from a sermon in January 2009:-
“Oh Allah, take your enemies, the enemies of Islam. Oh Allah, take the Jews, the treacherous aggressors. Oh Allah, take this profligate, cunning, arrogant band of people. Oh Allah, they have spread much tyranny and corruption in the land. Pour Your wrath upon them, oh our God. Lie in wait for them. Oh Allah, You annihilated the people of Thamoud at the hand of a tyrant, and You annihilated the people of ‘Aad with a fierce, icy gale. Oh Allah, You annihilated the people Thamoud at the hand of a tyrant, You annihilated the people of ‘Aad with a fierce, icy gale, and You destroyed the Pharaoh and his soldiers — oh Allah, take this oppressive, tyrannical band of people. Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people. Oh Allah, do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.”
Nice. A man Ken Livingstone embraced.
| 22 October 2009, 10:50 am |
It will be interesting to see how the BBC treat this one. They claim they invited Griffin on the basis of political impartiality. If they now assemble a bespoke anti-BNP panel simply and purely to discredit him, rather than treating him as an equal and legitimate panellist, that will be an act of astonishing hypocrisy.
| 22 October 2009, 1:54 pm |
There was a brief moment this morning when I thought Sarah Montague was going to challenge Livingstone on his hypocrisy but it didn’t happen. One thing I’d like to know – and I hope someone here can help – is Livingstone’s mantra statistically true? “When the BNP is given a major media platform for its message of bigotry, race and religious hatred, hate attacks by thugs on the streets increase.” Personally I think inviting Griffin on and making no fuss at all about it was the best route so Livingstone’s assertion is important. Any stattos out there?
| 22 October 2009, 2:01 pm |
“Nice. A man Ken Livingstone embraced.”
Unfortunately, for some, antisemitism is acceptible collateral damage. The good of the many outweighs the good of the few, to quote Mr Spock.
| 22 October 2009, 2:16 pm |
At least the BNP doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a bunch of thuggish brutes with nothing but petty nationalism to apply their few remaining brain cells to. Livingstone on the other hand really is a nasty piece of work.
| 22 October 2009, 5:57 pm |
Is this a British site or an Israeli one?
| 22 October 2009, 7:04 pm |
“Is this a British site or an Israeli one?”
Are you a BNP type fascist or an SWP type one?
| 23 October 2009, 11:15 am |
Well now we can ALL look forward to the good old bbc bringing forward a program with a radical muslim cleric and an audience of gays and women………..but i wont hold my breath
It’s the Far Left, what did you expect, double standards are not only their occasional fellow travelers but they are and always have been obligatory, a prerequisite to the childlike mindset, that’s why it never works when they seize power, the whole ideology is a double edged sword of insanity.
Hatred and double standards go together like strawberries and cream in the cotton wool or is it wire wool, world of your far Left ideological bigot.
The real problem is most of the Far Left don’t realize they are hypocritical self deluded bigots, the vile leadership of these imbeciles often do, just as the nazi leadership of the BNP do, but leaders of vile death dealing ideologies try very hard to hide what they really mean, they always ‘play’ the masses right up until they don’t have to anymore, then it’s time for the show trails, the re-education camps, the firing squads.
I don’t think Ken Livingstone is a Stalinist or a Maoist, I think he is simply just another fool who thinks he knows the “real” score, he is wrong, what’s more he is giving the BNP a propaganda gift on a diamond studded gold platter, the media will be full of “contorted faced” far Left/Islamist alliance types trying to storm the studio, which, for most people, is what will be remembered about the whole event, you might as well have a saudi wahabbi cleric telling the british public that the BNP are scum, because it will turn off support for the BNP about as effectively as the far Left will.
Most people know what the BNP are, just as most people know what the Far Left/Islamist alliance is, they are not stupid, they can spot pure Hatred a mile away, but they don’t like to be told by one cheek of the rancid unwashed arse that the other cheek of said rancid unwashed arse is dirtier than it is.
The people can see, quite clearly, that they are both hate filled ideologies from both edges of the spectrum, they don’t need some students with Che’ or Osama t-shirts playing a game of ‘let’s smash up macdonalds” they need to see Griffin and the BNP exposed for what he and it are, clearly and non-violently, talk to him calmly, expose their polices and let him lose it, because the cleansing light of truth always exposes these people.
That’s why so many people end up in “re-education” camps or end up dead when these people gain power, they don’t like the truth, it’s bad for business.