"The coalition is being set up in the light of 'claims that different communities and faith groups openly expressing their culture or faith threaten community relations in Britain.'”
Yes, that could never be true.
"Livingstone plays the 'Islamophobia' card," from the National Secular Society, with thanks to WriterMom:
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has launched a new “Coalition to defend freedom of religious and cultural expression." The coalition is being set up in the light of “claims that different communities and faith groups openly expressing their culture or faith threaten community relations in Britain.”Speakers at the launch included the Mayor of London; peace campaigner and activist Bruce Kent; writer Ismail Patel from the British Muslim Initiative; Dr Daud Abdullah, Deputy General Secretary, Muslim Council of Britain; Edie Friedman, Director, Jewish Council for Racial Equality; Andrew Stunell MP; and Steve Sinnott, National Union of Teachers.
The launch document for the group says: “The coalition is being set up in the light of continuing media and other claims that different communities and faith groups openly expressing their culture or faith threaten community relations in Britain. Such claims have been most recently and strongly directed at the Muslim community, particularly focusing on the right of Muslim women to wear the veil. But such attacks have also recently included a high profile case where a staff member at British Airways was prohibited from wearing a crucifix. The established rights of Sikh community to wear turbans have also come under assault.”...
Strangely there are no secularist groups among those invited to participate in the coalition, and the MCB obviously thinks that the whole thing is there to protect Islam. In its statement it says: “The MCB welcomes this important initiative. It constitutes a major step toward the protection of religious rights that have become increasingly under threat in the name of security.”...
Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, said: “Obviously everybody wants to increase understanding between communities that are ignorant of each other, but Ken Livingstone is not the man to do it. His claims that assaults against Muslims are widespread and common is highly suspect. If you take out the politically motivated arguments about veils and crosses there is very little in the way of aggression towards Muslims beyond the racism that all minority communities suffer. I am highly suspicious of this ‘coalition’. We have to beware that it is not just another instrument for pressurising the Government into giving some kind of undesirable protection to religious beliefs.”
Is it islamophobic to advocate killing muslim gays as so many of Ken's "moderate" islamic scholars do.
How about launching an anti-infidelophobia campaign instead? One is increasingly needed. After all, infidelophobia kills far more people than islmaophobia supposedly does.
"Coalition to defend abject dhimmitude," more like.
Nowadays, every infidel nation has its Muslim-collaborationist traitors, and they must be the first to be dealt with (i.e. capital punishment for treason), if we want to have a hope of surviving Islamic jihad with our civilization intact.
Greetings:
So let me guess...suicide bombings will be categorized as cultural/religious practices.
US_infidel....
I agree that these people are traitors. They do not do it for the glory, they do it for the money.
Someone has to track the money and reveal it.
Like the movie '300' where is the persian gold?
the people of london are plain stupid, morons. they elected this clown, elected this communist even after bombs slaughtered londoners on their way to work and what did newt man state after the attacks? this anti-western diatribe;
"I think you've just had 80 years of western intervention into predominantly Arab lands because of the western need for oil."
And with limp wrist in hand he proclaims, "I'm a dhimmi!, I'm a dhimmi!"
“The launch document for the group says: “The coalition is being set up in the light of continuing media and other claims that different communities and faith groups openly expressing their culture or faith threaten community relations in Britain.”.”
If their faith explicitly enjoins them to kill non-believers, then that patently threatens community relations. You can’t get any more threatening than killing someone. What could be simpler to grasp?
“the people of london are plain stupid, morons. they elected this clown”
Hold on, Leon, this is a bit much. Not all Londoners voted for this clown (me included). Unfortunately none of the other candidates have ever been any good, so Livingstone, a superb showman, got in by default (that’s my reading, anyway). And there’s a good deal of disillusionment with Red Ken – I’m always saying “I told you so!”
"So let me guess...suicide bombings will be categorized as cultural/religious practices.
Posted by: 11B40"
Isn't Jihad an unwritten pillar of Islam? What did the Prophet say of martydrom for the cause of Allah?
Technically speaking Muslims do have a case to classify suicide bombings as cultural/religious practices since they are.
Mo sez 'wear a veil and you're worth half a man.' Mo sez 'join me or die.' Mo sez 'the world belongs to Mo.' Now Mo-sayers say 'if you don't like what Mo sez, you're phobic.'
Just say "No to Mo Control" and "Schizlam, the Un-religion."
"Schizlam", the religion of the Mo Supremacists.
"Schizlamophobia," the rational fear of what the Mo Supremacists will do when they gain enough power to impose Mo control on the entire planet.
Freedom of religion and culture expression. They then in fact should be doing more to express our concerns! Theirs too, if that is truly what they came here for! Terry Sanderson not the man, you have to beable to show it, express it give example of it..! Tallking out both sides! He says, so communities can understand eachother! What Taqiyya! They have not once came out and said what they have learned here about our culture or beliefs! That is because they do NOT CARE!..., They just demand more service that they did not even get back home! Which we cannot go there! I so want to walk where Abraham and Jesus were! Yet I must accept and step aside for them here at home! My wildest dreams!
They change my wildest dreams to nightmares of death and evil. They are here to change things!
"So let me guess...suicide bombings will be categorized as cultural/religious practices.
Posted by: 11B40 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 8, 2007 2:17 PM"
They already are. Which is why Muslims equate the "war on terror" with a war on Islam.