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Inayat Bunglawala is also part of this panel. Fox Guarding the Henhouse alert from IslamOnline, with thanks to Sr. Soph: "UK Picks Ramadan for Anti-terror Panel: Report":
CAIRO, August 31, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – The British government has named famed Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan as one of a government committee set up to address the underlying causes of terrorism in Britain, a leading British newspaper reported Wednesday, August 31.The academic attended a meeting at the Home Office last week to discuss extremism among British Muslims as part of the group's work, well-placed sources told the Guardian.
The 13-member taskforce is comprised of Muslims from community groups, like Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), academics and the MP Shahid Malik.
[K]nown as the working group on tackling extremism, the taskforce is part of the government's response to the July 7 attacks on London, and was announced by (Prime Minister) Tony Blair. Its 13 members had been chosen by the Home Office.
The group will report to the home secretary and prime minister by late September and make proposals to stop British Muslims turning to violence, according to the paper.
Right Person
Ramadan’s appointment to the committee was hailed as the right person for the right job and evidence of the government's willingness to stand up to rightwing tabloids that had savaged the moderate scholar.
"It sends all the right messages that the government is engaged in a real search for answers, rather than pandering to kneejerk elements in the rightwing press and their prejudices," Labour MP Sadiq Khan told the paper.
"It's important for the government to listen to people who have scholarly knowledge of the issues."
IslamOnline doesn't mention that Ramadan was barred from entering the United States. Those right-wing tabloids must have a lot of clout.
Posted by Robert at August 31, 2005 4:04 PM
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And in other news, Scott Peterson and Pamela Smart have been chosen for a panel on preserving marriage, Michael Moore for a panel on dieting and good grooming, Ward Churchill for a panel on compassion for victims of terrorism, and Bin Laden Construction on a panel for rebuilding the World Trade Center.
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at August 31, 2005 4:34 PM
I can help Tariq jump start the committee's work: It's all due to the Jews sabatoging everything.
There! Neat, easy, quick!
Posted by: Seymour Paine at August 31, 2005 4:54 PM
Apparently, CAIR envies its European counterparts a great deal, if it has issued a complaint about being 'excluded' from anti-terrorism decision making.
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at August 31, 2005 6:00 PM
Has "Frere Tariq" (by Caroline, NOT Catherine, Fourest) been translated into English? Will English journalists learn from the French most knowledgeable about Tariq Ramadan what his customary tactics are? After all, he is a plausible, smiling, soft-spoken fellow, but in the end he still must hide or misstate what he has been stating in his tapes and books for a Muslim audience -- and in this attempts to wiggle out, to pretend he did not say what he said, did not write what he wrote, did not mean what he meant, too many people have finally had enough, and seen right through him.
But apparently not Tony Blair, and not the other Great and Good of England, who simply don't know what to do with the Muslims in their midst. All they can think of is to play the game of Let's Pretend. That's it.
Let's Pretend. Let's wish upon a star. Somewhere over the rainbow. With the bustle of the bees in the lemonade trees/And the soda-water fountain" and so on, on the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Gush, sentimentalism, willed ignorance, timidity, failure to think, failure to learn, the decline and fall of the goddam West -- it's all coming so beautifully together.
And perhaps nowhere so expressively than in this appointment of Tariq Ramadan, by the British government, to a committee -- "The Right Man for the Right Job" crows the article above -- to investigate "extremism."
Perhaps he can say a word about the pogroms instituted by his grandfather, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (Cairo, 1946, leading to attacks on Jews and Copts), or his father and the Islamische Gemeinschaft in Munich, or he himself, and his connections -- purely coincidental, mind you -- with the representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.
Why not ask Magdi Allam to write a little article for, say, The Telegraph, about what he, an Egyptian and a Muslim, knows about Tariq Ramadan? Or why not simply translate into English, and publish, Allam's "Lettera aperta" addressed to Tariq Ramadan?
Or why not ask Ali Sina, or Ibn Warraq, to comment on the appointment -- why not begin to ask the defectors from Islam, well-versed in its doctrines and the religiously-sanctioned dissimulation and guile, what they would wish to have, as a straight answer, from the sinister Tariq Ramadan?
Posted by: Hugh at August 31, 2005 6:11 PM
I wonder what Tony's wife Cherie will have to say about Tariq's views on women who must be covered to deter the lascivious stares of men and that men should avoid even a handshake with a woman as it might stir their ucontrollable lusts and that women should exercise apart from men or, more sinister still, his collaboration with his mentor al-Qaradawi on various publications. Yes, the infamous Qaradawi who believes that all homosexuals should be killed to cleanse the Islamic nations, all apostates should be killed and all Israelis, even children should be killed. It will be interesting to see what kind of thoughts Tariq Ramadam brings to enlighten the committee.
Posted by: londongirl at August 31, 2005 6:48 PM
I now expect the appointment of Bakri and Hamza, as special advisors to Bunglawala and Ramadan.
Oh heck, why go to all this trouble of appointing these bag carriers for the Greater Jihad. Lets just get the report out, that it is all the fault of Bush and Blair and the root causes of Iraq, "Palestine", Kashmir, Thailand, Nigeria, the Christians of Sudan, Buddhist monks in Thailand, etc etc.
Fox Guarding the Henhouse? Not quite Robert. The fox is already in the henhouse, and this is just a discussion on the menu.
Posted by: DP111 at August 31, 2005 7:36 PM
Ramadan’s appointment to the committee was hailed as the right person for the right job and evidence of the government's willingness to stand up to rightwing tabloids that had savaged the moderate scholar.
There are "rightwing tabloids" in Great Britain?
I didn't know that. One step forward, ten steps back.
at August 31, 2005 11:45 PM
The decision to include "Frere Tariq" into the special committee to tackle UK extremism will be made officially public next week.
The Home Office & the Prime Ministers Office are refusing to confirm or deny any names on any list associated with the "committee".
JW / DW Fans:
BE READY FOR SOME DISTURBING INCLUSIONS ON THIS COMMITTEE.
Thankfully, New Labour were not in power when the Third Reich were on the rampage - they would have probably invited Himmler to advise them on European policy.....
Posted by: albion at August 31, 2005 09:25 AM
SRD: (Small Rumour Department)...it is being touted that Tariq's appointment (annointment?) will be announced at more or less the same time next week as an announcement that a "foreign radical" (singular)is being deported "forthwith" from the UK.
aaahhh, New Labour & its "balance".
I think it will be Abu Qattada - but I believe he is resigned to leaving the UK anyway.
Next weeks news today.
You read it here first at DW / JW.......
Posted by: albion at August 31, 2005 10:21 AM
Posted by: albion at September 1, 2005 5:50 AM
Its a "government committee set up to address the underlying causes of terrorism in Britain" Surely nobody seriously expects them to start reciting the koran. Let them do their "work" in the same vein as the U.N.'s, and publish their tripe. The poster above had it right, it's all the sinister work of the Jooooze.
Posted by: Infidel33 at September 1, 2005 9:54 AM
Pondering for an historic analogy, suppose Churchill had secretely hired Rudolph Hess to come as an advisor to placate the then un-neutral Irish?
Posted by: Jimmy Bones at September 1, 2005 1:02 PM
It sends all the right messages that the government is engaged in a real search for answers, rather than pandering to kneejerk elements in the rightwing press and their prejudices," Labour MP Sadiq Khan told the paper.
Just look at who is applauding the appointment.
Another Pakistani Muslim?
Now for Lord Ahmed's opinion!
at September 1, 2005 3:34 PM
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