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You just can't parody this sort of thing. "Research councils halt Islamist project," by Debbie Andalo in The Guardian, with thanks to LGF:
Research councils today confirmed they have put on hold their involvement in a government-backed project that aimed to identify the growth of Islamist groups around the world.The decision by the Economics and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council followed accusations by academics that they would be putting the lives of British researchers at risk in Muslim countries.
In a joint statement this afternoon, the two councils said "a section of our academic community" had raised concerns about the research, which they "have to take seriously".
A spokeswoman said: "We are consulting further with the community, that has already been consulted with, to make sure that their concerns have been heard.
"We hope that the study can be relaunched with a more open call."
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has funded the £1.3m project, called Combating terrorism by countering radicalisation. Academics were told to focus on countries that had been identified by MI5....
Posted by Robert at October 20, 2006 7:21 PM
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"La trahison des clercs", indeed!
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at October 20, 2006 7:40 PM
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~ John Stuart Mill
at October 20, 2006 7:42 PM
No mention of destroying? What's the point of checking them out without wiping them out?
Funny-this reminds me of people in white coats who research rats.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 20, 2006 7:50 PM
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
-- Confucius.
at October 20, 2006 8:40 PM
Well there you go it is too hard to do. Just sit down and wait for the sword to drop. Much easier plan.
Posted by: Ronin at October 20, 2006 9:10 PM
"a section of our academic community" had raised concerns about the research, which they "have to take seriously".
Am i reading this right ? the BRITISH authorities are asking UK academics to investigate ?
What folly is this?
Surely they have by now understood that it is the rampant dhimmi academe thst is in league with islamism.
Oxford University run by Chris Patten and Tariq Ramadan . THe home of britain's best minds for hundreds of years!
No the FCO might as well ask the Muslim Brotherhood to undertake such studies!
at October 20, 2006 9:46 PM
The Economics and Social Research Council, from their own documents:
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. We aim to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.
So, their aim is best served by by not actually indulging in any economic or, more importantly, social research into islam in Britain - by accepting the status of dhimmis, by being terrorised, by not researching what is going on (and letting us know); quite simply, by giving in to the moslem terrorist. What brave academics they are! They really are standing up to be counted in the great tradition of European free thinking academics - not!
As for the Arts and Humanities Research Council, again from their own documents:
The AHRC funds high quality research and postgraduate training in a huge range of subjects from history and English literature to design and dance.
No precise definition of the subject domain of the arts and humanities is possible and the Council is liberal in its interpretation of its domain. Subjects and disciplines are continually evolving, and there are inevitable overlaps and boundaries that the Council shares with other award-making bodies, especially the Research Councils.
Eight subject panels cover the Council's remit:
Panel 1: Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Panel 2: Visual Arts and Media: practice, history and theory,
Panel 3: English Language and Literature
Panel 4: Medieval and Modern History
Panel 5: Modern Languages and Linguistics
Panel 6: Librarianship, Information and Museum Studies
Panel 7: Music and Performing Arts
Panel 8: Philosophy, Law and Religious Studies
Well, enough said I feel. These are the very sort of totally PC people who are going to fall for the moslem propaganda line.
Yuk! and double yuk! - excuse me whilst I go and clean out my ears and my brain. I do so hate it when people like this introduce their rather filthy little way of looking at the world into my head. I end up feeling dirty and polluted.
Oh, and by-the-way, each of these so-called 'Research Councils' costs the UK taxpayer about ninety million (yes, that's right, 90,000,000) pounds per annum. For all you Americans that is about 120,000,000 US Dollars each every year. Dear God, my country has run mad, I tell you.
Dominic.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at October 20, 2006 9:53 PM
chevalier de st george/
Uh, excuse me. Wrong University. Cambridge has been the home of Britain's best academics for hundreds of years.
Then again, I may be just a tad biased.
Dominic.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at October 20, 2006 9:55 PM
I'm getting really tired of all these vaginas running around.
Posted by: TheVoiceofTruth at October 21, 2006 12:34 AM
It would be funny....except it really happened.
Posted by: Monkeywho at October 21, 2006 12:53 AM
I'm ashamed of my mother country. What has happened to "Great" Britain? They will be taken over by the Muslims and under Sharia law all too soon, if they don't get a grip. Too sad.
Posted by: freedomfighter at October 21, 2006 1:07 AM
Dominicus
I always supported cambridge in the putney Boat race and i agree that cambridge has produced its share of best academics, in the sciences certainly.
Gibbon wrote that if the Franks had not won the battle of Poitiers in 733, ‘perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.’
it seems that the battle was a waste of tome since islam is taking over Oxford through means deemed non military.Indeed it has shown that one does not need armies of mahdi soldiers to conquer countries.
when the fruit is ripe and rsady , it can be removed from the tree with no force whatsoever.
at October 21, 2006 1:37 AM
chevalier de st george/
I am more sanguin than you. I see very little sign that the true thinkers have been seduced by islam. I am probably wrong since, these days, I am wrong about most things.
However, there are no mahdi armies here - as yet.
I must to bed.
G'night.
Dominic.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at October 21, 2006 1:57 AM
Also in Britain, Daily Star cancels parody of Islam fearing a violent Islamic reaction.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at October 21, 2006 2:01 AM
chevalier de st george/
"Dominicus"?
Thank-you for the title, but I'm not 'master', nor a 'pike' (despite my T.H.White type fantasies, when I was younger, of being Art), I'm afraid, I ain't, really - nor am I a 'Twice told Tale', nor a 'tobacco pedlar', nor do I possess a 'little gray mare' - but I may be 'old Mr. Higginbotham', who knows?
Dominic.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at October 21, 2006 2:11 AM
From above: "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature" . . .
"War, while undeniably terrible, is not always the worst evil to be feared. Being overrun is usually worse" p.156 from Mona Charen's Useful Idiots.
Posted by: ladykatie at October 21, 2006 12:33 PM
However, there are no mahdi armies here - as yet.
I must to bed.
G'night.
Dominic.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem
I think what the other poster meant to say is they DON'T NEED a mahdi army since we are laying down all by ourselves.
Shame on all of us!
Posted by: germaninamerica at October 23, 2006 3:39 AM
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