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Apr 5, 2019 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
The passing of the buck by the editor of the Spectator (which has published so much #Islamophobia) is unacceptable.

He hires the set of columnists (knowing their perspectives), agrees to publish what they write and ignores the criticism afterwards.

He is complicit.
ICYMI: Let's not forget the infamous "there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory Party" headlining a piece from .... Rod Liddle
Obviously I could write this whole thread just about Rod Liddle in the Spectator but just one more from him in the Spectator
After the devastating terrorist attack targeting Muslims in Christchurch, this is what they published.

Obviously the Spectator has a willingness to platform a specific loathing of Islam e.g. Burchill is just one of many who brings in anti-semitism as a reason for loving Islam.

spectator.co.uk/2017/11/is-pri…
Liddle obviously has done that too...
I guess one of the worst elements is how extremism appears to be mainstreamed. Consider how Delingpole writes why he likes Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson)
Or consider the apologetics of Douglas Murray when it comes to Robinson

Or how Geert Wilders is framed as a defender of liberalism

Or how the Islamophobic President of Hungary is praised by Spectator's Bruce Anderson as "a patriot and a Christian" who is [unfairly] "demonised"

Or Douglas Murray praising Salvini by calling his policies as "daring and wildly popular"

Here is the Spectator who platforms the idea that a vicar can't find forgiveness in the Qur'an

There is much more - but the idea that Fraser Nelson can wash his hands of the bigotry and hate published in the Spectator which he edits - is totally ridiculous.

He needs to take responsibility or be replaced by someone who will
And remember it was only 5 years ago (almost to the day), when Fraser Nelson wrote this positive piece in The Telegraph....

telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/…

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Jan 22
The context for this should include:

1. The fact that Islamophobia is an institutional problem in the Conservative Party, as shown by a wealth of evidence and polling

2. The Party has been able to get away with so much because it had power & others didn't want to upset them
Islamophobia is endemic in @Conservatives: A survey into Islamophobia amongst its party members suggested

- 2/3 of Tory members believe the Islamophobic far right conspiracy that parts of UK are under Sharia law
- Nearly 1/2 prefer not to have a Muslim PM
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
More than half of those Conservative Party members surveyed (56%) by YouGov think the religion is "generally a threat" to the British way of life.
news.sky.com/story/tory-mem…
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Jan 22
Outrageous. The depth of Conservative Party Islamophobia is utterly shameful

@Nus_Ghani says that “Muslim women minister status was making [her Conservative Party] colleagues feel uncomfortable”.

When will this be taken seriously?

thetimes.co.uk/article/nusrat…
Her experience is just extraordinary:

She kept quiet after being warned that if she continued to raise the issue she would be “ostracised by colleagues” and her “career and reputation would be destroyed”

She was told by a whip that her “‘Muslimness was raised as an issue”
This is an issue many have raised for years

The Party thought that an inquiry that was set up to fail, would brush this under the carpet

But with the underlying issues with the Party's culture not dealt with, the problem will not go away.
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Dec 26, 2021
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid veteran called South Africa's moral conscience, famously said: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" & applied this to today

May he rest in peace and power

independent.co.uk/news/world/afr…
Many will celebrate his understanding of oppression & his status as South Africa's moral conscience but ignore his views on today's oppression & apartheid

ICYMI: he called on the US Presbyterian Church to boycott Israel & condemn it as an apartheid state
haaretz.com/tutu-israel-is…
His first article in the Guardian in 2002, was on this topic

theguardian.com/world/2002/apr…
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Dec 10, 2021
It is appropriate that on Stephen Pollard's last day as Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, it publishes this disgusting headline.

As people examine his tenure, I wonder if they actually are aware of the positions the Jewish Chronicle published during his tenure as Editor?

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After 51 Muslims were killed in a terror attack in a mosque in Christchurch, The Jewish Chronicle *chose* to publish this disgusting piece by Melanie Phillips playing down Islamophobia.

thejc.com/comment/column…
The reality is that the Jewish Chronicle regularly publishes disgusting pieces from Melanie Phillips

ICYMI See poster showing her alongside Katie Hopkins & Robert Spencer at the David Horowitz Freedom Center (defender of Tommy Robinson);
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Dec 8, 2021
From this Friday, face coverings will be required at mosques (and all places of worship).

This aligns to the latest @MuslimCouncil advice, which also recommends capacity management & ventilation.

gov.uk/government/new… ImageImage
Source for MCB poster: mcb.org.uk/resources/coro…
An NHS Covid Pass on the NHS App will also be mandatory if more than 500 people in an unseated indoor event (subject to parliamentary approval)

This seems to therefore include large Friday jum'a congregations Image
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Dec 2, 2021
My latest, based on @cfmmuk's report on Islamophobia in UK media, showcasing libel, inaccuracies & distortions in excruciating detail

60% of articles & half of TV clips were found negative

We’re asking for fairness, not favours. It’s not too much to ask
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Some might say the case studies are only the bad apples

Yet the report dispels this myth by showing how widespread the issue is, based on detailed analysis of more than 48,000 print articles & 5,500 TV clips that mentioned Muslims or Islam

cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
But some of the worst cases are really bad

False accusations of extremism, being a "fixer" for paedophile taxi drivers & linking to terrorism - have a real impact on people's lives

Waj Iqbal, for example, lost his job and couldn't see his kids for 2 years (he won libel damages)
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