Thread 1/13:
My piece in the @spectator:
Q: Is #Corbyn a friend of #Muslims?
A: Only some Muslims.
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/is-jer…
My piece in the @spectator:
Q: Is #Corbyn a friend of #Muslims?
A: Only some Muslims.
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/is-jer…
2/13: Corbyn’s world view is binary: Imperialist (US and it’s client states) and anti-imperialists (Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China etc)
If you are victimized by one of the anti-imperialist regimes, you will get no support.
If you are victimized by one of the anti-imperialist regimes, you will get no support.
3/13: By speaking against the oppression of an anti-imperialist regime you have become a pawn of imperialist. The regime can now treat you as it wishes: barrel bombs and chemical weapons (Assad), starvation (Maduro), mass incarceration (Iran), annexation (Putin).
4/13: Corbyn supports Palestinian victims of Israel. But Palestinians bombed by Assad in Al Yarmouk don’t deserve support because they rose up against anti-imperialist Assad. Corbyn will stand with Assad on this.
5/13: Corbyn refused to meet Trump in London. But happy to meet with President Xi and is near silent on over 1 million Muslims in concentration camps.
6/13: His favorite newspaper, the Morning Star, repeats Chinese claims that the crackdown on Uighurs is not repression but a necessary response to a violent insurgency. China’s inclusion in anti-imperialist club exempts it from criticism.
7/13: Corbyn has also said almost nothing about the suffering of the Muslim Tatar community in Crimea since the peninsula was annexed by another member of the supposed anti-imperialists, Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
8/13: Despite overwhelming evidence, Corbyn denied genocide was taking place in Kosovo. In 2004 he signed an EDM calling it the “genocide that never really existed” and supported claims that Milosevic was a socialist leader who is simply trying to keep his country together.
9/13: There is never any nuance in his positions, so the messy, brutal civil war in Syria is reduced to an anti- imperialist Assad government struggling against jihadi and Western-sponsored opposition groups.
10/13: He regularly uses Islamophobic language against Muslims he does not support. He called the Syrian civilians protesting against Assad “jihadist and salafists” and was happy to conflate the Syrian rebels with al-Qaeda and Islamist extremism
11/13: I estimate that Corbyn has openly supported regimes and groups that have killed over 690,000 Muslims (the most conservative estimate).
12/13: So how do you explain Muslim organizations that host Corbyn?
1. Completely ignorant of his history of supporting Milosevic etc
2. Sectarian in their nature (front for Iranian mullahs)
3. Simply drunk on soft power (we are sharing platform with next PM!).
1. Completely ignorant of his history of supporting Milosevic etc
2. Sectarian in their nature (front for Iranian mullahs)
3. Simply drunk on soft power (we are sharing platform with next PM!).
