This month is #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth. The ostensible goal of this initiative is to “deconstruct and challenge stereotypes about Islam and Muslims”. A noble aim you might think, as apparently do the organisations, institutions & individuals signalling their support. 1/9
However, Islamophobia Awareness Month was co-founded by the Islamist group MEND - an organisation closely tied to the terrorist support group CAGE and created with the purpose of “battering the Israel lobby” according to its founder Sufyan Ismail. 2/9
MEND’s idea of challenging stereotypes appears to consist of attacking liberal Muslims & partnering with Salafist hate preachers such as Haitham al Haddad & Shakeel Begg.
Haddad supports death for apostasy. Begg was found by a judge to have “encouraged religious violence.” 3/9
I've been looking for a reasonable and well argued explanation as to how JK Rowling's views on trans issues render her a hateful bigot who "denies trans people the right to exist".
One of the most common stumbling blocks to productive conversation in recent years is an uncharitable asumption of nefarious motive.
Apparently the only possible motive for Rowling's position is an instinctive hatred of trans people and a bigotted wish to deny their rights.
This trend of attacking people's words primarily on the basis of the imagined motive they have for saying them, or their surface level similarity to arguments made by genuinely bigotted people, is intensely irritating and should be a lot more ineffective than it currently is.
"All of these cases of western jihadist terrorism appear disconnected in any formal organisational sense. But they are linked through a set of ideas introduced to them by…the al-Qaeda ideologue and strategist Anwar al-Awlaki." spectator.co.uk/article/je-sui…@spectator
Worth noting that the Islamists of @UK_CAGE have hosted "Imam al-Awlaki" at their events on a number of occasions and still have on their website a mutually fawning interview with him 5 years after they claimed it had been taken down.
CAGE research director Asim Qureshi wrote that the al-Qaeda propagandist personified the "needs of the Muslim community."
CAGE community relations director Azad Ali said that al-Awlaki was "endearing' and his "favourite speaker". "I really do love him" he announced.
It appears it's now nessecary for counter-terrorism experts to explain to professional grievance-mongers why someone saying their final prayers in public might be relevant to the religiously motivated suicide bombing they commit moments later. 1/4
This is where perpetual outrage becomes dangerous. The public are now being told that important pre-incident indicators are not only irrelevant, but that viewing them as relevant is bigotted. This puts innocent lives at risk all for the pathetic excuse of not causing offence. 2/4
The fact that @BBCNews immediately buckled to the demands of this whimpering man-child at the Muslim Council of Britain @miqdaad and prioritised his sensitivities over information that may save lives is a maddening testament to how ludicrous our current climate is. 3/4
A compilation of @habibi_uk's excellent threads on the jihadist PR bureau @UK_CAGE and their promotion, defence, whitewashing, and support for extraordinarily dangerous terrorists.
Utterly damning yet barely scratching the surface of this insidious organisation:
CAGE whitewashes the perpetrator of the Glasgow airport terror attack as “unbelievably warm, kind, gentle, loving, unextreme to the maximum” and claims that his attempted atrocity was "understandable."
CAGE figurehead commissions and publishes extremist literature written by a man who subsequently joined al-Qaeda and is currently serving a minimum 40 year sentence for plotting to blow up the New York stock exchange among other targets.
This report oddly omits any mention of the ideology that drove the Abedi brothers to brutally murder 22 people.
Hope this is a glitch/innocent ommision rather than a result of the recent discussions on dropping the term 'Islamism' from counter-terrorism policing.