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7 Oct, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Huge news: Golden Dawn declared a criminal organisation, many members found guilty of murder & attempted murder, party leader to be sentenced in the next days

ICYMI: The Spectator published a piece supporting this neo-Nazi far right group

pressgazette.co.uk/spectator-edit…
It appears the Spectator article has been deleted?

spectator.co.uk/life/high-life…
The author remains a regular columnist

spectator.co.uk/writer/taki
Maybe the article is still up but just at another link?

spectator.co.uk/article/high-l…
But maybe the content/headline have changed? The date seems different too...

There is no explanation at the bottom of the article so not sure.
Okay, so the new piece above doesn't have some of the incendiary statements in the original.

It seems the Spectator edited the article / got it partially re-written, and didn't explain they did so?

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/23/tak…
Apparently there might have originally been two articles originally?

Regardless the links in the Huffpo & Pressgazette pieces above, no longer work and appear to link to an article entitled "High Life" which is up at a different link, with some of the incendiary bits missing.
Here is a link to the original article in the Spectator with the incendiary bits in it. I can't find this on the Spectator site any more.

webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…
A better archived version

archive.vn/UQJnW

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8 Oct
The Jewish Chronicle *again* lied about Muslims

The paper falsely accused Nada al-Sanjari of
- Inviting an antisemitic activist
- Turned a blind eye to antisemitic statements
- Launched a vicious protest against Luciana

All lies. They've been forced to apologise & pay libel Image
This can be found here: thejc.com/news/uk/nada-a…

It was thanks to Carter Ruck, with Nada represented by Adam Tudor & Helena Shipman.

They note that Stephen Pollard & Lee Harpin apologised to Nada - although I can't see the above link on @lmharpin's Twitter feed. Image
It is unfortunately the latest in a long line of appalling articles by the Jewish Chronicle related to Muslims

Here is an example of Lee Harpin lying about @MuslimCouncil, which was then corrected

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5 Oct
In May, Katie Hopkins lied, falsely linking criminals to @FPMosque

After the mosque's perseverance, she apologised on Instagaram *at midnight* & acknowledged "the contributions made by the Mosque to society"

Lies cannot be spread with impunity. Great work @FPMosque! Image
Finsbury Park Msoque has tweeted about it (
), and their full statement is on this site
m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… Image
Hopkins' instagram statement is here:
instagram.com/p/CF8Dp6BgNHq/…
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27 Sep
A Saudi-coalition airstrike on a family home in Yemen murdered women & children in the latest evidence of potential war crimes (Sky)

Yet the UK gvt continues to provide arms & support Saudi's campaign in Yemen, the world's *largest* humanitarian disaster!
news.sky.com/story/yemen-ev…
As @AlexCrawfordSky reported last week, Yemen children's hospitals are the 'closest thing to hell on Earth'.

Our UK government continues its weapon sales and support for the Saudi regime and its allies, whilst 80% of the population are reliant on aid

ICYMI: The United Nations (via the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen) called out the UK as one of the countries perpetuating the conflict due to its weapon sales to the Saudi regime & its allies (Page 5)

ohchr.org/Documents/HRBo…
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26 Sep
Charles Moore as chair of the BBC is scary for many reasons, one of which is his awful views on Muslims

See thread here:

It is shocking someone like this is even in the running & it is indicative of how entrenched Islamophobia is in our public space
Just imagine, this is a man who is frightened by Islam at times

spectator.co.uk/article/we-mig…
Only a few years ago, he published this, showing his concerns ostensibly about Islam - albeit actually about Muslims

telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/…
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26 Sep
There are many good critiques of this new chilling government guidance for PSHE, but I'd like to highlight in particular:

1. The government expects Muslim *children* to *have to* condemn actions of terrorists who claim to act in the name of Islam

gov.uk/guidance/plan-…
This is outrageous. The idea of having to condemn the actions of those you have nothing to do with, is unacceptable in general & even more so, for young children

It is important children learn that they aren't responsible for the actions of others, and have no duty to condemn
2. The choice to exclude Islamophobia from the guidance (noting government line that it is not a type of racism so is not included *at all*) not only speaks to the way the gvt prioritises the racism that suits it politically

It also speaks to how Islamophobia is totally ignored
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23 Sep
This is truly appalling.

Lies about Muslims & terrorism continue to be published & the same "mistakes" keep on being made.

Is it really too much to expect basic due dilegence before making such an incendiary headline?
Here the Mirror claimed in their headline that a man shouted Allahu Akbar as part of a bomb threat at the Eiffel Tower.

This was "fake news" according to the police & Eiffel Tower spokespeople.

The Mirror have now changed their headline.
There is just no excuse. This is not a new issue.

At the @cfmmuk we issued a full report highlighting the serious issues in media reporting on terrorism

This is only the tip of the iceberg

cfmm.org.uk/resources/publ…
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