Archive for November, 2009
A riposte to the civil liberties paranoiacs
This is a crosspost by MoreMediaNonsense
There’s an excellent piece in The Times here by Sean O’Neill where he makes the case for the modern police methods so feared by swivel eyed Cif ranters and the likes of Sunny Hundal :
If the civil libertarians, the conspiracy theorists and the Conservatives had their way, Abdul Azad would probably [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2009 under Your View.
Uncut racism in Austrian parliament
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer
I received today a letter from H.C. Strache, leader of the extreme right wing Austrian Freedom party. He is complaining about lacking security in Vienna and he hopes, that he will be the next mayor of Vienna and will oust Michael Häupl, the socialist mayor of Vienna. He also [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2009 under Your View.
Is a senior Home Office ‘Prevent’ employee an Islamist?
This is a guest post by a Concerned Whistleblower
Asim Hafeez, the head of the ‘Prevent Interventions Unit’ at the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism, has recently been profiled by Martin Bright of the Jewish Chronicle, who quoted Home Office officials as describing him as a ‘hardcore salafi’.
A number of Hafeez’s talks are available online which [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2009 under Your View.
Behind enemy lines
From deep within the “whitewash!” heartlands of The Independent, John Rentoul is providing a one man rebuttal service for the Iraq inquiry. For example:
David Grossman was terribly excited on Newsnight last night about all the “revelations” from yesterday’s session, but as he listed them each could be ticked off from the Butler report of 2004.
The [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2009 under Iraq.
Kaveh Afrasiabi, the Stooge Scholar
This is a cross post by Potkin
Kaveh Afrasiabi is one of those ‘academics’ who has his fingers in every pie. Wikipedia introduces him as an Iranian born political scientist who teaches at Boston University, Bentley College, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and Binghamton University. Just like all other Islamic Republic affiliated ‘academics’ posted around the world [...]
Posted: November 26th, 2009 under Iran.
Common ground on nuclear power?
Like many other people who care about the environment and worry about global warming, I’m a former opponent of nuclear power who has now reconciled myself to it as a necessary part of the the future if the world is to reduce its dependence on CO2-producing fossil fuels.
As The Washington Post reports:
Rather than deride the [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Environment.
A Peerage for Abdul Bari?
Amazing if true - Nick Cohen has heard rumours that the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, and the former Chairman of the Jamaat-e-Islami front group, Islamic Forum Europe, is being considered for a seat in the House of Lords:
My sources tell me that Brown’s goons hauled civil servants into Downing Street to find [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Islamism.
BNP and Lee Barnes lie about Nothing British
From Nothing British About the BNP:
The official BNP website and its Legal Director, Lee Barnes, have sought to link Nothing British with Alister Cooling, the former-Castaway participant who was recently convicted for indecent images.
Alister Cooling has never worked for Nothing British. He has never contributed articles, has never had a contract of employment or any formal [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Anti Fascism.
Business opportunity for annoying commenters
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Blogland.
Why Is Hizb ut Tahrir Receiving Government Funding?
This is a press release from the Centre for Social Cohesion
In today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Conservative Party Leader David Cameron challenged Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the findings of the Centre for Social Cohesion’s (CSC) latest report, Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy.
Cameron, who has promised to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), asked the Prime Minister why the [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Your View.
