Archive for January, 2010
Mahathir Mohamad on “the depradations of the Jews”
This is a cross-post from the CST
In 2003, then Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad caused an international storm when he told an international Islamic conference that “the Jews rule this world by proxy“:
1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. And we can only find a [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under antisemitism.
Questions for Daud Abdullah
This is a cross-post by Shiraz Maher
So the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is back in with government. It was not all that long ago that the Department for Communities and Local Government cut ties with the group after its Deputy Secretary General, Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul declaration which you can read in full [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Your View.
Israel’s religious system will bring about its demise
This is a cross-post of an article from Haaretz – via The Spittoon – by Sefi Rachlevsky, author of ‘The Messiah’s Donkey’, the best-seller which critiqued the Jewish Orthodox establishment.
“A Bag of Fibs,” the classic collection of tall tales from the pre-state Palmach militia, tells of a truck driver sent from Tel Aviv to deliver [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Israel, Secularism.
Keith Hammond on Holocaust Memorial Day
Here are Keith Hammond’s thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day
Yesterday was the day we all remembered the Holocaust and yet it was business as usual for the propaganda machine of Israel that respects nothing but its own sordid aims. The Goldstone Report was accused of blaming the victims of Gaza’s rockets for the 22 days [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Your View.
Blair
Anyone watching?
Conviction. Resolute.
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Iraq.
What I Didn’t Know Yesterday
This is a crosspost by Potkin
I thought I had mentioned all the injustices surrounding the execution of the 19 year old Arash Rahmanipour yesterday on Aljazeera. However I learned about yet another heartbreaking fact from his lawyer’s interview with VOA Persian. I mentioned that Arash’s pregnant sister was frequently brought into the interrogation room to put [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Iran.
Coughing without due care and attention
Finally there is a real-life ‘Constable Savage’.
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Dress Down Friday.
Fight Sectarianism, Fight the BNP
A few nights ago, Charlie Brooker showed a clip of a pop-psych show, in which various people with different perspectives on social issues were wired up to a machine and shown pictures of various human subjects. Their brain activity was measured, and ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ responses to photos were displayed, graphically. One woman, who [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Anti Fascism, Anti Muslim Bigotry.
BNP: Last chance to enter the 21st Century
This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
The BNP was given a last chance to change its whites only membership policies at a Central London county court session yesterday:
The Equality and Human Rights Commission, which challenged the whites-only membership criteria last year, said the changes proposed still fell foul of equality laws.
John Wadham of the [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2010 under Anti Fascism, UK Politics.
Zinn Dead
Oh well.
Posted: January 28th, 2010 under Obituary.
