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Celebrated “Queer Theorist” and “Asajew”, Judith Butler turned down the Civil Courage Award (Zivilcouragepreis) of the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin:
We all have noticed that gay, bisexual, lesbian, trans and queer people can be instrumentalized by those who want to wage wars, i.e. cultural wars against migrants by means of forced islamophobia and military wars [...]

The Muslim Council of Britain pays attention to what Habiba Hamid says. Ms Hamid is listed on Salaam as one of the “Who’s Who” of Muslims in Britain. She has considered the case of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber.  On her Twitter account, she retweeted the following:
So, this Times Square guy is a Muslim [...]

This is a cross post by Shiraz Maher from Standpoint
Over at his new blog Inayat Bunglawala is already tying himself in knots over the guilty plea by failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. During his plea hearing Shahzad told the court:

You know things are getting bad when you read this report from Amsterdam and remember the city was once famous for its tolerance:
Dutch police are to use “decoy Jews”, by dressing law enforcers in Jewish religious dress such as skullcaps, in an effort to catch anti-Semitic attackers.
Secret television recordings by the Jewish broadcasting company, Joodse Omroep, [...]

Harry Barnes has posted a letter addressing the five Labour Leadership candidates calling upon them to publish a Manifesto of Intent that outlines to everyone concerned the direction in which they would seek to take the Labour Party if they were to win.
This is an excellent idea that came out of a meeting of the [...]

I’m currently half way through Christopher Hitchens’ memoir: Hitch 22. I would wholeheartedly recommend it to Harry’s Place readers on the basis that there is an obvious shared subject matter between the book and this website. Examples?
1. In a passage in an early chapter about left wing political struggles of the 1970s Hitchens suddenly shifts vantage [...]

As George Osborne prepares to make large scale cuts to the public sector in the emergency budget a timely and succinct reminder from the Independent of what the public sector has done for us all.

The Toronto Star reports:
A Muslim televangelist banned from Britain this week for speeches amounting to “unacceptable behaviour” is to headline an imminent Toronto conference.
Zakir Naik, founder of online Peace TV in Mumbai, India, tops the bill at the Journey of Faith Conference, July 2-4, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It is being described as [...]

Not from the vaults, but should be. Life imitates The Daily Mash:
Just Cause of Korean People Supported by Britain Party
Pyongyang, June 20 (KCNA) — The 5th Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) held in London on June 12 expressed full support for the just cause of the Korean people.
A resolution adopted there [...]

As the death of the 300th British soldier killed in Afghanistan was announced by the Ministry of Defence, Robert Fox asks the question on CiF is there an end in sight, but doesn’t go on to answer his own question.
Yes casualties continue to increase and it is easy to think that there is no end. [...]