Still extreme

sotto voce

Absolutely excellent

alan stoddart

Whilst Labour have no qualms about using race or religion for electioneering the Tories run shy of it, afraid of being called Islamophobic.
When Miliband drags his high office into the gutter with his shouts of anti-semitism due to the Tories connection to Kaminski, the Tories seem incapable of summoning the courage to point to the real extremists at the very heart of this Labour government.

To do so would serve two purposes...to point out Labour's own, very real, partnership with the very extremists we are supposedly fighting, and soldiers literally dying in the fight against it, and secondly to expose that very connection and end it....or this government.

Is it not odd that we have an army fighting against these same ideologies in foreign lands when Brown is collaborating with the enemy in our own backyard.

Just as charity begins at home, perhaps security also begins here.

Nordheim

Melanie, I would suggest all 290,000 UK Jews leave ASAP. Things are only going to get worse for them.

Not for Prophet

Did anyone ever get to the bottom of that incident about 18 months ago when a man, purportedly described as "drunk", turned up at Inayat Bunglawalah's house in Luton and assaulted him? Or perhaps Bunglawalah assaulted the man. There never was a follow-up report of that strange incident.

Oflife

The country and it's media have been bought. Money has is and always will be the invisible motivation behind much of the evil in this world. "Here, you need it, I have it. Take some."

Edward

Meanwhile our man in Washington writes in the Guardian:

"So vampires aside, there is nothing undead about the vibrancy of the UK's cultural and media life. And am I confident of its continued transatlantic success? The "stakes" may be high, but you may most definitely "Count" on it!"

Yes, we can "count" on our Establishment to drive a "stake" through our liberal, vibrant and pluralistic society - the stake is called Islamic extremism.

Gerald

In his recent letter to the Home Secretary (online at iengage), Bunglawala twice praises him for his swift and prompt response to an earlier iEngage letter, not perhaps out of common courtesy, but rather as if to emphasise the close working relation that putatively exists between the two organisations.

The tone of Bunglawala's letter is a composite of the unctuous, the peremptory and the ugly.

sean cowen

Inayat should link up with Oborne. Gay, feminist, Hindu, and Sikh groups all protested against that vile man yet in Bungle's worldview it was the 'pro-Israeli lobbies' who had him banned.

And my taxes pay for this fool...

N

I love you Mel, i really do but don't you ever get tired of saying the same thing and having no one do anything about it? I've been reading your blogs for a long time and plenty of people have said "we agree" but no one has ever stood up and taken action. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it make a noise? If you "preach" and no one heeds your words, does it really matter?

Eliot

The problem is that in the Islamic mainstream extreme views like Qaradawi's have become the norm, therefore he is not "extremist" because there are greater fanatics than he is, and someone who aspires to liberal democratic values would be at the very least "on the very fringe" of Islam.

Brunswick

A quotation from Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad:

"The sociologist Chetan Bhatt of Goldsmiths College, University of London, an expert on religious extremism, points out that ‘the overwhelming number of organizations that the government talks to are influenced by, dominated by or front organizations of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Muslim Brotherhood. Their agenda is strictly based on the politics of the Islamic radical right, it doesn’t represent the politics or aspirations of the majority of Muslims in this country."

at http://tinyurl.com/d76ldn

Alan

The goverment are at fault and are just looking for votes. They don't really understand what is actually going on regarding these type of people.

Philip Horowitz

One thing that I will do the next time the Guardian has a piece by Bungawala, is post the link to the Qaradawi speech and ask him what he thinks of it. Sadly, too many CIF posters will try and justify it in some way or, since it comes via Memri, claim it is a fake.

De Rigueur

To N

We all love Mel, and we hope that something good will come from her words. But aside from writing to ones MP, e-mailing the prime minister or organising an anti-islamist demo, what are we supposed to do? Burn a few mosques, beat up a few muslims?
Come on! The only thing one can do is to turn up the rhetorical heat on these problems until some minds in power are changed. And that is precisely is what Mel is trying to do. So give her a break.

Andrew

I really can't understand why Ed Husain is getting matey with Inayat Bunglawala all of a sudden. Ed has just attacked Melanie on CiF in a vicious way. Perhaps he's switching sides!

Corin

It so happens that Mark Steyn has, this week, reposted an article on the existence - or otherwise, of moderate Islam. He understands what so many refuse to acknowledge, the problem goes back to the very roots of Islam.

/www.steynonline.com/content/view/2652/30/>

Guardian of freedom

If you build a wall around a community, with robot snipers pointing at people in their own homes, assassinating doctors, blockading all imports and exports thereby creating an embarco, arresting west bank citizens and then sending them to gaza instead of their homes in west bank thereby treating gaza as a prison or concentration camp, guess what?????

Tosspot detector

Grauniad of Freedom - Do go on, I'm riveted.

Augustus

What I would like to know from these Muslim politico brothers, and sheikhs etc., is:
If a girl is swathed in cloth from head to toe every day, and everything but her face and hands are covered for fear that a man might find her attractive,
and when she is at school she learns that she is worth less than a boy, and she is forbidden to swim, or dance, or
feel the sun on her skin, or the wind in her hair, why, if this is clearly morally unacceptable socially, is it accepted without question when it is done in the name of a religion?

Stephen Gillespie

Excelent article Melanie (as always). You might be interested in this story if you have not already picked up on it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704204304574543812279796516.html

It's got everything - Islamofascism, censorship, political correctness, diversity not to mention rank hypocrisy.

B.S.Detector

guardian of propaganda
please enlighten us, and skip to the part on a charter to obliterate israel, freedom lover

Verity

Augustus - In addition to what you say about girls/women (who can tell?) swathed from head to foot in fabric, there is the real health problem of lack of Vitamin D, which derives from exposure to sunlight, and increases brain function. You can see why the men don't want them exposed to it.

In addition, it increases the amount of oxygen throughout the body.

Therefore, if for no other reason, Harriet Harman ought to bring up a Bill for the wearing of all that burqa crap illegal because it damages the sisters' health and brain function.

In other words, it is cruelty.

Bob

I wonder how many of you will be brave enough to venture out to watch this?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/defamation/

Oflife

@N: There is little evidence that evil wins in the long term. Knowing in your heart that you are in the right is a major motivator to survive when the going gets tough. If we do lose, will the enemy have the zest for life to continue? Or will guilt and the repressive depressive nature of their flawed existence cause them to die a slow death - like most socialist countries that suffer deadly alcholol and drug problems due to the complete lack of hope embedded in their lifestyles?

Nick

"like most socialist countries that suffer deadly alcholol and drug problems due to the complete lack of hope embedded in their lifestyles?"

Yes, just look at the Scandinavian example.

Oh, wait a minute...

Richie Craze

For once I agree with Melanie Phillips.

John Denham is a complete fool.

James Murphy

Bob - why would we want to stick our heads down the anti-semitic toilet bowl your web link recommends? Is there some health benefit we've missed?

De Rigueur

Darling Verity,

"Therefore, if for no other reason, Harriet Harman ought to bring up a Bill for the wearing of all that burqa crap illegal because it damages the sisters' health and brain function."

Personally I'd prefer someone to bring up Harman - before a tribunal of sane people with the right to award her a tar and feathering.

Honi soit qui mal y pense,
De Rigueur

Bob

Wheres's the anti-semitism James? Its a film made by Jews about today's Jewish experience!

Stephen Gash

Jews in England must come to the Stop Islamisation Of Europe - SIOE demonstration in Harrow on 13th December and bring 1,000 Israeli flags.
Violent jihad is still being taught in mosques across Europe and we don't want any more mosques built until that problem is sorted out.

chris kelly

Melanie veiws every Muslim as a potential Islamist terrorist .

says it all,
words and people like this help nobody or nothing .