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Demos and genocide.

Tuesday, 15th July 2008

I've always thought Demos was a wonderful joke, and assumed it was a Chris Morris style skit, this time on think tanks. My favourite was the biography of one of its former staffers, Helen Wilkinson, which described her as being renowned for surfing the zeitgeist.

As satire goes, that is surely unimproveable.

But it seems I was wrong about Demos. There's nothing amusing at all about it. As Harry's Place points out:

Demos sponsored and participated in a debate at IslamExpo and a seminar on “Political Islam”. That’s right: a left of centre think tank worked with a clerical fascist party to organise a conference about its racist, genocidal theocratic political programme.
Demos says this about itself on its site:
Demos is the think tank for 'everyday democracy'. Our aim is to put this idea into practice by working with organisations in ways that make them more effective and legitimate.

Quite how working with an organisation dedicated to genocide and theocracy fits with that outline, I have no idea.

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Michael

July 16th, 2008 10:13pm

err... collapsing western capitalist financial system, any answers to that?

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