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Titolo: Visto che Clas stasera ha da fare, lo sostituisco io...

Oggi sul Times c'era un articolo che mi ha dato abbastanza da pensare.
Anche considerando la fonte, un giornale sostanzialmente di destra. Mi
tocca copiaincollarlo, visto che il link non c'e' piu' nella pagina dei
commenti di timesonline e ci si accede solo da un servlet per la ricerca
sul sito (il link generato e' un one-time, non funziona a cliccarci sopra)
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Anti-Jewish? Anti-gay? Welcome to Britain 
anthony browne
The Left's deliberate blindness to these Muslim extremists imperils us all
THESE are curious times. The British Left, long the champion of
anti-racism and gay rights, is forging deepening bonds with anti-Semitic
homophobes. If these were old-style anti-Semitic homophobes the Left would
be campaigning to have them locked up. But instead they are Muslim
extremists.
What is most unsettling is that the Government, suffering from excessive
cultural relativism, is also pandering to Islamic anti-Semitism.
Consider the circumstances surrounding a conference to support the Islamic
veil next Monday in London. Ken Livingstone, the mayor, is to open the
event, organised by the Assembly for the Protection of the Hijab, of which
the guest of honour is Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Dr al-Qaradawi was born in
Egypt but lives in Qatar because of his association with the extremist
group, the Muslim Brotherhood, of which he is a spiritual leader, and
which is banned in several Middle Eastern countries.
The sheikh has used his influential sermons to promote suicide bombing by
Palestinians in Israel. Before the Left gets too misty-eyed about suicide
bombings, it should remember that it can involve blowing to bits innocent
children on buses.
According to BBC Monitoring, Dr. al-Qaradawi said last year: "Oh God,
destroy the usurper Jews, the vile crusaders and infidels." He said the
killing of the American telecoms engineer Nick Berg by Islamic militants
in Iraq, had to be seen "in the right context", although he has
condemned decapitations and the twin towers attacks and suicide bombings
outside Israel.
You can get more idea of his views on 
www.islamonline.net
, whose contents
are overseen by an editorial co-operative led by Dr al-Qaradawi.
Islamonline declares that homosexuality is a "sexual perversion", for
which the penalty should be death. The only question is whether gays
should be killed by being thrown off a high cliff, or flogged to death.
Gay rights groups and Jewish groups, as well as London ratepayers, have a
right to know why Mr Livingstone is choosing to share a platform with him.
Dr al-Qaradawi, who is head of the European Council on Fatwa and Research,
is banned from the US, but is a regular visitor to the UK. The Foreign and
Commonwealth Office has been presented with a dossier of evidence on him,
but has not banned him from the UK.
The Home Office is even lending government credibility. Fiona Mactaggart,
the Race and Community Cohesion Minister, was also due to share a platform
with him, until challenged by a Sunday newspaper. Instead she is just
sending a video message of support to the event.
It isn't the first time that Ms Mactaggart has lent tacit government
support to Islamic anti-Semites. Last month, at the opening of the London
Islamic Centre, she shared a platform with Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Sudais,
one of the imams of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the most holy mosque in
Islam, who has used his sermons to call for Jews to be killed. According
to the CIA, he has said: "Yesterday's Jews are bad predecessors and
today's Jews are worse successors. They are killers of prophets and scum
of the earth. God hurled his indignation on them and made them monkeys and
pigs and worshippers of tyrants."
Sheikh al-Sudais was recently barred from Canada after outcries by Jewish
groups. Contrast this with the actions of the UK Government. One is left
wondering what sort of race relations Fiona Mactaggart sees herself as
minister of.
Dr al-Qaradawi is coming here as a guest of the Muslim Association of
Britain (MAB), which together with the Socialist Workers Party helped to
form the Stop the War Coalition. It openly supports Respect, a political
party formed by the former Labour MP George Galloway.
HOWEVER, the Muslim Association is itself already highly controversial.
Louise Ellman, one of the few Labour MPs to understand the importance of
standing up to Islamic anti-Semitism, last year denounced in Parliament
MAB's public face, Azzam Tamimi, for "preaching hatred against
Jews". She quoted him as saying at a conference in South Africa last
year: "Do not call them suicide bombers, call them Shuhada (martyrs).
They (Israelis) have guns, we have human bombs. We love death, they love
life."
Despite this, MAB is a member of the umbrella group the Muslim Council of
Britain, the voice of moderate Islam in Britain with which the Government
holds a running dialogue. The Muslim council has made a big effort to show
how moderate it is, which raises the question why it continues to allow
MAB to be a member.
The Left has often let concern about offending Muslims take priority over
standing up to Islamic extremism. Many decided to attack Salman Rushdie
rather than support him when the Ayatollah of Iran urged Muslims to kill
him for practising free speech. When the Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel
was issued with death threats and sparked murderous riots last year by
suggesting that Muhammad would marry a Miss World contestant, many
left-wing British commentators condemned her rather than those
perpetrating the violence.
The Government ought instead to be supporting Muslims such as Irshad
Manji, a Canadian lesbian TV presenter who has just detailed her struggle
with the intolerance of some of her fellow-believers in the courageous
book The Trouble with Islam. In it she insists that non-Muslims in the
West have a duty to challenge Islamic extremists, rather than support
them. "Non-Muslims do the world no favours by pushing the moral mute
button as soon as Muslims start speaking," she says.
It's a lesson Ms Mactaggart, the British Government, and the British
Left should learn.
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Ora, io trovo che, a parte tutto il resto, una sinistra che organizza una
conferenza per *difendere* il velo islamico, secondo me, ha diverse
domande a cui rispondere...
Eugenio
P.S. Questo post va inteso come provocazione e possibile spunto di
discussione, soprattutto per gli altri partecipanti al NG che si
considerano piu' o meno di sinistra - so che Peppe Brescia e Solania non
potranno esimersi dal fare un rutto o due, ma dal momento che i destri
non sembrano parlare la lingua della perfida Albione, direi che piu' di
tanto non ci si puo' aspettare.
-- 
Q:  How do you play religious roulette?
A:  You stand around in a circle and blaspheme and see who gets struck
    by lightning first.

....ringrazio commosso per la citazione...le mie crisi scizofreniche di
essere trasparente ne trarranno un sicuro beneficio.

 essere trasparente ne trarranno un sicuro beneficio.
Figurati.
Come sta la moglie? La mia e' in Italia a cercare scoiattoli (e' una lunga
storia) e mi sono perso il numero di telefono della massaggiatrice
thailandese, te ne avanza una, per caso?
-- 
"The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual
curiosity."
-- Ronald Reagan on funding scientific research

 thailandese, te ne avanza una, per caso?
....prova questo...poi dimmi:
WWW Daniela 4 u. com
ven the cat they are not the cricet ballano!!