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Written by Tom Paine
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Sunday, 05 April 2009 21:45 |
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Does SNN's iconography offend everyone on the Left?
That's pretty much the message I got from an exchange of views of the great UK left wing anti-Jihadi blog Harrys Place.
I think that what is needed is an antifascist campaign that combines fighting the neo Nazi far right with the Islamist far right. I’m convinced that this is the only way to defeat both. Part of the reason - not the only one - that the BNP has risen is that the cordon sanitaire that surrounded far Right thought has been fatally compromised by the accommodation between the far Left and the Islamist far Right. Organisations which say pretty outrageous and extreme things have got op eds in the Guardian and have cultivated links with Labour (and LibDem and occasionally Tory) MPs. This allows the BNP to say: “We’re the only ones who are standing up for *you*”. Both groups share a common racist hatred of Jews - including Holocaust denial - but yet the Islamists have been given a pass on this by large sections of the Left. That lowers the bar as to what constitute acceptable political discourse. As the BNP pursues its ‘thug in a suit’ rebranding strategy, it actually allows them to pose as the ‘less extreme’ of the two.
All very good, and very much in line with the way many of us on the Right think (except for our very own mirror-images of Vanessa's loonies, yes Ann Coulter I'm looking at you).
So I decided to weigh in with my very own tale of cross-political woe. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 06 April 2009 01:43 |
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Jihadi murders 13 year old with Axe - Israel Policy Forum "He had it coming". |
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Written by Brian of London
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 06:30 |
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Something led me to the Israel Policy Forum webiste this morning and caused me to look at their post about the murder by a West Bank Arab of a little child. His attack killed one child aged 13 and injured a 7 year old. So how on earth can a supposedly pro-Peace "Jewish" think tank cover this story. Well...... After the dry report culled from Ma'ariv (but not linked to) they decide the next important thing to point out is the supposed ideology of the town the children lived in. Of course the town is Bat Ayin and is full of (brace yourselves) SETTLERS (say it quickly and while spitting please). Even better, this town, back in 2002 actually gave rise to some "extremists" who were arrested and put in prision. Here's what Ma'ariv wrote and the IPF choose to highlight: In 2002 a group called the "Bat Ayin underground" was revealed after two residents were arrested, Yarden Morag and Shlomi Dvir, when they placed a bomb near a girls' school in East Jerusalem. A third resident, Ofer Gamliel, was arrested three days later. The three were convicted and sentenced to 12 and 15 years in prison. However, in recent years the settlement members have been careful not to break the law for ideological reasons, after a long period of being considered extremists.
And your point IPF and Ma'ariv? That a child aged 13 and another aged 7 come from an "extreme" town so are fair game for axe wielding Jihadis. OK, I think we can see the cut of your jib. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 04 April 2009 17:27 |
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Killer Lord Ahmed and the sentence for dangerous driving |
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Written by Brian of London
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Sunday, 15 March 2009 19:53 |
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I mentioned something in this week's show about the average sentence for Dangerous Driving in the UK being more like 10 to 11 months than the 12 weeks that Lord Ahmed received. So I thought I'd better back that up. If you are so inclined you can go searching on the web and find the following document (links to a PDF): "the Sentence THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES NEWSLETTER January 2006" If one has a bit of a rummage around in that august journal one finds the following table: |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 15 March 2009 21:09 |
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