Islamic Prevarications

I caught this blatant perversion of the reality of the event as well as the racist and religious intolerance aspect of it:-

The Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in Gaza, Ismail Radwan, denounced the storming of al-Aqsa mosque by a large number of Israeli settlers on Monday from the Mughrabi Gate, accompanied by Israeli special police units...the ("storming") attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque came within the Israeli Judaization policy in Jerusalem as a prelude to the division of al-Aqsa mosque between Jewish and Muslims....Radwan called on the Palestinian people to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque, also called on the Arab and Islamic nations, the Arab Spring countries, the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and international human rights organizations to stop the ongoing aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian people.

This was no attack, no storming, no aggression, no Judaiziation.

This was a simple matter of religious freedom, of civil liberties, of personal rights.

If "Palestine" indeed becomes a state, there will be no democracy nor freedoms and rights - not for Jews, not for Christians and also not for Muslims who wish to be less-than-fundamentalist in their behavior in the religious or political spheres.

And all the liberals and humanists who support this idea will but only lead us all into a worse situation, in complete and diametrical opposition to their supposed values.

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We've Come a Long Way Since 1984 (but Backwards)

Andrew Marr writes:-

On Start the Week on Monday, all the distinguished guests, including the philosopher John Gray and the historian Eric Hobsbawm, vehemently agreed that the word "Islamist", which I have used at the top of this column, was wrong and dangerous. It implied a strong link to Islam, which was unfair. I thought the distinction between "Islamic" and "Islamist" was enough: but if we need a new and more accurate word for extremist Muslims, what is it?

Any particular strain of Islam, such as Wahhabism, is only the more lethally libelled if you try to narrow things that way. The trouble with looking for bland words is that you lose touch with reality. You'll end up by calling them Powd-ists (People of Whom we Disapprove) or Bacromists (Bad Cross Men). All sensible suggestions welcome. Meanwhile, it's our patriotic duty to single out the nearest nightclub, and get along there as soon as possible.

So, Islamofascists is out?


(Kippah tip: Melanie Phillips)