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Guardian silent on Crossrail hole attack - loud on 'book brining' Brick Lane!

© Muhammad Haque / Khoodeelaar! / CARMABUK 2006 | 27.07.2006 08:16 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London

"Threat to burn Monica Ali book at meeting" reads the sub-heading in today's Guardian newspaper [page 14] allegedly reporting on an alleged campaign meeting. This is a serious item of 'news'. What is the context? Why is the Guardian able to 'find' such 'threats'? Is the Guardian being genuine in its reporting or is there perhaps an agenda to further distort the image of the community and make it look even more deserving of deprivation and misrepresentation?



The GUARDIAN backs CROSSRAIL Hole attack on east end, plugs 'book burning'

The guardian newspaper and its over-rated ‘guardian unlimited’ web site have been suppressing the real protests in defence of the brick lane and Whitechapel London e1 area over the pats three years.

Perhaps there is a guardian agenda when it comes to matters to do with a genuinely democratic multi-ethnic, multi-religious society that includes significant numbers of Muslims in its population.

Perhaps the agenda that the GUARDIAN follows when allegedly reporting a community of that description goes like this – if the campaign is intellectually high calibre and is conducted in a way that is lawful, dignified, coherent and democratic then the guardian preference is to suppress it.

However, if suppression is made untenable in view of the overwhelming evidence on the ground then the guardian second preference is top distort the situation and paint a picture so untrue that no truthful person aware of the facts could ever believe anything that the guardian ever published about anything that combined any part of the population that includes Muslims and had also the elements of any democratic representation in it.

That seems to be what has happened over CROSSRAIL.

The campaign led by Khoodeelaar! Against Crossrail hole attacks has been going on in the EAST END of London for almost three years now.

And even by the evidence provided by the Transport Secretary at the time, Alistair Darling, MP in his own ‘written statement’ dated 30 march 2006, the negative and devastating impact of the Crossrail hole plan on the East End would have been so serious that the Government conceded campaigners’ demand and abandoned the dirt hole plan that had been made in the first texts of the Crossrail Bill.

Yet the Guardian has not played any part in that significant phenomenon at all.

Whereas the Guardian ahs published hundreds of thousands of items in the past three years allegedly about events within the UK society, there has been neither a report nor a significant comment or mentionable item published by either the Guardian ort by the 'Guardian Unlimited, website in all that time about the very powerful community defence against Crossrail that the Khoodeelaar! Campaign has symbolised and carried out.

Apart from a typically ignorant and misleading report that over-dozed on a racist and divisive ‘ethnicity-based’ innuendo-filled characterisation of the ‘campaign’ in July 2004, the Guardian newspaper [and the 'Guardian Unlimited' web site] have refsued to carry any of the thousands of very detailed reports published by Khoodeelaar! and seen by thousands of people in the past 32 months.

The long term and the short term economic, social and environmental destruction to the area that the remaining Crossrail hole plan will cause has been suppressed by the Guardian.

And two days after the UK House of Commons Crossrail Bill Select Committee made a strange announcement [ Tuesday 25 July 2006] of a strange interim decision, which slipped in the committee’s servile and in effect whipped endorsement of the CrossRail hole plan on Hanbury Street – which has featured as a key aspect of the reason for the Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail – the Guardian has painted a picture of Brick Lane today [Thursday 27 July 2006] that is more like Bradford in 1989 when the alleged fanatic opponents of Salman Rushdie’s ‘book’ were reported as having set fire to a copy of the Rushdie book.

There has been no indication in the past three years in anything that has appeared about the East End of London in the Guardian [or on its website] that shows even a fraction of affinity with the truth of the community, the reality of how the Blairing Tower Hamkest Coucnil is systematically breaking up the community and making the area increasingly more suitable for the Big Business, multinational takeover.


If there is any dissension around Brick Lane and the East End of London, the seeds of that dissension were sown and or given legitimacy by a Guardian group that was bent on fomenting disaffection, race and ethnicity-based rivalry, antagonism and fan the flames of hatred against particularly teetered religious and cultural groups who neither did anything to deserve the Guardian’s incitement nor deserved to be so betrayed via a news group that boats of being interested in opposing intolerance and in telling the truth.

Nothing could be more damaging to the East End economically and socially than the attack represented by the Crossrail hole in the next few years.

yet the Guardian treats the Crossrail attack as warranted!


No wodne3r the Guardian wants to portray the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 area as being in the grip of a fanatic, fundamentalist uproar which can only be quelled by more and racist state and social repression, by more attacks on targeted religious, social and ethnicity linked groups!

Given the record of the Guardian going back more than 50 years of suppressing the truth about the demography and the social realities of the inner cities generally and of the East End of London in particular, it is very likely that the Guardian is suppressing the news about the Crsosrail hole plot on the East End as a contribution to Tony Blair's agenda that will be aided by the Guardian's latest promotion of a fanatic, book-burning image of the East End !

Further violations of the rights of the people in the East End can then be shown not only understandable but desirable !

© Muhammad Haque / Khoodeelaar! / CARMABUK 2006
- e-mail: lawmedia@hotmail.com
- Homepage: http://uk.geocities.com/carmabuktrust/stopguardianinciting.html

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