Stop the War's People's Assembly: Islamophobia and the war on terror
d | 03.11.2006 20:19 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Terror War | London
The People's Assembly aims to bring people together to discuss the relationship between Islamophobia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and to organise our campaign in response to war and racism.
We are asking peace and anti-war groups, trade unions, faith groups and organisations, community groups, political parties and any other representative organisations to send delegates to this important meeting. We also welcome individuals as observers.
We are asking peace and anti-war groups, trade unions, faith groups and organisations, community groups, political parties and any other representative organisations to send delegates to this important meeting. We also welcome individuals as observers.
Speakers include:
Tony Benn
Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo detainee
Jeremy Corbyn MP
David Edgar, playwright
Noreen Fatima, NUS London Metropolitan University
Lindsey German, Convenor Stop the War Coalition
Kate Hudson, Chair CND
Mohammed Abdul Khar and Abdul Koyair, brothers wrongly arrested in Forest Gate police raid
Paul Mackney, joint Gen Sec UCU
Sami Ramadani, Iraqi academic and journalist
Yvonne Ridley, Islam Channel
Mark Steel, comedian and columnist
Anas al Tikriti, British Muslim Initiative
Walter Wolfgang, Labour Party NEC
Salma Yaqoob, Respect councillor
Saturday 18 November 10.00am - 5.30pm
Camden Centre Judd Street London WC1H
For more info: www. stopwar.org.uk
For a registration form, email office@stopwar.org.uk
Tony Benn
Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo detainee
Jeremy Corbyn MP
David Edgar, playwright
Noreen Fatima, NUS London Metropolitan University
Lindsey German, Convenor Stop the War Coalition
Kate Hudson, Chair CND
Mohammed Abdul Khar and Abdul Koyair, brothers wrongly arrested in Forest Gate police raid
Paul Mackney, joint Gen Sec UCU
Sami Ramadani, Iraqi academic and journalist
Yvonne Ridley, Islam Channel
Mark Steel, comedian and columnist
Anas al Tikriti, British Muslim Initiative
Walter Wolfgang, Labour Party NEC
Salma Yaqoob, Respect councillor
Saturday 18 November 10.00am - 5.30pm
Camden Centre Judd Street London WC1H
For more info: www. stopwar.org.uk
For a registration form, email office@stopwar.org.uk
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Drop the word 'Islamophobia' - it is racist itself. Use Anti-Islam, anti-Muslim
04.11.2006 01:15
Antagonism, hostility to, violence to, scapegoating of ......... etc should or may or could precede the word Islam or Muslim, to replace the very racist and very anti-Islam word Islamophobia. Phobia or fear in itself implies that the fault lies with Islam itself or with Muslims themselves.
Think …..And drop the word Islamophobia and all that that word carries with it in the British and Western contexts.
Note the way the London TV news outlets BBC and ITV carried the news [ Friday 3 November 2006] of the latest Israeli shooting of innocent Muslim/Palestinian women… Contrast that with the same outlets coverage over the past week of the alleged gas-leak deaths of two holidaying children in Greece..
Notice how the humanity of Arabs, Palestinians and Muslims are not accepted anywhere near the levels of those who are presented as being the selected and the chosen superior humanity category.
Notice this morning [Saturday 4 November 2006] Times [Murdoch] newspaper and others. See how many headings are based on antagonism towards Islam and Muslims.
Not fear.
Read the item on the alleged nuclear ambitions] notice the use of the word ambition after nuclear in this context]…
Count the number of posts against Islam and Muslims actually bearing the name Peter Tatchell have been allowed to run on UK Indymedia. And look for any replies to those venomous, hostile posts. They are not Islamophobia. They are anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic.
In the social, political, cultural senses of the words.
There is not fear of Islam and Muslims but intolerance of, antagonism and hostility towards against Muslim and Islam.
Remember the dates and times and spread the facts across the world and how just how unfair and hostile and the violators of the concept of Islam and Muslims are/.
Note how the large numbers of those on UK Indymedia also claim to be on the left. Even pretending to ‘sympathise’ with some Arabs… some Palestinians,. Some Muslims.
Never accepting the human rights of |ALL Muslims…
Not even in principle…
Drop Islamophobia.. Use the accurate and truthful alternative words, phrases and descriptions.
Justthought
Fuck the SWP
04.11.2006 03:24
Because they are fucking freaks who like to slime up to the ethnics so they look ever-so politically correct.
Nick Griffin must be laughing in his jackboots at you fucking morons.
Good luck to John O'Donnell with his leadership campaign, his black "comrade" Diane Abbott said she'd be supporting Brown a couple of weeks ago!
Surely the feminist scum of the Labour left, the SWP, the SSP and the Socialist Party (who are they?) must now come out and admit they are rich middle class scum who like nothing better than working with MI5 and the police to attack white working class male heterosexuals.
You fucking freaks.
Mohammed
Islamophobia & SWP
04.11.2006 17:20
The SWP does stick up white working class straights, through its trades union work and its criticism of ASBOs to name but two.
hu
You're talking shite
04.11.2006 18:19
What shite, people are on ASBOs for terrorising the working class.
The SWP are a mess, fancy defending a religion, particularly one as homophobic and anti-women as Islam.
The SWP are finished.
Tin Pot
"Mohammed" Is Actually Pervy Faceparty Freak Tony White
05.11.2006 10:15
He is so discredited after the Faceparty scandal, than he deren't post under his own name, for fear of ridicule.
I wander how many people turn up to these orgies, Tony? How many BNP and BPP people?
Does Eddy Morrison turn up to do a splash or two with some watersports, or is he into scat, like Martin Reynolds?
Talking of Mr Morrison, your fellow freak somehow had enough brain cells to pen his own self-publicising Wikipedia site (for everyone to vandalise), at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Morrison
where there are links to his own sick nazi BPP propaganda. I bet you're intensely jealous...
Shame there's no internet access in Armley nick.
Orgy Buster
Get A Life, Nazi Trolls
05.11.2006 10:23
Surely they should stick to Stormfront, as they await jail?
We still don't know why Tony White was lurking around the Leeds courthouse the other day, during the Griffin trial. Maybe the BNP and the BPP still keep aromatherapeutic "candles burning" for each other, to enhance the mood of their faceparty orgies.
I wander what saucy fun and frolics Griffin, White, and Collett will get up to, banged-up in the same cell together?
TrollExposer
White Shite
05.11.2006 10:34
WhiteLies
What's a faceparty?
07.11.2006 02:25
Are the SWP run by the Man-Boy love Association?
Mohammed
Noncewatch
07.11.2006 20:59
Use your proper name, Tony White. We all know Mohammed is you, Tony White, the loser neo-nazi, who pretty soon, will be jailed for selling illegal racist materials. And you still haven't answered the question what the chuffin' hell you were doing outside Leeds Courthouse, the other day.
You mention paedophiles, Tony, but some of those cretins who organise Noncewatch, are themselves paedos.
HypocrisyBuster
Tony White
07.11.2006 21:01
Sal