Stop the War's People's Assembly: Islamophobia and the war on terror

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.

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

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Drop the word 'Islamophobia' - it is racist itself. Use Anti-Islam, anti-Muslim

04.11.2006 01:15

Drop the word 'Islamophobia' - it is racist itself. Use ' Anti-Islam', 'anti-Muslim', instead.

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

Why don't the middle class millionaire whingers of the Labour Party and SWP give a shit if the white working class are targetted?

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

I too think Islamophobia is a crap word but I don't believe it is racist. After all people who take a sceptical view of the supposed merits of the European Union are frequently referred to as Europhobic but there is no explicit implication to Europeans by the use of this term. (Yes some people classed as such may indeed dislike the French or the Germans or whatever, but many Europhobics have honourable concerns about democratic sovereignty). My view is that Islamophobia is just too long a word for most people to be comfortable about using it - six syllables. I would prefer Anti Muslim because it’s shorter and can be understood by kids.

The SWP does stick up white working class straights, through its trades union work and its criticism of ASBOs to name but two.

You're talking shite

04.11.2006 18:19

Criticising ASBOs is the SWP's way of defending the white working class?

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

The racist troll who calls himself "Mohammed", is infact white supremacist and BPP member Tony White.

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

What the hell are racist trolls (and M15 friends) like Tony White and Mark Collett, doing on Indymedia, anyway?

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

Don't you work with MI5 yourself, Tony White, you grass?

WhiteLies

What's a faceparty?

07.11.2006 02:25

Why are the paedophile brothers from Forest Gate being lauded as heroes in Indymedia?

Are the SWP run by the Man-Boy love Association?

Mohammed

Noncewatch

07.11.2006 20:59

You have been busted, BPP tw*t, so quit the pretence.

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