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Legitimizing the Groups that Hate You

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Legitimizing the Groups that Hate You
Is the Anne Frank Trust too Trusting?

by Samuel Westrop  •  May 18, 2015 at 5:00 am
  • In 2014, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain published a report on the iERA. The report concluded that the iERA should be classified as a "hate group."
  • Unfortunately, providing extremists with a platform only serves to legitimize "anti-racism" and interfaith initiatives that openly promote illiberal and anti-democratic agendas.
  • If anti-racism activists and representatives of the Anne Frank Trust choose to attend the iERA's event and share a platform with Abdurraheem Green, they will simply be handing a powerful cover of undeserved legitimacy to one of Britain's most intolerant groups.
Salafist preacher Abdurraheem Green, one of Britain's most notorious anti-Semitic extremists. (Image source: BBC video screenshot)
On May 21, a representative of a prominent British Jewish charity, the Anne Frank Trust, will share a platform with one of Britain's most notorious anti-Semitic extremists: the Salafist preacher, Abdurraheem Green.
The event, organized by the Islamic Diversity Centre, is named "Against Racism Against Hatred: Tackling Anti-Semitism & Islamophobia."
The speaker, Abdurraheem Green, has spoken of a "Yehudi [Jewish] ... stench" and urged Muslims to "push them [Jews] to the side." In addition, he encourages men to hit their wives to "bring them to goodness," and has called for the killing of homosexuals and adulterers.
In addition to Green, Councillor Alyas Karmani will also be speaking at the event. A former member of George Galloway's Respect Party, Karmani has claimed that the "ideology" of "the Yahood [Jews] and the Nasara [Christians]" has "no issue killing women and children."

Why Is Britain Missing in Action?

by Peter Martino  •  May 18, 2015 at 4:00 am
  • "Britain has taken leave from the world stage in an extraordinary and depressing way. It's marginalized itself in Europe, and it's absented itself from most of the great issues on the world stage." — Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies, Oxford University.
  • Ten years ago, Britain was still playing a major role in Iraq and Afghanistan, but today, Britain has ceased to be a global leader. It seems even to have lost its ambition to be one.
  • Britain has a long international tradition. Breaking with this tradition would be an irreparable loss.
Who is missing from this picture?
On February 6, 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, as part of efforts to reach a peace agreement for the conflict in Ukraine. Britain did not participate. (Image source: The Kremlin)
David Cameron's Conservative Party unexpectedly won the British elections. This was largely a consequence of the British electoral system: Cameron's main rival on the right, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), gained merely one seat, despite getting almost 13% of the votes. Almost 4 million British voted for Nigel Farage's UKIP and its anti-EU and anti-immigration platform. What Cameron lost to UKIP on the right, however, he picked up on the center-left from the Liberal Democrats, who were the biggest losers of the elections.
Cameron also benefited from the satisfaction of the electorate with Britain's economic performance. Compared to other European nations, the British economy is booming. Last year, the United Kingdom became the world's fifth largest economy, overtaking France; this year, it is on its way to overtaking Germany's.

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