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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)
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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."
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)
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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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