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The Guardian falls to blogs
The American Thinker ^ | 7 28 05 | Ed Lasky

Posted on 07/28/2005 7:32:54 AM PDT by george76

Score one for the good guys of the blogosphere! The Guardian, the once-prestigious left wing U.K. newspaper, has been forced to fire an intern, Dilpazier Aslam, who was a member of an extremist Islamist political party and who had not declared this when he wrote a comment after the 7/7 attacks.

This is the first time a British "journalist" has been forced to step down after being criticized by bloggers.

The group in question, Hizb ut- Tahrir, promotes racism, anti-Semitism, calls suicide bombers "martyrs" and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people. The intern wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian after 7/7 which scolded the English for being surprised about the 7/7 attacks. He wrote that the English people bore responsibility of its own for the attacks.

He wrote that his generation of Muslims would not be afraid to "rock the boat" to protest against what they perceive to be injustice. He attached the word "sassy" to them!

Guardian employees apparently just can't help themselves. Some of them support Aslam. In a bitter report on the newspaper's media pages, a staffer lays the blame for Aslam's removal on "right wing" American bloggers but others in Europe point out that reputable British bloggers (and people) also criticized the Guardian for continuing to employ this man after his links to radical Islam were publicized.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 77; 77attacks; bloggers; britishterrorism; islamofascism; islamofascist; july7; londonbombings; mediabias; pajamapeoplerule; propaganda; radicalislam; uk; waronerror; waronterror; waronterrorism; wot; zogbyism
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1 posted on 07/28/2005 7:32:54 AM PDT by george76
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Let me see if I have this straight. American bloggers are responsible for the firing of a reporter in a foreign country...is that it?


2 posted on 07/28/2005 7:36:44 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: george76; =Intervention=; adam_az; an amused spectator; bert; BlessedBeGod; BlessedByLiberty; ...
A plethora of

these days.

3 posted on 07/28/2005 7:37:44 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

And don't it feel goooooood


4 posted on 07/28/2005 7:40:01 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown
Let me see if I have this straight. American bloggers are responsible for the firing of a reporter in a foreign country...is that it?

Don't you know that Americans are to blame for everything in the world?

5 posted on 07/28/2005 7:40:26 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: george76

The pajamahadeen" The pajama brigade? What was the term again?


6 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:15 AM PDT by Montfort (Many liberals hate Bush more than they love life.)
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To: george76
Guardian employees apparently just can't help themselves. Some of them support Aslam.

A lot more probably agree with much of his sentiments. They just don't screw up and reveal them.

7 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:16 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: george76

This is a good start... Now if they can get rid of the ones who supported him...


8 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:33 AM PDT by tje
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To: george76
He wrote that his generation of Muslims would not be afraid to "rock the boat" to protest against what they perceive to be injustice

One wonders why his generation won't use all that terrorist talent to knock out the unjust governments in the middle-east.

9 posted on 07/28/2005 7:41:51 AM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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10 posted on 07/28/2005 7:43:30 AM PDT by Sax
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

Rove engineered this, I can just feel it!


11 posted on 07/28/2005 7:43:42 AM PDT by TennCon
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If it requires an outing to remove a snake in the grass like Dilpazier Aslam, then the Guardian will forever be branded as a newspaper that cannot be trusted.
12 posted on 07/28/2005 7:47:01 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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He wrote that his generation of Muslims would not be afraid to "rock the boat" to protest against what they perceive to be injustice. He attached the word "sassy" to them!

...

Perhaps they should get sassy about injustices in their own back yard -- like those acted upon their women. A culture that treats their women like dogs and sees their children as detonators will implode when libs stop empowering them.


13 posted on 07/28/2005 7:47:24 AM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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"This is the first time a British "journalist" has been forced to step down after being criticized by bloggers."

Oh? What about the Guardian editor who was dropped after running the hoaxed images of British "soldiers" urinating on "Iraqi prisoners"?

14 posted on 07/28/2005 7:48:16 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

Americans are to be blamed for everything....after all I'm sure somehow it really is Bush's fault.


15 posted on 07/28/2005 7:49:05 AM PDT by teacherwoes (If you can read this...thank a caring teacher)
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To: weegee

Can you come up with a reference? If truly the Guardian and not a tabloid, this would be useful to drive the ASLAM story.


16 posted on 07/28/2005 7:52:56 AM PDT by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: martin_fierro

The good news continues.

Now, those who hired and used the vitrol of this Jihadist POS need to feel the cold hard reality of playing games with innocent lives to be PC.


17 posted on 07/28/2005 7:56:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The civilized world must win WW IV/the Final Crusade and destroy Jihadism!)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

The sad part is, they are so jealous of us, they'll believe anything negative...no matter it defies logic. I guess they lost their ability to reason a few years back. The poor darlings.


18 posted on 07/28/2005 7:58:10 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: bjc
Sorry, I got it confused with the Daily Mirror:

Editor sacked over 'hoax' photos (BBC News World Edition ^ | 05/14/04 | BBC News)

19 posted on 07/28/2005 8:02:53 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

All your problems are belong to U.S.


20 posted on 07/28/2005 8:16:10 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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