Ministers 'are Islamophobic'

The Sunday Times ^ | October 15, 2006 | Abul Taher

[MadIvan]

MUSLIM leaders have accused ministers of “stigmatising an entire community” and launching a “relentless barrage” against Islamic Britons.

Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), has written to Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, accusing her of pandering to an “Islamophobic” agenda.

The letter follows Kelly’s announcement last week that the government was cutting funding and official ties with the MCB, which until now has been the main body representing British Muslims. One senior Muslim source said: “The government is pandering to a far-right neocon agenda which is promoting Islamophobia.”

The MCB says in the letter: “In recent months there has been a drip-feed of ministerial statements stigmatising an entire community. We have seen ministers’ tours and even legislation being proposed on the premise that ‘mosques are a problem’.”

The council is understood to be particularly concerned by comments by Jack Straw, the Commons leader, about Muslim women wearing full veils.

They are also concerned by the level of stop-and-search by police of Muslim suspects.

According to a poll by Yougov, Straw’s popularity has jumped 15 percentage points since he made his comments.

[weldAllday]

Indeed ! I am also "bomb O phobic". I do not wish for my grand children to have to worry about getting cut-up, blown-up, or any other type of conversion to iSLAM that the muzzies promote.
Go Straw, almost wish i could vote for him.
Any muzzies that are offened should take a long hard look at thier religion of pieces. They have no one to blame except for themselves.

[Sloth]

LOL, somebody out of frame on the right side of the fourth picture got confused and is saluting with his 'sanitation' hand.

[Froufrou]

Well, there you go. The poor widdle Muzzies got their knickers in a twist to match their headtowels. When will they get the equal opportunity beheading credit they so richly deserve?!

[Dark Skies]

According to a poll by Yougov, Straw’s popularity has jumped 15 percentage points since he made his comments.

I'll bet that is a random national poll and not a poll in Straw's contituency of Blackburn.

[wodinoneeye]

Me thinks they dost protest too much!!

[Ukiapah Heep]

Sounds like Kelly's actually pro-British. That drip-feed is a little thing known as the truth.

[William Terrell]

Islamophobia makes as little sense as rattlesnakeophobia.

[Prime Choice]

MUSLIM leaders have accused ministers of “stigmatising an entire community” and launching a “relentless barrage” against Islamic Britons.

Looks like we've heard from the London branch of CAIR. Now ask me if I give a s*** what they think. G'head.

Now then...someone please advise those Muslim leaders that rational fear (like a fear of Muslims doing something violent...which they've been doing with increasing frequency) is not a "phobia." Like...duh?

[Prime Choice]

Sure does look like Nazi stuff to me . . just add some goose stepping and there you've got it.

It's Nazi stuff, alright. Complete with their sacking of Paris last year.

[XR7]

Islamic Britons.

Now there is an oxymoron.

[Earthdweller]

"Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), has written to Ruth Kelly, the communities secretary, accusing her of pandering to an “Islamophobic” agenda."

Surely Bari is not expressing himself negatively because of the deep recesses of his "Christianophobia" or "Secularophobia" or "Jewophobia"./s

This is purely Islamofascism trying to call the kettle black.

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for posting this, and pray continue with your jollity! It is shared by many.

[ViLaLuz]

Ministers are Islamophobic, but imams are Christophobic, Buddhiphobic, Judeophobic, anything-not-islamicphobic.

[cookcounty]

I can assure you, they are definitely "behead-o-phobic.

[cookcounty]

" imams are Christophobic, Buddhiphobic, Judeophobic, anything-not-islamicphobic.

But not beheadophobic

[darkangel82]

One senior Muslim source said: “The government is pandering to a far-right neocon agenda which is promoting Islamophobia.”

The Muslims sure have the Democrats' talking points down pat.

[Levante]

I say a nuke for everyone of the bastards in those pictures, PC be damned.

[Lurker]

We have seen ministers’ tours and even legislation being proposed on the premise that ‘mosques are a problem’.”

Strictly speaking it's not the mosques that are the problem. It's the people in them which are the problem.

L

[GSlob]

The ministers are [at least to an extent] sane, and [hopefully] their sanity grows. Thus it is a cause not for a "concern" but for jubilation and rejoicing. Could somebody with a better voice than me please start ululating and giving candy?

[the invisib1e hand]

well, either this particular tack is going to find fertile soil in the land of PC or it is going to be so over top as to sink the whole friggin PC ship.

I bet on the latter. Pardon the mixed metaphors.