Yes and the poetry/twitter what ever it was also was an indirect divergence to Israel/Palestine. You don’t get many Muslims killing Jews here do you now. So again you let that pass as acceptable and criticised the reply.

It is a bit like your editorial colleague Sid who is able to label people Islamist when they disagree with him which is a smear and no one says a word to him.

Play the comment not the person!

That’s not poetry, that’s twitter. And it was bloody funny.

“Imrhan now hates dougie”
“dougies posse is 1″
“imrhan is now confident”
“Kulvinder thinks the heat is off”

and so on and so on.

Here’s a poem:

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so on ad infinitum

Well with respect the comments he made at 14 were derailing, insulting and it was allowed through without question

‘The specific irritation was derailing onto Israel/Palestine.’

‘a constant issue that when Muslims are insultued and people go off theme it is ignored and if we reply we are rebuked which is doubly unfair’.

Welcome to ‘progressive’ blogging. LoL

We already have two individuals who have declared themselves apostates from Islam. One wonders if ANY of the Muslims writing articles on this forum, which predominantly discusses Muslim and Islamic and Asian cultural issues, actually consider themselves Muslims in the first place and in any way respect their culture. Surely at least SOME of the articles about Islam or Asian culture ought to be written by people who are practicing Muslims (not necessarily political ideologues who can only talk about ‘Khilafa’) and proud of their culture?

The problem with blogs like PP is that they are peopled by many individuals who can only see people in their own ethnic and religious minority communities in the UK as the benighted ‘other’ and as the ‘problem’. In it’s own way a form of orientalism.

The discussion of topics like religion-inspired terrorism, integration of minorities, forced marriage and inter-racial relationships as it happens on PP actually UNDERMINES efforts to solve these problems because individuals take a maximalist approach from the liberal/permissive spectrum of opinion and are no different to Islamist and rightwing forums which take a maximalist approach from their end.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an article talking about the positive aspects of Muslims in the UK eg. the huge charity infastructure or the strength of family ties in the South Asian communities. Yet such positives do exist.

ps. Imran, if anybody wrote a counter to the anti-Muslim poem at 14 including Judaism it would inevitably involve references to the Holocaust industry and a dozen PP’ers would jump in, fangs bared. Therein lies the double standards you have rightly identified.

The question of radicalisation applies to all faiths – thus in reply I asked him to make a poem on his own faiths terrorism and gave him some examples to help get him going it wasn’t about derailing it was to make him think about the issues with his own religion which too often go ignored and without much comment or criticism from student bodies here.

““abdul is now a fan of omar bakri”
“yusuf joined the group ‘kill the jews’”
“anjem’s posse rolls 10 deep”
“anwar changed his relationship status to ‘it’s complicated since i met that guy with the hook’”

which doesn’t have much to do with the original topic that Muslim students are not extremists. Yusuf joined to kill the Jews is part of the original thread is it, but comments such as these pass without public rebuke.

Enforce the rules for all and not lopsidedly please. Feel free to delete my comment but why not delete 14 at the time?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043612.html

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043612.html

These people are armed by the state you hold so dear and allowed to roam. These people are not fighting for their freedom and are protected by the state.

So will you be commenting on these events and call them what they are or is that left to a few courageous publications in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043413.html

It is amazing what people will support if you allow a bit of voting.

No doubt the Chief Rabbi will stay silent on this, the BoD will not say a word and Memri – well what can one say.

Memri is more concerned at highlighting an Egyptian Clerics call for Obama to become Muslim than highlighting this terrorism. Many on Israel’s Capital Hill listen to Memri but will good old George or Gordon say anything about this?

Where are the petitions and protests calling for an end to this terrorism? Or will these people be given more money from US taxpayers to continue this whilst the Jewish Community sits idle and mute to its own growing terror problem?

Lets call it what it is and it has been hidden for too long. Lets hear what Israel’s Staunch Defender The Chief Rabbi has to say about these going on? Ah the silence.

So lets see your poem on the so called “Settlers” and what they are being taught? Lets see fairness in action. Over to you………

b’shalom

bananabrain

Mind you i don’t think al Queda have….., or a facebook group or anything.

That would actually be quite funny.

“Ahmed wrote something on Nasir’s wall !”
“Hanif gave Mobeen a virtual hug !”
“Anjem is ranting about all the dirty kaffirs on Pickled Politics !”
“Amir is REALLY knackered after his AK-47 practice and is currently having a snooze !”

And so on and so forth.

Glad I’ve got that out of the way.

sample of only 26 students – can’t extrapolate from that. just call it in-depth qualitative ethnographic research and be done with it.