i mean forget the anti Muslim stuff, ignore that all together, the rest of it is sh1t too.

The Sun sales drop below 3 million

Maybe people are sick of piss-poor journalism

The way story could easily unfold in people’s mind is that he is actively targetting muslims as a part of a pro-Israeli media campaign.

The British public are far more astute than the media credits them with.

WTF? Are they heckers like. But maintain whatever fantasies you like to keep you warm at night.

I see. I think the “sarcastic” tags would have been a good idea, particularly given your subsequent indication that antisemitic attacks on Jews outside of Israel motivated by what’s happening there are suddenly no longer in keeping with your “editorial direction”.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/islam-gaza

PS: Isn’t SE a bit of a twat, or am I reading that wrong too?

[Spell checking agent provocateur takes you to a very different sort of web site, whew!]

Tell that to US customs and immigration officials. I haven’t travelled to the USA since 2001 because as a godless muslim, I don’t particularly fancy being stopped, singled out, taken into a smelly little interview room to be probed about my religious tolerance by some sweaty schmuck who thinks the world is 4000 years old, believes dinosaurs and evolution to be man-made lies, wants gays to burn in hell simply because *I* have a muslim name.

See, I was going to put <sarcastic> tags around that</sarcastic>, but thought it would be too geeky.

My whole point behind writing that was to take the piss out of people, especially on Harry’s Place, who post a few anti-semitic comments, and then ask for Muslims to condemn them.

Would you mind explaining to me how, after months of campaigning against the notion that ethnic communities in this country should be held collectively responsible for things that aren’t actually under their control, you’ve suddenly come to the conclusion that the Jewish community is under an obligation to condemn an article that didn’t appear in a Jewish paper and wasn’t written by a Jewish person?

I don’t remember you ever calling on “The Muslim Community” to condemn anything done in their name, ever, and you were right not to, as I always said.

I appreciate that you’ve worked yourself into a state of near-hysteria over the last few days, but it would be nice if you could keep in mind the difference between the State of Israel and the British Jewish community.

Marvin – pistols at dawn sir! Get it out.

Really? Did you read any of the articles linked to through this very post, all of which emphasise the increase in anti-Semitic attacks over the past couple of months?

A great deal has been made of anti-Jewish sentiment in the newspapers named and the problem that I and others wish to highlight is just how unrelated these issues are.

The ‘Abuislam’ case reveals the underhanded (and quite possibly illegal) work of a freelance journalist looking to whip up some religious hatred where there is none; Abuislam/Richard Tims tried to create a story out of presumed Islamic fundamentalism, quite regardless of what is taking place in Gaza, and was looking to encourage the contributers to the Ummah forum into saying something inflammatory, which they didn’t.

The recent surge in anti-Semitic attacks which you describe is real and worrying, but unconnected to the users of Ummah, who are peaceful and responsible Muslims. Painting such people with the same brush as the minority of Muslims who believe it is justified to commit terrorist acts against Isreal is as useful as calling all British people genocidal maniacs because of the crusades.

Thanks for the links. There will be a piece up in about forty minutes on it.

Back to the original article, doesn’t look like they’ve investigated their ‘facts’ very well. But no change there really.. Both sides of the fence majorly guilty of this. They just want to prove the size of their perspicacity