Jews and Muslims don’t need these groups to represent their interests.

Also, is there a Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, Bhuddist CB? If not, why not? If so, why do we need them anyway?

And what about the recent Sudan episode.

I never see the MCB talk about the amount of killings Muslims have done.

Are you stupid enough not to see that?

Incidentally, you’ve been peddling, on your blog, the Conspiracy Theory that the motive for the bombing of London Transport was a bid to create an Islamist Empire in Britain. Or is that: “victim mentality that Islamists try to propagate”. Stay tuned oh ‘Progressive’ One.

In fact, if Sir Cumferance really believes my post was an anti-muslim post, then he repeats the same mistake as Siddartha – who is too stupid to realise what it actually is.

It is not anti-Muslim to puncture some of the victim mentality that Islamists try to propagate.

Or if MCB (upon reading my considerably less selective list) will decide that after all Holocaust Day–which honors Gays, Roma, and Jews who were slaughtered by the Nazi murder machine is, after all, “less offensive to Muslims” than what may come about.

You know the old saying: Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.

If I understand what Sunny’s saying, it is merely that he will not shy away from putting his views across.

I haven’t seen him expressing any anti-semitic views, however.

If you aspire to be something more than a cuss and spitting pit dont aspire to ‘cuss’ people because of their ethnic or religious backgrounds – as though there is a righteous equilibrium of ‘cussing’ to be done so it is doled out equally. That is not fearlessness and it is not progressive politics. If you do want to make the blog a vantage point to write posts about the nefarious mad dog Jews then go ahead – it is your blog and you are free to do as you please – but it would be a waste given the grand aspirations you set out for yourself – to break away from the mindless sectarianism that regulates current debate in the Asian collective and to call to account the rotten religious ‘leadership’ – this is urgent work – the MCB needs to be hauled up for its approach to the Holocaust Memorial Day – instead we get sniping at those rotten Jews.

I don’t see that happening. Here, we will cuss everyone equally, including, if necessary, Christians and Jews.

I dont know to what extent making ad hominem attacks and writing posts full of ‘the Jews, the Jews’ kind of rhetoric advances this. As a Sikh there is enough crude sectarianism in my world and I’m not sure we should ban the ugly cussedness and communalist faultlines of Hindu-Muslim-Sikh and replace them with an Asian Unity that allows for gratuitous references to the Jews and is afraid to call it as it is for fear of giving the wrong impression of what the Asian community consists of when it comes to the self appointed leadership of the various groups – for a start the Asian community consists of people from different religions and none at all and it consists of people of PROGRESSIVE thought who can put aside differences and lead an agenda with maturity instead of being reactive. We should have been all over the MCB Holocaust Memorial Day question and asking what they hell are they playing at – there are some very dark and bigoted impulses at play in the MCB and we should be attacking that relentlessly – as Siddhartha pointed out, he has never heard a Muslim ever saying “Oh, the thing that bothers me is that Holocaust Memorial Day….”

The MCB, like other organisations, has become arrogant and blind to the efficacy and import of what it is doing. I am working on an article on the Sikh Federation. I hope someone can write up the RSS wallah’s who are extending their tentacles. It is time to attack – and do it with dignity and not become a sniping blog like ten thousand other ones out there – click around and see the complexes and prejudices of people unleashed.

To be honest it all leaves a very nasty taste in my mouth.

Is Sir Cumfrence for real? Because if he is, that’s pretty terrifying……..

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126491574434&p=1111893688901

Is this a storm in a pickle jar?

http://adloyada.typepad.com/adloyada/2005/09/pickled_politic.html

Judge for yourselves, folks, whether I’ve taken a fair view or not…..

The fact is that things need to be said about the rise of communalist ‘leaders’ – they need to be brought to task and we should focus on them and provide a genuine platform for progressive secular Asian views …..

Sure Jay, but I think it’s important we also deal with how the Asian community is perceived by others. For example, others may see Asians purely as religious nutters who cannot have a rational debate about religion , or re-inforce stereotypes we want to break out from, or even just perpetuate lies. That also needs to be tackled.

It’s a tightrope – the point to remember here is that the views expressed by one person may not reflect the views of everyone on this blog, as progressive Asians too have different views on issues sometimes