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October 30, 2010
Kufr Studies
Kudos to the Pink Paper for publicizing the new Quilliam Foundation briefing paper "Radicalisation on British University Campuses: A case study". As I publish this, they are the only news service to do so (with a grateful hat tip to Gates of Vienna).
Consider the demographics of university undergraduate cohorts in ten years time and ask yourself what it will cost you to speak out then if you are too timid to do so now.
The sleeper must awake.
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Responding to the Quilliam report, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, of the LGBT rights group OutRage!, said: "This report is a wake-up call to complacent university authorities and student unions. They too often look the other way while Islamists foment hatred and intolerance among the student population.
"The vast majority of Muslim students do not share an extremist mindset. They risk ostracism and denunciation by fundamentalists.
Ostracism and denunciation is the very least of it (ostracism and denunciation is what their professors will do to them). Critics of the Muslim Brotherhood or its Deobandi equivalents place themselves in mortal danger; perhaps especially moderate Muslim critics who have learned they will receive no support from a Quisling media and no protection from an emasculated police service. On the contrary, they are just as likely to have radicalized "community outreach" officers turn up at their doorstep. Founded by former members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Quilliam knows whereof it speaks. Sadly, latter day progressives rarely have moral or intellectual integrity - let alone the spine - to do likewise.
A comment at the Pink Paper suggests this sort of harrassment of gay men and (South) Asian women has been going on in Britain for at least twenty years. I second the observation from Canada. It was twenty five years ago now I had two women friends - both neopagans identifiable as such by their jewelry - who were harrassed and threatened for being witches on an elevator at the University of Ottawa. It was the first time I heard the term "Wahhabi".
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 30, 2010 08:28 AM
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