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Ofcom delclares Gilligan’s Dispatches has “a case to answer”

Amin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:44:19 +0000

Presenting a fabricated claim to an elected councillor, then using his genuine alarm, to feed into the television documentary’s general narrative of a Muslim fundamentalist conspiracy in Tower Hamlets – it can’t happen in Britain, can it? Yet, this is exactly what Andrew Gilligan and the Dispatches programme did. Welcome to Britain – Islamophobia has become mainstream.

A disturbing aspect of that story was the programme producers falsely claimed that Cllr Peter Golds made the original allegation (pre-broadcast letter to IFE). Luckily we’re not, yet, in a tinpot dictatorship (read Middle East) and there are still checks on the powerful forces in society - including . . . → Read More: Ofcom delclares Gilligan’s Dispatches has “a case to answer”

Andrew Gilligan’s world starts to unravel

Amin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:33:36 +0000

How much humiliation can a man take? I ask because, after the revelation that an apparent IFE front organisation, the Centre for Muslim Affairs, was in fact the project of a Jewish charity, it appears that another IFE-linked ‘extremist’ is not an ‘Islamist’ after all – according to the Telegraph!

Here’s the text of the grovelling apology published on the Telegraph website:

“Following our article about Mr Al Abdin’s speech at an education event for young Muslims (February 28th), we now accept that Mr Al Abdin is not an Islamist and did not attack key moderate Muslims as “examples of deviation . . . → Read More: Andrew Gilligan’s world starts to unravel

Anwar al-Awlaki and the deluded

Amin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:43:16 +0000

So yet again Muslims are in the news. Two prominent stories and both connected to Anwar al-Awlaki, the ink toner bomb blot and the conviction of a Muslim student who attempted to murder Stephen Timms MP.

My problem is not that some Muslims are capable of terrorism and violence, indeed they are, but that innocent past associations are automatically suspect. In the case of Islamic Forum of Europe and the East the London Mosque (ELM), they find themselves constantly being smeared for hosting Al-Awlaki in the past. What was, and is, clear to all mainstream Muslims, is that he . . . → Read More: Anwar al-Awlaki and the deluded

Andrew Gilligan’s lie: the definitive proof

Amin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:04:06 +0000

Between the Lines Investigation Reporter: Muhammad Amin

Tonight on Between the Lines, how a paranoid narcissist used a respected television programme and mainstream newspaper to vilify a Muslim community organisation and elected mayor using twisted facts and misinformation.

Andrew Gilligan presents himself as a respectable, serious, investigative journalist who wins awards. But tonight, Between the Lines can reveal that Gilligan gave false information to a local Tory leader, which produced the negative comments used in Channel Four’s Dispatches programme, and the subsequent Telegraph articles and blogs. Not content with sexing up his case against IFE, Gillian also used a lie to connect Lutfur Ali with IFE through . . . → Read More: Andrew Gilligan’s lie: the definitive proof

A Shakespearean tragedy, the case of Anwar al-Awlaki

Amin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:11:10 +0000

The murderous act of US Army Major Nidal Hasan has put the American Muslim community in the spotlight again, for all the wrong reasons. This single insane act will have repercussions far beyond US borders, Muslims in the West will now be viewed with more suspicion and a potential fifth column.

As we saw in the aftermath of 9/11, the initial horror turns to anger and then looking for people to blame. The latest bogeyman of the West, the scholar of hate, happens to be Imam Anwar al-Awlaki. He fits the caricature perfectly, a dark-skinned, turbaned and long bearded Arab. Just . . . → Read More: A Shakespearean tragedy, the case of Anwar al-Awlaki

Superman and the Islamic Movement

Amin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:36:04 +0000

Around 10 years ago, I asked Dr Tariq Ramadan for help with an essay on Nietzsche, the German philosopher. I knew he was a lecturer in philosophy, so who better to help with one of the most difficult texts (political thought) for undergraduates?

Admired by his supporters, dismissed by his critics - I can confirm and declare that Tariq Ramadan is no Übermensch (superman).

Though undoubtedly a gifted intellectual who is fluent in many languages including Arabic, English, French and German – I have no idea whether he read Nietzsche in its original German. This isn’t yet another post on Tariq Ramadan, but bear . . . → Read More: Superman and the Islamic Movement