Posted Dr. Sahib Bleher
It seems David Cameron's Neocon
minders have asked him to safeguard
his career prospects by weighing into
the popular politician polemics
against Muslims, talking of the threat
of Shariah law and the oppression of
Muslim women. In a speech at a church
in Birmingham he went as far as
suggesting that Muslims groups were
mirror images of the BNP, people who
divided society into us and them,
which by the way was exactly what
Cameron was doing. And whilst he was
trying to say that when faced with
Muslim extremism one shouldn't blame
the whole of the Muslim community, he
was actually just adding his voice to
the long list of politicians - David
Blunkett, John Reid, Jack Straw, Ruth
Kelly - focusing on Muslims as the
alleged source of all problems of our
society. And like those on the
government benches before him, he
never once mentioned British foreign
policy as a contributing factor in
alienating young British Muslims.
One sometimes wonders whether these
career politicians actually read the
speeches handed to them by their
script writers or consider the impact
of their words before they are in the
public arena. Whilst talking about
bringing down barriers, Cameron is
putting them up and is making dialogue
more difficult. And he certainly is
stopping British Muslims from
considering the Conservative Party as
a viable alternative to the
Muslim-bashing Labour government. It
is almost as if both parties want to
create self-fulfilling prophecies by
pushing Muslims into the non-British
corner from which there is no retreat.
More interesting than Cameron's
uninspiring speech is the way the
media manipulated it further. The Tory
Telegraph carried the story and
included the replies by two Muslim
organisations: The Muslim Council of
Britain and the Islamic Human Rights
Commission. Local BBC radio talk shows
- two of which interviewed me on the
topic - then characterised those two
organisations as being the kind of
undemocratic extremist groups whom
Cameron was warning against. The two
organisations have little in common,
the former being a previously
government-sponsored pretentious
umbrella body of Muslim organisations,
the latter a pressure group
successfully highlighting human rights
abuses against Muslims, including in
Muslim countries. What they have in
common is their refusal to take part
in the Holocaust Remembrance
Celebrations which Ruth Kelly lately
wanted to make the litmus test of
Muslim loyalty. Their valid argument
for refusal is that since those
celebrations do not recognise the
genocide against the Palestinian
people they elevate the suffering of
some people over others and are
therefore perpetuating rather than
solving a problem.
As the voice of moderate Islam the
Telegraph quotes the
Conservative-sponsored new kid on the
block, the Sufi Muslims Council, their
new chosen self-styled representative
of the "silent majority of
Muslims", just as the Muslim
Council of Britain once was the voice
of Islam favoured by the Labour party
(the all seem to have an infatuation
with Councils). Just to show that
party divisions in the UK are fake,
when this latest Necon creation from
Washington was launched in the House
of Commons in the UK, Ruth Kelly
attended, and Jack Straw is also a
fan.
What is transpiring is that British
politics is not made in Britain. The
British people do not have a say in
what the major political parties stand
for. Whitehall politics is decided by
those parties' financial backers. The
crisis of democracy goes deeper than
just the cash for honours scandal. The
two major parties and their
spokespeople are indebted to Jewish
financiers with Zionist leanings. When
Cameron is joning the anti-Muslim
ranting club, he is paid to do so by
Lord Steinberg, the gambling magnate
who is betting on the Conservatives as
the potential winners in the next
election, and the media mogul Michael
Green, whilst Lord Levy (also known as
Lord Cashpoint) and Mr Cohen continue
to back the Labour horse. Everywhere
else but in Britain it's called
corruption, but never mind, keep
blaming the Muslims.
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