If the papers keep giving publicity to these extremist outspoken Muslim groups like Muslims Against Crusades or MAC then they are going to keep promoting themselves at various events and parades.
Although this appears to be a splinter group of the now banned Islam4UK who have changed their name a number of times due to banning orders. Banning doesn't really work and gives the impression that their are more of these morphing groups. The Daily Mail or other Newspapers don't appear to be reporting this how these groups are linked or in many cases the same people.
I believe these stories should be reported and will be but they also receive way too much press. I do wonder if its in the Daily Mail's interest to keep this group in the news so that they can have there odd Muslims do this headline on their pages.
The Daily Mail article is linked here
I have blogged about banning beforeIs Banning Islam4UK Right?
Todays link is a related article to Our Kingdom - Ignore Islam4UK, don’t ban them
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Thursday, 17 June 2010
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Is Banning Islam4UK Right?
Michael White has done an excellent blog here on the banning of Islam4UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/jan/12/islam4uk-ban-michael-white where he hopes Alan Johnson has called this one correctly.
Michael writes
‘My own prejudice is against bans unless absolutely necessary. Society is stronger for taking on the nasties in open debate and proving the merits of mutual tolerance. That goes for the BNP and their ilk just as it does for tabloid demagogues.
Repression only feeds extremism and other unpleasant side-effects as the current woes of both Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams and the DUP’s “Swish Family Robinson” Underline.’
These paragraphs above really sum up my thoughts on this ban for me.
I find Islam4UK highly offensive and disagreeable but banning them does not sit well with me. I think these groups need to be in the public eye so we can engage with them. Simply banning groups because we don’t like them and its popular to do so, is not always the right thing too do.
It would have been awful of course if Islam4UK did protest in Wootton Bassett and could of ended in violence, however the media attention they have gained from this has already got them the voice they are always seeking.
Anjem Choudary who heads up this group and led other groups before hand before they were banned will simply think up a new name and again get press for whatever action he tries next. Banning this group will simply not work.
We should not pick and choose freedom of speech, Where does it end?
Michael writes
‘My own prejudice is against bans unless absolutely necessary. Society is stronger for taking on the nasties in open debate and proving the merits of mutual tolerance. That goes for the BNP and their ilk just as it does for tabloid demagogues.
Repression only feeds extremism and other unpleasant side-effects as the current woes of both Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams and the DUP’s “Swish Family Robinson” Underline.’
These paragraphs above really sum up my thoughts on this ban for me.
I find Islam4UK highly offensive and disagreeable but banning them does not sit well with me. I think these groups need to be in the public eye so we can engage with them. Simply banning groups because we don’t like them and its popular to do so, is not always the right thing too do.
It would have been awful of course if Islam4UK did protest in Wootton Bassett and could of ended in violence, however the media attention they have gained from this has already got them the voice they are always seeking.
Anjem Choudary who heads up this group and led other groups before hand before they were banned will simply think up a new name and again get press for whatever action he tries next. Banning this group will simply not work.
We should not pick and choose freedom of speech, Where does it end?
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