{"id":7270,"date":"2009-09-07T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T02:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7270"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T07:20:03","slug":"english-defence-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7270","title":{"rendered":"English Defence League"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do they know of England who only England know?<\/a><\/p>\n

In the English city of Birmingham over the weekend, several hundred members of the League of Gentlemen kept busy defending England from Muslim hordes (Birmingham Santiago Melbourne<\/a>, September 6, 2009). In the aftermath:<\/p>\n

“BUSINESS AS USUAL”<\/a>, The Stirrer<\/em>, September 6, 2009: More than 30 [90] arrests, countless innocent citizens terrorised, dozens of traders facing drastically reduced takings. The grim statistics of another visit to Birmingham by the English Defence League on a day the police promised would be \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d.<\/p>\n

Upcoming fixtures on the EDL calendar include a protest outside Harrow mosque on September 11<\/a>, a(nother) march in Luton on September 19, and a visit to Madchester<\/a> on October 10. Well, were to include: seig heiling in front of the Harrow mosque has been \/\\CANCELLED\/\\ according to the EDL website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.englishdefenceleague.org<\/p>\n

As for the EDL, you can Meet the English Defence League Leadership<\/a> on Richard Bartholomew’s blog; while photographer Jess Hurd documents the “true face” of the EDL here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Also!<\/p>\n

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On the other hand:<\/p>\n

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See also<\/em> : English Defence League Hooligans Unmasked<\/a>, Searchlight<\/em>, September 2009.<\/p>\n

Anti-Islamic activism in Australia has taken a more laid-back form to date, at least insofar as organised, public demonstrations are concerned (that is, leaving aside state and corporate propaganda, numerous but generally isolated incidents of abuse and harassment of presumed Muslims on the streets, and so on). In fact, one of the more comical events was the attempt by some locals in Melbourne to organise chicks in bikinis to march on a mosque in Brunswick — it was fail<\/a>, but provides an amusing contrast to imgs of pale young Englishmen in polo shirts. Otherwise, while groups like the Australian Protectionist Party have been doing their best to capitalise on anti-Islamic feeling, they have not been able to generate much steam. This is also the case with the Melbourne-based fascist groupuscule ‘Nationalist Alternative’<\/a>, which joined with Barbara Johnstone and other locals involved in the ‘Newport West Action Group’ (NWAG) to oppose the construction of a mosque in Newport.<\/p>\n

For moar news on terrorists<\/strike> Orstralian Muslims, see :<\/p>\n

Austrolabe<\/a> : a news and analysis website serving Australia\u2019s Muslim community. The site is maintained by a group of volunteer editors and authors.
\nPlanet Irf<\/a> : a ‘journalist’ with a shocking confession to make: ‘My name is Irfan Yusuf, so anything I do will, naturally, be … some kind of deception or cover. I am part of some giant conspiracy to destroy the West, one of Osama bin Ladin’ s henchmen. I am part of the Muslim Question’ (Once Were Radicals: My years as a teenage Islamo-fascist<\/a><\/em>, Allen & Unwin, 2009).
\nStarting point for a Muslim conversation<\/a>, Shakira Hussein<\/a>, The Australian<\/em>, September 1, 2007 (Review of People Like Us<\/em>, Waleed Aly, Picador, 2007):<\/p>\n

…Aly’s conclusion is titled “Seeking the human”, but the human is oddly absent from this book, which instead inhabits a world of media, survey results and texts. There is undoubtedly value in taking some of the international analysis and framing it in an Australian context. But it is important to do this in such a way as to make it sound fresh and vigorous. There is no freshness in Aly observing that the ambition of radical Islamists to “remake the human condition” is shared with “Lenin, Bakunin, Marx, Mao and Fukuyama”, not when John Gray (listed in the notes on sources but not cited in the text) has written about those who believe that they can remake the human condition: “the new world envisaged by al-Qa’ida is no different from the fantasies projected by Marx and Bakunin, by Lenin and Mao, and by the neo-liberal evangelists who so recently announced the end of history” (a reference to Fukuyama). It is depressing to read Aly talk about the parallels between the planned attack on the Greenwich observatory in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent<\/em><\/a> and al-Qa’ida’s attack on the World Trade Centre<\/a> when this, too, is a parallel that Gray has already made…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Depressing”, that is, if it weren’t absolutely fucking uniform for the (mis-)educated middle class. See also<\/em> : The State, the Spectacle and September 11<\/a>, RETORT, New Left Review<\/em> 27, May-June 2004: “The current global conjuncture as a collision between brute imperial interests and blunders in hegemonic control of the image-world. State power and spectacular warfare after September 11, in the view of the Bay Area\u2019s Situationist collective.” | All Quiet on the Eastern Front<\/a>, RETORT, New Left Review<\/em> 41, September-October 2006: “A new broadside from Retort, the oppositionist Bay Area collective, written as Western and Arab governments gave the greenlight to Israel\u2019s\u2014botched\u2014attempt to obliterate Lebanese resistance.”<\/p>\n

Bonus!<\/h2>\n

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Salam Cafe: Uncle Sam<\/a> : Uncle Sam Campaigning for the Mayor of Camden from Salam Cafe<\/a>. Salam Cafe: Uncle Sam 2<\/a> : Uncle Sam shares his thoughts on what’s happening in Camden.<\/p>\n

Added Minus!<\/h2>\n