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The new McCarthyism

Friday, 30 October 2009 13:03

Liz Fekete, Executive Director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and author of ‘A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe’, delivered the eighth Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture on 'Who's terrorising who? The media and the war on terror', describing the 'new McCarthyism’ against Muslims sweeping across Europe:

‘Could it be that we, too, are living in a world that is being shaped by a new form of McCarthyism? Only today the "Islam scare" is replacing the "red scare"? Could it be that whereas once Communists were treated as a dangerous "fifth column" subject to "foreign allegiance", such fears are now being transferred onto those European citizens and residents who happen to be Muslim? Could it be that just as the media in the US carried out its own "hunt for subversives", the media in Europe are contributing to the "Islam scare"? And that some journalists are becoming embedded within intelligence services, in ways that reflect the way journalists have become embedded in the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan? Could it be that frameworks of much of media discussion are contributing to the rise of far-Right parties like the British National Party?'.

Read her lecture here.

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Jackaranda Rainbow - Field Marshal

|2009-10-31 08:27:13

Well, I am frightened. Everybody has lied. Some people think the MCB is actually a Muslim terror 5th column, others that flogging people for drinking beer is not extremist. If the Telegraph/Express etc offer free speech to people like you, who are moderates and reformists, have you writen to them denouncing extremism, made yourself known to them, before you accuse them of ignoring moderate organisations?

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