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Alibhai-Brown scaremongers for the Daily Mail once again

Friday, 06 August 2010 12:25

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes about the 'Talibanisation of British childhood by hardline parents' in the Daily Mail.

Relying solely on anecdotal evidence, Alibhai-Brown writes:

'Teachers, community, youth and social workers have told me many stories of the suppression of simple childhood pleasures in the name of Islam.'

These childhood pleasures, says Alibhai-Brown, include drawing, reading, socialising, singing and participating in drama classes. She adds:

'Some Muslim children have been kept away from school visits to temples, churches and art galleries.

'Teddy bears and pets are also branded un-Islamic.'

In all these areas, Alibhai-Brown relates a story to add weight to her argument that vulnerable children and young people are being subjected to punishing treatment that deprives them of enjoying life and actively participating in British society.

She writes:

'Make no mistake, Taliban devotees are in our schools, playgrounds, homes, mosques, political parties, public service, private firms and universities.

'And if we are to have any hope of combating them, we need to stop this attitude of appeasement and understand why so many Muslims are attracted to the most punishing forms of belief, suppressing women and children.'

And continues:

'Invaluable educational activities and ordinary pleasures are considered haram - sinful - by fathers and husbands.

'Vulnerable as they are, children and young people cannot be expected to resist the rules and new order to protect their futures.

'If this was happening in any other nation, we would be condemning it loudly.

'Yet here, curtailed and deficient education endured by many Muslim children is seen as a religious entitlement, which, if opposed, apparently confirms Islamophobia.

'Tolerant Muslims who fear and loathe the propagators of Bin Laden's Islam can see where this will lead.'

Tellingly, the Daily Star today picked up on Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's piece and published it today in their paper too.

The Daily Star used an image of a child wearing an 'I love Al-Qaida' hat with the caption 'ABOVE: Young Muslims are increasingly taught to be hardliners, rather than moderate in their faith.' The same image was used by UK newspapers when it emerged that terrorism officers were monitoring nurseries and children as young as four years old in their counter-terrorism efforts. By associating that image with a story on parents excluding their children from music lessons and such, the implication is that such behaviour breeds terrorism and recruits for al-Qaeda and the Taliban - a preposterous and absurd inference that equates conservative social attitudes with 'Bin Laden's Islam'.

The irony of course is that Alibhai-Brown, a columnist for the Independent, a liberal paper, is now writing regular features for the Daily Mail, a right-wing paper notorious for stirring up prejudice towards minorities, especially Muslims. These features are then seconded and endorsed by the Daily Star.

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Mohammad

|2010-08-08 10:15:40

Just Brown- by name! Not by nature!
Just a token "brown" figure!

junaid

|2010-08-09 21:14:45

How is it allowed that this woman can write such things freely in a national newspaper and get away with it?!

Inciting religious hatred is equally as bad as inciting racial hatred in my opinion , if not worse... as mentioned, she is regularly writing these articles now and stirring up racial and religous tensions between people---how is this allowed!!!!
these papers are owned by people with a clear hidden agenda to desensitise the non muslim population from the hatred of muslims inorder to create internal conflict...they may plan, but Allah is the best Planner..soon it will all backfire on them...because as we all know there is a fine line between love / hate!!!

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