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ENGAGE Exclusive! Social Affairs Unit Removes Douglas Murray’s Feb 2006 Anti-Muslim Rant From Website

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Monday, 03 November 2008 10:31

 Douglas Murray is the Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion – an outfit funded by the right-wing think-tank, Civitas. The CfSC website explains its purpose as being to ‘help bring Britain's ethnic and religious communities closer together while strengthening British traditions of openness, tolerance and democracy.’  If only that were true!
As has been pointed out elsewhere, Douglas Murray  – the author of a recent book called Neoconservatism: Why We Need it – never misses an opportunity to stir up anti-Muslim prejudice whenever he is interviewed on TV and radio, or in his writings. A shockingly notorious speech he delivered in Feb 2006 entitled ‘What Are We To Do With Islam?’, while working for the equally right-wing Social Affairs Unit has been heavily criticised for its Nazi-like overtones and its shameless intolerance towards Muslims.

But what’s this? After several writers recently drew attention to the Feb 2006 speech, it seems that all links to it have now been removed from the website of his previous employers at the Social Affairs Unit. No doubt it was also of huge embarrassment to Murray’s new employers at Civitas, who bankroll the Centre for Social Cohesion, as it revealed that the man they have tasked with bringing ‘religious communities closer together’ is actually a foaming-at-the-mouth anti-Muslim bigot.

Fortunately, we at ENGAGE – with the help of a wonderful utility called the Way Back Machine – have managed to retrieve Douglas Murray’s speech. It can be read in full here.  And below are some extracts:

"Why is it that time and again the liberal West is crumpling before the violence, intimidation and thuggery of Islam?"

"I promised to propose some of the solutions to this problem ... All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop."
 
"Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition."
 
“And of course it should go without saying that Muslims in Europe who for any reason take part in, plot, assist or condone violence against the west (not just the country they happen to have found sanctuary in, but any country in the west or western troops) must be forcibly deported back to their place of origin...Where a person was born in the west, they should be deported to the country of origin of their parent or grandparent.”
 
"Abroad we must continue our work at taking the war to the terrorists. We are winning that war, and we should extend that war."

If you believe that the above statements by Douglas Murray are somewhat inconsistent with the stated goals of the Centre for Social Cohesion, which are to “help bring Britain's ethnic and religious communities closer together while strengthening British traditions of openness, tolerance and democracy” – then drop Civitas – who fund the CfSC - a note at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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Ozlem Akyol   |2008-11-03 11:01:36
Civitas is also the outfit that Anthony Browne, Boris Johnson's Director of Policy, hails from. His 'The Retreat of Reason' was no less bigoted in its claims that political correctness has stifled free and frank debate in Britain. If by free and frank they mean the right to malign Muslims more openly without being accused of bigotry, why go to the lengths of removing Murray's speech from the SAU website? Could it be that they fear being recognised for the xenophobes they truly are?
mr m ikram  - ENGAGE Exclusive! Social Affairs Unit Removes Douglas Murray’s Feb 2006 Anti-Muslim Rant From Website     |2008-11-03 22:43:54
Assalamu Alaikum
respect to engage and its team to helping in eradicating the noxious , unbritish , intolerance which is in many places dormant but rampant in much of the establishment and in british society.
ummzee   |2008-11-08 10:10:12
salaams, this bigot also referred to Islam as a 'oppotunisitic infection' ao i gues that makes Muslims the infectec the dieseased! see http://bradfordmuslim.blogspot.com/2008/07/douglas-murray-on-opportunism.html
Andy   |2010-08-25 11:59:57
Fear not. It's not just Muslims that Mr Murray has in his sights. I recommend to you his rant on radio 4 against Scots. This may be heard on the Newsnet Scotland site. Link below.
http://newsnetscotland.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=509:outraged-by-a-factor-of-four&catid=4:speakers&Itemid=3
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