The Spectator
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Mehdi Hasan: a beacon for Islam
The idiotic Mehdi Hasan has just written a lengthy piece in The Guardian demanding that all Londoners vote for Ken Livingstone in the forthcoming mayoral election. After dismissing Livingstone’s tax avoidaLikence in a few words (yeah, he probably shudda paid more tax), Hasan posits that people have to vote for Ken because if they’re not doing so they’re effectively voting for Boris. He dredges up once more Boris’s remarks about African ‘picaninnies’ with ‘water-melon smiles’, as if this contravention was in some way enough, by itself, to stop anyone voting for the current mayor.
Well, yet again, for the record, let me be absolutely clear about what Boris meant when he made those references: he was being rather bitterly ironic. His comments were directed to two UN workers as he was being driven around Africa witnessing their supposed good works, and the chillingly orchestrated support they were being given at every village. It was a clever, and funny comment, on what he later described as the UN’s ‘neo-colonialism’. It was a sharp comment, in other words, from the left. How do I know this? Because I was sitting with him, in the UN van, when he said it. As is so often the case, a liberal thug has twisted and distorted the very meaning of what Johnson had to say.
But then, reading what Hasan has had to say in the past, you can perhaps understand his contempt for the rest of us kufr scum:
‘The kaffar, the disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to the teachings of Islam, the rational message of the Quran; they are described in the Quran as, quote, “a people of no intelligence”, Allah describes them as; not of no morality, not as people of no belief —people of “no intelligence” — because they’re incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off those blind prejudices, to shake off those easy assumptions about this world, about the existence of God. In this respect, the Quran describes the atheists as “cattle”, as cattle of those who grow the crops and do not stop and wonder about this world.’
Thanks for that, Mehdi. Ties in nicely with Ken’s wish to make London a beacon for Islam, doesn’t it? Maybe Mehdi himself could be that very beacon.
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Mehdi Hasan has berated those on the Left whose support for Ken Livingstone has been absent.
Is he serious?
Does Mehdi Hasan really expect anybody respectable to back this man?
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This was the second occasion in recent times that Mehdi Hasan has made me choke on my morning coffee. The first occasion was several months ago when good old Mehdi decided to lend his support to the Iranian nuclear programme.
But this week the former offensive Imam, managed to take time out from his busy schedule of propagandizing that non-Muslims are animals, to instead berate his fellow left-wing opinion formers in The Guardian for their omission of support for Ken Livingstone in the upcoming London Mayoral election. Not only did I choke on my coffee this time, but I was already reaching for some Beta-Blockers before I’d finished the first sentence.
Amongst his usual mediocrity, Mehdi took aim at The Guardian’s, Jonathan Freedland, attacking his personal difficulty in voting for a man because of Livingstone’s ‘alleged comments about Jewish voters’.
Whilst Mehdi brushed over the issue here with the use of the word ‘alleged’, it is however, worth briefly reminding ourselves of Red Ken’s relationship with ‘The Jews’.
In a recent letter from several eminent Jewish Labour supporters to Ed Miliband they wrote the following after a meeting with Livingstone:
‘At various points in the discussion Ken used the words Zionist, Jewish and Israeli, interchangeably, as if they meant the same, and did so in a pejorative manner (…) When discussing Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi's extreme views on homosexuality, Ken said "one would expect the same views on homosexuality from extreme Christians, Muslims and Israelis" and using the word "Zionist" as an adjectival negative to criticize much more widely than what can be attributed to the ideology of Zionism. He also stated "I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists"’.
They further added ‘that he did not expect the Jewish community to vote Labour as votes for the left are inversely proportional to wealth levels, and suggested that as the Jewish community is rich, we simply wouldn't vote for him’.
Homogenizing an entire race of peoplecannot be considered anything other than racist, and it must be seen in this context.
But this is nothing new in Livingstone’s relationship with the Jewish people, as Freedland pointed out – for example, he made appallingly crude remarks regarding the Reuben brothers, as well as the episode when he disgustingly compared a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard.
However, worst of all is his cosy relationship with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi - An Islamic scholar who supports the indiscriminate murder of Israeli civilians including women and children, as well as female genital mutilation, and the slaughtering of all homosexuals.
Would Mehdi support Livingstone if he had claimed that Muslims would not vote for him because they are too rich?
Would he maintain support if Livingstone was chummy with an extremist Rabbi from Hebron who called for the indiscriminate slaughtering of Palestinian women and children?
All forms of prejudice should be abhorred.
But Mehdi seems to miss this. Rather, he instead believes Livingstone will somehow rescue all Londoners from living in poverty, despite a recent report suggesting under Livingstone’s promises, council tax will actually increase by£348 per household.
So that’s more expensive taxation, anti-Semitism, tax dodging, association with a misogynist homophobic extremist, oh and a figure who takes money from the Iranian regime – Are there any boxes that haven’t been ticked for today’s left?
Benjamin Lazarus is a political analyst with a particular interest in the Middle East and Islamic extremism
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