The Global Peace and Unity Festival.
We recently published an article concerning the forthcoming Global Peace and Unity Conference which stated that a number of MPs and Peers were speaking at the Conference. We did not check with the named persons before publishing the article whether this was accurate. We now understand that none of the named persons had been invited to or intended to speak at the Conference. We apologise for publishing this incorrect information.
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13 Responses to “The GPU Festival”
swatnan
So, when is the Muslim Council of Gt Britain, and Muslims in general, going to speak out vehemently against these islamofacists in their midst, and protest and demonstrate and ”excommunicate them, if thats the right word? Or do they have to be forced to leave the religion of their birth because they find the direction it has taken so repugnant, these days.
I can understand why more and more Muslims will choose to leave, because Islam is no longer a religion of peace and equality, but a religion of war and segregation.
robertcp
Their views seem very unpleasant but politicians speaking would give people that attend the conference another point of view.
Lamia
When have such politicians openly repudiated those who hold such ‘unpleasant’ views? Never. They make excuse for them, and they soft-soap them. Objectively they are endorsing them.
Mehrdad
I’d ask everyone reading this post to ask, “If this were a racist rally, how would we deal with it?”
We know the answer – look at how the left and anti-fascist movements organised to make sure that organised racism was not allowed to seed and grow. In the days when they still had some integrity.
We need to publicise this. We need to lobby the ignorant politicians that have agreed to speak. Andrew Slaughter MP, Lord Falconer and Simon Hughes MP. We need to lobby every liberal organisation out there to take a stand. We need to use our networks to give this the maximum publicity.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were able to organise a demonstration of Muslims, ex-Muslims and non-Muslim outside of the venue and try to get the maximum publicity for it?
I don’t have an organisation or network of friendly pressure groups. Perhaps some of the people reading this do.
We can no longer rely on the anti-fascist organisations. They’ve lost their way, corrupted by the influence of entryists who hold the sort of views that you exposed ATL.
We can all go on raising these issues among ourselves as we do or else we can organise and confront this evil head-on.
We can establish a real anti-fascist group. One with integrity and without double standards that exposes fascism, hate and bigotry wherever it exists, whether it is within the BNP, at the East London Mosque or within the UAF.
Who’s up for it?
Mehrdad
The grim reality though is that they never do.
They’ll make obsequious grandstanding statements to assert their ‘pro-diversity’ credentials and willfully close their eyes to the wickedness being disseminated there for rear of causing ‘offence’.
Unprincipled, lick-spittle cowards that they are.