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
‘Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were able to organise a demonstration of Muslims, ex-Muslims and non-Muslim outside of the venue …’
You make a very important point. Its about time concerned people took direct action and protested demonstrably against these islamofacists, who don’t represent the average working Muslim. We can’t continue to ignore them any longer and hope they’ll just go away; they won’t. I fear for ordinary decent Muslims who simply want to get on with their lives but have to tolerate these islamofacists destroying good community relations.
Who’s up for it? Tell us where and when and how we establish that real anti facist group providing real peaceful and responsible demonstrations. Its what I was trying to say on my previous post, deleted by the moderator.
Lamia
Before you are too apologetic, you might want to look back at past attendees lists for GPU. It seems to be mostly the same bunch, including those who have supposedly shrieked with horror upon being named here and elsewhere as attending this extremist shindig.
For instance, Andrew Slaughter is huffing and puffing angrily about the supposedly ‘scurrilous’ association of him with GPU 2013, yet he has been listed as a headline speaker at GPU 2010 and on his own blog in December 2007 he describes having been a speaker at the GPU conference. It’s here http://www.andyslaughter.co.uk/?p=2702
In view of the above I believe Mr Slaughter’s professed outraged is manufactured and hypocritical, and I don’t believe he has a leg to stand on morally or legally.
Gert
You might want to amend this too:
“I wrote to Mr Slaughter explaining that I had written the article in good faith and based it on sources that I though reliable in this context, namely an article first published in the Telegraph almost 2 weeks ago written by Toby Young that remains published on the Telegraph website: “Labour’s shadow justice minister to share platform with Muslim hate preachers” and GPU’s own publicity, that clearly showed Mr Slaughter as one of the speakers for GPU 2013.”
Toby Young’s article has been taken down too.