Comments on: How Does The Metropolitan Police Classify An ‘Islamophobic’ Hate Crime?

By: There’s No Justification for Finsbury Park Terrorism – Areo Magazine

There’s No Justification for Finsbury Park Terrorism – Areo Magazine — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:04:21 +0000

[…] been incredibly critical of the “backlash” narrative in the past. It’s a narrative that somehow takes centre stage each time a Muslim kills […]

By: There’s No Justification For Finsbury Park Terrorism | Godless Spellchecker's Blog

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:03:09 +0000

[…] been incredibly critical of the ‘backlash’ narrative in the past. It’s a narrative that somehow takes centre stage each time a Muslim kills […]

By: Mate397

Mate397 — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 10:46:47 +0000

There is no such thing as “islamophobia” it’s just a meaningless buzzword to shut down any rightful form of critisism of Islam.

By: Post-Brexit Racism Increase | Godless Spellchecker's Blog

Post-Brexit Racism Increase | Godless Spellchecker's Blog — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 17:13:04 +0000

[…] a genuine increase, or if more cases are simply now being reported. I’ve also previously bemoaned the ambiguous criteria for confirming a crime of this […]

By: Stephen Knight

Stephen Knight — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:26:14 +0000

Hi,

I appreciate the info and I will keep it in mind going forward. I’m not familiar with the source, I simply did a Google image search of ‘Islamophobia’ and made sure I credited it to the listed source.

By: Matt F

Matt F — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 01:44:59 +0000

Although using a photo from source X does not necessarily mean that you support or endorse X, in some circumstances it will nonetheless create a perceived association with that source.

In this instance, you have prominently displayed a photo credited to frontpagemag dot com, a devoutly Pro-Israel, hard-right propaganda mill. They are dedicated not to the truth in any given matter, but seemingly only to stories which promote their brand of far-right, reactionary dogma. To this end, they revel in ceaselessly castigating a hyperbolic caricature of “the Left” with endless streams of invective that consist primarily of ad hominem attacks, strawman arguments, unethical distortions of the truth, and/or sheer fabrications.

They are, if you will, a cruel-right version of some monstrous amalgamation of CJ Werleman, Murtaza Hussain and/or Salon.

By prominently using their image, there will likely be readers who suspect that you may get some of your other information from this utterly unreliable source.

Just FYI.

By: Dougal Cooper

Dougal Cooper — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:27:36 +0000

Kris, I can tell you that the piece as written is legally correct in the UK. Any person (even if they were not present at the time and have no reliable information to give) can make the allegation that a crime is a hate crime along race/religious lines. Ridiculous but true. But then, we also have a law making saying, displaying or handing out words is unlawful if someone claims to feel thereby harassment, alarm or distress. There is a further subsection making this offence more serious if the “victim” can claim a minority status.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:50:26 +0000

While I agree with your assessment, and share your exasperation, I have to point out one small quibble. You write that it seems you don’t have to be Muslim to be a victim of “Islamophobia”, as if the two are necessarily related and to suggest a non-Muslim might suffer is unlikely. Well, greetings from America, where our violent rednecks can’t tell if someone is actually Muslim. Remember the poor Sikh man who got shot in the head by an unhinged loon after 9/11? We’ve had, while not a lot of that, a steady trickle here. Culturally speaking, we are more like ignorant, explosive teenagers than you (except for your widespread cultural belief that drinking necessarily makes you violent. What is that?), so the UK may not have this happen. But we do.

That said, it’s hard for me to understand how things like “violent attacks” (mean words on a screen) and “bullying” (student association complaints at Goldsmith) are being redefined without anyone noticing the lunacy in it.