Update:
Hat Tip: Stephen
One apparent bright spot amongst the general gloom is a piece in the Guardian in which the jihadi agit prop Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB tells us of his conversion to free speech and how he was wrong to condemn Salman Rushdie.
           “Words can never hurt us”
On closer inspection this late change of heart seems to be related to the realization that the weapon of censorship could easily be turned against Muslims and their toxic tracts.
Bungla:
Twenty years after The Satanic Verses, Muslims are beginning to appreciate the right of others to offend them.
Wife Beating/Domestic Violence
*   “Neocon CIP launches campaign against domestic violence”
* Â “Just don’t look kuffar, its none of your business what Muslims do…”
“Muslim spiritual leaders could be denounced publicly by their own community as part of a campaign to expose imams whose silence on domestic abuse is leading to women being burnt, lashed and raped in the name of Islam.
“Muslim scholars are to present the Government with the names of imams who are alleged by members of their own communities to have refused to help abused women. Imams are also accused of refusing to speak out against domestic abuse in their sermons because they fear losing their clerical salaries and being sacked for broaching a ‘taboo’ subject.
“Some of Britain’s most prominent moderate imams and female Muslim leaders have backed the campaign, urging the Home Office to vet more carefully Islamic spiritual leaders coming to Britain to weed out hardliners.”
Read on, and you find that the organisation behind this campaign is the so-called Center for Islamic Pluralism, which was founded by ex-Trotskyist-turned-neocon Stephen Schwartz with financial assistance from Daniel Pipes.
In the UK the CIP has precisely one identifiable member – Irfan al-Alawi. In other words, it represents nothing at all in the Muslim community. So it would certainly be interesting to hear which of “Britain’s most prominent moderate imams and female Muslim leaders” are backing Alawi’s campaign, which is cynically using the serious issue of domestic violence to promote the CIP’s cranky obsession with “Wahabbism” and discredit genuinely representative Muslim organisations that reject Schwartz’s pro-imperialist politics.