Racist London Independent and Julie Burchill smear Lauren Booth

Gilad Atzmon: Julie Sabbath Goy Burchill

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 11:18AM Gilad Atzmon

In her desperate attempt to smear Lauren Booth, Independent writer Julie Burchill, a devout Zionist, proves how deceiving British multiculturalism is.
Indeed the Zionification of this Kingdom has left this country in a disastrous ethical limbo.
“Last year I took the first steps towards converting to Judaism; also last year, I abandoned my attempt”, says Burchill.
But I guess that Burchill didn’t really have to convert -- She is obviously far more Jewish than anyone I can think of. Burchill can teach Rabbi Ovadia Yosef what self-love is all about. She can teach Paul Wolfowitz, David Aaronovitch and David Miliband what moral-interventionism stands for. She can give  Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman a crash course in Hasbara.   Burchill can lecture Zionist slander operators on how to spread venom.
But most significantly, she displays an astonishing command of Jewish humour. Burchill is indeed very funny.
Jewish humour is a pretty simple concept : it is based on self-mockery mixed together with the absurd. Thus we have Woody Allen presenting himself as an alpha male Schwarzenegger type, and through self deprecation, Larry David would appear to challenge our tolerance of the ultimate form of Jewish rudeness.
And then we have Julie Burchill presenting herself as a veteran Sex bomb –  funny indeed.
Jewish humour though, is, in practice, a camouflage: through comedy, funny Jews manage to live in peace with their symptoms. But sometimes, even the best of Jewish comedians fail to provide the goods, as Woody Allen and Larry David may have learned.
It is pretty astonishing to witness the amount of poison that pours out of Burchill against Booth, a fellow journalist who recently converted into Islam: it is even more astonishing to find such a level of islamophobia and  personal attack on the pages of a respected British paper. In the past, I certainly saw this kind of vile personal slander on Jews only  blogs.
But I have never seen anything similar on paper, let alone in a British paper.
I guess that the Zionification of Britain is beginning to take a heavy toll on our cultural and public life.
Would Booth have to go through such a slanderous campaign  if she had converted into Judaism? I don’t think so. Would anyone in  the British press dare remind us, for instance, that it is actually Judaism that calls on its followers to “pour their wrath on the Goyim?”  No one would remind us that the crimes that are committed on a daily basis  by the Jewish state, are actually implied by certain interpretation of the Old Testament, namely the Zionist interpretation.
British multiculturalism is indeed a funny concept,  it basically means tolerance towards everyone except Muslims.
I would prefer to spare you from reading Burchill’s personal attack on Booth (much of which reminds me of an old Jewish mother’s Passover dinner tantrum) but, I will review some of her argument, because it is apparent that the logic she employs is symptomatic of both Neocons and Zionists in Britain and in America.
“There is one religion which proscribes its followers under threat of death from rejecting it, and that is Islam” says Burchill :  Yet if there was any truth in such a statement, our streets would be soaking with the blood of ex-Muslims. This is obviously not the case.
Whilst we are on the subject of proscription, restriction, revenge and forgiveness in religious precept and religious tradition, I am sure that  Burchill learned in school about Jesus : whilst the man didn’t actually reject Judaism, he did suggest to his fellow Jews to love their neighbours.
That was enough  to nail him to the cross. I guess that Burchill doesn’t know   that the word Yeshu- Jesus in Hebrew-is the abbreviation  for the Hebrew phrase "may his name and memory be blotted out". Seemingly, Rabbinical Jews are yet to forgive Jesus.
But maybe we should leave Jesus’ crucifixion aside. Many contemporary Jews rightly argue that they have nothing to do with this crime. Yet, I do wonder whether Burchill has heard about Israeli PM Yitzchak Rabin, and the Talmudic Rabbinical ruling that led to his assassination. Igal Amir, the young student who took Rabin’s life, had come to believe that Rabin was a ‘din rodef’, meaning Talmudically, a ‘pursuer’ who endangered Jewish lives. Under din rodef, Amir would be justified in ‘removing’ Rabin from being a threat to Jews.
As far as Rabbinical  Judaism is concerned, one doesn’t even have to reject Judaism in order to be murdered.  It is enough that a Rabbi or a great Cohen tags  a Jew as a ‘din rodef’ in order for another Jew to complete the job.
But let us return to Burchill’s ad hominem argument against Lauren Booth – next, she turns her attention to Booth’s work for Press T.V.
“It's hard to know where to start when describing the sheer ickiness of Booth,” says condescending Burchill. “That she works as a paid stooge for the murderous Iranian regime's television channel has to come pretty near the top.”
As tragic as it may be, it is actually Britain and the British (rather than Iran and Iranians) who are directly complicit in a colossal criminal war that has lead up to date to  1,421,933 fatalities in Iraq alone.  It is pretty fascinating that ‘nearly converted’ Burchill would denounce the Iranian regime as murderous while it is evident  that Britain was taken to the Iraq  war by a government that was funded by the Zionist lobby, led by no other than fund raiser,  Lord Cashpoint Levy.
In fact, more than ever,  we need Press TV  in the UK, for the Iranian TV channel is the only broadcast in Britain to deliver a full coverage of Israel’s colossal crimes.   In case Burchill has managed to forget, at the eve of  Operation Cast Lead, when the BBC was quick to follow IDF ‘instructions’ and evacuated its reporters from Gaza, it was Press TV that stayed behind and  delivered live footage of the Israeli massacre. It was Press TV rather than BBC, SKY or ITN that broadcasted in real time UNRA shelter shelled with white phosphorous.
We need Press TV, and we need many more Lauren Booths to practise real journalism instead of Zionised comedy. We need Press TV and Lauren Booth exactly because the British press and people like Julie Burchill have so evidently failed.
Burchill is not just a devout Zionist and a Neocon, she is also a sincere feminist. She doesn’t like Islam, and she doesn’t hide it either. She doesn’t approve of regimes that “uphold the punishment of death by stoning for adulteresses”.   For those who fail to remember, it was also so called ‘feminists’ who were the first to campaign against the Taliban  in the mid 1990’s, just to  prepare the ground for the American invasion.  I am almost taken in by Burchill’s caring for Muslim women;  yet, I wonder  how come the ‘women’s right campaigner’ fails  to  show the same care for Palestinian women  who are  often enough bleeding  to death in  Israeli roadblocks.
When it seems as if Burchill runs out of Necoon slogans, she then takes the gloves off and pulls the chicken out of the boiling soup :  Booth ,according to  Burchill, is so “jaded that she can only get a kick from self-denial.”  But may I point out to Burchill here,  that conversion is actually the exact opposite of ‘self-denial’. It is actually all about the ‘self’ being ‘spiritually awakened’ out of a state of denial, an experience that may be foreign to ‘nearly converted’ Burchill.
However, Burchill’s feeble accusation of ‘self denial’ does ring a bell here; it does sound familiar: It is after all, common amongst Jews and within the Zionist fold to label their dissident voices as being ‘self haters’.
As I mentioned earlier on, Burchill didn’t have to convert: the Jewish philosophy and manners are apparently deeply engraved within her soul. It spills out  in each of her sentences -- and it is far from being attractive.
But I guess that at a certain stage Burchill just couldn’t hold it together anymore. She wanted Lauren Booth to simply shut up. She suggested that Booth treats herself “to a full-face and – most essentially – mouth-covering burka”. All of a sudden, Burchill, the liberal impostor, the one who just a few lines before was rallying for freedom of Muslims, gays and women, has revealed her true face: in Burchill’s world, women and homosexuals should be free -- but Muslim converts better shut up.
Can anyone explain this discrepancy?  It is no wonder that Neo-conservatism and  moral interventionism are such a disaster.  There is not a single shred of truth, coherence or consistency in them. They are, in fact, simply a pretext for Zionist expansionism.
This is unfortunately the true meaning of the current western brutality. It obviously didn’t take me by complete surprise then, when I found out that Julie Burchill was also a supporter of the war in Iraq.
But, as one would expect, Burchill's poisonous outbursts are followed by some tender ‘light waves’ of self-love: Israel was named recently as “the eighth happiest country in the world – coming in above Britain and the US”, says the proud Zionist enthusiast.
And I am now more concerned than ever : If Israelis can be so pleased with themselves at a time when their army locks millions of Palestinians in concentration camps with no food or medical supplies, it really says a lot about the Jewish State, the Israelis -- and it says a lot about Sabbath Goys like Julie Burchill.
I am afraid that we are dealing here with a morbid psychotic ideological collective.  I wish I knew how to help them -- or at least how to save the rest of us.


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Islamic Human Rights Commission (UK): Letter challenging the promotion of hate in The Independent

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 11:45AM Gilad Atzmon

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PRESS RELEASE --- 09 November 2010

On 27 October 2010, The Independent newspaper published an Islamophobic article entitled “Poor Lauren Booth – she would do anything to get in with the tough kids”. The online link to the article was entitled “What sort of woman freely converts to Islam?”

The article uses the conversion story of Lauren Booth as an excuse to attack Islam as well as demonise and incite hatred towards Muslims.

The article suggests that Islam is by its very nature, violent, misogynistic and that no rational, western woman would consider it an option. It also states that Islam, and by extension Muslims, are anti-Semitic.
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Islamic Human Rights Commission (UK): Letter challenging the promotion of hate in The Independent

PRESS RELEASE --- 09 November 2010

On 27 October 2010, The Independent newspaper published an Islamophobic article entitled “Poor Lauren Booth – she would do anything to get in with the tough kids”. The online link to the article was entitled “What sort of woman freely converts to Islam?”

The article uses the conversion story of Lauren Booth as an excuse to attack Islam as well as demonise and incite hatred towards Muslims.

The article suggests that Islam is by its very nature, violent, misogynistic and that no rational, western woman would consider it an option. It also states that Islam, and by extension Muslims, are anti-Semitic.

The letter has been signed by prominent members of British society who feel that articles inciting hatred against people based on their race, religion or ethnicity are unacceptable. Signatories include:

-       George Galloway - Former MP, Co-founder of Respect party;

-       Lindsey German - Stop the War;

-       Massoud Shadjareh  - Islamic Human Rights Commission;

-       Yvonne Ridley - European President of the International Women's Union;

-       Syed Farjani - Muslim Association of Britain;

-       Majed Al-Zeer - Palestine Return Centre;

-       Maulana Sarfaraz Madni - UK Islamic Mission;

-       Mr Derek Conway - Former Conservative MP.

IHRC Chair, Massoud Shadjareh, states “The open season of attacks, through demonisation, stereotyping and inciting hatred, against Muslims and Islam has to come to an end. The Independent has allowed itself to be used as a platform for the promotion of pure hate and stereotyping against a quarter of the worlds population and their beliefs in a way that no other faith would be allowed to be targeted”

For more information please contact the Press Office on (+44) 20 8904 4222, email: info@ihrc.org.

To view the full text of the letter, please see below:

LETTER TO EDITOR

09 November 2010

Simon Kelner
Editor
Independent Print Limited
2 Derry Street
London
W8 5HF

09 November 2010

Dear Mr. Kelner,

We the undersigned, would like to express our disgust and anger regarding the publishing of the Julie Burchill column titled “Poor Lauren Booth – she would do anything to get in with the tough kids” which appeared in The Independent in both the online and print editions on 27 October 2010.

Burchill, in her article, uses the recent religious conversion of Lauren Booth, a journalist and human rights activist, to Islam, to launch a thinly veiled attack on Islam.

The online link to the article entitled “What sort of woman freely converts to Islam?” suggests that Islam is by its very nature, violent, misogynistic and that no rational, western woman would consider it an option. This is patently language and presumptions that are the very life blood of racist organisations such as the BNP and surely have no place in a major national publication of The Independent’s calibre. Burchill’s words sought therefore to demonise all Muslims, by linking it to extremism and violence.

In our opinion, this article clearly amounts to incitement to hatred towards Muslims.

Burchill states that Lauren Booth converted to a religion that is, she states: “narrow-minded, patriarchal and oppressive”. Burchill further states “What sort of woman freely converts to a religion which supports the oppression, torment and murder of thousands of Christians, homosexuals and spirited women, worldwide, every year?” This reads like Fascist literature of 1930’s Germany, equating people of a certain faith with disturbing, violent, internationally unacceptable acts. It is needless to say utterly untrue in its depiction of the true, egalitarian nature of Islam. Burchill seeks to create a harmful image of Islam. One which encourages and promotes hatred of, tellingly, both men AND the very women she purports to care about.

In her article, Burchill equates Islam with anti-Semitism. She states “There does seem to be a particular affinity between Catholics and Muslims – Jew-hating is a great bonding agent.” This false accusation is extremely offensive to Muslims as Islam does not advocate hatred of other groups. Nonetheless, Burchill links Islam with anti-Semitism. Yet another misguided and deliberately damaging statement intended to create a negative image of Islam.

Your paper has printed statements which by their very nature seek to promote hatred and lead to the demonising of Muslims. We give you an obvious example and ask if this would be considered legal and within publishing guidelines. Judaism is: “narrow-minded, patriarchal and oppressive” / “What sort of woman freely converts to a religion which supports the oppression, torment and murder of thousands of Christians, homosexuals and spirited women, worldwide, every year?”

This is no truer of Judaism than it is of Islam, yet in this context you would never dare challenge the laws of this country by printing such a thing.

It is shocking to find such levels of Islamophobia on the pages of The Independent. It is astonishing that The Independent allowed such an offensive article to be published. The Independent has a responsibility to make sure that groups of people are not being attacked, in its print and online editions, on grounds of race, belief and ethnicity.

Given Burchill’s sympathies with Israel and her apologist stance for its various crimes, it is no surprise that she attacks Booth – a champion for Palestinian rights - in such a vicious way.  But rather than taking issue with Booth’s politics, Burchill’s descent into vitriol against Islam brings the editorial standards of The Independent into disrepute.

The Independent must subscribe to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. The Code of Practice clearly states that the Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information and must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability. The Independent has a duty to follow this Code of Practice when publishing any material on its website or in its newspaper.

In the meantime, we expect to see the offensive article to be removed from The Independent website and a written public apology for the offending material to be published. This may go some way to convincing your many disillusioned readers of all creeds that you are indeed still a newspaper worth buying.

Yours sincerely,

Massoud Shadjareh - Islamic Human Rights Commission
George Galloway - former MP, Co-founder of Respect party
Yvonne Ridley - European President of the International Women's Union
Majed Al-Zeer - Palestine Return Centre
Moazzam Begg - Director of Cageprisoners
Muslim Association of Britain – Syed Farjani
Asim Qureshi
Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi - Arab Media Watch
Les Levidow - Campaign Against Criminalising Communities
Islamic Centre of England
Azad Ali - Muslim Safety Forum
Anas Al-Tikriti – British Muslim Initiative
Manchester Islamic Centre
Newcastle Islamic Centre
Glasgow Al-Huda Islamic Centre
Derek Conway - former conservative MP
Ahulbayt Islamic Mission – Samir Al-Haidari
Palestinian Solidarity Campaign - Betty Hunter
Abbas Panjwaani - Inminds
Sarah Colborn - Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Stop the War - Lindsey German
Dr Ghada Karmi - Doctor of medicine, author and academic
Sukant Chandan - Sons of Malcolm
Maulana Sarfaraz Madni - UK Islamic Mission

Notes:

Link to original article by Julie Burchill click here.....

Posted by Yahya (yahyaottawa@gmail.com) at 2:03 PM

avenzaor says:

November 12, 2010 at 4:27 pm

A few days before this article was posted on Uglytruth, Lauren Booth wrote another article which is worth reading. I have excerpted it in three parts below. The first part relates a very moving story of an elderly woman in Ramallah (Palestine, the Land of the Prophets, the Holy Land) in 2005, and the third part is even more impressive dealing with the reaction of her two daughters after her accepting Islam. In between, she mentions about her father’s alcoholism – growing up in an alcoholic household with a dad who was violent. Other published articles mention her pending divorce (before her accepting Islam) and her husband’s alcohol abuse.
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WHY I LOVE ISLAM: Lauren Booth defiantly explains why she is becoming a Muslim
Saturday, 6 November 2010
… Asked for a simple explanation of how I, an English hack journalist, a single working mother, signed up to the Western media’s least-favourite religion, I suppose I would point to an intensely spiritual experience in an Iranian mosque just over a month ago.
But it makes more sense to go back to January 2005, when I arrived alone in the West Bank to cover the elections there for The Mail on Sunday. It is safe to say that before that visit I had never spent any time with Arabs, or Muslims.
The whole experience was a shock, but not for the reasons I might have expected. So much of what we know about this part of the world and the people who follow Mohammed the Prophet is based on ­disturbing – some would say biased – news bulletins.
So, as I flew towards the Middle East, my mind was full of the usual 10pm buzz words: radical extremists, fanatics, forced marriages, suicide bombers and jihad. Not much of a travel brochure.
MY VERY FIRST EXPERIENCE, though, could hardly have been more positive. I had arrived on the West Bank without a coat, as the Israeli airport authorities had kept my suitcase.
Walking around the centre of Ramallah, I was shivering, whereupon an old lady grabbed my hand.
Talking rapidly in Arabic, she took me into a house on a side street. Was I being kidnapped by a rather elderly terrorist? For several confusing minutes I watched her going through her daughter’s wardrobe until she pulled out a coat, a hat and a scarf.
I was then taken back to the street where I had been walking, given a kiss and sent warmly on my way. There had been not a single comprehensible word exchanged between us.
It was an act of generosity I have never forgotten, and one which, in various guises, I have seen repeated a hundred times. Yet this warmth of spirit is so rarely represented in what we read and see in the news….
It was probably an appreciation of Muslim culture, in particular that of Muslim women, that first drew me towards a broader appreciation of Islam….
In fact, the bossiness of Muslim women is something of a joke that rings true in so many homes in the community. You want to see men under the thumb? Look at many Muslim husbands more than other kinds.
Indeed, just yesterday, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia rang me and only half-jokingly introduced himself as ‘my wife’s husband’….
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Predictably, some areas of the Press have had a field day with my conversion, unleashing a torrent of abuse that is not really aimed at me but a false idea of Islam.
But I have ignored the more negative comments. Some people don’t understand spirituality and any discussion of it makes them frightened. It raises awkward questions about the meaning of their own lives and they lash out….
I am fortunate in that my most important relationships remain strong…. Growing up in an alcoholic household with a dad who was violent, has left a great gap in my life. It is a wound that will never heal and his remarks about me are very hurtful.
We haven’t seen each other for years, so how can he know anything about me or have any valid views about my conversion? I just feel sorry for him. The rest of my family is very supportive.
My mum and I had a difficult relationship when I was growing up, but we have built bridges and she’s a great support to me and the girls.
When I told her I had converted, she did say: ‘Not to those nutters. I thought you said Buddhism!’ But she understand now and accepts it.
And, as it happens, giving up alcohol was a breeze. In fact I can’t imagine tasting alcohol ever again. I simply don’t want to….
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I’m asked: ‘Will my daughters be Muslim?’ I don’t know, that is up to them. You can’t change someone’s heart. But they’re certainly not hostile and their reaction to my surprising conversion was perhaps the most telling of all.
I sat in the kitchen and called them in. ‘Girls, I have some news for you,’ I began. ‘I am now a Muslim.’ They went into a huddle, with the eldest, Alex, saying: ‘We have some questions, we’ll be right back.’
They made a list and returned. Alex cleared her throat. ‘Will you drink alcohol any more?’
Answer: No. The response – a rather worrying ‘Yay!’
‘Will you smoke cigarettes any more?’ Smoking isn’t haram (forbidden) but it is harmful, so I answered: ‘No.’
Again, this was met with puritanical approval. Their final question, though, took me aback. ‘Will you have your breasts out in public now you are a Muslim?’
What??
It seems they’d both been embarrassed by my plunging shirts and tops and had cringed on the school run at my pallid cleavage. Perhaps in hindsight I should have cringed as well.
‘Now that I’m Muslim,’ I said, ‘I will never have my breasts out in public again.’
‘We love Islam!’ they cheered and went off to play. And I love Islam too.