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2010-08-04 Britain

The Guardian falls for an extremist lie

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Posted by ryuge 2010-08-04 02:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 FTA: "It is not the first time the Guardian has done this. Earlier this year, it publicised a report which claimed to have found a rising tide of anti-Muslim violence in London something simply not supported by the crime figures (which is presumably why the report coyly neglected to give any figures!) This report was co-compiled by a well-known sympathizer of Islamism, Robert Lambert, and funded by the Islamist Cordoba Foundation."

Would this be the Cordoba Foundation that want to build next the WTC in NY?

Posted by tipover 2010-08-04 03:59|| 2010-08-04 03:59|| Front Page Top

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One of the key techniques of extremists of both the Islamic and the white Right is to frighten and polarise their target audiences with exaggerated claims that they are widely disliked or are under attack. As well as helping recruitment, it furthers the extremists central lie that different races and faiths cannot coexist.

That is why it was so depressing to see todays Guardian fall for a textbook distortion by one of these groups. A news story reported that three quarters of non-Muslims believe that Islam has provided a negative contribution to British society, according to a new poll.

The poll was not in fact a poll, using a representative sample of sufficient size and publicly reported according to the strict standards of the British Polling Council. It was a market research questionnaire of a small (500) and random sample. And though it appears to have been done by a professional firm, its results were totally twisted by iERA, the group which commissioned it, and whose claims the Guardian took entirely at face value.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-08-04 07:20|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-08-04 07:20|| Front Page Top

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