February 13, 2009 - UK Islamic News
(UK) BBC - Video: Muslim First, British Second
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7888000/7888467.stm
(UK) What happened to the book burners? -- regarding those in UK who burned Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
--- Aki Nawaz: "I don't really care what non-Muslims think - I think what the Muslims did had to be done."
--- Ishtiaq Ahmed says UK has benefited: "People became more aware about the presence of Muslims, more aware of their sensibilities regarding their faith"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7883308.stm
--- see also London Times' "Burning Satanic Verses lit the flame for better race relations" -- by Sunny Hundal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5720319.ece
(UK) Few attend UK screening of Wilders' film
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/zijlijn/6175108-Few-attend-UK
-- Fitna broadcast in House of Lords: "Only five peers -- and no MPs -- were among the 30 people who attended last night's screening"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23641599-details/Islam%2C+hate+and+free+speech/article.do
(UK) BBC Hides Report on Bias
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129932
(UK) Rolling road blocks will be in place for holy parade
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/4117412.Muslim_parade_date_set_for_High_Wycombe/
Commentaries:
IFPS: The House of Lords Speech: What Wilders Would Have Said If the UK Allowed Free Speech
-- Geert Wilders: "you cannot run away from history, you cannot escape the dangers of ideologies that are out to destroy you. Denial is no option"
-- Geert Wilders: "Will Britain offer submission or perseverance? Freedom or slavery?"
http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/02/the-house-of-lords-speech-what-wilders%E2%80%99-would-have-said-if-the-uk-allowed-free-speech/
Wall Street Journal: Britain Bans One of Islam's Critics
By detaining Geert Wilders, the U.K. undermines its own values.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123447930283579567.html?mod=
(UK) Banning Wilders plays into the hands of our Islamist enemies - by Charles Moore
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/4615504/Banning-Wilders-plays-into-the-hands-of-our-Islamist-enemies.html
(UK) Debate in House of Lords on the UK government's justification for barring Wilders from the country
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024815.php
http://news.parliament.uk/2009/02/geert-wilders/
(UK) "Preserving 'Harmony' for Islamic Radicals" - by Andrew McCarthy
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDVhODU5MDQ2OTg5OGNmOWJkNjk3MTRlYTg4MGJjZjM
Propaganda:
(UK) Guardian: Wilders' ban is in Britain's best interests -- by Nazir Ahmed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/13/geert-wilders-extremists-liberty-central
(UK) Evening Standard: Islam, hate and free speech
-- "for anyone to use that right of free speech purely to provoke trouble risks threatening the very atmosphere in which free speech is possible"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23641599-details/Islam%2C+hate+and+free+speech/article.do
(UK) Guardian: "Geert Wilders? Good riddance" - by Chris Huhne
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/13/geert-wilders-liberty-central
(UK) Closing the door on Geert Wilders - by Clive Davis
http://www.spectator.co.uk/clivedavis/3353811/closing-the-door-on-geert-wilders.thtml
(UK) BBC apology as radio guests swear about politician Geert Wilders
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/bbc-apology-as-radio-guests-swear-about-politician-1608627.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1143878/BBC-new-swearing-row-Radio-5-guests-Dutch-MP-w--.html
(UK) "Burning Satanic Verses lit the flame for better race relations" -- by Sunny Hundal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5720319.ece
