Word reaches us of a grass-roots response to the Centre’s recent publication Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism (download by clicking on link here).
Local Councillors and residents of Tower Hamlets are to gather tomorrow morning to launch a petition demanding the removal of hate-books from the shelves of their public libraries. The East London Advertiser this week has a double-page spread highlighting local feeling in Tower Hamlets on the matter.
Hopefully the gathering tomorrow will remind the Council and local authorities that hate-speech against the residents of Tower Hamlets does not have to be funded by the residents of Tower Hamlets.
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This book is a credit to the Centre. Hopefully, there will be more like it. If integration consistent with the existence of the nation state is to occur, the borders of disagreement need to be delineated : this is an inspired start.
The importance of this persistent,vital examination of the every-day fault-lines to multicultural separatism is easily ignored.
Let's have more like it , especially in the area of equal rights for men and women. Gender equality, or more specifically, irrelevance of gender, is a major attack line on religions that threaten our flawed, but improving, civilisation. Let loose the dogs of reason !
Posted by anthony norman | September 22, 2007 11:29 PM
Posted on September 22, 2007 23:29