Open letter to the left

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Several things just don't make a coherent statement. I find it rather vague which diminises is effect …Identify the Left and what exactly it is being criticised…In fact it makes no reference to any anti- anti-imperialist analysis, i was obliged to read that in between the lines. Making an argument that the Left are acting equates to appeasement like Munich simply isn't valid , imo, as is the Postius Pilate washing my hands description. I did not refer to this statement as islamophobic…i simply stated we as a party have not made an official pronouncement on political islamism (which i don't disagree with you about it) but that the campaign against it has created a political atmosphere where all muslims are being tarred with the same brush, and overlaps with the supposed security risk with immigration, taking in political refugees and as you raised on another issue…imams being barred from political advice on how to vote when it was perfectly acceptable in the past for priests to intervene in elections. …….Its not new …but it ihas been gradually building up and the fact that one report by a Jewish organisation gains more coverage than the the day in day out anti-muslim attacks …or that a minor passing remark by some "brown-skinned" occupants in a car to army cadets get front page coverage…or that planned terrorist attacks against mosques are not considered terrorism …An atmosphere of hatred is being built and i notice it targetted very often on one particular religion…and on another thread i gave an example that merely ordering an halal meal on a plane, is now legally notified to the authorities. The fact this weekend Prince Charles is seen given sympathy to the Christian refugees as if they are the only religious minority being singled by Al Qada/ISIS for special treatment …i could go on …Islamophobia is prejudice and i don't think anybody denies it….and we may debate it is growing but we can't deny it is widespread already….EDL, Perdiga are only outward expressions …..and the politicians and media feed it …Merkel might be criticised on many issues but she certainly been more outspoken against it than Cameron. 

I hardly see the need for secularists to make use of Christian imagery as in its Pontius Pilate analogy""You seem unable to identify this movement in political terms."And i said the exact same about the letter….it is an open letter to the Left and Far Left it is called but even so it can recognise that  " activists from our left movements (not those from the right) are being decimated"…and again  "It targets ordinary people and the left at large" so who are those is it aimed at…are we supposed to guess…And i think it is more to the point when it rightly says  "a far-right movement that masquarades as a religious one"…and it fails to even name them…Does the non-homogeneous Muslim Brotherhood equate with ISIS? Boko-Haram?…When it comes to statistics what is always ignored that it is by far muslims being slaughtered by the Islamists. And when did i last hear of the Lords Resistance Army being offered as an example of christianity terror? It is rare to see a mention of the Serbian Orthodox Church role in the massacres of Bosnian muslims. Or Catholic Church priests in Rwanda slaughters. Criticism of religion and specific religions is very valid…only if it is done across the board as is necessary to offer a materialist explanation of it… ….Catholicism for instance can be singled out as anti-woman, (and Ireland as a theocratic state for much of its existence)…judaism, too regarding many jewish customs…Hinduism…Inhuman executions?…just look at the botched bible-belt executions in the US…Suppression of human rights …several countries in Africa offering religious justifications for continuing the criminalisation of homosexuality and wanting the death sentence for it…Both Freedland and Galloway actually agreed, there should be no league table or hierarchy of victims. I agreed with the sentiments of the open letter, as i said,  but i would not have signed it the way it is phrased….my original criticism still stands…its a bad letter with dubious text.i said the analogy with Munich was badly chosen…and i'll add the Spanish Civil War reference , too, doesn't add to its clarity …both you and i were obliged to read between its lines… 

"it's not, any more than to criticise Israel is to be anti-semitic."You are, of course, right here since the well publicised CST statistics of anti-semitic attacks on Jews do not include those committed by pro-Israeli British Jews against other Jews who happen to be critics of Israel, such as this one. But i would consider the deliberate suppression of such details to be anti-semitic in the sense of it purposefully trying to present an image of one agreed position of Jewish support for Israel and refusing to acknowledge other Jewish political positions contrary to the majority one. It stereotypes and creates a caricature of Jewish people. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/watch-arsonists-torched-car-salford-7808421