بريطانيا: 25 منظمة إسلامية تستنكر مقال الديلي ميل المسيء للإسلام

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

وقَّعت 25 منظمة إسلامية في "بريطانيا" - من بينها المجلس الإسلامي البريطاني، وبعض المؤسسات الدينية الأخرى - على خطاب يستنكرون فيه ما تضمنه مقال للكاتب "ريتشارد ليتلجون" من معلومات مغلوطة عن الإسلام، وعبارات تزيد من الاحتقان الطائفي، معتمدًا على الصور النمطية المغلوطة، والمواقع اليمينية المتطرفة التي تُذكي العداء ضد المسلمين.

وأكد الخطاب أن "ليتلجزونز" قد تعرض للداعية المعروف "هثيم الحداد"، ونسب إليه آراء محل نظرٍ، وكذلك عمل المقال على نشر الكراهية، وكان نموذجًا للتعصب الأعمى ضد الإسلام وترويجًا للكراهية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

يرجى الإشارة إلى المصدر عند نقل الخبر - شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim groups demand apology from Daily Mail over Littlejohn article

More than 25 British Muslim organisations, in company with interfaith bodies, have signed a letter of complaint to the the Daily Mail's editor, Paul Dacre, about an article by columnist Richard Littlejohn.

They say that Littlejohn's column on Tuesday, headlined Jolly jihadi boys' outing to Legoland, "deployed hateful Muslim stereotypes" and "used slurs commonly found in racist and far-right websites."

His article concerned the hiring of the Legoland theme park in Windsor by an extremist Muslim cleric, Haitham al-Haddad, for a "family fun day" next month.

Littlejohn, having pointed out that moderate Muslims regard the preacher as having "repugnant" and "abhorrent" views, went into satirical mode to imagine how the day would pan out.

For example, he wrote that one coach would be "packed with explosives" and, after stopping in Parliament Square, the "driver will blow himself up."

At Legoland, guests would be "reminded that music and dancing are punishable by death". Later, girls would be expected "to report to the Kingdom of the Pharaohs for full FGM inspection" while boys would "report to the Al-Aqsa recruiting tent outside the Land of the Vikings for onward transportation to Syria."

The letter of complaint to Dacre states:

"Our condemnation is not about the attacks on Mr Haitham al-Haddad: he is perfectly capable of responding to the accusations put to him if minded to do so. Many of us may well disagree with the views attributed to him.

Rather, we are speaking out at the insidious and hateful tropes Mr Littlejohn uses for his argument.

Mr Littlejohn may think he is humorous, satirical in fact. But there is nothing funny about inciting hatred. The language he deploys is exactly the same as those used by racists and the far-right.

One needs only to peruse the comments below his article online to see the hatred against Muslims Mr Littlejohn has generated."

The letter goes on to say that Littlejohn, in accusing one individual of using hate speech is guilty of "deploying hate speech himself." The article is itself "the worst form of bigotry."

It calls on Dacre "to retract" Littlejohn's article and to "issue an apology not just to British Muslims, but to your readers and the great British public at large."

An accompanying press release claims that, as a result of Littlejohn's article, far-right groups have threatened to turn up at Legoland, "thus causing distress to the children present."

The lead signatory of the letter is Farooq Murad, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain.