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Dean Godson took a look at some of the operators behind Islam Expo and what he found was disturbing:

But behind the cultural soft power of Islam Expo, there is political hard power, and some of it comes in quite raw, unpalatable forms. The organisers gave floor space in the exhibition section to the genocidal regime in Sudan (festooned with pictures of happy-looking black Africans) and to the “Cultural Section” of the Iranian Embassy (representing an aspirant genocidal regime) and the Algerian junta (no spring picnic on human rights).
Background

This perhaps becomes less surprising when one examines some of the directors of Islam Expo. All oppose al-Qaeda violence, but they are anything but moderate Muslims. They include Azzam Tamimi, a supporter of Hamas suicide bombings in Israel and an admirer of Ayatollah Khomeini; and Ismail Adam Patel, who believes that women in the West who are raped share responsibility with their attackers.

Consider also the views of one of the expo’s speakers: “Prof Zaghloul al Naggar, professor of geology and director of the London-based Markfield Institute of Higher Education has rightly told IslamOnline that many Westerners – some of them homosexual – convert to Islam in order to appeal to Islamic communities and spread sinful behaviour among Muslims, thus shaking their belief,” according to the allaahuakbar.net website.

No wonder Hazel Blears, the feisty Secretary of State for Communities, decided last week that this was not a place where any minister should be seen. Most of her Muslim colleagues in the Labour Party backed her, including the MPs Sadiq Khan and Khalid Mahmood.

This just reinforces what we already know. Integration becomes even more challenging as the lines between radical and moderate blur. In short, Europe is screwed.

Update:
Curtis Schweitzer uses the article as supporting evidence in his interesting take on Islamofacism and the politics of language:

Were one to hold this sort of obvious connection to terrorism and bigotry anywhere in the West, they would unquestionably called a fascist, especially given that popular political movements in militant Islam seek to enshrisne these sorts of ideas in the rule of law. Why, then, does the left make such a tremendous fuss over the idea that conservatives have chosen to call this movement fascist?

The answer lies in the politics of language, specifically in the belief amongst many leftists that they have the ability to define words however they like, and that challenging the orthodoxy of the extreme left ultimately boils down to a fight over the meanings of words themselves. By attempting to “capture” certain words– “fascism”, “neocon”, “choice”, and most recently, “hope and change”, the left seeks to win political arguments not on the merits of reason and logic, but “owning” certain words and employing them in a certain fashion.

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