Ban this, Ban that - Are they "Liberals", "Lefties" or Fascists?

There is a new breed of so called "activists", journalists and "experts", who continuously call for ban on various freedoms. They claim to be Liberals and Lefties and are often critical of the left. They say that the left is siding with the oppressors. Fact is that these so called Liberals and Lefties are actually wolves in sheep's clothing. They oppose freedom of choice and want to impose their twisted ideology on others. They seems to have political ideology of promoting division, spreading hate and misdirect from real issues of our times. Their views are in fact more akin to fascism than that of the left or Liberalism.

They often pick a topic, an incident, a criminal act and exaggerate, manipulate and twist it to suit their agenda. They ignore all reasonable arguments, in pursuit of their selfish goals and to further their business. While criticising the Left and Liberals, these groups of strange alliances of self proclaimed zionists, ex-muslims, atheists, right wing and new-cons, pursue an agenda of suppression and intimidation.

Let us examine their business, yes it is a business, of being "experts" in "anti extremism", "foreign policy, defence and Islamophobic alarmist. While some are pursuing their agenda anonymously on social media, others are vocal and part of the mainstream. They, however, claim their is no such thing as Islamophobia and that no such word exists. However, David Aaronovitch disagrees with them. .

Following are couple of examples of manipulation of facts by one such group. In a recent case, they manipulated certain words of Arabic, to claim it meant death threats. However, common sense prevailed and exaggerated claims were dismissed by cool heads. In another case they produced a report on "apostasy" in Islamic countries. They inferred that all of the countries listed in the report had death penalty for apostasy, in fact their was no such law in those countries. They did not find any cases of where death penalty had been handed for apostasy. They listed cases of blasphemy, criminal acts and mob rule. They claimed that apostasy and blasphemy meant the same thing and same punishment. This report is a deliberate attempt to distort the facts and to cause alarm and to suppress. They ignored the fact that the apostasy is an English word associated with Christianity and existence of such laws in many non muslim countries. There is no equivalent word for apostasy in Islam.

These groups and individuals want to ban freedom of choice, whether it is of speech, clothing or gathering of people. They even want the Universities to act in breach of the legislation  and want to force people to abide by their rules.

With this suppression agenda, they have the audacity to call themselves liberals and lefties. They use words like segregation, apartheid and try to compare their agenda with the movement of civil rights. They claim to want to promote debate, but are quick to shut down people by labelling them Islamists, extremists and even antisemitic.

They compare themselves with the movements against apartheid, for civil rights, and liberalism, but they never praise those who lead those movements. They ignore modern day atrocities, apartheid and suppression of people by states like Israel and are quick to label people, antisemitic. They support neocon agenda and often advocate and support military intervention. They are quick to justify civil casualties in wars and by drones. The increasingly cooperate with the right wing and fascist groups in Europe, Mid East, Africa and South Asia. This cooperation is not for peace but to continue to sow the seeds of division, hatred and anarchy.

Clearly they have political agenda but it is not of promoting peace and harmony between religions and other ideologies. It is not about highlighting the atrocities and injustices and condemning massacres, like those committed in Burma. It is not about condemning the occupation of Palestine and suffering of people. It is not about condemning torture and illegal imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay and other such prisons. It is rather to misdirect us from real issues of the day and cause alarm about non issues. It is about giving cover to atrocities and to justify deaths of children and civilians by war machines.

Their mantra of banning freedoms and dark agenda of Islamophobia is neither liberal nor leftist but more like a new form of fascism.

UPDATE 

Now that the demo against so called "gender sgregation" has taken place it has become clear the forces behind the propaganda and their agenda. Following are some facts about the demonstartion:

• Barely couple of dozen people attended;
• Committed Islamophbes including Maryam Namazie were present;
• No students could be found at the demo;
• Quilliam foundation was represented;
• Yasmin Ali Bhai-Brown was present;
• Speaches included criticism of foreign students, mainly Muslim from the Gulf region, and alleged money from Gulf countries. Thses speches not only had Islamophobic tones, they had racist tones too.
• Yasmin Ali Bhai-Brown's problem seems to be alleged Saudi money and she lost all sence of rational during her debate on Channel 4  .