All Discussions Tagged 'Left:' - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T10:41:05Zhttp://4freedoms.com/group/argumentation/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Left%3A&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFailed Heroes of the Left: Keir Starmertag:4freedoms.com,2020-05-06:3766518:Topic:2071032020-05-06T14:09:16.619ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>Keir Starmer was head of the CPS and Director of Public Prosecutions from July 2008 till Nov 2013. During this time it is thought that there wasn't a single successful prosecution for FGM.</p>
<p>As leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer promoted Naz Shah to the front bench. Naz Shah is the Pakistani Muslim that said that English girls should keep quiet about being raped by Muslim gangs, for the sake of social harmony.</p>
<p>Keir Starmer was head of the CPS and Director of Public Prosecutions from July 2008 till Nov 2013. During this time it is thought that there wasn't a single successful prosecution for FGM.</p>
<p>As leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer promoted Naz Shah to the front bench. Naz Shah is the Pakistani Muslim that said that English girls should keep quiet about being raped by Muslim gangs, for the sake of social harmony.</p> Failed Heroes of the Left: Jacqui Smithtag:4freedoms.com,2019-07-19:3766518:Topic:2038012019-07-19T16:47:39.117ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><b>Jacqueline Jill Smith</b><span> </span>(born 3 November 1962) is a British<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a><span> </span>politician. She was the<span> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a><span> </span>for<span> …</span></p>
<p><b>Jacqueline Jill Smith</b><span> </span>(born 3 November 1962) is a British<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a><span> </span>politician. She was the<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Member of Parliament</a><span> </span>for<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redditch_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Redditch (UK Parliament constituency)">Redditch</a><span> </span>from<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a><span> </span>until<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a>, the first female<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a><span> </span>and the third woman to hold one of the<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Offices_of_State" title="Great Offices of State">Great Offices of State</a>, after<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a><span> </span>(<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a>) and<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beckett" title="Margaret Beckett">Margaret Beckett</a><span> </span>(<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs" title="Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs">Foreign Secretary</a>).</p>
<table class="infobox vcard">
<tbody><tr><th colspan="2"><div class="honorific-prefix"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Honourable" title="The Right Honourable">The Right Honourable</a></div>
<br/>
<div class="fn">Jacqui Smith</div>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacqui_Smith_crop.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Jacqui Smith crop.jpg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Jacqui_Smith_crop.jpg/220px-Jacqui_Smith_crop.jpg" width="220" height="249"/></a></td>
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<tr><td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
<tr><th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a></th>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/>28 June 2007 – 5 June 2009</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reid,_Baron_Reid_of_Cardowan" title="John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan">John Reid</a></td>
</tr>
<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Johnson" title="Alan Johnson">Alan Johnson</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Whip" title="Chief Whip">Chief Whip of the House of Commons</a><br/><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Secretary_to_the_Treasury" title="Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury">Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury</a></th>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/>5 May 2006 – 28 June 2007</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Deputy</th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ainsworth" title="Bob Ainsworth">Bob Ainsworth</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Armstrong" title="Hilary Armstrong">Hilary Armstrong</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Hoon" title="Geoff Hoon">Geoff Hoon</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_Education_and_Skills_(United_Kingdom)" title="Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)">Minister of State for Schools and Learning</a></th>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/>6 May 2005 – 5 May 2006</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Education_and_Skills" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Education and Skills">Sec. of State</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Kelly" title="Ruth Kelly">Ruth Kelly</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Twigg" title="Stephen Twigg">Stephen Twigg</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knight" title="Jim Knight">Jim Knight</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Trade_and_Industry_(United_Kingdom)" title="Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)">Minister of State for Industry and the Regions</a></th>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/>13 June 2003 – 6 May 2005</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Trade_and_Industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Trade and Industry">Sec. of State</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hewitt" title="Patricia Hewitt">Patricia Hewitt</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th>
<td>?</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Michael" title="Alun Michael">Alun Michael</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Health_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Health (United Kingdom)">Minister of State for Health</a></th>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/>11 June 2001 – 13 June 2003</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Health">Sec. of State</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Milburn" title="Alan Milburn">Alan Milburn</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denham_(politician)" title="John Denham (politician)">John Denham</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Winterton" title="Rosie Winterton">Rosie Winterton</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a><br/>for<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redditch_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Redditch (UK Parliament constituency)">Redditch</a></th>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/>1 May 1997 – 12 April 2010</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Commissions_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)">Constituency established</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Lumley" title="Karen Lumley">Karen Lumley</a></td>
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<tr><th colspan="2">Personal details</th>
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<tr><th scope="row">Born</th>
<td><div class="nickname">Jacqueline Jill Smith</div>
<br/>3 November 1962<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow">(age 56)</span><br/><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern,_Worcestershire" title="Malvern, Worcestershire">Malvern</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a>, England</td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Political party</th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></td>
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<tr><th scope="row">Spouse(s)</th>
<td><div>Richard Timney (<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <span title="October 1987">1987</span>)</div>
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<tr><th scope="row">Children</th>
<td>2 sons</td>
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<tr><th scope="row"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th>
<td><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertford_College,_Oxford" title="Hertford College, Oxford">Hertford College, Oxford</a></td>
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<p>Smith was one of the<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">MPs</a><span> </span>investigated by the<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Commissioner_for_Standards" title="Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards">Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards</a>over a variety of inappropriate expense claims.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_asked_to_explain_expenses_1-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Smith#cite_note-Smith_asked_to_explain_expenses-1">[1]</a></sup><span> </span>Smith was never prosecuted, and was asked to pay back less than average after investigation by Sir<span> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Legg" title="Thomas Legg">Thomas Legg</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Smith#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><span> </span>but she was found to have "clearly" broken the rules on expenses and ordered to apologise.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Smith#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></p>
<p>She ceased to be Home Secretary in a Cabinet reshuffle on 5 June 2009, and then lost her seat as Member of Parliament for Redditch in the 2010 general election.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Smith#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></p> Failed Heroes of the Left: Nick Knowlestag:4freedoms.com,2019-03-11:3766518:Topic:2017492019-03-11T23:39:47.635ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>No hard data yet, but this video will do to start the forum off.</p>
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<p>No hard data yet, but this video will do to start the forum off.</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5q7UAs19wqo?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Failed Heroes of the Left: Jeremy Corbyntag:4freedoms.com,2019-03-05:3766518:Topic:2015132019-03-05T19:36:32.017ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>Obviously there's been a lot of prior material, but I may as well start off with this snippet:</p>
<p><span>Jeremy Corbyn ‘invited two left-wing friends to his flat to show off naked girlfriend Diane Abbott’…</span></p>
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<p>Obviously there's been a lot of prior material, but I may as well start off with this snippet:</p>
<p><span>Jeremy Corbyn ‘invited two left-wing friends to his flat to show off naked girlfriend Diane Abbott’</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8394716/jeremy-corbyn-invited-two-left-wing-friends-to-his-flat-to-show-off-naked-diane-abbott-to-impress-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8394716/jeremy-corbyn-invited-two-left-wing-friends-to-his-flat-to-show-off-naked-diane-abbott-to-impress-them/</a></span></p> Failed Heroes of the Left: Lord Ahmed (rape & murder)tag:4freedoms.com,2019-03-02:3766518:Topic:2000452019-03-02T14:50:33.370ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1>Rotherham Peer Lord Ahmed Charged with Historic Child Sex Offences<br></br> <img alt="Lord Nazir Ahmed" class="wp-post-image" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/03/Lord-Nazir-Ahmed-640x480.png" title="Lord Nazir Ahmed" width="640"></img></h1>
<p>1 Mar 2019<a class="byC" href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/rotherham-peer-lord-ahmed-charged-historic-child-sex-offences/#disqus_thread">660</a></p>
<div class="entry-content"><h2>Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been charged with three counts of historic sexual offences against children under the age of 13.</h2>
<p>Former Labour Party politician turned independent peer in the House of…</p>
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<h1>Rotherham Peer Lord Ahmed Charged with Historic Child Sex Offences<br/> <img width="640" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/03/Lord-Nazir-Ahmed-640x480.png" class="wp-post-image" alt="Lord Nazir Ahmed" title="Lord Nazir Ahmed"/></h1>
<p>1 Mar 2019<a class="byC" href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/rotherham-peer-lord-ahmed-charged-historic-child-sex-offences/#disqus_thread">660</a></p>
<div class="entry-content"><h2>Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been charged with three counts of historic sexual offences against children under the age of 13.</h2>
<p>Former Labour Party politician turned independent peer in the House of Lords Nazir Ahmed, 61, was charged Thursday with the indecent assault of a boy and with two counts of attempting to rape a girl, the BBC<span> </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-47413418" target="_blank" rel="noopener external" class="x5l">reports</a>.</p>
<p>All charges are alleged to have occurred between 1971 and 1974, when Lord Ahmed was between the ages of 14 and 17.</p>
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<p><em>The Guardian</em><span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/01/former-labour-peer-lord-ahmed-charged-with-attempted" target="_blank" rel="noopener external" class="x5l">reports</a><span> </span>that the charges form part of an investigation launched in 2016 by South Yorkshire Police.</p>
<p>All three men are expected to appear before Sheffield Magistrates’ Court on March 19th.</p>
<p>Mr Ahmed, a married father of three, was born in Pakistan, but moved to the UK with his family in 1969 when he was 12 to join his father, who was working at a steel factory in Rotherham.</p>
<p>The immigrant joined the Labour Party in 1975 at the age of 18, became a Rotherham councillor in 1990, and later became the town’s youngest magistrate.</p>
<p>In 1998, then-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair elevated Mr Ahmed to the House of Lords, becoming one of the country’s first Muslim peers.</p>
<p>The now-non-affiliated peer was suspended from the Labour Party in 2013 after appearing on television and claiming that a Jewish conspiracy resulted in his 2009 imprisonment for dangerous driving following his involvement in a fatal collision, as<span> </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/controversial-peer-lord-ahmed-charged-with-child-sex-offences-2gfdmkclj" target="_blank" rel="noopener external" class="x5l">reported</a><span> </span>in<span> </span><em>The Times</em><span> </span>on Friday, before resigning from Labour just two days before a party hearing was expected to expel him.</p>
<p>During his political career, he sought to become a “voice for the community” and has<span> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/feb/25/lord-ahmed-peer-labour-muslim" target="_blank" rel="noopener external" class="x5l">spoken out</a><span> </span>against extremism and Islamic fundamentalism, including forced marriage, women wearing the face veil, and after terror attacks in the UK said mosques should deliver sermons in English.</p>
<p>In 2007, Lord Ahmed was<span> </span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9929154/Labour-peer-Lord-Ahmed-suspended-over-claims-he-blamed-imprisonment-on-Jewish-conspiracy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener external" class="x5l">highly critical</a><span> </span>of the knighthood awarded to the<em> Satanic Verses</em> author Salman Rushdie, claiming it was an insult to Muslims and that the novelist had “blood on his hands.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/rotherham-peer-lord-ahmed-charged-historic-child-sex-offences">https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/rotherham-peer-lord-ahmed-charged-historic-child-sex-offences</a></p>
</div> Failed Heroes of the Left: Chris Allen of Leicester Universitytag:4freedoms.com,2019-02-09:3766518:Topic:2001392019-02-09T17:49:30.037ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1 class="documentFirstHeading" id="parent-fieldname-title">Dr Chris Allen</h1>
<div id="content-core"><div class="" id="parent-fieldname-text-478198d16c0d46089f1b3137fe967010"><h2><span>Associate Professor in Hate Studies</span></h2>
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<h2 class="">Contact details</h2>
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<li><strong>Tel:</strong><span> </span>+44 (0)116 252…</li>
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<h1 id="parent-fieldname-title" class="documentFirstHeading">Dr Chris Allen</h1>
<div id="content-core"><div id="parent-fieldname-text-478198d16c0d46089f1b3137fe967010" class=""><h2><span>Associate Professor in Hate Studies</span></h2>
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<h2 class="">Contact details</h2>
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<li><strong>Tel:</strong><span> </span>+44 (0)116 252 5911</li>
<li><strong>Email:<span> </span><a href="mailto:ca270@leicester.ac.uk">ca270@leicester.ac.uk</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Twitter:</strong><span> </span>@DrChrisAllen</li>
<li><strong>Office:</strong><span> </span>Room 0.09, Ground floor, 154 Upper New Walk</li>
<li><strong>Office Hours:</strong><span> </span>By appointment</li>
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<h2 class="">Personal details</h2>
<p>I am an Associate Professor in Hate Studies at the<span> </span><a class="external-link" href="http://le.ac.uk/hate-studies">Centre for Hate Studies</a>, which is based in the Department of Criminology. For almost two decades, I have been researching Islamophobia, counter-extremism and counter-terror, and wider issues relating to the ‘problematisation’ of Muslim communities. This has included but not been limited to undertaking research seeking to understand the experience of Muslim women victims of street-level hate crime, anti-Islam ideologies of the far-right, the impact of counter-terror legislation, and governmental engagement with Muslim communities. My research has also focused on wider issues relating to the role of religion and faith in the contemporary political and policy spaces as also issues relating to Britishness, cohesion, integration and identity. In doing so, I have been funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Economic & Social Research Council, British governmental departments including the Department for Communities and Local Government, local authorities, the European Union and a wide range of state agencies, third sector organisations and charitable bodies.</p>
<p>I have published widely both in the UK and elsewhere including Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey among others. Of note has been a monograph exploring the phenomenon of Islamophobia as also peer-reviewed journal articles on the English Defence League, Britain First and the recently proscribed National Action. As well as publishing in peer-reviewed journal articles, I also regularly write for a range of different non-specialist outlets including the Conversation, Huffington Post and Perspektif among others. Committed to public engagement, I also give talks about my research and associated topics in various non-academic settings including appearing in the broadcast media.</p>
<p>Over the past decade, I have held various independent advisory roles across the British political spectrum. Until recently, I was an independent adviser to the British Government on Anti-Muslim Hate and Islamophobia. During that same pent years I have also contributed written and oral evidence to a number of different government bodies and commissions including the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, All Party Parliamentary Group on Universities, Home Affairs Select Committee on Hate Crimes, and the Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life among others. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Analysis of the radical Right, a <span>Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Royal Society of Arts, the US Department of State’s International Visiting Leadership Program and an alumnus of the John Adams Society.</span></p>
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<li>Responding to Terrorism</li>
<li>Hate, Extremism and Everyday Prejudice</li>
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<h2 class=""><strong>Research</strong></h2>
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<li>Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate</li>
<li>The Prevent agenda and policy approaches to counter-extremism and counter-terror</li>
<li>Far-right ideologies</li>
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<h2 class=""><strong>Supervision</strong></h2>
<p>I am happy to accept applications to supervise PhDs on the following topics:</p>
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<li>Manifestations, experiences and encounters of Islamophobia</li>
<li>Anti-Muslim hate crime</li>
<li>Defining and conceptualising Islamophobia</li>
<li>Counter-extremism and counter-terror policies and strategies</li>
<li>Religiously motivated hate</li>
<li>Counter-jihadi groups and movements</li>
<li>Anti-Islam/ anti-Muslim ideologies of the far-right</li>
<li>Socio-political manifestations of the 'problematisation' of Muslim communities</li>
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<li>Allen, C. (2017) Islamophobia and the Problematization of Mosques: A Critical Exploration of Hate Crimes and the Symbolic Function of “Old” and “New” Mosques in the United Kingdom, in<span> </span><em>Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs<span> </span></em>(Vol. 37, No.3: 294-308).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2017) Political Approaches to Tackling Islamophobia: an ‘insider/outsider’ analysis of the British Coalition Government’s approach between 2010-15, in<span> </span><i>Social Sciences<span> </span></i>(Vol. 6, No.3: 1-19).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2017) Proscribing National Action: considering the impact of banning the British far-right group in<span> </span><i>Political Quarterly<span> </span></i>(Vol. 88, No.4: tbc).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2015) ‘”People hate you because of the way you dress”: Understanding the invisible experiences of veiled British Muslim women victims of Islamophobia’ in<span> </span><i>International Review of Victimology</i><span> </span>(Vol. 21, No. 3: 287-301).</li>
<li>Allen, C. & Isakjee, A. (2015) ‘Controversy, Islam and Politics: an exploration of the "Innocence of Muslims" affair through the eyes of British Muslim elites’ in<span> </span><i>Ethnic & Racial Studies<span> </span></i>(Vol. 38, No. 11: 1852-1867).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2014) ‘Exploring the impact and ‘message’ of street-level Islamophobia on visible Muslim women victims: a British case study’ in<span> </span><i>Journal of Muslims in Europe<span> </span></i>(Vol. 3, No. 2: 137-159).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2014) ‘Britain First: the frontline resistance to the Islamification of Britain’ in<span> </span><i>Political Quarterly<span> </span></i>(Vol. 85, No. 3: 345-61).</li>
<li>Isakjee, A. & Allen, C. (2013) ‘"A catastrophic lack of inquisitiveness": a critical study of the impact and narrative of the Project Champion surveillance project in Birmingham’ in<span> </span><i>Ethnicities<span> </span></i>(Vol 13, No. 6: 751-70).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2011) ‘Opposing Islamification or promoting Islamophobia? Understanding the English Defence League’ in<span> </span><i>Patterns of Prejudice<span> </span></i>(Vol. 45, No. 4: 279-294).</li>
<li>Allen, C. (2010) ‘Islamophobia’. London: Ashgate.</li>
</ul>
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</div> Failed Heroes of the Left: ILHAN Omartag:4freedoms.com,2019-02-03:3766518:Topic:2002152019-02-03T22:10:59.774ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>This woman committed the following 4 clearly verifiable crimes, yet still got elected to the US congress.</p>
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<li>Incest</li>
<li>Bigamy</li>
<li>Immigration fraud</li>
<li>Perjury</li>
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<p>Why? Wll because she ticks all the boxes of course - Muslim, black, woman - what's not to like for a Leftist? </p>
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<p>This woman committed the following 4 clearly verifiable crimes, yet still got elected to the US congress.</p>
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<li>Incest</li>
<li>Bigamy</li>
<li>Immigration fraud</li>
<li>Perjury</li>
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<p>Why? Wll because she ticks all the boxes of course - Muslim, black, woman - what's not to like for a Leftist? </p>
<p>So, will she be prosecuted? Even if she wasn't protected by the closed ranks of the indoctrinated left, there's one more obstacle: the Minnesota Attorney General is now well known Muslim activist and senator Keith Ellison. Islam protects its own and crushes the kuffar irrespective of what the corrrect legal process is - a point the civic nationalists still haven't grasped. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the world by upsetting long-time Democratic Rep Joe Crowley in New York's 14th congressional district last summer, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist has been the gift that keeps on giving - to conservative reporters and commentators.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That’s because just about everything that comes out of the young congresswoman-elect’s mouth is either patently untrue, ridiculously unworkable, unintentionally hilarious, or ripped straight from the pages of Das Kapital (in which case it’s all of the above).</p>
<p dir="ltr">This 29-year-old architect’s daughter and Boston University cum laude grad - who has managed to make a political career out of portraying herself as some sort of working-class hero - may not “know anything about economics,” as Fox News host <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/28/jesse-watters-greg-gutfeld-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-econ-101/">Jesse Watters noted</a><span> </span>this summer, but she does know how to turn reality upside down with literally every attempt at policy discussion that crosses her lips.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, without further ado and in no particular order, here are seven of the craziest things Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said thus far in her young political career. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Too Many Of Those Evil White Males Oppose<span> </span><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2018/06/17/untitled-n2491264">Nancy Pelosi</a>, Otherwise Maybe I’d Be In</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">“I mean, if anything, I think that what it does is that it creates a window where we could potentially get more conservative leadership,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/19/ocasio-cortez-males-democrats-pelosi/">told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes</a><span> </span>just last week, referring to a letter opposing Pelosi’s leadership signed by 16 Democrats, far too many of whom sadly share the wrong gender and skin color. </p>
<p dir="ltr">“And when you actually look at the signatories, it is not necessarily reflective of the diversity of the party,” she continued. “We have about 16 signatories, 14 of them are male. There are very few people of color in the caucus. There’s very few ideological diversity. It’s not like there are Progressives that are signing on. It’s not like you have a broad-based coalition. So I find it — you know, I’m not totally bought into the concept.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Unless you play Identity Politics like today’s liberals do, the above statement will seem absurd. But in Ocasio-Cortez’s world, buying into a concept apparently has more to do with the race and skin color of the adherents than the merits of the concept itself. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Electing Democrats Is Basically Ending Slavery</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I learned that Kansas was founded over the struggle of the conscience of this nation,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slavery-democrats/">told a Wichita, Kansas crowd</a><span> </span>in July while campaigning for Democrats. “It was when we were deciding who we wanted to be as a country. It was when we were deciding who we wanted to be with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The people who were … leading this nation said, ‘You decide’ to the people. ‘Are we going to be a slave state or are we going to be a free state?’ And it was in 1861 that the people of Kansas decided that we were going to be a free nation. Back then, the people of Kansas were the tipping point for the future of this nation. Today, they are again.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I get it. History is hard. But does Ocasio-Cortez really want to bring up Democrats and slavery? Really? </p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Defeating Global Warming Is Pretty Much Like When The Allies Defeated Nazi Germany, Or Something</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">“So, when we talk about existential threats,” <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/19/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-global-warming-nazis/">Ocasio Cortez said</a>during an October campaign rally, “the last time we had a really major existential threat in this country was around World War II. So, we’ve been here before, and we have a blueprint of what we did before. None of these things are new ideas. What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war, and what we did was that we chose to mobilize and industrialize our entire economy and we put hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think the real question is, who DOESN’T think of the Allied victory over the Nazis when they think of ways to deal with global warming?</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>If Climate Change Isn’t Addressed, People Are Gonna Like, Die And Stuff</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">“People are going to die if we don’t start addressing climate change ASAP,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/23/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-people-die/">tweeted last week</a>. “It’s not enough to think it’s ‘important.’ We must make it urgent. That’s why we need a Select Committee on a Green New Deal, & why fossil fuel-funded officials shouldn’t be writing climate change policy.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">That’s right, unless the United States and other industrialized nations (but really, just the United States) gives up the modern technology that has allowed us to expand the average lifespan by decades over the last century, people are going to die.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Therapy For Snowflakes</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">“Well, you know, in this political moment, it’s so unique and sometimes I feel like I have this job of being something of a social worker or even a therapist in my district because this period has been so re-traumatizing for so many folks and especially in a country where we do not have reliable access to health care, let alone affordable health care,” <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/06/ocasio-cortez-therapist-trump/">Ocasio-Cortez told</a><span> </span>Chris Hayes last month. “This has been a very difficult time for immigrants, women, survivors, people who care about the health of American democracy. It’s very stressful.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Poor wittle snowflakes … So stressful … Thankfully, they elected both a representative AND a snowflake-therapist to help with all the traumatizing caused by that orange meanie in the White House.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>D.C. Apartments Are Like, SOOO Expensive</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">“I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress, so how do I get an apartment?” <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/08/ocasio-cortez-apartment-dc/">Ocasio-Cortez asked</a><span> </span>The New York Times earlier this month. “Those little things are very real.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">To be sure, nothing says ‘working class’ like becoming an international celebrity while winning a race for a $176,000 per year job, then poor mouthing about not being able to afford an apartment only to have the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/13/report-ocasio-cortez-claim-dc-apartment-affordable/">media reveal</a><span> </span>that you were probably lying about it. But some ordinary non-socialist-type working folks might be a bit put off by the whole thing. Put it this way - GOP Rep Sean Duffy <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSeanDuffy/status/1063190765709471745">was out of work</a><span> </span>for 8 months and had 6 kids before coming to Congress in 2011, but you didn’t read about his struggle because he didn’t whine (or lie) about it to the New York Times.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Let’s “Flip This Seat Red In November”</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">“We’re gonna flip this seat red in November,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/07/20/ocasio-cortez-slip-campaign-trail/">said in July</a><span> </span>during a rally for a Kansas Democratic Congressional candidate. Honest mistake or Freudian slip, as in Communist ‘Red?’ Probably the former, but given that we’re talking about a bona-fide socialist, the irony is just too good to pass up. </p>
<p dir="ltr">There you have it, seven of the craziest things Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said so far. Now that she is firmly entrenched among the ranks of the highest profile elected Democrats, you can bet there will be plenty more where those came from.</p>
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