Imtiaz Muqbil's Op-Eds

[Gerasimos]

I contend that Imtiaz Muqbil's op-eds in his biweekly column "SoulSearching" are full of misinformation and omit important facts and historical facts.

I also contend that the Bangkok Post displays very biased, unbalanced and unprofessional journalism by never publishing articles and op-eds by historians and professional journalists who have alternate opinions to those expressed by Mr Muqbil.

The few, often heavily edited letters (I know this for a fact!) that refute Mr Muqbil's views allowed into Postbag by Post editors are insufficient .

Looking forward to your comments and opinions- if the Bangkok Post "the newspaper you can trust" even permits them to be expressed!

[Gerasimos]

Hi Noaksy!
Here is an example of Mr Muqbil's misinformation. In more than one of his articles (http://www.bangkokpost.com/Perspective/ ... rs005.php; http://www.bangkokpost.com/060806_Persp ... ers005.php) he slanders people of Jewish background.
For example:
"...Having connected the dots, read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and draw your own conclusions. That "conspiracy theory" may turn out not to be one after all...." by Imtiaz Muqbil in SOUL Searching, Applying principle of equal treatment
Bangkok Post, 6 August 2006 (http://www.bangkokpost.com/060806_Persp ... ers005.php).

In this week's Soul Searching, Mr Muqbil also mentions the Protocols, with which he's obviously obsessed and also seeks to promulgate (http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin ... engagement).

The Protocols actually is: "...A Hoax of Hate...It is a classic in paranoid, racist literature. Taken by the gullible as the confidential minutes of a Jewish conclave convened in the last years of the nineteenth century, it has been heralded by anti-Semites as proof that Jews are plotting to take over the world. Since its contrivance around the turn of the century by the Russian Okhrana, or Czarist secret police, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" has taken root in bigoted, frightened minds around the world. The booklet’s twenty-four sections spell out the alleged secret plans of Jewish leaders seeking to attain world domination. They represent the most notorious political forgery of modern times. Although thoroughly discredited, the document is still being used to stir up anti-Semitic hatred..."
(http://www.adl.org/special_reports/prot ... _intro.asp).

[Fibbuster1]

Muqbil's column is not actually a column; it is a Muslim diatribe against Israel and the West. It was supposed to be about soul-searching but is anything but that. One cannot blame Muqbil for what he is: Muslim's are brainwashed from day one. The real question is why does the Bangkok Post allow such shallow, puerile nonsense to pass for a column especially without giving other points of view from, for example, Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Muslim women who have escaped to the West? Of course, legitimate criticism of Islam is to Muqbil and his ilk "Islamophobia."

Today's nonsense was typical and, in fact, the UN is kowtowing to Muslims in preventing legitimate criticism of Islam, not the other way around, as Muqbil writes. Muqbil and no doubt those who publish his column no doubt think controversy sells newspapers. No doubt it does. But wouldn't it be nice to have a column or excerpts from a book every other Sunday giving an opposing point of view especially from a Muslim woman, perhaps one who had acid thrown in her face because she wanted to go to school or whose sister was killed in a so-called "honor killing" because she wanted to wear Western dress. And have you noticed Muslims never criticize Muslims? And have you noticed Muqbil writes nothing about the horrors of what Muslims are doing in southern Thailand? Buddhist monks being beheaded, teachers being burned and beaten to death?

[villager]

Muqbil's column is not actually a column; it is a Muslim diatribe against Israel and the West. It was supposed to be about soul-searching but is anything but that. One cannot blame Muqbil for what he is: Muslim's are brainwashed from day one. The real question is why does the Bangkok Post allow such shallow, puerile nonsense to pass for a column especially without giving other points of view from, for example, Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Muslim women who have escaped to the West? Of course, legitimate criticism of Islam is to Muqbil and his ilk "Islamophobia."

Today's nonsense was typical and, in fact, the UN is kowtowing to Muslims in preventing legitimate criticism of Islam, not the other way around, as Muqbil writes. Muqbil and no doubt those who publish his column no doubt think controversy sells newspapers. No doubt it does. But wouldn't it be nice to have a column or excerpts from a book every other Sunday giving an opposing point of view especially from a Muslim woman, perhaps one who had acid thrown in her face because she wanted to go to school or whose sister was killed in a so-called "honor killing" because she wanted to wear Western dress. And have you noticed Muslims never criticize Muslims? And have you noticed Muqbil writes nothing about the horrors of what Muslims are doing in southern Thailand? Buddhist monks being beheaded, teachers being burned and beaten to death?

Hey Fibbuster, Ain,t seen you before, so on behalf of Ian, Gordon, and myself ,a very welcome aboard ,LOLOLOL.

[villager]

I just wonder if anyone out there disagree,s with Fibbuster,s highly accurate description of Islam today , especially in its attitude to their womenfolk who in nearly all case,s are viewed as Somehow "inferior " to men.

[Fibbuster1]

Yes, we are all taught from Day One but some of us were fortunate enough to be educated while millions of Muslims were brainwashed with a Koran that is full of hatred toward "non-believers" which it equates again and again with "evil-doers" and we are told again and again that we will burn in fire, etc. And since they believe the Koran is holy and cannot be changed, Jihad is the result. ##Deleted## It is the Bangkok Post which has let its readers down with its one-sided coverage.

Mod Comments: You have got to be kidding if you think that is going to be allowed!

[GORDON]

When I lived in England I knew quite a few Muslim friends who were very ready to criticise the Muslim extremists who twisted the words of the Koran to match their ideals. Those that I knew as friends told me that their faith was one of peace and tollerance, and were not happy to have their religeon hijacked as it is today, typicaly by the likes of Abbu Hamza and his cronies at the Finsbury Park Mosque. The Muslim leaders there threw him out , and the stupid British authorities allowed him to preach his vile abuse in the street.Would I have been able to do the same thing in his country, NO WAY.-------------------------I have only one thing to ask these radical preachers of hate that wish the death of all infidels. If as you preach , the sure and certain way to enter paradise is by killing infidels, why do you not do so yourselves instead of brainwashing impressionable people to do it in your place. Could it possibly be that you do not believe what you preach. It is no good arguing that the teachers have to sacrifice their entry to teach and spread the word. What better way of doing just that would be by example. Empty words from empty people. I sincerely hope that we get some Muslims on this thread who can shed some light on the brutality of these extremists and their crazy mullahs . There are many many Muslims that do not agree with these radicals, please let's hear from some, who can tell us some home truths. Muslims will criticise other Muslims when they know them to be in the wrong, and some are terribly so. Please join us here and confirm first-hand that the cruelty we see today is not what the Prophet Mohammed would have wished. Peace be with you. Sawadee khrap. P.S. It would be nice too, to see your views in the B.P. and balance a one sided thread. Thanks in advance, for I am sure some of you will have the courage to post your thoughts as my friends in England were.

[Fibbuster1]

Gordon, You say you would like to balance a one-sided thread; our goal is to balance a one-sided newspaper called the Bangkok Post. Sorry if I got off on a tangent about Islam per se. But allow me to say yes, there is a difference between being educated and being brainwashed. If you are educated, you are being exposed to other points of view and other beliefs. If you are being indoctrinated or brainwashed. You are not. For a perfect example of brainwashing, go to Youtube and type in Muslim Children and take a look at some of the videos in which two-year-old and three-year-old children are being taught to hate Jews. That is brainwashing. It is also sickening.

Muslims never criticize Muslims I meant in the practical sense of what is occurring. For example, at 9/11, Muqbil wrote his headline, "What Else Could They Do?" In other words, the poor suffering Muslim murderers were only reacting and there were extenuating circumstances, blah, blah, blah. And, of course, on other massacres by Muslims, Muqbil says nothing. All I ask is that the Bangkok Post give equal space to other points of view, especially from Muslim women who would find Muqbil's specious nonsense ridiculous. Don't hang by your thumbs until that happens.

[villager]

Hey Fibbuster, maybe Muqbil would like to extol his view,s on the virtue,s of Islam here on the Forum, I,m sure one of the Mod,s could arrange it.

[Sean Moran]

Ainnit always the same, eh Villager? Never a BFM around when ya need one, is there?