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Somers Town stands united with Muslims

• On Sunday February 19, about 60 people of all ages and backgrounds in the Somers Town area came together at an open meeting, No To War, No To Islamophobia, to discuss the attacks on the Muslim community. The following statement was agreed.
We would like to show our complete solidarity with the Muslim communities in Britain. We stand in total opposition to the racism and Islamophobia that is infecting so much of British politics today.
The publication of anti-Islamic cartoons is racist. Quite rightly, there would be outrage if these were cartoons depicting the Reverend Jesse Jackson as a golliwog. It seems that Islamophobia has become the last acceptable form of racism.
We pledge to stand by the Muslim communities. Only a united opposition to discrimination regardless of face or creed can stop the kind of developments that allowed the Jews to be pushed into the ghetto in the 1930s. Freedom of speech should not be abused as a convenient cloak to cover up racism.
And the row over the cartoons is rooted in the occupation of Iraq and the “war on terror”.
Therefore, we will come together to build the largest delegation possible from Somers Town to demonstrate against the war on March 18, the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
This statement was voted on in the meeting, and signatories include:
Nuruzzaman (Mukul) Hira – prospective candidate, Respect
Cllr Roger Robinson – Labour, Somers Town and St Pancras
Liz Wheatley – convenor, Camden Stop the War Coalition
Cllr Abdul Quadir – Labour, Deputy Mayor
Maddy Cooper – joint secretary, Camden Respect
Momota Khatun – youth worker
Nurul Islam – prospective candidate, Labour
Jahan-Ara Hussain –teacher
Shamim Ahmed
Abdul Mobin Tafader
Haji Shamim
Anu Miah
Abdul Hye
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