Re: European Race report team 'told to change findings on Muslims'

Anyone who believes Muslims are "just another religion" are simply the
"useful idiots" Linen referred to. They are "politically correct" nitwits.

If your not Muslim, they are coming for you.
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> Race report team 'told to change findings on Muslims'
>
> By Hannah Cleaver in Berlin
> (Filed: 27/11/2003)
>
> Researchers who found that young Muslims were to blame
> for many attacks on Jews were told several times by the
> European Union to change their conclusions, they said yesterday.
>
> The charge helped fuel a furious row between the two
> sides as they traded accusations of bias, incompetence,
> and lying.
>
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/27/wrace27.xml
>
> The Anti-Semitism Research Institute of Berlin's
> Technical University was asked last year by the EU's
> anti-racism body to examine the increase in attacks
> against Jews across Europe.
>
> But the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and
> Xenophobia has now refused to publish it, claiming that
> it was too badly written and based on poor information.
>
> The report's authors responded yesterday by saying
> their findings had been shelved because criticism of
> Muslims did not fit in with the centre's agenda.
>
> They had found that young Muslims, particularly
> immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, were
> responsible for much of the rise in anti-Semitism. The
> far-Right and some Left-wing anti-globalisation
> activists were also partly to blame, they said.
>
> As well as physical assaults, they had considered
> verbal abuse, newsletters, survey findings, newspaper
> articles and other information, mostly from the
> centre's databases.
>
> Prof Werner Bergmann said the centre repeatedly asked
> for the draft report to be changed to soften its
> conclusions about young Muslims. Alterations were also
> sought when it linked anti-Semitism to both
> anti-Zionism and criticism of Israeli politics.
>
> His co-researcher, Dr Juliane Wetzel, said: "The EUMC
> didn't want to publish the report because it's not
> politically correct. The results give the EUMC problems
> because it wants to protect exactly these groups."
>
> But Bob Purkiss, the centre's chairman, insisted that
> the work was of poor quality - so much so that the
> centre might try to recover the È4,900 paid for it.
>
> "We are studying the contractual arrangements that we
> had with the Berlin institute to see whether they have
> fulfilled their contractual obligations and, if not,
> will be taking the appropriate action with regard to
> the contract," he said.
>
> Mr Purkiss added that the work was never intended for
> publication, but was supposed to be the basis for a
> larger study that the centre will conduct next year,
> with a view to publishing a report then.
>
> "The EUMC remains 100 per cent committed to its
> ongoing research on anti-Semitism and all forms of
> racism and intolerance."
>
> His comments provoked fury in Berlin. Prof Bergmann
> said: "We were asked to write a report.
>
> "It was totally clear that it was for publication. We
> would not write it for someone else to rewrite and
> include in something else."
>
> He and his staff had had to gather data themselves
> because of gaps in the centre's information, but both
> sides had agreed there was enough on which to base the report.
>
> A letter from the centre to the research institute in
> January, headed "Chair's comments on the Anti-Semitism
> Report", reads: "The EUMC must be seen as bringing
> groups of people together, not as acting divisively."
>
> Under the heading, "Divisive statements" it remarks:
> "The authors assert a direct connection between
> anti-Semitism and 'Arab/North African Muslims', 'the
> Muslim population', 'the Arab-Muslim population',
> 'young Muslims' in Europe.
>
> "The authors assert a direct connections [sic] between
> anti-Semitism and 'immigrants'."
>
> It then says: "All these generalising statements are
> made despite acknowledgement on the last page that 'the
> fight against racism, xenophobia and discrimination
> remains a common struggle'.
>
> "That Muslims are also targets of racism and religious
> discrimination is acknowledged only as an aside.
>
> "Mention of Muslim people should only be made if it
> were directly relevant to specific manifestations of
> anti-Semitism. Any generalisation should be strictly avoided."
>
> Prof Bergmann said: "I am also in favour of crimes
> being dealt with independently of a person's religion,
> but this was important to our analysis.
>
> "Of course these incidents involved for example French
> citizens, but the fact that they were also immigrants
> and Muslim was relevant to our study."
>
>
> European study on anti-Semitism is scrapped
> By Irene Zoech in Vienna
> (Filed: 23/11/2003)
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/23/wxen23.xml
>
> A study backed by the European Union on the rise of
> anti-Semitism has been shelved after officials decided
> that its findings were "too controversial".
>
> The 112-page survey, commissioned by the European
> Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia based in
> Austria, found that many anti-Semitic incidents were
> carried out by Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups.
>
> The research was ordered in response to fears that
> anti-Semitism was on the rise across Europe - and
> apparently confirmed the truth of the claims. However,
> the centre - which is the EU's official racism watchdog
> - was unnerved by its results.
>
> A spokesman for the watchdog refused to comment
> yesterday, but according to authoritative reports
> officials admitted a "political decision" was taken not
> to publish it partly because of fears that it would
> increase hostility towards Muslims.