SHIRAZ MAHER
Are the screaming, beard-tugging, trouser-above-the-ankle wearing, finger-jabbing, dole-scrounging fanatics of al-Muhajiroun secret fans of the Simpsons?
The registration details for their latest website, SalafiMedia, says the registrant is Mr Abdullah living at:
356 evergreen terrace
springfield, USA 43arf
GB
As any good Simpsons fan will know, Evergreen Terrace is where all the main characters live. Though, of course, not at 356. The Simpsons live at number 742. Still, if the guys in al-Muhajiroun were any good at things like attention to detail then they probably wouldn't be Islamists.
Anyway, aren't these things supposed to be haram for Omar Bakri's holier-than-thou bag carriers? What is the Salafi position on drawing human characters? It can't be good.
Lets just be glad they're not South Park fans.
Focus on Islamism is a blog dedicated to analysing and exposing the modern ideological phenomenon known as Islamism.
Shiraz Maher is a writer and broadcaster.
Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is a PhD student at King's College, London. He has contributed to various online and printed publications including, The Daily Telegraph, Lebanon's Daily Star, Standpoint and NOWLebanon.
To contact the authors, click here
- Donations to Standpoint will be matched £ for £
- Friends of Standpoint — Donations matched £ for £
- Brexit Revolt – The insider account of the EU referendum
- We need your help and support
- Standpoint Presenting Two Debates At HowTheLightGetsIn 2016
- The Compleat Corbyn — a round-up of Standpoint's Corbyn coverage this month
- We Told You So
- Sir Raymond Carr in Standpoint
- Chronicling The Crash: A Standpoint Ebook
- Grounds for Hope
- Is Islam a Peaceful Religion? Daniel Johnson at the Oxford Union
- Standpoint's Autumn Salons
- Win Tickets to the Inaugural Standpoint Salon
- Is Hunter's History Bunk?
- Lawson Collects on Climate Change Bet
- The Cabinet meeting that kept Salman Rushdie alive
- Friends of Russia or Friends of Putin?
- Russia's Win-Win Election
- The Kremlin Plays Old Tricks With Pussy Riot
- A Pyrrhic Victory for Georgian Democracy
- Abandoned in Moscow
- Standpoint's New Facebook Page
- No need to pander to the Bear, Mr Obama
- Govemania
- Standpoint Recommends: The Tacitus Lecture 2012
- Goodbye, Vienna
- Friends Indeed — Daniel Johnson on Gertrude Himmelfarb
1:02 AM