i am sure medhi hassan you would be happy to speak to nick griffin as well,what a racist seperatist sectarian muslim bigot lutfur rahman and his supporters and cronies are
,and for you medhi hassan to even give this guy 1 ounce of support proves to me that you are just a supporter of radical islam and there message of sectarian hatred,you in my opinion medhi hassan have sunk to a new low.in fact i will go one step further.you are the brown version of nick griffin medhi hassan.hows that.

fascist racist scum lutfur rahman and his cronies.

I can make my own mind up. Freedom of speech and expression, its my view, not yours, you don't like it, tough.

The Medhi doth protest too much, me thinks.

@BowResident + @HansCastorp
I have not read Gilligan. I have heard plenty from the big angry mouth of Medhi Hasan. On balance and taking everything in the media both in the UK and abroad into account over the years I would have to agree with HansCastorp.
I know nothing of this man Lutfur Rahman so shall not pass comment. As for the virulent plague of Islamic extremism (a far-right wing of a great religion), I would have thought it obvious to anyone with only half a brain what their aims are for they tell us often enough themselves after all.
I just hope that moderate, responsible and considerate Muslims and Christians alike understand these fascists for what they are and stand up against them, ie, no difference in essence from the BNP et al. All should be shunned.
There is a threat. We all know this country's roots and its history. That should be respected, just as it should be anywhere in the world. If you refuse to accept your adopted country's laws and social mores then what on earth are you doing here at all. Surely you would be far happier elsewhere. Many would argue that you should leave. The same would apply in reverse elsewhere and in fact has been happening a lot for years.
The point is however that individuals in positions of responsibility and institutions in Britain today have stuck their heads where the sun doesn't shine and are choosing to ignore the obvious. That is very dangerous indeed.

Oh yes and do you know anybody who believes in not hanging gays in London, but also believes in hanging gays in Medina?

@terrywhite

Er, no, Gilligan was forced to leave the BBC, and the Hutton enquiry found that his conflicting versions of own conversations left a huge question mark over his honesty and reliability.

@Hans Castorp
Very nice, by your logic Lutfur's denials are proof of his guilt, so there is nothing he can say in his own defence.

Lutfur Rahman is a crook who uses his cronies to intimidate people into voting. I am from the British Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets, and choose to remain anonymous as I do not want the intimidation. I have witnessed this first hand.

Rahman gets many of his votes through intimidation - the Bangladeshi community I am part of to describe it simply puts pressure on its people to vote in a certain way - you vote a certain way to be loyal, you vote a certain way to show that you are Bangladeshi and a good Muslim.

Rahman's campaigners go from house to house and intimidate people into voting for him - it is not by pointing a gun to anyones head, it is much more subtle than that. Those I know of who pressurize in this way are so close to Rahman that I do not believe he is ignorant of the tactics used.

Medhi, this man is regressive and nasty - everyone can argue from on high about this man, buit I see first hand his campaign tactics and it is sick. Please do not give him space that he does not deserve just because he is apparantly on the left and Muslim. He can believe in secular society all he wants - does he value fair and open debate or does he use channels of shame, intimidation, coercion in order to achive power?

Konnu

Erm, no.

What I am saying, very clearly, is that judgements about people are best formed primarily by what they do, rather than what they tell you. This is a matter of common sense. It undergirds what journalism is.

Gilligan has done this, and done public discourse a service insodoing. Mehdi counters this work with a childish slur and what looks like a pandering interview, and *nothing else*.

Investigative journalism should be demoted to the same weight in opinion-forming as PR.

BowResident

If you have anything to do with the odious Respect party, then your comments are completely unsurprising, and your view utterly undeserving of the dignity of a substantive reply.

Anonymous says:

Rahman gets many of his votes through intimidation - the Bangladeshi community I am part of to describe it simply puts pressure on its people to vote in a certain way - you vote a certain way to be loyal, you vote a certain way to show that you are Bangladeshi and a good Muslim.

Anonymous, it's precisely because of the fear of intimidation that the UK has a secret ballot. Even if Lutfur were "intimidating" the voters -- Bangladeshi, white or whoever -- they could exact their revenge in the ballot booth. So, sorry don't follow your logic.

Just read this, and think:
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/11/24/who-are-the-real-mccarthyites/

Didn't realise the mayor for Hackney had taken on such a name these days...

I for one voted for Lutfur Rahman.

and next time if he goes for the general election i'll campaign for him,

I admit I may have got Lutfur wrong. Anyone who believes in a secular society can't be all that bad. Religion and Politics should not mix. The explanations he gives to some of his comments seem quite reasonable, particularly of his going along with the Lord Chief Justice.
The difficulty comes in him being readmitted back to Labour so short a time after he stood against the official Lbour candidate. He should forget about it and continue as an Independent, and probably go onto win a 2nd term.

- Mehdi - Alluh Akhbar Lutfur, lets feed these infidel scum a line about how liberal we are etc etc, they lap it up on the NS, we like gays blah blah blah, we know they are destined to hell...Laughs

Lutfur - Assalam Alakham Mehdim, I didn't realise how accommodating Lefty's really are, I still cant believe my luck, at how they are such willing dupes for our Jihadi spin.

Mehdi - Lutfur, I've been saying one thing on NS and something else to our brothers without question, its beautiful.

This is a sham interview by a Mehdi who again has shown himself to be an Apologist for the Islamic Supremacists...

We know what side of the fence Mehdi is on....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APAPqT3QdFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__31LOVIR-M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUuhD3TysRc&feature=related

I forget, what happened to Ken for backing him, against party policy?

When Lutfur was the leader, he was the only one willing to sit down with my local community centre which is run by a mixed group of Labour and Respect supporters. Some of the previous councillors were known to try to block funding coming into the community centre for their own vile racists politics against various community organisations. Money kept on being diverted money to Rich Mix Centre and other places. This included the Bancroft Library money almost being stopped by the previous leader Abbas!

Seriously, so in UK a local government is funding a group seeking for criminalizing lgbt people & sex outside marriage and refuses to accept secular values (at least according to their website)? And those running the government even call themselves leftist/social democrats/etc?