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Asad Shah was an Ahmadi, belonging to a small Muslim sect deemed to be heretical by many Muslims.
He uploaded hundreds of videos, forever perched behind his shop counter, in which he preached peace, love and unity.
For making and publishing those videos, he lost his life.
In the most barbaric fashion imaginable, he was stabbed repeatedly in the head and upper body.
Hardline religious protesters showed up outside the school, shutting it down for days.
Batley Grammar’s headteacher, Gary Kibble, issued an unequivocal apology.
Today, that teacher is still in hiding with his family, their names and phone numbers changed.
This shameful, medieval situation reflects so much that has gone rotten with modern Britain.
SWP came to believe that an emerging Muslim identity politics could be channelled into broader struggles the early stirrings of a perverse alliance between sections of the radical left and reactionary religious ideology.
The anti-Rushdie movement took firm hold within the United Kingdom, among British Muslims who had all been essentially encouraged by state multiculturalism to see themselves as separate and distinct.
VR Score
54
Informative language
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Neutral language
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Article tone
semi-formal
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English
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Offensive language
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Known propaganda techniques
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short-lived
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Source diversity
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