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SASS QUASHED
Dilpazier Aslam, the sassy junior Guardianista exposed by Scott Burgess, has been fired:
On Monday July 18 Aslam was advised that the Guardian considered that Hizb ut-Tahrir had promoted violence and anti-semitic material on its website and that membership of the organisation was not compatible with being a Guardian trainee.
The following day Aslam told the editor, Alan Rusbridger, that he was not willing to leave Hizb ut-Tahrir and that, while he personally repudiated anti-semitism, he did not consider the website material to be promoting violence or to be anti-semitic.
The matter was subsequently treated under the paper’s grievance and disciplinary procedure. Aslam was invited to a meeting with GNL’s chief executive, Carolyn McCall, at which he repeated his refusal to leave the organisation or repudiate its material.
Having considered all the circumstances Ms McCall took the view that Aslam could not remain a member of the Guardian’s trainee scheme.
The paper will carry a clarification making it clear that Aslam’s membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir should have been mentioned in the context of his July 13 article.
So he wasn’t promoted after all. We await a similar clarification on Aslam’s Hizb ut-Tahrir membership from The Age.
UPDATE. The Guardian is now so fearful of blogger reprisals that it’s omitted a byline from this bitchy anti-blogger piece.
(Via LGF)
Someone has to fisk the article in the Guardian media section Aslam targeted by bloggers
The bitterness makes for a fun read.
Just in: Sassy terrorist attacks in Egypt
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 07 23 at 03:07 AM • permalinkIt’s okay. Aslam is a natural fit at this magazine.
And in the tabloid Sun, their attack-dog columnist, Richard Littlejohn, took the opportunity to claim: “A Guardian journalist has been unmasked as an Islamist extremist”.
Err, well.. yes, he is an Islamist extremist, is he not?
Apparantly its poor form to print certain facts. These crazy Brits!
O/T McGrath once again batting magnificently at Lords, helped by Simon Katich.
Emphasis mine:
“Scott Burgess, a blogger from New Orleans who recently moved to London, spends his time indoors posting repeated attacks on the Guardian for its stance on the environment, its columnists such as Polly Toynbee, and its recent intervention in the US presidential election campaign.”
The Guardian publishes from a circus tent, then? Or do they sit under a big tree with their laptops?
And why are they posting an editorial defending Aslam, and themselves for hiring him, after they’ve just given him the boot? If Burgess and the rest were wrong, why is this guy looking for another job? (Preferrably not one that involves a bulky jacket with wires trailing from it.)
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 07 23 at 12:59 PM • permalinkPoor Guardian — So when the bomb goes off at the Guardian, will THAT be an act of terrorism?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 23 at 01:44 PM • permalinkthe Guardian considered that Hizb ut-Tahrir had promoted violence and anti-semitic material on its website and that membership of the organisation was not compatible with being a Guardian trainee.
Since when?
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 07 25 at 04:50 AM • permalink
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it will be most interesting to see whether the Glesga Goblin at Grauniad Sur Yarra cares to acknowledge this