Thursday, 12 November 2009

Conspiracy theory of the day ...

... I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, usually preferring to blame groupthink, ignorance, greed, that kind of thing, but I do like a good conspiracy theory and I came across this one (which I have edited for brevity) in the boris-johnson.com forum which rates as one of the best I've seen.

"Recently, as we've all been aware, there have been several organised media-savvy 'incidents' involving EDL/BNP demonstrators and Islamist extremist groups in several large cities ... However, not many people are aware of how these were organised. The coordination and networks to organise these large-scale demonstrations and minor scuffles were carried out by Iranian intelligence cells here in the UK ...

These people are well-represented here and highly organised, with radical extremist preachers in the mosques who deliberately incite Shia extremism at the theological level in ENGLISH so the audience will be bigger, and also 'news' organisations such as PressTV, and other organisations that are fronts for Hezbollah and are active on Facebook and other social networking sites ...

Their ulterior motive is the erosion of the conditions in which tolerance, diversity, peaceful coexistence and multiculturalism can exist ... This exacerbates extremism and encourages further conflict between mainstream British society and Islam."

Is this just about plausible?

4 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Yes it is plausible. Whether it's true is another matter.

We know for a fact that the Saudis fund madrassahs, 9/11 bombers and so on, and the Iranians genuinely hate the UK and the US, so why wouldn't they fund these groups?

We also know that the CIA helped out Solidarnosc in Polan, fair play to them, they did a good job there, and that western TV stations and internet services cheerfully foment anti-Ahmadinejad feeling in Iran.

And the Russians had that guy poisoned with polonium in London, so why shouldn't the Iranians play the same game?

Steven_L said...

It's a good one isn't it!

Anonymous said...

I am 'Ghazi' on Boris Johnson's forum and I am the one who wrote that post.

You are quite right to say it was a 'conspiracy theory', but would be more right to describe it as a 'conspiracy hypothesis'. What I wrote there came mostly out of my imagination and is nothing but a tall tale intended to entertain. Please don't take it any more seriously than that. It is a piece of creative fiction with elements of Persian intrigue and it was only supposed to thrill, not inform. Apologies for any misunderstandings.

Steven_L said...

It's not my business to take it seriously mate, that's what we pay the security services to do.

I just liked the theory, it was original.