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The opening as it read in 2010
Islamophobia Watch is a website initiated in January 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the public domain which, according to Islamophobia Watch, advocates fear and hatred of Muslims around the world and Islam as a religion. According to the website the campaign was: founded with a determination not to allow the racist ideology of Western Imperialism to gain common currency in its demonisation of Islam. Islamophobia, as a racist tool of Western Imperialism, is strongly advocated by the political right but has also found an echo in the left, particularly sections of the left in France and the countries that make up the United Kingdom. Islamophobia Watch will regularly report opinion columns and news items which match the editorial brief of the website, both articles that we believe advocate Islamophobia and those writers and organisations taking a stand against Islamophobia.1 The website was set up by two non-Muslim socialists, Eddie Truman and Bob Pitt. Truman was at that time press officer for the Scottish Socialist Party group at the Scottish Parliament , and Pitt worked as a researcher in the office of the then Mayor of London , Ken Livingstone . Most of the posts now appear under the name of Martin Sullivan, which is rumoured to be a pseudonym.2
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The opening as it stood in 2015 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Islamophobia Watch is a website which was initiated in January 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the media, and in society at large, which it perceives to advocate Islamophobia . The website was set up by two non-Muslim socialists, Eddie Truman and Bob Pitt. Truman was at that time press officer for the Scottish Socialist Party group at the Scottish Parliament , and Pitt worked as a researcher in the office of the then Mayor of London , Ken Livingstone .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Islamophobia Watch was a website which was initiated in January 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the media, and in society at large, which it perceives to advocate Islamophobia . The website was set up by two non-Muslim socialists, Eddie Truman and Bob Pitt. Truman was at that time press officer for the Scottish Socialist Party group at the Scottish Parliament , and Pitt worked as a researcher in the office of the then Mayor of London , Ken Livingstone .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Islamophobia watchdog website Islamophobia Watch was a website which was initiated in January 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the media, and in society at large, which it perceives to advocate Islamophobia . The site ceased by the end of January 2015. The website was set up by two non-Muslim socialists, Eddie Truman and Bob Pitt. Truman was at that time press officer for the Scottish Socialist Party group at the Scottish Parliament , and Pitt worked as a researcher in the office of the then Mayor of London , Ken Livingstone .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Islamophobia watchdog website Islamophobia Watch was a website which was initiated in January 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the media, and in society at large, which it perceives to advocate Islamophobia . The site ceased by the end of January 2015. The website was set up by two non-Muslim socialists, Eddie Truman and Bob Pitt. Truman was at that time press officer for the Scottish Socialist Party group at the Scottish Parliament , and Pitt worked as a researcher in the office of the then Mayor of London , Ken Livingstone .
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website initiated in january 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the public domain which
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website which was initiated in january 2005 as a non-profit project to document material in the media
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