Cloned Poster points to an interesting BBC Newsnight story about an influential UK thinktank and its faked research.

As the Guardian sums up:

A rightwing thinktank which claimed to have uncovered extremist literature on sale at dozens of British mosques was last night accused of basing a report on fabricated evidence.

The report by Policy Exchange alleged that books condoning violent jihad and encouraging hatred of Christians, Jews and gays were being sold in a quarter of the 100 mosques visited.

But BBC2’s Newsnight said examination of receipts provided by the researchers to verify their purchases showed some had been written by the same person – even though they purported to come from different mosques.

Several receipts also misspelled the names or addresses of the mosques where the books were supposedly sold.
[…]
Policy Exchange’s research director, Dean Godson, insisted it stood by the report "100%". He said the thinktank had checked its evidence thoroughly and the allegations did not challenge the substance of the study – that such extremist literature was being widely sold.

The Policy Exchange report was published on the evening of the Saudi king’s state visit to the U.K. It was certainly intended to somewhat influence it.

Dean Godson, the Policy Exchange’s research director, is such an extremist neocon that even the editorial page of the rightwing ToryTelegraph fired him. As the Telegraph editor explained:

It’s OK to be pro-Israel, but not to be unbelievably pro-Likud Israel, it’s OK to be pro-American but not look as if you’re taking instructions from Washington. Dean Godson and Barbara Amiel were key departures.

The author of the Policy Exchange report is one Denis MacEoin. As he writes in a bio of his:

Hasbara doesn’t just come out of that
liberalism or my knowledge of Jews and Judaism, but from a deepening
belief that the future of civilization comes down to Israel in one way
or another. If Israel goes, the values that have sustained Western civilization will have gone with it. We aren’t simply fighting a war on terror, we’re fighting for values that once seemed certain to survive and are now being threatened, above all by an unreformed Islam.

Hasbara is public advocacy for Israeli government policy.

On his blog MayEoin presents

arguments to show that Israel actually embodies the best in democracy, anti-racism, religious freedom, and rights for women, gay people,
and minorities of different kinds.

Oh really?

These neocons have published false data about Muslim "extremism" to futher the policy of Israel.

Spinwatch has some good reporting on Dean Godson and his brother Ron, The Godson approach to political warfare, that explains how black propaganda and outright lies are their prefered trade.

These people are convinced to be right in their opinions and policy. But as everyone but them thinks those are dumb, foolish and inhuman ideas, they rely on lies and deception to sell them.

When they are caught in such, they whine about it.

Spoilt brats.