Radical Muslims seeking to spread their ideology in the United Kingdom have found a surprising ally—the British government. London has had many successes in combating terrorists like Al-Qaeda. Yet it is helping more politically adept Islamists gain power and prestige by accepting their pose as “moderates.”
Several recent appointments in the government show how the Islamists are gaining access inside the government. Azad Ali has been chosen to sit on a panel to advise the Crown Prosecution Service’s counter-terrorism chief, for example. Ali has previously lamented U.S. support for the “terrorist slaughter machine of the Zionist state of Israel,” and has spoken highly of Abdullah Azzam, the Muslim Brotherhood mentor of Osama Bin Laden, and Anwar al-Awlaki, the Al-Qaeda-linked imam in Yemen that was admired by Major Nidal Malik Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter, although he recently said he rejects al-Awlaki’s views.
Ali has also expressed his support for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group seeking to resurrect the caliphate and destroy Israel and “the new crusaders.” The Telegraph reported that he said he found “much truth” in a remark saying Muslims are required to kill U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq, but debate has ensued about whether Ali was referring to that specific statement. Whatever the case, Ali’s views cannot be placed in the “moderate” category.
Another individual, Asim Hafeez, described as a “hardcore Salafi” by one of his colleagues, has been chosen as the head of intervention at the Office of Security and Counterterrorism. Mockbul Ali requested that the British government permit one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top theologians, Sheikh Youself al-Qaradawi entry into the country and has been promoted to “Head of Prevent, Counter Ideology” at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He also used his position to try to get a visa for Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a member of Bangladesh’s parliament, despite his statement that the U.K. and U.S. “deserve all that is coming to them” for forcibly removing the Taliban from power.
Mockbul Ali also serves as a member of the Foreign Office’s Engaging with the Islamic World Group and has been accused of promoting the Muslim Brotherhood. He “had a key role in coordinating seven Muslim taskforces set up by Tony Blair to tackle extremism in the wake of the July 7 bombings [of 2005].” Prior to his career in government service, he was an editor of a newspaper published by the Union of Muslim Students that praised a Palestinian female suicide bomber who killed two Israeli civilians in Jerusalem in March 2002.
The Department of Communities and Local Government is talking to the Muslim Council of Britain’s former secretary-general, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, about involving the group in the government’s efforts. This move came despite an earlier decision made by the British government earlier this year to end its relationship with the organization after its deputy director-general, Dr. Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration that called for Muslims to “carry on with the jihad and resistance against the occupier until the liberation of all Palestine,” meaning until Israel is destroyed. The declaration also called on Muslims to attack any foreign forces trying to stop the flow of people or arms to the Gaza Strip, where Hamas was facing an Israeli offensive. This meant that British naval forces involved in such efforts could be targeted.
The Centre for Social Cohesion reports that the British government has awarded $80,000 in taxpayer money to the Muslim Brotherhood to help fight extremism. The funding is going to the Muslim Welfare House, a member of the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, which the Centre says acts as the representative of Muslim Brotherhood on the continent. Three of the five directors of the Muslim Welfare House also served as directors of the Muslim Association of Britain, another Brotherhood affiliate, until 2007. The report says that one of those three directors has openly supported Hamas.
The British government has made the mistake of thinking such organizations are “moderate” just because their tactics are less dramatic than Al-Qaeda and they do not support attacking civilians, except for Israelis.
“Although the MB [Muslim Brotherhood] does not present a direct terrorist threat, it promotes an ideology which helped create modern jihadist terrorism and is fundamentally incompatible with western notions of statehood,” the Centre for Social Cohesion’s Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens writes.
Even extremists found guilty of engaging in terrorist acts are being given soft treatment by the British judicial system. Three senior judges ruled in July 2008 that “Care has to be taken to ensure that the sentence was not disproportionate to the facts of the particular offences. If sentences were imposed which were more severe than the circumstances of the particular case warranted, that would be likely to inflame rather than deter extremism.”
The judges’ political analysis of what causes extremism has therefore influenced policy and as a result, up to 30 “high-level” convicted terrorists are going to be released. This includes terrorists involved in a foiled suicide bombing plot in 2005 and two who called for acts of violence in retaliation for the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark. The Sunday Times also found that “An analysis of the appeal court cases shows that of the 26 terrorism cases it has heard, 25 have led to men with terrorism convictions having their sentences reduced.”
The British government should realize that not all extremists follow Al-Qaeda’s methods, and embracing those who subscribe to the ideology of groups like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood is no solution to the problem of Islamic radicalism.
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The British government is more sinister than naive with its approach to Muslims and Islam. Recent revelations show how the Labour Government concealed a change in immigration policy from parliament and the public by massively ramping up the numbers allowed into the UK from Asia and Africa. A political adviser to the government (not Muslim) revealed that there was a secret political motive behind the expansion of immigration so as to impose multiculturalism on Britain and thus gain a political edge over opposition parties by labelling them racist whenever they attempted to discuss the issue. Just recently it was reported that 20,000 student visas were issued by immigration officers working in India and Bangladesh which tripled the number handed out in the previous three months. It is now widely believed that Labour are deliberately stepping up immigration hoping to gain support from beneficiaries of passport holders in their bid to increase their majority in the elections in a few months time. Surely this must be the most corrupt government we have ever had.
Stupid Brits! Are these guys the descendants of Neville Chamberlain? Appears so. America…take a lesson. You're just about there yourself. Don't believe me? The imprisonment of Rifqa Bary is my evidence; Obama bowing to the Saudis is another; Bush holding hands of a Saudi is a third. Mind you, we Canadians aren't any better.We're just not on the forefront of world events and the media. We make the news when we win at hockey, but unfortunately that does little good to stop encroaching Islamization. Eh?
Every American should see this video !
The ambition of Islam to conquer the world.
For centuries Islam of the militants have been on the march to conquer the world. We did not notice because we chose not to notice. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in
1920 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt and was in deep confrontation with the Egyptian government. The current goals for Islam to achieve global domination for a Muslim Caliphate: a world under strict Islamic “Sharia” law, pulling Muslims back to the 7th Century.
Consult : http://xrl.us/bf66jj
It's sad that the British govt. is full of Islam history ignoramuses, else they'd never have allowed mass Muslim immigration or be so easily fooled by Taqqiya. Tell them how easy it is to study online free with the Historyscoper at http://go.to/islamhistory
British leaders are not stupid! Of course they know these Muslims are NOT moderates! They know very well these Muslims are violent, dangerous men and choose to empower them! Britain has been taken over by the Left and Islam. The Left and Islam are now ruling Britain. G-D have mercy on the British people.
VIOLENT IMMIGRANTS to the Free World-Their Goal is Conquest
Savage Muslim mobs – immigrants welcomed into our countries call for the murder of innocents:
“UK, you will pay”
“7/7 on its way”
“Slay those who insult Islam”
“Europe, you will pay, your 9/11 is on its way!”
“Jihad Against European Crusaders”
Violent Muslim Protest Outside the Danish Embassy in London (February 3, 2006). Ferocious screams:
“Death to you, by god.”
We want Danish blood.”
“May they bomb Denmark! So we can invade their country! And take their wives as war booty!”
Threats are made against Jews: “The army of Mohammad is coming for you.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoMeUcC_M20
In Britain, Muslims and Islam are elevated above All other People and religions. Is there anyone in the UK Government who protects the rights of Non-Muslims? Polygamy is against the law in Britain and punished by up to seven years in jail. The law is applied to everyone except Muslims. Provided Muslims marry multiple wives overseas, Muslims are richly rewarded and given welfare benefits for their multiple wives. Some Muslim men maintain two separate homes, driving between each home.
The UK and other European governments have set up supremacist Islamic sharia law courts revealing Western leaders' utter contempt for the Western justice system of equal rights. Under Islamic law, women are inferior and defenseless non-Muslims have no human rights. Unless a drastic change occurs, due to extremely high Muslim immigration and very high birth-rate, Muslims will become the majority and cruel sharia law will replace Britain and Europe's justice system.
Muslim Demographics (alarming)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
In Sweden, many Muslim youth wear a t-shirt proclaiming: “2030-then we take over”
The End of Europe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfOmQ4Eo_as
In UK, VIOLENT Muslim demonstrators chase police for blocks: “Cowards!” “Run!” “Run you cowards!” “Run you swine!”
Is this what brave Britishers sacrificed and died for in the world wars? They died for our freedom – a freedom which Western leaders no longer guard. With many no-go Muslim areas in the UK, Europe, Israel and India where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter – we are neither safe or free.
Metropolitan Police humiliated at the hands of Muslim demonstrators in London 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hyDRjdXCE&NR=1
Anti-Israel demonstrators in the West support Hamas:
Hamas declares Jihad to America and Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQE8bf1T5H8&feat…
The Koran demands every non-Muslim is subjugated under cruel Islamic law were non-Muslims have no human rights. Unless things change drastically, pro-Islam Western leaders and the present, huge Muslim colonization of the West will achieve Islamic conquest.
In a few decades, the EU policy of massive Muslim immigration into Europe will bring to fruition the EU plan: a Muslim majority in Europe resulting in the total destruction of Western civilization. Will the dark era of Europe's suffering return? When Muslims ruled Eastern Europe, as a tax, one out of five non-Muslim European children were taken from Europe as slaves.
Without firing a single shot, Islam is quickly and easily conquering the Free World with the full cooperation of Western leaders
Eurabia-Sweden's Future as Muslim State?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BugIu_QsvlQ&feat…
The whole situation makes me sick to my stomach. Is there not ONE LEADER with enough integrity who will fight against this outrage?
Without the billions of petro$ London would be at the bottom of the Thames.
Yeah…you can boil a frog to death if you start with cold water and heat it up a bit at a time. Looks like the water is going past lukewarm in the UK and no one is squirming!
Yeah, and no one voted for her. If she runs as an Independent, VOTE FOR HER THIS TIME!
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EXCUSE THE CAPS LOCK…..THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO COUNTER THE EVIL THREAT OF ORGANISED CRIME IN THE GUISE OF A RELIGION THAT IS ISLAM. YOU NEED THE MAFIA TO DECLARE ITSELF A RELIGION. EVERYTHING REMAINS EXACTLY LIKE THE OTHER CULT THAT IS ISLAM. IT HAS TO BE ALL OUT STREET WAR. ALL OTHER RELIGIONS WILL TAKE SIDES. ONLY WAY. OR RATIONAL CONVERSIONS TO ANY OTHER RELIGION OR WAY OF LIFE. CHRISTANITY MAY BE SKIPPED AS AN OPTION IF IT’S SO DEEPLY ENTRENCHED HATE. FOCUS HAS TO BE RE=FOCUSED. ISLAM HAS TO BE WIPED OUT …GANGSTER TYPE….LIKE SMALL-POX. NO EASY TASK. VIRUS IS NOT CO-OPERATIVE IT SEEMS.
THE MOVIE “PLANET OF THE APES” IS BASED ON IRAN AND IN GENERAL THE MUSLIM WORLD. I SUGGEST ALL MUSLIMS WATCH IT A FEW TIMES AND RECOGNISE EACH OTHER IN IT . ALL THE MUSLIMS THAT EVER LIVED AND WILL LIVE HAVE BEEN PORTRAYED IN IT . LOOK PROPERLY MUSTAPHA …. DON'T SMILE …IT'S NOT FUNNY ABDULLAH…. AND SO IS THE MOVIE “OUTBREAK” ABOUT DEALING WITH MUSLIM-POX…LIKE SMALL-POX….ONLY WORSE. The muslim credo is to POPULATE TO DOMINATE AND LIVE FOREVER IN THE GUTTERS OF THE WORLD.
The muslim credo is to POPULATE TO DOMINATE AND LIVE FOREVER IN THE GUTTERS OF THE WORLD.
it's the economics stupid. shooting them dead is the economical thing to do. if you feed them and look after them they'll still want to kill us and our loved ones. wasting money is a sin in the islamic world .so be it in the modern world.
put them in a line and use fewer bullets. got it ?!!
The Islamophobia of this article seems only matched by the racist abuse of the British.