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November 18, 2005

UK: Rally Calling For an Islamic State in Britain is Banned

According to today's Irish Sun, a planned rally organised by the Saviour Sect which was to have been held in the suburban east London borough of Waltham Forest has been banned.

Officials from the council say that a meeting had been booked at its Asian Centre, officially to celebrate Eid, the end of Ramadan, on November 6. When leaflets were seen for the event, council members were shocked, and informed the police. The pictures on the leaflets showed a man with a rocket launcher standing outside 10 Downing Street. Also depicted are black flags fluttering over Parliament.

The planned meeting was booked under a false name, a tactic also used by the group Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose leader in Britain was Omar Bakri Mohammed. Bakri is also a founder of, and the "spiritual leader" of the Saviour Sect. The man behind the planned rally is 23 year old Abdul Mahid (pictured), a leading member of the Saviour Sect.

We reported on Muhid earlier, when on August 17 he was released from court after charges against him of inciting racial hatred were dropped. Then he had been reported by a concerned citizen for announcing at a stall in Walthamstow market that British troops in Iraq should be killed, and that homosexuals should be thrown from clifftops.

Muhid is once again under police investigation for the production of his leaflets, which were entitled Islamic State for Britain. There can be no negotiations. The leaflet claims that with 2,000 mosques in the country, countless madrassas, Muslim schools, halal butchers and restaurants, "Britain is already on the verge of becoming an Islamic State."

The revival of Islamic awareness amongst the Muslims in the UK is at its fastest pace and more and more Muslims and non-Muslims are realising that there can be no negotiations with Islam, no negotiations with the implementation of the Khalafah and the Shari'ah law, it is an absolute inevitable.

Muhid, who lives in Stoke Newington, north London, was also arrested for being among a group of 50 men using megaphones to "berate passers-by" in Southall, which has a large Sikh and Punjabi community. A fight broke out when police tried to disperse the group.

On July 13, Muhid was also arrested for violent disorder and assaulting a police officer in Chingford, north London. Charges again were dropped, for lack of evidence.

A police source said: "Muhid is always in possession of the leaflets and he has only ever been seen with a loudhailer or distributing the leaflets at market stalls. We don't know if he is making them but we assume he is because he is always at the centre of things."

The Saviour Sect has said that because the 52 people who died in the 7/7 London bombings were not Muslims, they were not innocent. We have documented some of the more chilling statements from the Saviour Sect in our Special Report.

UPDATE: 22 November. The Waltham Forrest Guardian has now reported on this affair, and publishes views from local Muslims:

Tariq Mahmood, executive committee member of Waltham Forest Islamic Association, said: "These pictures and images do not help our communities to integrate.

"People who are involved in these kind of activities give our community a bad name.

"They make life difficult for everyone who wants to live a peaceful life and we condemn what they have done. They would not be welcome at our mosque."

Hanif Qadir of the Active Change Foundation, which works to bring young people from all cultures together, said: "Whoever they are, they are not behaving like Muslims. I know my religion and it is a beautiful one. Islam was spread by examples of trust and piety, not this way."

The Guardian tried unsuccessfully to contact the number on the flyer

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 18, 2005 3:38 PM

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