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March 2, 2006

UK: The Belligerent Anti-War MP And Her Islamist Buddies

Clare Short, MP for Birmingham Ladywood, is a brutal-featured politician who is no stranger to controversy. She resigned from Blair's cabinet in May 2003, where she had been International Development Secretary, because of her gripes about the Iraq invasion/liberation.

An extreme left-winger, she has since spent most of her time in parliament criticising her own party. She is perhaps most famous for her prudish campaigns against the Sun newspaper, which has featured nubile beauties with bare breasts on Page 3 since its launch, more than 35 years ago.

Despite these pretences at moral piety, Short was sexually profligate in her youth. Aged 18, and a student at Leeds University, she had a relationship out of wedlock, which resulted in the birth of a son. Though she later married her sexual partner and stayed with him for 7 years, her selfish desire to continue in her career path led her to abandon the child, and give him up for adoption.

31 years later, on one of the few moments when she displayed some sort of moral conscience, she claims she "found" her abandoned son, Toby. Short claims that he was extremely angry at her, but now supports her leftist politics.

Now Short has caused a controversy by showing support for the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, whom the government is currently trying to ban in its current anti-terror bill.

Yesterday, at 3,45 pm, the Guardian reported that MPs were urging her to call off a meeting with leading representatives of the Islamist group. She intended to invite these supporters of terrorism into the House of Commons.

Chief amongst the critics was gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who received numerous death threats from Hizb ut-Tahrir representatives in the 1990s.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has called in its literature for Jews to be exterminated, and on its website, it declares that as well as aiming to establish a Caliphate, the group wishes to see ultimate world domination by Islamism.

Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr and a "moderate" Muslim told the Sun newspaper: "By agreeing to host this meeting, she will cause utter dismay in the Muslim community. The hurt will be felt among mainstream Muslims - she should listen to them, not this very worrying group....These people manage to get at young people. I have spoken to parents who say they 'lost' their sons and daughters as a result."

Short, in typical stubborn style, ignored protests and the meeting went ahead. Today's print edition of the Telegraph (page 2), but not on the website, claims that she has told Tony Blair to abandon his plans to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir. Lord Ahmed, the Muslim peer, reminded politicians that the group had once described Westminster as "the infidel parliament". Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West criticised the group's "potty ideas."

Khalid Mahmoud, as reported in the Birmingham Post has said: "What Clare is doing, by promoting people on the fringes, doesn't help. Furthermore, this group has never advocated voting - it tells people not to vote. So why is a group that opposes the democratic process invited to the centre of democracy?"

"Some parents have seen their children taken in by this cult, which is what it is, and removed from their families. This has been an issue for ten years or so."

The Sun has reported that Hizb ut-Tahrir's spokesman (Dr Imran Waheed) has said that the can be "no possibility of harmonious co-existence between Islam and the West. Ultimately, one has to prevail."

The UK branch of the international Islamist group was set up by Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has praised the 7/7 suicide bombers who killed 52 passengers on London Transport as "the fantastic four".

Hizb ut-Tahrir has campaigned in British universities, employing vicious intimidation tactics forcing secular Muslim women to wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf. They are now officially banned from all campuses, but still campaign under the guise of "front groups" such as the movement calling itself Stop Islamophobia.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned in Russia in 2003, after its leaders were discovered with explosives, grenades and detonators, states the Sun. They were recently banned in Pakistan. They are also banned in Germany and Holland. In Denmark, their spokesman was jailed for distributing racist propaganda.

They are also banned in most Muslim nations, including Egypt, which banned the group in 1974. Yesterday, three UK members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (pictured, above right) arrived back in Britain, after being jailed in Egypt for trying to revive the Islamist group in the country.

Reza Pankhurst from London, Maajid Nawaz of Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, and Ian Nisbet a convert to Islam originally from Brackley but who lived in London, were detained briefly by Special Branch upon their arrival at Heathrow Airport, states Sky News.

According to the BBC Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Dr Imran Waheed said that the three meddlers in politics would be hailed as "heroes" upon their return. Amnesty International, in typical PC leftist mode, criticised their trial and said they were convicted merely for expressing their views. The picture, below left, taken at the time of these idiots' trial show that they tried to make political capiatl out of the event, and hardly acted as "innocents".

Kaashif Nawaz, brother of one of the men, who were all given 5-year jail sentences in 2004, said that the family was "very happy but very bitter". adding: "This is such a travesty of justice according to any norms - Egyptian law or international standards of justice."

Personally speaking, they should have remained in jail for the whole five years. There is a useful saying - "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." These Islamist idiots blatantly ignored this advice, and tried to interfere in the politics of a sovereign nation, albeit a politically repressive nation. They got all that they deserved, and then not enough.

In Bangladesh in February 10, belying the claims that Hizb ut-Tahrir is non-violent, the group launched demonstrations against the Danish cartoons of the "prophet" Mohammed. Banners produced by the group carried slogans such as "Death to those who degrade our beloved prophet!", "Hang culprits" and 5,000 protesters called for the murder of the cartoonists.

In Indonesia, Hizb ut-Tahrir has actively campaigned in the forced closures of Christian churches and places of worship.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 2, 2006 9:45 AM

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