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July 3, 2006

UK: Muslim Disintegration, Part Two

Yesterday, when I wrote the article "UK: Muslim Disintegration" I was aware that I was only telling a small part of the current story of Islamic extremism in Britain, and the way that despite the claims of moderate Muslims, there is a culture of self-imposed alienation within Muslim society.

Recently, much has been made of the raid, code-named Operation Volga, which occurred on June 2 at Forest Gate, east London. Here in another of Britain's numerous ghettoes comprised almost exclusively of Muslims from south Asia, police made a raid upon a suburban terraced house at 46, Lansdown Road.

The police claimed they were working on a reliable intelligence report that the two men inside the house, brothers Abul Koyair and Mohammed Abdul Kahar (pictured), were working on manufacturing a chemical weapon. In the raid, the elder Bangladeshi brother, Kahar, was shot in the shoulder.

Before the facts of the case were disclosed, local young Muslims were condemning the police, and claiming victimisation. Outside the Royal London Hospital, where Kahar was initially taken for treatment, a protest demonstration took place in the street outside.

Eventually, the police conceded that there was no evidence to substantiate the claim which led to the raid. But for young Muslims, the raid was further proof that they were being "victimised". On Thursday June 29 last week, the head of London's Police, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, said that in future, there must be more done to "engage" with Muslims when carrying out raids.

"This time we didn't find what we were looking for and it seems we were wrong," he said to a meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority. He added "We weren't wrong in the raid on the east London mosque three years ago."

That raid, at the Finsbury Park mosque had been kept quiet in the British press, on the orders of the judiciary, lest it prejudice the trial of Abu Hamza. It was only after Hamza was sent to jail for seven years on February 8 this year, convicted of soliciting to murder, that anyone knew about the raid. Police had entered the mosque and found three starting pistols, which could easily be reassigned to firing live rounds, a stun gun, knives, CS gas and chemical and nuclear warfare protective suits. Also, hidden behind ceiling tiles, dozens of forged documents were discovered, including driving licences, passports.

The raid had taken place in 2003, states the Telegraph. It happened on January 20, 2003.

Ian Blair stated: "Police actions of this sort are going to continue and we have got to find a new method of engagement and interaction with the Muslim community as they happen."

According to the Telegraph, Sir Ian continued: "The (Forest Gate) raid itself I am perfectly content was justified and the raid was carried out extremely well by the Metropolitan Police."

"This is not a major error. It is working in an incredibly difficult environment where the difference between success and failure cannot be guaranteed before the action."

"One thing we can guarantee, though, is that we will not shirk from protecting public safety."

Andy Hayman, Assistant Commissioner for the Met, said that the source which led to the operation was credible, who had previously corroborated information. He said: "The information suggested that there was a chemical device at 46 or 48 Lansdown Road [Forest Gate].... It is important to stress that all intelligence received goes through a process of assessment and verification."

"On the basis that time was of the essence, the information could not be proved or disproved without searching the premises. Further delay was not believed to be acceptable given the threat to public safety and the fear that if the intelligence is correct there was no guarantee the device would remain at the location leading to a loss of control. Not to have interdicted would have been a dereliction of duty."

Mr Hayman said that Kahar's injury was a source of "much regret".

Earlier, the Telegraph reported that the individual who is thought to have supplied the information was a childhood friend (pictured left) of the two brothers from Forest Gate. A friend of the brothers said of this individual's apparent following of their activities: "It was so obvious we treated it as a joke."

The apparent informant, 22-year old Mohammed Abu Bakr Mansha, was said to have had an IQ of only 69, but despite this, he himself had terrorist leanings. We reported on December 22, 2005, that he had been convicted of plotting to kill a former war hero from the British Army.

On January 26 Mansha was sentenced to six years' jail. As well as trying to get close to Corporal Mark Byles, Mansha also had a rich Jewish man and a Hindu businessman as his potential "targets".

Shortly before the Forest Gate raid took place, Mansha was moved from a category A prison to a less harsh category B penitentiary.

The fact that the brothers did not have a chemical device in their possession has not dissuaded members of the intelligence community that such device is not in existence. There are enough Muslims in Britain who wish to have nothing to do with Britain's culture or values to suggest that any street where there is a high concentration of Muslims could be housing a potential terrorist. The brothers' own friends admit that their childhood associate is a known terrorist.

The Sunday Telegraph for June 25 reports the worries of spy chiefs that it is not only a case of "if" but "when" regarding the employment of a chemical, radiological or nuclear weapon against London or any other capital.

The Telegraph stated that the claims of the Home Secretary, John Reid, that there were 20 active terrorist conspiracies underway in Britain, is an understatement, according to Whitehall sources. There are said to be more than 1,200 terrorist suspects, 400 more than the figure given in May by the intelligence and security committee report into the 7/7 attacks.

A Whitehall source claimed: "We are still operating with the realm of unknown unknowns. Without wishing to sound too much like Donald Rumsfeld [the US defence secretary], we still do not know how much we don't know."

The four individuals who carried out the attacks against London Transport last year were mostly regarded as harmless, devout Muslims by their peers. Only Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the four bombers, was known to intelligence services, and also the FBI. But even though he was examined by MI5, he was not regarded as being about to lead a suicide bombing campaign at the time of the 7/7 attacks.

Shehzad Tanweer had attended an Islamist training camp in Pakistan, as well as an extremist madrassa, but to his family he was a cricket-loving, quiet, devout Muslim. But the parents, if they are honest, did not know him. No explanation has yet been given as to why Tanweer, who was without a job, managed to leave in his estate the sum of $190,000 (120,000 pounds sterling).

The media have made much of the money found in the house in Forest Gate. A sum of 30,000 pounds ($55,262) in cash was found in the house, which the brothers claimed belonged to their mother, and was the money from rent. They claimed that she had an aversion to Western banks, which charge interest.

But while the Muslims of Beeston and Forest Gate believe that they are victims, while many openly claim to see Westerners as the "kuffar enemy", and while the so-called moderates in Britain such as Azzam Tamimi of the Muslim Association for Britain give contradictory and confusing statements, supporting suicide bombing in Israel and calling such actions "jihad", but not supporting it in Britain where they state that "jihad" means struggle, not war, there is so little to trust about the so-called "Muslim community." One should remember that Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" similarly meant "my struggle".

And chief among the organisations sending out mixed messages is the Muslim Council for Britain. At one hand, Inayat Bunglawala, its press officer, whines about Islamophobia, yet also makes statements which are unequivocally anti-semitic. He has an openly confessed hatred for Jews, and accuses the BBC of being run by those of the "tribe of Judah", but whines that the media is against Muslims.

The former secretary general of the MCB, Malawi-born "Sir" Iqbal Sacranie has consistently refused to support Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day, but he found time to attend a memorial service for Sheikh Yassin, the wheelchair-bound founder of the terrorist organisation Hamas. Sacranie compared Yassin to Ghandi in a BBC interview, saying: "Those who fight oppression, those who fight occupation, cannot be termed as terrorist. They are freedom fighters, in the same way as Nelson Mandela fought against apartheid, in the same way as Gandhi and many others fought British rule in India."

The MCB claims to represent 400 Islamic groups in Britain. When it was pointed out to them that some of these groups were far from "moderate", the MCB dissembled, saying it had "assumed" the groups were moderate. If you claim to represent groups, you should already know if they are moderate or not. One of those affiliate groups was Ahl-e-Hadith of Birmingham, which stated on its website that Muslims should "be different from Jews and Christians", whose "ways are based on sick or deviant views."

Both Sacranie and Bunglawala have praised Bin Laden as an "Islamic scholar", and in 1996, Sacranie even tried to invite Bin Laden to an Islamic "rally", to be held at Regents Park Mosque. Bunglawala described bin Laden as a "freedom fighter".

There are two problems in Britain's Muslim community affecting its youth, and these are not so much problems of extremism or heavy-handed policing as poor representation and bad family life. The poor representation can be found in the Muslim Council for Britain (MCB), in the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), and also in the association of 300 imams (pictured right), calling itself the Muslim Action Committee (MAC).

MAC managed to mobilise 4,000 members of the Muslim community to demonstrate in Trafalgar Square on February 18, to voice their anger. The anger was not about Muslim terrorism, but about a bunch of Danish cartoons which were never published in Britain's mainstream media. Not once have MAC or the others mobilised any public protests against the events of 7th July 2005 last year.

Iqbal Sacranie has even said, before his term of office came to an end, that the bombings happened as a result of Britain allying itself with the US when it invaded Iraq in March, 2003. MCB members have attended stop-the-war rallies, but on the issue of 7/7 they make platitudinous statements about how the bombers "misinterpreted" Islam.

There are enough events of terrorism carried out by Muslims in the world, every day, as we try to faithfully report, to nail that lie to the floor. Mohammed went to war with his enemies, and he slaughtered all the male Jews of the Banu Qurayzah tribe in one afternoon in Medina, merely because he assumed there was a plot against him.

The Koran is riddled with exhortations of violence towards the unbelievers.Just a couple of examples here: "Slay the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, torture them. - Sura 9, verse 5.
"Strike off disbelievers heads and cut off each of their fingers and toes." - Surah 8, verse 12.

I state above that as well as poor representation, British young Muslims are also failed by bad parenting. Here, I do not mean through a culture of neglect, but through a culture of manic interference. The Muslims I used to know as friends in London were young, intelligent, and well educated. But they all suffered from one common affliction - the desire of their parents to force them into arranged marriages.

One young woman I knew, who worked at an advice center in Hackney, had a Sikh boyfriend, and though her parents lived in Yorkshire, she was in constant fear of cousins and relatives who actively "spied" on her. She was emotionally blackmailed by her parents into marrying a distant relative from Pakistan, and before marriage she had to have her hymen "rebuilt" surgically to pretend she was still a virgin. Her elder sister underwent an arranged marriage, only to find her new "husband" was demanding that she buy him a car, and pay for fashionable clothing items. One night, staying at the parents' home, he beat her. At the breakfast table, he told her parents that it was written in the Koran that if one's wife is not obedient she should be beaten.

This is true, as the Koran, in Surah 4, verse 34 states: ""Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme."

We have covered extensively cases of Muslim families in Britain offering violence to daughters who do not wish to marry the person chosen for them by their parents. Take the case of Jack and Zena Briggs, forced into hiding for 13 years from threats of real violence, because Zena married a non-Muslim.

Take the case of Bangladeshi-origin Manna Begum whose boyfriend Arash Ghorbani-Zarin was slain by her father and two of her brothers, of Shafilea Ahmed, murdered and dumped in a river, the case of Ahmed Bashir, stabbed 40 times for having a romance with a Muslim girl, "promised" to someone else, or the case of Samaira Nazir, slaughtered by her brother and cousin, with her father's help, for wanting to marry someone not of the family's choosing.

These cases are extreme, and mostly they are of families of the Indian subcontinent. But there are other cases we have covered in Britain, such as that of Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha, who was a victim of "honour killing" who came from Kurdish origins. As we reported on May 28 honor killing is not just a tribal, cultural issue, it stems directly from Islam, and is found in Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, as well as the Indian subcontinent, and it happens wherever these groups migrate, be it Germany or Denmark.

The habits of the Muslim parents, pressurising their young people to conform to their own backward traditions causes immense heartache. The young Muslims I knew spent an inordinate amount of time drinking, clubbing, having sex and taking drugs like there was no tomorrow, because they knew their parents would eventually force them into a loveless marriage. Our special report on Muslim forced marriages makes it plain that even an "arranged marraiage" takes place because of coercion and pressure.

And here, as well as having poor parental guidance, where young people who are brought up in Britain are torn between the ideals of their non-Muslim classmates and their parent's parochial traditions, the situation is not helped by the poor leadership and representation of Britain's official Muslim "community leaders".

As we reported in our forced marriage article, the UK government abandoned its plans to outlow forced marriage, directly as a result of pressure brought to bear by the Muslim Council for Britain.

At the start of June a new leader was elected at the Muslim Council for Britain, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari (pictured, left), chairman of the East London Mosque which was built with Saudi money.

Less than a week after his election, Dr Bari (pictured) told an interviewer from the Telegraph that people in Britain should learn from Muslims, and engage in arranged marriages. This statement was made only a week after the MCB had derailed the criminalisation of forced marriages.

The poor parenting and poor representation of Britain's Muslim youth is something the government and the media fail to acknowledge. They would rather deal with "official" moderates who claim, untruthfully, that they represent the entire Muslim community.

The issue of poor leadership from the Mosques is one we have earlier addressed, where often imams hardly speak English, and in some cases cannot even read or write, let alone interpret holy books and texts. We have made much of the extremism taught at such mosques, from Brighton to Beeston, home of three of the 7/7 bombers. Here, Hamid Ali, of the Al-Madina Masjid mosque in Tunstall Road, Beeston had described the bombers of 7/7 as the "children" of the convert Islamist preacher Abdullah al-Faisal, currently in jail for racial incitement and soliciting to murder.

But the leadership of the parents, and the government-approved so-called "moderates" has muddied the waters when a true picture of British Islamism's roots is described. Arranged marriages to cousins is even causing inbreeding and an increase of illnesses caused by "recessive genes" amongst Muslims of Pakistani descent.

And by importing spouses in arranged marriages, the numbers of Muslims in Britain is growing exponentially, adding to the ridiculously high numbers of bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants in the country. Those who have no papers can easily disappear into one of the readymade Muslim ghettos across Britain. The head of Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips, wrote in September that in every major city, there is a Muslim ghetto.

Phillips wrote: "As a country, we are not talking across the ethnic, religious and colour lines," he said. "There is more residential segregation, we are reaching US levels. We are not making friends across the colour line. When we leave work, we leave multi-ethnic Britain behind. We are going in the wrong direction. Our worry is that this is fertile breeding ground for extremists."

Information from Migration Watch has shown that the number of partners from the subcontinent doubled between 1996 and 2001, when 22,000 were granted rights of entry to Britain. It is estimated that 60% of Pakistani and Bangladeshi marriages in Bradford in 2001 involved a spouse from the subcontinent. Almost a third of all children born in Bradford now have foreign mothers. In the London borough of Tower Hamlets the figure is 68%. Trevor Phillips had said the number of people of Pakistani origin living in such ghettos had trebled during this same period.

Today, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari is fulfilling his duties as a spokesperson for the not-so-young Muslim community, in a report filed by Reuters, and arguing that the police are alienating young Muslims with random searches and anti-terror raids, particularly citing the Forest Gate incident.

Bari argues that: "If these mistakes happen again and again, it creates a confidence gap between the community and the police. We want our police force to be more professional. They have to win over all the communities, including Muslims."

Speaking of the upcoming anniversary of 7/7, he says: "There will definitely be a feeling of unease in the community. Many of them will once again feel that Muslims will be on the receiving end in the media."

Once again, Bari conjures up the same spectre of rampant Islamophobia, by stating: "Islamophobic race hate crime rose 600 percent in the first two months after 7/7."

Maybe it did, and there were a few nasty looks, some broken windows, insults and barbed comments, and a woman in Bristol had her hijab ripped off. But not one single person was killed as a result of these "Islamophobic race hate crimes", whereas 52 innocents died because of Islamomania. Not to mention the white computer analyst, Christopher Yates, kicked to death by a Muslim gang, or Isaiah Young-Sam, a young black man, stabbed to death by a Muslim group who were engaged in a race riot in Birmingham.

While poor parenting, and poor preaching, and poor representation are afflicting the young Muslim population of Britain, it is little wonder that certain individuals, like the now-exiled Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, have exploited their alienation, and have encouraged the rise of youth-oriented militant grops within Britain.

Formerly the first leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, Bakri went on to found the extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, which was officially disbanded in 2004. This group is believed to have encouraged the two British Muslims, Omar Sharif and Asif Hanif to travel to Israel where they entered Mike's Bar in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003. Hanif blew himself up, killing three, but Sharif failed to detonate his explosives and was found later on the seashore, drowned, apparently by suicide.

One of the leaders of Al Muhajiroun was Anjem Choudary, and following the exiling of Bakri, he followed his mentor to Lebanon, before being deported. While in Lebanan, Choudary appeared on SkyNews and taunted relatives and victims of 7/7, who were holding a service of remembrance in St Paul's Cathedral.

Choudary is intimately connected with the two spin-off groups which formed after the disbanding of Al-Muhajiroun, Saviour Sect and Al Ghurabaa. In our Special Report on these two groups, we describe film made where Choudary described the plane attacks of 9/11 as "magnificent". Choudary has openly praised Bin Laden.

Another member of the two groups is Abu Izzadeen (pictured right), who is now head of the Saviour Sect in its new incarnation, the Saved Sect who similarly seemed to relish the sufferings and deaths of the victims of 7/7.

He said last year, three weeks after the bombings of 7/7: "I believe many people say you shouldn't negotiate with terrorists. It's a common theme, put in the media. But I'm sure, if you asked those who passed away on the 7th of July, should we negotiate with the terr- Osama bin Laden, I'm sure they'd say 'Yes'. To bring their lives back, to save themselves from the burning inferno underground, they would have said, 'Let's negotiate'."

These groups, as well as the new group Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma are extreme, and of this there is no doubt.When the Danish cartoons issue was raging throughout the Muslim world, Choudary was amongst those demonstrating at the Danish embassy in London on February 3. This demonstration was notorious as it had protesters bearing banners emblazoned with slogans saying: "Behead Those Who Insult Islam", and others calling for a European 9/11.

After the Forest Gate raid, Al Ghurabaa (the name means "the strangers" in Arabic) demonstrated noisily outside Forest Gate police station on June 9. They issued fliers, stating that police were deliberately targetting Muslim youth.

A measure of the sheer virulence of Al Ghurabaa can be found on its own website, where you can read a charmingly-titled article - Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad (saw), which describes how the paedophile Mohammed condoned the murder of those who made fun of him, and argues that true Muslims should take note of this.

With a hat tip to Marc at USS Neverdock, the sister group to Al Ghurabaa, the Saviour Sect or Saved Sect is now urging British Muslims to go to Israel and to fight Israelis, according to Ynet News.

The Saved Sect condemns Hamas for not carrying out a jihad against Israel, which is described as a "cancer". An article written by "Abdul Aziz al-DImashqi" states: "What the Jews are doing in Palestine today will no doubt disturb any true Muslim. However, what hurts us equally as much is to see the Muslims in Palestine calling for an independent Palestinian state, Palestinian constitutions, man-made law, democracy, freedom and so on. Hamas.....have no intention of establishing the sharia (Islamic code), and are only concerned with having their own nationalistic state."

The Saved Sect/Al Ghurabaa/Saviour Sect are predominantly young, but they believe that they are true Muslims, and the so-called moderate spokespeople of Britain are not true Muslims. They interpret the Koran and the Hadiths literally, and take note of the violent verses in the Koran.

When Bakri Mohammed was the spiritual leader of these groups, who despise democracy and wish to see a Caliphate in power, the Saviour Sect, as it was then called last year, recruited from young Muslims who were alienated from their families. Many of these were ex-prisoners or those with drug habits. The followers were told not to vote, but to depend upon welfare benefits from the nation (Britain) that they despised.

Such is the nature of the Saved/Saviour Sect's puritanism that they have even issued a fatwa condemning the watching of soccer, as it is "nationalistic", and under Islam, there is only one nation, the "ummah" or collective peoples of Islam.

The followers of these groups do not give a stuff what so-called moderate spokespersons for Islam think. They do not give a stuff for what their own parents think. They do not give a stuff for what is taught in the mosques, as they read their scriptures and take the words of violence contained therein as their guide. They do not care for democracy, authority or Western values, and these are truly the representatives of Muslim youth. They may express themselves more extremely than the majority of dedicated young Muslims, but their words are echoed in all of Britain;s urban Muslim ghettoes.

Where imams seem like sad caricatures, and Muslim leaders are untrustworthy hypocrites, and where their own parents seem to mentally live in a homeland hundreds of miles away, it is a sad reality that these voices, strident, uncompromising, articulating all the damnation of the West that a disaffected youth could wish to hear - these are the true voices of Muslim youth.

These extremists support acts of terror, and are not scared to proclaim their admiration for Bin Laden, or "sheikh" bin Laden, as Abu Izzadeen of the Saved Sect likes to call him. There will never be any common ground which the West can make with these people. They follow Islam by the letter of the book, and they respect no nations. They have links with other webs of extremists around the world. But they are the true voice of Islam, shorn of its cosmetic patina of "moderation." Mohammed killed, and so shall they support killing of the unbelievers.

Last year, less than a month after the horrors of 7/7, Abu Izzadeen (real name Omar Brookes, a Jamaican-origin electrician) spoke to Roger Watson of BBC's Newsnight. We have that transcript in our Special Report. This is an extract:

RW: "People like you, with the views you hold, you're vulnerable to becoming suicide bombers. What do you say about that?"
AI: "Vulnerability, I believe it's a weakness as long as understanding. What would I say about those who do suicide operations - or martyrdom operations - 'cause suicide is a term coined by the media - they're completely praiseworthy. Martyrdom operations are commonplace - fifteen every day in Iraq ag-"
RW: "Not in Britain."
AI: "Against the British and Americans every day in Afghanistan, all around the world, in Palestine. So it's not something that's unusual. What's shocking, for many, is that it took place on their own doorsteps. But hopefully, that will make many, wake up, and smell the coffee...

Abu Izzadeen's final comment is ominous, chilling, even: "If the British public don't like Shariah, it's going to be over their noses, whether they like it or not. It's going to be over Tony Blair's nose and George Bush's nose as well - and for your information - the British government knows that."

And why are these Muslims so radialised? One can blame imams, one can blame the parents, one can blame the so-called moderate spokespersons and their contradictory messages, but there is one thing that unites them all.

Blame the Koran, the guidebook to jihad and murder, invented by a 7th century warmonger, and blame Islam.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 3, 2006 4:28 PM

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