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July 11, 2006

UK: Muslims Still Moaning About Britain's Foreign Policy

We reported on July 8 that in the Guardian, a Muslim brazenly blamed Britain's foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan for causing the attacks on 7/7, 2005, in which 52 people died.

The hijab-wrapped woman, Rajnaara Akhtar, had written in the Guardian Comments section that "July 7 was driven in the main by men sympathetic to the plight of thousands of innocent civilians who died because of our government's actions. For those actions, we paid the price with over 50 British civilian lives."

Similar views were expressed by the organiser of the ill-timed Islam Expo, Anas Altikriti, who wrote last week that "We will not stand for our country and people being terrorised nor will we stand for our government terrorising any other peoples."

The former secretary general of the Muslim Council for Britain, "Sir" Iqbal Sacranie, said before he left office that Britain's foreign policy was to blame for the events of 7/7.

Similarly, Muhammad Abdul Bari, his successor at MCB, says Iraq " has been a great concern for Muslims. It is an ongoing concern, especially the situation in Palestine, Chechnya. These impact on the psyche of young people. After 7/7 we recommended that there should be a public inquiry to see whether foreign policy had an impact. We are continuing to raise this."

Today, Reuters Canada reviews such strands of opinion, which are still strongly felt in the Muslim ghettoes of Britain.

Anjem Choudary, the leader of Al Ghurabaa, and an outspoken supporter of terrorism, is surprisingly described as a Muslim "leader" in the article. He is quoted as saying: "If anything the situation has deteriorated one year on from 7/7. Another 7/7 is more likely in the climate in which we live today than it was a year ago."

Perhaps another 7/7 is likely to happen because of the actions and preachings of this man, who has praised Osama bin Laden, and who called the planes flying into the World Trade Center on 9/11 "magnificent" and who recently boasted that he would not report a suicide bomber to the police.

The group Al Ghurabaa has only a few hundred active members, who are the same individuals who make up the numbers of the Saved/Saviour Sect, and his new group Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma.

Reuters is disingenuous to call Choudary a leader, as his power base, though virulent, is small. An account of his group and the Saviour/Saved Sect can be found in our Special Report. Choudary is a former deputy head of the now disbanded extremist group Al Muhajiroun.

Reuters quotes Choudary as saying that the now exiled cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed had been a calming influence on Britain's young Muslims: "Those are the ones who are likely to have the international links, who are likely to go abroad, who are sitting quiet. They are not like me and other Muslims who have a beard and wear the Islamic dress, and they are the ones likely to carry out this kind of operation."

Sulaiman Moolla, president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, says: "The government seems to always detract from the foreign policy thing, they don't want to make it an issue. It's like they're in denial to be honest. If you truly want to understand, you don't live in denial."

Moolla's group claims to have the support of 90,000 members. But I remember being a student, and having idiots claiming to represent me in the NUS.

In parliament last week, Tony Blair said: "We must reject the thought that somehow we are the authors of our own distress; that if only we altered this decision or that, the extremism would fade away."

Massoud Shadjareh is from the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), and says: "They say to get rid of a tyrant like Saddam (Hussein) it is justifiable to kill all those people -- it is in many ways the same thing the terrorists and their twisted minds think."

Shadjareh should know. One of the main advisers for the IHRC is Mohammad al-Massari, and as we wrote on July 6, al-Massari is an advocate of terror and an enemy of the rule of law.

Reuters quotes Taji Mustafa, a spokesperson for Hizb ut-Tahrir, who says "People expect the government, if it is sincere about looking at the causes of anger, to consider Iraq. It refuses to even countenance that as a possible factor."

"We all hope that there will not be a repeat (of 7/7)...but the government needs to stop this campaign of repression, attempting to silence those who disagree with it."

The first leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain was Omar Bakri Mohammed, who also was the spiritual leader of both Al Ghurabaa and the Saviour/Saved Sect, and was the leader of Al Muhajiroun.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is openly opposed to democracy. We wrote on March 2 that 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.

More importantly in relation to its comments on Tony Blair, the group has referred to the Houses of Parliament as "the infidel parliament". A group so opposed to democracy has effectively ruled itself out of making valid claims about democracy. If it took part in democracy, rather than carping from the sidelines, it might change things. But Muslims like to win, and are poor losers. They know statistically they do not have the numbers to effect major changes democratically.

When Muslims cannot win, they resort to threats of terror, dreams of Islamist super-states, or whining like spoiled children.

Today, the group Hizb ut-Tahrir carries a long article on its website, entitled: "Muslims don't hate the West but they do have legitimate grievances."

In this rant, the same whining mentality of the loser is apparent. One must take notice of the less than 3% of the population, or else....

"If you want to defeat this extremism, you've got to defeat its ideas and you've got to defeat in part a completely false sense of grievance against the West" said the Prime Minister. He has also in the past said that "we did not start this" in reference to 9/11", introduces Hizb ut-Tahrir's argument.

It criticises the Tory MP Nicholas Winterton for saying recently: "The Australian Government has spelt out bluntly what it expects of its ethnic minority communities and we in the UK should do the same......They should stop politicising dress, such as wearing the hijab and burkha, they should learn English, they should not return to their homelands to get a spouse, cease forced marriages and accept once and for all that the United Kingdom is not, and never will be, an Islamic state."

And of course, one has to include the poor beleaguered Palestinians, who are suffering so much, with their rocket firing at Israeli civilians, their election of a group which advocates the bombing of Jewish civilians in Israel. But then again, Hizb ut-Tahrir itself supports bombing of Israelis, so why should I expect something different? But the issue of the Palestinians is always brought in to show how Muslims suffer, and to justify anti-semitic sentiments which are found even in the Koran.

The article finishes on a note of masturbatory fantasy:

"Today the Muslim world stands on the brink of regaining the ability to determine its destiny. The Caliphate will remove the corrupt rulers in the Muslim world by providing an accountable government protecting the rights of all its citizens. It is the advent of the Caliphate and the desire to continue usurping resources such as cheap oil that mistakenly drives Western foreign policy. Muslims see these as very real issues. Muslims realise that ordinary Western people have nothing to do with such exploitative policies set by their leaders. Indeed the majority of British people opposed the Iraq war. The Prime Minister's claims ring hollower than ever. Tony Blair would be better served if he stopped insulting the intelligence of both Muslim and non-Muslim alike."

Well I see no Caliphate on the horizon, unless Al Qaeda decides to bomb the West into submission and to remove all the Muslim countries in the world. Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in almost every Muslim Middle Eastern country. Where it is not banned, as in Indonesia, it is involved in the persecution of minorities. In Indonesia, its victims are Christians and churches. In Britain, it used to send death threats to gay activist Peter Tatchell.

In Europe its targets are Jews, vilified in its leaflets, and in Bangladesh, the group was supporting the protests against the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, founder of Islam. Hizb ut-Tahrir claims to be against violence, but in Bangladesh, its followers carried banners calling for the death of cartoonists.

In Denmark, Hizb ut-Tahrir handed out leaflets in a square in Copenhagen, and at a mosque in March and April, 2001. The leaflet, which also appeared on the Danish group's internet site, made threats against Jews, using a quote from the Koran urging Muslims to 'kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have been turned you out.' The leaflet also said, 'The Jews are a people of slander...a treacherous people... they fabricate lies and twist words from their right context.' And the leaflet describes suicide bombings in Israel as "legitimate" acts of "Martyrdom".

In October 2002, Fadi Abdullatif was sentenced to a 60 day suspended jail term for distributing this racist propaganda. Now Fadi Abdullatif is under investigation for saying "eliminate your rulers if they stand in your way" , referring to the government who might prevent Muslims from joining the Iraq insurgency.

If these people are "leaders" of the Muslim community, then the Muslim community has a severe credibility problem.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 11, 2006 8:28 AM

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