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August 11, 2006

UK: After The Muslim Terror Threat - Muslim Denial

Following the recent plot to bomb nine aircraft bound to the US from Britain, utilising liquid explosives, in which 24 suspects were subsequently arrested, there comes the inveitable Muslim response - denial.

Of course it had nothing to do with "real Islam", we are told by Muslims. Shabud Ullah of the Sandwell Confederation of Bangladeshi Muslim Organisations said yesterday that "no formal link with Islamic extremism" had been detailed. "We all condemn terrorism," he claimed, continuing: "But until we are given straight information about this, we don't know what to believe."

"We do condemn terror, but at the same time the Government's anti-terrorism laws marginalise the Muslim community," he said. Of course. That nasty government.

In Birmingham, Fahad Ansari of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said that many Muslims would be sceptical of the announcement, made by police to community leaders, warning them of the raids. He said: "I think you will get cynicism from the community. Over the last few years we have seen many high profile raids like this plastered over the press to terrify the public. We have seen it time and time again. It has been hit and miss on too many occasions. It is causing a lot of mass hysteria."

Let us not forget that the IHRC has among its advisers Mohammed al-Massari who not only condones terrorism, but tried last November to incite communal rioting across Europe. IHRC also has the delightful Massoud Shadjareh who says that UK Muslims should provide the terrorist group Hezbollah with "financial, logistical and informational support", to attack Israeli targets. Shadjareh also demanded the occupation of Israel by Hezbollah.

Fahad Ansari of IHRC also blamed the nasty government of Britain for terrorism, saying of Tony Blair: "He has to realise that there was a relationship between 7/7 and British foreign policy." Of course. So Britain must obey its less than 3% of the population who are Muslim, or get terrorised? Right.

And for the odious and divisive Ken Livingstone, who is a friend of Muslim Brotherhood's "spiritual leader" Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who supports terror attacks against Israeli citizens, this was a "time to unite". He said: "Only a united London can help defeat terrorism, which means that all London's communities have their part to play. No community in London can or should be targeted or blamed because of the actions of people who are pure criminals." But it's alright for him to have his friend Qaradawi, whom Livingstone compared to Pope John XXIII, supporting the killing of civilians in Israel's community.

Before the news of the terror attack, Jon Snow on Monday on Channel Four gave the results of a survey, which found, according to the dhimmi Timothy Garton-Ash in the Guardian, that nearly one third of young British Muslims agreed with the suggestion that "the July bombings were justified because of British support for the war on terror". Garton-Ash stated "But, whatever you think of the policies in detail, there is no question that they have angered young British Muslims." Well? Big deal.

Shabud Ullah, of the Sandwell Confederation of Bangladeshi Muslim Organisations, said: "We do condemn terror, but at the same time the Government's anti-terrorism laws marginalise the Muslim community."

And of course, those who knew the arrested suspects had fulsome praise for their citizenship. In the Times, a Muslim neighbour of people arrested in Birmingham said: "All I know is they are peaceful, religious people. They were teaching Koran and all that to the young kids. I'm shocked, I'm sure they've got the wrong people."

And the sister of biochemistry student Waheed Zaman, another suspect, said: "He loves fish and chips and Liverpool football club and his favourite TV programme is Only Fools and Horses (a Cockney-based comedy). He even wanted to join the police as a forensics expert. He is a great believer in the importance of integration between our community and the Western world." Of course he did, Safeena. That's why he's a suspect. It's that nasty British government again and their nasty terror laws, denying Muslim rights.

Today, the Guardian has a piece by Beth Gardiner, from Associated Press. She quotes a spokesman for the Waltham Forest Islamic Association who states: "I know five of the men very well and they are really respectable young Muslim men. I am totally shocked. I don't believe they've done anything to warrant this."

Well terror suspects wouldn't get any notions of violence or warfare from the Koran, now, would they?

Gardiner's article describes an almost exact re-run of what happened after the events of July 7 last year, when Muslims start to complain that they are going to be victimized. She quotes a bushy-bearded Bangladeshi Muslim, who whines: "It's started up again. People are afraid of me, mostly. If it's an old man, a lady in a hijab they'll pick on them."

A spokesman for the Muslim Association for Britain (MAB), Haris Bokhari cast doubts on the information from the police: "Was this information really accurate or not from the police in terms of its intelligence? We need to be aware how these people were arrested."

Let us not forget that Mohammed Kassem Sawalha of MAB, for example, has been named in a US court as a former senior agent of Hamas, responsible for terrorist activities in the West Bank in the 1990s. MAB also has historical links with Al Qaeda, and the terror group Islamic Jihad. MAB was founded in 1997 by Kamal el-Helbawy, who was at the time the European spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood.

And Sawalha was responsible for the recent Islam Expo, which celebrated Islam at the same time as others were mourning the anniversary of the victims of 7/7's bombings. And Sawalha invited the MAB's spokesman Azzam al-Tamimi to speak at Islam Expo, a man who has openly said he would want to be a suicide bomber, killing Israelis.

The odious and pro-extremist Muslim Council for Britain also used the announcement of the terror plot to make political capital, reiterating its demands for an inquiry into the events of 7/7. Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari, its new fuehrer, said, according to the Times: "We need to find out what was the connection between 7/7 and subsequent attacks. It is imperative to find that link to stop continuing Islamophobic attacks."

Let us not forget that Bari recently hosted a guest from his native Bangladesh at the East London Mosque, where he is chairman. This guest was Delwar Hossain Sayeedi. Sayeedi has called Hindus "excrement", has been involved with persecutions of the minority Muslim sect the Ahmadiyyas, and has said that Britain and the US "deserve all that is coming to them" for overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan. Sayeedi also said US soldiers in Iraq should convert to Islam or die.

The vice-chairman of MCB's legal affairs committee, Abdurahman Jafar said: "Whether the result is successful or not does not matter. Muslims will be stigmatised and kids will come back from school with more vitriol thrown at them. Muslims today feel another layer of deep despair as they know what tomorrow's headlines will say."

Let us not forget that Abdurahman Jahar also tried to sabotage the UK's Terrorism Act 2006 while it was in preparation. He argued in November that he feared a really "horrific counter-productive effect" from the new bill, because of the proposed offence of "glorifying terrorism". He claimed that the law confused "the issue of illegitimate attacks against peaceful democracies, with legitimate acts of resistance against illegitimate regimes around the world."

But who is illegitimate? For many Muslims, Britain and the United States are illegitimate states because of their presence in Iraq. Other MCB members are supporters of terrorism. Both Inayat Bunglawala and Iqbal Sacranie have praised Osama bin Laden. Sacranie even tried to get bin Laden to come to Britain in 1996. Sacranie even compared Sheikh Yassin, the founder of terrorist organisation Hamas to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

So those who have been quoted in the media as "representatives" of the Muslim community, to give an opinion of a Muslim terror plot, are in denial as always. It could not be those nice boys next door, say friends and neighbours of the suspects. Just as people had said that Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammed Sidique Khan, two of the 7/7 bombers had been such nice pious Muslims. In law, the suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, so I shall not condemn them, yet.

But these spokespeople from British Muslim organisations are, in the main, people who are themselves tainted by their associations with terrorists or the supporting of terror.

Really, with duplicitous and hypocritical people such as these as their "representatives", no wonder young Muslims have problems. I wonder why journalists bother to present their opinions, without also wanting to expose their double standards regarding terror, particularly acts of terror against innocent Israeli civilians.

Keyword: The name of the UK police operation on this plot is Operation Overt

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 11, 2006 8:12 AM

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