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August 14, 2006

UK: Would Muslim Fascists Sacrifice Their Own Babies?

A lot of people in the world of Muslim representation have been concerned about the term used by President George W. Bush, when he said on Thursday 10 August that "the world is at war with Islamic fascism". The unscripted comment was from the heart, not pruned and perfumed by speechwriters. He had made a similar comment on 7 August at his ranch in Texas, where he decribed terrorists who "try to spread their jihadist message - a message I call ... Islamic radicalism, Islamic fascism." And a lot of people who could easily be classed as "Islamic fascists" were quick off the mark to condemn him.

The first of these was Parvez Ahmed from the Council of American-Islamic Relations, who wrote on Thursday: "Unfortunately, your statement this morning that America 'is at war with Islamic fascists' contributes to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community. Just today, Gallup released a poll indicating that four out of ten Americans feel 'prejudice' toward Muslims."

The BBC documented some of the reactions. Ahmed Younis, national director of MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council) said: "It offends the vast majority of moderate Muslims. The use of the term casts a shadow upon Islam and bolsters the argument that there is a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West".

Muslims in North America from Michigan to Calgary reacted. Some non-Muslims objected. Daniel Benjamin of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said the term was not correct, if viewed "as it was developed by Mussolini". He said: "The people who are trying to kill us, Sunni jihadist terrorists, are a very, very different breed."

Benjamin did not mention the Shia Islamists in Iran and Lebanon, who seem hellbent on bringing back their missing 12th imam by driving the world into a nuclear war. And our own Ruy Diaz complained that "the term 'Islamic Fascists' makes it sound as if Islam, by its very nature, is not fascistic".

The latest complaint is now emanating from the land of institutional Wahhabi fascism, Saudi Arabia, where no Bibles or crucifixes are allowed into the country. The Jerusalem Post and AFP via Yahoo report that the Saudi Cabinet is quoted in a statement as warning "against labeling Muslims with accusations of terrorism and fascism and disregarding the history of the Muslim culture."

Like the jizyah tax paid by Jews and Christians to the Caliphates, perhaps? Or the orders in the Koran: So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour (25:52), or the Hadith, where in Book 14, number 2664 of the Sunan Abu Dawud it states: "The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Kill the old men who are polytheists, but spare their children. "?

But here at least Mohammed the "prophet" advised that the children of pagans should not be killed. Even Hitler's fascists (or "national socialists") saw children deliberately killed at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Belsen etc, on Himmler's orders.

One of the most appropriate responses to the name "Islamic Fascism" comes from India, in a letter by R.J. Khurana of Bhopal, writing to Central Chronicle, where he states: "US Muslims have strongly reacted to the remarks of US President, George Bush for slapping the entire Muslim Ummah as prone to terrorism as a means to sort out their grievances and describing the proclivity to do so as 'Islamic fascism'. While one can understand the pain of the peace loving segments of the Ummah over the remarks, the frequency and ferocity of terrorist attacks and plans have made the world nervous about the shape the current trend is going to take. Obviously, the influence and the clout of the peace loving elements on the rest of the Ummah is rapidly waning."

But a truly disturbing picture of how obscene some aspects of modern Islamic "fascism" can seem comes in allegations reported in News.com.au and Canada's Globe and Mail, who quote from yesterday's Sunday Mirror.

One of the terror suspects currently in custody in Britain is a woman. She is suspected of planning to be a suicide bomber, prepared to bring her baby onto a flight, and see him killed. It is bad enough to see fat Palestinian women glorifying their teenage sons who became shaheeds, or to consider that numerous babies or small children would have been murdered if the air terror plot had been successful. But one's one baby?

Police from Scotland Yard are investigating Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his 23-year-old wife Cossor, who are among the 23 suspects in custody at Paddington Green high security police station. They have a small baby, six months old.

The Mirror states that police are investigating the possibility that the baby was to be used in the plan to blast up to twelve planes out of the sky, using liquid explosives hidden in bottles of drink. Police are said to think the explosives would have been hidden in the baby's milk.

We discussed the potential of liquid explosives, and suggested that a liquid could have contained either a form of nitroglycerine or TATP (Triacetone triperoxide), the explosive used by the 7/7 bombers, and also said to be the explosive contained in the footwear of Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber.

The Sunday Mirror states that near where the couple lived (in Walthamstow, east London), officers had made a break-in "sneak and peek" raid at a shed at one of the suspects' addresses. They found liquid explosives and detonators and false-bottomed bottles.

According to News,com,au, police have recovered "bottles containing peroxide, including some with false bottoms, from a recycling centre close to the homes of some of the arrested suspects." If this is true, then it would suggest that the plan would have been to use TATP, as hydrogen peroxide is one of its key ingredients. Easily available as a bleach for hair, when the 7/7 bombers were manufacturing their TATP in a bath in a specially-rented apartment in Leeds, their hair started to bleach.

Speaking of the potential plot to use a baby as a "decoy" in a suicide mission, a UK intelligence source said: "This takes things to a horrifying new level. It is truly horrific that a man may have been ready to blow up his wife and she was prepared to let her child die."

In Australia, Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty spoke on Channel 9. He said: "The phenomena of suicide bombings as a new way of taking part in terror attacks is in itself concerning, but to think or imagine that anybody would use an innocent child to join them is even more disconcerting. And I think it just goes to show you the sorts of difficulties that we're now facing in the environment that we're all in."

He discussed issues of security at airports, and concluded: "But the reality of life is that this is a new world order and nobody's got an easy fix solution to this. We're all dealing with it."

Cossor Ali's grandfather, 84-year old Nazir Ahmed, said that Abdula Ahmed Ali had travelled to Pakistan around four weeks ago. "We didn't understand what the hurry was and why he needed to go."

Cossor Ali brought her baby with her to the police station when she was arrested, but now the child is being cared for by grandparents.

The Sunday Times yesterday reported that eight suspects regularly visited the Masjid-E-Umer mosque in Queens's Road, Walthamstow, and three of these were well-known to the congregation. Waheed Zaman, the biochemistry student at London Metropolitan University, lived directly in front of the mosque.

And Cossor was not the only woman to be arrested as a suspect. The Telegraph reported that another person arrested, this time from Hackney in east London, was a pergnant woman, whose father was formerly an imam at an east London mosque. She is said to be eight month's pregnant, and married to a covert to Islam originally from Walthamstow. This man is the son of an Iranian accountant and British mother, called Oliver Savant before he changed his name to Oliver Savant.

22-year old Zaman was a head of the Islamic Society at the college, which occupied two portable buildings on the campus at Hornsey Road, north London. These were used as prayer rooms and a library. The Telegraph investigators found pamphlets and books advocating jihad and also audiocassettes from Al Muhajiroun among others.

The mosque has been attracting a lot of interest from the media, and now Fox News is being criticised, even though it only followed a normal journalistic procedure - disguising a reporter. Today's Guardian writes that the imam of the Masjid-E-Umer, Mohammed Shoyaib, is furious that he was duped into talking to the reporter.

The story is also carried by News Max and by Reuters. The investigative reporter is Father Jonathan Morris, who is a religion reporter with Fox News Channel. Fox News is gaining a reputation for being outspoken about issues of Islam and Islam (Islamic fascism).

He claimed that he was a priest based in Rome. Shoyaib said: "hen he said he was working for peace in the world, that all faiths should work together for peace, that he needs a united message of peace for the American people. Only later he said he was from 'a sister network of Sky News', but never mentioned Fox."

The imam allowed himself to be filmed for a few minutes talking, but later reacted angrily when he learned that Morris was from the "dreaded" Fox channel. In his news blog, Morris wrote: "As we move forward as a country in these troubling times, our war must be first and foremost against the ideas that shape the hearts of the Muslim masses."

When Morris returned to the scene, where he went to a barbershop for a haircut, he was harangued by worshippers from the mosque.

There will be more revelations as this issue unfolds, and more becomes known of the full extent of the plot. Muslims around the world are expressing their contempt for the way the issue is being reported. One group of young Welsh Muslims in Cardiff, states IC Wales suggested on Saturday that the Government of Britain masterminded the plot.

Members of the Cathays Dar-ul-Isra Muslim Community Centre in Cardiff said that the plot was a device to reinforce the alliance between Blair and Bush. One 26-year old, Abdul Ullah, said: "I believe this so-called plot is all a fabrication aimed at covering up the actions of George Bush and Tony Blair. Sadly, people will believe whatever they are told these days."

Another Muslim said: "It's all a lie from the government. I think they want to cover up what's going on in the Middle East and it's just another way to take attention away from what is happening there and to frighten people into silence."

When the truth hurts, then people can attack the truth. The truth that Islam is as intolerant and inflexible as any fascist regime is self-evident, even if in small details it may differ from Mussolini's fascism (which by comparison seems quite benign).

And when denying the facts does not work, then now, as in the case of those who peddle daft conspiracy theories about 9/11, the conspiratorial talk of "plots against Islam" resurface. As the Guardian/Observer reported in its editorial yesterday, entitled "These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam": "The argument that terrorism is, in fact, a response to Western actions overseas has gained currency. It was voiced most recently on Saturday in an open letter by a number of influential British Muslim leaders to Tony Blair. The Prime Minister's policy in the Middle East, they said, puts British lives at risk. The implication is that the young Britons who last week were accused of plotting to blow up passenger planes in mid-air would have been less susceptible to al-Qaeda recruitment had Britain not fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Policy should be changed, they said, to avoid giving ideological 'ammunition to extremists'.....

....But even within the bleakest possible analysis of Mr Blair's foreign policy, it is still simply not true that the West is waging war on Islam. Just as it is not true that the CIA was really behind the 11 September attacks or any other arrant conspiratorial nonsense that enjoys widespread credence in the Middle East and beyond."

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

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 14, 2006 5:39 PM

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