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July 20, 2007

Britain: New Leadership Fails To Prevent Islamic Terrorism (4 of 4)

This article by Adrian Morgan (Giraldus Cambrensis of Western Resistance) appeared earlier today in Family Security Matters and is reproduced with their permission.

Britain's New Leadership Fails To Prevent Terrorism, Threatens America: (Part Four of Four)

In Part One I mentioned that Dr Bilal Abdulla, who was in the car bomb attack upon Glasgow airport on June 30, was alleged to be connected to the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. This group, founded in Jerusalem in 1953, aims to establish a Caliphate or Islamic super-state. Expressly anti-Semitic, Hizb aims to destroy democracy. Tony Blair said in August 2005 that he wished to ban the group, but never followed through on his pledge.

The other man who was in the Jeep which crashed into Glasgow Airport's entrance, loaded with gasoline and gas canisters, was 27-year old Kafeel Ahmed (pictured). He poured gasoline upon himself and received 90% burns. Kafeel Ahmed's brother Sabeel Ahmed was charged on July 14 with possessing information that could prevent an act of terrorism. The two brothers had been brought up in Bangalore, India. Soon after the attacks, it was revealed that the pair were members of the extremist group Tablighi Jamaat.

This group, founded in Mewat, India in 1927 by Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalawi, aims to do Muslim missionary work (da'wah). It has been involved in moves to force women to wear the veil coup attempts and terrorism. Last year on August 10, airports in Britain were subjected to security checks after 21 people were arrested, suspected of plotting to bring liquid explosives onto US-bound planes. At least two of the suspects, 26-year old Assad Sarwar of High Wycombe and Waheed Zaman, were followers of Tablighi Jamaat. As a Deobandi institution, Tablighi believes women to be intellectually inferior to men, and is supported by the Taliban in Pakistan's border provinces adjoining Afghanistan. In France, Tablighi has been converting prisoners to extremism since the 1970s.

Tablighi Jamaat's UK headquarters is the Markazi Mosque in Savile Town, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Two regular visitors to this mosque were Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammed Sidique Khan, the two principle members of the four-man suicide squad that killed 52 Londoners on 7/7, 2005. Despite Tablighi's links with suspected and known terrorists, such as Jose Padilla, Lyman Harris, (who wanted to bomb the Brooklyn Bridge), the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, shoe-bomber Richard Reid and individuals who carried out deadly suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, on May 16, 2003, this group is planning to build a super-mosque in London.

The intention to construct the "mega-mosque", capable of housing from 12,000 to 40,000 people, was first revealed in November, 2005. It was to be situated in the London Borough of Newham, adjoining the site of the 2012 London Olympics, and is intended to be ready by the time of the games. Tablighi Jamaat, which receives substantial funding from Saudi Arabia, bought the Abbey Mill site a decade ago, and are still trying to gain planning permission. Opposition to the mega-mosque began in September last year, much of it coming from local Muslims who worried about plans to establish an "Islamic village" run by extremists, within their community.

Currently, there is a petition against the mega-mosque on the UK government's website, which has been signed by 255,000 individuals. The main supporter of the mosque, who has called the petition "vicious" is London's leftist mayor, Ken Livingstone. The mayor said: "The particularly vicious nature of the campaign against a possible Muslim place of worship in East London should be condemned by all of those who support the long established right of freedom of religion in this country. And all the more so as it is based on information which has long been established to be factually untrue."

Livingstone is ignoring the petition which was formed by local Newham Muslims, Sunni Friends of Newham which by November last year had gained 2,500 names. Asif Shakor, chairman of this group, said of Tablighi Jamaat: "It is radicalizing the younger generation. We have to make a stand."

Ken Livingstone has openly supported Islamists, such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who has approved the slaughter of Israeli civilians. In July 2004, Livingstone welcomed Qaradawi to London. In September 2005, Livingstone compared Qaradawi to Pope John XXIII (d. 1963) who convened the reforming second Vatican Council. He said: "Sheik Qaradawi is I think very similar to the position of Pope John XXIII. An absolutely sane Islamist," and "Of all the Muslim leaders in the world today, Sheikh Qaradawi is the most powerfully progressive force for change and for engaging Islam with western values." In 2005, Livingstone notoriously vilified a Jewish reporter, Oliver Finegold, as being "just like a concentration camp guard".

Livingstone was expelled from the Labour party in April 2000, when he stood against the party's candidate for London Mayor. Livingstone won the election, becoming mayor on May 4, 2000. As a political measure, he was readmitted to the Labour party in 2004, and stood as their official nominee for mayor. He was reelected on June 10, 2004.

The Labour Party, now headed by Gordon Brown, originated in a brand of extreme socialism which Livingstone still exemplifies. When Tony Blair won the 1997 general election, he attempted to re-brand the party, abandoning its socialist roots. As a sop to the leftists within his party, Blair promoted policies which endorsed multi-culturalism and an idealized notion of "rights". This led to the passing of Britain's Human Rights Act of 1998. This made the unprecedented step of making the terms of the European Convention of Human Rights (1950) prevail over existing laws. In the battle against terrorism, this law (which was supported by Gordon Brown) has proved disastrous.

In September 2005, the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke found that this law was preventing him from deporting terrorist suspects, as when returned to their Muslim countries of origin, they may have been subjected to torture. Under Article 3 of the ECHR, "inhuman or degrading treatment" is outlawed. As a result, he was unable to deport at least 10 individuals, including Jordanian-born Abu Qatada, who has been described as Al Qaeda's European ambassador.

The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2006, which finally became law in April 2006, introduced a form of partial house arrest called "Control Orders". A court ruling was not required to subject a suspect individual to restrictions. From March 11, 2004 such orders had been in effect. In June 2006, these control orders were attacked by a High Court judge, Mr Justice Sullivan, as these were seen to contravene Article 5 of the ECHR which prohibits detention without trial.

In May 2006, Sullivan had used Blair's Human Rights Act 1998 to allow nine Muslim terrorists to remain indefinitely in Britain. These had hijacked a plane from Afghanistan to Britain in February 2000, carrying grenades and weapons. During a standoff on the runway of Stansted airport, they had beaten passengers. The dependents of the hijackers, who had been on the plane and therefore were co-conspirators were also given leave to remain. The cost to UK taxpayers of the terrorists' numerous court appearances was well over $8 million.

Control orders allow individuals some time to leave their homes, but the system has proved unreliable. Some 17 people have been subjected to control orders, but of these, seven have absconded, and their current whereabouts is unknown. In May it was revealed that two individuals who had "disappeared" after breaching control orders were the brothers of Adam Garcia (aka Rahman Adam) a terrorist jailed for life on April 30.

Rahman Adam/Adam Garcia had been one of five individuals who had plotted to blow up nightclubs, planes, and trains. The five had all been members of the extremist group Al Muhajiroun, founded by Omar Bakri Mohammed. The five terrorists been convicted after police surveillance known as Operation Crevice. At the end of this trial, it was revealed that MI5 surveillance had shown that members of the Crevice group were in frequent communication with Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the 7/7 suicide bombers. They were also in contact with Al Qaeda operatives Abu Munthir and Abu Hadi (Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi). The two brothers of Adam Garcia, Lamine and Ibrahim Adam, broke control orders which had been issued in February this year. They and an associate, Cerie Bullivant, have not been traced. According to Mohammed Junaid Babar, witness at the Crevice trial, Lamine Garcia was singled out by the plotters to plant a bomb at a nightclub.

Another Al Muhajiroun member, who had been to Pakistan with the convicted Crevice plotters, was former London Underground employee Zeeshan Siddique (Siddiqui). He had been placed under a control order in April 2006, three months after he was returned to Britain following his release from a jail in Pakistan. At the Crevice trial, Junaid Babar had claimed that Zeeshan Siddique, who was called "Imran" by the Crevice plotters, had been asked to be a suicide bomber on the London Underground. Last month a judge lifted reporting restrictions on Zeeshan Siddique. He had vanished in September, 2006. He had been sectioned under the Mental Health act to stay in a psychiatric institution, but had escaped through a window. His whereabouts are still unknown.

Al Muhajiroun lasted from February 16, 1996, to October 2004, when its "emir" Omar Bakri Mohammed disbanded it. One of its prominent members was a trained lawyer called Anjem Choudary. By the time of the 7/7 attacks in 2005, Choudary and Abu Izzadeen had founded two successor groups, the Saviour/Saved Sect and Al Ghurabaa, comprised of former Al Muhajiroun members. At no stage was Al Muhajiroun banned. Omar Bakri Mohammed, who had called for the assassination of former prime minister John Major, was never prosecuted under UK law. Abu Hamza, who was involved in a kidnapping in Yemen, was a friend of Bakri. He had openly preached for jihad and the killing of Jews for years before the authorities intervened.

This policy of non-intervention assisted terrorists to flourish in Britain and for this the police, MI5 and the Labour government must all be blamed. Al Ghurabaa and the Saviour Sect were only banned in July 2006. By this time, their leaders had formed a new group called Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah. On February 3, 2006, Anjem Choudary organized a notorious protest outside the Danish Embassy in London, where calls were made for beheadings of anyone who "insulted" Islam.

What made this display so shocking was the manner in which, at the time, no action was taken against this illegal demonstration, where Islamists openly called for murder. There were protests in parliament, and police received 500 official complaints for not stopping the protest. A poll found that 86% of respondents thought such demonstrations were a "gross overreaction" (to the Danish cartoons), 80% thought the authorities displayed "too much tolerance" of Muslims who call for extremism, and 67% believed senior policemen were too "politically correct". Video taken at the time shows how one Londoner who complained to police about the demonstration was even threatened with arrest.

The responsibility of managing London's policing since February 2005 has been in the hands of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair. As a student friend of Tony Blair, this man is as politically correct and as duplicitous as his namesake. On Friday July 22, a day after four individuals failed in their attempts to repeat the suicide bombings of 7/7, a Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezez, was shot dead, mistakenly identified as a terrorist. In a climate of apprehension, tragic mistakes happen, but lies are not acceptable.

On the day of the killing, Ian Blair had supported statements that Menezez wore a large bulky jacket (he did not), and that he had jumped over a ticket barrier at Stockwell tube station (he did not) before being shot seven times in the head and once in the neck. Menezez was held down as he was shot. When the truth was leaked, Ian Blair demanded an inquiry to find the mole who had contradicted the fabricated version his police force had fed to the public, leading in September 2005 to the arrest of a 43-year old woman.

On September 17, 2006, five days after the Pope's Regensburg Address "offended" Muslims, Anjem Choudary held another illegal demonstration outside Westminster Cathedral, where worshippers were harassed by Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah members. Choudary said: "Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment... I am here to have a peaceful demonstration. But there may be people in Italy or other parts of the world who would carry that out. I think that warning needs to be understood by all people who want to insult Islam and want to insult the prophet of Islam."

No arrests were made, even though legal injunctions against obstruction, breach of the peace or incitement could have been brought. On September 28, Ian Blair declared that "no substantive offences" had been committed. A few days before this, Ian Blair had announced that before any anti-terror raids were to be mounted against Islamist suspects, a panel of Muslims would have to be consulted first. This ludicrous policy was finally scrapped on July 5 this month.

Anjem Choudary was given a trivial fine for mounting the February 3, 2006 demonstration. With no sanctions against him, he is still making inflammatory speeches. Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah, which influences the American group the Islamic Thinkers' Society is not banned, despite glorifying terrorism. Only four people were convicted for their part in the Danish Embassy demonstration, despite police having 60 hours of video footage at their disposal. On July 18, 2007, four men from Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah were jailed for six years for incitement to murder.

One of these individuals, Abdul Muhid, had previously been freed after calling for British soldiers and homosexuals to be killed. He was charged with assaulting a police officer in Chingford, but these charges were dropped, and after berating Sikh passersby with a megaphone, he became engaged in violent disorder. Again charges had been dropped. Other individuals wanted by police for their involvement in the Feb 03 demonstration have never been found. Since the Blair-Brown government came to power in 1997, an average of seven new laws have been passed each day. This despite having existing laws that are not properly used, particularly against those who try to incite and radicalize others.

Islamists have been allowed to incite for more than a decade, with little sanctions taken against them. But when the leader of Britain's ultra-right BNP party, Nick Griffin, was filmed undercover mocking Islam amongst his friends, he was taken to court. Twice. When the second jury trial acquitted him of "inciting racial hatred", Gordon Brown and Lord Falconer (the Lord Chancellor) said they were intending to alter the existing race hate laws to prohibit criticism of Islam. (nb - Islam is not a race).

Britain's list of proscribed terrorist groups is minute compared to that of the US Treasury. Hamas' armed wing, Izza Deen al-Qassam, is listed, but not Hamas itself, despite its policies of murdering Israeli civilians in suicide attacks. Maybe Gordon Brown should consider why his government has failed to outlaw anti-Jewish groups (Hizb ut-Tahrir is another), when he wants anti-Islamic speech banned.

In Pakistan, madrassas have been used to incite hatred for the West. Two of the 7/7 suicide bombers attended Pakistani madrassas as part of their radicalization. The recent crisis at Islamabad's Red Mosque, which was registered and received funding from the Musharraf government, highlights how dangerous such institutions can become. In November last year, Gordon Brown, as Chancellor, approved a massive spending plan on Pakistan. Over a four year period, $960 million will be spent. Some of the money will be used for sanitation and health care, but the bulk of the package will be used to subsidize madrassas.

While Chancellor in Tony Blair's government, Gordon Brown has approved of having the Islamist group the Muslim Council of Britain (which was co-founded by Kemal Helbawy of the Muslim Brotherhood) acting as government advisers. He has approved funding to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Engaging with the Islamic World Group. This group is led by a young former student radical called Mockbul Ali, and has paid money to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood's "spiritual leader" who issued a fatwa approving the murder of Israeli civilians.

I have written extensively on FSM about how Britain's failure to combat its Islamist radicalism poses a very real threat to the US. New prime minister Gordon Brown has been forced by recent circumstances to sound "tough" on terrorism. He has been a leading figure in Blair's government for 10 years. The Labour party used to have a slogan - "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" - which it abandoned when crime figures rocketed. Brown may talk tough on terrorism, but unless he tackles the root causes of terrorism - the extremists who have preached unhindered for a decade on Britain's soil - Britain will remain a haven for terrorists.

Adrian Morgan

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