Osama Bin London

A very high profile case in Britain, coming on the heels of the recent appeals court decision throwing out the convictions of several British men for their intent to take part in jihad – further highlights the problem of using criminal courts to fight back against the scourge of Salafi / Deobandi radical Islam. A man at the center of the failed "7/21" attacks in London. Mohammed Hamid, aka Osama bin London, has been convicted today of "organizing terrorist training camps and encouraging Muslims to murder non-believers" – or as the Home Secretary would say, he was convicted of "anti-Islamic activities." But the British authorities knew of Hamid long before the failed attacks and did not act in time to forestall the attacks. And then there is the the very problematic role play by the BBC in all of this.


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I’ve blogged here that if Britain is to effectively attack the severe problem it has with radical Salafi / Deobandi Islam, then it needs to pass laws that allow for a much more proactive approach - probably adopting the framework of child pornography laws. The case of Mahammed Hamid is a case study in the problems presented by using traditional law enforcement paradigm – which is reactive – to deal with the problems of terrorism and radicalization within Britain's border. It is also a case study in other ways. One, it shows the radicalization process and how it is tied into Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi Islam. Two, it shows just how utterly clueless the chattering classes and multiculturalists are about the true threat in their midst.

In 2005, the sophisticates at the BBC attempted to portray the face of "moderate Islam" to its many viewers with a production called "Don’t panic, I’m Islamic." Displaying the incredible naiveté of true multiculturalists, the BBC chose as the star of its show Mohammed Hamid to represent the face of moderate Islam in Britain. Mr. Hamid is now more popularly known as Osama bin London. The BBC would later compound its idiocy, but for now, let’s ask, who was Mohammed Hamid?

Despite the BBC’s portrayal to the contrary, Hamid seems in many ways the stereotypical radical Salafi Islamist. He has a distinct hatred for the West, the willingness to kill to see the imposition of a caliphate, close ties to Pakistan, and a man who treated his wife as a second class citizen and punching bag. According to one of his relatives, he was "evil personified." This from the Telegraph tells the background:

Mohammed Hamid is a former drug-addict who beat up his wife and could turn from a pleasant charmer into a domineering monster in the blink of an eye, a close family member told the Daily Telegraph.

. . . The woman, who is too afraid to be identified, said the family moved from Tanzania, East Africa to Batley in the 1960s. The town borders Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire where the July 7 bombers plotted their attacks.

The four brothers and seven sisters lived with their parents and other relatives in one house and ran a clothing business from home. Hamid, or "Babou" as he was known to the family, was the black sheep of the family who had a Muslim wedding, which was never registered, to an Afro-Carribean woman called Linda from Hackney, east London.

"He beat her black and blue," the relative claimed. "He was never afraid to put the boot in but he could also be nice as you like.

. . . Hamid was never faithful, the relative allegedly said, returning from one trip to Greece with a venereal disease. He served three prison sentences, even turning up to his mother's funeral in handcuffs.

"To my knowledge he never had a job. He used to make a lot of trips to Pakistan and India and return to his bookshop in Hackney with lots of packages. I thought he was bringing in drugs."

His turn to religion was the most surprising to his family, brought on by his father's death. He had an arranged marriage with a woman in India who wears the full veil and shortly afterwards made a family pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. But his turn to radicalism saw him try and recruit his nephews some of whom still lived in Batley.

"He was really a criminal and I think he only turned to religion for the attention," the relative said.

"But he hated Britain and told his nephews the whole country should be Islamic and they should kill non-believers.".

. . . To clean himself up, Hamid moved to India where he met and married his second wife, a committed Muslim, who wore a veil. They went on to have four children, now aged one, five, ten and 12. He returned to his council house in Britain and turned his life to Islam.

In 1997 he opened a bookshop in Hackney, east London, 10 minutes from his home, called the Al-Quran Islamic Book Centre, attracting visitors from as far afield as Scotland to chat away from the "strict" atmosphere of the mosques. In all he estimated more than 300 people visited the shop and, after it closed in 2004, meetings at his home in Almack Road.

Hamid became a disciple of the radical preacher Abdullah el-Faisal, later jailed for incitement to murder, and despite his turn to Islam he was arrested in March 2000 with six others accused of falsely imprisoning a man and woman, although the charges were later dropped.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Hamid bought a step ladder and began preaching at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park. Three months later, just after the US attacks on Afghanistan, he set off for Karachi in southern Pakistan to deliver hospital equipment, travelling across the border into Afghanistan and going on to Kandahar, the site of the Taliban's last stand, and then Kalat, high in the mountains of northern Afghanistan. He was later to boast of his "links" but never specified what they were.

Back in Britain, Hamid was seen by neighbours with the radical preacher Abu Hamza outside Finsbury Park mosque in North London, although he claimed he had never met the cleric. It was through the bookshop in 2003 that Hamid met Yassin Omar, the Warren Street bomber, and through him that he met Muktar Ibrahim, the leader of the July 21 gang, when they were introduced at Edmonton mosque.

Ramzi Mohammed, the Oval bomber, met Hamid at Speaker's Corner, he said, when he arrived with Hussain Osman, the Shepherd's Bush bomber, and a few others from south and west London. They joined him on the camping trip to the Lake District in 2004 and Hamid said: "It was a case of the more the merrier."

Read the entire article. And today, Hamid has been convicted in a British court "of organizing terrorist training camps and encouraging Muslims to murder non-believers at the end of a four-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court." This from the Telegraph tells us that the government knew of the threat posed by Hamid, yet did not act proactively to forestall that threat:

. . . Street preacher Mohammed Hamid - who once told young Muslims the 52 deaths in the July 7 attacks on London were "not even breakfast to me" - groomed the would-be suicide bombers under the noses of watching police, security services and even the BBC.

Hamid, 50, who is believed to have met senior al-Qa'eda figures in Afghanistan, organised a series of training camps in the New Forest, the Lake District, and Scotland and paintballing sessions in Berkshire and Kent to train his followers.
He also held regular Friday prayer meetings at his home in Clapton, East London, where he would urge Muslims to attack non-believers.

All four of the failed suicide bombers of July 21 attended his meetings and Hamid ran an Islamic bookstall on Oxford Street with Muktar Ibrahim, the leader of the July 21 gang.

He was spoken to by police on three other occasions before July 2005 at his Oxford Street stall and on eight separate occasions afterwards - but was not arrested until September 2006, more than a year after the July attacks, after an undercover policeman infiltrated his group.

. . . Police first observed the July 21 bombers being put through their paces in the Lake District at one of Hamid's camps on May 2, 2004 - more than a year before they launched their failed attacks on London's transport system.

Following a tip off, a Cumbrian officer out fell running came across a group of 20 Asian men training in Great Langdale as Hamid barked orders.

Special Branch was called in to photograph the group and close-up surveillance pictures showed all four of the men who went on to attack London on July 21 the following year.

Hamid's home in Hackney, East London was subsequently put under surveillance and four weeks later, on May 29, he was seen collecting another group together to return to Great Langdale.

Once again the fell-running officer located them in the Lake District and this time the surveillance was left to Cumbrian police who saw the group "holding branches or sticks as though they were carrying rifles".

The case was handed over to MI5 but their agents brought the wrong camera equipment when they turned up in August 2004 because they were not expecting the group to be there again. They shot just 11 minutes of footage across three days, however the film once again included Muktar Ibrahim.

One former Royal Marine Commando watched the group as they performed press-ups, sit-ups, an anti-ambush drill and "leopard crawling," moving low and flat along the ground.

But the three-man surveillance team seemed to take a relaxed approach to the operation, at one point signing off on the camera: "And what a lovely view it is."
Also there were Hamid's co-accused Kibley da Costa, 24, Mohammed Al-Figari, 42, and Kader Ahmed, 20. They have been found guilty of attending terror camps in the New Forest and at a Berkshire paintballing centre.

Hamid was also joined in his teachings by Atilla Ahmet, 43, the self-styled emir of the gang, who admitted three charges of soliciting murder at the start of the trial.
Ahmet was Abu Hamza's right-hand man at Finsbury Park Mosque and took control of his notorious Supporters of Shariah group after his arrest in 2004.

During Hamid's trial, the court heard how he and Muktar Ibrahim set up a stall selling Islamic literature outside Debenhams department store in Oxford Street and how, in October 2004, both men were arrested following a disturbance at the stall.
Police called to reports of three men blocking the pavement with a trestle table stacked with religious books found they refused to move and started to abuse the black and Asian officers when they were threatened with arrest.

The officers had to call for assistance and as Hamid was handcuffed and dragged to the police van he told the officers: "I've got a bomb and I'm going to blow you all up."

At the police station Hamid gave his name as Osama bin London and was only identified after a fingerprint check which showed up his extensive criminal record for theft and burglary. Ibrahim ran from police and was only stopped when a member of the public tripped him up. However, he failed to turn up at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court because he had travelled to Pakistan where it is thought he learned how to make the bombs for July 21.

. . . Hamid exchanged 155 calls and text messages with the four July 21 bombers, including one message sent to Hussain Osman on the evening of July 7, in which he used the alias Al-Quran and wrote: "Assalam bro, we fear no-one except ALLAH, we will not change our ways, we are proud to be a Muslim an we will not hide. 8pm Friday at my place, be there food and talk, AL-QURAN."

He also sent Mohammed and Osman a text on the night of July 21 and attempted to ring both of them the following day.

Co-accused Kader Ahmed and Kibley da Costa also made attempts to contact the men in the two days after the attacks.

Hamid, assisted by Ahmet, was said to be a "recruiter, groomer and corrupter of young Muslims."

Read the entire article. And this article tries to get its hands around the extent of Hamid’s activities relating to the radicalization process of Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi Islam:

Mohammed Hamid spent 13 years grooming hundreds of young Muslim men to fight non-believers under the noses of the police and security services and Operation Overamp set out to put that right.

While the July 7 bombers bonded over white-water rafting in Wales, for the failed July 21 bombers it was camping expeditions to the Lake District.

In the days after the attempted attacks, the police found they had surveillance pictures of the would-be bombers with Atilla Ahmet, Abu Hamza's replacement at Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, and with Hamid on training camps in the Lake District.

The two men came together, they found, at Hamid's home in Hackney, east London, on Friday afternoons, where they would gather a group of young men around them.
When MI5 planted a bug in Hamid's home they uncovered a process of radicalisation that eventually led to July 21.

Hamid would begin at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park or his stall on Oxford Street where he would invite young men to the Friday meetings.

At the meetings they were addressed by Ahmet and Hamid would invite them to training camps in the New Forest, the Lake District, or Scotland and to paintballing sessions in Berkshire and Kent where he would train them for jihad [holy war].

Hamid said his meetings were "our pub, our restaurant" and berated his followers for wanting to study at college and follow "nine to five" jobs when women and children were dieing in Iraq.

"We must learn to move in numbers in this land of kaffirs [non-believers]," he said. "Either we become prisoners of this land or we free ourselves."

Two days before Christmas 2005 he talked about attacking Prince Charles, Camilla and Tony Blair at the London Olympics in 2012, adding: "Top-notch people from the whole world are coming to that area.

"The guy has told us 2012. He said, 'Don't think it is going to come on 2012, they're going to have six, seven atrocities before you get that.'"

A few months later Ahmet told his followers to attack the police, adding: "If you've got a little bit of strength in you pick up the tool and try and end one of the kuffar's [non-believer's] life."

Asked by one of the group if he was permitted to kill any kuffar, Ahmet said there were some who could be converted but added: "The House of Parliament, the big people, the MPs, the police, the army, the city slickers are all halal [permitted]."
But MI5 became suspicious that more was being said away from the meetings. At times music would be turned up and all that officers could hear were the strains of the Beach Boys or sexually explicit rap lyrics.

A Special Branch officer was chosen to try and infiltrate the group - and it could not have been easier.

Given the nickname "Dawood" by Hamid, he "converted" the man from Christianity to Islam during a half hour conversation at his stall on Oxford Street, central London on April 6 2006.

Almost the only words Dawood spoke were "yeah, you're right" and "exactly" as Hamid told him how DNA, mobile phones, air travel and the Iraq war had all been predicted by the Koran.

According to Hamid, Islam offered social security, the NHS, welfare and policing.
"It all comes from the sharia [Islamic law]. They have it but our country don't have it," he told Dawood.

Two weeks later, he received a text message from Hamid, who used the name al-Quran, telling him: "Salaam bro. 8pm my place, dinner and talk."

Dawood was able to join Hamid and his group on a camping trip to the New Forest and on a paintballing trip at White Waltham in Berkshire.

The officer said Hamid told the group they weren't just running around the woods, they were training for jihad [holy war].

And Dawood was so good that at the end of the day of paintballing, Hamid presented the undercover policeman with a medal as the best player.

Hamid, himself a former drug addict, did his best to relate to the young men he was addressing.

At his home in Hackney in June 2006 he told them: "The Muslims are bad boys, you know what I mean? If you go on the street everybody want to be a rapper, Puff Daddy. Everybody wants to be something and when they come to Islam everybody wants to be mujaheed [holy warrior]."

He told his followers they were "Soldiers of Allah" who were "fighting for shariah" [Islamic law].

"The whole aspect is for you to get shahada [martyred] for you to be shaheed [martyr]," he added.

Dawood said Hamid motioned as if holding a gun and said: "Everybody wants a bit of that."

. . . The meetings continued and at Hamid's house on July 14 his followers could be heard laughing at the death of a Muslim soldier fighting for British forces in Afghanistan.

Hamid told the meeting: "There's enough of them here that you know, you got House of Parliament, then you've got the things around it…you can pick them off like that, you understand?"

On July 22 2006 Hamid held a "family weekend" at the Jameah Islamiyah school in Crowborough, Sussex.

The school, a sprawling former Catholic seminary and ballet school set in 54 acres, had been used by both Abu Hamza and Sussex Police, who attended diversity training programmes there, but had only 12 pupils and has since been shut down after failing an Ofsted inspection.

In a recording made by Dawood, Hamid was heard telling him: "You know what happened on the Tubes, four people got shaheed (martyred).

"How many people did they take out? That's not even a breakfast for me."

On the same weekend, Ahmet sang a song to children at the camp to a callipso tune: "Come mister Taliban, come bomb England. Before the daylight come, you wanna see ten Downing Street done."

Hamid was aware he could be under surveillance by MI5 and as his group drove home from a camping trip, they passed Paddington Green police station where terrorist suspects are held and Hamid taunted: "Here is your terrorist. I'm here come and get me." . . .

Read the entire article. And lastly, there are the utterly clueless – and indeed, malignant – multiculturalists at the BBC:

A BBC producer failed to give police information that would have helped track down the July 21 bombers, the trial was told.

Don't Panic, I'm Islamic, which featured the group paintballing and an interview with Mohammed Hamid, was shown on BBC2 on June 12, 2005.

Nasreen Suleaman, the producer, told the court that Hamid said he would use his £300 fee to settle the fine he had been given by magistrates for racially abusing two policemen at his Oxford Street stall.

Called as a defence witness, Miss Suleaman admitted that she had spoken to Hamid in the days following the July 21 attacks and found out he knew the wanted men.
She said she thought he was scared the fugitives might try to call him but did not contact the police because she felt under "no obligation" to do so.

Miss Suleaman claimed she told BBC managers of the situation but no one passed on the information to the authorities. . . .

Read the article here. The BBC is every bit as problematic in Britain as the NYT is in the U.S., if not moreso.

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Bishop Recives Death Threats For Pointing Out the Reality of Muslim No-Go Areas In the UK

The Bishop of Rochester, some weeks ago, set off a firestorm in the UK when he publicly stated that there are areas in Britain controlled by Muslims in which non-Muslims dare not tread. He blames the Labour government's policy of multiculturalism for this, as did British Muslim leader Manzoor Moghal. Now the Bishop is receiving death threats to he and his family. But let me see if I can work this through logically. According to the Government, such threats could only come from people who are anti-Islamic. I guess Britian really needs to crack down on the critics of Islam then to solve this problem and thus forestall truly greater ones.

Where is the outrage, my British friends?

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Orwell's Britain is Halal Toast

I would say the UK is simply toast, but "halal toast" is a much more appropriate description given the facts.

The problem that the UK is having with the radicalization of its Muslim population is so severe as to be the worst of any nation in Europe. The problem got that way through years of Britain's practice of a virulent type of multiculturalism in accordance with which Britian uncritically tolerated the radical sects of Salafi / Wahhabi / Deobandi Islam. And even now, the Labour government is showing no intention of changing its approach.

Labour is burying its multicultural head deep into the dhimmi sands. Specifically, the Labour government has decided to stop calling Islamic terrorists "Islamic terrorists." Instead, the UK government will henceforth label Islamic terrorist activities as "anti-Islamic." One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of Orwellian doublespeak.

Labour is completely out of touch with reality. To judge this - and to see the potential ramifications of Labour's latest foray into doublespeak - all one need do is juxtapose the recent article in the Daily Mail in which the Home Office announced this new policy with a few other articles.
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Ministers have adopted a new language for declarations on Islamic terrorism. In future, fanatics will be referred to as pursuing "anti-Islamic activity".

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said that extremists were behaving contrary to their faith, rather than acting in the name of Islam.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

Wish as the Home Secretary might, the truth is of course the exact opposite. Wahhabi / Salafi Islam, exported from Saudi Arabia to all four corners of the world with billions in petrodollars to become the dominant form of Islam in the West, has also become the driving force behind the Pakistani variant dominant in the UK, Deobandi Islam. According to Dr. Tawfiq Hamid, a former Salafi terrorist and member of Ayman al Zawahiri’s Jamaah Islamiyah, their faith in the medieval dogma of Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi Islam is what drives their violence:

The goal of Salafi Islam is "complete Islamic dominance." Salafi dogma holds that the duty of every Muslim is to wage "jihad against non-Muslims and subdue them to Shari'a - the duty of every true Muslim . . . [It is] to engage in war against the infidels, the enemies of Allah.

And as Zuhdi Jasser explains, terrorism if far more than a mere anomaly as the Home Office is suggesting:

[Citizens] need to understand that this is not a conflict against a tactic but rather a common ideology which utilizes a radical interpretation of Islam and is a natural off-shoot from political Islam.

NRO Interview of M. Zhudi Jasser
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According to the UK Home Office:

Security officials believe that directly linking terrorism to Islam is inflammatory, and risks alienating mainstream Muslim opinion.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

If you consider radical Salafi Islam mainstream, than the Home Office may have a point. Otherwise, this is a bit of dhimmi insanity.

The only people who complain of being alienated when terrorists motivated by the Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi ideology are identified as "Islamic terrorists" are the Salifists and, by orders of decibels, their enabling organizations. You often hear them decrying it is a form of Islamophobia. For example, it is the Salafi organization CAIR that asked all news organization not to mention the Islamic ties of the six terrorists who planned to strike Fort Dix in the name of Allah. And in the UK, it is the Deobandi organization the MCB – the organization with terrorist ties that wants to see Sharia law imposed in Britain - that does not want Islamic terrorists described as Islamic.

You do not hear other Islamic group complain of this. To the contrary, they want the brightest light possible shown on the Salafists. Indeed, the term Islamofacism was first coined by a Muslim, David Sulyman Schwartz, who is the director of the Center For Islamic Pluralism – a site that even has a section dedicated to "Wahhabi Watch."

As to the average non-Muslim – and Muslim – in the UK:

Conservative MP Philip Davies said no Muslim constituent had ever complained to him about the use of the term "Islamic extremism". The Shipley MP added: "Whenever anyone refers to Islamic terrorism, they are not saying all Muslims are terrorists.

The Daily Mail. This complaining is all a tactic of radical Islamists to keep their activities in the dark and to forestall any criticism by portraying it as Islamophobia. But, the West buys into that bit of dissimulation at its own great peril, as Zhudi Jasser explains:

[The greatest challenge facing Western Muslims] is not Islamophobia. If anyone is to blame for the existence of the concept of Islamophobia, if it even exists, it is Muslims who have been unable to articulate a manifestation of Islam which is free of a political state which threatens the sovereignty of the states in which Muslims reside. I don’t subscribe to the existence of the notion of Islamophobia because I believe that we are in just the beginning of a global conflict of political ideologies (Islamism vs. Americanism), and the conflation of "Islamophobia" is intentional by Islamists to deflect . . . the free world from the necessary debate of political ideologies.From where I sit, as a devout anti-Islamist Muslim, the greatest challenge facing Muslims today is an intellectual victory over the Islamists. . .

NRO Interview of M. Zhudi Jasser. And as Tawfiq Hamid explains, the onus for the problems of radical Islam lie with Salafism. "Salafi ideology is what is largely responsible for the so-called ‘clash of civilizations.’" And indeed, Hamid notes that Salafists see "any criticism" of their dogma as a sin "punishable by death and eternal damnation."

The problem with the Home Office, and indeed, the entirety of Labour’s reaction to radical Islam is that it is based on the wholly failed premise of multiculturalism. As one Muslim leader in Britain, Manzoor Moghal, chairman of The Muslim Forum, recently noted:

Multi-culturalism has backfired spectacularly. . . What we really need is not special treatment for Muslims and endless appeasement, but genuine equality. That is supposed to be the bedrock of our modern democratic society. We should turn it into a reality before our society fractures even more.

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In one passage [the Home Secretary] said: "As so many Muslims in the UK and across the world have pointed out, there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorise, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief."Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic'.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

This is simply a refusal to acknowledge reality. It is pretending the situation does not even exist, let alone taking stock of how far reaching it is in Britain. According to a recent report in the Times:

Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline [Salafi / Deobandi] Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to "shed blood" for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.

The Times, Hardline Takeover Of British Mosques
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According to the UK Home Office:

[The Home Secretary] referred to enlisting the Muslim community against "anti-Islamic activity".

The Daily Mail

But . . .

The result of Britain's brand of multiculturalism is that it makes no cricial assessments or value judgements about the differing sects of Islam. Thus, the Home Office is not turning to "moderate Muslims" to help the community, but rather to the large, well funded radical organizations that are the apologists for Islamic terrorism in the first place. This only makes any sense if you believe the total fantasy Labour is positing, that terrorism and radicalism are simply anamolous anti-Islamic acts. That is the only way to explain Labour's decisions a few weeks ago, when they established Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), a board to oversee the appointment of foreign Muslim clerics and the to establish the standards for educating Muslims in the mosques. Instead of appointing "moderates" to head this board, two of the four organizations Labour chose were the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). Both are radical organizations with strong ties to terrororist organizations. Both organizations promote seperatism, espouse Islamic triumphalism, and have clearly stated a desire to see Sharia law enacted in Britain.
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According to the UK Home Office:

The strategy emerging across Government is to portray terrorists as nothing more than cold-blooded murderers who are not fighting for any religious cause.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

What chance does any doctor have to diagnose and treat cancer if they refuse to acknowledge that cancer exists? As Tawfiq Hamid explained the Salafist religious motivation behind his desire to slaughter non-Muslims:

Jihad against non-Muslims seemed to me to be a win-win situation. The following verse, commonly cited by Jamaah members, validated my duty to die for Allah: "Allah has purchased the believers, their lives and their goods. For them [in return] is the garden [of paradise]. They fight in Allah's cause, and they slay and are slain; they kill and are killed... it [paradise] is the promise of Allah to them" (Koran 9:111).

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to the UK Home Office:

Sir Ken Macdonald, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has also said phrases which liken London to a " battlefield" will no longer be used.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

This is like something out of Harry Potter with "he who shall not be named." But Harry Potter is a children’s fairy tale. Believing in it will not lead to bloodshed and turmoil. The same cannot be said of the fairy tale being spun by Labour. Whether or not the government will name the problem, the truth is that radical Muslims are turning areas of Britian into Muslim fortresses:

Islamic extremists have created "no-go" areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England's most senior bishops warns today.The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester and the Church's only Asian bishop, says that people of a different race or faith face physical attack if they live or work in communities dominated by a strict Muslim ideology.

The Telegraph

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali's warning that Islamic extremism is creating 'no-go' areas in parts of Britain has provoked a predictable barrage of outrage. He has been condemned for making 'inflammatory' remarks, distorting the truth about our inner cities and 'scaremongering' against the Muslim population.

But, paradoxically, this reaction from the politically-correct establishment is an indicator of the weight of his case. If our ruling elite were not so worried that his views would strike a chord with the public, it would not have been so anxious to condemn him. His statement about the dangers of the rise of radical Islam matches the reality of what people see in our cities and towns, where the influence of hardliners is undermining harmony and promoting segregation.

Manzoor Moghal, chairman of the Muslim Forum
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According to the UK Home Office:

[The Home Secretary] will meet members of the online industry in the next few weeks to decide how to crack down on Al Qaeda inspired sites.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

Britain in fact has already started an internet crackdown. The UK government intends to arrest a UK blogger, Lionheart, for his criticism of Islam on the internet. That is an insane silencing of free speech. It is the government's means of forcing multiculturalism on Britain's population by the government's police powers. And it is directly aimed at silencing any criticism of Islam in the UK. It is a travesty.

As to radical Islam, the problem there is only partly on the internet. The big problem is in the UK’s mosques themselves - yet that problem is being studiously ignored:

Pamphlets advocating jihad by force, hatred for insufficiently observant Muslims, Christians and Jews, and segregation" are readily available at hundreds of the UK’s mosques, according to a recent report.

The Telegraph
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According to the UK Home Office:

Mosques will be helped to root out extremism, with imams encouraged to learn English.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

Expecting the radicalized mosques of Britian to police themselves is simply a dangerous fantasy. Here is a bit of what goes on in a large number of Britain’s Salafi / Deobandi Mosques:

For the rest of the show, go here and scroll down to the bottom.

Labour has no chance whatsoever of meeting the problem of radical Islam if one of the centerpieces of their strategy is to enlist the Mosques in voluntary cooperation. And this nonsense about having Imams learn English ignores the scope of the problem completely. The Labour government has allowed the problem of radical Islam to fester so long that radical Deobandi Imams are now home grown in the UK:

Seventeen of Britain’s 26 Islamic seminaries are run by Deobandis and they produce 80 per cent of home-trained Muslim clerics. Many had their studies funded by local education authority grants. The sect . . . has significant representation on the Muslim Council of Britain . . .

The Times, Hardline Takeover Of British Mosques
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According to the UK Home Office:

Youngsters will be taught about all faiths in schools, and £2million will be spent "twinning" schools of different faiths.

The Daily Mail

But . . .

If you read Tawfiq Hamid describe how he became a Salafi terrorist, you will find that it had nothing to do with his interaction with people of other faiths while growing up. Indeed, the opposite is true. He had numerous friends that were not Muslim and he attended a Catholic school in Egypt. The problem is in the Salafi / Deobandi mosques.

This Home Office idea is just more multicultural insanity under a slightly different heading. It will have no effect whatsoever on whether Muslims become radicalized. It seems designed more to promote a positive view of Islam among non-Islamic children than to do anything about the reality of radical Islam. And as Manzoor Moghal, chairman of the Muslim Forum points out:

Yet still, even after all the lessons of recent years, the Labour government has refused to abandon multi-culturalism. Instead it has merely presented this outlook under a new name, describing it as "multi-faithism".

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As I hope the above makes clear, the ramifications of the Home Office's embrace of Orwellian doublespeak goes far beyond mere semantics. The Labour government is attempting to appease the radical Islamists that it has nurtured like a viper in its midst through the practice of multiculturalism. It is an incredible disservice to the Muslims in Britian who accept Western values and do not want their faith radicalized by the ever increasing influence of Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi Islam. Yet the Home Office’s actions almost assure the opposite. The government has no chance of dealing with the problem of radical Islam so long as it fools the nation by pretending the problem of terrorism is completely separate from Salafi ideology.

Possibly the most important thing we can do in the West is shine a spotlight on the radical dogma of Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi Islam in the hopes of supporting true moderates, such as Tawfiq Hamid and Zhudi Jasser, as they attempt to evolve their faith. As Jasser said in a recent interview at NRO:

I and so many others of the majority of Muslims who are at home in Western pluralistic society are living modern interpretations of Islam which can if given a chance and the resources can directly counter the radical interpretations of fanatical Muslims which have abused so many in the world.

But the Labour government is not supporting people like Jasser. To the contrary, Labour is supporting the well-funded Salafist organizations and, with this foray into Orwellian doublespeak, has just gone the further step towards extinguishing the last bit of candlelight on radical Islam in the UK. This of course poses an equally grave danger to the non-Muslim population of Britain who need to fully comprehend the beast in their midst. Again to quote Jasser in a different interview:

[A] better informed . . . citizenry can hold Muslims and non-Muslims alike . . . accountable for their facilitation of the radicalization of Muslims. Once this process is understood the contribution to jihadism of political Islam and the dreams of the Islamic state will become clearer to every [citizen] and the ideological threat will be realized.

That is clearly not happening in Britain. Instead, as the threat increases, the Labour government is feeding its non-Muslim citizens disingenuous pablum worthy of Neville Chamberlin.

Radical Islam will only be defeated when the ideology of Wahhabi / Salafi / Deobandi Islam is marginalized and Islam itself made to evolve through its own Period of Enlightment. No one knows this better then the former Salafi terrorist turned reformist Tawfiq Hamid. Let’s give him the last word:

The civilized world ought to recognize the immense danger that Salafi Islam poses; it must become informed, courageous and united if it is to protect both a generation of young Muslims and the rest of humanity from the disastrous consequences of this militant ideology.

Tawfiq Hamid (emphasis mine)


Update: Brits at Their Best have a post that relates directly to the issues raised above. And Soccer Dad has a post that supplements these issues. As he notes in his post:

Islamist hatred of the West is not a grievance we can address. Attempting to accomodate the demands of Islamists only encourages them. For there to be peace between Islam and the West, there needs to be a change of heart in Islam. Anything else is useless.

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