Merry old England
An undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of Islamic extremism at a number of Britain’s leading mosques and Muslim institutions, including an organisation praised by the Prime Minister. Secret video footage reveals Muslim preachers exhorting followers to prepare for jihad, to hit girls for not wearing the hijab, and to create a ‘state within a state’. Many of the preachers are linked to the Wahhabi strain of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia, which funds a number of Britain’s leading Islamic institutions…
At the Sparkbrook mosque, run by UK Islamic Mission (UKIM), an organisation that maintains 45 mosques in Britain and which Tony Blair has said ‘is extremely valued by the government for its multi-faith and multicultural activities’, a preacher is captured on film praising the Taliban. In response to the news that a British Muslim solider was killed fighting the Taliban, the speaker declares: ‘The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulders.’
Another speaker says Muslims cannot accept the rule of non-Muslims. ‘You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir [non-Muslim],’ a preacher, Dr Ijaz Mian, tells a meeting held within the mosque. ‘We have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others.’ The 12-month investigation also recorded a deputy headmaster of an Islamic high school in Birmingham telling a conference at the Sparkbrook mosque that he disagrees with using the word democracy. ‘They should call it … kuffrocracy, that’s their plan. It’s the hidden cancerous aim of these people.’…
Sheikh Feiz, a Saudi-trained preacher. Feiz says: ‘Kaffir is the worst word that can ever be written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt.’…another preacher at a mosque in the East Midlands is caught on film, praying: ‘God help us in our fight against the kaffir, in every field, in every department of life. We beg you to help us fight against the enemies of our religion.’
Inside the Green Lane mosque in Birmingham, a preacher is recorded saying: ‘Allah has created the woman deficient.’ A satellite broadcast from the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, beamed into the Green Lane mosque suggests that Muslim children should be hit if they don’t pray: ‘When he is seven, tell him to go and pray, and start hitting them when they are 10.’ Another preacher is heard saying that if a girl ‘doesn’t wear hijab, we hit her’.
Get with the program. Stop being a Kaffir. Wear the hijab. OK?
January 7th, 2007 at 10:34 am
The undercover investigation was by a news organization, not by the government. From the link:
In a statement to Channel 4, Lord Ahmed, the convener of the government’s Preventing Extremism taskforce, said he was worried about the programme’s consequences: ‘While I appreciate that exaggerated opinions make good TV, they do not make for good community relations.’
If Saudi-funded fifth columns aren’t allowed to operate in the UK, the Saudis might not buy British fighter planes–after the Brits have already gone to the trouble of squelching an inquiry into how they bribed the Saudi royal family.
Let’s sell the Wahabis axes so they won’t behead us.
January 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Then the exaggerated opinions, and those who hold them, should be exposed so they can stop making bad community relations, right?
January 7th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Where can I get my kaffir T-shirt?
January 8th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Clearly what’s needed is a “hearts and minds” campaign like the cultural campaign against communism to win the war on terror.
I do hope that’s evident to all of you misguided readers who might actually support military action against people whose only small failing is an avowed intent to kill or enslave other people…?
Oh, by the way, the first sentence….not my words but those of the next British Prime Minister…
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2134889.ece
A new meaning for the ‘Special’ part of the ‘Special Relationship’ lurks I suspect.:)
One might wish to consider a review of the meaning of some other words in our common language such as ‘friend’ and ‘ally’….
He says later in the reported interview…’The British national interest is what I and my colleagues are about.”‘
This would seem to be immediately verifiable through reference to the UK Government’s apparent intenion to reduce the Royal Navy to an ineffectual irrelevance….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/05/navy05.xml
This measure is eminently sensible from a British national interest viewpoint of course. Why fund your own Navy when you can rely on someone else’s fleet to fulfil the missions.
Frees up money to spend on ‘Hearts and Minds’ campaigns too…:)
I’m just slightly curious why it’s in the American national interest to provide a Navy gratis to the countries of the EU when their GDP is supposedly in excess of that of the USA and indeed where the balance of trade favors the UK to the tune of some $12 Bn and the EU (exc. UK) to the tune of some $100 Bn in fiscal ’05?
Add ‘national interest’ to the semantics review.