British Muslim Declares War on Cabinet Member
Cabinet minister Hazel Blears got wind of the fact that Dr. Abdullah, whose organization engages with the British government on issues of social cohesion, had signed the manifesto. She duly protested. Her office, officially called the Department of Communities and Local Government, made a statement demanding his resignation. In a March 26 article that later became a formal letter to the Guardian newspaper, she accused Dr. Abdullah of inciting violence against British military personnel and against Jews around the world.
Now that Abdullah has sued her for defamation, the numerous and ubiquitous Muslim organizations and spokespeople who have come to dominate the airwaves and columns of British media are lining up at battle stations. ENGAGE director Inayat Bunglawala, who once laughed in my face when I told him I had been threatened with death if I so much as set foot in the Regent’s Park Mosque, has accused Hazel Blears of intimidating the Muslim Council. Abdullah himself has flown into a rage about the government’s suspension of ties with the Muslim Council, saying this undermines the independence of the organization. To his credit, commentator Shiraz Maher has denounced Daud Abdullah. He says that by attending the Istanbul conference and signing the incendiary declaration the Muslim Council official is clearly advocating violence Hamas-style.
Harry’s Place puts it this way: “It shows quite how undone [Daud Abdullah] now is. His open and shameless jihadism and treachery towards the country which has provided him with a home is laid utterly bare. He has no defense to his actions at all.”
My only encounter with Daud Abdullah occurred in December 2005 when I wrote to then-head of the MCB Sir Iqbal Sacranie asking him what he intended to do about the 25,000 enraged jihadists I witnessed chanting epithets at the so-called Peace and Unity Conference in London’s Canary Wharf just five months after the transport bombings. Abdullah responded by dismissing my fears and saying, in so many words, that there was nothing to worry about. (I would print his email here except that a few days later I received an angry email from someone at the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK and my computer’s inbox suddenly evaporated.)
The Muslim Council of Britain is a charity that is entitled to government funding for mentoring programs and further support from trusts and foundations. It has received funding from the UK Department for International Development. As this article goes to press the British government is revising the structure of its relationship with mosques and is making money available directly to them rather than through the MCB. Interesting, too, that in early May Hazel Blears has taken swine flu off the front pages because she has launched a stinging attack on what she sees as an ineffectual Gordon Brown regime.
But meantime Dr. Abdullah’s legal case against the government stands and he insists he has not advocated violence against any man, woman, or child. If he is successful it means it is open season across the world for Muslim activists to emigrate to new countries of residence and then campaign for violent jihad against the citizens and military of their host nation. Watch this space.
The Istanbul Declaration sounds eerily like the passages in the Koran extolling Muslims to smite the Infidel.
Carol good to see you read and link to Harry’s Place. I have been reading them since their inception and they are a valuable site from the “reasonable left.”
“if he is successful it means it is open season across the world for [...] violent jihad”
Youu’re trying to make a fine distinction between violent jihad and plain old jihad, but we really should not allow either. True, actual violent jihad in our dominions has (so far) been somewhat limited by Muslims, but that’s simply a function of the density of Muslim penetration and infiltration. Now that their numbers have swelled to current levels witnesses in the UK and Europe, IT IS A CERTAINTY that violent Jihad is coming.
The Muslims, by their own words, deeds, and doctrine aren’t here to assimilate. They are here to conquer. They will colonize the West and claim territory for Islam however, whenever, and wherever they can until it’s too late for us to stop them. That point of no return is either at hand in the UK and Europe, or close at hand. The fact that the pointy end of the Jihad spear, the violent end, feels comfortable enough to brazenly announce itself is chilling.
But it’s critical to understand that the ENTIRE edifice of Jihad, from the bake sale for the local mosque to the birthing of Muslim babies deep within the infidel camp, to the waging of lawsuits, to the “protests” in the streets, to the raping of Western women, to the threatening of violence, to the warnings of “Muslim outrage”, from the strapping on of bombs to the extolling of their Allah and exhorting hatred of Jews… ALL of it is Jihad. ALL of it is designed to harm and destroy non-Muslim security, solidarity, and resistance to the unfettered spread of Islam.
The fact that this “discussion” even has to be conducted indicates that reason and freedom have already lost a great deal of ground.
“ALL of it is Jihad. ALL of it is designed to harm and destroy non-Muslim security, solidarity, and resistance to the unfettered spread of Islam.” –Morton Doodslag
Oh.
Forgot to answer the rhetorical question that sub-heads the column.
The answer is NO.
Blears looks like she is about to get the sack, over her expenses fiddle. Will she be sued as a private person for what she said in her capacity as a minister?
So when will we reach the “tipping point” in the rest of the world (ROTW),
when the muslim barbarians will receive what they sow? The longer this event
takes to manifest it’s self, the more violent the backlash will be.
Interesting times indeed.
Dr. Daud is doing what all Muslims are suppose to do inside the house of war. Mohamed told them it is the will of allah the moon god.
ROPMA
Yes, Harry’s Place are good. I post there as Old Peculier.
Hazel Blears better watch or back, or next thing she knows she’s going to be walking around without a head.
The very idea that there are people who feel that a charity or anyone else is “entitled” to government funding shows the complete disconnect between them and me. We will never see eye to eye and there is no point in me doing ANYTHING but vehemently opposing them. Besides, once a charity receives government funding it’s no longer a charity, it’s just another lobby group.
It sounds suspiciously like the Human Rights Complaint filed by a Muslim Imam against Ezra Levant for reprinting the Danish cartoons in his news magazine.
As long as those who sue, or file human rights complaints, do not want to see why people hold things against them – all that will result is wasted time and effort.
Can anyone remind me why Western countries encouraged the adherents of a perpetually enraged pseudo-religion to relocate en-masse from their tribal backwaters into our modern cities? Islam is the polar opposite of everything that modern Western society, liberal and conservative, stands for. We can’t claim ignorance as a defense, since Islamic institutions and individuals have loudly proclaimed their hatred for anything perceived as “un-Islamic”, and their desire to purge the world of disbelief (and disbelievers). Did we honestly expect to create an Islamic version of the Church of England? If that was the expectation, then we genuinely deserve what we will get for our arrogance. I am almost looking forward to the rapidly approaching conflict in Europe, which may provide the most graphic evidence of Islam’s true nature to a Western audience. After all, dead Africans and Indians don’t seem to have the same shock value.