by Douglas Murray • June 16, 2014 at 5:00 am
Extremists like to give off the pretense that they are speaking for all Muslims, so when other Muslims identify and call out the extremists, they cause damage to the extremists' most treasured arguments. The kind of society Tablighi Jamaat will bring with them will be a problem for local Muslims long before it is a problem any of the rest of us. We all know what happens when the good people remain silent.
"The Tablighi Jemaat discourages integration into British society, especially of female members, since essentially they do not communicate with non-Muslims. ... Instead, female members... are kept secluded, and the values surrounding this seclusion are transmitted to their children." — Tehmina Kazi testifying against the London mega-mosque in 2011.
According to Alan Craig, Kazi withdrew from testifying against the mega-mosque again in 2014] because she was "harried and pressured" by "misogynist mega-mosque supporters" while on holiday abroad. The person who allegedly persuaded Kazi not to testify was one Mudasser Ahmed.
Alan Craig, one of the leaders of the campaign against the Tablighi Jamaat mega-mosque in east London. (Image source: MegaMosqueNoThanks.com video)
The "Trojan Horse" scandal, in which extremist Muslims were trying to take over taxpayer-funded schools in Birmingham and other English cities, has shocked the British public who were unaware that there were schools in the UK where, for instance, all white women were described as "prostitutes" and anti-Christian chants were encouraged in morning assemblies. But whenever a story like this breaks, it should always remind us of the other stories as well: the Trojan Horse scandals that we do not hear about.
by Samuel Westrop • June 16, 2014 at 4:00 am
Great faith is placed in the role of Islamic chaplains to combat extremist views in prisons, but no attention is paid to the views actually propagated by these Islamic chaplains.
British prison chaplains have included Sahib Bleher, the former Imam at Woodhill Prison, who was also the General Secretary of the Islamic Party of Britain, a political party that advocated killing homosexuals and transforming Britain into an Islamic state.
Former Woodhill Prison chaplain Sahib Bleher led the Islamic Party of Britain, which advocated killing homosexuals and transforming Britain into an Islamic state. (Image source: Sahar YouTube screenshot)
The number of Muslim prisoners in Britain has doubled in the last decade to nearly 12,000. Many of these prisoners, the media reports, are at "significant risk" of radicalization. The solution, authorities claim, lies with the Islamic prison chaplains. Or are they, in fact, part of the problem? Where do these chaplains come from? What sort of Islam are they espousing?
On May 12, the BBC broadcast its own investigation into the radicalization of prison inmates. The documentary featured interviews with former inmates such as Michael Coe, who "went into prison as a gangster and left as Mikaeel Ibrahim, a convert to Islam." Coe attributes his conversion to his friendship in jail with al-Qaeda terrorist Dhiren Barot, jailed for life by a British court in 2004 for plotting to blow up limousines by packing them with gas canisters.
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