How To Lose The War On Islamist Terror
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August 21, 2007
This article by Adrian Morgan (Giraldus Cambrensis of Western Resistance) appeared earlier today in Family Security Matters and is reproduced with their permission.
Gordon Brown's Britain - How To Lose
The War On Terror
In January, I
wrote about a documentary which was screened in Britain on January
15. This show, entitled "Undercover Mosque", was screened by Channel 4
on its "Dispatches" strand, and was produced by
Hardcash Productions.
The one-hour documentary showed the results of a undercover journalist's secret videotaping over four months at the Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham, in the West Midlands. The documentary can be found on Hot Air, or on YouTube, with a transcript here. A downloadable QuickTime file (106 mb) can be found here.
The Green Lane Mosque (Masjid), situated at 20 Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham B9 5DB, is the headquarters of the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, a group controlling 41 mosques in Britain. The Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith has been officially registered as a UK charity (Number 272001) since January, 1976. At the time of writing, the charity has not filled in its financial returns for 2006 or 2007. It was revealed in a 2005 BBC documentary to express extremist ideas on its website. In 2005 it stated that Muslims should "be different from Jews and Christians" whose "ways are based on sick or deviant views concerning their societies".
Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith also claimed that attending "Christmas.. First of April lies, birthday parties" could lead to Muslims being consigned to a "permanent abode in the Hell Fire". Ahl-e-Hadith and its 41 mosques were among the 400 groups "represented" by the Muslim Council of Britain, which was co-founded by senior Muslim Brotherhood member Kemal el-Helbawy.
The Channel 4 documentary "Undercover Mosque" showed preachers at the Green Lane mosque, such as American preacher Abu Usamah Adh-Dhahabi. This individual is shown advocating the murder homosexuals by throwing them off mountains, and saying: "No-one loves the kuffaar [non-Muslims], no-one loves the kuffaar, not a single person here from the Muslims loves the kuffaar, whether those kuffaar are from the UK or the US. We love the people of Islam and we hate the people of kufr, we hate the kuffaar." He called all non-Muslims "liars", stated that women are "deficient" and praised Osama bin Laden: "He's better than a million George Bushes, Osama Bin Laden, and he's better than a thousand Tony Blairs, because he's a Muslim."
Other aspects of the documentary, whose consultant was the respected journalist Martin Bright, are described in my earlier article. There is nothing in the documentary which differs from other serious documentaries - extracts from DVDs on sale at various mosques are shown, and preachers are shown making hate filled and extremist statements, without dubbing or narration.
Despite the authenticity of the documentary showing preachers at Green Lane and other mosques exhorting Muslims to hate non-Muslims, with one preacher at a mosque in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, showing support for the Taliban murdering a British Muslim soldier, West Midlands Police have taken the astonishing step of trying to have Channel 4 PROSECUTED for showing the documentary. Initially, the police had considered prosecuting three of the preachers featured in "Undercover Mosque". They decided not to press charges against the preachers of hate, but moved on to try to have the makers of the documentary charged.
West Midlands Police issued a press release on August 8, released jointly with the Crown Prosecution Service. The press release has now been taken down from its website, so I am reproducing it in its entirety:
"West Midlands Police have completed their investigation into the Channel 4 Dispatches programme 'Undercover Mosque' broadcast in January 2007.
The police investigation initially looked at whether there had been any criminal offences committed by those featured in the programme and following careful consideration by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), West Midlands Police have been advised that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges against those individuals featured within the programme.
West Midlands Police acknowledge the concerns that some parts of the programme may have been considered offensive, however when analysed in their full context there was not enough evidence to bring criminal charges against any individual.
ACC Anil Patani for West Midlands Police said: "As a result of our initial findings, the investigation was then extended to include issues relating to the editing and portrayal of the documentary.
"The priority for West Midlands Police has been to investigate the documentary and it's making with as much rigour as the extremism the programme sought to portray."
The police investigation concentrated on three speakers and their comments in the programme. CPS reviewing lawyer Bethan David considered 56 hours of media footage of which only a small part was used in the programme. She said: "The splicing together of extracts from longer speeches appears to have completely distorted what the speakers were saying.
"The CPS has demonstrated that it will not hesitate to prosecute those responsible for criminal incitement [That is the lie direct - Editor ]. But in this case we have been dealing with a heavily edited television programme, apparently taking out of context aspects of speeches which in their totality could never provide a realistic prospect of any convictions."
The CPS was also asked by the police to consider whether a prosecution under the Public Order Act 1986 should be brought against Channel 4 for broadcasting a programme including material likely to stir up racial hatred. Miss David advised West Midlands Police that on the evidence available, there was insufficient evidence that racial hatred had been stirred up as a direct consequence of the programme. It would also be necessary to identify a key individual responsible for doing this together with an intent to stir up racial hatred, which was not possible.
West Midlands Police have taken account of this advice and explored options available to them and has now referred the matter to the broadcasting regulators Ofcom as a formal complaint.
West Midlands Police has also informed Channel 4 of this course of action.
There was no distortion of the words shown. It is a standard journalistic practice to highlight parts of a speech, and not to show it in its entirety. There is no ambiguity about statements like "Take that homosexual and throw him from the mountain". There is no ambiguity in praising the killing of a British soldier. The DVDs which had extracts shown in the documentary, such as the "Death Series" featuring Lebanese Australian Feiz Mohammed, were subsequently seized by police in Australia. Feiz Mohammed, a former boxer, claimed his words had been taken "out of context". He had been shown on the documentary saying: "We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam. Teach them this, there is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid, put in their soft tender hearts the zeal of jihad and the love of martyrdom."
Similarly, Abu Usama, who had been shown saying "Whoever changes his religion from Islam to anything else - kill him in the Islamic state," argued that his words had been "taken out of context".
It is NOT the job of West Midlands Police, nor any other body (Crown Prosecution Service included) to make official complaints to Ofcom, the broadcasting regulatory body. The police and the CPS exist to uphold British law, and to pursue those who breach the law. As by their own admission there was no "offense" committed - not even by the preachers who incited hatred - the matter should have ended there. The police and CPS have no rights to engage in "journalistic criticism" - especially when West Midlands Police have failed miserably to deal with extremism on their own turf, as I will demonstrate below.
The Crown Prosecution Service took the bizarre decision to prosecute Nick Griffin, the leader of the far-right British National Party, for statements he had made privately in 2004, but were filmed undercover by the BBC. Griffin had called Islam "a wicked and vicious faith" that was turning Britain into "a multi-racial hell-hole", and was prosecuted for inciting racial hatred. Twice. When he was acquitted by a jury for the second time on November 10, 2006, Gordon Brown suggested that race hate laws should be tightened - even though Islam is not, nor has it ever been, a race.
The Crown Prosecution Service employs double standards. It engages in dogged attempts to prosecute the leader of a "politically incorrect" party, while trying to have a documentary maker prosecuted for highlighting the genuine extremist statements made in some of Britain's mosques. Yet it does not try to prosecute those preachers of hate - showing how law and order are not applied fairly to all. A free society should have a free press, a free media, and should allow its citizens to express their freedom of speech. Gordon Brown, who is now the unelected prime minister, would stifle all criticism of Islam under race hate laws, but Islamist preachers can apparently spew hatred of Britain, its people and its armed forces, with impunity.
Britain already has terrorists who have been convicted in their home countries walking free in Britain. One such individual is Yasser al-Siri. This individual arrived in Britain as an asylum seeker in 1985, and is wanted in the US and also Egypt. In his native Egypt he is wanted for his alleged involvement in a bomb blast which killed a six-year old girl. He has been tried and convicted in absentia for involvement in the assassination of Anwar Sadat. He walks free around Maida Vale in West London, boasting that Britain's Human Rights Act of 1998 (introduced by the Labour party) prevents him from being deported. He also runs an Islamic bookshop.
The latest Islamist living in Britain to be exposed is 46-year old Hani al-Sibai who has lived in Britain since 1994. He has been convicted in his native Egypt of plotting terror attacks, yet has been allowed permission to remain temporarily in Britain, where he can claim welfare benefits. In July 2007 he appeared on Al Jazeera TV, claiming that secular Western leaders should "be placed in public squares so that people can hit them with their shoes and spit on them." MemriTV translated his rantings which includes the ridiculous argument: "What has become of Kemal Ataturk's Turkey? Go to Europe, and you will see. Most of the Turks here are drug dealers, outcasts. Moreover, the English here have a custom. On Christmas, they eat what they call "turkey." Imagine, they call it "turkey," and they serve it as food at the table. This shows the kind of hatred that is deeply rooted in the West - they serve the Turkish, Ottoman, Muslim man as food at the table, for entertainment and as a sign that they have slaughtered him."
He stated: "Take any place in the world, and you will see that the Islamists are the masters of the world. There are no real men except for the people of Islam. Look at the people who give reason to hold the head of Islam high. In politics - they are the masters. In the battlefield - they are the masters." An Egyptian secularist on the show told him he was "insane".
Al-Sibai lives with his wife and five children in West London, in a home worth $1.2 million. From his home he runs a website, the Arabic-language Al Maqreze Center for Historical Studies. Not surprisingly, when asked about Memri's translation, he condemned the group as being Islamophobic and "taking my quotes out of context." The shadow home secretary, David Davis, has said of al-Sibai: "Clearly this man has deplorable views, and the sooner he is removed from Britain the better."
There are several other dangerous Islamists living in Britain who are wanted in their home countries. Saudi dissident Mohammed al-Massari arrived in the UK in 1994. After 9/11, he admitted that he had helped Osama bin Laden to set up an office in London in the mid-1990s. In 2004 he argued that it was legitimate to kill UK soldiers, and even to assassinate then-prime minister Tony Blair. Yet he walks free in Britain, and operates a website called Tajdeed.net. On this website, he has featured Islamists beheading civilians, he has urged European Muslims to riot, glorified terror attacks, and on his radio station of the same name, he has urged Saudis and Iranians to attack British troops. Yet this individual is under no legal restrictions, and claims welfare benefits.
Which brings me back to the unprecedented claims of the West Midlands Police, that a documentary highlighting the odious views of Islamists disseminated in UK mosques, should be censured by a broadcasting regulator. The co-author of the press release condemning the Channel 4 "Undercover Mosque" documentary is Assistant Chief Constable Anil Patani, who in 1993 had sued Nottinghamshire police for racial discrimination. He was awarded 5,000 pounds compensation ($10,000) even though a subsequent inquiry cleared 18 named officers from this force of racism. In March 2001 Patani, who is Sikh, again sued Nottinghamshire police for racial discrimination. He claimed his "priority" promotion caused him to lose the respect of fellow police officers.
Patani's unwarranted attack upon journalistic integrity sidesteps the manner in which his West Midlands Police constabulary has allowed extremism to thrive on its own doorstep. In February 2007 I wrote of raids which had taken place in Birmingham on January 31. The raids followed a six-month investigation of a plot to kidnap a British Muslim soldier and decapitate him. One place which was raided was the Maktabah Al Ansaar bookshop, based at 384 Stratford Road in Sparkhill. This bookshop had long been known as a purveyor of extremist literature.
It not only sold extremist books, but also published them. In 1999, Maktabah Al Ansaar commissioned and produced a book called "The Army of Madinah in Kashmir". This book glorified decapitation of an Indian soldier as a "victory" and stated: "terror works and that is why the believers are commanded to enforce it by Allah... Jihad has many great spheres and it would be a misconception to confine it simply to the mountain-tops of foreign countries, as we are so prone to do. Instead we are forced to ask the question, do we put the fear of Allah into the enemies of al Islam?" The named author of the book is "Esa al-Hindi". He is, in fact, the terrorist Dhiren Barot, who plotted bomb attacks in the US and the UK, including a radioactive dirty bomb. Barot was given life imprisonment in London on November 7, 2006. The full text of his book can be downloaded (pdf format) here.
The Maktabah bookshop had been raided before, on February 29, 2000. Officers from West Midlands police and the Secret Service (MI5) arrested one individual. The books on sale at the store then included titles such as The Virtues of Jihad by Mohammad Masood Azhar, Declaration of War, and Dissent of the Muslim Lands. One man was arrested in the 2000 raid - convicted petty criminal Moazzam Begg, who worked there. Begg was later jailed at Guantánamo, after he had traveled to Afghanistan in 2001. He told the FBI that he had attended 3 Al Qaeda training camps, and that in Britain, he had acted to liaise between UK radical Muslims and those living abroad. He also admitted being prepared to fight with the Taliban and al Qaeda against the US. In his self-pitying book Enemy Combatant, Begg does not discuss these claims.
In July 2005 the Maktabah store still sold jihadist DVDs and literature, including In Defence of Muslim Lands which carries a foreword by Osama bin Laden. This book ends with the words: "Martyrdom operations are permissible, and in fact the Mujahid who is killed in them is better than one who is killed fighting in the ranks."
The founder of the Maktabah bookshop is a man called Imran Khan, who is now believed to be in Pakistan. This individual was apparently approached by MI5 on several occasions, in an effort to recruit him. Finally, in May 2007, Maktabah placed a notice on its online store: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to process any online or telephone orders at the present time. You shall be notified in due course."
The bookshop had flourished for nearly a decade, selling material designed to indoctrinate the minds of young Muslims towards terrorism. The Terrorism Act 2006 prohibits the "glorification" of terrorism, and it came into force in April 2006. For a whole year after the Act became law, the bookshop continued to purvey books and DVDs which glorified terrorism. And West Midlands Police, so ready to condemn an objective documentary, did nothing to close it down.
If the law is abused by the police, Crown Prosecution Service and politicians, so that one group escapes punishment, and another is hounded, then Britain will never win the War on Terror. As I wrote earlier, the new unelected prime minister of Britain, Gordon Brown, has even prevented his ministers from employing the words "War on Terror". Nor can ministers utter the words "Islamic terrorism". If politicians are banned from even mentioning the biggest threat to Western civilization, Britain will be unable to effectively confront that threat. Those who mire themselves in the semantics of cultural relativism and the politics of victimhood should take note. Britain is showing clearly how NOT to combat terrorism and the extremist ideology which fuels it.
Adrian Morgan
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David, the Jew(?) is lying and perverting the course of justice. It is
clearly Establishment policy.
