Category Archives: Right wing

‘Extremist at the Home Office will keep his job’, Mail complains

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“A Home Office official exposed as a leading member of an Islamic extremist group will keep his £40,000 job because Tony Blair has failed to ban the organisation. In the wake of the July 7 bombings last year, the Prime Minister promised to outlaw Hizb ut-Tahrir, who refuses to condemn suicide bombers and has called for the destruction of Israel.

“But nothing has been done. As a result, Abid Javaid’s bosses at the scandal-hit Immigration and Nationality Directorate are powerless to sack the 41-year-old. He will stay on unless it can be proved that he abused his position as a senior executive officer in the IT department….

“Tory spokesman Patrick Mercer blamed a huge failure of political will by the Government for the shambles. He said: ‘This government talks tough, but fails to deliver, and here is a prime example. The result is the Home Office doing nothing about somebody working at the heart of Government who could be an enemy of the state.’ Mr Mercer warned that – as the rules stand – dozens more extremists could be employed in the Home Office and across Whitehall.”

Daily Mail, 16 November 2006

Meanwhile Robert Spencer condemns “Still more dhimmitude from British authorities. Hizb-ut-Tahrir has been banned in many countries, including some majority-Muslim countries. Why not in Britain?”

Dhimmi Watch, 15 November 2006

‘The man leading the Christian fightback’ – fascists applaud Sentamu

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“How ironic that the man who is coming to the rescue of the Anglican community should be a recent immigrant from Africa. In contrast to his domestic but effete and supine colleagues in the Anglican hierarchy the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, appears to have the backbone to robustly defend the Church and has today accused the BBC of bias against Christianity and says the broadcaster fears a terrorist backlash if it is critical of Islam. He may not think much of the BNP but we back his robust manner of championing traditional Christian values.”

BNP news article, 14 November 2006

‘Islamic fanatic has top job at Home Office’

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Islamic fanatic has top job at Home Office

By Gabriel Milland

Daily Express, 15 November 2006

A RADICAL Muslim leader holds a highly sensitive job at the Home Office, it has emerged. In a major security blunder, a leader of Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir is working for the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND). The IND is charged with ensuring foreign suspects with terror links are kept out of Britain.

Moderate Muslim leaders in south London told BBC2’s Newsnight last night key Hizb ut-Tahrir leader Awid Jawaid worked at the IND’s processing office in Croydon, south London. Mosque elder Shoib Minhas said: “He gave me his card and it showed he worked at the Home Office.” Mr Jawaid admitted to the programme that he was a member of Hizb ut-Tahir.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “This is a shocking revelation given Tony Blair’s insistence that Hizb ut-Tahrir should be proscribed, and after illegal immigrants were discovered working in the Home Office. It is even more extraordinary following John Reid’s assertion that his system for screening employees who work in the Home Office deserved an accolade for its efficiency.”

The revelation came hours before Labour efforts to put itself at the forefront of the fight against terrorism were expected to dominate today’s Queen’s Speech to Parliament.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir responds to Newsnight allegations

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Hizb“Yesterday (Tuesday 14th November), the BBC Newsnight and File on 4 programmes aired false and counterfactual allegations against Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain. Amongst the sensationalist allegations was that members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been involved in ‘street gang criminality’. We believe the allegations are not only baseless but emanate from a politically motivated group, interested in defaming our public image.

“In response to the allegations we have prepared robust counter-arguments to the main claims made. Please note: Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain was not given any of these allegations in advance and so was not aware of the specific claims until the broadcast of Newsnight.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir press release, 15 November 2006.

For details see Hizb ut-Tahrir website.

Interviewed (or rather, harangued) by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, Dr Abdul Wahid of Hizb ut-Tahrir described the accusations against his organisation in the BBC documentary as “off the radar”. “On another planet” would perhaps be more accurate. The fact that Newsnight should rely on the likes of Glen Jenvey and Vigil as a source of information says it all really.

Good luck to HuT in their legal action against the BBC.

Update:  See “BBC Newsnight and File on 4 misled public in their allegations about Hizb ut-Tahrir”, Islamophobia Watch, 1 August 2007

Another anti-Muslim rant from Jon Gaunt

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Jon_Gaunt“Brown, Reid, Cameron and even the Charlie Caroli of the constabulary, Ian Blair, are talking the talk on terrorism. But as per usual it will be just words again rather than action…. Our self-serving pigs at Westminster need to develop the backbone of their French counterparts. Two weeks ago the French removed the security clearance for 70 workers at Charles de Gaulle airport who they suspected of having terrorist sympathies…. The French aren’t bothered about the pathetic Human Rights Act….

“Labour have given a safe haven to every extremist and crackpot the rest of the world has wanted to hang and shoot. They’ve let them jump the housing queue, pick up vast amounts in handouts and given them free operations…. If they have had the misfortune of being banged up, they’ve been given special privileges, special meals and had cells converted to prayer rooms…. Appeasers in charities, the Press and even Parliament itself bleat about the the suspects’ human rights and access to justice while they plot to kill us on the Tube.

“To add insult to injury, when up to 200,000 of the community say they support the aims of the 7/7 bombers they are rewarded with road shows, more handouts and sympathy about the Islamophobia and intolerance that they are facing.”

Jon Gaunt in The Sun, 14 November 2006

Another defence of the right to incite religious hatred

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“If it is left to the Nick Griffins among us to acknowledge what is clearly quite widespread concern about Islam, we will never be able to have the serious, substantial debate that we need about the role of Muslim practice in Britain. How is a liberal democracy to deal with an illiberal orthodoxy in its midst? How can a faith whose own laws often contravene those of its host society make its peace with the secular state? These are questions that need urgently to be addressed. They cannot be fudged by banning ‘religious hatred’, or by insisting that anyone who alludes to them (or who resents the problems that they raise for our society) is a bigot fit only to be fodder for the neo-fascist fringe.”

Janet Daley in the Daily Telegraph, 13 November 2006

Inciting hatred against Muslims is OK by Mad Mel

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Melanie Phillips joins the chorus of condemnation provoked by Gordon Brown’s suggestion that the racial hatred laws need tightening up to prevent the fascist BNP inciting hatred against Muslim communities:

“… racial hatred is entirely different from being offensive about a religion. Unlike racial hatred, which targets people, religious hatred is directed at an idea. And in a free society, there should be no place for criminalising the clash of ideas, however much upset this may cause…. Mr Brown is doubtless keen to burnish his credentials as a Prime Minister-in-waiting by displaying his toughness against all extremism…. But he doesn’t seem to realise that outlawing hatred of religion would undermine this fight, by shutting down crucial debate about Islam and its role in global terror…. Mr Brown’s view plays directly into the hands of those Muslims who try to stifle debate about Islamic terrorism on the grounds of ‘Islamophobia’….

“What makes people vulnerable to the BNP is the enormous gulf between ministerial rhetoric and action. It is staggering, for example, that in deprived Newham, the Government is allowing the largest mosque in Europe to be built on the site of the Olympic village – a piece of Islamist triumphalism to be funded by the Tablighi Jamaat, a group described by intelligence sources as an ‘ante-chamber’ to al Qaeda…. The BNP is exploiting a deep weakness in our culture. Only if British society and its values are defended with the utmost vigour and their attackers given no quarter will the poisonous boil of the BNP finally be lanced, and bigotry of every kind shown the door.”

Daily Mail, 13 November 2006

If we need help in “showing bigotry the door” Melanie Phillips will of course be the first person we turn to.