The Sun: Britain’s welcome for devil

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Britain’s welcome for devil: Fury as anti-Jewish cleric arrives

By Trevor Kavanagh, Political Editor

The Sun, 7 July 2004

A RANTING Islamic rabble-rouser who supports suicide bombings by children and brutal punishment of gays was being welcomed to Britain last night.

Hardline Yusuf al-Qaradawi, banned from the US on suspicion of terror links, is to be allowed to preach evil views on issues such as “treacherous” Middle East peace moves.

In a recent tirade the cleric stormed: “Israelis might have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.”

Al-Qaradawi is a leader of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood and the al-Taqwa Bank. The latter is suspected of being part of al-Qaeda’s fund-raising network.

The cleric has ATTACKED global brand names such as McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and KFC as part of a “Jewish conspiracy”.

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Daily Mail: Cleric who backs child bombers is to visit Britain

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Welcome Qaradawi front pageCleric who backs child bombers is to visit Britain

By Fiona Macrae

Daily Mail, 7 July 2004

A RADICAL Muslim cleric who supports children taking part in suicide bombings is to visit Britain.

Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi will be guest of honour at a conference to be opened by London mayor Ken Livingstone. Al-Qaradawi, who has been banned from the U.S. since 1999, is due to speak at the conference, hosted by a Muslim women’s group, in the capital on Monday.

The Foreign Office said Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had granted his visa. All applicants had to satisfy set criteria, a spokesman said.

Al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Egyptian terror group the Moslem Brotherhood Association, has declared suicide bombing as ‘commendable’. He has lauded Palestinian martyr bombers as being ‘among the greatest form of holy struggle against oppression’. And when asked about children launching suicide attacks, he said: ‘The Israelis might have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.’ He also recently defended the Iraqi militants who beheaded American hostage Nicholas Berg, saying the murder had been ‘in the right context’.

He has, however, condemned the September 11 attacks and the Bali bombing.

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Dr Williams, beware of false prophets

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“Can we discuss the fact that the Muslims here, all recent immigrants, enjoy rights – for instance to propagate their religion – that are unavailable to the Christians of the Muslim world? This is despite the fact that these Christians are the original inhabitants and rightful owners of almost every Muslim land, and behave with a humility quite unlike the menacing behaviour we have come to expect from the Muslims who have forced themselves on Christendom, a bullying ingratitude that culminates in a terrorist threat to their unconsulted hosts.”

Opinion article by ‘Will Cummins’ in the Sunday Telegraph, 4 July 2004

Rise in police searches of Asians

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The number of people from Asian backgrounds stopped and searched by police has increased by 300% since the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force. Home Office figures for England and Wales show that in 2002/2003 nearly 3,000 Asians were stopped and searched. The total number of stop and searches under terror laws more than doubled in 2002/2003 from 8,550 to 21,577. Muslim groups have criticised the rise, saying it showed prejudice and “Islamophobia” were evident.

BBC News, 2 July 2004

British press unite in hysteria over jilbab

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“Well it seems that the ‘fundamentalist threat’ to British state education has been averted yet again. Last week’s ruling against Shabina Begum’s fight to wear the jilbab to school has brought shrieks of joy from all the usual suspects – liberal pundits and right-wing columnists alike …”

Fareena Alam in the Times Educational Supplement, 25 June 2004.

Reproduced in Q News.

‘I am runner-up for an “Islamophobia” award’ – Pipes not happy

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“In addition to terrorism and other forms of violence, the current war also involves a battle of ideas, with Islamist totalitarians on one side and their opponents on the other. To convince the undecided, each side tries to discredit the other. This is a battle I am intensely engaged in to show the true nature of the Islamist organizations.”

Daniel Pipes’ response to receiving one of the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s annual Islamophobia awards.

Daniel Pipes’ blog, 26 June 2004

Winners of Islamophobia Awards 2004 announced

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Islamic Human Rights Commission chairman Massoud Shadjareh said today: “It is with great sadness that we reveal this year’s winners. Sadly the competition was extremely tough and we see no signs of this abating in the year to come.”

IHRC press release, 26 June 2004

Unfortunately for Daniel Pipes, although shortlisted for the Most Islamophobic Media Personality award he lost out to Polly Toynbee.

Australian Muslim prayer hall site vandalized

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SYDNEY — The site of a controversial Muslim prayer hall was vandalized on Thursday with pigs’ heads skewered on stakes and pork offal smeared throughout the building.

Developer Abbas Aly said builders renovating the hall at Annangrove discovered the vandalism when they arrived at work on Thursday morning. “Everyone’s mostly upset, it’s a very un-Australian thing to happen,” he said. “But this won’t put us off.”

The prayer hall attracted fierce opposition when it was first proposed in 2002, with the local Baulkham Hills Council receiving an unprecedented 5,000 letters from residents who did not want the building.

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