The chairman of a British-based Islamic human rights organisation which has received over £1.4 million in charity cash praised the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie less than a year ago. The Mail on Sunday has more.
Massoud Shadjareh, founder and chairman of the controversial Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), spoke fondly of the death sentence imposed on the writer in 1989 following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.
The IHRC, which has been described by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as representing “all that’s best in Islam”, is closely aligned with Iran and its leaders have previously declared the West as “the enemy”.
It has shown support for terrorists detained in the U.K. and the U.S., including hate preacher Abu Hamza.
Addressing an Islamophobia conference last December, Mr. Shadjareh said: “I am old enough to remember what was happening at the time of the Rushdie affair.
“We weren’t organised as a Muslim community. We didn’t even have any huge national umbrella organisations.
“But ordinary Muslims from all different backgrounds, even those who were not fully practicing, they came with the understanding that this was wrong and they supported the fatwa against this.”
Mr. Shadjareh, 70, has previously described Iran’s infamous supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeni, who issued the fatwa, as a “torch of light for the whole of mankind”.
The IHRC is primarily funded by its charitable arm, the Islamic Human Rights Commission Trust, which shares the same address in Wembley, North London.
The charity has funnelled more than £1.4 million in donations to the IHRC and has benefited from over £300,000 in taxpayer-funded gift aid donations over the last six years.
The IHRC Trust charity also received over £20,000 in Government grants during the pandemic.
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Very simple – shut the bloody place down. All tax payer derived funds to be returned to HMRC who can redistribute them to an alphabet group. Their premises will be confiscated and Shadjareh must be put on a non-returnable flight to Iran.
I think it is important that we are ‘firm but fair.’
Are there any other charities who issue death threats and receive government funding?
Hmm … the Tony Blair Institute, perhaps?
At least in Germany, any muslim mass murderer invariably turns into the heavily traumatized victim of a hostile society while even the most seriously deranged Germans committing similar crimes must be secretly organized right-wing terrorists justifying a new round of repressions against other Germans. They haven’t yet made it a crime to be killed by a member of the progressive forces of society but that’s probably eventually going to happen.
Chatting this morning to my oh, we were wondering what will happen if the population finally wakes up and actually starts demonstrating and protesting en-masse about the fuel cap rises etc (which seems to go up every day, today posited to be 6k). The police would not have sufficient manpower, so the army could be called out. But actually, our army isn’t that strong on manpower either, but look, we have all these healthy young men who have been fed and watered in warm and comfortable hotels, any ailments have been treated by our caring NHS, they are fit and ready to go. Give them a few weeks training, with the carrot of citizenship in return for service, hand them some rubber bullets and bob’s your uncle. They hate us as much as the government so they would be the perfect servants in this situation.
These conversations usually start in jest, but usually end in a thoughtful silence. I think however mad and/or bad TPTB are, I don’t think we know the half of it, and you can give your imagination free rein because the reality is probably going to be much worse than one could ever think.
There’s no need for that. They just need to bring out a few machine gun squads to suppress
(that’s the proper technical term) a real lot of people effectively.
What it will do is make people even more dependent on the ‘government’, reminds me of Ronald Reagan who said’ the 9 most scariest words in the English language are ‘This is your government and we’re here to help’. Ramping everything up and then coming to the rescue would do it.
I have held this opinion since the scale of the invasion became obvious.
The possibility that our army might be turned on the population is, I think, remote and I do not believe ordinary squaddies would fall for this. The thousands of retired forces personnel won’t stand for this either. Remember when statues were being attacked in London, retired forces personnel mobilised and stood guard.
The BLM nutters, or whoever were soon stood down by Bozo because he knew that was a battle he couldn’t win.
The British army is BLM nutters with assault guns or in the process being transferred into that. It is – after all – just another government department managed by the same civil service, outsourcers and big 4 EDI activists.
^^
Should have been transformed into that.
The MSM seem to be actively wanting Rushdie to go away.
(I wrote to the BBC asking if they’d consider doing a broadcast of their adaptation of Midnight’s Children, given the recent attack on the author. it was done in 2017 so it is fairly recent. I’ve not had a response yet.)
This certainly challenges one’s belief in free speech.
To be honest, the headline seems to imply that the man was in favour of harm coming to Rushdie, but then I don’t really see that in the direct quotes.
Let’s be honest, the whole inotion of incitement to violence is a bloody tricky minefield.
Is saying you admire the Ayatollah incitement to violence. Certainly not.
Is saying you can understand why a Fatwah was issued on Rushdie? I don’t think so.
Is saying you agree with it incitement. Pufff.. maybe. But then isn’t suggesting that it wouldn’t be a bad thing if Putin were taken out by someone in Russia also incitement to violence?
Very, very tricky.
Mr Shadjareh should be invited to condemn the fatwa and attack on Mr Rushdie and if he refuses, then the IHRC should be closed down.