A leading Middle East Muslim commentator, Amjad Taha, has warned that Islamic extremists, taking advantage of Britain’s free speech laws and Keir Starmer’s weakness, are now spreading in the United Kingdom, just as they are being forced into retreat in the Middle East itself. The Mail has the story:
Mr Taha said there was a rise in sectarian voting and independent candidates seeking election on a pro-Gaza ticket could help lead to Britain becoming a “global powerbase” for radicals.
Mr Taha, who has 1.6 million followers on X and Instagram, raised concerns about what he described as harmful teaching in schools and local communities.
His claims come as Sir Keir’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner launches a new council on Islamophobia, including a potential official definition of the term – and which some critics have suggested could introduce a ‘blasphemy law’.
The Home Office has responded by saying training was being stepped up under this Government for officials “to spot terrorist ideologies, explicitly Islamist extremism”.
The new body looking into Islamophobia is set to be run by ex-Conservative MP and former Attorney General Dominic Grieve.
It has been lined up to make recommendations on a new definition of Islamophobia that could criminalise certain criticism of the religion – prompting allegations that there could be new curbs on ‘free speech’.
Dr Taj Hargey, a historian, academic and founder of the Oxford Institute for British Islam, said last week: “It is astounding that an unpopular Labour Party is seeking to sacrifice free expression just to placate Islamic fundamentalists.”
And now British-Bahraini author and social media influencer Mr Taha has voiced concerns about growing radical strains in UK society – while suggesting some Middle Eastern states were “rolling back ultra-conservatism”.
Mr Taha, an adviser to Middle Eastern institutions countering extremism, told GB News: “I think you have more extremists in the UK than you have in the Middle East.
“The things that some of the Islamists say in various mosques, and we have been seeing it online the terminology they use the analysis they make statements they actually make, they wouldn’t be able to say it all the way in Afghanistan for example or Iraq.
“The Muslim brotherhood, who are the Islamist who are the main ones who are ruling and controlling various press when it comes to the Muslim society in the UK, they control the whole narrative. And the Muslim brotherhood and the Islamists are the radical Islamists, and they use the freedom of speech in the manner where they will be antisemite in the name of freedom of speech.
“I absolutely stand against that as I think antisemitism is not an opinion but a crime, and a crime against humanity. And once you allow that, on October 7th for example when it happened, the genocide against the Israelis what I saw and what we witnessed is the fact that some Islamists from all the way over here, we saw their voices it was for Hamas.
“And Hamas has a force that carried that genocide in Gaza and also in Israel, it’s actually the armed forces of the Muslim brotherhood.
“Muslim brotherhood for example in my country, the UAE, is banned however it is not banned in the United Kingdom.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in New South Wales, one of the biggest related stories of the last few days has been about two Muslim nurses who made threats to Jewish patients in a video that has gone viral. Despite condemnation from politicians across the spectrum, it appears the two have now been widely supported by certain Muslim groups who see the nurses as the victims of “orchestrated outrage”. The Australian has the story:
Mainstream Muslim bodies and Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have joined forces to barrack for two Bankstown Hospital nurses who claimed they would kill Israeli patients, saying the healthcare workers were victims of “weaponised antisemitism” and “manufactured political outrage”.
The unlikely alliance – which also includes The Muslim Vote political campaign, its endorsed independent candidates and hard-line Islamic centres and radical preachers – comes after shock footage of NSW Health nurses Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh boasting about having killed Israeli patients and vowing to “kill” more ended in their immediate dismissals and sparked an investigation by a state police antisemitic taskforce.
A “united community” communique put together by “Stand 4 Palestine” – the group was established and is largely run by longstanding Hizb ut-Tahrir operatives – slammed what it called “co-ordinated outrage”, claiming the response to the two nurses’ comments was “manufactured” to serve a “political narrative”.
“The most revealing aspect of the reaction to the nurses’ video is not the (footage) itself – but the speed, intensity and uniformity of response from certain political leaders and media outlets,” it read, which was endorsed by more than 50 bodies or leaders, ranging from small mosques to statewide or nationwide groups.
“Outrage is manufactured when it serves a political narrative, with silence deployed when the truth might expose the complicity of those in power.”
The group said the statement was “not about defending inappropriate remarks” but to “push back against double standards and moral manipulation”.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia itself is also a signatory, whose British branch was last year banned in the United Kingdom. Other countries that have outlawed the group include Germany, Egypt, Turkey, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and several central Asian and Arab nations, among others.
Signatories also included mainstream bodies, like the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils and the Islamic councils of Victoria and WA, but also radical groups, like the Al Madina Dawah Centre and its founder, Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd.
Mr Haddad is being sued in the federal court for vilifying the Jewish community in a string of sermons he and other speakers allegedly made at the Al Madina Dawah, including: calling Jewish people “descendants of pigs and monkeys”, reciting Islamic parables about their killing, labelling them “vile, treacherous people”, and alleging they had their “hands in business and media”, a common antisemitic trope.
The preacher has been vocal of his friendship with now-dead Australians who travelled to fight for the Islamic State in Sydney, including terrorists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, and whose now-defunct Al Risalah bookstore was a known hotbed of extremism, frequented by pro-ISIS speakers.
He shares standing as a “prominent individual” on the communique alongside two independents running for federal parliament in the upcoming election: Ziad Basyouny and Ahmed Ouf.
Meanwhile, in Western Australia:
“They made a terrible comment yet are being treated as if they have committed the absolute worst crime imaginable,” Senator [Fatima] Payman said.
“What is the end goal here? What exactly are we trying to achieve? Justice or just public humiliation?”
Both worth reading in full (the Mail and the Australian).
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These people are bad news. End of.
GCHQ of the Enemy Within is Downing Street, the Staff Officers are all Whitehall-trained and Westminster savvy, and the Forward Command Post is the Home Office.
The insurgency has been under way for decades. Thanks to the treachery of the Human Rights Corps(e), Border Control never stood a chance.
Meanwhile, Sir Two-Tier is talking of sending the Army off to Ukraine and the other GCHQ in Cheltenham are all working from home.
Someone please tell me I’m wrong?
Yes, Starmer can’t wait to send off the last remnants of the once-great British Army to get entangled in yet another foreign war. “Peacekeeping” is best done by the United Nations who are so keen on it, not our own severely depleted troops. All it takes is for one of them to get shot, providing the politicians with a pretext to declare war.
Are not UN troops simply normal national troops wearing blue berets? So yes better not using British troops but the problem with UN peacekeepers is that they can’t really keep the peace, as soon as the bullets fly they are duty bound to retreat.
Lol – this “top Muslim adviser” must be a far-right racist! Arrest him for hate speech!
Islam’s never ever going to be known for it’s gender equality though, is it? I don’t care how much people go on about reforming it. I think when you’re female and born into it it’s just natural to play second fiddle to any and all men. What’s this guy doing praying in a communal space anyway? He could’ve just gone to the lavs and not encountered any women;
https://x.com/AzatAlsalim/status/1891422809642934368
Someone who I think has some knowledge of the subject explained that the idea is that women will distract men and that ruins the prayer. I guess women do distract men, and vice-versa – kind of how we continue to exist as a species – the trick is to temper that distraction so that you control it sufficiently to not be an arse to others – something most of us seem to manage most of the time. Seems like a daft rule to me – if you really love God or whatever then you can surely manage to pray more or less regardless of what else is going on.
I was going to write that I would not want to be a woman in a Muslim country but what do I know? I am a bloke in a post-Christian so who knows what I would think. I would certainly not want that kind of life for my daughters, though of course one has to accept your kids’ choices whether you like it or not, and just hope they are happy. What pisses me off is that this an issue that should not be ours to worry about – it happens in other countries and they will either sort it out or not, but it should be nothing to do with us in White Christian Europe. We have enough problems of our own without disturbing what was already becoming a somewhat fragile balance.
But then women and men worship together in churches, always have done ( not sure about other religions ), so that kind of puts paid to that as an argument. It’s not about distraction because surely anybody walking in front of you whilst praying, such as in the clip, would break one’s concentration and have the potential to distract, so I call BS on this. The rationale just doesn’t stack up. It always has been and always will be a patriarchal religion, with a vast amount of separate rules applying to either sex because males and females are treated differently. We just don’t have anything comparable in Christianity. I’m not a Christian btw, but not that I’m aware of. Islam is forever stuck in the Dark Ages, whereas at least Christianity has moved with the times. Unfortunately it has been infected by the woke mind virus in many instances though.
I think Orthodox Jews have separate seating areas for men and women too. Not aware of any Christian tradition that separates the sexes.
It might be a distraction if a woman is kneeling in front of you with her backside in the air I suppose, but so what?
But like I said, none of this should be our problem.
Yes, true. Mind, I thought the whole point in Muslim women having to cover themselves in their burkha, hijab and niqab is that they *don’t* distract men, and the assumption there ( and with the praying scenario ) is that Muslim men aren’t able to focus or control themselves if women are around, especially if dressed ‘immodestly’, by their standards. And I think we’ve seen much evidence of this here in the West. Yet more proof that the cultures are totally incompatible.
Do these naive, Leftard idiots really think that these Muslim migrants arriving on our shores have ditched their attitudes towards Westerners, and especially Western females, ‘infidels’ etc, along with the I.D documents in the sea on their way over? The evidence that they have not is reported on every day and is reflected in the crime stats.
Sadly true. I think it’s partly about numbers. Orthodox and Hasidic Jews are quite different too, but there are not very many of them in the UK so nobody is too bothered – they do their own thing and don’t seem to expect much special treatment – they kind of know they won’t get it probably as there are too few of them, and maybe asking for it is not their thing. But we have millions of Muslims such that they are now a political force.
Indeed. It’s the vastly different teachings and attitudes of the two religions too. Jews are fighting to just have one tiny little country to call their own, Muslims want to conquer the whole bloody world.
It is a shame that tiny little country was already occupied.
“It is astounding that an unpopular Labour Party is seeking to sacrifice free expression just to placate Islamic fundamentalists.”
It’s only astounding to those who haven’t yet realised just how much the Anti-white Party (the “Labour” Party) hates the English people.
Yes but what do they do in these Muslim countries if one of their wives or daughters go missing?
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1891185358928326854
Organise a thorough search, and then flog or stone the daughter once found.
Well done to Amjad Taja for telling the truth about The Muslim Brotherhood:
“The Muslim Brotherhood for example in my country, the UAE, is banned; however, it is not banned in the United Kingdom.”
Please remember that President Bashar al-Assad and his father DROVE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OUT OF SYRIA, and did their best to protect Syrian Christians from Muslim attacks.
The Muslim Brotherhood then moved their headquarters to London, where they have flourished under the avuncular eye of Muslim Mayor Khan, no doubt all on welfare benefits funded by British Taxpayers, and plotted the overthrow of the legitimate, democratically elected President Assad of Syria, driven out of his own country by the terrorist mob and their leader, now strutting on the world stage, claiming to be the New President of Syria, and reportedly backed by the West, who were tricked into believing that President Assad was some kind of monster.
Amjad Taha, has warned that Islamic extremists, taking advantage of Britain’s free speech laws …
Which laws are they? Are they the laws of the type that Vance was citing in Munich? Such as:
The Scottish government has been distributing letters to citizens warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may be considered a crime if their homes are within “safe access zones” near abortion facilities, and encouraging citizens to report suspected thought crimes.
So in Scotland you are not allowed to think, let alone talk.
And then Amjad Taha claims that “antisemitism is not an opinion but a crime, and a crime against humanity”. So definitely no free speech there then.
It is interesting that essentially nobody in Europe wants unlimited immigration but every country allows it, with very few exceptions (Hungary and Slovakia). So the question must be who is dictating to our politicians the destruction of European societies and why do they listen?
Whereas UK politicians seem keen to make ‘Islamophobia’ something special, there is always the overriding principle, at least in the West, that anti-Semitism is over the top, absolutely forbidden, no questions asked.
The problem is, though, that Israel has unquestioningly been committing genocide against Palestinians (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e_woWJ3q8o) and continues to murder Palestinians at will: 100 in Gaza since the cease-fire began on 19th January.
antiwar.com reported yesterday that Israeli Soldiers in Gaza used an 80-year-old as a human shield before killing him and his wife:
A senior Israeli officer tied an explosive to the elderly man’s neck and threatened to blow his head off if he didn’t check buildings for explosives.
“They explained to him that if he did something wrong or not as we wanted, the person behind him would pull the rope, and his head would be severed from his body. He walked around with us like that for eight hours, even though he was an 80-year-old man and even though he couldn’t escape us” [he could only walk with a cane] one soldier said.
After eight hours of checking for explosives, the man was returned to his wife. Then, Israeli soldiers ordered the elderly couple to evacuate to the south on foot. The report said the soldiers didn’t inform other nearby battalions that the elderly couple was heading south, and after only walking for 100 meters, they were shot and killed.
antiwar.com also reported that in Lebanon:
A group of displaced Lebanese civilians and paramedics from Houla were attempting to return home, and as has so often happened in recent weeks, Israeli troops attacked them.
Israeli troops opened fire on the group of unarmed civilians, killing at least one and wounding several others. The slain was identified as a 13-year-old girl named Khadija Atwi.
So it is all very well to declare anti-Semitism as being a crime, but it would help if Israel stopped committing the most heinous crimes imaginable.
Do you think this is actually true?
You imply you do not believe something I reported? How can anyone know anything who is not there, on the spot, witnessing everything someone reports? The same applies to any report of anything anywhere in the world. Many people believe in ‘climate change’, in pandemics, that Putin is bad, that Netanyahu and all Israelis are good: if you believe every report you read then you are either selective in your research or everything reported is indeed correct. I would like to think that people attracted to a website such as this, with the name Daily Sceptic, will be aware that a wonderful report published on some credible website may be fully correct or it may be complete nonsense. I am afraid you have to decide yourself what you believe to be true. If you have a contrary opinion to anything I wrote then you are more than welcome to provide it.
The politicians are paying lip service to the majority of westerners both in this country and in Europe. They are Whited sepulchers, the new Pharisees.
Dominic Grieve is no more Conservative than Stalin was Liberal. Why has no Conservative leader had the guts to kick him out.