Delayed justice for the Freedom Flotilla
Last week at the 7th High Criminal Court in Istanbul I gave my testimony to what I witnessed as a passenger on the Mavi Marmara, part of the 2010 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Four and a half years after the attack by State of Israel soldiers on the hundreds of International civilians on board the ship we are still pursuing justice for the participants, particularly the nine widows, many orphans of the ten martyrs and those who were heavily wounded, some of whom are still affected by their injuries. This was the 7th hearing and at the 6th hearing last…
The Suffering of Statues
Robert Spencer is a vile Islamophobe. So disturbing and divisive are Spencer’s views on Muslims that even the Home Secretary Theresa May denied him entry into the UK . He and his fellow hate preacher, Pamela Geller, were prevented from coming to the Britain to speak at an EDL march in Woolwich, where Lee Rigby was killed. Like most members of the Islamophobia industry, Spencer is not Jewish. However, some of the most prolific funders of the Islamophobia industry are Jewish, and Spencer’s financiers are no exception. It has been reported that Spencer was paid $132,537 for writing his blog…
Above the Law
It’s not very often that, as a revert, I attempt to thread a mosaic of unlikely ideas which interlace my own Christian upbringing through Judaism, secular beliefs and the Quranic message we all so aspire to. Nonetheless, this article considers the following issues, inviting people to come forward freely to faithfully and honestly reflect on. Religious and political stirrings Let me say clearly from the start that I am not a scholar of Islām. However, as a reverted Muslim I am entranced, fascinated and mesmerised by the Qur’ān. The depth of meaning and choice of particular words and phrases to…
Honesty Policy – HappyDay Video. Who & Why?
The Muslims of the U.K. clearly feel under attack and misrepresented in the main-stream media. It is an undisputed fact that Muslims are suffering from a huge campaign to “otherise” us and depict us as dangerous people who are not able to fit into Western Society. Sadly most Muslims in the U.K. and the West have no perception of the massive well funded Islamophobia industry in the West nor what its objectives are and importantly who funds it. This week a video entitled “Happy British Muslims” appeared on social media. Immediately many Muslims wrote comments condemning the video as unIslamic,…
The Freedom Flotilla’s turbulent course to justice
As a passenger of the Mavi Marmara, the Freedom Flotilla that set sail for Gaza in May 2010, I stand side-by-side with people of different nationalities, political leanings and faiths in believing that it is incumbent on ordinary civilians to strive for justice where governments lack the political will to do so. Last week many of the survivors of the brutal Israeli aggression against the Freedom Flotilla—which led to the deaths of nine humanitarians and wounded 156 others (52 of those seriously)—met in Istanbul for another court hearing against four named Israeli military leaders. The court met to hear evidence…
Friends of Israel for Sale: The Times, Tories and Think Tanks
The Times newspaper has published an article on two of the groups involved in the gender segregation issue. Recently Muslim students awoke to the reality that the right wing Henry Jackson Society’s project, “Student Rights,” is seeking to curtail the rights of Muslims to enjoy listening to the Islamic scholars they choose, as well as their freedom of religious expression including the wish to have some gender separation at Islamic events on campus. However this attack does not only concern Muslim students, as behind the Islamophobia lies an obvious agenda to curtail Palestinian rights activism on campuses, including the growing Boycott Divestment and…
Ch4 Niqab Debate Islamophobe Panellists Exposed
Is it not rather strange and incomprehensible that one (Douglas Murray) who claims to loath the so called intolerance of Muslims and who according to the above is a staunch believer in freedom of expression would want to dictate what a tiny minority of British women wear? Hardly a beacon of tolerance himself then. Visit the Spotlight: Anti Niqab page for all our Niqab articles- click here This week Channel 4 aired interviews and a debate on the British Muslim women who choose to wear the face veil or niqab. One of the highlights of the series of programs was…
The Henry Jackson Society and scaremongering with AIPAC
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is North America's most vociferous pro-Israel lobby group. This week Alan Mendoza of Britain's Henry Jackson Society offered an interesting glimpse into what appears to be one of the main preoccupations of his organisation; namely, scaremongering about Muslims. The Henry Jackson Society has been described as a "neoconservative think tank" which, claims Sameh Libdeh, acts in Britain on behalf of Israel's right-wing Likud Party. The society absorbed another far-right think tank called the Centre for Social Cohesion in September 2011. Spinwatch produced a report called "The Cold War on British Muslims" which investigated the roles…
British neocon blog exposed as Israeli mouthpiece
In the past few days the UK-based neo-conservative blog Harry’s Place has exposed itself as an outright propaganda outlet of the Israeli armed forces. For months I have been posting comments on the blog, which in 2006 won the annual Islamophobia award given by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Although my comments have been generally tolerated, I receive constant verbal abuse for my beliefs as a Muslim from commentators on the blog. Nonetheless, I have continued to comment, in the hope that I might be able to put across just a few points amid the constant tide of Islamophobia. Misguidedly, I thought…
Campus Wars – Israel Supporters Want to Rewrite Islam
Hasan Afzal of “British Muslims for Israel” seems to have found a (possibly lucrative) new career working with the Zionists. Here is a recent initiative to promote Buy Israeli Goods. The Quran has many refererences to the hypocrites, the people who during the Prophethood of Mohammed p.b.u.h. professed to be Muslims but worked against the Muslims to undermine Islam. People like Hasan Afzal are described exactly here in this Quranic explanation. Indeed, Allah s.w.t. created humans with all of our weaknesses, so who better to know what is in the hearts? Hasan Afzal and his like are described here in…
