“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.”
~The Usual Suspects
The Telegraph has published news of a six-month investigation which it undertook with Channel 4′s Dispatches on the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE). The IFE is a Jamaat-e-Islami entryist organisation which now commands a sizeable vote bloc and is physically located in the East London Mosque (ELM) with which it is closely linked. The chairman of ELM is Mohammed Abdul Bari, who is a former president of the IFE and is the current Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Dispatches’ reporters have uncovered the following:
- IFE activists boasted to the undercover reporters that they had already “consolidated … a lot of influence and power” over Tower Hamlets, a London borough council with a £1 billion budget.
- We have established that the group and its allies were awarded more than £10 million of taxpayers’ money, much of it from government funds designed to “prevent violent extremism”.
- IFE leaders were recorded expressing opposition to democracy, support for sharia law or mocking black people. The IFE organised meetings with extremists, including Taliban allies, a man named by the US government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a man under investigation by the FBI for his links to the September 11 attacks.
- Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and its allies were enforcing their hardline views on the rest of the local community, curbing behaviour they deemed “un-Islamic”. The owner of a dating agency received a threatening email from an IFE activist, warning her to close it.
- George Galloway, a London MP, admitted in recordings obtained by this newspaper that his surprise victory in the 2005 election owed more to the IFE “than it would be wise – for them – for me to say, adding that they played a “decisive role” in his triumph at the polls.
The Telegraph article goes on to discuss the takeover of Tower Hamlets Council by Islamists, which we discussed on The Spittoon back in June. Leader of the Tower Hamlets Council is Lutfor Rahman, an IFE sympathiser if not possibly a member, has some explaining to do on matters verging on absolute corruption:
Since Mr Rahman became leader, more council grants have been paid to a number of organisations which our investigation established are closely linked to the IFE.
Funding for other, secular groups was ended or cut. In the borough’s well-known Brick Lane area, council funds were switched from a largely secular heritage trail to a highly controversial “hijab sculpture”, angering many residents who accused the council of “religious triumphalism”.
Welcome to Jamaat-e-Islam in the United Kingdom.
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The infiltration is far worse than most people realise:
http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/muslim-subversion-sedition-and-social.html
Just to let you know “Trencherbone” has extensive links with both the BNP and NF.
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Its thus highly instructive that he would post on Spitoon then, since like the BNP/NF they have an interest in stirring up anti-Muslim hatred and use materials from extreme anti-Muslim websites like Front Page magazine.
Indeed this article, like many on Spitoon, could have come from a BNP site.
Are you a member of IFE abdullah?
This programme is just another muslim bashing doc. The basic jist of it is that Muslims will never be accpeted in the western society. Because those who have tried to engage in the political process are now ‘trying to creat an islamic state in the uk’.
Well just a point – this is a tactic being used for political purposes i.e. the upcoming election! Paranoia is wide spread and it really makes me laugh. So the only messgae being spread by the media is that Muslims are not welcome or even wanted in this country.
No, Shaykh Wiki, you get the point wrong:
The point is Islamism is unacceptable in the UK – as it is everywhere else, for that matter.
When Brecht commented after WWII that “the dog (Hitler fascism) is dead, but the bitch was on heat again”, I suspect he did not have the inkling that she was going to give birth to clerical fascism in the form of Islamism.
If some people want to practice Islamism then let them! If they want to use the current political infrastructure as you claim, then use the same bloody infrastructure to tackle them if you don’t like it. But for God’s sake, don’t stoop so freakin low as to go ‘undercover’ witch-hunting, moronic guilt-by-association conclusions, and cheap ‘fascist-style- scaremongering (yes, it’s more fascist than some of these Islamists you’re wetting your pants over). Kind of stinks of the ‘Jewsih’ take-over of Germany conspiracy…
If some people want to practice Islamism then let them! If they want to use the current political infrastructure as you claim, then use the same bloody infrastructure to tackle them if you don’t like it. But for God’s sake, don’t stoop so freakin low as to go ‘undercover’ witch-hunting, moronic guilt-by-association conclusions, and cheap ‘fascist-style- scaremongering (yes, it’s more fascist than some of these Islamists you’re wetting your pants over). Kind of stinks of the ‘Jewsih’ take-over of Germany conspiracy…
I agree DG people have a right to practise and preach Islamism and others have a right to criticise them and produce documentaries against them, exposing their bully boy tactics and cronyism. All fair game in a liberal democracy. But if Islamists were in power, their critics would be beheaded.
To even get fooled into believing Islamists could get into power is bad enough. Instead of focusing on a hugely over-exaggerated ‘threat’ (whose authenticity is disputable), you guys should be focussing on the real threat from the white far-right. The BNP have an MEP, they’ve got tons of councillors and real and growing support behind them.
And don’t forget the nail bomber in Brick Lane in the late 90s, and the recent terrorist plot to kill Muslims by a racist thug. (And you’ve got Ms Scott here taking of taking the fight to the streets). The youtube video threatening to behead a Muslim a day. The steep rise of islamaphobic attacks, including murders.
But instead, spittoon is stuffed to its neck in terrorising itself and others through McCarthyist reporting of the new Red Scare. The threat that never was.
Abu Faris you have got it wrong mate! What is wrong with christian and zionist lobby groups?? The programme protrayed IFE as a lobby group so whats the issue here?
Politics is a dirty game and for years you have seen the ‘whips’ going around party members forcing them to vote (a good example was the iraq war) otherwise scnadals would come out about them. Likewise IFE has ‘apparantly’ become influencal in loacl politics? so others are feeling threatened so they make some weak links to extremism even though IFE and have openly denounced violent extremism as was even seen on the programme.
But the issue here is if you do not like a muslim or a muslim in power just play the extremist card and you will be able to get him out, win votes and scaremonger for the far right. And boy is it working.
My point still valid
Shaykh Wiki,
When will IFE denounce Mawdudi’s violent extremist ideology?
Why dont you ask IFE if you feel the need to get an answer stupid, who do you think I am the grand high mufti of IFE – fool
Because you are the one who is saying that they have ‘openly denounced violent extremism’.
You stupid fool!
Stupid fool you obviously didnt watch the programme when dispatches quoted Abdul Bari and the Mosque and IFE saying they ‘denounce violent extremism’ etc etc.
Oh sorry you wouldnt know would you since you ask stupid questions.
There were Communists in the State Department. McCarthy was in the right, and they were a danger to the USA.
The Soviets were hostile and powerful. Islam is hostile and powerful.
Its not a witch hunt, when their really are witches.
EscapeVelocity, interesting you mention Communists in State Department because Gilligan’s reporting and this whole façade is wholly reminiscent of that era. In particular, McCarthy-esque reporting. And you would also know that his tactics of guilt by association, whipping up fear and allegations without credibility and evidence, are all historically now locked away in the rubbish bins, and were also opposed by American senators at the time (he was kicked off after a while).
What this program does is repeat the same old. Allegation after allegation. Even a high school media student would know it was miles off from true investigative journalism let alone objective journalism. Objectivity means to inspect the entire element from all sides. Not fish around for one or two quotes at the expense of the rest or make arrows to link people and institutions. Or to disproportionately put forward the arguments from politically motivated opponents.
But yes, most people couldn’t care less about objectivity and accuracy. They believe what they want to hear, they prefer to be fooled and prefer to be terrorised, and with their partisan mentalities, only care about victory ‘for the tribe’.
[just realised you edited your point. Not bothered to edit mine for your sake.]
Shaykh Wiki,
Like I said, when Abdul Bari condemns and denounces the violent/bloodthirsty teachings of Mawdudi I will take him seriously.
You stupid fool!
@EscapeVelocity -’The Soviets were hostile and powerful. Islam is hostile and powerful. ‘ Boy please show me where muslims are powerful? Because I am desperate to know, last time I checked muslims are weak and not in positions of power generally.
@Zalloom – Please quote me the passages where mawdudi is thirsty for blood literally. Because I have never come across any vampires in his speeches. You are still stupid BTW are you a muslim?
Zalloom, who gives a shite if you don’t take Bari seriously?
well said Resptabilia here here