The IFE stalwart and major Anwar al-Awlaki fanboy, Azad Ali, has resurfaced as the newly elected president of the Muslim Safety Forum. Andrew Gilligan writes:
Scotland Yard will now face pressure to renounce Azad Ali, the new chair of the Muslim Safety Forum, which is recognised by the Met under a formal written agreement as “the principal body in relation to Muslim community safety and security”.
The deal says that the Met will “use the MSF as a consultation body to help formulate policy or practice”. Mr Ali was the founding chair of the MSF in 2006, but left that job in 2008 and resigned entirely from the group last year after publicity over his extremist comments. Last week, he was quietly reappointed as its chairman.
Mr Ali is a senior official of the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), which works, in its own words, to create an Islamic state under sharia law in Europe. The IFE and the MSF share the same offices.
He has previously praised a key mentor of Osama bin Laden. Earlier this year, he was filmed by an undercover reporter from Channel 4′s Dispatches stating: “Democracy, if it means not implementing the sharia, of course nobody agrees with that.”When the documentary was aired, Mr Ali attacked the reporter on the IFE’s official radio station, saying: “We’ve got a picture of you and a lot more than you thought we had. We’ve tracked you down to different places. And if people are gonna turn what I’ve just said into a threat, that’s their fault, innit?”
Gilligan saves the punchline for the end:
Patrick Mercer, a Conservative MP and counterterrorism expert, said: “It beats me why the police should want to take the advice of this man. They should have nothing to do with him. I know for a fact that there are just as knowledgeable members of the Muslim community who do not share his subversive views.”
And if you want a look at the sense of humour of these Islamists, have a look at this facebook page. It is the Jutice 4 Azad Ali page. But look at the copy:
Justice 4 Islamists Posing as Moderates
For too long now mainstream and moderate Muslim individuals, organisations and institutions have been victims of a vicious witch hunt! Depicted as extremists, terrorists or fanatics by deliberate misquotes and misrepresentation, such attacks must stop NOW!
The most recent victim, Azad Ali was falsely portrayed as an extremist by deliberately misquoting and including many inaccuracies, to promote a misleading impression of his opinions expressed in his blog
(http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com ).Join the Justice 4 Muslim, Justice 4 Azad Facebook network to campaign for justice and equality for all Muslims.
Azad Ali and his friends spend much of their time berating bona fide moderate Muslims. They say that a Muslim moderate’s weaknesses include pusillanimity because they are “sell out to the kaafirs”. And yet, the text used by Azad and his friends on this facebook group uses the language of liberal activism to protect the rights of the putative “moderate”, Azad Ali.
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“The most recent victim, Azad Ali was falsely portrayed as an extremist by deliberately misquoting and including many inaccuracies, to promote a misleading impression of his opinions expressed in his blog”
Yeah right. The IFE and Azad Ali are so confident that his fruity pro-jihad comments were “deliberatley misquoted” that they have removed all his entries from the ‘Between the Lines’ blog. This was before the site was brought down completely. But not to worry, cached versions of the site exist just in case there were any accusations of “misquoting”.
Azad Ali, threatened a Muslim journalist on community radio. And then admitted that he had made a threat!