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HT Threatens Brave Canadian Critic

This is a Spittoon EXCLUSIVE by Abu Wannabe Arab


An outspoken Canadian critic of Islamist extremism, Raheel Reza, recently wrote a piece about Hizb ut Tahrir (HT) holding conferences in Australia and Canada. She argued that western nations are far too complacent about the threat posed by Islamist agitators and their cohorts. In response, as predictably as night follows day, she received this threatening e-mail from a HT supporter:

…I personally cannot believe how idiotic you are. I then checked your website and found to my further astonishment photos of you holding the holy Quran. Have you even read the book? Also since you weren’t wearing hijab, I can only hope you had washed yourself before touching it. Beyond the point of Islam, how dare you make such disgusting comments about Australia and how ‘naive’ Australia is, when like you said you ‘live 1000s of miles away’. You have no idea about Australia and articles like yours only increase a climate of fear that is already being propagated by foreigners, I have heard of sisters being attacked and spat on because of ‘being a radical muslim’ (aka wearing a hijab) and without a DOUBT in my mind it is people like YOU who give them the justification in doing so. How does it feel knowing that somewhere in the world some racist has done/or is intending to do an act of hate due to an article you wrote.

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How Hamza Tortoise Debunked The Quran

This is a guest post by MuslimAtheist

Have you ever been in or witnessed a debate where an individual’s arguments got comprehensively demolished without him/her even realising? Well if you haven’t then prepare for this treat.

Hamza Tzortiz, formerly of HT but now a pseudo-intellectual debater for IERA, decided to attend the World Atheist Conference in Dublin on the 3-5 of June 2011, along with some other inarticulate chums. They filmed their antics and produced an edited montage of clips which is available to view here.




They begin their poor propaganda by complaining that leading atheists have refused to accept their challenge to public debate, as if the likes of Dawkins would waste their time debating these idiots. They then go on to present a series of clips which shows them making long winded and misinformed comments disguised as questions, often in a rude and abrupt manner. All the clips are comical in their own way, but the improvised street debate with PZ Myers is perhaps the most comical.

Posted in Hermeneutics, Islamism | 57 Comments

Mohammed Shafiq and Swimwear

This is a guest post by Mr Happy


You may remember The Spittoon featured a story of Shanna Bukhari, a Muslim girl who had made it to the World finals of the much coveted, Miss Universe competition. ‘Good for her’ were the sentiments from this blog.

But, today, the BBC ran a similar story this time surrounding a faux-controversy over a swimsuit round to pass onto the next stage.

Weirdly, a big chunk of the article has the rants of Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadan Foundation.

Those of you who don’t know who Shafiq is, he rather enjoys blaming Islamic terrorism not on Islamism but on erm … anything else he can think of. In an interview to Haaretz, here is how he describes the Muslim community:

Posted in Misogyny, Obscurantism | 24 Comments

“Senseless attacks which block any attempts for peace”

This is a press release issued by British Muslims for Israel

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Press Release: British Muslims for Israel condemns Jerusalem Bomb Plot

British Muslims for Israel condemns the terrorist attack in Jerusalem today. Such acts of indiscriminate violence are never justified, hurt the cause of Palestinians and harden public opinion in Israel.

Hasan Afzal, a spokesperson for British Muslims for Israel says “Today’s attacks seem to be of a piece with the extreme violence perpetrated against Israelis in the last few weeks. First we had the Itamar massacre, then a barrage of rocket attacks from Palestine into Israel and now the attack in Jerusalem. These attacks hurt all sides, and help no one.”

Afzal added “Recent events have shown that groups such as Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade are determined to kill indiscriminately and use ordinary Palestinians as hostages to their cause. We urge all British Muslims to condemn these senseless attacks which block any attempts for peace and ruin the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians”.

Posted in Activism, Islamism, Israel/Palestine, UK Politics, Your View | 29 Comments

British Muslim Miss Universe Contestant Receives Death Threats

This is a guest post by Mr Happy


You may have missed this piece in the Guardian today. The story is about Shanna Bukhari, a British Muslim, who has received death threats for being in the popular beauty pageant competition, Miss Universe.

She has received threats from Muslims, white supremacists and even feminists but reading deeper into the article, it would seem most of her problems come from dealing with her own Muslim community.

The most telling paragraphs read:

But even she has been surprised by the furore that her participation in the British heats of Miss Universe has prompted. Rather than confirming her hopes that society had progressed since her childhood, the controversy has made her question the state of multiculturalism in modern Britain. “It has highlighted the divisions that exist, a lack of social integration, a lack of adhesion between white and coloured people, and this needs to be addressed,” she said. “I thought my participation might be something that people did not agree with, but I never thought I’d get abused.”

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Hate Preacher Who Legitimises Rape To Talk In LSE Islamic Society “Celebration”

This is a guest post by Mr Happy


Looks like the LSE is in the news for all the wrong reasons again. If it isn’t Libyan blood money, then it’s cosying up to the most odious of hate-preachers.

For the committee of the London School of Economics’ Islamic Society’s 10th anniversary dinner, something special must have been ordered to mark the event. Speaking at the event is Muhammed Bin Adam Al-Kawthari, a vicious hate preacher.

Al-Kawthari is known for his extreme views on women, marriage, sexuality and violent Jihad.

From a website where you can post questions to him, he issues the following guidance for suitable punishments for those who commit adultery:

“If the crime of fornication is carried out by an individual who is sane, mature, Muslim and is married to a spouse who is also sane, mature, Muslim, and that their marriage is consummated, then the legal punishment is that he/she will be stoned to death (rajm). The Imam, witnesses and other Muslims would take part in the stoning.”

Posted in Islamism, Misogyny | 26 Comments

Moazzam Begg To Give A Lecture On Jihadi Terrorism at Southampton Islamic Society

This is a guest post by Mr Happy


Moazzam Begg, the former Guantanamo detainee and Director of campaign group CagePrisoners, is to give a talk on Jihad and terrorism at Southampton University part of the Islamic Society’s Islamic Awareness Week.

Begg is on form when it comes to promoting Jihad. In an article in the Irish Times, when asked if the actions of the Taliban, and the resulting deaths of NATO soldiers and foreign aid workers, were justified, he answered:

“If you are asking me what are my feelings towards people fighting occupation, the answer is I completely support them. I believe in the inalienable right to defend yourself against foreign occupation.”

Of course, as Harry’s Place habibi noted the above quote is nonsense. There is no foreign occupation and NATO soldiers fight and train amongst the Afghan National Army to strengthen domestic institutions so Afghans can live in a civilised society.

Posted in Islamism, Terrorism | 5 Comments

“Islamophobe” is the new “Neocon”

This is a guest post by Mr Happy


One of my earliest memories of censorship occurred when I was in high school. I was debating the merits of military intervention in Iraq with a select group of friends. The first thing that struck me was how lonely my point of view was, I couldn’t, not for one second, understand how one could justify the continued existence of the Saddam regime.

“Even if there aren’t any weapons of mass destruction, Saddam had previously used such weapons, twice. He is uniquely evil to the region.” I remember stating, rather proudly.

And at that very moment, someone called me a neocon. I didn’t know what a neoconservative was (if I did, I would have perhaps defended the term better). It was clear it was meant to be a negative word.

Posted in Anti Muslim bigotry, Islamism, The Regressive Left | 1 Comment

Further Infiltration of iERA at University of Birmingham ISoc

This is a guest post by Mr Happy


There are times when I think that these University Islamic Societies are filled with secular Muslims and democrats who bring in these hate-preachers in a rather covert, clever, black-ops way of saying “Look, we have these people in a room for you, now, someone, challenge them!”

That is, I do some of the time. Most of the time, I think they’re full of hateful bigots.

It hasn’t been a week since Abdul Raheem Green, or Mister It’s okay to beat your wife, was the main speaker at a whole-day workshop called ‘Call of Duty’, a workshop specifically designed to counter those awkward questions about Islam. If Green’s previous words on the world are anything to go by, we can be sure that his advice wasn’t exactly Woodstock material.

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Sudan: Flogging and Harassment of Women Continue

This is a guest post by Nada Mustafa Ali


Tomorrow, the heads of State and Government and other senior officials from countries that are members in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)―a regional body that includes Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia―will meet in Lusaka, the Capital of Zambia, to discuss measures to curb the illegal use of natural resources, which often fuel conflicts in the region, leading to immense human suffering, including sexual and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls.

Today, in Khartoum, the government’s security arrested forty-six women and six men who participated in a peaceful demonstration in Khartoum, to protest the flogging of women under various articles of Sudan’s Criminal Act 1991, and Sudan’s Public Order regime which discriminates against women. A press release by Sudan’s police (in Arabic) indicated that the demonstrators were arrested in accordance with Articles 68 and 69 of Sudan’s Criminal law. These articles cover ‘public disturbance’ offences such as illegal assembly and riots against the state. The arrests are unconstitutional, as Sudan’s Interim National Constitution guarantees freedom of assembly.

Posted in Civil Rights | 1 Comment
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