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Four Demands of Amnesty International

By Guest | Published: February 28, 2013

This is a statement by Gita Sahgal of Centre for Secular Space

AS I GO TO SUPPORT BANGLADESHI ACTIVISTS WHO ARE DEMANDING THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS STAND WITH THE VICTIMS OF 1971. MY LETTER TO A FORMER COLLEAGUE AT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

I write this with a heavy heart as I know that you are one of the few at Amnesty International, fully conscious of the dangers of fundamentalism and no friend of the pro-jihadi faction. I know you have done much to raise awareness of the human rights issues which are raised whenever fundamentalists press their agenda. You have fought against declaring Ahmaddiyas as ‘non-Muslim’ and explained to colleagues the importance of moving fast to prevent bad legislation being put in place. Complaining atrocities have happened is simply not good enough. They should be prevented in the first place.

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Also posted in Human Rights, Jamaat-e-Islam | 2 Responses

Nick Cohen on Shahbag

By ziryab | Published: February 17, 2013

Nick Cohen with an excellent piece on how the Shahbag demonstrations formed the space for a battle between secular Bangladeshis and Jamaat-e-Islami supporters in a park in Whitechapel. And the ongoing story of how the establishment and Britain’s liberal Left continues to enable fascist streams in political Islam, in particular, Jamaat-e-Islam.

Do I hear you say that Bangladesh is far away and the genocide was long ago?

Not so far away. Not so long ago. And the agonies of Bangladeshi liberals are nothing in comparison to the contradictions of their British counterparts.

The conflict between the Shahbag and Jamaat has already reachedLondon. On 9 February, local supporters of the uprising demonstrated in Altab Ali Park, a rare patch of green space off the Whitechapel Road in London’s East End. They were met by Jamaatis. “They attacked our men with stones,” one of the protest’s organisers told me. “There were old people and women and children there, but they still attacked us.”

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Blogger and Shahbag Movement Activist Slaughtered in Dhaka

By ziryab | Published: February 16, 2013

Murdered: Rajib Haider (26)

Rajib Haider who blogged under the name of ‘Thaba Baba’ was one of the blogger activists of the Shahbag youth  uprising in Bangladesh. Yesterday came news that Rajib was slaughtered in Dhaka close to his home. His throat and wrists were slit, in signature Chaatra Shibir (Jamaat-e-Islam’s student wing) style, and he was left to die.

Ahmed Rajib Haider, 26, was an active participant of the ongoing nonstop demonstrations at Shahbagh demanding death sentences for all ‘war criminals’.

Officer-in-Charge of Pallabi Police Station Abdul Latif Sheikh told bdnews24.com that they recovered Shuvo’s body from Laalmatia’s Palashnagar around 9pm.

He said the face bore signs of slashes. A scarf was wrapped around the blogger’s throat, Sheikh added.

This was not a simple mugging case as police said the deceased’s laptop was found near the body of the architect.

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Also posted in Crime, Jamaat-e-Islam, War Crimes | 11 Responses

Mass Anti Jamaat Rally In Dhaka

By ziryab | Published: February 9, 2013

The anti-Jamaat Mass Rally in Shahbag Square

We are now in day 5 of the ongoing anti-Jamaat rallies that have swept Bangladesh, with the largest one attracting more than 200,000 protesters in Dhaka.

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied Friday in Bangladesh’s capital to demand executions for people convicted of war crimes involving the nation’s independence war in 1971.

The protesters in Dhaka urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to review a verdict sentencing a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami to life in prison for killings and other crimes.

The protesters said the life term was not enough as Abdul Quader Mollah was found by a tribunal guilty of five charges, including playing a role in the killing of 381 unarmed civilians.

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Also posted in 1971 War, War Crimes | 7 Responses

Gita Sahgal vs Islamist Hecklers

By ziryab | Published: February 9, 2013

On the BBC Radio 4 show ‘Hecklers’, Gita Sahgal takes on the combined force of the Islamists Tahmina Saleem (Islamic Society Britain), Tariq Ramadan (freelance Islamist), Nazir Ahmed (House of Lords), Moazzam Begg (Cage Prisoners) and Daud Abdullah (Muslim Council of Britain)

Also posted in Democracy, Hindu Fundamentalism, Jamaat-e-Islam, Nutters, Religious Right Wing, Secularism, UK Politics, War Crimes | 1 Response

The British Muslim Establishment’s Very Own Mass Murderer

By avicenna | Published: October 15, 2012

The Impunity of Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin

This weekend, the Daily Mail launched an editorial on the extradition order for Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin.

In 1971, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, whilst as  a leader and organiser of the “Al Badr Death Squads”, abducted, tortured and murdered a number of Bangladeshi intellectuals and patriots, who were seeking self-determination and independence for Bangladesh. Following the defeat of Pakistan, Mueen-Uddin fled to Britain, where he has established himself as the pillar of the Bangladeshi British Muslim establishment, and the prime mover in Jamaat-e-Islam’s various front organisations in Britain.

Here are some excerpts from the Daily Mail report which we copy here, in case Mueen-Uddin’s lawyers, Carter Ruck, force the article to be removed to “protect the reputation” of their client.

One of Britain’s most important Muslim leaders – who has a senior role in the NHS – is to be charged with 18 murders by a war crimes tribunal in his native Bangladesh, investigators have told The Mail on Sunday.

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Also posted in 1971 War, War Crimes | 4 Responses

The Ignorant Racism of Asghar Bukhari and MPACUK

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: October 8, 2012

Have a look at this exchange on facebook conducted between Musa Ibraheem, an American Muslim of mixed race ethnicity with Asghar Bukhari and his chums from MPACUK – regarding the use of the N-word. Mr Ibrahim identifies and deals with Bukhari’s racism so completely, there is little else to add. But Asghar is convinced he is justified to call a man a “nigger” because he has seen it used in a film biopic of Malcolm X, and even then, mistakenly so.

Also posted in Nutters, Racism | 34 Responses

The Home Office still funding the wrong people

By Guest | Published: July 8, 2012

By a brother from East London

It is now a well known fact that some of the people responsible for delivering the government’s Prevent programme are actually opposed to its core objectives.  These people can be best described as ‘anti-Prevent Prevent leads’.

One such individual is Shaban Siddik.  He was recently appointed by OSCT (Home Office) as the Prevent Manager for Ealing Council.  He previously worked at Harrow Council as a Prevent Coordinator.  Here are the highlights of his Prevent career so far:

  • Supporting, promoting and working closely with Harrow Mosque. This institutions website promotes: Islamic Forum of Europe (an Islamist organisation that wants to replace UK Democracy with Shariah law), YMO (an IFE youth group), MCB, Islam Channel and Islam Expo.
  • Setting up a ‘Muslim Youth Skills’ group and inviting Yvonne Ridley (Talibanette and Press TV broadcaster) to speak at its opening ceremony.
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Also posted in Dodgy Policy Wonks, UK Politics | 4 Responses

Abid Hussain, Warsi and Hizb ut-Tahrir

By Guest | Published: June 10, 2012

This is a cross-post by Raziq (A former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir)

In light of the recent media revelations about Baroness Warsi’s links to Abid Hussain, and his subsequent denial of any involvement with  Hizb ut-Tahrir, this short piece is aimed at clarifying his previous links to the group.


Abid Hussain (still taken from the 1995 BBC Documentary on Hizb ut-Tahrir ‘Public Eye’)

I knew Abid in the 90’s when he was involved with Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT).  Back then he used to attend all of the group’s rallies & events, and was well known in HT circles as being a committed activist.  In the mid-90’s, he also resided at the London School of Shariah in Tottenham for a while.  At the time, the School of Shariah was the hub of all HT activity in the UK. This was when HT was under the leadership of Omar Bakri Mohammad.  His brother Mohammad Nawaz Khan was and still is a senior member of HT.  He was also the former spokesman of HT in Pakistan (where the group is now banned).   Abid is also related to Baroness Warsi’s current husband “Iftikhar Azam”.

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Also posted in Tower Hamlets, UK Politics | 2 Responses

To Haitham al-Haddad – it’s no longer business as usual; Love, the Netherlands

By Cross Post | Published: February 18, 2012

This is a cross-post by Hasan Afzal of StandforPeace

What an extraordinary few weeks it has been for those who battle the forces of Islamist extremism. First, StandforPeace exposed Haitham al-Haddad’s FOSIS London love-in, then the good folks at Hope not Hatecalled on the East London Mosque to ban him from an event there and to finish, the JC published the story that he had been banned from speaking at the London School of Economics.

It is completely understandable that al-Haddad would feel a little uncomfortable in the UK. After all, his supporters can’t bring themselves to wonder why someone who condones suicide bombings, female circumcision and self-exile from wider society would be despised by free-thinking people.

So, a few days ago, I was contacted by an internet acquaintance on al-Haddad visiting the Netherlands. Admittedly, I don’t know much about the Netherlands’ problem with extremism although I was aware of events concerning Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Theo Von Gogh and the Hofstad Network. It was enough to act.

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