Category Archives: Islamism

This is a cross-post of an article by Edmund Standing

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The Taliban, AKA ‘the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’, currently have a channel on the infidel YouTube, featuring videos of their ‘operations’ against coalition troops in Afghanistan. This is in clear violation of YouTube’s TOS, which state:

Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone getting hurt, attacked or humiliated, don’t post it.

If you have time, please flag their videos. Thanks to the vigilance of online anti-jihadists, the Taliban’s official website is down yet again. American hosting services need to be aware of the fact that they are enabling the spreading of enemy propaganda.

But that is not the main point of my post. While the Taliban freely disseminating their propaganda on YouTube is objectionable, the crimes against the English language exhibited by their Western supporters are appalling too. Amongst their supporters, we find a number of fans who appear to be the jihadist equivalent of Ali G. Messages of support include:

Joan Smith writes an interesting piece on Begg’s ride to Amnesty’s own human rights poster boy and “Human Rights Victim of 2009″.

While all this was going on, Begg and his organisation Cageprisoners are busily fetishising anything to do with Anwar al-Awlaki and lionising any two-bit, violent Islamist radical who ever voiced a jihadi sentiment or got into trouble with the authorities. Inclusive of Omar Khyam, Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza.

Let’s return now to Begg. In 2001, he took his wife and children to live in Afghanistan, then under the control of the Taliban. Women scurried from place to place in burkas, risking a beating if a passing Talib spotted an inch of flesh, and could not even speak to a doctor except through a male relative; the horrors of the regime have been brilliantly described in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. In Begg’s own book, he describes his interrogation by the CIA who wanted to know why a young man from Birmingham was living in Afghanistan. “I wanted to live in an Islamic state – one that was free from the corruption and despotism of the rest of the Muslim world,” was his reply. When they expressed scepticism, he complained: “I knew you wouldn’t understand. The Taliban were better than anything Afghanistan has had in the past 25 years.”

This is a cross-post of an article by habibi from Harry’s Place

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Who is the woman on Moazzam Begg’s Facebook page?

It’s Aafia Siddiqui, who has been convicted of attempted murder in the United States.

Not before identifying her real persecutors in courtroom outbursts during jury selection, of course:

On questioning during jury selection: “The next question is going to be on anti-Semitism, and all I said was Israel was behind 9/11, and that’s not anti-Semitism!”

On potential jurors: “If they have a Zionist or Israeli background . . . they are all mad at me. I have a feeling everyone here is them [sic] – subject to genetic testing. They should be excluded if you want to be fair.”

Convicted, she said:

“This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America. Your anger should be directed where it belongs. I can testify to this and I have proof.”

From the East London Advertiser:

TOWER Hamlets council has launched a disciplinary enquiry over pro-Islamist emails sent to a London Euro-MP.

Two e-mails, with a town hall address, attacked proposals by the UK Independence Party to ban Muslim face coverings, including burkas and hijabs, in public places and accused the party of trying to “stoke a religious war on the streets of Britain.”

London MEP Gerard Batten has lodged a formal complaint with Tower Hamlets council and is demanding to know what disciplinary action will be taken against any individual found responsible for sending the emails.

The emails, which have been linked to a Town Hall employee’s email account, were sent last month.

One message said: “Teenage pregnancies, binge drinking, that is what is associated with British culture. Islam is the dominant religion in the United Kingdom. If you don’t like it, go live somewhere else.