Category Archives: Islamism

This is a cross-post by habibi at Harry’s Place

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Here is a segment of an interview on Sky with Nabil Ahmed, the president of the Islamist student group FOSIS.

He says:

I know precisely the quote that she’s talking about [Houriya Ahmed]. The police actually did an investigation into this quote just a couple of years ago because it came on the telly then. And it was actually proven that he did not actually make this quote.

This is a reference to Abu Usamah At-Thahabi, an imam at Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham, being exposed as an extremist by the Undercover Mosque broadcast. Unfortunately for Mr Ahmed, this tape of Undercover Mosque shows him to be a liar.

Thahabi himself has admitted that he said what Undercover Mosque showed him saying, while appealing to that old friend of dodgy Islamists, “context”.

This is a Spittoon EXCLUSIVE by Abu Wannabe Arab

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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.

I attempted a fisking of Mehdi Hasan’s hack job of the new Prevent Strategy last week, which you can read here. But my effort is dwarfed by a majesterial evisceration of Mehdi Hasan’s ‘sixth form’ criticism of the Prevnt by Unmesh Desai on, of all places, Comment is Free! Desai heads the Prevent agenda for Newham council, so he knows a thing or two about the practical issues involved. This is what he has to say on the spurious distinction between “non-violent” and “violent” extremism, that is often made by apologists of Islamism:

Hasan attacks Prevent’s lack of distinction between “non-violent” and “violent” extremism. But if one does not counter the basis of extremist ideology, isn’t it then too late to stop it being translated into terrorist action? Non-violent extremism encompasses those who condemn terrorist attacks in this country but are happy to justify suicide attacks against British troops in the Middle East. These views poison the minds of young people for whom the next logical step is to translate their anger into violence. “Non-violent” and “violent” extremism are different sides of the same coin, and both have to be fought together.

This is a cross-post by Houriya Ahmed from the Henry Jackson Society

The Home Secretary’s Review of the Prevent Strategy published on Tuesday was an excellent rebuke to the failures of challenging extremist ideology on British universities. Theresa May criticised campus Islamic societies (ISOCs) and the umbrella group the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) on Tuesday for their failure to challenge Islamist extremism on campuses. She also criticised the ‘complacency’ that UK universities had demonstrated in dealing with extremism on campuses. She addressed the issue of campus extremism in the much-anticipated review of the Prevent Strategy for counterterrorism, which was implemented in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bomb attacks.

For example, the review states:

We judge that FOSIS has not always fully challenged terrorist and extremist ideology within the higher and further education sectors. FOSIS needs to give clearer leadership to their affiliated societies in this area.

This is a post by Ghaffar Hussain of the Quilliam Foundation, printed in the Express

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Omar Sheikh, who was convicted of beheading US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, was radicalised while studying at the London School of Economics.

Waheed Zaman, who was convicted of involvement in the 2006 transatlantic liquid bomb plot, was the former president of London Metropolitan University Islamic society.

Omar Sharif, who tried to blow himself up outside a bar in Tel Aviv in 2003, was radicalised while at King’s College London, and the list goes on and on.

I could name dozens of cases of radicalisation where the individual concerned came into contact with extremist groups and ideology while studying at a British university.

Furthermore, I know through my years of experience as a former student activist that extremist organisations target campuses for recruitment. It is central to their strategy and tactically the most effective way of recruiting.