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This is a guest post by a brother from East London

Mohammad Abdul Aziz is a Senior Muslim Advisor at DCLG. He is also a honorary trustee of East London mosque (ELM) and the London Muslim Centre (LMC), as well as having been an advisor to the MCB. He was formerly an executive committee member of YMO, which is the youth wing of Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) – an Islamist entryist group. After spending years in YMO propagating the teachings of the Islamist ideologue Maulana Mawdudi, Mohammad Aziz resigned to follow a stricter and more conservative form of Islam known as ‘Salafism’.

Mohammad Abdul Aziz

This is a guest post from Raziq, a former member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir

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Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT) is an anti-Semitic, separatist and divisive group which justifies the use of violence. Ideologically it has the same goals as al-Qaeda (i.e. the creation of a super expansionist Islamist state) only the methods differ. HT is not a terrorist group, but it does believe in orchestrating offensive bloody wars once its version of an Islamist state is established.

In their manifesto they give the following interpretation of jihad (holy war):

The Islamist powerplay of the Jamaati-Islami entryist group, the IFE, in Tower Hamlets has come to a dismal end with this piece of news:

Lutfur Rahman, the Labour leader of Tower Hamlets council backed by radical Islamists, has lost his job. At last night’s Labour group meeting, he was replaced as leader by another Labour councillor, Helal Abbas. Abbas is the man who protested last year that Tower Hamlets council was controlled by the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), based at the hardline East London Mosque.

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As well as Mr Rahman, Lutfur Ali, the IFE-linked assistant chief executive of the council, lost his job as a result of the programme. The Respect party’s Abjol Miah, an activist in the IFE, came third with 16 per cent of the vote in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency – and is no longer a councillor. Respect, which won 12 seats at the 2006 council elections, is now down to just one seat. Respect’s George Galloway, who boasted that he “owed more than I can say” to the IFE, was humiliated, also coming third in Poplar and Limehouse and failing even to turn up to the count.

Introducing the well-observed comedy of Mr Khan:

Mr Khan (the Muslim Community Leader who made Bellamy’s People famous) gives his no-holds barred assessment of the political situation, with a harsh analysis of the Tory Party, Labour Party, and the other one. As the general election reaches fever pitch, Mr Khan brings it all into perspective – the Muslim perspective. No matter how irrelevant, you can be sure Khan will say the word “Muslim” every 25 seconds. If not, please complain to your local Mosque. Discover why David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg would all be better off with beards.

Well, at least Mr Khan votes, which cannot be said of the muslims who pronounce voting to be “shirk” or idolatrous and therefore blasphemous. This idiot, for example, who bases his opinions on a fatwa by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim brotherhood and Ken Livingstone’s token-Islamist accessory:

This open letter has been published in The Guardian

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We are concerned by the rise of Islamophobia, the negative coverage of Muslims in the media, the violent street mobilisations of extreme rightwing organisations like the English Defence League, and the rising electoral support for the British National party (The battle for Barking, Weekend, 13 March). Following Channel 4‘s recent inflammatory documentary,Britain’s Islamic Republic, which saw concentrated attacks on the East London Mosque, the English Defence League marched through central London with placards including the demand “Close the East London Mosque now”.

The East End of London is not new to having its communities attacked by fascists and the media. The 1930s saw the Battle of Cable Street when Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts attempted to march into the Jewish community in the area. We cannot allow this terrible history to repeat itself. Further, the documentary, and articles since, have attacked the participation in politics by the Muslim community. We cannot stand by and watch this continue without remark or action.