An Islamic ‘court’ condemns a woman for adultery in Catalonia

By Faisal | Published: December 16, 2009

Joanne at ‘Stop Honour Killings‘ covers a story which could be described as the collision of two anathemas: honour killings and vigilante Shari’a justice. It involves the arrest of 10 people of Maghrebi origin in Catalonia, suspected of setting up a Shari’a court which ordered a woman to be imprisoned for two days in an abandoned building, after which she was judged by a tribunal of “twenty men in turbans” for adultery and sentenced to death.

The woman, of Maghrebian origin, aged 30 years and a few weeks pregnant at the time of the events took advantage of a moment of confusion to slip away from her captors and take refuge in a nearby bar

After an eight month enquiry, involving surveillance and wiretaps, on the 14th of November, the police arrested 10 people of Maghrebian origin suspected of taking part in what the enquiry refers to as an ‘Islamic court of honour.’ Seven men are in jail, and two further men and a woman have been released under judicial control at the beginning of December.

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Peter Tatchell stands down as Green candidate

By Effendi | Published: December 16, 2009

The human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has announced he will stand down as a parliamentary candidate for the Green party in Oxford East. He explains:

I was selected as the Green Party candidate for Oxford East in April 2007. A month later, I was badly beaten around the head by neo-Nazis during an attempted Gay Pride parade in Moscow.

This exacerbated the brain damage caused when I was bashed unconscious by President Mugabe’s bodyguards in Brussels in 2001, after attempting to make a citizen’s arrest of the Zimbabwean leader on charges of torture.

Following the Moscow assault, I never rested and recuperated. I carried on campaigning, with a very heavy schedule of commitments in Oxford East. After several months, I was severely exhausted. This stress and exhaustion probably intensified the damage and thwarted my recovery.

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Posted in Activism, Anti Fascism, Homophobia, Human Rights, Politics, UK Politics | 2 Comments

Independence Day

By Faisal | Published: December 16, 2009

Thirty eight years ago on this day East Pakistan gained independence from the tyranny of West Pakistan’s feudal oligarchy and it’s clergy. Bengalis fought off the Punjab dominated military and state sponsored Jamat-e-Islami death squads Al-Shams and Al-Badr, and formed their secular state.

But the scars of its war with Pakistan remain. Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Dhaka [18/04/09] about the thousands of women and girls who were raped by Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators during the war of liberation. Some victims of those attacks are finally starting to speak out about the trauma which, up until now, has been largely ignored.

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Hizb ut Tahrir, Britain, gets ready for executive committee elections

By Guest | Published: December 15, 2009

This is a guest post by the elections officer

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Following last Saturday’s secret meeting for the members of Hizb ut Tahrir, Britain, the Spittoon is delighted to announce that it has learned of its forthcoming Wilayah elections for the UK Executive Committee of the party.

This means the Wilayah has now been disbanded and that Nasim Ghani, as the mutamad, is solely in charge of the party until the elections are held.

Our mole will keep us posted on the nominees and who wins the elections. We’ll be sure to publish the results here for you, and the Security Service, just as soon as we have them.

Just remember boys, we know what you did last Saturday.

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Let down by Hazel Blears

By Guest | Published: December 15, 2009

This is a cross-post by Shiraz Maher from Focus on Islamism

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Deceit and duplicity are the cornerstones of Gordon Brown’s government – an administration so long in the waiting that like the fruit of the medlar tree it went rotten before it was ripe. From Brown’s unchallenged ascension to the Premiership, to his persistent refusal to call an election, to the Damien McBride scandal, this is a government characterised by cowardice.

Yet, iniquity is not just Brown’s affliction. It is pervasive in his government.

It turns out that although the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced it was breaking ties with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) after its Deputy Secretary General, Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration, the MCB was back and meeting ministers less than a month later.

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Hope not Hate in Harrow

By Faisal | Published: December 14, 2009

SIOE Leader Stephen Gash had said that the SIOE demo at Harrow Central Mosque yesterday would attract 2,000 supporters out of the 3,200 he claimed as total membership for his organisation. However, the BBC reports that fifteen SIOE protesters turned up in Harrow. Although from my estimates, fifteen is possibly overly generous of Aunty.

Asim Siddiqui sees at least one encouraging sign in the rise of white-race supremacist movements of the far-right resurgent all over Europe and now getting its freak on in Britain:

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Posted in Activism, Anti Fascism, Anti Muslim bigotry, Antisemitism, Feature | Tagged | 2 Comments

Notes on the “Islamification of Britain”

By Guest | Published: December 14, 2009

This is a guest post by Shaaz Mahboob of British Muslims for Secular Democracy

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The evening of 10th December 2009 saw an event being hosted in London, which brought together an array of speakers ranging from the far right, to the nationalists down to the aspirers of a global Wahabi-Islamic Caliphate.

Perhaps the most significant feature of the debate “Islamification of Britain: Myth or Reality?” (http://www.thedebateinitiative.com/#/islamification-debate/4536297387) was the well behaved manner in which both the audience and the speakers conducted themselves. There were bouts of applause each time a raw nerve was trampled over or when a chord was struck close to the listeners’ jugular. Half prepared to expect a series of disruptions and ugly heckling from the audience owing to the line up of speakers including the BNP, I was pleasantly surprised at the preservation of decorum and felt encouraged that all is not lost and there is still hope for our society’s future civility.

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Required Reading for Ed Balls

By Abdul Hamid al Manchesteri | Published: December 13, 2009

The Centre for Social Cohesion has this disturbing news:

Haringey Council has announced today that it has resumed funding to the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation (ISF), a registered educational charity with links to HT. Funding was suspended in October this year following revelations by the CSC and Sunday Telegraph that it received over £113,000 in government grants for its schools in Haringey and Slough in 2007/08. The Haringey Council investigation claimed to have found no evidence of ‘inappropriate influence’ at the ISF school in North London.

Here are two documents that should be made required reading for the Secretary for Schools, Ed “Minister of Hizb ut Tahrir” Balls.

The first is the curriculum of the ISF Schools – signed off by OFSTED in 2005. The second is the article on education policy written in Khilafah, a Hizb ut Tahrir publication, by one of the three trustees who run the school, Farah Ahmed who is the headteacher of the Slough ISF School.

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Posted in Anti Fascism, Anti Muslim bigotry, Antisemitism, Islamism | 4 Comments

Join the Libel Reform Campaign

By Effendi | Published: December 13, 2009

Readers of The Spittoon will recall that the Guardian published an article by Delwar Hussain which exposed the alleged war crimes of Chowdhary Mueen-Uddin, Muslim Aid stalwart, close friend and ally to Mohammed Abdul Bari, Chairman of the MCB, and all-round “upstanding member” of the Muslim community in Britain.

Recall how the Guardian was subsequently gagged by a swift libel class action from Mueen-Uddin’s lawyers, soon after the report was published. The Guardian did not withdraw the article, but it was made to excise entire sections from it which dealt with the accusations against Mueen-Uddin.

It would be easy to think that that cursory instance of capitulation to the alleged murderer and alleged war-criminal would be the end of it. Nothing of the sort. The Guardian has now issued a public statement of apology. It is very likely The Guardian has a long list of class action letters from Mueen-Uddin, but this must be the first time it has had to respond with contrition:

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Viva Palestina, Mahathir and IHH

By Guest | Published: December 13, 2009

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

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Viva Palestina, a registered British charity, is George Galloway’s Hamas support operation.

As Galloway said in Gaza in March 2009:

By Allah, we carried a lot of cash here. You thought we were all fat. We are not fat. This is money that we have around our waists.

They gave sweets and cigarettes to the inspectors, and when the inspectors’ backs were turned, they put back on the vehicles that which the inspectors had taken off the vehicles. And some of the inspectors were happy to turn their backs.

We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of the contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say: we are giving them to the elected government of Palestine. To the prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. Here is the money. This is not charity. This is not charity. This is not charity, this is politics.

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