No doubt most people have heard about the on-going disgusting
episode concerning Maajid Nawaz from the Quilliam foundation. If you haven’t let
me fill you in.
Maajid is one of the good guys. He’s a guy who has learned
from personal life experiences. Got pulled into radical Islam in Hizb ut-tahrir.
Learned the error of his ways and has been working hard to build up the counter
extremist think tank: Quilliam. An organisation that tries to stop young men
going down the same route that he did.
Many so called moderate Muslim orgs in UK don’t like
Quilliam and rubbish them at every opportunity they can.
Why? Because as I’ve already said Maajid Nawaz is one of
the good guys, and many of these so called moderate orgs are about as liberal
and moderate as the BNP.
They may want to turn people away from strapping a bomb
to themselves and blowing innocents up, but moderate-are they hell.
Whereas Quilliam genuinely want to make changes in any radical
psyche at grass roots level.
So ‘they already had it in for Maajid and his colleges.
Then a few months ago Quilliam had the guts and courage
to broker a piece and withdrawal for Tommy Robinson from the EDL and as a result
helped to destroy this very counterproductive movement.
Again’ Quilliam
got loads of flak for doing this. Not just from Muslim orgs but from
antifascists. These so called moderate and antifascists are so wrapped up in their inner politics that they didn't even want to give Quilliam a chance to see
if it could work.
Now most recently Maajid has made the [to so called Moderates]
unforgivable sin of tweeting a link to a cartoon of Jesus and Mohamed. Wow
‘heavy stuff eh. A cartoon. Let’s say that again a cartoon. People have died
because of cartoons like this, or second rate movies. I mean come on what’s
going on. IT’S A BLOODY CARTOON. Grow up.
Prime mover in this debacle had been one Mohammed Shafiq
of the Ramadan foundation. To watch him on the politics show with Andrew Neil
and Kenan Malik was fantastic.
Well fantastic for people like me who love to see
ignorance exposed and stupidy highlighted. Kenan Malik as always was a breath
of fresh air; even Andrew Neil was showing very visible impatience for Shafiq's
bigotry and closeted radicalism.
Now I don’t pretend to know loads about Islam. I don’t want to
know loads about Islam. Why should I. I’m an atheist. I don’t buy into this BS that
says we should respect religion.
If religion gives you comfort and hope [genuinely] I can respect
that and I will respect that. But religious people who try to impose their own
will on society and push their narrow
minded bigotry on believers and non-believers alike ,well they can kiss my disbelieving
arse. I will even tattoo god or Allah on there just for them. So pucker up.
I thought I would write this as an atheist and mostly as a fellow human being.I have no doubt that this is how the good people at Quilliam see me. As for these many so called 'moderates' I'm just a kufar an infidel. A title I wear with pride [well when it comes to people like this]
I thought I would write this as an atheist and mostly as a fellow human being.I have no doubt that this is how the good people at Quilliam see me. As for these many so called 'moderates' I'm just a kufar an infidel. A title I wear with pride [well when it comes to people like this]
As for the deafening silence from Mr ‘spineless’ Nick
Clegg or any other senior members of the wrongly named Liberal Democrats you
should be ashamed of yourselves.
The same Liberal Democrats who several months ago sided
with one of their members [yes he was a Muslim] who made threats against the
very intelligent, thoughtful and thoroughly decent human being - Nahla Mahmoud..
What was her heinous crime?
She was an ex-Muslim. Yep that’s all it takes with these
fools. She left Islam and had the courage to admit it on TV. Pressure was put on the Lib Dems to stand
tall and support freedom of speech.
What happened? You guessed it they sided with their Muslim
member.
Liberal they are not. In fact just for them here’s the definition
of liberal. It appears they have forgotten the meaning.
Not limited to/by established, traditional,
orthodox, authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry?
Mind you the liberal
democrats desperately need a new voter base since they lost the student vote by
prostituting themselves to sit at the big boys table with Cameron and Osborne.
Hmm maybe the Muslim
vote will do quite nicely
Great article! I too am saddened by what Maajid has had to endure. How as a society are we allowing this to happen? I also loved Andrew Neil's response to Shafiq and Malik's intelligent strong stance. Thank you for posting this.
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