The brother of a ‘British’ Muslim who died while committing a suicide bombing in Syria has been playing the Taqiyya (lying for Islam) game in the media of late.
The BBC said:
“The brother of a British man who blew himself up in Syria has told Newsnight he should be regarded as a hero who combated the regime, not a terrorist.
Abdul Waheed Majeed, of Crawley, died last month when he drove a truck bomb at the gates of Aleppo Prison.
His brother Hafeez said that his family wanted to challenge the idea that the attack represented a threat to the UK.”
What a load of old fanny coming from Hafeez Majeed. Of course it is a threat to the United Kingdom if you have a lot of young men, pumped full of Islamic hatred and desire for Jihad, travelling to Syria or elsewhere. If these Jihadis do not, with any luck, get themselves killed, then they will return to Britain, bringing their Islamic hate and new military training with them. How can that scenario be anything but a threat?
The BBC added:
“More than 30 people have been arrested this year as police step up operations to stop people fighting in Syria.
The government fears that some people going to fight in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime will become radicalised and battle-hardened by joining al-Qaeda linked groups.
Security chiefs believe that hundreds of people have gone to fight in Syria and their return poses the greatest national security challenge since to the UK since 9/11.”
Of course it’s a threat to us. But this radicalisation is not solely happening in Syria. The Muslim community in Britain has to take responsibility for these Jihadis because many of them are becoming radicalised, not on a foreign battlefield, but in mosques and madrassas and Islamic groups here in the UK.
Hafeez Majeed was interviewed for the BBC’s Newsnight programme and the BBC said:
“ Speaking exclusively to Newsnight, Hafeez Majeed said the government would be wrong to draw comparisons between his brother’s death and threats to the UK. He said he believed the 41-year-old father-of-three died trying to save Syrian people who were being tortured in the Assad regime’s prisons.
“If my brother had been a British soldier and there were British people in that prison and the act of heroism or bravery that he did, I know he would have been awarded the posthumous Victoria Cross,” said Mr Majeed.
“My brother was not a terrorist. My brother was a hero. My brother paid the full price with his life for what he did. He was not a threat to the British public and never has been a threat to the British public.”
There is a one word response that is highly appropriate to Mr Majeed’s statement and that word is ‘liar’.
Hafeez Majeed is putting up a smokescreen to try to divert people from what the real problem is and that is the exhortation to Jihad contained in the Koran and the sympathy and support that Jihadis get from Britain’s Islamic communities. There is simply no comparison between a trained and disciplined soldier and the rag-bag of killers and Islamo-loons that now seem to make up the majority of those fighting against the Assad regime. How dare he compare British soldiers with the Islamic jihadis that Abdul Waheed Majeed lost his life fighting with. Does he not know that British soldiers have died or been maimed fighting the same scum that Adbul fought alongside.
It is likely that this statement to the Newsnight programme was designed to take the heat off the Muslim community of Crawley who have not been pleased that a major police investigation into Jihad has been focused on them. They have been whining that people’s lives have been disrupted by the search for information about Abdul Waheed and his mission and his contacts. Well I say tough titty to the Muslims of Crawley. If you don’t want police searches of people’s homes then don’t allow Jihadis to operate from within your community.
Note well the denials from Hafeez Majeed about his brothers connections with radical Islamist groups.
The BBC continued:
“After the death, the former leaders of al-Muhajiroun, a group long banned in the UK under terrorism laws, claimed that more than a decade ago Abdul Waheed Majeed had been a member of its prayer circle in Crawley.
But Hafeez Majeed insisted the link had been exaggerated, saying his brother had attended the group’s talks like other young men from his generation.
“He’d been in contact with al-Muhajiroun,” said Mr Majeed. “The views that they espoused did not marry with what his beliefs were. He stayed with them for a short time and then he moved on.”
Well it seems that although he may not have been a paid up member of Al-Maj, the idea of Jihad that such groups espouse on a regular basis certainly seems to have stuck in Adbul Majeeds mind. Also we need to ask the question: Why were so many of Crawley’s Muslims ‘of that generation’ happy to attend meetings by extremist headcases? Is it that the fluffy Islam we are sold by the media and the murderous Islam which we see in reality are not that far distant?
I’m pleased to say that Hafeez Majeed’s comments have not mollified the situation or reassured people about the problem of returning Jihadis, but instead have probably encouraged many more people to consider how many more violent nutters Britain’s Muslim communities are producing, and the future danger that they pose to all of us.