iERA, preaching sedition as dawah
There is an excellent new report come out from Britain’s Ex Muslims about the soft Islamists/Jihadists of a group called the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA).
The iERA group are a nasty bunch of creeps who have preached the superiority of Muslims and have been associated with those who call for the killing of Gays and Jews. Their list of speakers, preachers and advisers looks very much like a who’s who of Islamic extremism and Islamist apologia. The names range from Hamza Tzortis, Abduraman Green, Bilal Phillips and others from the ‘I keeeeeeeel you’ school of Islam, to Islamic apologists such as the now much discredited, Mo Ansar.
Belatedly, the UK Charity Commission is starting to take an interest in the affairs, views and governance of iERA which currently has charitable status, with all the tax advantages that this status endows.
I hold out no great hope that iERA will ultimately be called to account by the authorities, including the authority of the Charity Commission. This is because so many of those entities of authority, such as the Charity Commission, have previously had their higher management stuffed by the Labour party with supporters of the Labour Party, whilst that party was in Government.
This report into what is one of Britain’s most troubling ‘charities’ deserves a much wider audience than only the political anoraks such as myself. More people need to know exactly what sorts of Islamo-fascist groups are passing themselves off as charities.
One generally accepted definition as to what constitutes a charity, is that it is a entity created for the public good, there is no conceivable public good to be had from groups like iERA. They are promoting religion, as they are entitled to do under the various charity acts, but under the guise of promoting Islam the religion, they are promoting sedition and hatred.
This iERA organisation is not the first or the last Islamic charity to be engaging in questionable activity or playing fast and loose with administrative rules. There are numerous little ‘educational trusts’ sometimes with innocuous or British sounding names which are nothing more than fronts for those who wish to impose mosques where they are neither required nor wanted, or those who wish to influence political policy. In my experience the outcome of the sort of political influence questionable Islamic ‘charities’ have is often not good for those who follow belief systems other than Islam, nor is it good for society as a whole.
We have operating in the UK a whole raft of ‘fifth column’ Islamic ‘charities’; let us hope and pray that those overseeing these entities and their behaviours are not fifth columnists themselves. We need to ask ourselves the question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, who guards those who are supposed to guard us? If we want people who represent us and not an alien and destructive ideology, then we must turn out and vote, and make our voices and our feelings known.
Links
The ‘Evangelising Hate’ report from the Council of British Ex-Muslims
http://ex-muslim.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/EvangelisingHate_Report_Web.pdf
Comment on the report from the National Secular Society
