Newham Muslims demonstrate in favour of extremist women hating, Britain despising mosque. So much for the ‘tiny minority of extremists’ idea.

Wherever the ideology of Islam sets up shop there is violence, the threat of violence and corruption in all its diverse forms. It has been the bitter experience of those who live in the London Borough of Newham in East London to see how the Islamic ideology has caused problems there. In Newham there has been a steady Islamification of the borough with at least two of the major political parties suffering from Islamist/Jihadist entryism and at least one of the local Members of Parliament relies on the whipped mosque vote to survive politically. Although not as ‘Islamically bent’ as the neighbouring borough of Tower Hamlets, it is still a place that has been made so uncomfortable for British people that nearly all those who are able to, have fled the borough. British people make up just over 16% of Newham now and even those Muslims who speak out against extremism are coming under threat.

An extremist Islamic group that believes in separation from British society and a decidedly third class status for women wants to build a 9,000 capacity ‘megamosque’ in Newham and this has stirred up bad feelings and also brought out into the open Islamic religious violence.

The Gatestone Institute reports on the situation in Newham as follows:

“Extremists like to give off the pretense that they are speaking for all Muslims, so when other Muslims identify and call out the extremists, they cause damage to the extremists’ most treasured arguments. The kind of society Tablighi Jamaat will bring with them will be a problem for local Muslims long before it is a problem any of the rest of us. We all know what happens when the good people remain silent.

“The Tablighi Jemaat discourages integration into British society, especially of female members, since essentially they do not communicate with non-Muslims. … Instead, female members… are kept secluded, and the values surrounding this seclusion are transmitted to their children.” — Tehmina Kazi testifying against the London mega-mosque in 2011.

According to Alan Craig, Kazi withdrew from testifying against the mega-mosque again in 2014] because she was “harried and pressured” by “misogynist mega-mosque supporters” while on holiday abroad. The person who allegedly persuaded Kazi not to testify was one Mudasser Ahmed.

The “Trojan Horse” scandal, in which extremist Muslims were trying to take over taxpayer-funded schools in Birmingham and other English cities, has shocked the British public who were unaware that there were schools in the UK where, for instance, all white women were described as “prostitutes” and anti-Christian chants were encouraged in morning assemblies. But whenever a story like this breaks, it should always remind us of the other stories as well: the Trojan Horse scandals that we do not hear about.

Just such a case is going on in East London at this moment. There, a campaign by locals has been ongoing for many years to try to prevent a “mega-mosque” from being created by the Tablighi Jamaat sect. Locals — including many Muslims — in Newham, East London, realize not only that the construction of this vast mosque (intended to house around 9,000 worshippers) is meant to be a statement of dominance, but that it is a statement from a group that is highly sectarian and divisive in its outlook towards other Muslims as well as non-Muslims. The progress of the building project has been stalled many times before and it appears to be stalled again — not least thanks to the effort of a principled former councillor of the area, Alan Craig.

Now another public inquiry into the project is underway at the ExCel Conference Centre in London’s Docklands. Convened by the government’s Planning Inspector, it is due to take evidence for three weeks. The final decision over whether the mosque can be built will be taken by Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and that decision will be based on the recommendation of the Planning Inspector.

The politics around this inquiry has already become toxic. Pro-mega-mosque protests have been organized outside the Town Hall. And just to keep things as sectarian as possible, the group organizing these demonstrations has invited George Galloway, the Respect Party’s sole MP and erstwhile friend of the late Saddam Hussein (among other tyrants), to assist them. It is safe to say that in such a situation, it requires a certain degree of bravery to speak out against such a plan. Alan Craig and other non-Muslims are undoubtedly courageous in their stand against this divisive Tablighi Jamaat project. But even more courage is required for anyone of a Muslim background to take such a stand.”

It does indeed require a lot of courage for secular Muslims to take a stand against Islamist and Jihadist fraggles and the politics surrounding this megamosque has got toxic. Mind you Newham politics has been toxic for decades, first with scandals over corruption involving freemasons and latterly with the poison of Islamic commual politics. Both these periods of corruption have been presided over by Newham Labour Party and we should not be surprised about how badly mismanaged Newham has been by decades of Labour rule.

The Gatestone Institute continued:

“All of which brings us to why it is that the person who was the star Muslim witness brave enough to publicly testify against the mega-mosque’s creation now appears to have been intimidated into not appearing at the inquiry at all. Tehmina Kazi is a member of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, a small but significant voice in the effort to break the stranglehold of the fundamentalists in British Islam. Yet now Tehmina Kazi, who has spent her career working in human rights, has withdrawn herself from giving evidence. Why the about face?

At a previous inquiry into the mega-mosque in 2011, Kazi said in her Proof of Evidence, “The Tablighi Jamaat discourages integration into British society, especially of female members, since they essentially do not communicate with non-Muslims … Instead, female members… are kept secluded and the values surrounding this seclusion are transmitted to their children.”

Now she says that, “Withdrawing was a decision I did not undertake lightly. I did it after consultation with several trusted people and a number of assurances on women’s increased participation and involvement in the new facility.” Yet that, it seems, is clearly not the full story. After all, Tablighi Jamaat has not spent the three years since the last inquiry becoming a progressive, secular group. How, then, could its members possibly reach the standards any self-avowed defender of human rights must hold?

According to Alan Craig, Kazi withdrew because she was “harried and pressured” by “misogynist mosque supporters” while on holiday abroad, just before the inquiry opened. Jenny Taylor of Lapido Media — who has followed this case as closely as anyone — has spoken with Kazi, who has insisted that she had “been neither harried nor pressured but had accepted the reassurances she had been given about the place of women in the mega-mosque community.” Taylor has concluded that the person who persuaded Kazi not to testify was one Mudasser Ahmed:

“…one of those flashy operators whose web presence indicates he knows everyone and has ‘led on projects’ everywhere from the United Nations, the BBC, the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office, the Prince of Wales’ Trust … you name it.”

Well, Tablighi Jamaat remains an oppressive, sectarian, anti-female sect. And now their mega-mosque looks one step closer to construction. Because whether Kazi was pressured or has had some revelation on the progressive nature of Tablighi Jamaat that she will soon share with us all, it would appear that all that has happened is that Tablighi Jamaat have removed one of the most effective obstacles to their success.

It is in stories like this — of private pressures and public buckling — that a country’s future is eventually decided. These are the moments when something that could have been stopped will instead go ahead and — like the “Trojan Horse case” — reach some far unhappier public eruption down the road.”

Despite the assurances given to Jenny Taylor by Ms Kazi, I find it hard to believe that it was only reassurances about the place of women in the mosque community that caused her to withdraw her evidence from the inquiry. I tend towards Alan Craig’s view that pressure has been put on her to step back and stop impeding Tablighi Jamaat’s plans for a megamosque which will further radicalise Newham’s Muslims. Ms Kazi or her family must have been placed under immense pressure to fold on this issue and that should give all of us some idea of the sort of enemy that we are dealing with.

The article is correct in describing the megamosque scandal as Newham’s equivalent of the Birmingham Trojan Horse cases, but in Newham the horse is dropping dung on those opposed to Islamism even before the door to the horse itself has been opened.

Newham is being destroyed by the dirty politics of Islamism and nothing appears to be being done about it either by the local politicos nor by central government. If that makes you angry then it should.

Link

Original story from the Gatestone Institute website

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4362/london-mega-mosque-inquiry

Website of the Megamosque – No Thanks website

http://www.megamosquenothanks.com/

Addendum:

If you have been following the story of the Islamic seizure of a community hall in Hainault, Essex you may have come across the name of one Dr Sohail Hameed.  This delightful gentleman hearing of Alan Craig’s opposition to the megamosque tried to put the frighteners on him by threatening to have him arrested.  Hameed’s legal threats I might add came to nothing.