Majid Freeman are his hands completely clean when it comes to support for Jihad?
The journalist Andrew Gilligan has a good reputation for poking round in the more dingy parts of Britain’s Islamic world. He has quite effectively knocked the stuffing out of Fiyaz Mughal and his Tell Mama group and revealed them to have been dishonest with ‘hate crime’ figures. Mr Gilligan has also been a doughty foe of the corrupt regime of the Islamist-linked Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman. Now Andrew Gilligan has turned his attention to the actions of Islamic ‘charities’ some of whom contain members and supporters who have openly praised the savages of ISIS.
In an article for the Daily Telegraph, Mr Gilligan reveals that one of the Islamic aid workers who was with Alan Hemming when he was kidnapped in Syria has been making supportive comments about Jihad on social media. It seems that more and more that when you scratch an Islamic aid worker, you will find a jihad supporter lurking beneath the surface.
Andrew Gilligan said:
“A speaker at the memorial service for Alan Henning, the British hostage murdered by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has posted on social media apparently justifying Isil, promoting al-Qaeda and expressing sympathy for Syrian jihadist “martyrs”.
Majid Freeman, a charity worker from Leicester, was with Mr Henning when he was abducted in Syria last year. He has been quoted in the media as a friend of the aid volunteer and has criticised the Government for “abandoning” him.
On Oct 13, Mr Freeman addressed mourners including Mr Henning’s widow and children at the memorial service in Manchester, describing him as a “beautiful, genuine human being” who “went to Syria to help” at a time when the whole international community “were paying mere lip service”.
However, two weeks later, on his Facebook page, Mr Freeman asked for “dua”, or prayers, for the brothers of a British Isil terrorist, Ifthekar Jaman, who have been charged in connection with an alleged Syrian terrorist plot.
On Oct 19, he posted a link on his Facebook page to a YouTube video by Ghassan Ibn Kamal, which presents Isil as a reasonable response to Western foreign policy. Mr Freeman wrote: “This brother hit the nail on the head.”
Mr Freeman has also posted links to an Isil propaganda video made under duress by another of the group’s hostages, John Cantlie.
He has also tweeted: “Britain join war of terror. Drop bombs in populated areas. Innocent civilians lose loved ones = join Isis to get revenge.”
On Oct 22, the day a terrorist gunman killed a soldier in Canada and invaded the country’s parliament, Mr Freeman stated on Twitter: “You can’t go around randomly punching people in the face without expecting a reaction. Same applies to bombing other countries.”
Mr Freeman posted on Facebook and Instagram describing Jaffer Deghayes, an al-Qaeda jihadist from Brighton who died in Syria, as a “shaheed” or martyr who had died “defending the oppressed”. Deghayes, 17, the nephew of a former Guantánamo detainee, was fighting for Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
On Sept 26, Mr Freeman retweeted a statement that “Jabhat al-Nusra, we are with you even if the world fights you” and has tweeted propaganda pictures of members of the group distributing water to residents in Aleppo.”
So much for Majid Freeman being some form of peace and love aid worker. It looks so far as if Freeman is much more supportive of Jihadist groups than we may previously have been led to believe.
Mr Gilligan added:
“On Facebook last week, he said that the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which was briefly closed by the Israelis at the time, “will be conquered by jihad, not by peace… none will enter it except those who believe in removing the door, not those who search for its key”.
In November last year, Mr Freeman posted a tribute video to Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda cleric blamed for inciting a number of terrorist attacks.
He is also promoting an event with the Islamic Education and Research Academy, which sends non-violent extremist preachers to speak at mosques and to Muslim audiences across Britain.
Mr Freeman has been questioned by the police, but not charged with any crime.
The disclosure of Mr Freeman’s apparent views will add to the growing questions about Aid4Syria, the group”
Freeman is beginning to look very much like the Jihad supporter according to the evidence uncovered by Mr Gilligan.
Mr Gilligan continued:
“Aid4Syria’s parent charity, Al Fatiha Global, is under investigation by the Charity Commission for alleged “links [with] individuals purportedly involved in supporting armed or other inappropriate activities in Syria”. The investigation was launched in March after one of its workers, Adeel Ali, was apparently pictured with his arms around two masked men holding rifles. He denies the picture is of him.
Two other charities involved in the aid convoy joined by Mr Henning and Mr Freeman, IHH and Children in Deen, have also been accused of aiding jihadist terrorism in Syria. IHH, a Turkish group, was raided by that country’s police earlier this year. Children in Deen is under investigation by the Charity Commission. The first British suicide bomber in Syria, Abdul Waheed Majeed, travelled to the country in a convoy organised by Children in Deen.
A third charity involved in the aid convoy, One Nation, is the subject of “concerns” by the Charity Commission over its work in Syria. One of its trustees, Arshad Patel, was arrested by police investigating the 7/7 London suicide bombings, but not charged. His sister, Hasina, is the widow of Mohammed Sidique Khan, the leader of the suicide bombers. Mr Freeman is also closely linked to One Nation.
There is no suggestion that Mr Freeman, who described the sight of Mr Henning in an Isil propaganda video as his “worst nightmare”, was personally involved in, or in any way condoned, the hostage’s abduction.
Kasim Jameel, the leader of the Aid4Syria convoy from which he was kidnapped, also denied any connection between the group and Mr Henning’s captors. He said: “No one sold him out – that is just ridiculous. Yes, we have many different people with different views, but that doesn’t make them terrorists.”
Kasim Jameel may well be correct in saying that his group didn’t sell out Mr Henning, but for this group to tolerate the involvement of Freeman and his jihad supporting views tells us all a lot about the politics of those involved in Aid4Syria. This revelation about the sort of jihad supporters that Aid4Syria allows to be involved with their organisation should make those opposed to Jihad extremely wary about supporting Islamic charities that are working in conflict zones. Although such groups may have a legal charitable status, that doesn’t mean that neither all their aims or activities are strictly charitable as non-Muslims would see it.
This case shows up the grave dangers of supporting Islamic charities. Although they may publish glossy brochures and have snazzy websites showing things like clothing and food distribution, things that any reasonable person would consider as truly charitable acts, we cannot be sure that this is all that they or their operatives are doing. The line between jihad support and charity is far too blurred in these Islamic charitable organisations for there to be confidence that such groups would not cross the line from supporting those injured or displaced by war into support for those fighting for jihad.
Giving money to an Islamic charity is as dangerous as helping to load the gun that may be turned on you and used to kill you. We should all wake up and say ‘Islamic ‘charity’, no thanks.’
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Original story from the Daily Telegraph
He’s a haji, what do you expect?
They all hate us, AND piss in the same pot.
Keep on bombing them.
Do these Islamic charities dispense aid to the non-Muslim victims in the region, the Syrian Christians and the Yezidis? Or are they only for Muslims? If that were so, wouldn’t that be discriminatory? And doesn’t the UK Charities Commission frown on discriminatory practice?