This blog has written extensively in the past about the known Islamic extremist Shakeel Begg of the Lewisham Islamic Centre. These articles have been mostly on the subject of Begg’s ability to hoodwink foolish liberals and left wing religious types into thinking that he’s not an extremist (even though a civil court decided that he was).
Begg has managed to persuade many ‘useful idiots’, including Rabbi Janet Darley of Liberal Judaism, the Citizens UK group and various naïve ‘interfaith’ morons that he is not an extremist and is in fact a moderate Muslim when in fact he is anything but moderate. At a civil case for libel that Begg brought against the BBC, which Begg lost, the judge described Begg as an ‘extremist’. The judge Mr Justice Haddon-Cave described Begg as ‘something of a Jekyll and Hyde character.’. According to the Spectator magazine Begg was said by the judge to:
‘…appear to present one face to the general, local and inter-faith community and another to particular Muslim and other receptive audiences. The former face is benign, tolerant and ecumenical.
‘The latter face is ideologically extreme and intolerant.’
Now it seems that Shakeel Begg is in the news again and sadly it’s not a story about him being deported or gaoled for supporting Islamic extremism. Begg, despite being proven to be an Islamic extremist has managed to get himself a gig promoting a campaign to recruit more Muslim foster carers in the London Borough of Lewisham. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Begg hosted a workshop for prospective Muslim foster parents that occurred a very short time after Mr Justice Haddon-Cave agreed that Begg is a two faced bastard who smiles at useful idiots like Rabbi Darley, whilst spouting fire and brimstone bollocks to Muslim audiences about fighting ‘Zionists’.
The Daily Telegraph said:
An extremist Islamic preacher helped in the recruitment of foster parents, The Telegraph can disclose, amid a growing row over a Christian child placed in the care of devout Muslims.
The imam hosted a workshop for would-be foster carers just months after the High Court ruled him an “extremist Islamic speaker ” who had “promoted and encouraged religious violence”. His mosque, the Lewisham Islamic Centre, was attended by the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby. The imam and the centre had condemned the murder.
The event was organised on behalf of the London borough of Lewisham as part of a drive to find more Muslims willing to foster children.
There is a noted shortage of Muslim foster parents and adoptive parents but this may be due to Islamic attitudes to adoption which are considerably less enlightened than that of Western non Muslim culture. Islam refuses to see the adopted child as a complete part of the family and the child can be excluded from inheritance because they are adopted. In Islam the adopted child’s lineage is kept separate from that of the adoptive parents and they will always been seen as inferior to the children of the bloodline. The lack of Muslim parents to adopt or foster is therefore primarily the fault of the ideology of Islam and Islamic law itself. We should question the wisdom of Lewisham council not only using Shakeel Begg and his extremist mosque as a venue for this event but also whether this sort of a campaign is a good use of public money?
The Daily Telegraph added:
Lewisham Islamic Centre was chosen as the venue for a workshop “on the importance and need of foster carers in the Muslim community” in March this year. A photograph from the event posted on the mosque’s website shows the gathering being addressed by Shakeel Begg, the imam.
Mr Begg had just a few months earlier lost a High Court libel case against the BBC which accused him of promoting extremism.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, ruling in the BBC’s favour, described Mr Begg as a “Jekyll and Hyde character” and “an extremist Islamic speaker who espouses extremist Islamic positions”.
Tom Wilson, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society who has written a research paper on Begg, condemned the hosting : “It is inconceivable that those who espouse extremism should be overseeing childcare of any kind, including fostering. Shakeel Begg was found to be an extremist in the High Court as recently as October, and despite this Lewisham Islamic Centre has kept him in place as Imam and a trustee.
“Institutions linked to extremism are in no position to be involved in the foster process”.
I find it absolutely frightening that a local authority can be so mired in political correctness as Lewisham appears to be that they think that the mosque that the Rigby murderers attended and whose Iman is a known Islamic extremist is a suitable place for a fostering conference. Many people will completely agree with Mr Wilson’s condemnation of Lewisham council for using Lewisham Islamic Centre for an event that is related to childcare. Mosques such as Lewisham should play no part and have no involvement in either placing children in foster care or recruiting foster parents.
The Lewisham Islamic centre by failing to remove this known Islamic nutjob from their pulpit has firmly and squarely declared what side they are on and its not the side that many of us would feel comfortable having anything to do with childcare. This Muslim foster carers conference is an act of appeasement of Islam on the part of Lewisham council and it forces us to ask how many other Islamic nutters are being allowed to influence Lewisham’s Children’s Services department. Were there no Ahmediyya or Sufi or Ismaili institutions whom Lewisham could not have worked with instead of this nest of Islamic extremist vipers and their poisonous Iman Shakeel Begg? Why did not Lewisham approach the organisations managing those branches of Islam such as those mentioned above that are less murderous and hateful than others?
Lewisham council have shown either ill intent or monstrous naivety in running this event at Lewisham Islamic Centre. They should be robustly criticised for failing to see that Shakeel Begg, although a friend of some high profile useful idiots, is not a person from whom one would buy a used car let alone take a part in child care policy or service delivery. Begg is no more suitable for involvement in child care policy than the shade of Dr Harold Shipman would be as an advisor on elderly care. If Begg is an example of the sort of extremist Islamic nutter who Lewisham feel is suitable to be a figurehead for a foster care campaign, then all I can say is how sorry I am for the children who will probably be placed with the sort of abusive Muslim families that these children should instead be being rescued from.
Links
Telegraph article on how an Islamic extremist ended up as a figurehead for a foster care campaign
Shakeel Begg of Lewisham Islamic centre loses libel case against the BBC
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/9662352/
Left wing Rabbi Janet Darley and useful idiot shares platform with known and proven Islamic extremist Shakeel Begg
Islamic attitudes to adoption
Islamic murderers of Fusileer Lee Rigby worshipped at the Lewisham Islamic Centre home to the repulsive and extremist Shakeel Begg
