British Muslim Declares War on Cabinet Member
Is it really "defamation" for a government official to point out a radical's radicalism?
A news story that broke in Britain in late March and continues to fester in May deserves attention around the world. Its outcome will set a precedent in the worrying war between Western governments and radical Muslims who live and administer Islamic organizations within their sovereignty.
Dr. Daud Abdullah, deputy secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has taken out a lawsuit against cabinet minster Hazel Blears, secretary for communities, because he believes she defamed him by writing to the Guardian newspaper in late March condemning him after he signed the “Istanbul Declaration.”
Let’s look straightaway at the Istanbul Declaration. To paraphrase its high-velocity language, it says the hatred of and resistance against the occupying Zionist entity must be the same as that towards any individual who supports Israel. Unraveling the flowery syntax, this means that wherever you may find a soul who cares about Israel you must smite him or her as if on a battlefield in “Palestine.”
The Istanbul Declaration scarily goes on to say that the “Islamic nation” must resist and fight in any way possible those who engage in “sinful aggression” and who wish to send warships to the Middle East; those who endeavor to stop arms smuggling to Gaza are threatening the sovereignty of the Islamic nation.
The declaration proclaims the day of liberation of all of Palestine will come when Palestinians “are able to perform the jihad in the way of Allah Almighty.” It praises the troops of Allah who “routed the Zionist Jews” and goes on and on about the “Zionist enemy” and the “malicious Jewish Zionist war.” What is significant about the declaration is its passionate rejection of the so-called Arab peace initiative generated by the Saudis, calling it a betrayal of the Islamic nation because it recognizes the legitimacy of Israel.
It is clear that the declaration is a manifesto to “liberate all of Palestine and the holy places” and therefore assure the destruction of Israel. Any Muslim who causes an obstruction in achieving these goals and in allowing Arabs to have access to weapons and other goods is committing “high treason.”
It is also notable that the document adamantly rejects the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority and therefore endorses Hamas as the only legitimate government of the Arab population of the territories conquered by Israel in the bloody Six-Day War for its survival in 1967.
The Istanbul Declaration ends with: “Allah prevails in his purpose, but most people know not” (Koran 12:21). Okay. (Perhaps this could be applied to the people out there right now who want to bend over backwards to show the world that America is such an evil entity; they who think we must reach out and learn to understand what motivates terrorists should take heed. )
At the end of the chilling declaration there is a list of Muslim scholars, proselytizers, and sheikhs from across the globe, heavily weighted by representatives from Yemen. Dr. Daud Abdullah, employed by the Muslim Council of Britain, an organization that has over the years repeatedly boycotted National Holocaust Memorial Day, signs the declaration as “proselytizer.”
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Carol Gould is the Philadelphia-born author of Don’t Tread on Me: Anti-Americanism Abroad, Spitfire Girls, and A Room at Camp Pickett, a play about her mother’s experiences as a WAC in World War II; she has just completed films about black GIs and GI babies. Carol has been a panelist on BBC's Any Questions?, hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby, and is a commentator on Sky News, Press TV, the BBC World Service, and Five Live.
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13 Comments
1. Perry:The Istanbul Declaration sounds eerily like the passages in the Koran extolling Muslims to smite the Infidel.
May 11, 2009 - 5:15 am 2. Andrew Ian Dodge:Carol good to see you read and link to Harry’s Place. I have been reading them since their inception and they are a valuable site from the “reasonable left.”
May 11, 2009 - 9:43 am 3. Morton Doodslag:“if he is successful it means it is open season across the world for [...] violent jihad”
Youu’re trying to make a fine distinction between violent jihad and plain old jihad, but we really should not allow either. True, actual violent jihad in our dominions has (so far) been somewhat limited by Muslims, but that’s simply a function of the density of Muslim penetration and infiltration. Now that their numbers have swelled to current levels witnesses in the UK and Europe, IT IS A CERTAINTY that violent Jihad is coming.
The Muslims, by their own words, deeds, and doctrine aren’t here to assimilate. They are here to conquer. They will colonize the West and claim territory for Islam however, whenever, and wherever they can until it’s too late for us to stop them. That point of no return is either at hand in the UK and Europe, or close at hand. The fact that the pointy end of the Jihad spear, the violent end, feels comfortable enough to brazenly announce itself is chilling.
But it’s critical to understand that the ENTIRE edifice of Jihad, from the bake sale for the local mosque to the birthing of Muslim babies deep within the infidel camp, to the waging of lawsuits, to the “protests” in the streets, to the raping of Western women, to the threatening of violence, to the warnings of “Muslim outrage”, from the strapping on of bombs to the extolling of their Allah and exhorting hatred of Jews… ALL of it is Jihad. ALL of it is designed to harm and destroy non-Muslim security, solidarity, and resistance to the unfettered spread of Islam.
May 11, 2009 - 10:07 am 4. Meryl:The fact that this “discussion” even has to be conducted indicates that reason and freedom have already lost a great deal of ground.
“ALL of it is Jihad. ALL of it is designed to harm and destroy non-Muslim security, solidarity, and resistance to the unfettered spread of Islam.” –Morton Doodslag
May 11, 2009 - 2:10 pm 5. Meryl:Oh.
Forgot to answer the rhetorical question that sub-heads the column.
The answer is NO.
May 11, 2009 - 2:11 pm 6. RightwingHippyChick:Blears looks like she is about to get the sack, over her expenses fiddle. Will she be sued as a private person for what she said in her capacity as a minister?
May 11, 2009 - 3:13 pm 7. Clausewitz:So when will we reach the “tipping point” in the rest of the world (ROTW),
when the muslim barbarians will receive what they sow? The longer this event
takes to manifest it’s self, the more violent the backlash will be.
Interesting times indeed.
May 11, 2009 - 3:28 pm 8. Leatherneck:Dr. Daud is doing what all Muslims are suppose to do inside the house of war. Mohamed told them it is the will of allah the moon god.
ROPMA
May 11, 2009 - 4:19 pm 9. Mary Jackson:Yes, Harry’s Place are good. I post there as Old Peculier.
May 11, 2009 - 4:43 pm 10. Banned by Huffpo:Hazel Blears better watch or back, or next thing she knows she’s going to be walking around without a head.
May 12, 2009 - 8:16 am 11. Frank:The very idea that there are people who feel that a charity or anyone else is “entitled” to government funding shows the complete disconnect between them and me. We will never see eye to eye and there is no point in me doing ANYTHING but vehemently opposing them. Besides, once a charity receives government funding it’s no longer a charity, it’s just another lobby group.
May 12, 2009 - 10:02 pm 12. David W. Lincoln:It sounds suspiciously like the Human Rights Complaint filed by a Muslim Imam against Ezra Levant for reprinting the Danish cartoons in his news magazine.
As long as those who sue, or file human rights complaints, do not want to see why people hold things against them – all that will result is wasted time and effort.
May 13, 2009 - 10:12 am 13. Craig:Can anyone remind me why Western countries encouraged the adherents of a perpetually enraged pseudo-religion to relocate en-masse from their tribal backwaters into our modern cities? Islam is the polar opposite of everything that modern Western society, liberal and conservative, stands for. We can’t claim ignorance as a defense, since Islamic institutions and individuals have loudly proclaimed their hatred for anything perceived as “un-Islamic”, and their desire to purge the world of disbelief (and disbelievers). Did we honestly expect to create an Islamic version of the Church of England? If that was the expectation, then we genuinely deserve what we will get for our arrogance. I am almost looking forward to the rapidly approaching conflict in Europe, which may provide the most graphic evidence of Islam’s true nature to a Western audience. After all, dead Africans and Indians don’t seem to have the same shock value.
May 17, 2009 - 11:46 pm