This controversy has been raging for over a week now. I had been inclined to let it pass by without comment, but what it reveals about the state of the freedom of speech in Britain, and the prospects for large-scale reform of Islam, can’t be ignored.
Maajid Nawaz is a politician in Britain and a leader of the Quilliam Foundation, an influential moderate Muslim organization. He shot to prominence recently by, in Quilliam’s own jihad-tinged words, “having facilitated the decapitation of the EDL” by inducing Tommy Robinson to quit that organization. By winning over Tommy, Nawaz won international renown as a Muslim reformer, and has only burnished those credentials in light of the recent controversy, which began when Nawaz tweeted out the above cartoon of Jesus saying “Hey” and Muhammad responding “How you doin’,” from the satirical Jesus and Mo comic strip. His point was that it didn’t offend him, and wasn’t offensive.
Other Muslims, however, disagreed. Nawaz, as he explains in this Guardian piece, has received death threats and calls for his removal as a Liberal Democratic parliamentary candidate. Muslims have denounced him for promoting “Islamophobia,” and the British media has responded with its usual craven capitulation, with Channel 4 News blacking out the “Mo” cartoon in a story about the controversy.
All this has made Maajid Nawaz even more of a hero than he already was among Britain’s liberal intelligentsia, which styles itself a champion of the freedom of speech even as it gets more used to kowtowing to Islamic supremacists every day. However, for Nawaz himself, it also represents an important, and possibly disastrous defeat. For Nawaz is just as energetic a purveyor of the “Islamophobia” myth as his frenzied detractors are. At the press conference with Robinson, one of the Quilliam officials vociferously denounced Pamela Geller and me as “Islamophobes,” and Nawaz and his Quilliam partner Usama Hasan have followed this up with me on Twitter several times — even quite recently — by attacking me with all the arrogance, rudeness, condescension, unwillingness to discuss on rational terms or debate, and personal insults that I have come to expect and experienced many times from Islamic supremacists with ties to jihad terror groups.
Nawaz’s attacks on me on Twitter were not the first time I had been attacked by someone from the Quilliam Foundation. In fact, at the time of its founding, its founder Ed Husain went out of his way to launch a gratuitous attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq and me. At that time I had been quite interested to determine whether Quilliam was really the sincere reformist organization it claimed to be — but this unexpected and unwarranted attack made me doubt it immediately. I know Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ibn Warraq. I know their work quite well. I know that neither is a “racist, bigoted Islamophobe,” just as I know that I myself am not one either. I know that they’re deeply concerned about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism, as I am, and want to preserve Western pluralistic societies with their freedom of speech and equality of rights for all people, as I do.
It seemed to me then that if Quilliam were really sincere in wanting Islamic reform, it would not have counted Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq and me as enemies, but as allies — just as now I believe that if Usama Hasan and Maajid Nawaz were sincere about Islamic reform, they would not count Pamela Geller and me as enemies, but as allies. This is not about personalities. It is because none of us — Ayaan, Ibn Warraq, Pamela, or I — have ever taken a stand for anything except freedom of speech and universally accepted principles of human rights, much as the Leftist/Islamic supremacist libel machine works 24 hours a day, seven days a week to try to establish otherwise.
However, I suspect that I know what Maajid Nawaz was trying to do by pre-emptively denouncing us as “Islamophobic” before we had said a public word about Tommy Robinson’s turn: he was trying to signal to Muslims in Britain that he was genuine, not an MI5 plant, not a sellout, but someone whom they could trust. In other words, Nawaz threw us to the wolves to show his Islamic bona fides, even though we both support genuine reform in Islam, just as Marxist antisemite British ex-Muslim Maryam Namazie and the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain threw us to the wolves to show their Leftist bona fides, even though we share their belief in one law for all with no special rights for special classes.
But for Nawaz, it has not worked. It didn’t save him when he crossed the line here and tweeted out this innocuous cartoon of Muhammad. Islamic supremacists in Britain have been busy ever since then demonstrating the very, very hard road that sincere Islamic reformers will face in establishing Islam in Britain as genuinely pluralistic, open to criticism and open to the freedom of speech. It’s a particularly hard road because the British media is busy submitting to Islamic supremacist demands and blacking out the Muhammad cartoon instead of standing up for pluralism (which involves putting up with things that might offend) and the freedom of speech.
I wish Maajid Nawaz well, insofar as he really is sincere in wanting to travel down that hard road. Perhaps he will learn from this incident that denouncing and defaming people who would have been his allies in order to score points with those who would never have stood with him in the first place is ultimately self-defeating. At the same time, his repetition here of the familiar claim that Islamic jihadists have “hijacked” Islam, in defiance of the abundance of evidence that they win converts among peaceful Muslims by appealing to chapter and verse of the Qur’an and numerous incidents in the life of Muhammad as depicted in the earliest Muslim sources, strongly suggests that he isn’t really interested in Islamic reform anyway, but just in more deception. Nawaz could dispel that impression easily by publishing a detailed Qur’an-based refutation of the jihadist exegesis of the Muslim holy book — something putative Islamic reformers have never done. I eagerly await it.
“Why I’m speaking up for Islam against the loudmouths who have hijacked it,” by Maajid Nawaz in The Guardian, January 28:
Muslims are not one homogenous tribe requiring representation through a Citizen Khan-like community leader. Neither are we still colonial subjects who must speak through our Brown Sahibs. We Muslims are free. Our prophet left no heir. We have never had a pope or a clergy. We are commanded to worship God alone, and for our sins we are answerable to no one but Him.
The doors of Muslim ijtihad (religious reasoning) have always remained open, and modern Islamist attempts to impose theocratic orthodoxy on us will therefore be resisted. Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
On 12 January I participated in a BBC debate on human rights and religious rights. Two students were wearing T-shirts depicting a stick figure of Jesus saying “Hi” to a stick figure called Mo, who replied: “How you doin’?” Some Muslims, having just argued for their own right to veil, took issue with the students. I argued that just as Muslim women have the right to veil, atheists have the right to wear these T-shirts.
I am acutely aware of the populist sentiment in Britain that derides Muslims who seek special treatment for their sensibilities, so I tweeted the bland image and stated that, as a Muslim, I did not feel threatened by it. My God is greater than that.
By the time the week was up I had received death threats, the police were involved, and a petition set up by some conservative Muslims to have me dismissed as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn had gained 20,000 signatures. Then a counter-petition went up in my support, and many liberals jumped to my defence. In other words, all hell broke loose. So why did I do it?
My intention was not to speak for any Muslim but myself – rather, it was to defend my religion from those who have hijacked it just because they shout the loudest. My intention was to carve out a space to be heard without constantly fearing the blasphemy charge, on pain of death. I did it for Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab who was assassinated by his bodyguard for calling for a review of Pakistan’s colonial-era blasphemy laws; for Malala Yusafzai, the schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education; and for Muhammad Asghar, a mentally ill British man sentenced to death for “blasphemy” last week in Pakistan.
My intention was to demonstrate that Muslims are able to see things we don’t like, yet remain calm and pluralist, and to demonstrate that there are Muslims who care more about the thousands of deaths in Iraq, Pakistan and Syria than we do about what a student is wearing. My intention was to highlight that Muslims can engage in politics without insisting that our own religious values must trump all others’ concerns, and to stand before the mob so that other liberal Muslim voices that are seldom heard, women’s and men’s, could come to the fore. And many such Muslim voices have been heard this last week.
However, in the final analysis, my intentions are irrelevant. What matters is this simple truth: I am free not to be offended by a cartoon I did not draw. If my prospective constituents do not like me not being offended, they are free not to vote for me. Other Muslims are free to be offended, and the rest of the country is free to ignore them. I will choose my policies based on my conscience. As such, I will continue to defend my prophet from those on the far right and Muslim extremes who present only a rigid, angry and irrational interpretation of my faith. I will stand for fairness, as Amnesty International once stood for me when I was a prisoner in Hosni Mubarak‘s Egypt. Because I believe that the difference between fairness and tribalism is the difference between choosing principles and choosing sides.

logdon says
Very well said, Robert.
The impeccable logic and its transference to your viewpoint is as always a pleasure to read within this denizen of the dhimmi otherwise known as Britain.
Things are changing here and the thin veneer which has shielded this religion from true official scrutiny, almost as a protected species, is dissolving fast as two things occur.
One is the increased arrogance of muslims who feel that they are above British law.
The other is the internet with its more or less unregulated reach and massive growth.
A friend of mine, retired, respectable and up to now free of a criminal record has been subject to a written caution from his local police for hate speech.
An accident involving a small child had occured in his narrow roaded small village whereby congestion caused by a Pakistani business had reduced the way into one lane.
He happened to mention to another local that this wouldn’t have happened if the foreigners had not been allowed to open the coffee shop opposite.
His comment was passed by this dhimmi weasel to the local plod and next thing he was summonsed to appear at the station.
The young police officer was almost apologetic but explained that it was mandatory in cases of hate speech to follow through and as my friend had admitted the ‘crime’ that was it.
As you’ll imagine he is far from pleased but quite unrepentant.
Bit by bit as these antics grow so too will the backlash and already parents and family of girls raped and groomed in Rotherham are suing both the police and local authority for their part in ignoring the rapes.
No doubt these fat bummed beadles are now squirming and the buck will pass upwards as the old Nuremberg ‘I was only obeying orders’ ploy comes into play.
Hopefully the Daily Mail which is sadly the best we’ve got on this type of offense will report.
If not expect anger to grow.
Quite honestly we’ve had enough.
joeb says
“Things are changing here and the thin veneer which has shielded this religion from true official scrutiny, almost as a protected species, is dissolving fast…”
You are joking, I take it? Things will get much worse in the UK before they get better.
LemonLime says
Indeed. Those who say things like “We ordinary people have had it and things are going to change, by gum!” show, ipso facto, that they have not fully grasped the, as Zorba the Greek told Alan Bates in a much more pleasantly humorous context, full catastrophe.
logdon says
So we just give up do we?
logdon says
PS
I just posted a longer and more meaningful reply but somehow the system chewed it up.
LemonLime says
No; but it’s better to have a realistic appraisal of the problem one is tackling.
Also, when people indulge in this unrealistic “The People hate Islam and we’re fed up with the Elites” mentality, it fosters an unhealthy conspiracy theory perspective that has the potential to lead to disastrously unnecessary complications.
Rena says
If you’ve been pushed to the limit.. then why wait until they’ve passed the laws that say you cannot open your mouths at all ? That you have to accept all they are doing and you do nothing? That you are indeed nothing but second class citizens although you won’t be citizens, but foreigners in your own country when they complete their takeover. Nothing about this is fair because they never have and never will adhere to what is truthful or right or even honesty… they are playing us all for fools because the laws that are designed to protect us, in fact protect them…’.fear of the arab’ is the paranoia and rightly so..because they’ve had years and years in which to perfect their approach to the West..and Britain is seen as a massive prize because the head of the commonwealth and empire is a woman, which means she has to be brought down by any means possible because in their eyes she is classed as a nothing, who has been allowed to wield power….only, no-one saw it coming because they believed all the lies about islam being the religion of peace… and that was just the soft-sell and it worked., didn’t it? It has been a many-pronged attack, slowly, slowly, subtle and deceptive. Are you going to wait until they behead your monarch, because that too is coming for when sharia law is the only law in Britain, you will all be enslaved totally, and fear will hold you there.
Transmaster says
What is so frustrating is they go after the KKK as bigoted, racist, etc. Yet they apologize to Islam for being far worse the the Klan was even in the days is had great political power.
mortimer says
Maajid Nawaz must realize you can’t reform the violence out of Islam without Islam completely ceasing to exist. The Ahmadi movement is ‘peaceful’ Islam, but Sunnite Islam is ‘hadith Islam’ and ‘Sira Islam’. There is no reforming the original documents.
Salah says
Nawaz as well as Sisi and many, many others, are sincerely trying to reform Islam. Whether they succeed or not is not the point. The point is they all agree on one thing: Islam needs reform. In other words, Islam is, al least in its actual form, very, very bad.
That’s the main point: Islam is bad.
They know it, they’re ashamed of it, they’ll try hard to prove otherwise, they’ll fail.
And that’s when Islam will fall.
LemonLime says
Wow. This comment by Salah goes in my unfortunately copious “grievously naive Jihad Watchers” bookmark.
Salah says
Thank you, LemonLime. I’m honoured!
Let’s get serious.
Muslims are growing in number, we are not. This trend is not going to change anytime soon thanks to the abortion/homosexual culture. So what’s left to be done?
Here’s what needs to be done:
Destroy Islam from within; expose its lies, tell the truth about Muhammad, protect muslim apostates (our best allies).
We also need to change immigration policies, fight to the death for our right to free speech, overthrow the White House thugs and hold our elites accountable for their treason.
Muslims are growing in number, but Islam is falling apart. Imagine these HUGE numbers of Muslims gradually discovering the lies of Islam and turning away from it !!!
It will take some time, but in the end Islam will fall, its fall has already started!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html
Brian C. Hoff says
Islam last over 1400 year already without falling apart yet. Changeing immigration polcy will do nothing at all. UK is way below replacement birth rate of 2.1 and that is hard to change. Many of UK are hostile to white UK girls who convert to Islam willing. The birth of unmoslim in the UK is 1.0 the muslim birth rate is 3.0.
gravenimage says
Salah wrote:
So what’s left to be done?
Here’s what needs to be done:
Destroy Islam from within…
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With respect, Salah, this has *never* been accomplished—not in 1400 years.
Infidels have pushed Islam back *many* times—and they have *never* counted on Muslims to reform themselves and their creed.
The logistics today are somewhat different—especially with so many Muslims within the gates—but I still believe the basic paradigm remains the same.
What we need to do is help Infidels wake up to the Jihad threat—without assuming that Muslims themselves are going to reform that threat away.
When the West stopped dithering and appeasing and finally faced the threat of Fascism, it wasn’t with the assumption that Nazis were poised to usher in a “kinder, gentler” Fascism—and we should not assume the same about barbaric Islam, either.
Anushirvan says
Quite so.
Salah seemingly thinks he’s able to transfer his own mind into the skull of the Muslim to explore what’s going on in its deepest recesses to conclude “All will be fine, this individual acts decidedly congruent with the way his mind works. This man is a moderate, peaceful Muslim. Let’s go back to sleep.”
Seems like science fiction to me, overestimating your capabilities like that, considering Taqiyya and all that.
fair_dinkum says
i want to believe he is a moderate, balanced individual.
maybe the death threats are becoming an endorsement.
LemonLime says
Ditto supra. Someone still forgot to crank shut the spigots releasing trace amounts of PC MC gas into this unfortunately still too small corner of the incoherently anti-Islam Blogosphere.
Geordie says
I too want to believe that Maajid Nawaz is a force for reform. The fact he won over Tommy Robinson with his sincerity bodes well. However, he has much to do. Working wonders from the inside may not be possible due to the numbers of violent muslims involved. The suicide bomber jihadist mentality is very difficult to reason with. It only takes one of them to kill a room full of moderates.
gravenimage says
Geordie wrote:
I too want to believe that Maajid Nawaz is a force for reform. The fact he won over Tommy Robinson with his sincerity bodes well.
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Geordie—with respect—did you miss the part where Quilliam was gloating over having “decapitated” the EDL?
I think it was more a matter of Tommy Robinson breaking under the strain than his having been “won over” by this Taqiyya artist’s “sincerity”.
KrazyKafir says
So far, it looks to me as if Maajid Nawaz is still a, carrier.
Trojan says
The level of appeasement in this country disgusts me. Muslims cry racism the moment an opinion of Islam is mentioned that isn’t theirs. Islam is the religion of peace…if you don’t believe me ill kill you! They are a cancer simple. They spread round the west complaining about the country they have moved to wishing it to be more like that of their origin . Well heres an idea move to the middle east if its so great. What’s that..you don’t like poverty and no free will or no freedom of speech. If someone draws a picture of Jesus or god who cares doesn’t change my life. The world would be a boring place if everyone was the same why cant Islam accept that. If every other religion had the same views as them about non believers there would be no one left!
Semeru says
His tweet followed a BBC Big Questions programme in which the cartoons were discussed and Maajid Nawaz was included as a studio guest. The image wasn’t shown on the BBC
Following his tweet on 12 January, Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation, Muslim commentator Mo Ansar and Bradford Respect MP George Galloway all took to Twitter calling for calling for Maajid Nawaz to be ousted from the post of the Liberal Democrats’ PPC
Steffen Larsen says
George Galloway.
Who married his second wife in a muslim ceremony, not yet divorced from his first wife. And had a child with another woman – later to become his third wife – while not yet divorced from this second wife.
The fun we have when we are in the mood!
gama says
Georgie Galloway an empty bottle of really cheap scotch !
Zhingis Ender says
http://hurryupharry.org/2014/01/28/mo-ansar-exposed-as-a-fake/
Wellington says
The short and the long of it here is that Islam can’t be saved from itself from being the wretched ideology which it most surely is. It can’t be saved either by Muslims or non-Muslims. Guaranteed.
Quilliam Foundation v. more “devout” Muslims is rather like Fatah, many of whose representatives say soothing things in English (but never in Arabic) from time to time, v. Hamas, which condemns Israel and all the West no matter what the langauge. . It’s all a game.
And here’s the winning approach in this game for the West: Realize that all of Islam is putrid and that no quarter should be given it. Short of this, this stupid game will continue with advantage still to the Islamic world and not the West. Guaranteed because when you can’t identify the enemy, you have no chance of winning——guaranteed.
Anushirvan says
Very well said, Wellington. That is the long and short of it.
Anushirvan says
Fatah vs. Hamas, FSA vs. ISIL, Sunnis vs. Shi’ites, Quilliam Foundation vs. Salafis, it all amounts to the same. No one in the West in their right mind should feel sorry for any Muslim killing another one, nor even try to discern so-called moderation among them to start with. There is absolutely no point to any of it.
Brian Scott says
It’s a shame you didn’t offer him a place to turn to when they come down on him. I guess you’re still too angry at what he’s done to you.
pdxnag says
Who is preventing him from declaring his own apostasy, if that is what he is really professing?
gravenimage says
Brian Scott wrote:
It’s a shame you didn’t offer him a place to turn to when they come down on him. I guess you’re still too angry at what he’s done to you.
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I’m sorry, Brian—this is terribly silly.
As you would have it, Maajid Nawaz desperately wants to turn to Robert Spencer—a man who cannot even enter Britain—but mean ol’ Spencer is preventing him from doing so out of spite.
This is bs. If Nawaz really wanted to leave Islam, I’m sure Spencer would welcome him with open arms.
Even with the amount of Taqiyya-slinging he is up to here, Spencer explicitly says that he wishes him well. I believe that is very gracious on Spencer’s part.
Jay Boo says
If you get DEFECTIVE MERCHANDISE delivered you return it back to sender.
Those Muslims who wish to impose their kill crazy ideology on other Muslims for not being Muslim enough should be repackaged in a straight jacket and returned.
LemonLime says
Maajid Nawaz, pretending to be Moderate.
“Good Cop pretends to be Good Cop”
or
“Dog bites Man”
Sam says
Moderate Muslim, reformed Islam….give me a break. Islam is Islam. If Muslims believe that the Koran is from ALLAH, word by word. How can you reform Islam? Islam must be eliminated by force, PERIOD.
England and Europe are a lost cause as far as Islam goes. Let’s stop spreading Islam here in the USA. Let the Brits commit suicide. Sorry for feeling that way but I can’t help it.
Brian C. Hoff says
How will you stop the spead of Islam in america Islam is protect by the Contitution of United State. It grown in America at than rapid rate some city already have huge muslim population than many can vote in election as citizen of America.
Jay Boo says
No one owns God.
No sane person is 100% certain that God exists.
Public statements of 100% certainty in God’s existence is meant for an audience.
No one who is 100% certain of God’s existence would be angry by these statements. Only pretenders would be angered.
All religious texts appear to be written by fallible human beings and therefore certainty of God’s existence depends on faith which by its very nature is not built upon a rock of certainty.
I am not criticizing FAITH; I am criticizing POLITICS pretending to be faith.
FAITH is not angry.
Dmiller says
I wouldn’t accept your comments outright about not being 100% convinced that God exists. I think of Abraham and other heroes of the faith. However, I agree that one who is reasonably convinced of God’s existence has utterly no reason to get angry with anyone who doesn’t share his knowledge and experience.
David says
Oh come on, Islam according to Muslims is the word of Allah, therefore it cannot be amended & anyone wishing to amend it should be killed as an apostate. Stop pretending it will happen.
duh_swami says
As long as Mahoundians believe Allah is God, Islam cannot and will not reformed.
Reforming Islam means soiling perfection. Reforming Islam is changing the religion. You know what Mahound said about that. Tell Allah you reformed his religion and he will have some boiling water for you to drink. This reform stuff is blue smoke and mirrors, it’s not going to happen any time soon. Probably never.
Jan says
test
Aardvark says
At least Channel 4’s cowardice supplied the Author of Jesus and Mo with material for his latest cartoon!
marky says
The Quilliam Foundation is just another muslamic fifth columne, placating the government with the normal taqiyya whilst giving themselves an income.
One members comments on tv a year or so ago included the statement that violence from islam was a recent thing… words to that effect.
mortimer says
OH YEAH???
But the Lib Dem leader NICK CLEGG said:
“He is not going to be dropped as a Liberal Democrat candidate. He has the right – as any Muslim, non-Muslim or anyone of any faith or none in this country has – to say things even if that causes offence to other people.
“It so happens that what he did does cause real offence to many, many Muslims in this country. All I would say is that we have to make sure that that debate, sensitive though it is, is conducted in a respectful way in moderate terms.
“I would not have tweeted that thing, clearly. I will defend anyone’s right to deploy the freedom of expression in this country. I’m not going to start censoring people in a free society.”
Gea says
After 25 years of friendship with a secular woman from Bangladesh, she dumped me 4 years ago when I told her to read Koran to understand why 95% of all terrorist acts are committed by Muslims.
Anybody who after reading Koran and hadith still calls himself a Muslim should be treated as a member of a Nazi party. Islam is worse than Nazism because in addition to its supremacist , Jew and Christians hating ideology, it condones pedophilia, polygamy, misogyny, rape and murder.
Unless Islam REFORMS (by tossing out 65% of Koran which are teaching hat e of ALL non-Muslims and women and tossing out Mohamed , who himself was a pedophile, polygamist, rapist, looter and murderer) it has NOT PLACE in ANY country that respects liberty, justice and human rights.
Defcon 4 says
I’ll bet she already knew what the quran says. It’s not like the rabid Jew hatred, xenophobia, repeated calls to slaughter/enslave/subjugate the unbeliever are vague and 1000+ years of endless islamic terrorism, genocide, ethnic cleansing and persecution of the unbeliever make it pretty damn clear that the violent, antisemitic, xenophobic and ugly verses of the holy books of islam haven’t been mis-interpreted.
Anushirvan says
Anyone can rest assured that Muslims will always find some way to accuse co-religionists of heresy or idolatry and castigate them for being too lenient, for appearing to be so, or either for skewing the message of Allah as a whole.
Puritanism is in the eye of the beholder, the literal interpretations of Quranic verses cementing the Takfir denouncement of lazy Muslims (I won’t be calling them ‘moderate’) serves as a stark warning to all those Muslims who think they can cut corners with regards to their daily occupations: at some stage, they WILL be punished for their lack of intransigence with Sharia Law, because that’s the main purpose of Sharia, to keep everyone obedient and withering in fear for their lives.
Takfir even becomes an issue pitting different Salafist groups against each other, like the Syrian example shows. Which is in fact fine by me, too bad for Muslims themselves, but I can’t give a toss about Muslims (of any sub-denomination) killing each other off in the end because of Takfir allegations flying to and fro among them. The more they concentrate on their intra-Muslim enmities the better.
In the 21st century, Salafists think of themselves as the cream of the Muslim crop, and you’d better do as you’re told. So Nawaz has failed, simply because he thought he could toy with the taqiyya ruse of ‘moderate Islam’ and the middle ground to lull the West to sleep, and by doing so, he has actually aped self-delusional Western rhetoric by integrating it into Islam , which no Salafist is going to allow.
It couldn’t have happened too a nicer person, really. Good luck to him (!)
LemonLime says
The high number of Islamo-ignorant comments on here is disheartening. Either they haven’t bothered to educate themselves about the Quilliam Foundation of which Maajid Nawaz is a vigorously active member, or they have and have been duped by taqiyya wolves in sheep’s clothing. The former excuse is only marginally better than the unconscionably impermissible latter.
Isabella says
If he hadn’t married a 6 YEAR OLD , he might have had an heir.
Gleaner1 says
As we say in England, give him enough rope – he’ll hang himself.
This bloke is as real as a nine bob note.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim politician incites rage, death threats by posting “Jesus and Mo” cartoon on Twitter
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Looks like Maajid Nawaz has been hoisted on his own petard. This Tweet was intended to twit Infidels over their supposed “Islamophobia”, but this smug tool forgot that his actual coreligionists might be looking in, as well.
More:
Maajid Nawaz is a politician in Britain and a leader of the Quilliam Foundation, an influential moderate Muslim organization. He shot to prominence recently by, in Quilliam’s own jihad-tinged words, “having facilitated the decapitation of the EDL” by inducing Tommy Robinson to quit that organization.
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Have the posters lauding Nawaz as a genuine “reformer” missed the part about Quilliam boasting over Nawaz having “decapitated” the EDL?
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Other Muslims, however, disagreed. Nawaz, as he explains in this Guardian piece, has received death threats…
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Muslims can’t engage in the “slow Jihad” against credulous Infidels without also pissing off the fast Jihadists. This is something the slow Jihadists often forget…
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Muslims have denounced him for promoting “Islamophobia”
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Well, *that’s* grimly hilarious, given that his original Tweet was intended to poke fun at “Islamophobes” and make them look paranoid.
In fact, if anyone was paying attention, they would realize that this confirms “Islamophobe’s”—really, Anti-Jihadist’s—concerns about Muslim censorship, imposition of “Blasphemy” strictures, and resorting to threats of violence.
But I’m not sure how many are paying attention in today’s Britain…
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…and the British media has responded with its usual craven capitulation, with Channel 4 News blacking out the “Mo” cartoon in a story about the controversy.
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*Sickening* application of Shari’ah norms. Anyone who has read this cartoon can see how gentle it is—but Channel 4 News apparently still considers this stick-figure-like cartoon to be “blasphemous”…good God.
More:
However, for Nawaz himself, it also represents an important, and possibly disastrous defeat. For Nawaz is just as energetic a purveyor of the “Islamophobia” myth as his frenzied detractors are.
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Exactly so…
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I wish Maajid Nawaz well…
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Well, I hope he is not murdered by a pious Muslim for “Blasphemy”.
One has to remember that Maajid Nawaz belonged to the Jihad terrorism group Hizb-ut-Tahrir for many years.
The important thing is that he has *never* repudiated these views, and still proudly notes that he was imprisoned by Mubarak because of them.
He has consistently opposed any attempts by Britain to oppose Jihad, or even to keep an eye on known Jihadists.
He has consistently whitewashed Islam to the hopeful Kuffar—he is a consummate Taqiyya artist.
Nawaz is no “reformer”.
Anushirvan says
Good round-up. He’s simply a Taqiyya con artist who inadvertently drew the attention of fast-track Salafists when he started pandering to the MSM’s PC MC bullshit rhetoric.
Can’t say I am unduly worried about his physical integrity, he deserved what he got in the end. That’s simply the way things usually turn out within the realm of Islam.
gravenimage says
Anushirvan wrote:
Good round-up. He’s simply a Taqiyya con artist who inadvertently drew the attention of fast-track Salafists when he started pandering to the MSM’s PC MC bullshit rhetoric.
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Thanks, Anushirvan—I agree.
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Can’t say I am unduly worried about his physical integrity, he deserved what he got in the end. That’s simply the way things usually turn out within the realm of Islam.
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This is the one thing I seriously disagree with you on. While I am *no* fan of Nawaz, the idea that pious Muslims would be able to murder their “insufficiently Islamic” coreligionists in the UK *horrifies* me.
Moreover, there is the cartoonist’s safety to worry about. While he doesn’t appear to be very Islamo-savvy, he is still a civilized Infidel. I don’t want to see him targeted for daring to have drawn Muhammed.
And the fact is that if devout Muslims in Britain were able to whack someone like Nawaz, it will just embolden them to slaughter others with impunity, including Kuffars.
voegelinian says
Lemon Lime here.
“Moreover, there is the cartoonist’s safety to worry about. While he doesn’t appear to be very Islamo-savvy, he is still a civilized Infidel.”
Why are you calling Maajid Nawaz an Infidel (much less “civilized”)?
dumbledoresarmy says
She’s referring to the *cartoonist*.
Maajid Nawaz is not the cartoonist. Nawaz *tweeted* the cartoon but he didn’t draw it in the first place. It was drawn by a non-Muslim.
Lisa says
Robert – I do see the good in Maajid. But all he is doing is attenmpting to put a friendly, Liberal face on Islam and Muslims.
When people come into contact with Maajid, and listen to him, they begin to think well of Muslims. That is not good. At the very least, Maajid should always point out to people that he and any others like him make up only 0.0000000001% of the entire Muslim population. But he won’t do that. He’s happy to make people think most Muslims are like him.
We do not need people seeing him. People need to see what Muslims really think and want; that’s the best way to build the rage needed to spark revolution and change.
Also, he retweeted tellmamauk very recently. And we all know exactly what those are. This alone tells you everything.
He is also close with a very extreme left wing Indian foreigner, Sunny Hundal, who despises us all. And he’s close with foreign Marxist/Comnunist/Liberal Nazi, Maryam Namazie.
The very good thing to all this episode is that many, many more people in England have seen exactly what Muslims really are, and how toxic their presence is.
Its shown them just how foreign-minded Muslims are. Freedom of speech is built in to us; its something we automatically love. Its a main European trait. But Muslims simply do not understand it. They are so incredibly foreign (including all the ones born here), they literally do not understand or accept that we in Europe and England have always said what we want.
Lisa says
So, Maajid is still an enemy within. Even more so to those of us like me, who are trying to stop our ethnicity (English) from becoming a minority in our own country. Maajid would class this as far right/fascist.
One good to thing is that he’s (unintentionally) causing division within the Muslims, and (unintentionally) bringing the Islam problem into wider public consciousness via this cartoon thing.
At the end of the day, tho, Maajid is just another immigrant dictating narratives in the dying England.
If you glance at Twitter, you’ll see our politics and cultural issues etc are totally dominated by vile, extreme Left immigrants who think they’re English, and who think they have absolute right to dictate, govern and control the indigenous English population.
Latest polls show that vast majority of indigenous English now see immigration, multiculturalism as the top worst/worrying/hated issue above all other things. Most hate what immigration has done, and most hate Islam.
But, sickeningly (this word doesn’t even nearly cover it), laws have been put into place that make it illegal to resist any of it. Yes, that’s right. If we don’t accept a future Muslim majority, and an overwhelming non white majority, then we are arrested, locked up. We cannot speak freely without being arrested. The totalitarian, multicultural police and politicians are now acting far, far worse than the Nazis SS Storm Troopers did. Alongside that, Muslim groups get everyone arrested for ‘hate crime’ for even the slightest criticism of Islam.
As if thats not bad enough, because immigration and multiculturalism has destroyed our economy completely, and drained our service, we working class English are living in poverty and terrible hardship.
All of the above is why we are unable to fight back.
voegelinian says
LemonLime here. I signed up with WordPress, and decided to change my nick to something a little less… citrussy. “Voegelinian” refers to the Eric Voegelin, my favorite philosopher.
The Quilliam Foundation, of which Maajid Nawaz is an industrious and enthusiastic participant, is copiously suspect (as Andrew Bostom has shown), and it actually proves useful in identifying asymptotic individuals in the Counter-Jihad: anyone in the Counter-Jihad who shows they have been fooled by the false moderation of the Quilliam Foundation is, ipso facto, asymptotic and a liability.
voegelinian says
Not “the” Eric Voegelin, of course. I haven’t succumbed to John-McCainitis (yet).