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UK Shi’ite cleric broadcasts anti-Sunni rhetoric: “Fear is a load of angry Sunnis from Slough coming here and having a rumble”

Mar 27, 2014 6:47 am By Robert Spencer

How far gone is Britain? This far gone. “Last week, Ofcom revealed it was powerless to stop the cleric’s incendiary broadcasts, which are said to stir up conflict between al-Habib’s Shia sect and rival Sunni Muslims.” Meanwhile, in Fulmer, “what half of us fear is a load of angry Sunnis from Slough coming here and having a rumble.” And who’s to stop them? Not the British authorities, who are work assiduously to bar foes of jihad such as Pamela Geller and me from the country, but are “powerless” to stop this jihadist’s “incendiary” broadcasts. Meanwhile, “Labour MP Khalid Mahmood described al-Habib’s rhetoric as ’10 times worse’ than Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, which drew death threats from Islamic extremists.” That’s certain to calm the waters. Watch for those angry Sunnis any minute, Fulmer residents.

“He’s the only hate preacher in the village: Firebrand Muslim cleric buys church hall in heart of Midsomer Murder country to broadcast vile rants to Middle East,” by Hugo Gye for the Daily Mail, March 26:

Residents of a wealthy village in Buckinghamshire fear their community could become involved in a global conflict between different Muslim sects after a hate preacher was given permission to broadcast his sermons from a former church.

Sheikh Yasser al-Habib spent £2million buying a disused hall in Fulmer and turning it into a mosque which is also the base for his controversial satellite TV channel.

Last week, Ofcom revealed it was powerless to stop the cleric’s incendiary broadcasts, which are said to stir up conflict between al-Habib’s Shia sect and rival Sunni Muslims.

Now locals in the small village – favoured by celebrities such as Vernon Kay and Ozzy Osbourne – are concerned that Fulmer will become the unlikely setting for a vicious war of words between the two sects.

The Kuwaiti preacher, who has previously been jailed in Kuwait for insulting the faith of Sunnis, bought the former evangelical church last year and converted into a mosque and broadcasting centre.

His channel, Fardak TV, is registered by Ofcom – but most of its broadcasts cannot be controlled by the regulator because they are only shown outside the UK.

Among the controversial sermons al-Habib has delivered over the airwaves was a celebration of the death of one of Sunni Islam’s most revered figures.

Two years ago, Ofcom investigated the preacher after it emerged that he had suggested one of the Prophet Muhammad’s successors was gay.

And in another slur directed at a figure beloved by Sunnis, he referred to Muhammad’s wife Aisha as an ‘enemy of God’.

Residents of Fulmer, where the average home is worth nearly £1million, reacted with dismay to the news that Fardak would be allowed to continue broadcasting hate speech.

‘We have no objection to any religious group being there as long as they fit in with this community,’ Kenneth Peters, 84, told The Sun. ‘Does any community want to be the source of vitriolic and poisonous output?

‘What half of us fear is a load of angry Sunnis from Slough coming here and having a rumble.’

Another local added: ‘I have Muslim friends who are so angry that lot can get away with spreading their bile.’

The village is situated in an idyllic cluster of Home Counties towns which are frequently used to film Midsomer Murders, while it is also close to Pinewood Studios where quintessentially British films such as the James Bond and Carry On series were produced.

Last week, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood described al-Habib’s rhetoric as ’10 times worse’ than Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, which drew death threats from Islamic extremists.

He added: ‘If somebody was being anti-Semitic, we would take action. If somebody was being racist we would take action – even if it was an Asian person having a go at a black person. And it’s quite right to do that.

‘Because this is seen as intra-faith, nobody seems to be bothered. It is already causing problems in the Gulf and the Middle East. It will start to bubble up here as well.’

Stirring up hatred against Sunni Muslims could potentially be a breach of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, although it is not know whether police have ever investigated al-Habib.

The rivalry between Sunnis – who include up to 90 per cent of the world’s Muslims – and the minority Shias lies behind many of the world’s most vicious conflicts, including the insurgency in Iraq.

Fulmer, a village of fewer than 500 people, is in the commuter belt just outside the M25, and is inhabited by rich families who value the rural atmosphere and proximity to London.

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  1. PJG says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:06 am

    I wonder if any of this bally-hoo can be written into an episode of Midsoma Murders? No, didn’t think so; just keep portraying the English as fools and lunatics, as usual.

  2. duh_swami says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:09 am

    War of words huh? They should be that lucky. The rumble might start small, but once it starts, it will grow. This was all predictable. UK could easily become another Iraq or Pakistan with Shia and Sunni blowing each other up in public places. This could also spread to other places where Sunni and Shia share space.
    But if they insist on going after each other, there is little kuffar can do except try and stay out of the way.

    • JMD says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 10:31 am

      Rent a stadium. Pile axes, hammers, bats, pikes, knives and other edged or blunt instruments at centre field and invite local Shiites and Sunnis in to have a go at each other. This lets Muzzies engage in their favourite sport of killing other Muzzies without collateral damage to non-Muzzies. Win-win all around.

      • Rob Crawford says

        Mar 27, 2014 at 5:01 pm

        Nika! Nika!

        It worked for Justinian.

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 9:19 pm

      “There is little the Kuffar”…
      What an asswipe you are. I am not your “Kuffar”
      And you keep believing there is nothing we can do.
      When we are “doing it”, it will far too late for you.
      You will have just enough time to say,”Hello Paradise”,
      and ZIP- Off you go.

      • varmafgij says

        Mar 29, 2014 at 9:15 am

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        perfect hackz

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 29, 2014 at 9:11 pm

        Kikorikid, Duh Swami is *not* a Muslim, and he is a long-time contributor here . He has a sometimes flippant sense of humor, but he is one of the staunchest Anti-Jihadists you will ever meet.

  3. Alec Bursop says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:13 am

    Yasser al-Habib should be prohibited from making any such incendiary speech clearly to be directed at Sunni Muslims in the UK.
    The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 adequately covers this type of behaviour which is clearly intended to whip-up unrest between differing factions of the same religion.
    Racial and/or religious hatred means exactly the same whether it is inter faith or extra faith
    I agree with Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, in that the dangers of allowing this speech to proceed are likely to have far-reaching adverse consequences.
    The Police in this country have the power to do something about this as the legislation already exists, so what is stopping them from doing the legally and morally correct thing – for once?
    Or are they waiting for more riots, insurrection and murder on the streets of our cities to justify the case for a larger policing budget?

  4. Steffen Larsen says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 7:29 am

    The videos with him on Youtube are something! Watch them …they’re lots of fun except for the pain and bloodshed they will likely cause one day. For some strange reason they are not deemed hate-speech.

    In short: Sunni notables are all homosexuals with a constant itch for more of the same. And let’s not repeat what he has to say concerning the Prophet’s youngest wife.

    I think of him as somewhat mad, a fanatic with a death-wish and hopes of martyrdom per suicide by Sunni.

    • john spielman says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 8:39 am

      “…mad, fanatic with a death wish and hopes of martyrdom…” Doesn’t that describe ALL serious, muslims Sunni andShiite?

    • BlueRaven says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 8:00 pm

      “I think of him as somewhat mad, a fanatic with a death-wish and hopes of martyrdom ” – you have described your garden varity Muslim, the darling media’s ‘the Peace loving’ Muslim. Normality in Islam is abserity in the normal world. It is obvious they can’t integrate. We turn their world upside down and they ours.

  5. manpreet says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 9:45 am

    Shiite shrines are called Husseiniya’s they get offended if you call it a Mosque

    REPEAL THE JEWISH NOAHIDE LAWS
    PUBLIC LAW 102-14

    The Noahide laws call for the the death of anyone practicing any other religion than Judaism, blaspheming against Judaism or living outside Jewish sexual norms (ex. homosexuals). Noahide Laws are tyrannical theocratic laws and have no place in our secular democracy.

    JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/685829324792199/

    LEARN ABOUT THE NOAHIDE LAWS:

    1. Public Law 102-14 in America:

    http://www.thegoldencalfspeaks.com/halacha-law/the-jewish-noahide-laws-in-america-pt-1-public-law-102-14-overview/

    and

    http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/america_1.html

    2. The Noahide Laws in the Talmud:

    http://www.thegoldencalfspeaks.com/halacha-law/the-jewish-noahide-laws-in-america-pt-2-noahide-laws-in-the-talmud/

    3. The Sanhedrin in Israel spreading the Noahide Religion:

    http://www.thegoldencalfspeaks.com/halacha-law/the-jewish-noahide-laws-in-america-pt3/

    4. Jewish groups pushing for Talmudic decapitation laws in the US Supreme Court

    Part 1: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/capunish_1.html

    Part 2: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/capunish_2.html

    Part 3: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/capunish_3.html

    Part 4: http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/capunish_4.html

    • Buraq says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 10:57 am

      @ manpreek

      In a theocracy, these laws would be applicable. But we don’t live in Judaic or Christian theocracies now, you clown. We live in secular societies! So, all your bizarre nonsense is worthless rubbish.
      The real danger is from Islamic theocracies trying to ram Shariah down our throats.

      You’re a baggy-trousered, wire-wigged, red-nosed clown!

    • john spielman says

      Mar 27, 2014 at 11:44 am

      what a load of BS you spout. the only religion that the world has to be concerned about is your own-ISLAM. But even “theocracy” isn’t the correct word, since Allah is NOT God but Satan, masquerading to the uninformed, as God. So really your religion is a ‘demonocracy’ rule bu demons!
      When Jesus returns as King of kings and Lord of Lord, He and He alone will destroy all evil and rule with a rod of iron. Not the wicked attempt of you and your muslim accomplaces to enforce your sharia law .

      • john spielman says

        Mar 27, 2014 at 11:47 am

        oops my comments were intended only for manpreet

      • misSaasy says

        Mar 29, 2014 at 6:22 pm

        Amen

    • Aardvark says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 6:31 am

      “Shiite shrines are called Husseiniya’s they get offended if you call it a Mosque”

      A. Your English grammar still needs some work. For the sentence quoted alone, you need to check out possessives, semi-colons and plurals.

      B. The last thing we need is yet more unpronounceable ayrab gibberish. ‘Mosque’ is bad enough – in the civilised West we call them ‘Armouries’.

      C. What makes you think anyone on this site gives a toss whether mohammedans, shiite or any other sect, are offended? Mohammedans in the civilised West seem to be in a permanent state of offence anyway!

    • Tom Billesley says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 6:53 am

      Look up “desuetude”. It’s the doctrine typically applied to secular laws. As for religious laws, they are subordinate to secular laws in all right-thinking societies.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 29, 2014 at 9:19 pm

      manpreet wrote:

      Repeal the Jewish Noahide Laws
      ………………………..

      *What a tool*. These “laws” need not be ‘repealed’, because they are nowhere in force—nor is anyone calling for them.

      This is just more witless moral equivalence, intended to distract from the *very real* threat of brutal Shari’ah law, which pious Muslims all over the world—including in the West—are working to impose.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:05 am

    You might want put on your hats and wear high boots; this could get messy.
    Rivers of Red flow in honor of this Zombie Religion that is already walking dead.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:25 am

    Ah yes! “Muhammad’s wife Aisha as an ‘enemy of God’” since she and another wife poured poison down Mohammed’s throat hastening his death.

    It’s likely someone poisoned Mohammed, because for 60 years, nothing is heard of him. An embarrassing family secret better forgotten and never mentioned?

    Something is wrong with the early narrative of the Arab empire, since Mohammed is not in it. Was he mad? Did he claim to be god? The original documents describing Mohammed were burnt and the story was invented 100 to 200 years later.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 10:25 am

    Shia Islam’s defective product-placement advertisement

    Freaky Franken Religion

  9. Salah says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 11:00 am

    “And in another slur directed at a figure beloved by Sunnis, he referred to Muhammad’s wife Aisha as an ‘enemy of God’.”

    Video:
    Sheikh Yasser al-Habib celebrating the Death of Aisha and her entrance into Hell while chanting:
    “Aisha in Hell, Aisha in Hell, Aisha in Hell.”

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/02/aisha-in-hell-aicha-en-enfer.html

  10. DVult says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 11:13 am

    Why did the dumbass British authorities allow this guy in? He is from Kuwait, he should have stayed there. He was already jailed in Kuwait for being a lunatic. Now if you have any brains, boot him out.

  11. citycat says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Like two bullies, sunni and shi ite are fighting to gain attention and to gain street cred in fear.
    The more they do it the more they do it.

    “What half of us fear”

    fear and terror already paving the way

    “I have muslim friends who are so angry that lot can get away with spreading their bile”
    so the fight begins, doubling the bile
    not friends- spys and tricksters bathing in the dream of your demise, oh blinkered ones.
    Wake up!

    There are no leaders, too many COMs
    everyman for himself.

  12. Kepha says

    Mar 27, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    And the wise, tolerant, learned judges in the UK punish as “haters” anyone who dares criticize their beloved sodomites and Sharia-pushers.

  13. umbra says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 3:57 am

    Excellent idea, ship all mindless liberals to islamic countries and allow them to fully immerse themselves in islamic culture and practices.

  14. logdon says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 7:31 am

    It’s coming home to roost.

    Once this activity was confined to the self imposed Islamic city ghettos and the poor white co-habitants had to suffer or else.

    Let’s see what happens when its the great and the good who have to put up with a little light sharia in their midst.

    • Mirren10 says

      Mar 29, 2014 at 9:37 pm

      Indeed.

      I’ve said many times that nothing will be done unless camoron, clegg et al, and all the chattering classes, get their own hides singed.

  15. gravenimage says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    UK Shi’ite cleric broadcasts anti-Sunni rhetoric: “Fear is a load of angry Sunnis from Slough coming here and having a rumble”
    ………………………….

    I had wondered when Muslims were going to bring their bloody internecine slaughter to the streets of the West. Clearly, it is not all that far off, now…

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 30, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    That’s what stood out of the article for me: **two million pounds**.

    Where did he get *that* sort of money from? Since he’s Shiite…from **Iran**??

    He’s a “cleric”. He was imprisoned in Kuwait. If he came to Britain whining and squealing and claiming to be seeking “asylum”, how come he had such a lot of money? How long has he been in the UK? And who were the IDIOTS who let him in?

    And why the hell didn’t the seller of the property and the local council investigate, investigate, investigate?

    I’d say to those locals who are feeling alarmed – and who are pretty well-heeled, after all: FOLLOW THE MONEY. Hire somebody or more than one somebody who knows how to do it, and have a go at finding out where precisely that two million pounds came from, and what this character’s current means of support are.

    And get in touch with Gavin Boby’s Law and Freedom Foundation, and find out everything you possibly can about the property that this bloke is currently sitting in, and how it was that he got council approval to turn it into a mosque in the first place.

    He’s one end of a piece of string. Get hold of it and start tugging, to see what is attached to the other end.

    In the meantime, locals who possess dogs, especially big black ones, should consider getting together en masse and walking past the mosque, every single day. Black dogs, you see, cause some sort of interference and prevent infernal allah from hearing mohammedan ‘prayers’. Or so it is said in the Horrible Hadiths.

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