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UK: Adviser to Muslim mayor linked to “Islamic extremist group” threatens Muslim riots if his fraudulent re-election is questioned

May 29, 2014 2:14 pm By Robert Spencer

Lutfur-RahmanHow did it come about that the “publicly-funded political adviser” to the mayor of Tower Hamlets would threaten street violence over an investigation of his camp’s voter intimidation and questionable vote-counting? This is, after all, Great Britain, which has a proud tradition stretching back hundreds of years of free and fair elections, unaccompanied by intimidation and violence. How did it come to this? Who is responsible? In a larger sense, Lutfur Rahman is not responsible. He is behaving according to societal and cultural norms, such that if he had never left Bangladesh and were running for office there, he and his supporters would probably be acting the same way. No, the people responsible for this happening in London, rather than in Dhaka, are Tony Brown, Jack Straw, Jacqui Smith, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and the like. The larger responsibility is theirs, as they facilitated the conditions in which this could happen. And there will be much more of it, for while public awareness is growing in Britain, it is still a long way from where it should be: with these people and all others like them out of power, and the chief perpetrators in prison awaiting trial for treason.

“Support Tower Hamlets mayor or risk riots, says advisor,” by Andrew Gilligan, the Telegraph, May 28, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A senior adviser to Lutfur Rahman, the extremist-linked mayor of Tower Hamlets, has said there will be street violence unless people stop questioning the manner of his re-election.

The Electoral Commission is to hold an inquiry into polling in the east London borough after dozens of reports of voter intimidation and a chaotic count that took more than five days to declare a final result.

Mr Rahman narrowly won re-election as an independent, by 48 per cent to 52 after second preferences. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 2010 after The Telegraph revealed his close links to an Islamic extremist group, the Islamic Forum of Europe.

Kazim Zaidi, Mr Rahman’s publicly-funded political adviser at Tower Hamlets, wrote on a local blog: “If those who still seem unable to accept the result continue as they are, it will spill out onto the streets where even the cleverest machine politicians will not be able to manage it.”

Cllr Peter Golds, leader of the opposition on the council, said: “I am gobsmacked. This is actually a threat of violence. Given what we know of the mayor’s ability to bring people out on to the streets, this is deeply disturbing.”

Around two thousand of Mr Rahman’s supporters mobbed the count centre in Limehouse during counting on Friday, effectively barricading Mr Rahman’s opponents inside the building. A number of Labour figures, including Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, were told by police that they could not leave.

Many polling stations in the borough were also picketed by large crowds of Mr Rahman’s supporters, through whom voters had to push to reach the ballot box.

Rachael Saunders, a Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, said: “There were huge mobs of people at the polling stations, shouting, intimidating, actually making it quite difficult for people to vote.”

Another voter told The Daily Telegraph that he was followed into the polling booth by Mr Rahman’s supporters who attempted to ensure that he cast his vote in the “correct” way.

A spokesman for the Electoral Commission said: “Everyone should be able to vote free from intimidation and be confident that their vote is safe. Clearly there have been issues at the Tower Hamlets count and we need to make sure we understand what happened, and the reasons for it, before reaching conclusions.”

Mr Rahman’s council is under two further investigations by police and auditors called in by the Department for Communities and Local Government for corruption and misuse of funds. The Telegraph and the BBC’s Panorama showed that he channelled council money disproportionately to members of his own Bangladeshi community.

Mr Zaidi, who is paid around £53,000 a year from public funds, previously wrote a chapter in an Exeter University pamphlet libelling members of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party. The university was forced to apologise and pay damages.

The council insisted that the count went well and that it had received no reports of intimidation.

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    May 29, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    It’s not so much the question “Was Muhammad a prophet?” It’s better stated “Was Muhammad a prophet sent by God or was Muhammad a false prophet sent by Satan to lead many people astray?” After all Jesus did warn “Beware of false prophet which comes to you in sheep’s clothing but are inwardly ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. The Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone forth into the world.” First John 4:1. To give the acid test if a prophet, teacher, or religion is teaching truth of falsehoods is if the prophet, teacher or religion has teaching and doctrines that are in according to God’s Word, the Bible. That if a person or religion has teachings and doctrines that are in contradiction to God’s Word then that prophet, teacher or religion is false. As Isaiah 8:20; explains “To the law of the testimony : If they speak not according to the word , it is because there is no light in them.” [KJV] Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. This is in contrast to the Bible which teaches that Jesus is indeed the Son of God, John 3:16, 17, and 36. First John 2:22, 23. Likewise. Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son. In contrast to Islam the Bible teaches that Jesus is God the Son. As seen in Hebrews 1:6-8 with emphasis on verse 8. Furthermore, Islam denies that Jesus is God. This is in strong contradiction to the Bible which teaches that Jesus is God. As shown, for example, in John 1:1-3. Romans 9:5. Colossians 1:15-17. First John 5:20. Second Peter 1; 1. Titus 2:13. Moreover, by comparing the Old Testament with the New Testament will further show that Jesus is God, As in by comparing Isaiah 45:22,23. With Philippians 2:5-11. Will show Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 89:8,9. With Matthew 8:23-27 will further confirm Jesus to be God. Even by comparing the New Testament book together will confirm Jesus to be God. As in John 5:22 with Romans 14:12 will show Jesus to be God. The list can go on but this should be enough. The imams and mullahs will try to “explain” this all away by claiming that Christians had corrupted the Bible through time. This claim greatly underestimates the power of God to preserve His Word in time and keep it intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, Muhammad was a false prophet and Islam is a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 3:16,17,36. 14:6. First John 2:22,23.

    • JeffS says

      May 29, 2014 at 2:32 pm

      Walter, could you please elucidate for me what your comment has to do with the topic at hand? Thanks.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 30, 2014 at 8:22 am

        The topic is
        UK: Adviser to Muslim mayor linked to “Islamic extremist group” threatens Muslim riots if his fraudulent re-election is questioned

        Walter should know by now that jumping in on a first post with a long series of bible quotes does not promote Christianity and is very rude

        • Martin Grmes says

          Jun 1, 2014 at 8:51 am

          Being Christian with a zeal for evangelizing, I agree. I have seen the same comment on other posts. The comment itself is very good and the bible verses do support what he is saying, however it is off topic and most people will find it obscure and annoying.

    • Kasey says

      May 30, 2014 at 4:34 am

      Just a lot more nonsense involved in religious and ideological rivalry invoking claims of a mythical god of various names, about which each group struggles for favours. A ridiculous situation for the World in fact, that so much killing and discrimination can have as its foundation and causal reasons……

      Secular democracy has little chance of success while the above continues.

      • JIMJFOX says

        May 30, 2014 at 8:52 am

        Good to hear from a secular commenter- ALL religion is pure bunk for the scared and ill-educated. As Voltaire so eloquently put it “Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities”… SO true of Islam.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 30, 2014 at 8:27 am

      Walter your comments should be deleted.

      If you cannot summarize in a few sentences what you wrote and how it relates to the topic, then you are merely politicizing the religion of Christianity.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 30, 2014 at 8:28 am

        The topic is
        UK: Adviser to Muslim mayor linked to “Islamic extremist group” threatens Muslim riots if his fraudulent re-election is questioned

      • JIMJFOX says

        May 30, 2014 at 8:53 am

        Well said- seconded.

  2. duh_swami says

    May 29, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    Test 405 not allowed.

  3. deuh_swami says

    May 29, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    More and better Mahoundian riots…Looks like those chickens are coming home to roost.

  4. cheekturner says

    May 29, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    Mr Rahman or whoever he is and the one he advises should be ready to depart back to Banglashithouse. So he threatens street violence as a way of defending the dubious election of the Mayor of Tower Hamlets? Violence will undoubtedly occur and he and his entourage of Madhutmadmen will be on the receiving end and the losers to boot. There are many ex-pats from this part of London who departed to get away from the influx of this alien culture, and are now seething that the political elite and left wing bleating sheep are allowing the nomads to take over what was once a decent although impoverished area filled will sane and proud Brits, and turning it into a ghetto. Their seething will turn to rage before too long. ISLIME BEWARE!

  5. Anne says

    May 29, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    Will the river Tiber foam

    • bewick says

      May 30, 2014 at 6:30 am

      No but the Thames might. Tower Hamlets is riverside.

  6. Islamisdeath says

    May 29, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    Muslim politics in Britain. This is your future Britain and sadly we in the US are right behind you. Give me what I want or I’ll destroy everything around me and kill, kill, kill. What a glorious future we have!/not

  7. mortimer says

    May 29, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    OVERT INTIMIDATION such as occurred at the ballot booth is clearly a crime and “NOT IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST”.

    Those who intimidated voters must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The Muslims of Tower Hamlets are responsible for doing nothing and letting the lawless supremacists take over.

  8. citycat says

    May 29, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    The islamic arrogant ego knows no bounds.

  9. prcs says

    May 30, 2014 at 1:32 am

    Fair enough. Let the questions and the challenges begin.

    Don’t be afraid.

    But, make sure it’s only Muslims and their supporters causing the riots.

    The trick, however, will be to keep British hotheads from initiating the rioting–or even of participating in them.

    And let the police make clear how they will handle such riots.

    Will they be tough and enforce the law? Or will they pull their punches in order to avoid “offending” the rioters?

    • Pumbar says

      May 30, 2014 at 2:33 am

      The British Rozzers who don’t sit behind a desk all day are just as fed up with this garbage as everyone else. The time is coming for some very unpleasant scenes played out on British streets.

  10. Charli Main says

    May 30, 2014 at 5:09 am

    Vermin of this nature cannot be reformed or educated in the western tradition of democracy and free speech.
    ITS IN THEIR DNA.

  11. Bezelel says

    May 30, 2014 at 7:31 am

    Democracy in brief: Ballots instead of bullets.
    Moral of the story in brief: Don’t “F” with the ballots.

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