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UK immigration minister: Beheading of aid worker “nothing to do with Islam”

Sep 15, 2014 7:41 pm By Robert Spencer

BrokenshireSo many non-Muslim authorities in the West who see clearly and easily that what the Islamic State does has nothing to do with Islam: Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron, Philip Hammond, Tony Abbott, and so very many others — now including James Brokenshire. Why do so many young Muslims from the West, including hundreds from Britain, misunderstand what these non-Muslims understand so well? Can James Brokenshire perhaps take a trip to Mosul and explain to the Islamic State how they’re misunderstanding the Religion of Peace?

“Aid worker murder ‘nothing to do with Islam,'” AsianImage, September 15, 2014:

The brutal murder of British aid worker David Haines has “nothing to do with Islam”, the Immigration Minister has said.

James Brokenshire condemned the killing at the hands of Islamic State and called for more people to speak out against extremism as he met community leaders at a mosque in Barking, east London.

He said: “Faith institutions such as the Al Medina Mosque demonstrate how people are at their best when we work together. It is clear from the many activities and donations from across the UK that many of us feel the plight of the Syrian people.

“We are also unified in our condemnation of the atrocious acts of brutality which we have seen unfolding in Iraq and Syria. We stand together in condemning terrorism and extremism but also in being clear that these have nothing to do with Islam or any other faith.

“As the Prime Minister said, the root of these actions lies in a poisonous political ideology that a small minority support. In contrast, Islam is a religion which is observed peacefully and devoutly by more than a billion people.”

Islamic State militants released a video over the weekend showing the beheading of Mr Haines. The footage also featured British hostage Alan Henning with a threat that he would be the next to be killed.

Mr Brokenshire said it was “heartening” to see how many people were making clear that these acts were “alien” to religion.

He urged people to join the social media campaign #notinmyname, adding: “It is so important that these voices are heard and that they are joined in solidarity by many more.”

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  1. Wellington says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    Oh God, here we go again.

    Really, this pretend game by Western elites to the effect that Islam is a religion of nobility, peace and tolerance, and it’s just and only been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists, is arguably the stupidest and most craven and most lethal action in all of Western history. Munich 1938, by comparison, is coming off more and more as an intelligent delaying action.

    Yes, this is how awful the current crop of Western elites really are. The Camerons and Obamas are presently, in effect, handing Western Civilization over to the believers in the oldest fascism of them all———Islam.

    • Beagle says

      Sep 15, 2014 at 8:41 pm

      Agree completely. Islam is a primal theocratic Ur fascism. In order to save multicultural delusions, their secular religion, our leaders find it necessary to sacrifice some innocent people, PC shahids.

      Deceiving everyone is sometimes necessary when truth interferes with social engineering based on a foundation of more lies. It’s lies all the way down. What could go wrong?

    • Elizabeth Levesque says

      Sep 17, 2014 at 4:56 am

      Agree. If one more PM or President or Secretary of State says that a Muslim who cuts off the head of a Western journalist or Aid Worker is not acting within Islam I am just going to scream. If one more person says, “Islam is peaceful” I am going to puke. I cannot stand all the lies. All the covering up. I cannot stand Obama, Kerry, Cameron, Erogan and the list goes on and on. My nostrils are filled to capacity with the stench from the lies piled up like rotting garbage. They are all in on it.

      • Rob says

        Oct 11, 2014 at 5:18 pm

        Surely the separation of Church and State would prevent a government official claiming any right to say what Islam is, or isn’t?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 18, 2014 at 7:13 pm

      So true, Wellington. After every fresh Muslim atrocity, we can always count on two things: firstly, Western “leaders” falling all over themselves to assure us that this has nothing to do with Islam, and Muslims whining about “Islamophobia” and a non-existent “back lash”. *Ugh*.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    Hey, Immigration Minister, why don’t you invite all the Pakistanis to come to Britain as immigrants, you have nothing to fear from them, they are not throat cutters. This should do wonders to your multi-culti culture where hundreds of UK boys and girls are kept as sex slaves by Muslims and you have no guts to liberate them? I wonder what happened to the British Lion which has become pussy cat by PC mad liberals!!

  3. Isabella says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    I hope these politicians know that all the recent beheadings have everything to do with Islam and they just pretend to be stupid to fool the Islamists.

    • John C. Barile says

      Sep 15, 2014 at 8:34 pm

      Well, they may sound stupid; and they may look stupid; but don’t let any of that fool you–they are stupid.

      • Lydia Baldwin says

        Oct 11, 2014 at 1:42 pm

        LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

  4. Champ says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:26 pm

    Next …and islam has nothing to do with islam? Got it!

  5. Ed says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    Could someone please explain the reason(s) why they won’t tell the truth?

    • Champ says

      Sep 15, 2014 at 8:37 pm

      muslims lie, and lying is allah approved courtesy the unholy quran …

      • gerard says

        Sep 16, 2014 at 8:34 am

        I think he means: Why won’t the politicians tell the truth? (Rather than the Muslims).

    • Paul Weston says

      Sep 17, 2014 at 9:00 am

      The answer is simple. If politicians publicly state Islam is dangerous, then the public will ask them to do something about it. If politicians actually DID something about it, the Muslims would take to the streets. From there we are looking at a potential civil war. No politician wants this to happen on their watch, so they do nothing, thereby passing the buck onto the shoulders of our children and grandchildren who will face far greater numbers of Muslims in the future.

  6. London Jim says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    Mr Brokenshire has evidently overlooked the irony of his own name as he willingly submits another corner of this once green and pleasant land to a politically totalitarian ideology. What a mug.

  7. Rob says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    That would account for the continual Episcopalian chant of Allah Akhbar during the beheadings.

  8. Richie says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    How can we defeat an enemy that we are afraid to name??????

    • Linda-Teresa Merwood says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 8:56 pm

      This link gives the full history – it’s different than most people think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 18, 2014 at 7:08 pm

        Yes—Bill Warner is excellent.

  9. somehistory says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    Proverbs 13:16

  10. Smart Guy says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 8:57 pm

    Islam is not the only religion whereby believers are not required to tell the truth to non believers. The Jewish Talmud teaches that Jews are only required to tell the truth to other Jews. “Thou shalt not bear false witness to your neighbor” If you do not consider non believers to be your “Neighbor” then telling them the truth is not required. The word Catholic is Latin and means universal, Christianity interprets the 10 Commandments as being universal, hence Christianity is evangelical, preaching universal truth telling to all.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 3:26 am

      It’s the Muslims, not the Jews, who are waging a merciless war against the whole world and have a culture – if one may dignify it with the word “culture” – that is suffused with nonsense and lies.

      I don’t see nonsense and lies of that sort, when I look at the House of Israel, whether at Jewish communities in diaspora, or at the modern state of Israel, nor when I look at Jewish history.

      So trying to claim that Judaism is as bad as or just the same as Islam is simply silly. The fruits of the two systems are radically and manifestly different, which indicates that the core teachings, the core paradigm, are different.

      Just a reminder: Christianity would not exist without the Jews; the house of Israel is the mother of Christianity. Jesus’ mother was a Jew, Jesus was – and is – a Jew who quoted from Hebrew scripture even as he died on the Cross; his disciples were Jews. So where did they get their ideas from? (David Bentley Hart’s books on Christianity make it pretty damn clear that Christianity *cannot* be derived from Greco-Roman paganism nor from any other of the surrounding pagan belief systems).

    • Neil Jennison says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 6:40 am

      Smart Guy, even if what you say is true (I have never heard that argued by any Jews themselves), what relevance has it?

      Jews aren’t hacking heads off or trying to conquer the world and subdue none Jews.

      Judaism isn’t even an evangelistic religion.

    • Evenso says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 1:36 pm

      Catholicism is not the founder nor originator of Christianity, it is a pagan interloper and therefore has no bearing on this discussion.

    • Western Canadian says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 11:18 pm

      I doubt if there is anyone on this board, with as pathetically a false handle as you…. You are not smart, just a Jew bashing jackass and moron.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 18, 2014 at 7:19 pm

      Witless false moral equivalence from “Smart Guy”.

  11. London Jim says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    . . Kinda reminds me of my lumpy next door neighbor Helen Darbyshire, in Van Mildert college, Durham University. She sported the Palistinian headscarf and was not fond of me booming Dylan albums on my stereo.

  12. PRCS says

    Sep 15, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    I had never heard that song before.

    But, I know what a Vincent is.

  13. rubiconcrest says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 12:05 am

    Asian Image has this to say about comments …”Remember … Do not post anything that is false, abusive or malicious.”
    Naturally, they can publish something that is false; peddle it as the truth.

  14. Dianara says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 12:07 am

    Ofcourse these coward, traitorous politicians will tell us that islam is a religion of peace.
    After they have opened our borders and invited millions of muslims into our countries, gave them free housing, food stamps, free education for their children, free healthcare, how could they now admit that the people they brought in are dangerous murderers ??!!

  15. pumbar says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 1:16 am

    Beheaded immigration minister says that his beheading has nothing to with islam, thanks to a local islamic ventriloquist.

  16. TK Field says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 1:27 am

    Whenever I hear someone say that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, I immediately know it has EVERYTHING to do with Islam. To paraphrase Forrest Gump…”Islam is as Islam does”.

  17. Champ ✿ says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 2:32 am

    “Islamic State does has nothing to do with Islam: Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron, Philip Hammond, Tony Abbott”

    Gentlemen, that’s a bald-faced lie! …tsk, tsk!

  18. fair_dinkum says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 3:44 am

    well find out what IS causing it, if not islam, and address it.

    you cant.

    twat.

  19. No Fear says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 5:14 am

    Quran 47:4 has nothing to do with Islam?

  20. John M. Oda says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 5:17 am

    Every time I try to start a comment, I feel sick and sorry for all the Americans who come on this web site and comment! We need to really educate our people not only on Islamic history and religion but, put some extra ones for the future! I say brothers, You have all watched movies of Red Indians and the American Cavalries! When the Red Indians attacks the Fort, the first thing the Cavalries do is to sound the bugle! Today, the Muslims try to attack, their bugle is “ALLAH WAKBAR”! This should really get you ready to GET YOUR GUN AND START TO ELIMINATE THESE FILTHS!! It will take a long time to educate our people about Islam and many think they know it all or, may be some of it! Listen, let us stop fooling ourselves and our nice people! Let us not play big words like “Islamophobic”! Islam hates us and calls us the INFIDELS which gives them the right to kill us while they think they are the chosen people of God. I am sick and tired of all this bullshit! I ran away from their filthy countries, chose American, my favorite country in the universe and these filth were brought here in big numbers, not to build our country like I did but to destroy it and us. So, I say, FUCK ISLAM, FUCK THE RELIGION OF SATAN and start shooting any S.O.B. who opens his filthy mouth and say anything bad about my COUNTRY! Hey, if you don’t like, get the FUCK OUT! Go back to the snake pit you came in from because we did not invite you in but you KISSED OUR ASSES AND FEET TO LET YOU IN! Remember! There is a VISA TO COME IN and there is also A VISA TO KICK YOUR ASSES OUT!! I am sorry for my profanity but, THEY JUST MAKE ME SICK OF MY LIFE! I am an Immigrant myself! I came here (45) years ago and I still get down on my hands and knees and kiss THE GROUND I WALK ON! I served this country for FOUR AND HALF YEARS IN IRAQ, WAS INJURED but to me this was BLESSING FROM GOD BECAUSE AT LEAST I PAID MAY BE 10% OF WHAT I OWE THIS GODLY AND BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE IT FILTHIED AND DESTROYED. May God Bless America, Bless its Brave and beautiful boys (I always call them MY BOYS) in the Uniform whom I worked with and I have and are still missing and keep them always safe and the #1 in the entire world.

    • Elizabeth Levesque says

      Sep 17, 2014 at 5:01 am

      I know exactly how you feel.

  21. Cindy says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 5:27 am

    The whole world has fallen prey to the evil sway of islam!!!! We are under judgement of Almighty God and we have been found lacking. If we don’t humble ourselves ask for forgiveness and do it soon, we are looking at some very bad times to come. God will only call so long then He will leave sinful man to his ways. America especially should know better, we are a nation founded on the principles of God!! Even if the left tries to change that or ignore that does NOT change the fact!!! America for the most part has abandoned Jesus Christ, yes there are a few who still love and believe in Him but as a whole, America has turned her back on Christ. God, is a jealous God, He wants all our devotion. We can NOT serve and uphold the things of God while trying to appease the muslims!!! And it is our God that rules and is All-Powerful!! There is none like our God and only He can rescue us from evil!!! And there is alot of evil in the world today!!!

    • gerard says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 9:57 am

      The apostasy of the West from the Christian faith is precisely what allowed Islam to make such headway into the West.

      Matthew 7:24-27
      “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
      and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
      And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;
      and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”

  22. Ken Margo says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 5:51 am

    Reminds me how the same class of people (the British Establishment) in the 1930s claimed that Nazi ideology, had nothing to do with German culture. Which as we all know. didnt prevent Nazism taking over not only Germany.
    Many people have a psychological block against accepting a discriminatory dogma which results in inhumane events.,so they try to rationalise it as being really just aberrations of a value system which is the same as theirs. In th

    • GlandInMyHand says

      Sep 20, 2014 at 9:16 pm

      Keep taking the tablets!

  23. Charli Main says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 6:02 am

    This Friday millions of Muslims are going to pour out of Mosques all over Britain and on to the streets, hurling abuse at all those Islamic State mis understanders of Islam.
    I can already see, a sea of banners waving in the wind, carrying messages ” not in our name” ” IS shames Islam” ” behead all mis understanders of Islam” ” Kaffirs are our brothers”.
    and yes, out in front, with a megaphone, is “baroness” Wasi leading the chanting against the actions of the Islamic State.
    Opps, my alarm clock has just gone off–been dreaming again !!!!!

  24. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 6:42 am

    Was Mohammed the beheader anything to do with Islam?

  25. pongidae rex says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 7:37 am

    That is like saying someone wearing a KKK ghost suit and cutting the throats of black people has nothing to do with racism. The magical thinking and shameless idiocy of Western leadership is more terrifying than the atrocities of the Islamists.

    • Western Canadian says

      Sep 16, 2014 at 11:37 pm

      Actually, most of the racist violence in the US is currently committed by blacks, against white, Asians, and anyone else…. and you are ABSOLUTELY not allowed to even suggest that this racist violence, which includes murder, is racist in its origin….. Sickening, isn’t it???

  26. gerard says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 9:48 am

    “…nothing to do with Islam or any other faith.”
    Notice the sleight of hand of this servant of the underworld.
    No one suggested any other faith is involved here.
    He introduces smoke, other religions, as cover for Islam.

  27. Angemon says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 9:59 am

    The brutal murder of British aid worker David Haines has “nothing to do with Islam”, the Immigration Minister has said.

    It seems the immigration minister took his degree in Islamic Studies in the same place as PM Cameron – in the University of McIgnoreReality. Why don’t they both immigrate to ISIS and spare us to their brain farts – if not outright deception?

  28. Gene says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 11:55 am

    Islam has nothing to do with Islam. Muhammad has nothing to do with Islam. Muslims have nothing to do with Islam. Human sacrifice and murder in the name of Islam has nothing to so with Islam. That man with the knife coming up behind me repeating “Allahu Akbar” over and over again has nothing to do with Islam. I’m glad there is no problem with Isla….

  29. Wolfgang says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    As a T- shirt I saw once read…………..” Kill ’em all and let God sort em out….

  30. Linda Rivera says

    Sep 17, 2014 at 9:50 pm

    James Brokenshire, Obama and Cameron: ISIS terrorists would really love for you leaders to pay them a visit. ISIS will be delighted to show you the many verses in the quran and the hadith that prove that beheadings and other satanic atrocities are very much Islam.

    Brokenshire, Obama and Cameron and all you other Western leader LIARS and TRAITORS, ISIS would not only show you in the quran they would be DELIGHTED to personally give each one of you a physical demonstration.

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