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UK Muslim: Asking Muslims to stop others from joining ISIS will drive them to ISIS

Apr 13, 2015 12:19 pm By Robert Spencer

Amira Abase Kadiza Sultana Shamima BegumMohammed Kozbar says, “Every time the issue of young British Muslims going to Syria is raised, the same question is asked by both the media and the government: Why isn’t the Muslim community doing more to stop these young people joining Islamic State (Isis)?”

Then he answers: “But while the Muslim community should rightly shoulder some responsibility to address this problem, simply putting all the blame and responsibility at the doors of our community will only risk alienating, marginalising and criminalising a new generation of Muslim youth.”

Did you catch that? He is saying that we cannot ask the Muslim community to do more to stop young Muslims from joining the Islamic State, because if we do, we will drive young Muslims to join the Islamic State.

Then he compounds this nonsense by claiming that Muslims are “second-class citizens” in Britain. He should ask Christians in Mosul or Bahais in Iran or Hindus in Bangladesh if they would rather be treated the way they are treated now, or if they would prefer to be treated the way Muslims are in the UK. I guarantee you that they would opt for the latter.

And anyway, we see the British Prime Minister going cap in hand to Muslim groups and delivering shamefully obsequious talks. We see thousands — thousands! — of non-Muslim girls’ lives destroyed by Muslim rape gangs who were not prosecuted for fear of appearing “racist” and offending Muslims. We see the BBC and other organs of mainstream opinion anxious not to broadcast anything that might cast Muslims in a negative light. We see people banned from entering Britain just for telling unwelcome truths about Islam. In other words, we see that in Britain Muslims are not second-class citizens, they’re a privileged class.

But Mohammed Kozbar knows that that privilege is bought with the coin of victimhood, and so that is what he is minting here.

“Isis in the UK: Pig-headed racism and British policy is pushing young Muslims towards Islamic State,” by Mohammed Kozbar, International Business Times, April 13, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

Every time the issue of young British Muslims going to Syria is raised, the same question is asked by both the media and the government: Why isn’t the Muslim community doing more to stop these young people joining Islamic State (Isis)?

But while the Muslim community should rightly shoulder some responsibility to address this problem, simply putting all the blame and responsibility at the doors of our community will only risk alienating, marginalising and criminalising a new generation of Muslim youth.

Impressionable young Muslims who are steered towards extremism are British citizens and our government is duty-bound to engage with both them and the leaders of the Muslim community. The solution is not to issue new counter terrorism bills, a strategy which has largely failed.

The fact is some young Muslims feel they are second-class citizens in Britain. Many face inequality and discrimination at work, anti-Muslim hatred and even physical attacks.

It is irresponsible for pundits, politicians and commentators to dismiss outright a link between British foreign policy and radicalisation. Young Muslims are often politicised and sometimes radicalised by daily news of fellow Muslims attacked, killed, oppressed and denied the freedom to lead their own lives….

A study by Islamophobia network research recently claimed $57m is spent on spreading hate against Muslims in America through the media and by politicians.

This is nonsense, of course. The amount is fanciful, spent over many years to many disparate groups labeled “Islamophobic,” while the Leftist hate group that produced the report has a $50 million budget in one year alone. Also, the question of motive is never discussed: why would anyone care so much about Muslims as to spend even a penny, much less 57 million dollars, on some gratuitous effort to make them look bad? The very idea is absurd.

I wonder how much has been spent here in the UK? We recently saw the case of the so-called Trojan horse scandal – where a “plot” was alleged by which extremist Muslims planned to infiltrate schools. It transpired that there never was a plot in the first place….

Yes, this plot is so fictional that 100 Muslim teachers are facing being banned for their participation in it.

But despite our best efforts, we are still subject to anti-Muslim hate attacks. We have had a pig’s head hung on our gates; our mosque has been fire-bombed; white powder sent to our Imam; and we have received numerous death threats.

None of this is justified, if any of it happened. However, let’s remember that the man writing it is in the UK, where Muslims brutally murdered a British soldier on a London street. And where Muslims on July 7, 2005 set off coordinated jihad bombs that killed 52 and injured over 700. To suggest that a pig’s head on a mosque’s gates is equivalent to that only shows how much it is not equivalent, and how Muslims in Britain are generally not in danger.

Violence breeds violence and this cycle must stop. There is a desperate need for a dialogue and understanding of the real issues at play in order to find solutions to our problems and challenges. Scapegoating the Muslim community or trying to divide the community on nefarious grounds is not the solution.

Let us all start today by acknowledging that Muslims are part of British society and like all communities they need understanding and support, rather than hate and the criminalisation of their faith.

In other words, follow the U.S. government’s lead in removing all mention of Islam and jihad from study of terrorism, and pretend that there is no jihad against the free world.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United Kingdom Tagged With: Mohammed Kozbar


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  1. cs says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    Logic, where are you? Hello? Are you there?

  2. James Phillips says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    In effect, Britain is being invaded but the government refuses to acknowledge the full extent of it. This is unprecedented in history. In general, our politicians are idiots.

    • PJG says

      Apr 14, 2015 at 9:54 pm

      Even idiots can smell danger. No, I can’t believe the problem is “idiocy”. It has to be something else. Britain has been handed over, and the various British governments are managing the handover. There are too many ways this situation could have been prevented, stalled, or reversed. But it has not. Even the Big Hope, UKIP, will continue in the same direction if elected. Britain is headed for either abject dhimmitude or revolution.

  3. rfa says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    All those going to ISIS will regret it.

  4. Ricky Black says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Paul said in the New Testament that the god of this world is Satan. I think Satan lives in Saudi Arabia in Mecca .

    • Jerry says

      Apr 15, 2015 at 2:28 am

      Not exactly.

      Satan lives everywhere, in most Muslim hearts.

  5. Nimrod says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    Anything that even remotely suggests anything negative about Islam will drive Muslims to ISIS, drive them to riot and burn cars, or drive them to kill critics. And of course all of this will be your fault, always. And if you question this statement it will also drive Muslims to ISIS which will be your fault. And oh, this statement will also drive Muslims to ISIS, or drive them to kill me, and that will be my fault of course.

    Gotta love that infinitely recursive circular Muslim logic that always leads to one conclusion: if Muslims do anything negative then it’s always the fault of non-Muslims.

  6. Charli Main says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    Of course, these Muslim vermin infesting Britain are going to keep playing the ” poor Muslim ” victim card. Its working, so why should they stop ????

  7. Oliver says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    What the hell has some (supposedly) $57 million SPENT IN THE UNITED STATES AGAINST MUSLIMS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN JOINING ISIS????

    Just asking.

    By the way, I personally would hope that THOUSANDS more ( from Florida ( where I live) and other parts of the US would leave to join ISIS. AND TAKE THEIR EXTENDED FAMILIES WITH THEM.

    And get killed, the sooner the better.

  8. abad says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    Let them all join ISL and leave the western world.

  9. Dee says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    Drive them? Mature people have an internal locus of control.

  10. Lee says

    Apr 14, 2015 at 6:38 am

    Mohammed Kozbar writes of UK Muslims: “The fact is some young Muslims feel they are second-class citizens in Britain. Many face inequality and discrimination at work, anti-Muslim hatred and even physical attacks. …Young Muslims are often politicised and sometimes radicalised by daily news of fellow Muslims attacked, killed, oppressed and denied the freedom to lead their own lives….”

    In Australia, Keysar Trad writes of Australian Muslims (see http://www.theage.com.au/national/persecution-pushing-young-australian-muslims-to-the-margins-of-society-says-leader-20150409-1mhhj5.html ):

    ‘Australian Muslims were confronted with “systemic discrimination”, opportunistic political commentary, unemployment and “duplicitous standards” in law enforcement.”

    ‘Young Australians are joining terror groups because their “blood is boiling” at domestic persecution and international atrocities committed by the West’

    ‘His comments were reflected in a recent study that found ONE IN FIVE Australian Muslims THINK TERRORISTS have LEGITIMATE GRIEVANCES.’

    “Why do we wonder why the blood inside that young Muslim doesn’t boil to the extent that he feels that he has to do something?…It is hard to argue with a young person who starts to cite all these issues, you can see the fire in their bellies, you in fact feel the same fire yourself,” he said.’

    Notice the similarities? These murderous fascists and rapist aiders and abettors from the UK to Australia use the same patently FALSE victim-narrative as a diversion from their goal of Islamic conquest.

    Muslims rape tens of thousands of white girls, and incredibly, manipulate our elites to answer: “Oh, sorry for irritating you to the point of making you do it!”

    Muslims commit terrorist attacks, and the elites respond: “Oh, sorry we didn’t welcome you in the required manner!”

    All minority religions feel alienated from time to time, but Islam is an exception, as every attempt is made to defer to its sensibilities, and to actively *promote* it at times.

    Meanwhile Scientologists are regularly ridiculed and their religion publicly vilified in the media here in Australia, ditto Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Hare Krishnas – and NONE of these groups claim to have to respond with terrorism, rape, etc.

    Journalists lap up the Muslim victim-narrative of course, because the ongoing civil conflict this perpetuates feeds their most profitable TV show – the nightly news (and newspapers of course).

  11. Laura says

    Apr 14, 2015 at 6:58 am

    Asking them not to go is not the answer, after all, if you tell someone not to think of elephants you can guarantee that that’s all they will be able to think of! Tell a muslim not to do something and you can be sure he will do it.
    If I was in charge i would tell them, ‘okay, you go to Syria, but you will never be allowed re-entry to the UK ever again, assuming you survive the violence, so make your choice.’

  12. Jack HOLAN says

    Apr 14, 2015 at 8:26 am

    What a knucklehead. The Bhai in Iran Aran are treat rated better than the Second Class Muslim Citizen in the UK. Get the fake sympathathy violins out immediately I see the aggressor becoming the victim besides is this Muslim aware that Bhais are one of the religious categories in Iran that are a illegal? This being the case I suppose the Bhat would prefer to be a second class citizen. However Mr Muslim how are you second class. Can you vote, hold office, get medical treatment, attend public school, go to public universisity worship as you please? How are you second class? Is it because people look upon you with suspicion that you have community members join ISIS and fight against Christianity and Judiasm? It’s probably the same way people if Irish descent were looked upon during the heyday of the IRA. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT TAKE RESPONSIBILIY AND LEAVE FOR A MUSLIM COUNTRY UNDER SHARIA AND ENJOY THEIR FREEDOM. I BELIEVE ANYONE JOINING ISIS SHIULD BE STRUOPED OF THERE CITIZENSHIP AND NOT ALLOWED BACK INTO THE UK.

  13. Jerry says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 2:18 am

    The Mozzie quoted is perfectly correct.

    The reason young Mozzie join IS is because they are radicalised by reading the Qur’an and Hadith and being exposed to Mozzie preachers who preach the contents thereof.

    If the preacher would preach against it they would discover that the preaching is in conflict with Qur’an and Hadith, and preacher would lose his credibility.

    Unfortunately, the only way to stop this cycle is to expose the Qur’an and Hadith as the man made fabrications which they are, and eradicate them, as well as close all mosques.

    All Mozzies should be given the option of renouncing the religion of death, hate and violence, and taking an appropriate oath of allegiance, or being relocated to the places of their ethnic or cultural origins.

    This should take care of the imported Mozzies as well as the home brewed ones who identify with IS land culturally.

    Unfortunately there is no hope for “Multiculturalism” as the Mozzie “Culture” forbids peaceful co-existence.

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