British authorities have assumed that Qari Mahmood was a “moderate.” He received a community award from local officials (who were also Muslim). Will British authorities ever wake up and realize that what Qari Mahmood has said here is not “extremist,” but reflects core Islamic teaching? Probably not.
“London preacher and friend hail fanatic who killed politician in Pakistan as ‘hero and martyr,'” by David Churchill, Evening Standard, April 15, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A London preacher and his friend sparked outrage today by praising a fanatic who murdered a Pakistani politician for criticising the country’s strict Islamic laws.
Former imam Qari Mahmood, 38, and Khalid Iqbal Malik, 43, who attend Lea Bridge Road mosque in Leyton, hailed killer Mumtaz Qadri “a hero” and “a martyr”.
Qadri was convicted of killing Punjab governor Salman Taseer after shooting him 28 times over his support for liberal reforms of blasphemy laws in 2011.
In an online video published last month, hours after Qadri’s funeral following his state execution, Mr Mahmood, of Waltham Forest, hails him “a hero” and blesses his “martyrdom”.
He adds: “We are praying to Allah that he will grant us the same martyrdom… this is a man who loves God and his Prophet.
“People are crying for him and praying for him…. and you can see how moving the funeral is… God help us to take his mission forward.”
The video appeared on online media channel Zara Sochoo — run by Mr Malik — which has more than 60,000 followers.
When asked why the clip was put on the channel’s Facebook page, Mr Malik also hailed Qadri a “martyr”.
He said he did not recall the video but added: “He [Qadri] did a great act. It was not murder because, you know, not everyone’s opinions are the same.
“Mumtaz Qadri was a great religious person. In front of him, someone said to his Holy Prophet something [bad] like that, so he shot him.”
Waltham Forest council is investigating and councillor Ahsan Khan has stepped down from his cabinet role after it emerged he had organised a mini ceremony on January 28 at which Mr Malik was presented with a community award for building up a large online following.
Mr Malik was handed a crest bearing the borough’s coat of arms by mayor Saima Mahmud.
During the ceremony, councillor Khan praised the cleric for the channel’s “good content” and for it getting “over 500,000 hits across Europe”….

copakeman says
Anyone other ten government officials surprised ?
Angemon says
BC says
These are the types who whip up the younger ones to go off and die but are not eager to set the example and go themselves. Hypocrites one an all.
Ex-muslim says
(UK: Muslim cleric praises killer of foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws)
In a sound world, such a hateful, jihadist animal should be executed or jailed for life without mercy but in the politically-correct West he can say these bloody things because Westerners think these things are covered under “democracy & freedom” etc. This is extreeeeemely furstrating!!!
mortimer says
Agree with Ex. It is frustrating that the UK has little trouble with supremacism, misogyny, Jew hatred and calls to violence against the West coming from mullahs. However, they cannot tolerate anyone who supports Israel or criticizes jihad terrorism.
Whoever is creating such contradictory policies is unread in the source texts of Islam and must believe that Islam is inherently benign in spite of the evidence to the contrary in Islamic history.
Jihad terrorism will increase if the UK government does not actively begin to deprogram Muslims out of Islam.
Angemon says
Yeah, damn Westerners and their crazy notions such as “freedom of speech”!!! Just because we don’t like what he says we should go out and kill him!!! Killing people for what they say? Who wouldn’t want to live in such a wonderful world?
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim cleric praises killer of foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
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*Damn barbarian*. This should not surprise, though.
And this is what he and his coreligionists want for us, as well.
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He adds: “We are praying to Allah that he will grant us the same martyrdom… this is a man who loves God and his Prophet.
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And how would a Muslim based in civilized Britain find such a “martyrdom”? Unless he decamps for Dar-al-Islam, it will be by murdering Infidels here.
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“People are crying for him and praying for him…. and you can see how moving the funeral is… God help us to take his mission forward.”
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And what was his mission? To impose brutal Shari’ah–including blasphemy laws–everywhere.
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Waltham Forest council is investigating and councillor Ahsan Khan has stepped down from his cabinet role after it emerged he had organised a mini ceremony on January 28 at which Mr Malik was presented with a community award for building up a large online following.
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Thank goodness this is still an embarrassment in today’s Britain!
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Mr Malik was handed a crest bearing the borough’s coat of arms by mayor Saima Mahmud.
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Poet and aesthetician William Morris of the art movement the Pre-Raphealites was born in this borough, long before it had been overrun by Mohammedans. This fact is on the borough’s sign, right below the beautiful medieval crest.
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During the ceremony, councillor Khan praised the cleric for the channel’s “good content” and for it getting “over 500,000 hits across Europe”….
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“Hits” has a rather more ominous meaning here.
Do Muslim Mayor Mahmoud and Councillor Khan care?
Probably not. Here is The Waltham Forest Council of Mosques:
“Society of mosques to boycott ‘racist’ anti-terror Prevent programme”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/17/society-of-mosques-to-boycott-anti-terror-prevent-programme
mortimer says
What do Pakistani lawyers know that Western elites do not?
Answer: Pakistani lawyers know Sharia law (because it’s part of the Pakistan legal system).
So why did a hundred gowned Pakistani lawyers parade to his opening trial and shower Qadri with rose petals? Did they believe that VIGILANTE KILLING OF APOSTATES WAS SUPPORTED BY SHARIA LAW? They did.
More than 500 of Pakistan’s religious scholars from the group Jamat Ahle Sunnat said no one should pray or express regret for the killing of the governor. Do they know Sharia law? They do.
60,000 supporters of vigilante murder also attended Qadri’s funeral. Can so many people knowledgeable about Sharia law be wrong? Not likely, is it.
When a scholar from Al Azhar University was called as a witness at a similar matter tried in Egypt, he said that if the state fails to kill an apostate from Islam, then ‘someone else has to do it’…a vigilante, I suppose. Normative Islam, rather than an aberration.
mortimer says
British elites wouldn’t be able to see the difference between a jihadist and a cucumber! They have totally neglected reading the sources of the information they need to make policy: THE FOUNDATIONAL SOURCE TEXTS OF ISLAM. The source texts will reveal political Islam’s CORE DOCTRINES.
The CORE teachings of POLITICAL Islam are: 1) the kafir doctrine 2) misogyny 3) supremacism 4) Islam’s apartheid doctrine: al Walaa wal Baraa 5) the taqiyya doctrine 6) the revenge doctrine 7) the vigilantism doctrine 8) the hejira-jihad doctrine 9) theocratic fascism 10) the world conquest doctrine 11) the non-reformability doctrine.
British elites have a GAPING LACUNA of ignorance about political Islam. That hardly qualifies them to have a valid opinion on the subject of Islam, let alone to make policy. They preposterously think that post-colonial resentment explains Islam. It does not. Islam explains itself.
British elites have unresearched opinions about Islam that are no more than conjecture, presumption, surmisal, inference, imagination and unlearned theorization. Shame on them.
Such hypothesizing elites have no right to make policy about Islam.
Islam is DUALISTIC and thus Islam is more complicated than it looks.
Jay Boo says
“complicated”
No
“Islam is DUALISTIC”
Yes
1 Some Muslims are peaceful.
2 Some Muslims want to cut our heads off.
Mark says
Peacefull, terrorist in waiting who in the meantime proclaims islam is a relligion of peace and blah blah blah.
sidney penny says
Can you imagine how many Muslims all over the world support this murderer,Mumtaz Qadri, and openly?
No other religious community would support one from their religion supporting a murderer.
Not only do they support him but call him a hero!
and this includes many Pakistani lawyers who showered him with rose petals when he appeared in court!
Go figure that out.
Tomas says
http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/Pages/gallery.csp?cid=3782164&pid=3327721
Morag says
“Khan praised the cleric for the channel’s “good content” and for it getting “over 500,000 hits across Europe”…
In fairness, given that there are more than 44 million Muslims in Europe, this is only a minority tuning in for his particular hate speech and incitement. Just not that tiny a minority.
mortimer says
Qari Mahmood wrote: “God help us to take his mission forward.”
That is soliciting assassination. Who is next on Mahmood’s assassination list? Should Scotland Yard be interested in obtaining his list? Are they going to question Mahmood? Is he under surveillance?
Probably, 15% of UK Muslims agree with Mahmood’s admiration of vigilantism. That’s one Muslim in six.
Mark says
If they are muslim they will all agree.
Mark says
Lea Bridge mosque holds an annual ‘lets annoy non muslims with a long procession, lots of noise and with banners claiming satan is god and how wonderfull paedomuhampig is. (not those exact words of course).
The area is medium to high infestion.
Would not expect walthamstow council to do much they are very pc and ignorant or scared of what islam really is.
But lets wait and see.
Every mosque is of course terrorism teaching, waiting for the day they can rise up with sufficient numbers.
Angemon says
Do they blast the muezzin through loudspeakers at 5 am?
John Magne Trane says
Same thing in Norway.
And one of the clerics in question, has a close relationship with the Labour Party. And the former PM from that party is now General Secretary of NATO…
Jack HOLAN says
Brits, Muslim and Non-Muslim should be asking themselves how much long they will enjoy their Freedom of Speech without the penalty of Death. Recent polls indicate not too long. Imam Qari Mahmood will tell you that you don’t have the Freedom to insult Islam today without losing your Life.
Frau Merkel, alleged former East German Stasi Member has already taken action against Freedom of Speech/Expression in Germany unprecedented since Adolph Hitler. No longer can you insult Islamist Despots such as Erdogan of Turkey the one who denies the Turkish of 1.5mm Armenians in 1915 but claims Muslims discovered America and built a Mosque before leaving you can’t poke fun at him without going to prison and it stands to reason you won’t be able to talk about migrant nor her without criminal charges. Merkel’s New Germany sounds too familiar to another Germany. I’m my larger Jewish Family will get it!