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UK allows Muslim cleric who inspired jihad murderer to enter country

May 7, 2016 5:38 pm By Robert Spencer

Leftists and Islamic supremacists occasionally invoke the fact that I am banned from entering the UK as if it were some sort of blot on my record. Here is why it isn’t: the UK Home Office letter to me said that I was banned for saying this: “[Islam] is a religion and is a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society because media and general government unwillingness to face the sources of Islamic terrorism these things remain largely unknown.” This is a garbled version of what I actually said, which is that Islam in its traditional formulations and core texts mandates warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. This is not actually a controversial point to anyone who has studied Islam. It was tantamount to banning me for saying that the sky is blue and the grass is green.

Meanwhile, this man, who directly called for the murder of a foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, was admitted with no problem. Does any fair-minded person think that in banning me and admitting Qureshi, Theresa May and the UK Home Office are exercising sober and trustworthy prudential judgment?

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UK Death Watch Update: “Son of murdered Pakistani liberal outraged as cleric who inspired assassin is allowed to speak in UK,” by Tom Porter, International Business Times, May 5, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The son of a liberal Pakistani politician murdered for his moderate views has criticised Home Secretary Theresa May for allowing a radical Islamist cleric, who inspired the assasin [sic], to enter the UK to preach.

Mufti Muhammad Hanif Qureshi spoke at a Luton mosque on Thursday May 4 as part of an event at the Jamia Islamia Ghousia Trust. A spokesman for the mosque confirmed Mufti Qureshi had made a “very, very impressive” speech to an audience of hundreds.

In 2011 politician Salmaan Taseer, who opposed Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws, was shot dead by his bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri. After his arrest, Qadri claimed he had been inspired to act by a 2010 sermon delivered by Mufti Qureshi in Rawalpindi, in which the cleric branded the likes of Taseer as liable to be killed under Islamic law.

Qureshi was arrested after Taseer’s murder, but was not charged and subsequently released on bail. Qadri was sentenced to death for the murder, but in public sermons Qureshi continued to defend the assassin before he was hung in January 2016.

The home secretary can stop people entering the UK if she believes there is a threat to national security, public order or the safety of citizens.

Taseer’s son, Shehryar, criticised UK authorities for allowing Qureshi to visit.

“He has in particular incited Mumtaz Qadri to murder my father. There is footage of that.

“What annoys me is how easy it is for him to manipulate the system, and I see him doing the same thing in going to the UK. He is not going there for a vacation, I am sure about that.”…

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  1. jewdog says

    May 7, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    “Does any fair-minded person think that in banning me and admitting Qureshi, Theresa May and the UK Home Office are exercising sober and trustworthy prudential judgment?”
    Of course not. But once Britain becomes fully Sharia-compliant, alcohol will be banned and then Theresa May and her cronies will sober up; but alas, it will be too late to reverse the ban, and you wouldn’t want to go there.

    • mortimer says

      May 7, 2016 at 9:22 pm

      If I were Taseer’s son, Shehryar, I would be beside myself that the UK government would invite this hate-preacher to the country where I fled to be safe from him!

      This is insanity! If no one is allowed to refute what Mufti Muhammad Hanif Qureshi says, his poison will cause more apostates to be murdered.

      The UK must decide if they are on the side of vigilantism or opposed to it. There is no middle ground in the matter of Islamic vigilantism.

      • Shane says

        May 8, 2016 at 11:12 am

        The left wing traitors who run the UK and other European countries have guaranteed that the UK will submit to Islam and become an Islamic republic before the end of this century. Sweden and Belgium will be destroyed first, but the UK will fall to Islamic Jihad.

  2. Hope says

    May 7, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    A spokesman for the mosque confirmed Mufti Qureshi had made a “very, very impressive” speech to an audience of hundreds.

    Yes, I’m sure it was very, very impressive. Assuming one enjoys hate speech that incites murder and other forms of violence.

    • mortimer says

      May 7, 2016 at 9:26 pm

      Mufti Muhammad Hanif Qureshi solicits murder.

      Soliciting to murder is a statutory offence of incitement in England.

      This offence is created by section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 which reads:

      “. . . whosoever shall solicit, encourage, persuade, or endeavour to persuade, or shall propose to any person, to murder any other person, whether he be a subject of Her Majesty or not, and whether he be within the Queen’s dominions or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable . . . to [imprisonment for life] . . .”

      • duh_swami says

        May 8, 2016 at 9:07 am

        Civil war legislation usually had something to do with the Civil War…Recruiting by the Confederates would fall under that law…

      • Lynette says

        May 8, 2016 at 10:06 pm

        Cameron and his cronies should be reminded of this! Why is this Law being ignored time and again, yet Robert Spencer, Pamela Gellar, Geert Wilders (?) the politician are banned for telling the TRUTH about the koran and islam! I hope cameron etc get voted out next election but with the latest apathetic britishers by not voting allowed a muslim to be elected Mayor of London allowing the 1.3 million mudslimes who, bless their little socks” did vote win! Makes me sick about islam taking over while the british public sleeps, but not for long!

    • Nigel says

      May 8, 2016 at 2:49 am

      So that was 201 people then, was it?

  3. Angemon says

    May 7, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    He is not going there for a vacation, I am sure about that

    Indeed.

  4. Don McKellar says

    May 7, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    Maybe him and the new mayor of London can have lunch together? They have a LOT in common.

  5. KrazyKafir says

    May 7, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    The quislings in England know trouble is coming and they’re scared.

    • mortimer says

      May 7, 2016 at 9:15 pm

      Disagree with KK. I believe British cultural Marxists have no idea what’s coming. They are as naïve about Islam as swans.

      They are as naïve about Islam as Chamberlain was about Hitler.

      • linnte says

        May 8, 2016 at 1:02 am

        I agree that the common man has no clue what’s up. I think the political leaders have a good idea, but not the whole picture. On Facebook, I Can’t tell you how many times I have had English people tell me “there is no problem with our Muslims here. We all get along just fine”.

      • Paul says

        May 8, 2016 at 2:46 pm

        I think they know perfectly well about the brutal and oppressive
        way in which islam deals with people and are very happy to throw
        them under the bus, as they share so many of the inhuman and
        anti-democratic ideals of islam. The part they are probably naive
        about is actually believing that they’ll share power with hardcore
        islamists and somehow be spared. Should it come to the worst
        they’ll deserve everything they get.

  6. mortimer says

    May 7, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    Quote: “After his arrest, Qadri claimed he had been inspired to act by a 2010 sermon delivered by Mufti Qureshi in Rawalpindi, in which the cleric branded the likes of Taseer as liable to be killed under Islamic law.”

    Sharia law teaches that if the state will not execute a blasphemer, ‘someone has to do it’. Sharia law teaches that ANYONE (even a kafir) may act as a vigilante and MURDER (yes, murder) a blasphemer. A Muslim who blasphemes is considered no longer a Muslim and for leaving Islam a former Muslim may be MURDERED.

    That’s real Sharia law, not the imagined Sharia in the minds of uninformed Western elites. Islam is very, very dangerous.

    • Nigel says

      May 8, 2016 at 2:52 am

      Mmm, what else does leaving a group on pain of death remind me of? Oh yes, a gang!

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 8, 2016 at 4:03 am

      There is no punishment for one who kills an apostate:
      “since it is killing someone who deserves to die”,
      Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller”, o8.4.
      (available as a free download).

  7. Duncan Thorburn says

    May 7, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    You and Bill Warner are wonderful people, to enlighten the public with what Islam really is. I tried over twenty years ago to understand Islam. I bought an English version of the Quran, and it was totally stupid, I was unable to understand anything about the Religion from it.

    Then three years ago I started again, and got the biggest shock ever, when I found the Historical evidence about the life of Muhammad. A Mass Murderer, Paedophile, Sex Slaver. I cannot understand why an person with half of 1% IQ, would follow such non-religion.

    You and Bill Warner are great men. We all know the extremes these animals will go to, to stop free speech. I apologise for my Country banning you, I think you are amazing Sir. Please stay strong.

  8. Rob says

    May 7, 2016 at 9:26 pm

    Robert you were discriminated against by the British authorities because they CAN.
    Qureshi CANNOT be sanctioned because he is brown and Muslim.
    It’s like the British politician arrested for standing in the street and quoting Churchill yet Muslims chanting ‘freedom go to hell’ and ‘behead all who insult Islam’ are not troubled.

  9. Westman says

    May 7, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Does anyone remember Dick Cheyney, Donald Rumsfeld, and associates? I would suppose their security staff can generally be quite relaxed these days. As Colin Powell might express, they have gone from determining the fate of the world to determining which pzza to order.

    Politicians and CEOs know that it is only important to keep control of the narrative while in office until they get the “golden parachute” of their particular discipline. It might be stock options, retirement pension, speaking circuit, etc.

    The trick is to stay in power until making a smooth transition to IWBH and YWBH – I won’t be here and you won’t be here.

    Letting this Mufti, Muhammad Hanif Qureshi, into the UK is letting the fundamentalist preach to the Islam Choir. Neither Muslims or unbelievers will complain. Letting Robert Spencer in to speak to the public causes phone calls and visits by concerned unbelievers and angry supremist Muslims; an unpleasant experience that can spoil the rewards of when IWBH.

    From the politician’s perspective, their job would be so much nicer if…..there were no concerned citizens.

  10. Diana says

    May 7, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    Robert Spencer was not banned from the UK because his lectures are a threat to public safety. He was banned because some people already living in the UK, who dislike the content of his lectures, are a threat to public safety.

    Similarly, M. Hanif Qureshi has not been allowed into the UK because his lectures are NOT a threat to public safety. He has been allowed because some people already living in the UK, who like the content of his lectures, might create a threat to public safety if M. Hanif Qureshi were banned.

  11. citycat says

    May 8, 2016 at 12:01 am

    “He is not going there for a vacation, I am sure of that”
    spreading Islam is a vacation for Muslims here.
    Houses and businesses with Muslims behind the scenes supplying Islam, relentlessly 24/7, like the tides wearing away the rock, and grinning with conditioned superiority, a dependant term, relative to the infidel.
    Infidelic absolution is waiting.
    I don’t think English Christians are like the pope. They’re on the case i think.
    I heard some on the radio, they were playing
    “Jesus bring it on, we’re waiting, we’ve had enough of darkness…”
    songs of revolution? I thought, but other songs had ‘I’m a sinner’ consciousness.
    Ignoring the enemy of freedom breeding is a sin.
    I’ll check them out next week, they’re nearby, see if they need a hand and are up for shenanigans, you know, like showing Muslims the love of Christ, that type of thing. The guy talking was American, i’ll visit their café, suss the vibes.

    • Westman says

      May 8, 2016 at 10:36 am

      Very proselike. Sarcastic prose? It left me with the feeling that the ship was taking on water while while the passengers, a congregation of shipwrights, are singing “Onward Christisn Soldiers” or the Paris Massacre where less people would die if they rushed the shooters, but, instead, each looks out for himself because the strongest instinct is survival.

      The message from our hedonistic “leaders” is clear: Ignore Islam and if there is any trouble, wait for the “authorities”. Meanwhile, don’t call us and interrupt the best parties.

      If the job is left to Jesus or the Pope, it won’t get done in time… What’s that saying, “Pray as if everything depends on Jesus and act as if everything depends on you.” Meanwhile, the Pope is looking for some antifungal lip balm.

  12. Max Publius says

    May 8, 2016 at 1:20 am

    All those old fox hunters in UK must train their dogs on the EU quislings, Cameron, Blair, May, Galloway et al, that have now given over London to Eurabia. There are no words to describe their epic treason. The EU quislings conspired so that a unique and decent culture is now being erased by a retrograde ideology of theocratic bloodthirsty khan-artists.

  13. ECAW says

    May 8, 2016 at 2:19 am

    “[Islam] is a religion and is a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society because media and general government unwillingness to face the sources of Islamic terrorism these things remain largely unknown.”

    Robert Spencer would never have produced such an ugly and nonsensical sentence (it is clearly two sentences merged into one). But it’s not difficult to imagine some drone at the Home Office doing so. Presumably it would have gone under several pairs of eyeballs before being issued. If the Home Office can’t produce a clear sentence it’s no wonder their thinking is also so confused.

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 8, 2016 at 4:17 am

      “You have brought yourself within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviours by making statements that may foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence …”

      wrote the Home Secretary to Robert Spencer, excluding him from the UK.

      Note (my emphasis) – “statements that MAY foster hatred”.
      This is a misquotation, one which unlawfully extends the scope of the statute.
      The statute concerns statements “which foster hatred”, NOT the everlastingly extendable “which MAY foster hatred”.
      The Home Secretary cannot even quote her own country’s law.

      Perhaps she should be called Theresa May Foster.

      • ECAW says

        May 8, 2016 at 7:05 am

        But even worse than the government are the judges, the European Human Rights Act and the Human Rights industry in which Sadiq Khan used to be worker, that is to say a burrower:

        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/07/judges-stop-theresa-may-deporting-terror-suspects/

  14. duh_swami says

    May 8, 2016 at 9:16 am

    Swallowing the camel while straining out the gnats…Prophetic ainit? Next thing you know a Mahoundian will be mayor of London…

  15. RICHTHOFEN says

    May 8, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    UK now holds an unassailable lead in the world apathy and delusion league and will, no doubt,come first again in the next world downhill idiots and sleepwalkers slalom event – UK is truly pathetic, capitulating to even the slightest breeze, whereas we were once capable of withstanding the most violent of storms – God help us!

    • ECAW says

      May 9, 2016 at 2:21 am

      We? Didn’t you used to shoot us down in that snazzy little red number of yours?

      In any case you’re wrong. There are several contenders slightly ahead of us in the downhill race and several not far behind. It doesn’t really help to separate like this…we’re all in it together.

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