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UK: Muslima who works for government’s counter-terrorism unit supports pro-jihad group

Dec 3, 2016 10:46 am By Robert Spencer

No disciplinary action will be taken against Samiya Butt. To take any action would be “Islamophobic” and incompatible with British values.

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“‘CONFLICT OF INTEREST’ Woman who works for Government’s counter-terrorism unit posts backing for extremists online,” by Ben Lazarus, The Sun, November 27, 2016 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

A WOMAN who works for the Government’s counter-terrorism unit has been posting backing for extremists online.

Samiya Butt, a co-ordinator with Prevent, a taxpayer-funded role, changed her profile picture on Facebook to show support for Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend).

She changed it to advertise Mend’s logo for its Islamophobia awareness month, which features a finger pointing upwards that has been used by ISIS fighters in propaganda images.

Ms Butt, who is responsible for allocating funds locally in Manchester to combat radicalisation, also posted a picture of a Mend event with the caption #iam2016.

In September 2015 Mend organised a 200-strong march in east London to protest against Prevent.

Ms Butt is also Facebook friends with Mend’s director, Azad Ali, an extremist who has supported the killing of British troops and praised al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki.

Henry Jackson Society research fellow, Rupert Sutton, said: “Mend has been part of a deeply damaging campaign to undermine public confidence in counter-radicalisation efforts at a time when they are needed more than ever.

“Prevent delivery staff should be vigorously challenging Mend’s anti-Prevent activism, not working with them under any circumstances.”

While the demand for legalising fighting in Syria does not appear in Mend’s Muslim Manifesto, the group’s chief exec, Sufyan Ismail, said during a talk at the Zakariyya Central Mosque in Bolton, that if the group had influence within the political system, it could make it easier for Britons to fight in Syria….

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  1. jayell says

    Dec 3, 2016 at 10:56 am

    If ‘islamophobia’ is supposed to refer to a dislike of Islam, then for every right-thinking person in the UK EVERY month should be ‘islamophobia month’.

    • Marty says

      Dec 3, 2016 at 11:42 am

      Exactly.
      Hating is islam is no phobia.
      Neither is it phobic to hate totalitarianism, gay oppression,
      misogyny, polygamy, Jew hating or child abuse.
      All key tenets of islam.
      In the UK the powers that be, whoever they may be,
      just don’t get it.
      Or are part of the most destructive plot in Western history.

      • Anne Smith says

        Dec 4, 2016 at 5:55 am

        I think in UK the “powers that be” are actually quite stupid and in most cases lazy. They have done no research to find out what the Quran actually teaches or to monitor the mosques and what is being preached.

        The same laziness pervades their total acceptance of climate change and explains why they have instigated the most punitive tax regime anywhere in the Western world to force the UK to switch totally to renewables, costing huge amounts and crippling the country’s economy – all for the sake of feeling virtuous.

        Yes indeed, our politicians are virtuous beyond belief.

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 4, 2016 at 12:40 pm

      My question is, where is the “defenders of the Faith”, in the UK??? It seems to be the oath of the Queen means nothing, this little vow came into being, during the Crusades, and for a good reason!! Muslims were out to destroy Christian civilization. So, therefore they were sworn to make sure this Islamic filth did not do just that! Looks like teaching of UK history is in the toilet.. Or they would never allow the enemy to infiltrate the protectors of the Kingdom….seems no more common sense.

      • Carolyne says

        Dec 5, 2016 at 1:31 am

        I’m afraid that “Defender of the faith” was a title Henry VIII gave to himself after the break with Rome when the Church Of England was established, sometime after the crusades. It is a title given to every English monarch since and Queen Elizabeth II presently holds the title. Prince Charles, not known for his great intellect has said he will wish to be known as “Defender of faith,” meaning, one assumes defender of Islam as well as Christianity.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 5, 2016 at 2:06 am

        Actually, “Defender of the Faith” was a title bestowed on King Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521, almost ten years before his break with Rome. It was later that parliament restored the title to Henry and his successors.

  2. PRCS says

    Dec 3, 2016 at 11:07 am

    “posts backing for extremists online”

    “to combat radicalisation”

    When, exactly, does a Muslim’s compliance with Qur’an and Sunn’ah cross the “extremist” threshold?

    As it pertains to Muslims, what, exactly, does “radicalization” mean?

    What does the general public think such words, terms and phrases mean?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 3, 2016 at 1:35 pm

      “Extremism”: the UK government has set out its definition (in its “Prevent” strategy):

      “Extremism is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. We also include in our definition of extremism calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas.”

      Item by item, it neatly matches ordinary basic Islam.
      http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/extremism-–-there-problem-within-islam

      “Radicalisation” is being (wrongly) used by the tabloids to denote the as-yet undefined process by which a person (usually a muslim) allegedly comes to “misunderstand” his ideology.

      “Radicalisation” is a scam. It goes something like this. A mosque teaches Islam. A member puts into effect the commands of violence against the filthy Kuffar, of Jew-hatred, and of slave-taking of infidel girls. He comes to the notice of the authorities. The mosque dishonestly alleges that he has “misunderstood” Islam’s teachings. The authorities, right up to the Prime Minister, know the mosque is right, because “We have people we can go to”, and those people (muslims using taqiyya) confirm it all.

      The muslimas planted in the “Prevent” office get busy “allocating funds” to the mosque – the same one that gave the teachings – to work on “de-radicalising” the individual. It is a win-win situation. The mosque is judge and jury in its own cause: it receives the funds (jizya). The Kuffar government has no idea what “de-radicalisation” consists of, how to measure it, or even whether it is happening at all.

    • Carolyne says

      Dec 4, 2016 at 10:26 am

      We can’t know what the general public thinks about this as it would be illegal in England to say what one thinks of this.

  3. Angemon says

    Dec 3, 2016 at 11:58 am

    UK: Muslima who works for government’s counter-terrorism unit supports pro-jihad group

    Well, imagine my surprise…

  4. Ginger says

    Dec 3, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    Takiyya. It’s what all good Muslims do.

  5. Damocles Junior says

    Dec 3, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Ms Butt’s employment should be considered to be as stupid as letting a known Nazi sympathiser be employed as an office worker at the Admiralty in war time England.

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 4, 2016 at 5:58 am

      The people running Britain today would have had no problem with that. Any action against Nazi sympathisers would have been against their “human rights”.

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 3, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    UK: Muslima who works for government’s counter-terrorism unit supports pro-jihad group
    …………………………..

    Good God–this is not “conflict of interest”.

    • Damocles Junior says

      Dec 3, 2016 at 4:07 pm

      It is political correctness in the workforce gone totally insane. Just imagine what would have happened if Ms Butt had been refused employment on either religion, race, sexual orientation, gender or any other grounds, especially being a Muslim, it would have gone to the highest court in the land with no doubt all legal costs being paid for by the UK taxpayer.

    • Damocles Junior says

      Dec 3, 2016 at 4:39 pm

      Yes, of course it is a total conflict of interest. In a sane society she would have been dismissed immediately for gross misconduct. (But try dismissing a UK government employee, almost impossible especially female ethnic etc.)

      But unfortunately these are the sort of people we have working at all levels of government, pension offices, child welfare officers, police, immigration departments, education departments and teaching positions, this should be a great worry to all thinking people.

  7. Johan elzinga says

    Dec 4, 2016 at 4:26 am

    At least it is clear now. No place to hide. We are doomed, and we are paying for our own doom by financing those terrorists with taxpayer’s money. See also the article about MiND in the Netherlands, published by Robert this week.

  8. David says

    Dec 4, 2016 at 7:15 am

    I can’t imagine I am the first to send you this.

  9. Carolyne says

    Dec 4, 2016 at 10:25 am

    Ms. Butt is a monkey’s butt.

  10. RK says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:03 am

    MY QUESTION HERE IS WHAT ABOUT YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND PEOPLE AND THEIR VALUES?

    U ALLOWED THESE OTHERS INTO U’R COUNTRY NOT TO TAKE OVER AND FORCE THEIR EVIL SHARIA VALUES BUT TO HELP THEM- SO HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT FOR U AND U’R COUNTRY? IDIOTS!

    VALUES, hmmm WELL FIND SOME INSTEAD OF U’R COWARD SPINELESS GREEDY SELF SERVING POLITICAL AGENDA AND MAN-UP FOR THE SAKE OF U’R COUNTRY AND PEOPLE.

    TIME TO FACE THE HONEST FACTS THAT U ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE TO LOSING EVERYTHING TO THESE TAKERS…. ITS NOT ISLAMOPHOBIA, ITS ABOUT STANDING TALL AND STRONG FOR U’R COUNTRY AND U’R PEOPLE, AS THESE OTHERS DO IN THEIR TAKE OVER. AND IF THEY WANT TO BE THERE THEN THEY NEED TO RESPECT THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE, NOT AND NEVER SHOULD IT BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

    IF THEY LIKE/LOVE THEIR COUNTRY AND LAWS SO MUCH THEN THEY NEED TO MOVE BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM INSTEAD OF TRYING TO TAKE OVER EVERY COUNTRY THEY COME TO.

    WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE, MAN-UP!

  11. RK says

    Dec 5, 2016 at 11:03 am

    No disciplinary action will be taken against Samiya Butt. To take any action would be “Islamophobic” and incompatible with British values.

    MY QUESTION HERE IS WHAT ABOUT YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND PEOPLE AND THEIR VALUES?

    U ALLOWED THESE OTHERS INTO U’R COUNTRY NOT TO TAKE OVER AND FORCE THEIR EVIL SHARIA VALUES BUT TO HELP THEM- SO HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT FOR U AND U’R COUNTRY? IDIOTS!

    VALUES, hmmm WELL FIND SOME INSTEAD OF U’R COWARD SPINELESS GREEDY SELF SERVING POLITICAL AGENDA AND MAN-UP FOR THE SAKE OF U’R COUNTRY AND PEOPLE.

    TIME TO FACE THE HONEST FACTS THAT U ARE THE ONES RESPONSIBLE TO LOSING EVERYTHING TO THESE TAKERS…. ITS NOT ISLAMOPHOBIA, ITS ABOUT STANDING TALL AND STRONG FOR U’R COUNTRY AND U’R PEOPLE, AS THESE OTHERS DO IN THEIR TAKE OVER. AND IF THEY WANT TO BE THERE THEN THEY NEED TO RESPECT THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE, NOT AND NEVER SHOULD IT BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

    IF THEY LIKE/LOVE THEIR COUNTRY AND LAWS SO MUCH THEN THEY NEED TO MOVE BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM INSTEAD OF TRYING TO TAKE OVER EVERY COUNTRY THEY COME TO.

    WAKE THE HELL UP PEOPLE, MAN-UP!

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