• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

UK government won’t ban Hizballah’s “political wing” or stop its public marches on British streets

Oct 5, 2017 10:43 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The UK government is ignoring calls to ban terror group Hezbollah’s “political wing” meaning open expressions of support in the form of marches and flag waving can continue on public streets.

This appalling refusal of the UK to ban Iranian proxy Hizballah’s political wing, which fuels the military wing with propaganda messages, will lead to further spread of the jihad ideology in Britain.

This story highlights how stealth jihadists work in tandem with violent jihadists across the board, not only with Hizballah. Both push the cause of sharia, which mandates Muslim supremacy over the infidel.

The only difference between Hizballah and other sharia expansionist groups is that it “does not differentiate between its political and military wings,” whereas other proponents of political Islam (stealth jihadists) generally distance themselves publicly from violent jihadists.

This is apparent with Saudi Arabia, which exports the jihad ideology, thus serving as both the “arsonist and the firefighters.” The same holds true for individuals who appear to be benign, such as the high-profile imam Fawaz Damra from the Cleveland area, who appeared publicly to be “moderate and mainstream” while he was “disparaging Jews in Arabic as ‘pigs and monkeys’ and raising money for the killing of Jews by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

Kudos to Christians United for Israel, which has been petitioning the UK against Hizballah. Other pro-democracy, pro-human rights groups and individuals need to be holding leaders accountable in their dealings with jihadists and pro-shariah individuals.

“No UK Ban for Hezbollah Terror Group’s Political Wing,” by Simon Kent, Breitbart, October 4, 2017:

The UK government is ignoring calls to ban terror group Hezbollah’s “political wing” meaning open expressions of support in the form of marches and flag waving can continue on public streets.

Britain has only banned Hezbollah’s “military” arm but not its “political” wing meaning there is a legal loophole allowing support for the organisation to flourish. However Hezbollah, by its own admission, does not differentiate between its political and military wings. The Hezbollah flag, which features an assault rifle, is used for both.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Monday confirmed that she has not yet closed the loophole and said she would not be giving a running commentary on the matter. That ambivalence prompted a quick response from Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

The official statement read:

If the government is serious about taking measures to combat extremism, it must be made illegal to display the flag of a designated terrorist organization on British streets. There is no distinction between Hezbollah’s so-called military and political wings and it is time that the government ensured that support for any part of any terror organization is treated as a criminal offence. We will be raising this with the Home Secretary.

Hezbollah is a Lebanese-based terrorist organisation banned throughout the world, including in the Arab League, United States, France and Israel. It calls for global Islamist revolution, has carried out terror attacks for over 30 years, and demands the “liberation of Jerusalem” and for the destruction of Israel.

Backed by Iran, it has tens of thousands of rockets that can reach every city in Israel.

The Hezbollah flag was flown freely on London’s streets as recently as last August when pro-Palestine activists turned out to mark the now traditional end of Ramadan with an Al- Quds Day protest against Israel.

Meanwhile a petition calling on the UK government to Hezbollah in its entirety has now passed 12,000 signatures and shows no sign of slowing.

As Breitbart Jerusalem reported, the online petition was started by Christians United for Israel UK (CUFI) and was launched in the wake of this year’s Al-Quds Day march.

CUFI Executive Director, Des Starritt, says “Hezbollah is an anti-Israel, anti-West organisation that should not be allowed in Britain, yet … its supporters marched through central London flying Hezbollah flags.”

“If Britain is to genuinely say ‘no to terror’ then all terrorist organisations must be banned without compromise……

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Featured, Hizballah, Sharia, United Kingdom Tagged With: Christians United for Israel, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. mortimer says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 10:49 am

    The supremacist, political IDEOLOGY promoted by Hezbollah’s “political wing” is what fuels terrorism. It is the IDEOLOGY ITSELF that should be attacked by government agents using the latest university-level scholarship regarding the Islamic source texts.

    Only by destroying the INTELLECTUAL and IDEOLOGICAL credibility of POLITICAL ISLAM can governments stop terrorism. When no one is able to believe in SUPREMACIST ISLAM (just as no one believes in Aztec human sacrifice), the ISLAMIC TERRORISM will cease.

  2. Bev says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 11:13 am

    What the hell is wrong with these people?!! I guess Britons are just going to roll over and play dead as Sharia becomes the law of the land.

  3. Jack Diamond says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    Hizballah has no “political wing” distinct from it’s “military wing.” It is controlled by one Shura Council,
    almost all “religious sages” mirroring the organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It’s militia and jihad and overseas operations are run by the same body that is it’s “political wing”.

    “Hezbollah has a single leadership,” according to Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s second in command. “All political, social and jihad work is tied to the decisions of this leadership … The same leadership that directs the parliamentary and government work also leads jihad actions in the struggle against Israel.”

    It means nothing to ban the military “wing” but not their political “wing”. Maybe ISIS has a political wing it can run in the UK.

  4. underbed cat says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 12:51 pm

    Maybe the UK thinks if they ban Hizballah from marching Iranian missiles will fly or jihad attacks with get worse….
    I wonder if they would allow a Israel flag to fly in a march down the same streets. This left terrorist movement is mounting in a sickening display..as they coordinate terrorism and encourage the marches/ protests and arrest their citizens for hate speech….total signs of totalitarian rise of death cults.

  5. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 1:42 pm

    Uk government is hostage to terror — that, and the fools who fall for Islamic propaganda against Israel — are why the UK permits this obscenity.

  6. Wellington says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    But let’s not forget that Robert Spencer in Britain would be a real threat. Yeah. Right.

  7. Ric says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    Honestly, the UK is on life-support by the doing or undoing Overlords’. Insanity is the benchmark set by the woeful leadership and elitist leftist scourge dragging the nation into another dark age. My wife returned from London a week ago, saying every year is worse than the previous year. The Caliphate is nearing completion; Her Majesty will become a refugee, not unlike Dutch Royalty during World War II.
    Indictment for treason should be handed down to PM May and others of the government and agencies for unbridled sedition. Britain, the EU, and Canada are in various stages of their demise as a Democracy; it is a matter of time when the Caliphate affects the aforementioned.

  8. Carlos Danger says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 3:17 pm

    Seeing this gang of uniformed wankers is like seeing a platoon of Nazis giving Brits the finger.

  9. Jayell says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    “The Hezbollah flag was flown freely on London’s streets as recently as last August….”

    Now, why might THAT be, I wonder? Let me think, who’s supposed to be running London these days???

  10. R Russell says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Dhimmitude is just around the corner unless Christian revival comes to the UK

  11. endislam says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 4:09 pm

    Cowards!

  12. JayT says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 5:04 pm

    Shouldn’t be much longer before Hezbollah holds public executions in the U.K. while British officials look on with folded arms…..

  13. gravenimage says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 6:30 pm

    UK government won’t ban Hizballah’s “political wing” or stop its public marches on British streets
    ……………………

    More suicidal stupidity.

    A troubling indication of antisemitism in high places, as well.

  14. A.M.D Hanton says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    Don’t worry, if I see them marching through London I will throw an egg at them for each board member here.

  15. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    I’m becoming known for commenting about how the UK is owned by big middle eastern oil money. Every one of these posts about the UK furthers my argument.

    • Michael says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 11:05 pm

      One has only to look at the crown prince in his head rag/lawrence of arabia get up to know how far advanced is the dhimmitude state.

  16. Barz says

    Oct 6, 2017 at 7:01 am

    Could someone give link to the petition..

  17. PaulM says

    Oct 6, 2017 at 7:48 am

    Who cares? Really. Britain has become a nation of sniveling, gutless, spineless cowards. With only a few exceptions. Who in the hell stands idly by and watches their children get raped and watches their country be destroyed by a bunch of insane fascists? England does.

  18. ctlawson says

    Oct 6, 2017 at 9:05 am

    Is the UK GOVERNMENT A DHIMMI GOVERNMENT NOW .

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Westman on New study reveals that Muslim religiosity strongly linked to hatred towards the West
  • gravenimage on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • gravenimage on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • gravenimage on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • Walter Sieruk on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.