Maajid Nawaz, as we all know, served time for his work with the designated terrorist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is so extreme that it is banned in many countries. Maajid, apparently, was a political prisoner in Egypt for promoting the establishment of a global caliphate. His lawyer, the darling of a lot of terrorist lawyers, was none other than London’s current mayor Sadiq Khan. Khan, as a lawyer, was almost like those ambulance chasers who chase after flashing red lights in an attempt to catch victims as they’re leaving the ambulances so that they can throw their business cards at them in a “no win, no fee” scenario. By all appearances, Khan’s clients were terrorists. He chased them as ardently as those others chased after ambulances. Perhaps there was more money in defending terrorists such as “Captain Hook” than there was in defending real victims.
Maajid’s views at the time were abhorrent, and he has since challenged and confronted the terrorist organisation that he was once a part of and promoted, and which still holds demos in London to this day. He has been a political prisoner for his point of view and his speech in a Muslim-majority land, and so it’s surprising to me that he isn’t doing more to promote and help Tommy Robinson, who is a political prisoner in a free land. Mr. Nawaz is, of course, not bound to do anything that his conscience tells him not to, but he’s currently duping the British public by trying to sell them a soft version of Islam. Surely he can see the publicity to be had by getting behind Tommy’s cause and uniting everyone, rather than dividing. We all live under the same legal system, after all (outside of those who adhere to the illegal sharia courts). Maajid, defender of the right to hold differing opinions, was also absent from Tommy’s Day of Freedom rally. Perhaps he wasn’t invited, or perhaps he had nothing to say on the matter. I was told that he would attend nothing that Tommy Robinson ever arranges; whether or not that is true, I don’t know, but the words were spoken to me with witnesses involved.
Tommy, of course, inadvertently and with no malice intended put girls who were victims of Muslim rape gangs at further risk by not listening to legal counsel and instead turning up at courthouses with a camera in order to report on the rapists. All very knee-jerk and unsophisticated stuff, but that does not merit the treatment he is currently receiving by speaking up about Muslim rape gangs. Maajid gets to point out the notoriously high percentage of Muslim rape gangs, and he is a saint. Tommy repeats the figures, and he is the devil himself.
What politics exactly are at play here? Maajid, as we all know, is the media’s darling, and Tommy is the villain. It’s like Batman vs the Joker. And the joke is simply that Tommy Robinson wants Muslim rape gangs to be disrupted and arrested, and he is demonised for it. Maajid, on LBC radio, has spoken out about the prevalence of Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK, but there’s much more he could be doing to be helping Mr. Robinson. Our police, government, and media seem to listen to Pakistanis more than they do to British people (going on the basis that British people would be assumed to be white, even although I know a lot of Brits are non-white, especially Maajid). At one point, Maajid stated that he had “beheaded the EDL” (very poor choice of words from a former extremist who runs an organisation named after the UK’s first Islamic extremist). Possibly his ignoring Mr. Robinson’s plight is his way of kicking that decapitated head around the floor.
Tommy Robinson was never an extremist. He created an organisation that opposed Anjem Choudary’s mob. He later disbanded it when he thought it was becoming too far right. Amnesty International came to Maajid’s aid when he was a prisoner of conscience. No one is coming to Tommy’s. He still has an upcoming court case, and the chances are likely that he’ll do more jail time. It seems political prisoners get treated better in lands where sharia dominates than they do in lands where the Rule of Law exists.