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.
StellaSaidSo says
Good points. While much to be admired for his rejection of terror, Maajid has been a grave disappointment where defence of Tommy Robinson is concerned.
One correction. Tommy did not disband the EDL, he resigned from it.
RichardL says
Agreed, he has been a disappointment. However, the whole point of the article is that Maajid seems to be on the same side as Tommy and he at least has the potential to join forces. I personally believe that it is a matter of style and political capital that keeps Maajid back and my wife, who knows him personally, agrees on that.
Bee says
I suspect if Maajid says anything not approved by LBC he will go the way of Katie Hopkins another truth teller. likewise Nigel Farage watches his back whilst broadcasting on LBC, as does Nick Ferrari. The rest are mostly left wing and on safe ground. Maajid has had ample opportunity to defend TR, and he hasn’t. Says a lot about him.
Andy says
Paul Weston – Daily Mail 0 Tommy Robinson 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auAA28BQd4E
gravenimage says
With all respect, RichardL, the point of this story is not that the dodgy Maajid Nawaz is apt to join Tommy Robinson, but how differently being imprisoned for Jihad terror is regarded compared to being imprisoned while being railroaded for peaceful political beliefs.
In a sane world the former would be serious, the other either minor or–better–not criminalized at all.
Berengaria says
Masjid is basking in the limelight of the British Elites, while Tommy is just another British White Man, who will
NOT submit to the Elites & their New British Subjects, aka Muslim Pedophiles & Murderers of British Soldiers, who happen to be White & Christian.
I Pray that American So-Called Elites, do NOT fall into the same Trap that have turned Brit Elites into
Dhimmified Shills for Sharia, who would allow their Muslim Subjects
to wipe out every White British Subject, & never utter a word of Reproach.
We, in America, have the Democrat Party, aka known as the Party of Illegals, ISLAM, LGBTQ, ANTIFA (Black Bloc) & BLM, who hate the thought of America with White Citizens.
We need to give Tommy all the Help we can, because there will be thousands of Tommys in America, if the DEMS have their Power Restored.
thomas says
God bless usa. God bless Donald trump.
David Darman says
Thank you for your insightful addition to the subject…duh
Lisa says
Britain is already lost.
Savvy Kafir says
Not if enough people support Anne Marie Waters’ For Britain party.
StellaSaidSo says
+1
Anne will need increased security, if only to protect her from the Labour Party.
Tony Holland says
Can’t agree that Britain is lost,certainly we could be in a better place but as Savvy Kafir has said if we can get the STUPID British public to STOP supporting the Con/Lab career politicians, liars cheats and appeasers and instead give support to the likes of Waters,UKIP, BNP,BF,L.A, F.L.A ans the like,where a combination of these movements would gain a large following in a short period of time,just as UKIP did with the BREXIT drive.NOTHING,NOTHING,NOTHING will EVER change if we keep putting the charletan Con/Lab mussie huggers back into Westminster,we need to sweep these disingenuous traitors into history for ever.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear! Britain is not lost if enough of her patriotic citizens stand up.
Thomas says
Yes Britain is finished and I will blame all these coward and wicked politicians who has no guts to stand against Islam which is not a religion but evil cult made by the paedophile man Mohammad.
Cicero says
Yes it i# very late in the day and the forces for good are still in a deep stupor
Sad state of affairs
Walt Parkman says
British rulers have been fond of islam for about 400 years, ever since Queen Elizabeth. Modern British are paying the price for that.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/britain-and-islam-the-real-special-relationship/
JeffS says
That article is sickening apologetics for Islam, a la tripe like Islam being part of America since its founding.
gravenimage says
Yes.
Carol the 1st says
@Walt Parkman…There’s a book that looks quite interesting by Jerry Brotton (professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London). It was published as This Orient Isle in the UK:
THE SULTAN AND THE QUEEN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ELIZABETH AND ISLAM
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-sultan-and-the-queen/9780143110620-item.html?ikwid=Islam+Dismantled&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=11
It seems Walsingham was the one who got this trading relationship in motion. An editorial review (near page bottom) reads:
“A lively, smart, exhaustively researched book… Traders, using the new-fangled concept of joint-stock companies to spread the commercial risk, shipped home everything from Oriental carpets and luxurious silks to sugar and saltpetre, essential in making gunpowder… Brotton delves into diaries, letters and archives to uncover a long-ignored part of English history. Trade was anything but smooth or orderly. English adventurers struggled to understand the cultures, rivalries and religious differences. (The term Muslim would not be used in England until 1614.) Pirates and shipwrecks were constant dangers, as was capture.”
—Macleans
Carol the 1st says
I agree the Spectator link contains the usual standing ovations Islam bestows upon itself. Doubtless Brotton’s book will better balance the scales.
mortimer says
If Magic wanted to stop the GROOMING GANGS he would do more to help Tommy who is the most visible of all the people fighting the GROOMING GANGS.
Magic does not want the Muslims to think he is a secret APOSTATE… which I believe he is.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
[1] “the illegal sharia courts”: Sharia courts in Britain are illegal? Details, please. Are they illegal only in that their ruling are not legally enforceable? Is there a law that prohibits holding a sharia hearing? What are the penal provisions of this law?
[2] “I was told that [Maajid Nawaz] 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.” Spoken by Maajid?
[3] “Tommy … 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.” How does this put victims at further risk? At further risk of what? Please detail your reasoning.
Daniel Morgan says
Mark, I was thinking the same thing about [3]. How did anything that Tommy Robinson did or said put those girls at further risk? I certainly can’t figure that one out.
gravenimage says
Of course, exposing those who victimized these girls did the opposite of putting them at further risk.
Leon Degney says
Of course not pure unadulterated bullshit.
Renate says
When Tommy is once again free of all these legal proceedings, I think he would be well advised to leave the UK in favour of a country that would appreciate his loyalty. It seems like he is loyal to the memory of what the UK once was.
Yokel says
he is loyal to the memory of what the UK once was.
As are most of the rest of us deplorable islamophobes. We would like our country back, if you please.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“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.”
I disagree. I don’t think the girls were at any greater risk than they were under an incompetent and negligent justice system. Remember, the Brit establishment did nothing for decades. Shining the light of truth on their major crime of neglect and silence was and is a patriotic and noble act that will bear positive fruits. How can a publication ban, after so many years of silence/neglect, ever be believed to be an act to protect the victims, rather than an act to protect the guilty?
StellaSaidSo says
I agree, Flavius. While Tommy’s actions may have shown carelessness of his own safety, they were no threat to the victims. Turning up at a court-house with a camera is the job of a reporter. It should be noted that the perps at Leeds Court were there for sentencing. Their guilt had already been established, so Tommy’s actions could no more have ‘influenced the trial outcome’ than the actions of the army of reporters outside the court when Rolf Harris was sentenced would have made a jot of difference in that case.
gravenimage says
+1
Bosch Fawstin says
I can’t stand this type of thing coming from “sophisticates” like Melanie Philips, Douglas Murray, and the writer of this article, who give credence to a corrupt, Islamophilic UK government and legal system. To write that Tommy put the female victims of the rape gangs in further risk is Bollocks, to borrow a British phrase.
Tommy, in doing what any and all journalists are allowed to do (see other court cases where journalists videotaped outside the courtroom with no problem), put the victims of the rape gangs at further risk? If the UK government was at ALL concerned about the victims, they wouldn’t have ignored them for Years. It was guys like Tommy who forced them to Finally do something about the rapists, and they probably only did it to avoid further embarrassment, not to get justice. Bottom line, the UK government wants to shut down Islam critics, who are also critics of their sell out to islam. To them, Tommy is enemy number one, and to give them Any kind of credence is pathetic.
Joy says
Good for you!! Terrific – and spot-on! – response to the well-intentioned, but somewhat misguided, author of this article!! And kudos for mentioning Melanie Phillips, whom I had long admired UNTIL I read her incredibly off-base article recently suggesting that Americans who were upset about the treatment of Robinson were actually doing him no favor, but should have “respected” the British rule of law – which, she claimed (as if it had been a capital murder case!), Robinson was guilty of violating and naive in the extreme, etc. etc. I couldn’t believe what I was reading!! Where was that REAL British ball of fire, Katie Hopkins when we needed her?!? Tommy seems to be the Rodney Dangerfield of British politics these days – he “can’t get no respect!!” And, as you so wisely have pointed out, the authorities should be up in arms about the rape/grooming gangs – and NOT the fact that someone was filming the EXTERIOR of the courthouse in which the perps were being tried!! If I live to be a gazillion, I’ll absolutely NEVER understand how the elites of Europe – and, of course, in this case, London – can have their heads so far up their respective asses regarding the true danger of Islam!
isaac says
or maybe he simply was in the wrong and all of you people who canonize tommy can’t see that he can actually do one thing wrong? Melanie Phillips and Douglas Murray are pretty big intellects to be pissing on. STOP deifying tommy sniff sniff robinson.
gravenimage says
The appalling Isaac’s claim that saying something critical of Muslims raping little girls is wrong is just sickening.
And sneering at his being imprisoned and endangered for speaking out against the rape of children is sickening, as well.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Bosch!
Jean says
Bosch Fawstin.
True. Thank you.
David, Thailand says
Strange that jihadists can get to be worshipped in the ‘civilised’ world, simply by claiming to be ‘reformed’. Future generations will scratch their heads in disbelief…while they are still allowed to.
StellaSaidSo says
It is not easy for any Muslim to publicly reject aspects of the Islamic ‘faith’ – and to become an apostate is to invite serious trouble. Maajid Nawaz has been the target of death threats since he first renounced terrorism. We need to encourage the ‘reformers’, however confused or misguided we think they are.
David, Thailand says
It is irrelevant how confused or misguided ‘we’ think ‘they’ are, or for that matter what we think about anything to do with jihad. What’s important is what ‘they’ think, especially knowing how confused, misguided and ignorant of Islam we are, thanks in part to timid, ideologically compromised and purchased leaders, media and academia.
Deaths threats are easy enough to lie about or exaggerate or manufacture, though you appear to believe a Muslim renouncing ‘terrorism’ means he must be against what YOU view as terrorism, which as above is irrelevant. Meanwhile, in the real world, Sharia defines terrorism as the very existence of nonbelievers.
Quite simply, would you as leader of the free world jeopardise the future of your people on the word of a ‘reformed’ jihadist that wishes to rid the world of ‘terrorism’?
StellaSaidSo says
I did not say that we should necessarily trust ‘reformers’, but that we should encourage them, along with any Muslim who questions Islam. Apostates are among our best allies. FYI, I am very familiar with ‘the real world’, in several countries, and don’t need ignorant punks like you to tell me what I think.
andrew mckendrick says
Interesting point from StellaSaid So.…”Maajid Nawaz has been the target of death threats since he renounced Terrorism.”..Not Islam?
StellaSaidSo says
Some of Maajid’s old comrades at HBT weren’t impressed when he gave up the violent jihad business. He has been accused of apostasy, but I don’t think he is quite there yet.
gravenimage says
Maajid Nawaz is actually a pretty equivocal figure.
More here on him and the Quilliam Foundation:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/tag/maajid-nawaz
StellaSaidSo says
‘Equivocal’ maybe. But it was the Quilliam Foundation which produced the oft-quoted report on grooming gangs in UK which identified 84% of the perpetrators as Pakistani Muslims, and which has expanded the conversation within the UK about this problem. Not exactly a ‘pro-jihad’ publication.
Ciaran Goggins says
So are we going to have “Oh Tommy Tommy” banned? Plod must be terrified. Along with Julian Assange Mr Yaxley-Lennon is the UK’s foremost political prisoner.
lebel says
It’s good that Nawaz get this kind of criticism because he is extremely soft on the anti-Muslim movement. He shies away from confronting RS,
so keep it going guys! the more taqqiya, the better 🙂
Personally, I think Nawaz is a MINO or maybe an EXTREMELY liberal Muslim. My evidence:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3034312/The-married-Lib-Dem-feminist-drunken-strip-club-night-temptation-caught-camera.html
FYI says
Sure,a MINO.You are right.You said it!
So many muslim males are MINOs.
Muslims In Need Of …a grope.
And we see so much of that disgraceful attitude to women these days.
And all because western women don’t wear hijabs like the falsely pious,pure and sweet muslimas.
gravenimage says
Of course Lebel loves the stealth Jihad. Why wouldn’t he?
George Williams says
I have said this a number of times in my comments on the internet, Tommy should be offered political refugee status by the US State Department. UK censorship laws are anathema to the US 1st Amendment. People are being jailed for speaking out about Islam by the internet police and under the guise of breaching the peace, where any annoyance of Muslims by questioning infidels is cause for arrest for the violator. The UK is headed down the slippery slope of dhimmi status, whereby the people are coming under the thumb of the Muslim community through their religious based demands, rigorously acted upon by British politicians. It’s time for the American people to stand up for the few people in this world that still hold similar values, Western values. The UK is a nice place to start.
James Lincoln says
George,
The other day, I was thinking the same thing…
Imagine how it would look to the rest of the world to have a political refugee from the UK seeking asylum in the US.
Team Trump should spearhead this.
Andy says
George,
Tommy & his family would be WELCOME in me home anytime, GOD BLESS HIM!!
gravenimage says
Tommy Robinson is still fighting for England.
Andy says
As WE ALL should!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Andy!
b.a. freeman says
Mr. Nawaz is … trying to sell … a soft version of Islam.
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political prisoners get treated better in lands where sharia dominates than they do in lands where the Rule of Law exists.
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– my understanding is that mr. nawaz is trying to create/sell a “moderate” islam, presumably to replace the real thing with a “safe” version. usually, when one confronts violent criminals without a larger force of arms than they have, one will not only not succeed, one will be luck to survive. i don’t think islam without muhammed would work, and because he is the al-insan al-kamil (perfect man) and uswa hasana (model of conduct), it cannot change *except* he is removed. good luck with that, mr. nawaz.
– UKistan has rule of law? really? i did not know that.
Badger says
Tommy Robinson got out of the EDL because it was being infiltrated by the British National Party (BNP) which if you care to read its manifesto is a far left group not far right as Mr Spencer claims. Robinson, when leader of the English Defence League (EDL) instituted a ban against anyone who was a member of the BNP but he eventually couldn’t stop it and left.
Maajid is a narcissist, both politically and sartorially, and his autobiography exposes him as a publicity seeking muslim who most definitely has not changed his spots. Beware taqiyya when dealing with this chancer.