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UK Charity Commission orders military charity to close because of “anti-Islamic” comments and merchandise

Sep 4, 2018 9:10 am By Robert Spencer

Also, “further highly offensive and inappropriate t-shirts depicting Nazi symbolism was advertised for sale on the charity’s online store.”

If there were really Nazi t-shirts being sold, then the Charity Commission would be justified in this, but since no examples are given, and in light of the fact that nowadays virtually any opposition to the far-Left, socialist, internationalist agenda is smeared as “Nazi,” one cannot be sure.

Also, since the “anti-Islamic” comments and merchandise are likewise not described, there is no way to tell whether this action was justified or was simply yet another example of the destruction of the freedom of speech in Britain, and in particular the muzzling of any opposition to the government’s program of mass Muslim migration and appeasement of Islamic supremacist groups.

Would the charity have been shut down for anti-Christian comments and merchandise?

“Charity Commission orders military charity to wind up,” The Charity Commission, September 4, 2018 (thanks to C.):

In a report published today the Commission sets out its findings, conclusions and regulatory action taken following its investigation into 1st Knight Military Charity. The charity, which had objects to assist members of the armed forces and their dependents or carers, was ordered to and has now been wound up.

The Commission’s inquiry was opened on 8 November 2016 after undercover reporting for a BBC Scotland programme exposed anti-Islamic comments made at the charity’s shop by a trustee and volunteer, as well as the sale of merchandise displaying anti-Islamic and derogatory comments and imagery.
“Wholly offensive and inappropriate” materials and comments

The inquiry concluded that there was misconduct in relation to offensive material available for sale at the charity’s premises and comments recorded as part of the programme. The Commission’s report highlights:

A second trustee present at the time of the undercover recording failed to intervene or challenge the comments made.
The offensive merchandise was ordered on more than one occasion, and the trustees did not seek to later return or dispose of the stock.
Further highly offensive and inappropriate t-shirts depicting Nazi symbolism was advertised for sale on the charity’s online store….

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  1. SJ says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 9:21 am

    What is interesting about this is Jews do not fight just comments – they fight those that ACT or THREATS to them. Whereas Islam reacts to jusy Speech. They are never threatened with anything. They are the aggressors and the Occupiers and Illegal Conquerors.

    The EU and Brits better get this under control so the US doesn’t have to go in and save them! It’s going to take a war.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Sep 4, 2018 at 9:27 am

      The US is fighting to save itself, SJ. If the much-vaunted ‘blue wave’ materialises, the US will find itself in very deep doo-doo.

    • carpediadem says

      Sep 4, 2018 at 10:22 am

      The Charity Commission is not islamic. It is British. It is a British organisation shutting down a British organisation.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 5, 2018 at 12:45 am

        dhimmitude, carpediadem.

        • martin says

          Sep 6, 2018 at 6:57 am

          @ gravenimage
          Looks like the wrong end of the stick with this one.

          1st Knight Charity is in fact a bogus charity, ie set up under false pretences, claiming to support veterans but in fact obtaining money by deception.

          It’s also been outed here, by a group going after and exposing veteran money raisings scams.

          https://thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/3887/

      • Anne Smith says

        Sep 5, 2018 at 5:10 am

        Very telling that this was instigated by the BBC with an undercover reporter – probably tricked the volunteer working there into making comments, usually known as entrapment.

        The BBC is very Islamophiliac, employs thousands of them and many of its better known presenters and reporters are Muslims.

      • stuart grice says

        Sep 5, 2018 at 10:22 am

        if you think for 1 minute its not islamic in actions you are deluded

    • carpediadem says

      Sep 4, 2018 at 10:25 am

      The EU and Brits signed up for all this. Jews never did.

      I wonder how many Islamic British charities have been shut down for anti Semitism, Nazi imagery – of which there is plenty – and other offensive elements.

      • Dawne says

        Sep 4, 2018 at 12:04 pm

        Completely agree. We can see from the report that it’s a BBC investigation that prompted this. What needs to be done is somebody with the time/energy to investigate Muslim charities, finding those where volunteers say anti-semitic things and maybe sell anti-semitic items and then report to the Charities Watchdog and also to the BBC plus then trying to publicise. The problem really is that people sympathetic to Islam have endless time on their hands to make trouble, whereas most of the rest of us have jobs to do to pay our taxes and keep families. We do have some heroes like Robert who make it their life’s work to expose these appalling practices.

        • James Lincoln says

          Sep 4, 2018 at 5:58 pm

          I know, a few years ago when I was working 60 hour weeks, I had little time for independent research regarding Islam. At that time I also drank the mainstream media Kool-Aid.

          After about three years of extensive research I will never again will I trust the mainstream media in regards to Islam. I cannot thank evidence-based experts like Robert Spencer enough.

      • Ray Jarman says

        Sep 4, 2018 at 1:22 pm

        I bet that the only object that the cult found offensive was a shirt with a cross on it. Heaven forbid a shirt having the Cross of Saint George embroidered on it.

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 9:22 am

    Funny how Islamic ‘charities’ can promote violence against women, gays, children, infidels and animals, and jihadis are free to roam unchallenged in our streets – but WOE BETIDE anyone who dares express even the mildest criticism of Islam.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Sep 4, 2018 at 9:31 am

      The Charity Commission is ineffectual.

      • carpediadem says

        Sep 4, 2018 at 10:26 am

        Ineffectual? They’re working for Islam very effectively.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Sep 4, 2018 at 11:29 am

          +1

    • Terry Gain says

      Sep 4, 2018 at 12:01 pm

      This is what terrorism will do for an ideology. The immunization created by just a little terrorism is incredible.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 1:43 am

      +1

    • Anne Smith says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 5:12 am

      Theresa May – in addition to being the worst Prime Minister Britain has ever had – is a devotee of Islam and worships the wonderful contributions made to Britain by the Muslims here.

      • Panmelia says

        Sep 5, 2018 at 12:30 pm

        Thank you, Anne, for posting this video, although I must warn subscribers to view it at their own risk, as it has been known to cause dry heaves and, in some cases, projectile vomiting.

        See that chain around her neck? That is Theresa the Appeaser’s muslim slave chain. Despite her being a Christian vicar’s daughter, it is suspected that Treason May secretly converted to izlam some time ago. There are numerous photos of her wearing a silly headscarf and talking pleadingly with imams, all dressed in their best frocks. While Home Secretary, instead of reversing War Criminal Tony Blair’s legalisation of sharia courts she took measures to fund them, hence her other nickname:sharia May. Sharia May regularly makes sickening videos wishing muzlims happy ramalamadingdong and merry eidipus. She insists on those who don’t like izlam being sent to prison for ‘hate speech’ and ‘hate crime’. She drew on Orwell’s book ‘1984’ for methods of suppression of free speech, intimidation and thought control. Whenever she appears wearing her muslim slave chunky chains, I like to imagine what will happen to her once she is of no further use to the muzlim invaders of our fair isle. Tightening of the chain, perhaps? One can only dream.

  3. David Anderson says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 9:28 am

    Heh…did a fast search for this charity’s website, but it’s gone. One T-shirt example I found was printed with ‘Infidel’ in Arabic and English…pretty mild and their whole stock was probably identical to things you can see on many America sites where the 1st Amendment still hold sway.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 1:44 am

      Exactly, David.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 10:32 am

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-37895831

    It would seem that they actually were selling Nazi themed merchandise.

    Note that the BBC ‘reporter’ isn’t concerned about *that*, only the ‘anti-islamic’ merchandise !

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 1:47 am

      The Nazi stuff is genuinely ugly–the “Infidel” t-shirts–which I had seen before–notso much.

  5. EVILSPEAK says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 11:07 am

    Why am I only finding out about this now? I’d have bought a couple of Pork-Eating, Beer-Drinking, Womanising-Infidel t-shirts and worn them, purely for shits and giggles, down Alum Rock. Although only one of the three statements would be factually accurate about me.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 1:49 am

      You can still find them on-line:

      https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pork-Eating-Infidel-Military-Green-T-Shirt-/151242561381

      I’ve seen the “Infidel” shirts on-line, too.

  6. Westman says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 11:20 am

    “The Commission’s inquiry was opened on 8 November 2016 after undercover reporting for a BBC Scotland programme exposed anti-Islamic comments made at the charity’s shop by a trustee and volunteer, as well as the sale of merchandise displaying anti-Islamic and derogatory comments and imagery.”

    NPR has now turned over their “news” reporting to the BBC so that now it intermittently bombards listeners with British diversity, socialism, globalism, and communist propaganda, 24/7. Whether broke or lazy, NPR’s promotion of the BBC, in place of US originated and centered reporting, is accelerating the decline of American culture and is lubricating the injection of Islamic Jihad.

    To put it in perspective – when will the Voice Of America be transmitting on a majority of the campuses in Britain with funding from the UK government and the UK’s wealthy right-wing donors?

    NPR has become a seditious force within our own nation; joining universities in pursuit of a delusional nirvana funded by OPM(leftist opium, Other Peoples Money). All the failures of socialism are ignored because those regimes did it “wrong”. Hello Venezuela.

  7. Rarely says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    Charities that display Nazi symbols and/or sell merchandise bearing such symbols should lose their charitable status regardless of the use they make of their funds.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 1:53 am

      Agree, Rarely–but this did not seem to the reason they lost their charitable standing–nor was it the main focus of the BBC piece.

  8. JOHN says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 3:18 pm

    Is the Legion next?

  9. IanB says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    Most big UK charities are run by vastly overpaid Common Purpose types.

    • Yokel says

      Sep 5, 2018 at 6:00 am

      For those who do not see the treacherous implications of Common Purpose running a whelk stall, please do your own research. [Hint: Frankfurt School in a skin.]

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 4, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    Also, since the “anti-Islamic” comments and merchandise are likewise not described, there is no way to tell whether this action was justified or was simply yet another example of the destruction of the freedom of speech in Britain…
    …………………………..

    I found a BBC “expose” here. They include t-shirts saying “Infidel” in English and Arabic, and a shirt admitting that the wearer eats pork:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM942NisE3A

    That these should banned by the government* is grotesque.

  11. Hugh Jardon says

    Sep 5, 2018 at 2:58 am

    I have a t-shirt with “Proud to be an Infidel” on it and I wear it with pride.

  12. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 5, 2018 at 4:55 am

    i.e: “How dare they be anti-crime?!”

    Members of the military fight these holy mobster members of the global crime-gang every day, yet aren’t allowed to disparage their holy right to commit their crimes against their “infidel enemies!”?

    Britain is DONE.

  13. Giacomo Latta says

    Sep 5, 2018 at 9:10 am

    Does this charity commission seek translations of signs in Arabic to see if those brandishing them are equally as ”highly offensive and inappropriate”?

  14. martin says

    Sep 6, 2018 at 6:49 am

    Looks like the wrong end of the stick with this one.

    1st Knight Charity is in fact a bogus charity, ie set up under false pretences, claiming to support veterans but in fact obtaining money by deception.

    It’s also been outed here, by a group going after and exposing veteran money raisings scams.

    https://thewaltercumpershunterclub.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/3887/

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