
- UK government moving from appeasement of Islamic extremists to collusion with them, while intensifying suppression of dissent.
- UK government renews and deepens ties with Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Muslim Council of Britain.
- Church of England engages in misguided interfaith dialogue with Islamic extremists.
Introduction
Since the end of the Second World War, and in the past 20 years in particular, British society has undergone an historically unprecedented transformation due to mass immigration. The speed and extent of the transformation, its negative economic and social consequences, and the fact it never had a democratic mandate, has contributed to a more divided Britain. Many difficulties have been confronted and surmounted with a variety of immigrant and immigrant-descended communities, yet when it comes to elements within the UK’s burgeoning Muslim population (which increased 75% between 2001-2011 [p. 22/80]), the problems can seem intractable.
The fracture line most prone to splitting in multicultural Britain lies between Muslims struggling with (or against) integration — often for religious reasons — and the white working-class communities which have borne the brunt of their country’s imposed transformation. Many Muslims fear so-called Islamophobia (a term both arbitrarily defined and employed), while UK authorities enthusiastically pursue supposed Islamophobes. However, public concerns regarding Islamic terrorism and extremism, demographic upheaval, grooming gangs and a variety of imported Muslim intra-communal socio-cultural problems (including female genital mutilation [FGM], ‘honour violence’, polygamy and forced marriage), seem typically treated with kid-gloves by all branches of the UK establishment. FGM, for instance, although illegal since 1985, has seen zero prosecutions despite one case being reported every hour. Moreover, there are now state-funded specialist clinics in the UK which address FGM’s health complications. From a certain angle, the appeasement of the practice seems to have blurred into something approaching collusion with it.
This specific instance in the public health sector of appeasement becoming more like collusion is part of a pattern being witnessed across all branches of the UK establishment. For the sake of avoiding social upheaval in the short term (and therefore amassing it in the long term), the UK establishment’s tendency is to side with sections of Britain’s Muslim population. The flip side of this is that the government has turned against the broader population, which manifests in an increasingly draconian approach to dissenting voices, such as Tommy Robinson. For instance, the UK government has renewed and deepened ties with the suspected Muslim Brotherhood front, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). Ties were severed in 2009 after former MCB Secretary General, Daud Abdullah, signed the Istanbul Declaration, which called for violence against UK armed forces. Despite this — or perhaps because of the MCB’s potential to generate violence — Prime Minister Theresa May now presides over a rapprochement with them. She knows very well who she is getting involved with, because she was Home Secretary when the still largely censored Jenkins Report was released in 2015 and therefore had full access to it. Along with the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), the report cites the MCB as an organisation with Muslim Brotherhood affiliations.
According to the Jenkins Report, “aspects of Muslim Brotherhood ideology and tactics, in this country and overseas, are contrary to our [UK] values and have been contrary to our national interests and our national security”. Denounced in December 2016 by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (headed by MP Crispin Blunt), the Jenkins Report and its warnings were countered with a more favourable picture of the Muslim Brotherhood, which now seems to be the preferred approach of the UK government. This switch is despite the Brotherhood having been marked as a global threat by the US Subcommittee on National Security, despite it being proscribed as a terrorist organisation in several countries, and despite its branch, Hamas, being overtly terrorist. Furthermore, the Brotherhood is the ideological root of Al Qaeda and Islamic State and works globally to subvert and Islamify societies via infiltration of the organs of state and other public bodies, such as media and charities. It shares the goal of a global caliphate with the Sunni jihadists it has spawned, and only differs from them in its general preference for gradualism over revolutionary violence.
In Western democracies, by publicly rejecting political violence and posing as moderates, the messaging of Muslim Brotherhood operatives can be seductive for politicians and establishment figures eager to hold together their fragmenting societies and find a bulwark against terrorism. However, the risk of reaching-out to “Islamists” who wish to engage in/with democracy is that it increases the potential for infiltration — and this is the weakness of the rapprochement strategy Leiken and Brooke argued for in 2007. This misguided strategy was favoured by the Obama administration and now seems to have been adopted by Theresa May’s government. Forging links with Muslim Brotherhood affiliates, and appeasing their demands in the hope it lessens jihadist terrorism, offers only false hope. Non-violent “Islamists” and jihadists implicitly act in concert, forming a pincer movement to Islamify society by subversion and intimidation respectively. The appeasement of political Islam by governments across Western Europe is transforming the continent against the will of vast numbers of its citizens and is effectively in collusion with the “Islamist” agenda — yet jihadist violence persists. The strategy is not working.
The UK government is now crossing the line from appeasement to collusion by bringing the MCB in from the cold. If its members are indeed Muslim Brotherhood operatives, they are wolves in sheep’s clothing who subscribe to the Brotherhood motto: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our constitution. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” This is a call to theocratic jurisprudence and holy war is at least implied — it is also arguably treasonable according to section 3 of the UK’s 1848 Treason Felony Act.
What follows is the first in a series of articles examining ‘Islamist’ influence and infiltration into the various branches of the UK establishment: Church, Monarchy, Military, Security Services, Police, Prison Service, Judiciary, Legislature, Civil Service, state media and banking/corporate interests.
It is perhaps appropriate to begin with the Church of England, given the overwhelmingly religious motivations of Islamic extremists. Moreover, the weakness of Christianity as a cultural force in Europe seems a fundamental aspect of the continent’s crisis in confidence. It has been observed by commentators such as Melanie Phillips that the decline of Christianity has left a moral and spiritual vacuum ready to be filled by a more self-assured belief system. It is within this context that the Church of England is ingratiating itself to extremists Muslim clerics, fulfilling Christopher Hitchens’ prophetic warning that the West’s own ecumenical and multiculturalist priesthood will “hold open the gates” for a resurgent and expansionist Islam.
Part 1: The Church of England
The UK’s state religion is the Church of England and as such is a centuries-old branch of the political establishment. Now largely bereft of political power, it nonetheless still exerts some soft-power in terms of moral influence in British public life. Headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the Church of England has a track record of interfaith dialogue with extremist Muslims.
A former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, advocated the absorption of aspects of Sharia law into UK legislation. Some Muslim groups supported Williams in this, for instance, the Rochdale-based Ramadhan Foundation, an educational and welfare body. They said Williams’ advocacy was “testament to his attempts to understand Islam and promote tolerance and respect between our great faiths”. The same foundation has a history of making outlandish and delusional comments, including referring to Israel as “the new Hitler”. Williams also made the claim at a 2014 conference organised by the supposedly integrationist and progressive Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), that Islam is rejuvenating British values. However, according to The Muslim Brothers in Europe: Roots and Discourse (p. 65), ISB is one of several movements which “have their ideological roots in the activism of Sayyid Qutb and Maulana Mawdudi,” two key founders of modern jihadism. The “offensive jihad” of Al Qaeda and Islamic State — their holy war for Islamic world-domination — is in no small measure the result of Qutb and Mawdudi’s promotion of extremist teachings and violence.
As well-meaning liberals, Williams and Welby engage in interfaith dialogue aiming for a “draw” — they aim for the common ground of understanding among equals. However, Islamic supremacists enter such dialogue with the aim of “winning” — as religious exclusivists, it could not be otherwise, whether they are honest about it or not. Moreover, as Samuel Westrop has noted, “honorable activities do not only attract those with honorable intentions”, and the involvement of extremists poisons the entire interfaith exercise — extremists such as Inter Faith Network members, Jamiat Ulama e Britain (JUB), who are “directly affiliated” with Pakistani seminaries that have close ties to the Taliban. The error of the interfaith template is therefore similar to the equally misguided attempt to engage “Islamists” in the democratic process. Islam, in the purist 7th century form, advocated by the Muslim Brotherhood and others, is a totalitarian theocratic system and therefore sees democracy as haram. For “Islamists”, engaging with the democratic process is only a means to the end of destroying it from within.
Welby has, in recent years, made numerous pointless attempts at dialogue with those for whom dialogue has a foregone, supremacist conclusion. In 2016, he welcomed Muhammad Naqib ur Rehman to Lambeth Palace to counter “the narrative of extremism and terrorism”, despite Rehman having openly praised acts of terror in Pakistan. In July 2018, Welby hosted the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyeb, for the “Emerging Peacemakers Conference”. Given the conference title, it is grimly ironic that this is the same al-Tayyeb who in 2015 refused to condemn Islamic State as un-Islamic. Welby, in his capacity as an amateur scholar of Islam compared to al-Tayyeb, contradicted this a year later with his claim that ISIS had “nothing to do with Islam”. Al-Tayyeb also considers apostasy punishable by death and, as head of Al-Azhar, the world’s foremost Sunni university, is party to both incitement against Egypt’s much-persecuted Coptic Christian minority and the promulgation of Sunni jihadism’s ideological underpinning.
Concerning UK-based “Islamists”, Welby visited the Hamas-linked Finsbury Park mosque after Darren Osborne’s 2017 vehicular ramming attack. Ignoring the fact that it was a Hamas-linked mosque which had been the victim of a style of attack favoured by Hamas, Welby went on to honour its “hero imam”, Mohammed Mahmoud, at the 2018 Lambeth Awards. Mahmoud’s award was for having prevented violence — he protected Osborne from an angry Muslim mob in the direct aftermath of the attack. However, Mahmoud’s association with alleged former Hamas military commander, Finsbury Park mosque trustee Mohammed Sawalha, was discretely overlooked. From Welby’s actions, we can surmise that he was either naively content with, or unwilling to question, the mosque’s 2017 explanation that it was “unaware” of Sawalha’s background and status as a Hamas politburo member.
Welby has done much work in the interfaith field with his “friend”, MCB Assistant Secretary General, Ibrahim Mogra. Although moderate in his public pronouncements, Mogra regularly re-tweets posts from the “extremist” advocacy group, Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), and, as a senior MCB member, is formally linked to many who have openly supported the likes of Bin Laden and Hamas. Furthermore, Mogra has promoted “Islamist” narratives within the British education system by writing a Teacher Handbook on Islam. The handbook includes justifications for amputation punishments, violent jihad, polygamy, slavery and — casting doubt on Mogra’s interfaith work — Islamic supremacist thinking.
It is therefore reasonable to conclude that Archbishop Welby is willingly blind to Islamic extremism and is actively covering for it, for instance, with the false-equivalency that “many faiths, not just Islam” have a problem with radicalisation. Moreover, Welby asserts that it is an irrational “fear of Muslims” among the public which is tearing British society apart, rather than Islamic extremism, which he downplays by warning against “hysteria”. Furthermore, he claimed the number of young Muslims travelling to Syria to fight for Islamic State and other jihadist groups was “extraordinarily small” — it was approximately 800 (including family members). The UK now faces an ongoing severe terror threat from the around 400 fighters who have returned, adding a combat-hardened core to the pool of up to 35,000 potential jihadists already in the country. For Welby, the public is not to believe its lying eyes that it is his interfaith partners who sow the ideological seeds which sprout into sectarian apartheid and acts of terror. This “gaslighting” of the British public, as shall be further illustrated in this series of articles, is ubiquitous across British public life — the primary problem of Islamic extremism is fearfully overlooked and the secondary response of public concern is derided as delusional or bigoted.
Angemon says
Bookmarked for future reference.
Andy says
“Diversity” in the UK, Islam, PC Insanity, BETA MALE Piers Morgan, & TRUMP!
Mac-101 says
What else can it be but a deliberate action of Satanic Globalist to destroy Western Civilization and replace it with a totalitarian Orwellian nightmare?
FYI says
But I’m sure you are aware that ultimately it will backfire on them..when this man comes to power ..2 Thessalonians 2 v 4-5..you note that he will oppose ALL religions;islam and the Left are merely tools in the coming to the power of the forces of antiChrist.Most “Christians”,especially the dhimmiwits like the C of E probaly don’t get that.And he will serve the useful purpose of allowing the separating of the wheat from the chaff.
People really do reap what they sow:if you want a Hitler or Stalin to rule over you,don’t complain to God!
Especially when you consider that the Left,the dhimmiwit Christians,the Globalists,the islamists,the media are collaborating in creating a monster,that “totalitarian Orwellian nightmare”:if they think that getting rid of christianity will work then they must be prepared to accept what will come when the man referred to in 2 Thess 2 WILL come to power.And note that this man,this false messiah{aka antiChrist..although he will not appear to be in opposition to Christ at first}does not tolerate ANY religion.That includes islam.
With the help of the false prophet in Rome{pro-NWO,pro-islam,underminer of Christianity} busy preparing his way,the false messiah should have no problem ensnaring people:islam and the left and the dhimmis and this “interfaith” nonsense and the fake media…are all merely useful tools.
If anyone thinks this is far-fetched:that the Eu is becoming a Totalitarian superstate,just look at what is happening.And that stuff about the false messiah is in the Gospel which no christian can deny{a book which,incidentally,allah says he wrote..koran 5 v46-47 and confirms..}
Mac-101 says
Very True. Unfortunately the 42 months Satan’s Beast sits on the Throne will be extremely ugly like we have never seen.
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So I believe there is only two different scenarios to explain the Elites fascination with and support of Islam.
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The first is to use Islam as the force to take over Western Civilization and THEY will control it behind the curtain. Islam is the perfect Totalitarian control measure. It also fits the Second Comin of Jesus Christ who will be accompanied by ALL those who were beheaded for refusing to renounce Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and refuse to take the Mark of the Beast. Fits Muslim MO perfectly.
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Second is Albert Pikes 3 WWs scenario and the last is WWIII and the battle against Christians, Jews and Islam. All religion is destroyed and then THEY rule. Out of KAOS/ORDER!
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I tracked the letter back to 1923 or 28 about ten years ago while I studied Poke for about two weeks. Pike was definitely a Satanist. Even if it is a forgery and NOT written in 1878 or whatever, the author definitely called WWI and the lead up to WWIII!
gravenimage says
Mac, this thing didn’t turn up until the 1950s, so “predicting” WWI was not hard, nor was it written by Pike. As for your tracking it to the 1920s, the author just claimed that the British Museum had it at that time–bt they did not, and no one else saw it during that period, either.
I suppose you could say that seeing Islam as a threat in a hoax letter in the 1950s was impressive–but that’s a far as it goes.
Raja says
Appeasement is a prelude to capitulation and Islam knows it too well hence the interfaith dialogue.
Dialogue is a euphemism to capitulation and is also a taunt for submission to Islam. Islam must be very pleased with the way the West is conducting itself.
The West seems to be enjoying all this… Hardly any self-respecting leader around…
mortimer says
Archbishop Justin Welby is very well informed about Islam and I dare say he is a counterjihadist, but he cannot say so because his appointment is rather political. He will surprise people by speaking out forcefully about Islam some time in the future. He should not be underestimated. Rowan Williams was not as well informed about Islam.
RichardL says
What makes you say that?
gravenimage says
Actually, Mortimer, I’m afraid Justin Welby’s record does not really bear this out. He has sneered at concerns about Muslims in Britain joining the Islamic State, saying in 2014 that such worries were “hysterical… I think we’re in danger of slipping into a very fearful culture”.
He has criticized any restrictions on “unaccompanied minors” entering the UK (even though, of course, many of these “minors” have proven to be anything but, and have been involved in a great deal of crime and Jihad).
Walter Sieruk says
For a church that claim to be “Christian” to have “interfaith dialogue” with imams or mullahs or any other official representative of Islam is not only folly but an affront to the instruction found in the Bible. For Ephesians 5:11. instructs Christian to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful words of darkness but rather expose them.” [N.K.J.V.] The way to expose the darkness of Biblical error is to made known how some religion doctrine are false by using the light and information found the Bible, Second Timothy 3:16.
For the way for a person to discover the truth concerning the nature of Jesus is found in the Bible verse Isaiah 8:20. This instructs “To the law of the testimony. If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.” In other words, if a religious teacher has teaching that are in contradiction to the Word, the Bible, then that teachers is a false teacher who teaches false doctrines. The Muslim clerics, as the imam and mullahs, teach and speak doctrines about God from the Quran .
As the Quran in 112 teaches “He is God alone: God is the eternal begetteth not…” Likewise, this religious book which is the entire foundation of and for Islam further teaches in 19:35. “It is not befitting to God that He should beget a son.” In great contrast the Bible teaches in John 1:14. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father ,full of grace and truth.” Likewise John 3:16 teaches “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… Then just a little further in verse 18 it is written about Jesus Who is “the only begotten Son of God. “ Other places in the Bible further teach that Jesus is the Son of God as in Matthew 16:15:16. Luke 1:35. John 3:36. First John 4:14. 15. 5:14,15. Moreover to be even more clear the Bible teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, Who is God the Father. As found in Matthew 3:16,17. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. Of course , it ,very much, needs to made even more specific . The Bible teaches that Jesus is also God the Son. As seen in Hebrew1:8 and First John 5:20. The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain” this all away. As in they will try brush off all those Bible verse off by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted, through time, by Christians and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. That claim they make actually underestimate the Power of God to protect and keep His Word safe and intact ,through time, and away from the corruption of men.
In conclusion ,with the above instruction of the way to find doctrinal truth in Isaiah 8:20 and in the light of the Bible verse provided it may be clearly seen, by all those who are willing to see, that Islam is in terrible doctrinal error and it is therefore a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14:6.
So as it is written in Amos 3:3. ” Can two walk together , unless they are agreed” Since the doctrines and beliefs of Christians and Muslims are in such a strong and contrasting difference each other , the very idea and concept of having such an “Interfaith dialogue” is absurd, wrong, full of folly and error.
Lydia Church says
And….
the pilgrims were right!!!
Happy Early Thanksgiving!
Terry Gain says
Christianity and Islam. Two great faiths. Each has a Holy Trinity. Ours is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Theirs is Convert, Pay The Jizya or Prepare To Die.
Life is about choices. No one in their right mind would choose Islam.
nicholas tesdorf says
As before WWII, Appeasement has remained a strong force in British Society and its re-emergence in the face of Militant Islam is as dangerous and ineffective as it was before the Nazi Threat. Interfaith Dialogue is as worthwhile as casting your pearls before the swine as someone once reminded us. The Muslims are the people who are referred to in John 16:2 “They shall put you out of the synagogues, but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God.”
Michael,B,Budinger says
No surprise. But then again the christian religion has been used for two thousand years, to subjugate us serfs, for the war lords that took control in different regions.
The descendants of these war lords, known as the ruling class, realise that they can no longer control with the threat of going to hell.
Because many of us no longer believe in any god,or heaven and hell. We live we have children grow old and die, and that is the end of us,except for the offspring we leave behind.
So they need some thing more savage to control us, and that is the death cult called Islam. Not forgetting the christian church was not any better than Islam is now, they used murder to force people into their church, death if they left it, or spoke against it.
Carol the 1st says
Michael,,,”control” is not necessarily a dirty word – especially when you look at the alternatives. And what backing do you have for that last throwaway, conflating sentence? (and remember not just tone and quality matter but scale as well).
Christianity certainly *is* better than Islam – then, now and forever.
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gravenimage says
UK: From appeasement to collusion — Part 1: The Church of England
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Deeply disturbing article from Andrew Jones.
Carol the 1st says
I look forward to all in Jones’ series of “articles examining ‘Islamist’ influence and infiltration into the various branches of the UK establishment:
CHURCH, MONARCHY, MILITARY, SECURITY SERVICES, POLICE, PRISON SERVICE, JUDICIARY, LEGISLATURE, CIVIL SERVICE, STATE MEDIA AND BANKING/CORPORATE INTERESTS.
gravenimage says
Yes–I look forward to more articles in the series, as well.
BelieveOnlyJesus says
Do you want to see how horribly England (and the rest of the West has conceded to the the Islamists? Just listen carefully to this video by a Brit describing the recent Bibi Asia case:
https://youtu.be/442wpMX2KoA
Graham Ford says
Brilliant analysis. Really appreciate its informed intelligent truth-telling.
Malcolm Jackson says
The treacherous Sharia May is following Tony Blair’s agenda.
The UK is completely controlled by Tony Blair’s treacherous Common Purpose organisation.
The scale of what Tony Blair’s treacherous Common Purpose organisation has achieved is stunning, with more than a hundred thousand graduates in powerful management positions they now effectively control the police, the Conservative Party, most education (teachers are prime useful idiots), trade unions, the Civil Service, the BBC (and much of the rest of the media), the NHS, the Church of England, many charities and much local government. Not just in the UK, but around the world.
https://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2017/07/14/secret-society-runs-great-britain/
Carol the 1st says
That’s more helpful, Malcolm – straight facts about obstacles staring them in the face. People tuning in to Jihad Watch will get turned off if they see too much wandering into theories about end-times, prophecies, bible verses, conspiracies, satanism, and abusive demands to run and get your pitchforks (while knowing our “leaders” have pulled the rug out from under us). It seems our politicians have an Achilles Heel – needing to pander to majorities and to those higher up the food chain.
The video below shows situations illustrative of what’s been happening in the UK (it would be great if everyone kept an Android or Roku running in the background of their daily activities so you can easily absorb many relevant conversations). The last few minutes (28:04+) has Christopher Hitchens stating his very accurate intimations about the future (a link to this speech was also provided in this article):
Hitchens:
“This is very urgent business, ladies and gentlemen. I beseech you – RESIST IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN AND BEFORE THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU, WHICH WILL BE THE NEXT THING. You will be told you CAN’T COMPLAIN because you’re “ISLAMOPHOBIC” – the term is already being introduced into the culture – as if it was an accusation of RACE HATRED, for example, or BIGOTRY, whereas it’s only the objection to the preachings of a VERY EXTREME AND ABSOLUTIST RELIGION.
Watch out for these symptoms – they’re not the symptoms of surrender – VERY OFTEN ECUMENICALLY OFFERED TO YOU BY MEN OF GOD IN OTHER ROBES – CHRISTIAN, AND JEWISH AND SMARMY ECUMENICAL. These are the ones who hold open the gates for the barbarians. THE BARBARIANS NEVER TAKE A CITY UNTIL SOMEONE HOLDS THE GATES OPEN FOR THEM AND IT’S YOUR OWN PREACHERS WHO WILL DO IT FOR YOU and your own MULTICULTURAL AUTHORITIES WHO WILL DO IT FOR YOU.
RESIST, RESIST IT – WHILE YOU CAN!”
Western Sharia Police
gravenimage says
+1
Coram Deo says
*****IMAM DOES CALL TO PRAYER AT BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL WITHOUT PERMISSION – DURING ARMISTICE CONCERT
video – 5 minutes 24 seconds
Carol the 1st says
Awww – he was probably just trying to whet his hefty appetite before the next blood sacrifice to Allah-what’s-his-name. Too bad the brazen blonde didn’t trip him up on his way off his impressive pedestal.