An airsoft shooting range in England is using a picture of ISIS bride from London Shamima Begum for people to hone their shooting skills on, and Maajid Nawaz isn’t happy about it. “We must be better than our enemies,” Pope Maajid tells us, whilst railing against using a jihadist’s face for target practice, calling it “disgusting and inhumanly degrading behaviour.” Old habits die hard with Maajid, in my opinion — here he is defending a terrorist. Maajid quickly goes on to tell us, “It won’t be long before this face is replaced by just any brown or black face,” as if people at that shooting range are firing at Shamima Begum not because she is a jihadist, but because she is brown. “The Shamima Begum 2-tier citizenship debacle *is* connected to race,” Maajid insists. He is trying to get us to believe that race wars in the UK are already unfolding before his eyes.
The real war occurring in the UK today is against non-Muslim men and non-Muslim girls. These two groups of people are the biggest victims, if Maajid wants to start talking about war. Non-Muslim boys are being neglected in favour of Muslims. They are dropping out of school earlier, more are living in poverty, and they have the highest levels of illiteracy in the UK today (not to mention suicide rates), thanks to all of the enforced Cultural Marxism that is taking place, which sees non-Muslim men being excluded from certain jobs and a lot of apprenticeships and college and university places, generally on the basis of race. If Maajid wants to continue going down the race war route, then he should take a look at the white non-Muslim underage girls who are victims of brown (since Maajid is talking about skin tone, as if it had something to do with resentment against Shamima Begum) Pakistani Muslim men. There’s your race war right there, Maajid. Or perhaps he can cast an eye over Twitter this past week alone: multiple videos have surfaced of lone non-Muslim boys being battered unconscious by packs of Pakistani Muslim youths. And, as always, when a non-Muslim is battered or killed or robbed by a Pakistani Muslim, there’s rarely a “hate crime” label attached to it, as there is whenever anything, no matter how random, happens to a Muslim.
Maajid is a published author and the head of a think tank. He speaks several languages, and it would be safe to assume that he thinks of himself as being an educated man. The reader has to ask himself the question: why is Maajid still conflating Islam with skin tone? He must know that Islam is not a race, and that fact doesn’t need repeating. There are Chinese, African, Caucasian, and Arab Muslims. The fact that he would come out to decry so strenuously something that is doing no harm to anyone except for the public image of Muslim terrorists is very telling. People have every right to vent their anger and hatred at a terrorist. She’s an ISIS bride, and shooting at a piece of paper with an airsoft rifle is no more harmful than squeezing a soft stress ball in the palm of one’s hand. People abuse Trump effigies all the time and no one bats an eyelid, but start shooting an airsoft rifle at a picture of an ISIS bride, and suddenly we all need to start talking about race war, according to Maajid Nawaz.
Nonsense. The Muslim ISIS bride has been interviewed on TV. She says that she doesn’t feel the Manchester bombing was justified because innocent people were killed, but she is cool with the sexual enslavement, rape, torture and killing of Yazidis, because she was told that they were enemy combatants and therefore fair game.
This is standard Islamic doctrine as practiced and preached by Muhammad himself. No outreach, no forgiveness, no negotiations, no tolerance, just outright brutal theft, torture, rape, and murder of one’s enemies and critics. If Maajid wants to be better than anyone, he might want to start by more closely examining the attributes of his prophet and aspiring to be better than he was. Islam is not a race, as Maajid would have you believe, and Muslims, and Pakistanis in particular, are not under threat in the UK today. They have monopolized large areas of towns and cities, and they own the drug trades. They also head up the majority of rape and grooming gangs wherever they settle. They are protected by family and community (the families of the latest batch of Muslim rapists were in court recently, screaming at the judge because he had the audacity to jail their rapist Muslim husbands). These rapists walk free in every town and city in the UK. Their faces are known and no one attacks them. Everyone is afraid of being called “racist” and “Isolamophobic.”
Time to drop the victim card, Maajid. You know that Islam is not a race, and you need to give it up, because you’re not going to make it a thing. It’s not going to happen.
Renate says
People dislike her because she joined the Islamic State, not because of what she looks like. How is that hard to understand?
mortimer says
Agree with Renate. She’s an accomplice of WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. She should be tried and punished for her complicity.
Renate says
The jihadi brides joined ISIS to aid and abet the jihadis. Their allegiance ceased to lie with their countries of origin. eddie offers nothing more than his own conjecture regarding President Trump.
somehistory says
For those who wish islam to take over control of the world, the truth must be obscured, covered, tossed aside, stomped out of existence . Whatever false argument can be made, will be made.
There are a multitude of rational points to make against his charges of racism in defending this woman terrorist…how many children did she beat with cables?…but he won’t listen to any of them. And neither will anyone else who agrees with him…because it is what they wish to think.
Wellington says
Notice that playing the race card is something which both Buttlims and Leftists have in common. Deflection of a real issue can often be accomplished by playing the tired old race card, especially for those who function in the fantasy world of political correctness and multiculturalism, twin idiocies though they be.
Besides, this turkey, Maajid Nawaz, is a founder of Quilliam, an organization which is at best naive, at worst deceptive (I vote for “deceptive”), trying as it does to distinguish between a good Islam and that evil hijacking of this great and terrific religion that goes by such bogus appellations as “Islamism” and “radical Islam.”
This guy carries no weight. One knows this or should know it. I mean this stuff is getting really old. Like yesterday. Or ten years ago. To hell with him.
Westman says
It does get old, Wellington. Without a figure, like the real Jesus, Islam is a bad copy of Old Testament themes. The idea of an organization that can seperate the violent jihadis from the peaceful ones completely flies in the face of the Quran, Hadiths and Muhammad’s personal life. With a Quran Sura entitled “Booty” and no Allah-approved reformer like Jesus, Islam is trapped in a situation where the violent Jihadi is the orthodox Muslim.
Without a reformation, Nawaz and his organization will be continually embarrassed by the actions of Orthodox Muslims; brown, yellow, red, white, or with green bruises
CRUSADER says
What form would this “Reformation” take shape?
Devil is certainly in the details!
Westman says
Christianity was born in a time of suppression when there was no hope of changing the situation with violence. Islam is going to reach a similar state, not of oppression, because it creates its own supression, but rather a numbing stasis in the midst of progress. Whether a Jew under the Romans or a Muslim in the West, the sense that one is limited in scope will cause an increased interest in some alternative. Such a reformation always creates martyrs because the present “leadership” benefits from the power and wealth the status quo affords them – and will use every device available to keep their status.
Will Islam have a reformer who brings Islam into universal brotherhood, with all humanity, believer and non-believer alike? Not in my lifetime. Islam only has two forward paths available, reform or eventual obscurity and both are far into the future.
No ideology can express hate for the majority of humanity and expect to persist in a world that has left tribal conquest behind. Islam’s Quran-supported hate for non-believers is its Achilles Heel.
CRUSADER says
Mendacious, indeed!
Ric says
Ignorance is bliss, Maajid Nawaz; it boggles one’s mind the superficiality of this man. The woman is a terrorist, nor will she ever hold any sense of loyalty to Britain. She is an unconscionable woman bent on the ruination of the West and its principles. As an ISIS sl*t who is the true racist, as is Nawaz. The latter, seemingly, has never held an original thought when advocating or defending those bent on evildoing. He, she and copious others of their malignant like are not worthy of mention.
CRUSADER says
Nawaz seems to revert to his radical self from previous period.
Odd how Niall Ferguson considers him admirable….
gravenimage says
Nawaz has fooled a lot of people–including some Anti-Jihadists who should know better.
gravenimage says
UK: Maajid Nawaz suggests people only dislike ISIS bride Shamima Begum because she is “brown”
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Uh…right. It doesn’t have anything to do with her wanting to enslave and murder unbelievers…sarc/off
Wellington says
So true. But then, gravenimage, truth is not a factor in Islam (or in any apology for this decrepit religion) anymore than it is with Leftism.
Defend Islam or Leftism and you are not interested in truth. By now, only the deceitful or the ignorant remain culpable here.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Wellington.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Maajid Nawaz: “We must be better than our enemies.”
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Sorry, Maajid. Your “race” lark doesn’t work. We know Shamima Begum is not your enemy. Your taqiyya artistry has reached its sell-by date. Retire.
Jayell says
‘You’re only doing/saying this because I’m brown/black” (or green/blue/orange if that were the case) is the usual last resort of the scoundrel when they’ve been caught out and looking for any excuse, partly because that would often be a perfecf piece of projection if their own racist mindser (and the same thought strangely never occurs to them when unfairly receiving benefits and special considerstions in the name of ‘diversity’ or whatever) and maybe partly due to arrogance because they see themselves as beyond judgement, least of all others not of their own kind. And this character is multilingual? Everyone in the UK and Europe is supposed to have a knowledge of at least two languages (I can speak three including English plus a knowledge of three more) and thousands have had things published. And maybe one of the reasons why he is in charge of a think tank is the colour of his skin, just like there more than a few who’ve got themselves into influential positions in Government purely because of their complexion and certainly NOT their competence. Do we ever hear Nawaz acknowlege that particular fact? No. One reason why Nawaz maybe quick to drag up this gem of irrelevance to defend and promote ths appalling Ms. Begum might be that he’s literally still feeling sore himself after (as the whole of London and the South East has been told) having been beaten up in central London by some charming character (‘white’ as Nawaz was at pains to point out although it was dsrk at the time) whilst this character allegedly pronounced our hero to be a ‘f*cking Paki’ – buf we’re not told what Nawaz may have said or done to this person just previously. Not the sort of thing anyone should should expect in a civilised environment like the former Capital of the British Empire but then Nawaz would be in good company with thousands of others in modern London, many of a paler complexion, who have suffered a similar if not worse fate. I don’t think that fact got trumpeted around too much when we were all.supposed to commiserate with Nawaz on his temporary demise. And I most certainly have NOT forgotten (a) that charming group of individuals of Nawaz’s heritage and religious persuasion who decided to use non-verbal methods to relieve my son-in-law of his car no doubt largely because he did not share their identity and (b) the nursery nurse who for similar reasons was attacked in a street not far from me, pushed to the ground and relieved of some of her hair by a group of young females who would have closely resembled “poor’ young Ms Begum. Yes, Mr Nawaz, we’re sll convinced, but not in the sort of way you’d like.
gravenimage says
+1
Terry Gain says
If Maajid wants to be better than anyone, he might want to start by more closely examining the attributes of his prophet and aspiring to be better than he was.
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Good article Joshua but goodness knows where this came from. If there is a person alive who isn’t better than Muhammad who is it?
What Nawaz served up here is certainly brown, but I don’t reject it because of its colour.
A_M_Swallow says
Maajid Nawaz needs to remember the story of “The boy who cried wolf” and apply it to himself.
David Riley says
You have lost all credibility now Nawaz, colour has nothing to do with it . Have a word with yourself, your camouflage is wearing off.
Niemoller says
He’s still a islamist supremacist at heart. He can’t stand the thought of a non-muslim defending him and herself.
thebigW says
““The Shamima Begum 2-tier citizenship debacle *is* connected to race,” Maajid insists.”
Maajid is right, it *is* connected – by most Westerners ’cause they’re idiots who think that condemning Muslims and their Islam is a racist thing to do.
thebigW says
‘course do I need to add that Maajid the sly fox wouldn’t admit that he’s manipulating them Western idiots.
infidel says
How ironic… the same Paki pests that British unwittingly unleashed on India, during their colonial reign of India, have now Trojaned themselves deep into the British woodwork and creating endless troubles there,,
Savvy Kafir says
I formerly considered him to be honest, but wildly unrealistic about the possibility of creating a moderate, secular version of Islam. But more & more he appears to be a devious snake in the grass, assisting in the Stealth Jihad being waged against the West.
Terry Gain says
Yes. If he rejects the incontrovertible lslamic supremacism and totalitarianism then why hasn’t he left Islam. I feel the same way about Zhuddi Jasser. They are either liars or liars (sic).
gravenimage says
Agreed, Terry.
Savvy Kafir says
You’re right. Jasser is perplexing too. He seems like a decent guy; but he seems smart enough to know that Islam is beyond fixing or taming. That’s a lost cause. And would-be reformers like Jasser just create confusion among the infidel public.
thebigW says
I ain’t “perplexed” lol.
CRUSADER says
It is as if Nawaz feels he is owed more recognition and ever increasing status than what he obtained as a Radical. Now that he cannot go back to that life, he seems to reach back to it in ways to make himself important. It seems much Nawaz does and says revolves around his ego, rather than what he is actually contributing as an evolved, enlightened fellow.
He probably wants to get knighted for prestige sake.
Debi Brand says
“UK: Maajid Nawaz suggests people only dislike ISIS bride Shamima Begum because she is ‘brown.’”
Yes, well of course that is the reason; for myself personally, I clearly recall the moment I saw her (I think…maybe … ), the first thing I noticed was her color: BROWN!!!!”
And, and, I thought (I think… maybe…), I HATE HER!!—she’S BROWN!
And then, then, looking at myself, in the mirror, there, to my horror, I noted, I too was brown!!!—I hate myself!!!!!
gravenimage says
+1
Terry Gain says
Debi
I like your Brand.
Debi Brand says
Thank you all.
dl
Terry Gain says
My first negative experience with a black person occurred in 1975. I lived in a townhouse which was 15 feet from the street. My bedroom was at the front of the house. Three days in a row I was awakened at around 6 AM by the sound of a horn made by someone picking up someone in the house next door.
On the third day that I had been so unnecessary awakened I walked out to the street to ask the driver of the car why he didn’t just do the courteous thing and get out of his car and knock on my neighbour’s door. When I spoke to the driver he said I was only complaining because he was black. I said to him that I did not know he was black when I heard the horn which awakened me. In fact I did not know his colour until I got to his car.
I was reminded of this experience when I read Nawaz’s scurrilous accusation. I am happy to say that I have had more positive experiences with black people than negative ones.
gravenimage says
My worst experience with someone pulling the “race card” was this: I was alone at a bus stop late at night (I often had to work off-hour jobs when I was first in college)–and a big black man came along and sat down on the bench *very* close to me. I scooted over to the far end of the bench (please note that I would have done the same with any guy sitting so unnecessarily close to me, especially late at night).
He immediately started up with saying that I had only moved because he was black, blah blah blah. Good liberal that I was, I moved about half-way back down the bench.
He then pulled out a knife and robbed me.
I’m sure he intended to rob me regardless–but he was able to instill some false guilt in his victim for good measure. I was stunned at the time by how cynical he had been.
Terry Gain says
Good liberal that I was, I moved about half-way back down the bench.
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GI
LMAOROFl. Was that the mugging that made you a rational human being?
gravenimage says
It was a more gradual process, Terry–but this was certainly a step along the way. This was not the first time I have been mugged, but it was the first time someone had tried to make me feel guilty before they robbed me.
CRUSADER says
Graven, how would you handle such a situation these days?
You are at a bus stop, late night, there is one bench, a knife is drawn….
gravenimage says
I should probably carry a gun, CRUSADER.
The main point I was making is that I at least would not be so foolish as to let a thief guilt-trip me.
CRUSADER says
Aw…now you are sounding like Liam Neeson….
eduardo odraude says
Here’s Tommy Robinson’s recent expose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNd2bvLvyk4&t=37s
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“B.C. [British Columbia, Canada] family of ‘bride of ISIS’ working to bring her home”
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-family-of-bride-of-isis-working-to-bring-her-home-1.4319566
cornelius says
Sam Harris, a man I used to admire, perceives Maajid as the veritable answer to the problem of Islam. I would ask Sam, in lieu of the above article, if the majority of Muslims thought the way Maajid does, would all be right in the world?
CRUSADER says
Ah! Immanuel Kant: what if most or everybody did such and such, what would it all look like, then; and would it be sound to do so, given this?
thebigW says
you can’t know what Maajid “thinks” but you can damn well safely assume since he’s Muslim if he’s not talking like honest ISIS, he’s lyin’
tim gallagher says
This garbage about how people dislike this evil ISIS creature because she has dark skin is so tiresome. I hope that, by now, very few idiots would buy such crap. No, Begum is hated because she believes beheading people is a good, righteous thing to do. It is her evil beliefs and the types of behaviours that this Muslim barbarian approves of that cause civilised people to (quite rightly) hate her. This “racism” accusation that is pulled out endlessly to try and shame guilty types of white, western people and to close down debate is utter garbage. And for the millionth time, Islam is not a race. Of course, everyone here at Jihad Watch gets that. How come everyone doesn’t get this by now. It is vile, evil Islam and its disgusting attitudes (especially to us non-Muslims) and its evil acts that we loathe. Skin colour has got nothing to do with it.
A_M_Swallow says
So the applicable rule is “When blacks and Muslims shout Racism it means they are guilty. Now look to see what evil they committed.”
gravenimage says
Not everyone who shouts racism is guilty of something. Sometimes it really is about racism, which does still exist, although it is fairly rare now in the West.
But in cases like this, it is just intended to shut people up who don;t want to be raped or murdered.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for your comments,A_M_Swallow and gravenimage. Obviously racism still exists in this world. I would have to say though that a large part of the racism I see and hear these days is anti-white racism, and I notice that many people are awake to it. They call out the attacks on the supposedly “privileged, white male” or white man’s western civilisation, etc. But there is obviously racism against all types of people. I was trying to say that this Begum scumbag, who supports vile ISIS and thinks beheading people is just fine, is loathed for her attitudes and God only knows what she actually did while over there with her ISIS mates.But, even more obviously true is the fact that Islam isn’t a race. Generally, if a dark skinned Muslim is hated, and OK, maybe most Muslims are somewhat dark skinned, it is because islam is so barbaric and evil. I know, from my point of view, if the fairest skinned person in the world, if an albino, supported the evil that Islam supports, ( you know, such as “Kill all the non-believers” etc) and especially ISIS, the most barbaric of all, I’d loathe such a person. Why wouldn’t I? Hey, I’m one of the people they want to kill for not being a Muslim. And, it is definitely true, as you say gravenimage, that “racism” is often just a term of abuse to shut people up.
Kuffar 'n Proud says
I wonder if Sajid Javid, Britain’s Muslim Home Secretary, who revoked Shamima Begum’s British Citizenship, only dislikes ISIS bride Shamima Begum because she is “brown?”
dan christensen says
Maajid Nawaz is a populist, catering for the most radicalized jihadists and revealing himself as a lousy manipulator.
Shamima Begum may be “brown”, like many Christians from southern Europe, but her soul is painted black by diabolic members of a satanic sect.
AntiIslamicman says
This guy is nuts. Who cares what colour she is it’s the ideology that she follows that people are afraid of. Yes there will be a people that don’t like her colour but the problem here is that she follows Islam and the false prophet Muhammad. She went to a war zone to assist killers.
There is no argument about the colour of her skin that is not the issue here. This guy is trying to fabricate an argument that was never really there. He’s embarrassed by his prophet and what people are doing in his name. So to shift the argument he tries to create a new unfounded one. Nice try but any intelligent person will not buy into this very weak argument. Islam is the problem here not the colour of this Muslims skin
IanB says
I always instinctively doubt anything a muslim says, always immediately switching on my critical thinking filter.
dan christensen says
How do you, as a Christian in hard disagreement with a male stranger on the street, decide whether this stranger is a Christian or a muslim ???
Not by his color, but whether he offers to rape your mother or not, as his best argument.
Sometimes he may extend his argument, as a natural impulse, by offering to rape your sister, father and even your bicycle!
Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says
I don’t do colour narratives, it’s basically racist.
You choose to fight for Muhammad, you place your allegiance in the caliphate, they got destroyed, you lose, you are merely a prisoner of war, shut up.
You chose to give your sex and services to terrorists, you lived amongst rapists and headless corpses, and as you say, “it doesn’t faze you”.
Good, neither then will we be concerned in refusing you back, go die with your loved ones, join your husband’s paradisiacal sexual saturnalia.
You don’t fool any but the fooled.
jewdog says
If you’re going to defend evil by whatever argument then you are evil. The Talmud says something to that effect.
terry says
Nawaz would conform to sharia law in a heartbeat if it ever ruled the U.K.
If he really had any issues like he says he would have left islam years ago.
Or Else! says
It’s not the skin pigmentation. It’s the software running on the brain. ISLAM 1.0. Straight from the virus-encoding developer. No updates.
Al says
Wrong. Nobody gives a crap what color her skin is. We give a crap that she’s an ISIS supporter and has no business living in the West.
martin says
Nawaz is just another deceitfull muslim snake.
thebigW says
Yep, what martin said. What’s weird is that 100% of y’all here in the counter-jihad don’t just say what martin said.
Georg says
Get real:
Nawaz only defends a dedicated terrorist because she’s Muslim/brown.
It is, of course, normal and healthy to despise terrorist cult members.
TC says
>ISIS Bride Shamima Begum’s neighbours fear she ‘could BLOW UP half of Tower Hamlets’ after reporting her remarks – The Express
>Armed gang attack Runshaw College: Five arrested after Runshaw College ‘stabbing’ – armed gang ‘threatened students’ – The Daily Mirror
>Woman in her 30s killed in horrific STABBING in Ewell, Surrey: A WOMAN stabbed to death in broad daylight in a leafy Surrey village just yards from primary school; police presence in Stoneleigh escalated – Daily Mail
>Carnage returns to London’s streets as man is stabbed in a high street attack then another victim is knifed opposite a primary school just three hours later – The Daily Mirror
>LONDON BLOODBATH: Man stabbed to death in East Dulwich as violence continues in capital s the violent knife epidemic continues across the capital – London Evening News
>MORE LONDON BLOODSHED: Man stabbed to death in Bethnal Green becomes fifth victim of Lawless London in just eight days… The bloodshed on the capital’s streets has continued in 2019, with record 16 murder inquiries launched by the Metropolitan Police in weeks – The Sun
>London stabbings contnue: Peckam man rushed to hospital after receiving BRUTAL stab wounds in SAVAGE knife attack in South East London – The Standard
>’BLOODBATH BRITAIN’: Home Secretary Sajid Javid targets social-media content ‘fuelling knife crime’ in UK wide crackdown on knife crimes – The Express