I’ve written before about how an organization that Fiyaz Mughal helped set up (No2H8Crime) nominated an internet troll who is known for doing nothing more than attempting to destroy lives by trolling online with racists and homophobes. These organizations, that are funded with taxpayers’ money, would on the surface appear to have noble reasons for existing. When writing that first article about TellMama and No2H8Crime, I approached Tell Mama as well as all other anti-race, anti-bullying and anti-hate charities/orgs who partner with, support or endorse No2H8Crime. These partners are 32 in number. They include the London Mayor’s office, as well as British Transport police, and West Mercia and Warwickshire police. The Daily Mirror promote them, and, interestingly, Facebook have now also partnered with No2H8Crime within the past few days. I received no response from any of the people I contacted at that time, and no assurances that they would be investigating my claims and withdrawing support from anyone who is nominating or recognizing a person who spreads hatred and racism online. As a result, another year passed and more nominations went forward, and more awards were handed out.
In a bid to finally get an answer from these agencies, I approached them all again, telephoning them to make sure I had gotten their email addresses correct, and alerting them to the fact that I was writing a follow-up piece on them. I was assured that I had indeed sent the emails to the correct addresses, and further assured by them that they would have a read over my new email and give me a response. That’s two emails and a phone call I made to these anti-racism, anti-Islamophobia, anti-bullying, etc. organizations, as well as sending out a multitude of tweets that went unanswered. A week has passed and I have received one reply from a group called https://www.stophateuk.org/, and I would like to commend them for assuring me that they do not stand in support of “Trolling, Doxing, Cyberbullying, etc.” They go on to say that they have “previously been involved in, supported and publicized the generation of material, such as the work of ‘Get the Trolls Out,’ specifically in order to encourage and support responsible and non-harmful “‘counter-speech’ activity.” I suspect this was initially geared towards leftist readers in a bid to assist them in shutting down the imaginary “far-right” boogeymen, but they agree that the rules apply even to left-wing, liberal trolls who are also unable to debate without resorting to personal attacks on one’s character, family and children.
Stop Hate UK are having their good name, and their ethos, dragged through the mud by their partnership with the TellMama, Fiyaz Mughal-initiated awards that are known by the name of No2H8Crime. Stop Hate UK confirmed that “our status as ‘partners’ is therefore largely in support of the underlying principal of encouraging and acknowledging ‘Active Citizenship’…Nevertheless, we would also assert that any such ‘Active Citizenship’ does require an obligation to conduct activities responsibly, and therefore precludes the harmful, negative, and, in their more extreme forms, potentially criminal activities and behaviours.” It’s disturbing to me that people like Fiyaz Mughal and his affiliated charities can get away with raising the public profile of people who do nothing more than sow division and spread hatred, but I am reassured by Stop Hate UK informing me that their CEO is now aware of how No2H8Crime operate, and by the fact that they will review their association with them, and discuss how best to go forward from now on. They have agreed that “there is a need for closer scrutiny and research in relation to potential nominees for future awards, in order to avoid any perception that Stop Hate UK, or indeed any of the award supporters, would condone the behaviours” that I have outlined and alerted them to. If only all of the other partners and sponsors felt the same way.
Too often these organizations that exist to fight racism and hatred are guilty of turning a blind eye when a leftist uses racism or homophobia as a tool to bully others they disagree with. In this regard, these organizations are every bit as guilty of encouraging the bullying of others even while they profess to condemn such behaviour. Stonewall UK gave no reply when alerted to the homophobic and transphobic abuse these trolls were meting out to other people on social media. They did not respond to emails, and they did not come out to condemn the language and behaviour online, even while one of their staff was engaging in an encouragingly supportive conversation with the trolls. Likewise, BLM UK didn’t utter a word when they were shown the racist tweets that were being put out by friends of No2H8Crime’s nominee. They didn’t bat an eyelid at the use of the N-word being employed and weaponized because it was being directed at a perceived right-wing person. To state the obvious, going forward with awards for “Active Citizenship” requires that nominees’ social media profiles are vetted. It’s a simple task. Not screening a person, when that person has been put forward for an award, is lazy, reckless, and irresponsible. It leads, as we see here, to an organization’s own public image being discredited. It also emboldens these trolls, and allows them to continue in their bullying ways, imbued with an even higher sense of righteousness in their crusade to shut down any opinion they disagree with.
Angemon says
Fiyaz “the mendacious, grievance-mongering taquiyya-artist” Mughal.
Buraq says
I wouldn’t trust Fiyaz Mughal as far as I could spit!
Malek al Kuffar says
Fiyaz Mughal is difficult to fathom. Some things he says wouldn’t be out of place in Jihad Watch:
“Fiyaz Mughal, Director of Faith Matters which works to increase community cohesion, told The Independent it was vital to acknowledge that terrorism was the driving factor behind the “worryingly consistent” level of mosque attacks.
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He said some members of the Muslim community shied away from admitting that Islamist terrorism was the biggest factor driving hate crime.
“The biggest driver of anti-Muslim hate is terrorist attacks – the research is very clear here.
“We need to be honest. Not wanting to acknowledge that terrorism is the biggest driver, and to blame the media instead, is very much an Islamist narrative.
“We have to reduce terrorist attacks in order to reduce fractures in our community.”
Source: “Hate crime targeting UK mosques more than doubled in past year, figures show”, by Rachel Roberts, The Independent, Monday 9 October 2017
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hate-crime-muslims-mosques-islamist-extremism-terrorism-terror-attacks-a7989746.html
mortimer says
Hmmm … what happened … Is Fiyaz Mughal ‘Islamophobic’ ??? He is criticizing JIHAD! Allah is never wrong so Fiyaz Mughal must be a renegade from Islam and an apostate.
JIHAD is an ‘ESSENTIAL’ teaching of Islam (USUL UD-DEEN).
Jayell says
“…it was vital to acknowledge that terrorism was the driving factor behind the “worryingly consistent” level of mosque attacks……”
And what about all those church attacks which probably exceed the attacks on mosques in number and severity? Also strange that certain people seem to be against ‘H8’ only when they’re on the wrong end of it, otherwise it’s OK say nasty things about Jewish people, Christian people, ‘white’ people, people of a different sexual orientation, people of a ‘right wing’ (sic) persuasion who deserve to have battery acid thrown in their faces……in fact, anyone who does not resemble these ‘certain people’ who are so ‘against H8’. Now, I wonder if there’s some kind of hidden agenda there?
J D S says
Of course JIHAD…MURDERING innocent people is a driving force if Hate for muslims..
Any destructive force will bring out the hate in people and Muslims committing murder in the name of a non existent god sure will bring out people’s hate…Now should that hate produce extreme measures?? Of course not.
gravenimage says
UK anti-hate organization disavows Fiyaz Mughal’s No2H8Crime awards
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Generally a nasty piece of work. Tell Mama is especially despicable–set up in the wake of Lee Rigby’s murder by Jihadists, it castigates Infidels to giving Muslims dirty looks.
mortimer says
ENFORCING DOUBLE STANDARDS IN FAVOR OF MUSLIMS.
Fiyaz Mughal believes that ISLAM MAY NEVER BE CRITICIZED and THERE IS NO VALID CRITICISM OF ISLAM and it isn’t slander or deceit WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT.
mortimer says
Islam has an OBLIGATORY and ‘ESSENTIAL’ doctrine of hatred directed against the DIRTY KUFAAR that is called AL WALAA WAL BARAA (Islamic apartheid). Muslim must all practice this HATRED and HOSTILITY against kafirs or they will not enter Islamic paradise.
Mung Shuonglun says
The name says it all a Muslim is here to dominate. Invade and take over. If they are minority the govt have a place for them. A very tactful way to start a landing in a land they want to dominate.
R Cole says
Often these Islamic rights groups just want Islamic law. And the hate speech laws or rules can be closely pegged to it, as a way to enforce the sharia through the back door, in free western nations.
What is illegal or not permitted under Islam becomes hate speech or Islamophobic.
This is how a person who leaves Islam could be labelled an “Islamophobe” for telling the truth about Islam particularly to non-Muslims. In the Muslim book anyone who is not a Muslim is ignorant of Islam [period]. So in the Islamic world, if you’ve left Islam and speak the truth about it [like truth to power], it is like you’ve crossed to the other side, you are helping the enemy, and it is viewed as treasonous. Whereas in the Islamic world that person would be jailed or put to death. In the west, with religious freedoms, Islamic groups look to embed themselves in the hate speech activism, and closely align the rules of hate speech with the application of the sharia.
It soon becomes clear, that these Muslim rights groups care only about the advancement of Islam and sharia in the west and share little if anything, with other rights groups who claim to be against “hate.”
Fact is the whole thing has become political. Only, unlike the Left-wing activists, their anti-Islamophobic activist allies aren’t agitating for a socialist state.
Georg says
Is that George Zimmerman?