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UK: Social media network promoting Western, anti-terror Muslim identity is covert government program

Aug 19, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Why did the British government have to do this? Why weren’t there any hip, anti-terror, Westernized British Muslims who did it themselves?

And while This Is Woke promotes the idea that it’s cool, dude, to be young and Muslim in Britain, and that all jihad terrorists need in order to drop their arms is a bit of training in the real Islam, what will those whom it influences do when jihad recruiters come around quoting Qur’an chapter and verse?

“REVEALED: The ‘woke’ media outfit that’s actually a UK counterterror programme,” by Ian Cobain, Middle East Eye, August 15, 2019:

A social media network for young people that has been launched around the term “woke” is actually a covert British government counterterrorism programme, security officials have admitted.

A Facebook page and Instagram feed with the name This Is Woke describes itself as the work of a “media/news company” that is engaging “in critical discussions around Muslim identity, tradition and reform”.

In fact, it was created by a media company on behalf of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) at the UK Home Office.

The OSCT is refusing to disclose information about the network, however, and will not explain the reason it was created, claiming that to do so would “prejudice the national security of the UK”.

This Is Woke draws upon the popular expression “stay woke”, a call – originally African-American – to remain aware of social and racial justice issues….

Alongside them are other videos with titles such as “It’s time to hold extremism to account for terrorism, not Islam”. This video went viral, being viewed 1.7 million times.

It also features videos of short panel discussions, with four young people sitting on a sofa debating subjects such as “Will we all become vegan?” and “Are dating apps the way forward?”, interspersed among these are videos with titles such as “What does wearing a hijab mean to you?”

One discussion video on the This Is Woke Facebook page is entitled “What is fake news?” The four young participants offer contributions such as “online, we can never know who the source is” and “we have to train ourselves against what’s going on out there”.

They are then filmed on the street, conducting vox pops among members of the public and asking them: “How do you know the news you hear is real?”

The content of the This Is Woke Instagram feed includes quotations from Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and one from Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Islamic caliph – “sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future”. There are also photographs of smiling women in hijabs…

Meanwhile, Breakthrough Media – which has in the past been RICU’s favoured private-sector contractor – says privately, in internal papers, that its work on behalf of the unit is intended to “promote a reconciled British Muslim identity”….

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  1. Trick_or_Treat says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    O-X-Y-M-O-R-O-N . Whoever is responsible for this bit of work should try getting their dictionary out and looking it up sometime, and getting ‘WOKE’!
    Idiots!

  2. mgoldberg says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:16 pm

    The phrase…. numb as a boot, comes to mind.

  3. Ragdoll says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    Yeah, good luck with that. What a waste of taxpayers’ money.

    • Rufolino says

      Aug 20, 2019 at 3:42 am

      It would be laughable in any other context but this one.

      Little by little, Britain surrendering.

  4. Trick_or_Treat says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    PS: …And still scratching my head as to what the use of Barak Obama’s image is supposed to signify in this?

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 19, 2019 at 3:33 pm

      MObama represents the 12th Imam

      Certainly is a messianic mahdi manhero of modern mayhem

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 19, 2019 at 6:41 pm

      Good question–including how many deny Obama has a Muslim background.

    • Terry Gain says

      Aug 20, 2019 at 7:40 am

      Obama is the original Chrislamist.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Aug 20, 2019 at 3:08 pm

      The image is OK, but WOKE should be replaced by BRAIN DEAD.

  5. mortimer says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:27 pm

    They are trying coyly to remove JIHAD from Islam. It won’t be long before clued-in Muslims realize that … no … actually, you cannot remove JIHAD from Islam, because Mohammed claims that JIHAD is the ORIGINAL RELIGION OF ISLAM … rather than an aberration.

    According to this hadith, original Islam is jihad.

    “Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
    I heard the Apostle of Allah say: When you enter into the inah transaction (become businessmen), hold the tails of oxen (become cattlemen), are pleased with agriculture (become farmers), and give up conducting jihad, Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your original religion.” – Sunan Abu Dawud Book 23, Number 3455

  6. mortimer says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.

    164 Jihad verses … That’s the COOLEST, dude. Oh, yeah.

    • Terry Gain says

      Aug 20, 2019 at 7:44 am

      Mortimer
      Your Jihad verses would be easier to discern if you bolder the Chapter numbers.

      • Terry Gain says

        Aug 20, 2019 at 7:46 am

        I typed bold and did not notice the auto-err.

  7. James Lincoln says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    If Jihad were able to be removed from Islam, it would no longer be Islam.

    • Lydia Church says

      Aug 19, 2019 at 5:27 pm

      Hit it right on the head!

      And muslims know this so they can’t be fooled.

  8. 1PO'dPatriot says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    HOW, exactly is it even possible…to reconcile the Verse of the Sword with surah 2:256 – “…yeah let there be NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION; let truth stand apart from error, for Allah is Most Merciful, Beneficent and Wise…”
    HOW do jihadists intellectually AND/OR spiritually reconcile these two seemingly diametrically opposed Quran verses?!?
    Can an educated Muslim objectively answer this?
    Respectful replies AND discussion only please!
    Thank you, Shukran, Danke…

    • elee says

      Aug 19, 2019 at 6:42 pm

      Respectful reply from an educated kafir: Muslims reconcile opposing Prophetic utterances with the doctrine of abrogation. Under this doctrine the later-in-time revelation prevails over (“abrogates” or nullifies) the earlier verse. This means that utterances attributed to the Prophet and said to have been made in Medina (Yathrib) effectively repeal the peaceful and tolerant utterances that date from his earlier days in Mecca. That’s the case with the two contrary utterances you cited: the Verse of the Sword, in the last-in-time book of the Koran, trumps repeals and nullifies anything to the contrary in any other part of the scripture. See Koran 2:106-108. So if a Muslim cites the earlier verse to you, if he is at all informed about the book he was made to memorise as a child, he’s lying to you. If he just tells you about Koran 2:256 and doesn’t mention abrogation, i.e., if he misleads you by omitting something critical, that kind of lying is called kitman, but if he actually misrepresents his lies constitute either taqiyya or tawriyah.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 19, 2019 at 6:48 pm

        Spot on, elee.

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 20, 2019 at 1:39 am

        Shukran for using the term Yathrib for that God forsaken village!

  9. CRUSADER says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 3:29 pm

    Near to future Dating App for those seeking intersectionality:

    Hijab-wearing vegan homofluidsexual mod Sikh who dabbles in Buddhism and Judaic/Ancient spiritual Kabbalah but hates robomusic

    SEEKS and is also sought for by

    Proto-Chrislamic feeling, sensitive, lumberjacked Islamophobic LEGO-toy-playing intelliboy/girl of any age with mixed Japanese and Nigerian bloodstrains who can prove royalty by dna — for the weekend leading into fortnight.

  10. Georg says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 3:29 pm

    “online, we can never know who the source is”

    No, of course not; it is simply impossible. There are other hard truths, such as nothing is ever your fault and the only reasons for negative reactions to Islam are racism and bigotry (never mind the racism and bigotry espoused by the Koran and Mohammad ad nauseam). And, of course, nobody of European descent could possibly be worth quoting or picturing despite our moving here and being given a life virtually impossible in the magical land we emigrated from to this racist hellhole of oppression. We’re *this close* to leaving!

    Giving people a ridiculous sense of who they are, where they are, and what they believe is sure to result in well-adjusted individuals and a harmonious society. What a disaster.

  11. Angemon says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 4:21 pm

    So. Much. CRINGE.

  12. keith says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    This “program” looks like it was a collaboration between the Monty Python crew and the Marx Brothers.
    Gotta wonder what genius thought this would work?

  13. gravenimage says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    UK: Social media network promoting Western, anti-terror Muslim identity is covert government program
    …………………..

    Well, it’s not as though this would have come from actual Muslims. Very telling.

    • Georg says

      Aug 19, 2019 at 7:58 pm

      Brings this setup to mind:

  14. Westman says

    Aug 19, 2019 at 8:34 pm

    “..sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future.”

    Is this supposed to be justification for Muhammad? Sounds like it’s right out of the mouth of Reza Aslan or his “expert” book. Imagine such a line used to explain Jesus.

    People who created their own worst past with dishonest ideology created endless sorrow for those who follow them and also for those who don’t – Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Muhammad, etc.

    No Muslims, knowing the actual bloody, barbaric, history of Muhammad should be proud of it unless they also have an appetite for blood and conquest. To quote a movie title, due to the existence of Islam, “There Will Be Blood”, always.

    Contrast that with, “Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”

  15. jayell says

    Aug 20, 2019 at 3:42 am

    “sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future”……

    Oh yeah? Like, when? Perhaps when bright, talented people from a deprived background go to do great things (like a lot of British entrepreneurs particularly from the 19th. century), because these would have been brought up in an environment where civilised decency was inculcated into the heads. But it’s hardly likely to happen where a diet of antediluvian criminal depravity is continously shoved down their throats; at least, that’s the reason that social workers give for a lot of the inmates of Her Majesty’s Hostels for ending up in there. And which group of ‘British citizens’ is represented at up to 5 times their UK demographic proportion? How many of these have ‘created the best future’? Perhaps one ought to ask ‘the best future for whom?’, because a lot of the majority British public have ideas on that matter. By the way, the British taxpayer knows exactly why all those women in hijabs are smiling.

  16. jca reid. says

    Aug 20, 2019 at 6:51 am

    Newspeak is alive & well. A great pity this Muslim migration didn’t kick off when George Orwell was alive. now they’re changing the words of his greatest works. !984 & animal Farm are banned in the Muslim world.

  17. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Aug 20, 2019 at 7:54 am

    What is an egg without its yoke?
    What is Islam without its jihad?

  18. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Aug 20, 2019 at 12:40 pm

    Social media network promoting Western, anti-terror Muslim identity is covert government program

    Let me say why I think their efforts are not going to effect meaningful change:

    First off, most people–especially the young–are too wise for this kind of social media manipulation. Propaganda tidbits about hijabs, and dating, and Punk Rock do little if anything to address the doctrinal underpinnings of jihad terror for allah.

    They have a vid on WOKE FB about the hijab where muslim women are basically defending their right to wear it, but nothing is said about the countless women around the world that suffer terribly for NOT wearing it.

    There’s also a vid about “consent,” and that seems like a good thing. But muslims don’t mass rape because they don’t know about consent, they rape because they feel they don’t need consent. We are “infidels” and kafirs not worthy of equality and respect according to their islamic misogynist mindset, let’s talk about that.

    There’s a vid about a muslim teenager who speaks out against “hate.” Oh, goodie! but no where in that vid do they mention the jihad assaults against Western society muslims are doing to deserve that opprobrium (a.k.a, “hate”) in the first place.

    There’s a vid about a muslim ballet dancer that danced in “terrorist” controlled territories. Well I find that courageous. But I’d rather talk about the centuries old bigotry in islam that makes dancing such a crime in the first place.

    There’s a vid about muslim women who changed history, like the one that wore a hijab in a Minnesota pageant or on a catwalk during a fashion show: Okay, fine, let’s all respect muslim women and their intrusions into our secular society while still asserting their “muslimhood,” but let’s also take a moment and bow our heads for the countless women that are beaten and murdered for standing against the bigotry and misogyny so prevalent in islam, they changed history, too, by calling attention to these injustices.

    They have a vid called, “We are all British. We are all one community.” I’m thinking, here we go, peace at last! But it starts with a muslim speaking against “hate” of the “far right.” The muslim speaker says, “if you’ve never met a muslim and you’re unsure about it and have some doubts, then why don’t you come and see me?” (’cause everyone knows this ONE muslim is the prototype solution to all the problems islam presents to us!) They then show an ex-EDL member knocking on his welcoming door, which is followed by a fatuous bit of propaganda that could only fool the stupidest people on the planet. It ends with the two sharing precious moments together and presumably living happily side-by-side in their new multicultural paradise. The final message is “We are all British, we are all one community,” which is about as sincere and honest as a mafia king pin stating, “We are all American, we are all one community.” Yes, that’s partly true, except your members are destroying that community from within with your support and participation for a criminal ideology. I can’t feel comforted by all this propaganda because it’s insincere and one-sided with no effort to address the deadly problems that islam creates for us.

    To sum, I find this whole WOKE thing best suited for those in society who choose to live in denial about the islamic threat against Western society, and instead rely on soothing propaganda about peripheral concerns like hijabs, and dating, or ballet dancers, but nothing about FGM, sharia crimes, murderous homophobia, rampant antisemitism, ISIS for allah, conquering enclaves, and muslim terror for religion. I too wanted to be comforted by their apparent attempt to “bridge the divide” and promote tolerance. But then I actually dug in under the surface and realized I was getting snookered by the same old leftist propaganda for islam. In reality this WOKE program does not want us to be alert and “woke,” it wants us to stay quiet and passive while everything we love get’s destroyed for islam. I didn’t fall for it, and I don’t think you did either.

    • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

      Aug 20, 2019 at 3:26 pm

      And I’d like to add one final thought, Spencer is right, Why weren’t there any hip, anti-terror, Westernized British Muslims who did it themselves?

      It might have actually meant something if a group of young muslims got together and began a critical examination of these serious issues like free speech and “consent” and dancing and Palestine and islam’s violent doctrines, it would show that at least some of them are willing to question the dogmatic sh*t they’re getting taught by their misguided elders. As it is we learn that WOKE is little more than a government propaganda machine designed to mollify the “infidels” and seduce naive muslims to a less radical interpretation of islam, none of which will work by the way in my opinion. It won’t work because it’s insincere and out of touch with the much starker reality on the streets. What I care most about as a Westerner is my freedoms getting quashed because our government(s) are too weak to stand firmly against islam’s violent religious creed, don’t give me this “religion of peace” crap when the truth is a million miles away. And I care about the unfair treatment of women for islamic misogyny, the FGM of young girls, gays getting thrown from buildings, the constant holocaust hatred for Jews within the umma, terrorism for allah, and muslim enclaves that show not an ounce of willingness to compromise while we’re expected to forsake everything for them…

      WOKE is not representative of the truth, it’s a carrot meant to mislead and misinform, and the reward they offer is one of multicultural bliss which can never happen with a creed that kills diversity for a demon. For those of us who deal in reality, WOKE is an insult and an injurious assault on our freedoms, our culture, and our safety. The only positive thing I can say about all this is that WOKE does show at least a shade of concern by the government concerning islam. It’s like when a baby takes it’s first step, it’s so precious and inspiring, but less so when you’re an adult that’s expected to act mature for the freedom and safety of your people. Please, dear government, don’t act like babies, be like sensible mature adults who know how to act in the face of great moral and social danger. Thanks in advance.

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