Imagine the embarrassment of British authorities when they discover that sentiments of this kind are mainstream, not the property of a “fringe element” within Islamic communities in the UK. But by then it is likely to be far too late.
“British Islamic charity is investigated after praising assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as a martyr,” by Luke Andrews and Phoebe Eckersley, Mailonline, January 6, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A British charity is being investigated after it praised assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani as a martyr.
The Islamic Centre of England, a charity with assets of more than £4 million, organised a vigil in London on Saturday to commemorate the warlord.
The event was attended by more than 2,000 people, including Iran’s ambassador to London, The Times reported.
Seyed Moosavi, 51, the charity’s director and the UK representative of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei praised Soleimani as a ‘dedicated soldier of Islam’ who had died at the hands of ‘the most wicked members of the human race’.
The Charity Commission said: ‘We are aware of a vigil… and publications on its website. We will be contacting the charity to seek further information.’
A large group of men, with some young boys, was seen gathering at the Islamic Centre in Maida Vale, London, on Saturday afternoon following the assassination.
The memorial service was held 25 minutes after a man was arrested outside the centre to prevent the breach of peace and for obstructing officers.
The Islamic Centre’s director has reportedly referred to Soleimani as an ‘honourable Islamic commander’ in a message of condolence….
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tgusa says
“Imagine the embarrassment of British authorities when they discover that sentiments of this kind are mainstream,”
Ha ha, that’s a good one!
Might as well write, imagine the British authorities discover that sentiments of this kind are mainstream. We can only imagine.
Sabri S. says
I dont see Iran retaliating by killing Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld or patreus….this was a flat out immoral murder..no other way to cut it….think for yourselves and call evil what it is…US out of the middle east now by any means necessary!!
tgusa says
Yes, they shot down a civilian airliner taking off from Tehran airport instead. You first. Islam out of the west by any means necessary.
Robert McCormack says
Well said sir
Del says
Sooner is better. I do support your desire to have the Western civilized countries leave. You and your friends can then go right ahead and eliminate each other without interference.
Where there is violence there is likely Islam. Where there is Islam there IS violence. We have too many of your fellow terrorists here in Canada and we don’t want you here. All of you are being investigated or watched.
FYI says
Speaking of ‘flat out immoral murder’,the “prophet” of islam,whose sunnah or example muslims follow was a mass-murderer of Jews {Abu Dawud 4390}
Do muslim apologists have anything to say about THAT?
‘no other way to cut it’ indeed.
But of course muslims never get Irony or Logic:its OK for muhammed{God’s wrath be upon him}to murder the innocent but it isn’t OK for a mass-murdering terrorist ,the murderer of US citizens,to be removed by military force?These people are at WAR with us!
What islamic hypocrisy!
Think for yourself dear muslim and call islam the evil that it is but that would require a moral compass,something islam doesn’t have.
We know how ‘brave’ the ‘soldiers of islam’ are:we see the results every day.So many innocent people are victims of ms sabri s’ religion of “peace”
We see too the military incompetence of muslim nations :the iranian ‘holy’ men have no concept of strategy.They are a Joke!
islam doesn’t belong in the West…or the 21st century:if you muslims who live in the west hate it so much..go live in one of your filthy demonic islamic hell holes.
gravenimage says
Sabri S. always sees defending against Jihad terror as “immoral”. He has said this many times here.
Laura says
It was more of a ‘mercy killing’ to put the rabid dog out of his self imposed misery. Iranians are jubilant now that the bastard has gone to hell.
David says
Sabri: Followed by muslims out of the Western World? Fair swap.
Robert McCormack says
What an idiot you are. 36000 acts of world wide Islamic terrorism since 9’11. Where you have muslims you have terrorism
gravenimage says
Sabri S. himself is pro-Jihad terror.
william carr says
By rights this man should have been up before the ICC but no hope of that. Here is a list (shortened) of the best accredited crimes of this ‘hero’. Of course for the Iranians any
person who kills Westerners by any means is a ‘hero’, and anybody dying at the hands of the enemy is a ‘martyr’ That is basic Islam.
1.The death of Soleimani is being described as an ‘assassination’ but killing heads of state was Soleimani’s stock in trade. He was behind the 2005 bomb murder of Lebanon’s beloved president, Rafik Hariri.
2. Mass killings of American military targets. In 1983, Soleiman was involved in the Beirut barracks bombing. Acting in the mullah regime’s interests, his idea was to drive U.S. forces out through use of Iran’s little pawn, Hezb’allah, which grew in power after the mass attack while Iran itself succeeded in getting the Iran’s aims enacted.
3. Mass killings of more American military targets. In 1996, Soleimani and his buddies sent in a truck bomb to blow up the Khobar Towers in naked warfare to advance Iran’s interests. Iran had a problem with the U.S. teaming up with the Saudis to fortify the nation from extremist attacks. Twenty mostly American troops were killed and nearly 500 were injured and he got away with it.
4. Targeting of diplomatic compounds, Part I: Soleimani went after American civilians, too, and anyone associated with them in his twin bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing 224 innocents, mostly Africans who either worked at the facilities or were passers by. 4,000 more were injured. Al Qaida got most of the blame, but Soleimani was the state sponsor for al-Qaida, giving it its start:
5. Actual war on U.S. troops during the Iraq war. Andrew McCarthy writes: “Our government estimates that he was responsible for the killing of more than 600 U.S. troops during the fighting in Iraq — and that represents just some of his anti-American operations, coordinating the networks that target Americans and our interests throughout the region.” He wasn’t satisfied with the passive-aggressive kind of warfare on civilians, he moved into full frontal warfare with the Americans.
6. Sadistic innovations in war-crime warfare, 2005-2019: Most of the world agrees that land mines and chemical warfare are out of bounds. Not Soleiman, who saw that as his opportunity to get a battlefield edge through innovations in war crime technology others wouldn’t touch. According to the Washington Post, his sick legacy was the EFP, a more gruesome version of the IED, to target U.S. troops.
7. Unprovoked rocket assaults on Israel. When one speaks of attacks on Israel, one is tempted to ask ‘which one’ and Soleimani was certainly responsible for nearly all of them. However, Soleimani’s 2018 barrage, halted mostly by the Iron Dome, but nevertheless open warfare of raining rocket attacks through use of Hezb’allah, called for a response. Israel wanted to take him out, according to citations in the Jerusalem Post, but was halted by the Obama administration, which warned the mullahs of the plan.
8. Brutal attacks on democracy at home: Soleimani wasn’t just a foreign-ops guy, he was also the chief thug back home in Iran, urging vicious crushing of student protests, according to the Guardian, presumably beginning in at least 2009 and certainly carrying on in earnest since 2017. The mailed fist of power was the only thing that animated him. The Guardian writes: Soon after taking control of the Quds force, he was part of a group of Revolutionary Guard commanders who in a letter warned reformist President Mohammad Khatami to put down student protests, or risk them stepping in. Police moved in to crush protests, as they would a decade later. “He was more important than the president, spoke to all factions in Iran, had a direct line to the supreme leader and was in charge of Iran’s regional policy,”
9. His Houthi War in Yemen. Yemen’s a miserable place with massive demographic and resource problems. Soleimani used that as the perfect launch pad to attack Saudi Arabia. Untold miseries of warfare followed, mostly blamed on President Trump in the mass media. It was actually Soleimani’s doing.
10. The first 9/11s. Soleimani was involved in the still-unpunished bombing of the Israeli embassy in 1992 and the even bigger AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed more than 100 people. Up until then, mass casualty murder of civilians was not a terrorist ‘thing.’ After that, it was. AMIA was said to be the first 9/11, the model for this sick new mode of terror which culminated in 9/11. Soleimani wasn’t the chief of the Quds force at the time but the Guardian reports he was thought to have been in on it. We know he got promoted not too long after.
Thanks to Pamela Geller. Geller report
william carr says
The full account of his exploits we will most likely never know, unless the Mullahs are deposed
gravenimage says
Good post, William.
Carol the 1st says
Iran was still lobbing missiles over to US bases in Iraq but somehow left commercial air flights to go fly about their business. The world “can’t wait” to see how the imams handle nuclear bombs.
Mike says
Nothing will happen, we announce an investigation to calm the momentary outrage of the press, then it will be quietly dropped so as not to offend or antagonise the Muslims & the vocal & influential far left groups in the UK that depend so much on the Islamic vote. Our politicians & journalists cannot say anything even mildly critical of Islam or (at best) their careers are finished or (at worst) they will be austracised, vilified or in some cases even prosecuted for “hate speech”
Rufolino says
Exactly, Mike.
In effect, the UK already belongs to Islam, in all the principal organs of state influence:
The Church, the Judiciary, the Army, Parliament, the Media. The Monarchy is also one of them, but its policy is to say nothing about the situation in the hope it can save itself.
The population are doing as they are told: to embrace the virtues of “diversity”.
Under Islam diversity will vanish.
gravenimage says
Muslims are *always* offended by Infidels.
mortimer says
UK’s Leftards don’t want to believe their Muslim allies are preparing to betray them. Naïve Pollyannas!
What ? Do Muslims in UK actually believe it is ‘honorable’ to make jihad against the DIRTY KUFAAR ‘for the sake of Allah’??? Do UK Muslims know and believe in JIHAD against the kufaar ??? HUH? Are there actual Muslim FIFTH COLUMNISTS living UK??? Don’t say it!
Do Leftards even understand that JIHAD is ISLAMIC ??? Why investigate these Fifth Columnists, if authorities know what Islam actually teaches. They already have count 20,000 jihadists living in the UK.
Will there soon be terrorist attacks in UK in revenge for Soleimani?
– “The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w
mortimer says
A British Muslim ‘CHARITY’ is supporting JIHAD ??? What next? They might even send some of the ZAKAT money to jihadists!
GUESS WHAT, all you UK elitists and Leftards: ZAKAT GOES TO TERRORISM !
Sharia law manual Reliance of the Traveller: – Section h8.17 “The seventh category (of zakat-recipients) is those FIGHTING for Allah…”
REPORT OF 9-11 Commission: “Al Qaeda and its friends took advantage of Islam’s strong calls for charitable giving, ZAKAT. These financial FACILITATORS also appeared to rely heavily on certain imams at mosques who were willing to divert zakat donations to al Qaeda’s cause.”
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
Jayell says
Unless they are totally stupid, these people will be well.aware that Soleimani is universally abhorred and detested in the West, yet they publicly venerate him as a ‘dedicated soldier of islam’, apparently oblivious to the obvious consequence that this will be taken as a justifiable adverse comment on both them and islam. Then they will no doubt resume their whingeing about ‘islamophobia’ and maybe try trotting out that hackneyed garbage about ‘The Religion of Peace’. In which case there would be no doubt whatsoevet that they are indeed utterly stupid.
Carol the 1st says
They wish to be all things to all idiots. Islamic duplicity.
James Lincoln says
The UK: islamic charity was correct:
Soleimani WAS a “dedicated soldier of islam.”
That’s why he is now dead – thanks to Pres. Trump and our FANTASTIC military.
lisa says
The person who was arrested was a journalist who was interviewing the people gathered at the….event. So much for freedom of speech. I cant help but wonder…if these Iranians felt the terrorist was a hero and a martyr, why did they leave iran? Why arent they still there living under the regime of terror? Are these Irans sleeper cells?
David says
lisa, very likely that some of these Iranians are sleeper cells. along with many other ‘British’ muslims. The way you can tell is when they shout “Allahu Akbar!”, then try to kill you.
gravenimage says
UK: Islamic charity under investigation as praising Soleimani as “dedicated soldier of Islam”
……………….
This is what “charities” are like in Islam. One of the greatest uses of “charity”–Zakat–in Islam is funding violent Jihad.
Louis Brown says
Bingo
gravenimage says
Thank you, Louis.
Louis Brown says
The entire world is committing suicide .
Roger Woodhouse says
The time is fast appriaching when muslims living in the West will have to decide just how they wish to live side by side with non muslims.Their presence amongst us is reliant on their willingness to accept we will never be an Islamic caliphate (willingly) Should this fact not be accepted then forced removal will be introduced.If they believe that they will outbreed us into becoming an Islamic state and proclaim as such we must elect only politiical parties who will enact the wishes of the people .IE to deport them..Pakistan is their natural homeland and that is where they belong.