Up to $2,000 a day to fight “extremism.” Chisti must be laughing up his sleeve at these kuffar who are so very, very eager to be fooled.
“EXCLUSIVE: Cleric probed for calling Israel a ‘terrorist state’ returns to ‘well-paid’ counter-extremism role,” The JC, August 26, 2021:
A Muslim cleric who was caught on film calling Israel a “terrorist state” and praising “martyrs” who have “given their life for Palestine” is to return to his well-paid job on the government’s counter-extremism programme.
Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered an inquiry into Imam Irfan Chishti, MBE, after he was filmed giving a speech to a pro-Palestine rally in Rochdale during the recent Israel and Gaza conflict in which he said, “We ask you Allah that you accept every single shahid (martyr) who has given their life for Palestine.”
Referring to the “historic” loss of Palestine, he said that under Muslim rule the area had been peaceful, but now Israel was “this terrorist state forcing terror upon our brothers and sisters”….
The cleric issued a fulsome apology when his comments came to light. The JC understands the imam has received a written warning and been cleared to return to his paid role as an adviser on the government’s counter-terror strategy, Prevent.
His company, Me and You Education, is a Prevent partner and gives training to the police, the NHS and schools on how to spot extremists and neutralise radicalisation….
Mr Chishti suggested to the crowd that if they wanted to become “mujahideen”, holy warriors, then they should emulate the Muslim general Saladin, who expelled the Crusaders from Palestine in 1187. “Where is the modern-day Saladin?” he asked. The term “mujahideen” can also mean those who engage in purely spiritual struggle.
He went on to praise shahids, or martyrs — a term used by militant groups such as Hamas for civilians and those killed as suicide bombers or in combat.
Confronted at the time, Mr Chishti said he was “jolted” when he read back his speech and accepted he “could have chosen better and less equivocal words” to encourage “the expression of opinions”.
He added: “Some of my words reflect a clear error of judgment, in the heat of the moment and do not reflect my sentiments or the sentiments of the audience.
“I now appreciate that my ill-chosen words will have caused offence and hurt to the Jewish community and I tender my most profound apologies.”…
Mr Chishti was a member of the Government’s Task Force on Tackling Extremism, whose 2013 report warned that “is often too easy for extremist preachers to spread extremist views which can lead people into terrorism”.
His company says it is “part of the solution”, and has been a Prevent partner since 2013. The cleric got his MBE for services to Muslim communities in 2009.
An official Prevent catalogue says his firm fights radicalisation for up to £1,500 a day. The Home Office did not reply to a request for comment.
Michael Copeland says
“I now appreciate that my ill-chosen words will have caused offence and hurt to the Jewish community and I tender my most profound apologies.”…
not articulated….”I also confirm that Islam authorises muslims to use deception in the cause of Islam.”
“Using deception to mask intended goals” is a stated aim in the Muslim Brotherhood plan.
Wellington says
+1
mortimer says
I share MC’s doubt that Imam Irfan Chishti is sincere at all. Those of us who know Islamic doctrines realize that hatred directed by Muslims against the kufaar and the use of prevarication in order to advance Islamic supremacism are both CANONICAL ISLAM.
The UK government has been duped again. The only ‘counterterrorism’ that is effective is to convince Muslims that the Koran is the worst case of plagiarism, concoction and fabrication in the history of religion.
RichardL says
he will also be on the Christmas list to get his CBE and next year the KCBE. Mullah Charles Windsor will take care of it.
mortimer says
Imam Irfan Chishti is a fraud and should be exposed as such.
Wellington says
It’s not just that the powerful people in the UK are buffoons, this is being repeated all over the West (minus Eastern Europe at least to a fair extent, though, and I want to make this very clear, not in Russia where Putin has sucked up to Islam time and time again and as gravenimage has chronicled in detail innumerable times). I mean look at Biden (what’s left of him which was never much in the first place), the terminally stupid Trudeau of Canada, so many of the silly elites in Australia and New Zealand (e.g., NZ’s Ardern), the extraordinarily damaging Merkel in Germany, the Mr. Bean of France, i.e., Macron, the complete fool is now Pope, Francis I, et al.
The West at its best can easily handle the malevolency which is Islam. Unfortunately, we are now witnessing the West at its least—and Islam, as well as your standard authoritarian thugs of the world like Xi and Putin, are simply delighted.
One more matter: I hold every person who ACTUALLY voted for Biden to account. Unless you have totally repented of your foolishness in this regard, you remain part of one of the biggest problems in all of history, i.e., the potential collapse of the greatest power ever. Every Biden voter should hold their head in shame. The fact that this will certainly not occur clearly is dispositive of what a silly age we live in.
This is all for now except to say that Allah does not exist, the Koran is a hate manual, and the character of Mohammed, whether such “character” was real, is reprehensible—and disgusting. Yes, this is all for now. May Allah strike me dead tonight (deluded followers of Allah doing so do not count) if I am wrong about the wretched Islamic faith. Be back tomorrow. Count on it.
Raja says
Wellington,
Couldn’t agree more on your comments. The very same kind of elites used to “engage” with rogue states of yesteryear like China, (still one), North Korea, and other “axis of evil” . Now we have “reformed” type of elites who play with words and bribe the same kind of enemies with impunity. The present POTUS is so blurred in eyes that he cannot even see the real enemies, he being part of the problem.
Power flows through the barrel of the guns, lies/deception also flow through the barrel of elites.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim cleric who called on Muslims to emulate jihad warrior returns to well-paid ‘counter-extremism’ job
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I’d like to say this is unbelievable, but grimly this kind of sh*t keeps happening.
“’Anti-Extremism’ Imam Irfan Chishti Turns Out to Be Antisemitic and Pro-Terror”
https://www.israellycool.com/2021/05/26/anti-extremism-imam-irfan-chishti-turns-out-to-be-antisemitic-and-pro-terror/
Fitna says
Muslims are treated with kid gloves and showered with a king’s ransom in taxpayer funds for stopping ‘extremism’ whatever the F that means, I’m sure his benefactors have no clue either.
Meanwhile real heroes of the West like Tommy Robinson (who speak honestly about Islam and is actually combatting Muslim fascism) are treated as if they are the cause of Muslim terrorism and even when they can find any fault with him because he’s careful with what he says, they invent lies (such as he’s a racist/bigot, Islamophobe, etc) in order to create false trumped-up charges to have him thrown in prison so that Muslims would kill him.
Where else would things like this happen except in a de facto Islamic state, which is what the UK is quickly turning into. Unfortunately this same problem is occurring in all western nations, good, patriotic people are treated as evil, while actual evil people like Muslims are defended and rewarded.
We’re being sold out by traitors and cowards at the top. I wouldn’t be surprised if Muslims have infiltrated the govt and are behind a lot of the policies we see today. Certainly there are large Muslim pressure organizations designed to influence public opinion and to change govt policy in their own favor.
Basically Muslims are acting in unison to destroy all opposition to advance their Islamic agenda and those non-Muslims who have the power to intervene refuse to, making the problem much bigger.
Then on top of that you have the retarded media, mainstream news and social media giants, all censoring any negative views about Islam-the one thing that could possibly help turn this tide….they are instead making the destruction of freedom, western civilization and conversion to an Islamic state, inevitable. This is treason on a vast scale.
20-40 years from now, when the Muslim population might become too large to oppose and they have cemented state control, people will wonder in despair how we could’ve allowed our once peaceful free nations to be conquered surreptitiously by this barbaric death cult but then it’ll be too late. Future generations will pay the price for our generation’s complacency.
Fitna says
*cannot find any fault….
we could really use an Edit button
gravenimage says
This is true if nothing changes.
Fitna says
Indeed Graven, we’re being pushed in that direction. I’ve heard it said recently that ‘America is in decline.’
Things don’t happen by accident, they’re made to-it is the Leftists in concert with Muslims that are orchestrating this forced decline.
Islam always benefits from failing civilizations. Muslims are basically the bottom-feeders that show up when a nation loses the will to continue.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“Muslims are basically the bottom-feeders that show up when a nation loses the will to continue.”
Very well put, that’s a keeper.
gravenimage says
Agree, Fitna and James.
john smith says
Spot on Fitna
Giacomo Latta says
”The cleric got his MBE for services to Muslim communities in 2009.”
By doing what? Recanting support for jihadis worldwide as spoken by him and his cronies but inadvertently leaked to media? ”Whoops, did I say Israel should be wiped off the map? I am sorry my ill-chosen words will have caused offence and hurt to the Jewish community and I tender my most profound apologies.” (snigger)
OLD GUY says
We will see more of this in America as well. The migration of islam into christian countries always ends BAD.