There is a pattern with Muslim leaders in the West. In the UK, high-profile Sharia Council scholar Khola Hasan recently declared:
Every single person that I know, as a Muslim, whether on social media, I don’t know them personally but I know them on social media or as friends, are celebrating and saying, give them a chance.
Muslim leaders should have collectively refuted Hasan’s claim openly and condemned it, but they didn’t. Pakistani British writer Paigham Mustafa indicates a problem in the UK:
Here in Britain, no Muslim leaders are speaking out about the oppression and barbarity in Afghanistan. Why is this? The reason is many imams are supportive of the Taliban’s aspiration to re-introduce sharia law, regressive tribal laws based on the hadith, a supplementary text compiled some 200 years after the Quran.
Yet still a former M16 Chief is hoping for cooperation among the Muslim community to help confront the jihad. Dearlove will need some luck, as he is pursuing a lost cause. He indeed recognizes that it is an uphill battle….
“If you are looking at Islamist extremism, the Islamic community should be dealing with it themselves and there is a reluctance for them to do so,” Sir Richard told The Telegraph. “The structure of the community is such that some of their leaders are self-appointed and they are the wrong people for us to do dialogue with.
Most Muslim leaders globally are busy “monitoring” non-Muslims, looking for the “crime” of “Islamophobia”; they’re not looking for “extremist elements within their communities.” Politicians are also helping them.
The Taliban has made it clear that it aims to establish Islamic law (the sharia), not just in Afghanistan, but globally. Expanding the hegemony of the Sharia is a core aspiration in Islam. So any Muslims who may decide to cooperate and help root out “extremist” elements within their communities would have to reject the Sharia and denounce the tenets relating to conquest in the Quran (48:29, 61:13, 8:12, 8:15, etc.). The Sharia is regarded as the divine, immutable word of Allah, based on the teachings of the Quran and the traditions of Muhammad (hadiths). Muslims who reject the Sharia are deemed to be apostates in mainstream Islam.
Consider some more indications of challenges involved in getting Muslims to cooperate to “root out extremist elements” in their communities:
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- In Canada, a handbook, “United Against Terrorism,” was released in 2014. A controversy ensued over a section of the handbook advising that cooperation with Canadian Security Intelligence Service [CSIS] and the RCMP in investigations was “voluntary,” with “no obligation” to answer questions or give personal information about family and friends (Section 4 of the handbook). So much for helping to root out “extremist elements” within Canadian Muslim communities. It should have been worded in a manner that would encourage cooperation with CSIS and RCMP authorities, while keeping in mind the individual’s legal rights.
- Also in Canada, a Muslim Member of Parliament, Maryam Monsef, recently referenced the Taliban as “our brothers.” See also HERE. There was no outcry from Muslim leaders.
- In America, most Islamic lobbies are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has a mandate to engage in bloody jihad. Many of these lobbies were designated unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terrorism funding trial in American history, the Holy Land Foundation Trial. Many offshoots of these unindicted co-conspirators are found in Canada, also. As for mosques, up to 80% of them in America have been found to be radicalized.
So it is obvious that Muslim leaders in Britain (and as a whole, all over the West and globally) will be reluctant to deal with “extremism,” because it is the very nature of normative Islam to expand the hegemony of the Sharia, stealthily or by the sword.
“Ex-MI6 Chief: UK Muslim Leaders are ‘Reluctant’ to Deal With Extremism”, by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, September 7, 2021:
The former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service has admitted that Muslim leaders in the UK have been “reluctant” to tackle the threat of Islamic extremism in their midst.
Amid heightened concerns over the threat of Islamist terrorism in the wake of the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban following President Biden’s bungled withdrawal, former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has called on Muslims in Britain to help root out extremist elements within their communities.
Dearlove, who was the top spy at Britain’s CIA equivalent from 1999 to 2004, said that in the wake of the Afghan blunder, the UK will need to be more vigilant in combatting extremism but said that it is essential for local Islamic leaders to step up.
“If you are looking at Islamist extremism, the Islamic community should be dealing with it themselves and there is a reluctance for them to do so,” Sir Richard told The Telegraph.
“The structure of the community is such that some of their leaders are self-appointed and they are the wrong people for us to do dialogue with.
“What you don’t want it to be is Christians telling Muslims what to do. It should be Muslims telling Muslims what to do.”
The former MI6 chief said that the UK needs to be “very diligent” in the coming months, as young Muslims in Britain may be inspired by the Taliban victory.
“It’s a danger for any country with a large indigenous Islamic community that there are very small bits of it which might be susceptible to radicalisation,” he said.
“Generally I think our communities are better now than they were at policing themselves but they are certainly not perfect at it.”
“You have to depend on the local communities to know what their young people are doing. If a kid goes off to visit relatives in Pakistan it becomes a family matter. It’s important that individuals are aware of what their young people are up to.”
The warnings from Dearlove come amid increasing concerns over a resurgent terror threat in the United Kingdom.
Last week, Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of British troops in Afghanistan, warned that Britain is facing “the greatest danger from terrorism since Islamic State at its height”.
Britain’s Armed Forces Minister James Heappey added that jihadis were “trying to take advantage” of the collapse of Afghanistan to enter into the UK….
TruthWFree says
Until leaders realize the problem is Islam itself, we are getting NO WHERE fast!
tim gallagher says
I agree, TruthWF. It is all of islam that is the problem. I find the whole of Islam is a load of barbaric garbage. I want nothing of Islam in my life. I can find nothing worthwhile in islam. I often think, OK, what aspects of islam are OK and I am not bothered by, and the answer, for me, is nothing. It is rotten and barbaric to the core. And, as you say, until our leaders wake the hell up and realise that it all of islam, and not just some extreme aspect of it that is the problem, we are in big trouble. Muslims naturally are always going to want to impose their garbage ideology on all of us, so I say that we should just keep Muslims out and avoid the trouble they always bring to every place they are allowed to go.
Bruce Watt says
The Ayahtolah Komeini stated “there is no moderation in Islam”, only people not practicing Islam properly.
gravenimage says
Grimly true. There are not so much “moderate Muslims” as occasionally lax ones.
Michael Copeland says
Here is the UK government’s definition of extremism, in their “Prevent” strategy:
Extremism is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs…
“Extremism” is self-evidently something promoted by Islam. It is perfectly justifiable and accurate to associate “all those of Muslim heritage” with those actions.
See the self-evident promotion of “extremism” by Islam at:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/06/the-lamentable-shortcomings-of-some-english-judges-and-senior-lawyers/
Alas, the UK’s MI6 show the same shortcomings as the judiciary.
Eva says
In that case, the british government is guilty of extremism too. Against their own indigenous population.
Maybe they should take their own classes…
Michael Copeland says
“Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit…? Yes!”
Osama bin Laden
“Violence is the heart of Islam” – Ayatollah Yazdi
“Where is your weapon? Where is your weapon? Come to the jihad” – Omar Bakri
Dear MI6,
All these are normative Islam.
john smith says
Of course the muslim leaders are reluctant to deal extremism in their communities, because they approve of it. When muslims kill infidels, to them there is nothing extreme about it, that is exactly what allah demands of them.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
The free world needs to understand that a islamic extremist is simply a very devout muslim.
That is the very sad truth.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, James.
gravenimage says
Former MI6 chief says UK’s Muslim leaders ‘reluctant’ to deal with ‘extremism’ in their communities
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No sh*t, sherlock…
Whitespace says
The latest committee meeting on extremism in Canada’s parliament almost exclusively discussed threats that were “white” and “right wing”.
The only witness who unabashedly addressed the scope of the Islamic threat was a *retired* CSIS officer. He pointed out that 93% of worldwide public terror attacks are Islamic.
Open source information can trace symbolic, personal, ideological and financial connections between Canadian Islamic organizations and demonstrated adversaries.
I expect most of you will know exactly what I mean when I say: Muslim leaders are not reluctant.
As an aside, I have many new Muslim neighbors. I personally get along with them. Although I am a right wing extremist, and I feel love when I see their babies laughing. Moderns don’t realize that human goodness can be perverted into conflict. If it was just as easy as “let’s be nice”, war would have been extinguished long ago.
mortimer says
The world is suddenly very much more dangerous and Biden’s gross incompetence is to blame for it.
We will all now pay a big price. The Taliban will begin again to create a POWDER KEG in Afghanistan which could even lead to WWIII.
JCA Reid says
Funny that. Muslim Religious Leaders reluctant to deal with Muslims following the diktats & conduct of their founder & role model.
Where’s the problem?
Seems to be that all this fancy Oxbridge & other University Educations has been a waste of time.
Giacomo Latta says
“What you don’t want it to be is Christians telling Muslims what to do. It should be Muslims telling Muslims what to do.”
So only muslims have the right to criticize to Islam? No islamophobe this knob! But he explains why we are all subject to murder and slashing whenever any muslim feels some good old Islamic rapture. We have dorks like him as well-placed leaders who do not seek any background information before opening their cakeholes.
Bruce Watt says
no Muslim can critisize the word of God or his prophet, the only Islamophobes are Muslims as they live in fear of other Muslims, to all others fear of Islam is not an unreasonable fear just an informed desision. Muslims all have stockholm syndrome.
gravenimage says
Muslims tell Muslims to follow Islam. That’s the whole problem.