Yes, there is an Islamic Republic of Iran School in London. Why? Because Britain is mad.
“Children chant massacre-Jews song at North London school,” by David Rose, The Jewish Chronicle, November 24, 2022:
An Iranian propaganda video in which dozens of children sing a song that references an apocalyptic myth about massacring Jews was filmed at a school just 15 minutes’ walk from the New London synagogue in St John’s Wood, a JC investigation has revealed.
In the video, shot earlier this year in the playground of the Islamic Republic of Iran School (IRIS) near Queen’s Park station, the children sing about joining 313 mythical warriors in a conflict against the infidels, when (according to the present Iranian regime) Israel will be obliterated and Jews killed.
Some scenes were also shot at the nearby Islamic Centre of England (ICE), which is controlled by the Iranian regime and linked to the school. ICE is currently the subject of a statutory inquiry by the Charity Commission, as the JC disclosed last week.
The song, entitled Hello Commander, has been praised by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who claims its popularity proves his people’s “loyalty to the system”, Iranian pro-regime media has reported.
Its recording in St John’s Wood, in easy reach of several synagogues and Jewish centres, has raised serious concerns among community security officials.
In the London video, rows of boys in white shirts and pressed black trousers and girls in blue flares, white blouses and matching hijabs can be seen saluting and singing their allegiance to their “commander”, Ayatollah Khamenei.
The children, aged between eight and 15, sing: “Without you, this life has no meaning. This life comes alive when you are here for me.”
They then sing about fighting in history’s final battle for the mythical leader known as the Mahdi, last seen supposedly almost 1,200 years ago.
Shia theology says the Mahdi will return to Earth to lead Muslim forces in the war of the apocalypse, accompanied by an elite band of 313 fighters — including, the song suggests, the children in the video.
They sing: “We wait for under the flag of our leaders. Tell me beloved, will you arrive soon? May Allah hasten your reappearance…
“We may be young but do not see us as too young. For you I will rise up and you will not see me fall. From the 313, you will see I will answer the call… Take my oath of loyalty as a warrior and servant.”…
Mir Abbas Hussein, a spokesman for the ICE, denied that what he called the “local” version of the song had this meaning.
He told the JC that he accepted that IRGC leaders said Israel must be obliterated before the Mahdi’s return, but said there was “nothing in the [religious] books about destroying Israel” and the song as recorded in London “is nothing to do with a political agenda. Here we focus on religion.”
The ICE’s constitution stipulates that one of its trustees will always be the UK’s personal representative of Ayatollah Khamenei.
Versions of the song recorded in Iran and elsewhere dominate the country’s official airways.
A report by the pro-regime Iran Press News Agency states: “Hello Commander educates the new generation on the ambitions of the Islamic Revolution and encourages them to be guardians to protect those ideals, which is seen as a step towards promoting the revolution among the generation to come.”…
The school is owned by the Iranian government and ICE’s previous director Mohammad Shomali, the previous ICE director and reportedly its Khamenei representative, has spoken there.
The ICE has received £139,000 from taxpayers under the Covid furlough scheme. Meanwhile, the school’s pastoral and educational standards have been scathingly criticised by Ofsted….
The ICE has hosted numerous speakers over many years who have spewed a torrent of Jew-hatred. In recent weeks, these included an ayatollah who says Jews were responsible for killing of Muslims in Burma and that Zionism “harms all mankind”.
The ICE is one of several centres across Britain and Europe that are controlled by Iran. Police and security services uncovered links to terrorism at one pro-regime hub in Germany.
The ICE and its northern UK counterpart, the Manchester Islamic Centre, have hosted prominent Labour politicians including Jeremy Corbyn the year before he became party leader. He made a speech at the ICE in 2014 on what he called “The Case for Iran”….
tim gallagher says
Just a bit of that enriching diversity that letting Muslims into a country brings with it. Seriously, islam has nothing positive to offer any civilised nation. It brings nothing but primitiveness and evil such as this murderous hatred which dominates the Muslim play book, the Koran.. Keep islam out. Leave its poison shut away in Muslim countries.
DHZ says
Another prize worthy solo performance by a member of the band, Axis of Cringe whose other members include Vladimir Putin, Xi Xin Ping and Kim Jong-un.
Jayell1 says
This sort of thing has happened at least once before that I know of. An ‘upmarket’ slamic school in a fashionable part of west London failed to hide a lot of crudely antisemitic books in their library when they had a surprise snap inspection some years ago. I believe they were threatened with closure if the material was not removed or destroyed. My guess is that the authorities knew all about this pseudo-educational cesspit long ago and are probably aware of many others, but this is only to be expected in the much bigger cesspit that London has become under the fraudulent mayorsip of the repulsive Khan.
Aloha Akbar says
Sung to the tune of School’s Out – by Alahu-Alice Cooper
(Disclaimer, no offence to any Jews, this parody is meant to represent the attitude of Islams view of Jewish people)
Well, we got issues
With the filthy Jews
When the Mahdi arrives
No Jew will survive
Can’t tolerate ya
Cos we’re uncouth
If we don’t like ya
That’s the truth
Jews out of England
Jews out forever
Jews been blown to pieces
No more peace talks, no more dialogue
No more rabbis, or drinking grog
Well, we got no brains
And we do act criminal (ooh)
And we got no intelligence
We can’t even think for ourselves at times,
Jews out of England
Jews out forever
Jews been blown to pieces
No more peace talks, no more dialogue
No more rabbis, or drinking grog
Aum says
Whilst Islam is using the system for its own purposes to incite hatred and death.
The fault lies with our politicians – Tony Blair allowed the expansion of single faith schools instead of insisting schools should be multi-faith we have a society with parallel lives and medieval ideology in the 21st century.
It was Blair and Straw opened the doors to mass migration and Conservatives continued the policy.
Now they are jaw boning whilst doing nothing.
VictorMc says
Not really worth replying to. This is Britain today like it or not. London is now a black city and will NEVER see another white mayor. Boris was your last. Khan is of course an unfunny joke promoted well beyond his capabilities.
I moved away from this cesspit years ago and have no intention of ever going back.
Alkflaeda says
I remember many years ago now, waiting for a bus outside a church, and a boy and a man, presumably his father, walked past. As they passed the cross outside the church, the boy expertly spat at it. It had the feel of a routine job done to the best of his ?8 year old ability. The father made no comment, either to praise or criticise. This was about thirty years ago now. I wondered then what sort of parents would teach their children to behave like that. And I wonder now what sort of parents would send their children to a school like this one.