Meanwhile, numerous foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women are barred from entering the UK. Britain, as is increasingly obvious, is finished.
“Imam who took Home Office funding referred to Hamas as ‘legitimate group,'” by David Rose, The JC, February 8, 2023:
The head of a Government-funded group set up to combat extremism described Hamas as “so-called terrorists” and a “legitimate resistance group”, William Shawcross’ damning report on the Prevent programme reveals.
The revelations come in one of the report’s most explosive sections, which highlights the Home Office’s inadequacy in countering “terrorist movements which target Jewish communities (such as Hamas and Hezbollah)”.
One of the reports key recommendations is that support for proscribed terror groups targeting Israel must be tackled much more rigorously.
It is vital, the report says, “to explore the prevalence of antisemitism” and to “feed these findings into work to disrupt radicalisers and counter extremist narratives”.
“This includes confronting UK extremist networks supportive of terrorist movements which target Jewish communities (such as Hamas and Hezbollah) and addressing the anti-Jewish component of Islamist and Extreme Right-Wing ideology”, it added.
The reference to Hamas as “legitimate” came in a blog by Musharraf Hussain, leader of the Nottingham-based Karimia Institute – which reportedly received £200,000 from the Prevent scheme – just after the conflict between Israel and Gaza in 2021 when 5,000 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets rained down on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
At this point, the report notes, Britain had proscribed Hamas’s military wing as a terror organisation, a ban extended to its political wing in November that year. Palestinian Islamic Jihad had been proscribed in its entirety since 2001.
Mr Hussain also shared a video on the organisation’s YouTube channel which “promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory” by the controversial rapper Lowkey.
The lyrics included claims that “every coin is a bullet if you’re Marks and Spencer” and that every coffee bought from Starbucks “put money in the pocket” of the “Zionist lobby”….
Tom Wilson, policy director at the Counter Extremism Group think tank, told the JC: “Civil Society Organisations should be used to stop radicalisers mainstreaming their message.
“Non-violent Islamist groups create an atmosphere that can indoctrinate some into feeling sympathetic towards terrorist causes. Prevent-funded projects are there to undermine those narratives.
“It is entirely detrimental if Prevent groups are the ones contributing to that radicalising atmosphere, or legitimising those who promote extremism. It goes without saying that the government should not be using to extremists to counter-extremism.”
Walter Sieruk says
By his ow n words, that imam just exposed what a terribly ignorant man that is really is.
Walter Sieruk says
When he said that statement , by his own words calling Hamas a”legitimate group”, that imam exposed himself to be a man of terrible ignorance.
Scotsman48 says
Oh how muslims in the UK and indeed around the entire World are laughing their hairy asses off at the stupidity of the British people as well as non muslims around the entire World.