A few years back, some fake ex-Muslims harshly criticized me for criticizing Maajid Nawaz. The British supermarket chain Tesco had run an ad featuring hijabbed Muslims celebrating Christmas, and Nawaz had said that anyone who looked askance at this was “Islamophobic.” I pointed out that the number of observant, Sharia-adherent Muslims who celebrated Christmas was vanishingly small, if there were any at all, and was called “bigoted” for this. So what do those alleged ex-Muslims think of the statements of Imam Hafiz Muhammad Mateen Anwar?
“Koran row imam suggested Muslims could be punished for celebrating Christmas,” by Neil Johnston and Gabriella Swerling, Telegraph, March 12, 2023:
Imam Hafiz Muhammad Mateen Anwar: ‘Anyone from the religion of Islam, claims to follow Islam, anyone who begins to take part in the celebration of disbelievers, that person should be punished’
An imam involved in the row over a damaged Koran that led to a 14-year-old schoolboy receiving death threats, spoke about punishing Muslims for celebrating Christmas, The Telegraph can reveal.
Imam Hafiz Muhammad Mateen Anwar, of the Jamia Masjid Swafia mosque in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, warned worshippers not to wish others a merry Christmas, described homosexuality as “barbaric” and music as “toxic”, and also made sectarian remarks about more liberal followers of Islam.
The revelations came just days after he hosted a community meeting at the mosque alongside police and council leaders with the mother of an autistic Year 10 schoolboy who pleaded for forgiveness for her son after he brought a Koran into Kettlethorpe High School as a forfeit for losing a Call of Duty video game.
However, the Islamic holy book – which Muslims are taught to handle with respect and care and, in some cases, wash their hands before touching it – was dropped on the floor, causing a small tear on the cover and scuffing to some pages.
‘Defend the honour of the Koran’
Imam Anwar appeared on a panel with Chief Insp Andy Thornton and Insp Glen Costello of West Yorkshire Police, two teachers and the boy’s mother, where he told the meeting: “When it comes to the honour of the Koran we will stand and defend the honour of the Koran no matter what it takes.”…
Hudders. says
Anwar is a despicable, diabolical & dangerous fiend.
He is an avid adherent and promoter of sharia and the new wave of what I call; ‘psychological jihad’, that we see him & his ilk, so successfully bully and manipulate the surrounding districts, the council and even, (oh too easily,) the Police with.
Local residents actually are DESPERATE to have the JMS Mosque closed, but are way to fearful to say this, other than in hushed tones.
Kirklees is almost lost now and is a significant jump off point, to the continued spreading of this most pernicious and hate filled madness.
Please pray for west Yorkshire, England!
Aum says
I use to cover the Middle East as part of my business activities for a multi-national.
Every December we had to visit Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) to review annual plans of the local team and we had to block out all the windows of the office because we had the Christmas tree up.
Christmas is haram in Islam – I also worked for Tesco many years ago – this running of the Ad should never have been allowed.
Deodata says
How dare you eat, drink and be merry, you are a Muslim so no fun whatsoever. It will take your ability to kill the non-believers away
David M says
It must do the head in of any Muslim living in a western country trying to work out what you can & can’t do. It would do my head in if I was one.
davidafoot says
Thank you for exposing this despicable iman in this article. This article is indeed the intellectual “CV” of the despicable foreign, alien, anti-English iman who presided over some description of a sharia court in Wakefield with the discredited His Majesty’s joke of a constabulary at Wakefield! My disgust knows no limits when I read the despotic opinions which this iman tries to force on to England against its traditions! Why is he in our country? He could go to a country which doesn’t celebrate Christmas tomorrow! Problem is HERE it is BETTER than in a Moslem country! Why? Because the”Best Deceiver” had nothing to do with building it, Christ did, that is what the flag of England says and that is why we celebrate HIS birthday Christmas.
Not only did the joke of a Constabulary subject itself to a blasphemy law NOT on their list of English laws, they also allowed an anti-English agent of an alien culture impose foreign deplorable foreign rules and laws in the United Kingdom. Traitors is the right description for such a Constabulary in Wakefield!
Not only there is no law in England to protect the quran abomination, there shouldn’t be one either! Such a deplorable book shouldn’t be anywhere near an English school! What are you teaching ENGLISH children? The abominable quran is the Moslem “How To” manual for terrorism (8:12 etc) and to justify terrorism (8:17 etc.) and is full of other evils, misogyny etc. authored by the “Best Deceiver” (3:54) and inflicted on mankind by the deceiver’s messenger the warlord Mohamed.
This incident has only ONE criminal, the one who threatened to kill for no reason a pupil who broke no law of England! Threatened with death (8:12) by a terrorist which needs to be identified, prosecuted and ideally deported, England needs to get rid of the circle which brainwashed that terrorist with terrorism (8:12 etc) as well, ALL of them have no place in England.
The student which dropped his copy of the infernal book according to our law could drop it, burn it, throw it in the bin, do anything he wished with it as he has a right of property according to the law of England and freedom of speech according to the laws of England which the deplorable, faulty, despicable Wakefield constabulary failed to uphold the law of England which it completely ignores! They need disbanding! In England we should only have an English constabulary. They suspended and punished the totally innocent and let off the terrorist! A joke? Any doubts?
somehistory says
Also from the U.K.
“Muslim Man Raped Child and Judge Defended the Rapist”
“Adil Rashid was arrested after British investigators discovered that he had sex with a 13-year-old girl. A child that he had met over the internet. The 18-year-old Muslim man had meticulously groomed the child for over two months on Facebook. Then he lured her to a hotel room in Nottingham to have sex with him.
Rashid acted confused after his arrest and claimed that he had no idea it was illegal to have sex with 13-year-old girls. He even told police that he was educated in a madrassa, which is an Islamic school…..
According to Daily Mail, Rashid was found guilty of crimes that would typically receive 4 to 7 years in prison. However, Judge Stokes allowed him to walk out of the courtroom with just 9-months in a youth center. The Nottingham Crown Court judge defended his decision and claimed that jail time would cause him “more damage than good.”
https://gopnewsfeed.com/muslim-man-rapes-child-and-judge-defends-rapist-5/?utm_source=GNF%20M4BS2&utm_source=GNF%20Q4BS2&utm_medium
bill carr says
I think it is innacuarte to claim that the judge defended the Muslim. Hed id not free him but sent him to a youth correctional facility for nine months. It is well known tht many of UK’s prisons are dominated by their Muslim inmates who use violence to keep Mulsims sharia compliant. I call them jihad universities as the Muslim s sent there frequently come out worse than they went in. Rehabilitation is non existant for Mulsims. So I see the reasoning behind the judge’s decison.
somehistory says
In the full article, the words attributed to the judge show a heck of a lot of “understanding” of the perp’s motives..,and not in a judicial way, but sympathetic.