Of course they did. What did anybody expect them to do? Britain, when it decided to bring in large numbers of Muslims, also decided to assume that every last one of them was “moderate” and rejected jihad violence, as well as Sharia death penalties for blasphemy and other crimes. British officials likely figured there might be a few bad apples, but that they would be able to weed those out, and that most Muslims would readily assimilate into modern, secular British society. Now that assumption has been proven massively wrong, which doesn’t mean that anyone in the British government, or with influence in British society, is ready to discard it.
“British leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir tried to justify Salman Rushdie stabbing,” by Edward Malnick, Telegraph, January 20, 2024:
Two key figures behind a prominent Islamist extremist group until its ban last week sought to justify the attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie to their followers as the writer fought for his life in hospital.
In the aftermath of the brutal stabbing of Sir Salman in the US, Dr Wahid Shaida and Mazhar Khan, who were members of the executive committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain both issued online statements pointing out that insulting the prophet Mohammed – who was at the centre of Sir Salman’s work The Satanic Verses – was forbidden in Islam.
Mr Khan was filmed at a Hizb ut-Tahrir demonstration in the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas chanting “Jihad! Jihad! Jihad!” in response to another of the group’s prominent members at the time asking the crowd: “What is the solution to liberate people from the concentration camp called Palestine?”…
Dr Shaida is a GP at a surgery in Harrow, north London, who chaired Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain using the name Abdul Wahid.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Aug 12 2022, the day Sir Salman was stabbed more than a dozen times at a US book festival, Dr Shaida said of the prophet Mohammed: “The extent of the love of Muslims worldwide for Messenger of Allah cannot be explained or quantified … I doubt you will find anyone who loves him feeling sympathy for someone who insulted him.”
The statement added: “Those Muslims who have come out and condemned the attack are presumably motivated by the many Pillars of Secularism, that they are forced to adopt to have acceptability in liberal societies.”
Mr Khan shared Dr Shaida’s statement on his own Facebook page together with the slogan “Our prophet, our honour”.
Hizb ut-Tahrir also posted a video on YouTube on Aug 13 2022, in which Mr Khan addressed the stabbing of Sir Salman the previous day. He said: “Insulting the Prophet is never something that the Muslim will ever tolerate, it is non-negotiable….
PRCS says
How, specifically, Islamist extremists differ from the regular variety?
“pointing out that insulting the prophet Mohammed – who was at the centre of Sir Salman’s work The Satanic Verses – was forbidden in Islam” **Which is irrelevant to “filthy unbelievers” in nations governed by secular, man-made law.
James Lincoln says
They are all the “regular variety”, PRCS.
PRCS says
+1
Scotsman48 says
I have noticed that these anti Jewish morons screaming jihad jihad are all using Facebook and Whatsapp to spew their garbage and yet Facebook is owned by an American Jewish Guy who bought Whatsapp from the Israeli Jewish guy from Tel Aviv that created it.
Weird huh..
Tell me again what muslims have brought into the modern world to benefit humanity.
Thats not a trick question.