The Times (UK) launched a much wider and deeper undercover investigation in Beeston. What they found, coupled with previous undercover investigation, explains why "...13 percent of Britain's 1.6 million Muslims think the four Islamic suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London last year should be regarded as "martyrs". And why there are over 8,000 al Qaeda sympathisers in the UK.
These undercover investigations repeatedly turn up another common theme - Muslims say one thing in public - to us infidels - and the opposite in private. Beeston is just another example. Listen.
I found myself both drawn to the warm embrace of the Muslim community that dominates Beeston, and shocked by the views it espoused in private.
The writer goes on to relate one such experience.
But his kindness to me was coupled with a darker outlook on the wider world. I was shocked when one day at the Hamara centre he began explaining how the London bombers could be seen as martyrs.
“The western mind and the Muslim mind are two different psychologies,” he said. “The Muslim mind will see that this life means nothing unless I sacrifice myself for Allah.”
Inside I flinched, but outwardly I nodded with a look of sympathy. I did not want him to close up as much of the community had done after last summer’s attacks. I wanted him to speak honestly.
“My life means nothing, you know,” he continued. “I would give up this evil, two-seconds of a life.” Earthly experience, I think he meant, was but a moment compared with paradise to come.
Later he went on to eulogise Abdullah Faisal, a firebrand Islamic cleric who was imprisoned in 2003 for inciting the murder of Jews. Faisal, said to have been a strong influence on the 7/7 bombers, has advocated the spreading of Islam “by the Kalashnikov” and declared that one aim of jihad is to “lessen the population of unbelievers”.
To Ghani, the cleric was “one of the good ones” and he advised me where I might obtain recordings of his sermons.
He goes on to relate the thoughts of two other "ordinary" Muslim business men, concerning conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11. Note the writer says these men are far from alone in this thinking.
Jabbar doubted it. He told me the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy and that he had a DVD which proved it. So were the London bombings, he said.
I found myself in a ferment of mixed emotions. Here was a man who had shown great courtesy and kindness, yet believed the West was so corrupt it had staged terrorist attacks against itself. How could he be so deluded? Jabbar, however, was far from alone. One of the sternest advocates of conspiracy theory was Imran Bham, a shopkeeper running Idoo PC, a computer equipment shop.
“You don’t get anywhere with the dirty kuffar (infidels),” he told me, claiming there was a widespread conspiracy against Muslims and that the 7/7 bombings were part of it. “These brothers never did it,” he said. “And understand this. In order for America and Britain to go to Iraq they have to have reasons and sometimes, I’m afraid, if you haven’t got a reason, you make up that reason.”
Another theme regularly repeated by Muslims and Islamist apologists is that jihad means inner sturggle and does not mean actual war on us infidels. Once again, things are said differently in private.
Once again, I felt as if I had entered a strange bubble, a world where the reality I had known before had been suspended. Bham then asked me if I would ever blow myself up for Islam. I replied that the Koran says you should not harm innocent people.
“What Koran was that?” he countered. “Don’t fool yourself by saying jihad is a struggle within, to get on with life, to motivate myself to get up for prayers and that sort of thing,” he said. “That’s not jihad. Who told you that?”
And again, we learn Muslims are being taught this in their mosques.
I felt, too, guilt at having moved among the people of Beeston under a false guise. They had welcomed me; but they had also revealed an important facet of Muslim life in Britain today. While I was there an imam of the Bengali mosque, Hamid Ali, had praised the bombers, saying their actions would make non-Muslims “prick up their ears” and listen. I had learnt such sentiments are, one way or another, widespread in Beeston. Ghani, Bham, Jabbar and many others believe in some form of conspiracy against Muslims.
Even the seemingly sensible Sabeer insisted the western “enemy” was out to get him. “It’s the way of the enemy really, the kuffar,” he said. “I’ve always known it as divide and rule.”
There are those that will read this and say, that's just one town, one imam and a few Muslims who made these statements. But as the writer points out, these few quoted were far from alone.
Also bear in mind that this is another undercover investigation from a growing list of such investigations that continue to reveal the same picture both here and overseas. From Britain, France, Pakistan, the US and indeed around the world hate and intolerance is being preached by Muslims to Muslims. I've documented this time and again on this blog. I've even provided video as proof. And still many people live in denial that this is happening.
Some, me included, will point out that not all Muslims feel this way. The Times reporter who wrote this article is proof of that. But, as these undercover investigations and other documentation prove, the problem with Islam is much wider and deeper than most are willing to admit.
Just as they did prior to World War II, people are doing every thing they can to avoid confronting the threat that lies before them. From appeasement to living in denial to forming alliances with Islamists, everything is being done to avoid the unavoidable - confronting the growing threat from within.
In two days time we will remember the over 50 Britains murdered and maimed by British Muslim terrorists on 7/7. In London an Islam Expo is being held, as the organizers put it, to celebrate Islam. The long list of speakers includes some apologists, Islamists, communists, deniers, anti-war advocates and some with links to terrorism. At the same time accross town, Muslims are holding a terror seminar hosted by banned cleric Bakri who will be speaking from exile via video.
There will be two minutes silence, a few speeches and plaques to remember the innocent victims of the British Muslim terror attack on 7/7 this Friday. If we don't do more, much more, to confront the growing threat from within, sadly, there may be many more such rememberances. We're lucky we're not holding another on 21/7. The security services prevented us from holding a further 3 and point out that 40 people are now under arrest with 70 investigations ongoing.
My critics will call me a racist and bigot for pointing these realities out. Calling me names doesn't alter the reality we live in or the dangers we face.
Fortunately, we have people like L/Cpl Jabron Hashmi and Ayman Taha.
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