Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury is a darling of secularists. This is a picture of him (second from left) receiving an award from the National Secular Society in 2009 for campaigning against the blasphemy law.
He is also a “distinguished supporter” of the British Humanist Society.
Here you will find him signing an angry letter about the Pope’s state visit to Britain.
So what does Avebury make of the Khomeinists of the self-styled Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC)? He wants to help them in their campaign against the government of Bahrain – long a top target of Iran – and will welcome them to the House of Lords tomorrow.
It is not the first time Avebury has hosted the IHRC at Westminster.
Remember that the IHRC are the organisers of the “Al Quds Day” Israel hatred marches in London, where the leading slogan is always “We are all Hezbollah”. They also invite hate preachers to Britain, such as Ibrahim Zakzaky and Achmad Cassiem.
Troofery is another pursuit of the IHRC. Tonight they will host Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed at their bookstore in Wembley. Ahmed is a ridiculous man who likes to go on and on about what really happened on 9/11 and 7/7 and more. Here is a sample of his work.
The IHRC have also published the ravings of Stephen Lendman, the man who spread the Haiti blood libel against Israel. In the IHRC article Lendman claims several UK plots, including 7/7, were “false flag operations”.
What about real terrorists? The IHRC call for their release, as noted here just last week, when they backed a demonstration at the US embassy in London demanding that the US free Omar Abdel Rahman. He is the “blind sheikh” who was the spiritual leader of the terrorist band that wanted to bomb the UN headquarters, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and the FBI in New York in the 1990s.
Lord Avebury is typical of the idiots in Westminster who have helped to turn the UK into one of the world’s best refuges for Islamist extremists.
Why not write to Nick Clegg (cleggn@parliament.uk) asking why one of his peers is helping to perpetuate this inexcusable and disgraceful folly?
Never to be forgotten in matters IHRC, of course, is another friend of the extremists: Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.
I like the way it works, I like the sense of values surrounding it, and I’ve found them extremely helpful in bringing cases to my attention of individual abuses of human rights that they’re concerned about. But also general issues concerning the rights of people in the Middle East. The situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I’ve found them generally extremely helpful, extremely positive, and help to challenge the notion that human rights is somehow or other something based on Romano-Christian law and based on Europe rather than the rest of the world.
I like the concept that Islamic Human Rights Commission represents all that’s best in Islam concerning the rights of individuals to free expression, to peaceful assembly, and the rights of individuals within a society.
