This is a guest post by Ahmed Rushdi.
As the new university term is just around the corner, Britain’s Islamist-dominated student umbrella group FOSIS is keen to stir the anti-western pot.
On the 23rd September 2012, the ‘Justice for Aafia coalition’ is holding a protest at the US Embassy to demand she be freed. Readers should note that Aafia Siddiqui is a doctor who left Pakistan to attend MIT and Brandeis in the USA. After completing her studies, she returned to Pakistan, where she divorced her husband.
In March 2003 the FBI issued a global alert for Siddiqui. This is what they say about her:
US officials allege that Ms Siddiqui has links to top al-Qaeda suspects. They say that the mother of three is married to Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, known as Ammar al-Blackuch, a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 terror attacks, and a cousin of Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York.
Siddiqui was found guilty of a number of violent charges and was rightly given a harsh prison sentence for her actions in federal custody. This is how the Anti-Defamation League summed up what she did:
On February 3, 2010, Aafia Siddiqui, 37, was found guilty in a New Yorkfederal court of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm and assault of U.S. officers and employees for shooting at federal agents and American soldiers while she was detained inAfghanistan. As jurors left the courtroom, Siddiqui exclaimed, “This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America. That’s where the anger belongs.”She was sentenced to 86 years in prison in September 2010.
Siddiqui’s hatred for Jews went so far as to demand that the jurors in her trial undergo genetic tests to identify who amongst them were Jewish.
The speaker list for the event is interesting (edits made in italics):
Lauren Booth – khomeinist.
Andy Worthington – CagePrisoners academic puppet.
Ustadh Uthman Lateef – ‘The Muslims will be holding the spoils of war in their hands’
Adnan Rashid – ‘The Islamic model supported by Shari’ah is a cohesive model that allows a diverse multitude of ethnicities to co-exist‘
Sheikh Suliman Gani
Omar Hajaj (Head of Campaigns, FOSIS) – see below
Ken O’Keefe – compares Jewish people to Nazis
Sultan Sabri (Surrey Solicitors)
Faisal Hanjra (MCB) – former President of FOSIS
Ilyas Townsend – of the Lewisham Islamic Centre, amongst the worst extremist hotposts in the UK
Sheikh Khalid Fikry – Shia Muslims are a conspiracy of the ‘kaffir’
Ustadh Abdullah Hasan – Senior IFE activist.
Taji Mustafa – conveniently not told that Mustafa is a senior member of Hizb-ut-Tahir
The head of campaigns at FOSIS is a gentleman by the name of Omar Hajaj. From his Facebook record, Hajaj appears to have been taught at an American school in Amman, Jordan before moving to London. He is now at Roehampton University reading Anthropology. He is expected to graduate in 2013.
Here is a picture of Omar talking about Palestine:
It is fitting that Omar is speaking about Palestine in the picture above because his employment history is a neat list of organisations that do their best to turn Palestine into a recruiting tool for Islamists. Omar has worked at the following organisations:
London Citizens
London Citizens is a ‘community organisation’ which appears content in bringing in members of the Islamic Forum of Europe into its leadership. Junaid Ahmed has served as a “youth co-ordinator” of the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), the East London-based Islamist group. He is also a trustee of the Islamic Forum Trust, a registered charity of the IFE. Junaid Ahmed is now deputy-chair of London Citizens.
Have a look at this video delivering a speech titled “Heroes of Palestine”. He means Hamas. In fact, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas is “our leader”, he says:
My brothers and sisters, the fifth quality we see in our heroes in Palestine are showing is that their imaan [faith] is increasing, not decreasing. Their imaan is increasing as our leader Ismail Haniyeh said, that we find that every verse that we read now, it’s as if the verse is being revealed now. And today it’s as if we haven’t read these verses any time before. And this is a quality of the believers, as Allah says: “Those who believe, their faith is increased, and they do rejoice in Allah.” Those who have faith, their imaan increases, and this is what we see amongst our brothers and sisters.
Ismail Haniyeh is considered to be the leader of Hamas, the genocidal terrorist organisation based in Gaza whose charter effectively rubber-stamps the killing of Jews:
The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!
Unfortunately in London, the group has been given cover by Rabbis and others in the Jewish community who feel the need to embrace supporters and sympathisers of fanatical Jew-hatred rather than to challenge this sort of extremism.
Al-Muntada al-Islami Masjid (Mosque)
This is the same Mosque whose Imam was non-other than Haitham al-Haddad.
Al-Haddad is on record for supporting female genital mutilation, telling his audience that the disfigurement of female genitalia was ‘sunnah (acceptable)’.
In a sermon delivered at the Al-Muntada al-Islami mosque, Haddad called Jews ‘eternal enemies’ and ‘the descendants of apes and pigs‘.
Al-Haddad also had quite an affect on former FOSIS-linked Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who went on from leading his Islamic Society to attempt to take down an American air-liner on Christmas Day 2009.
On a camping trip, this is the effect Haddad had on the young Abdulmutallab (the following are Abdulmutallab’s words):
This course was a 3 day intensive program organised by the Muslim Research and Development Foundation headed by Sheikh Haitham Al Haddad.
The MRDF committee includes students from Madinah. University and Professional from a variety of backgrounds. The course Manhaj Al Istidhlal was the first 3 day intensive retreat organised by MRDF and alhamdulillah I was one of the pioneering students. The course is actually in 3 parts and the 2 parts are to come in the near future. We studied the sources of Knowledge in Islam. We looked at the Quran, Sunnah, Ijma and Qiyaas. The course also included sessions on build many team building and media skills sessions. The other two parts of the course will look at the understanding and implementation of the sources. Alhamdulillah, I passed the course with a Distinction.
Readers of Harry’s Place will also note that Al-Muntada al-Islami have a trust as well as the mosque. They’d like you to think they’re both different but Charity Commission documents (documents here and here) show both operations could be described as one single operation.
The Al-Muntada Trust attempted to host a Jihadist conference in Central London.
Members of the LGBT community also spoke out at the charity’s organising of the event.
Conclusion
FOSIS campaigning for Siddiqui is like a student conservative group standing up for Breivik. Except there is no student conservative group standing up for Breivik and there is a Muslim student group bidding for a convicted terrorist.
Academic year 2012/13 starts for FOSIS rather like the way it finished, namely with wall-to-wall Islamist indoctrination ranging from soft Islamist theology to what would be considered racial-hatred.
Just don’t let our politicians look surprised when an impressionable young fresher takes all this to heart.
Note: This article was syndicated from Stand for Peace.
