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Is it any surprise that British mosques are, on the whole, not rooting out extremism when 97 per cent of imams (Muslim mojo men) weren’t born in the UK? Not only that, but – according to a report from the Quilliam Foundation, as reported on the BBC news website – the lecture before Friday prayers in nearly half of British mosques isn’t in English.
Nearly half have no women’s facilities, either.
The Quilliam Foundation’s director, Maajid Nawaz, tells the BBC that the findings show mosques lack the “resilience to challenge Islamist extremists”.
The statistics, he says, are “deeply disturbing”, and he has warned that extremism could not be tackled while imams were “physically in Britain, but psychologically in Pakistan or Bangladesh”.
Easy. Let’s stop them from being physically in Britain and ensure that they are entirely in Pakistan or Bangladesh. Let’s do more than allow the media to do the odd story and then forget about it. Shouldn’t there be a campaign to root out extremist preachers and send them packing, thus sending a message to others who want to try doing the same?
It’s amazing how (as I’ve been saying over at my regular blog, Pink Triangle) we can bar Geert Wilders from coming to the UK to show a film that exposes extreme Muslim thinking within the religion’s “holy book”.
We can bar the nutcases of the dysfunctional Phelps clan – of Topeka in Kansas – from this country when they want to wave a few placards outside a showing of the anti-homophobia play The Laramie Project, when even many gay people and liberal-leaning blogs such as mine are against such a ban, believing that free speech should be played out on a level playing field.
But we can’t root out genuinely dangerous, demented, lunatic preachers of the sort we saw on Channel 4’s Undercover Mosque. Need we remind ourselves of that now famous documentary, which found evidence of extremist preaching among hate-filled, rabid preachers?
I blogged on it here, and then again when we discovered that West Midlands Police’s Department of Political Correctness Gone Mad, having tried to prosecute the makers, found themselves having to grovel in abject apology because they’d got it wrong. Oh, how we did rub our hands!
You can see some of that Undercover Mosque programme by clicking on the link below. This gives part of it. It’s a YouTube clip and, as usual with YouTube, you can go to the site and find several videos relating to the programme with a simple search.
- Observing "moderate Muslims" In Their Native Habitat
It seems the natives are restless. From Punditarian at the Astute Bloggers: The London TIMES reports: The London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, known as the Regent’s Park Mosque, is one of the most respected centres for moderate Islam...
- Uk: Channel Four Announces Return Of Undercover Mosque
From the Guardian: Three months after Dispatches: Undercover Mosque won a police apology and libel damages, Channel 4 has announced it is returning to the subject in Undercover Mosque: The Return. Earlier this year West Midlands police and the Crown...
- Uk: Police Attacked By Tv Watchdog Group Over Channel 4 Mosque Expose
Britain's Channel 4 aired a TV show which exposed the hatred being preached in mainstream Mosques in the UK. The police took action against the network. Now, a Television Watchdog group is publicly criticizing the British police for the action...
- The Silence Is Eery, If You Ask Me
I've been wondering why the media hasn't been covering the "Undercover Mosque" Report from Channel 4's Dispatches program. I'm guessing I'm not the only person who's been wondering about that. It seems to me this story ought to...
- As Sure As The Sun Will Come Up
Here comes the inevitable denials and obfuscations and voicing of fear of a "backlash" against all Muslims for the sins of a few extremists. Yeah, right" CITY religious leaders fear that all Muslims could suffer a backlash after hardline clerics were...
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UK mosques fail to root out the nutters
Is it any surprise that British mosques are, on the whole, not rooting out extremism when 97 per cent of imams (Muslim mojo men) weren’t born in the UK? Not only that, but – according to a report from the Quilliam Foundation, as reported on the BBC news website – the lecture before Friday prayers in nearly half of British mosques isn’t in English.
Nearly half have no women’s facilities, either.
The Quilliam Foundation’s director, Maajid Nawaz, tells the BBC that the findings show mosques lack the “resilience to challenge Islamist extremists”.
The statistics, he says, are “deeply disturbing”, and he has warned that extremism could not be tackled while imams were “physically in Britain, but psychologically in Pakistan or Bangladesh”.
Easy. Let’s stop them from being physically in Britain and ensure that they are entirely in Pakistan or Bangladesh. Let’s do more than allow the media to do the odd story and then forget about it. Shouldn’t there be a campaign to root out extremist preachers and send them packing, thus sending a message to others who want to try doing the same?
It’s amazing how (as I’ve been saying over at my regular blog, Pink Triangle) we can bar Geert Wilders from coming to the UK to show a film that exposes extreme Muslim thinking within the religion’s “holy book”.
We can bar the nutcases of the dysfunctional Phelps clan – of Topeka in Kansas – from this country when they want to wave a few placards outside a showing of the anti-homophobia play The Laramie Project, when even many gay people and liberal-leaning blogs such as mine are against such a ban, believing that free speech should be played out on a level playing field.
But we can’t root out genuinely dangerous, demented, lunatic preachers of the sort we saw on Channel 4’s Undercover Mosque. Need we remind ourselves of that now famous documentary, which found evidence of extremist preaching among hate-filled, rabid preachers?
I blogged on it here, and then again when we discovered that West Midlands Police’s Department of Political Correctness Gone Mad, having tried to prosecute the makers, found themselves having to grovel in abject apology because they’d got it wrong. Oh, how we did rub our hands!
You can see some of that Undercover Mosque programme by clicking on the link below. This gives part of it. It’s a YouTube clip and, as usual with YouTube, you can go to the site and find several videos relating to the programme with a simple search.
- Observing "moderate Muslims" In Their Native Habitat
It seems the natives are restless. From Punditarian at the Astute Bloggers: The London TIMES reports: The London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, known as the Regent’s Park Mosque, is one of the most respected centres for moderate Islam...
- Uk: Channel Four Announces Return Of Undercover Mosque
From the Guardian: Three months after Dispatches: Undercover Mosque won a police apology and libel damages, Channel 4 has announced it is returning to the subject in Undercover Mosque: The Return. Earlier this year West Midlands police and the Crown...
- Uk: Police Attacked By Tv Watchdog Group Over Channel 4 Mosque Expose
Britain's Channel 4 aired a TV show which exposed the hatred being preached in mainstream Mosques in the UK. The police took action against the network. Now, a Television Watchdog group is publicly criticizing the British police for the action...
- The Silence Is Eery, If You Ask Me
I've been wondering why the media hasn't been covering the "Undercover Mosque" Report from Channel 4's Dispatches program. I'm guessing I'm not the only person who's been wondering about that. It seems to me this story ought to...
- As Sure As The Sun Will Come Up
Here comes the inevitable denials and obfuscations and voicing of fear of a "backlash" against all Muslims for the sins of a few extremists. Yeah, right" CITY religious leaders fear that all Muslims could suffer a backlash after hardline clerics were...