Sunday, February 28, 2010

Islamic radicals 'infiltrate' the Labour Party

UPDATED AND BUMPED

Ray Boyd comments:

This is an important story as a general election is imminent. I just wish it could go viral in the UK.

Most people scoff when told of the Islamic threat saying that most Muslims are good people. That may be so but this shows that the extremist tail wags the dog here in Tower Hamlets and anywhere else in the world where muslim extremists thrive i.e. Taliban dominated Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The extremists threaten and subjugate ordinary muslims and eventually rule over the mass.

Everyone in the UK should know that a vote for Labour is a vote for sharia law, and ultimate domination by Islam.

From the Telegraph:

Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister
Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister

The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters.

Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the IFE had become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties.

“They are acting almost as an entryist organisation, placing people within the political parties, recruiting members to those political parties, trying to get individuals selected and elected so they can exercise political influence and power, whether it’s at local government level or national level,” he said.

“They are completely at odds with Labour’s programme, with our support for secularism.”

Mr Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Canning Town, said the IFE had infiltrated and “corrupted” his party in east London in the same way that the far-Left Militant Tendency did in the 1980s. Leaked Labour lists show a 110 per cent rise in party membership in one constituency in two years.

In a six-month investigation by this newspaper and Channel 4’s Dispatches, involving weeks of covert filming by the programme’s reporters:

  • IFE activists boasted to the undercover reporters that they had already “consolidated … a lot of influence and power” over Tower Hamlets, a London borough council with a £1 billion budget.
  • We have established that the group and its allies were awarded more than £10 million of taxpayers’ money, much of it from government funds designed to “prevent violent extremism”.
  • IFE leaders were recorded expressing opposition to democracy, support for sharia law or mocking black people. The IFE organised meetings with extremists, including Taliban allies, a man named by the US government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a man under investigation by the FBI for his links to the September 11 attacks.
  • Moderate Muslims in London told how the IFE and its allies were enforcing their hardline views on the rest of the local community, curbing behaviour they deemed “un-Islamic”. The owner of a dating agency received a threatening email from an IFE activist, warning her to close it.
  • George Galloway, a London MP, admitted in recordings obtained by this newspaper that his surprise victory in the 2005 election owed more to the IFE “than it would be wise – for them – for me to say, adding that they played a “decisive role” in his triumph at the polls.

Mr Galloway now says they were one of many groups which supported his anti-war stance and had never sought to influence him.

The IFE has particularly close links to Tower Hamlets council. Seven serving and former councillors said Lutfur Rahman, the current council leader, gained his post with the group’s help.

Some said they were canvassed by a senior IFE official on his behalf. After Mr Rahman was elected, a man with close links to the group, Lutfur Ali, was appointed assistant chief executive of the council with responsibility for grant funding.

This was despite a chequered employment record, a misleading CV and a negative report from the headhunters appointed to consider the candidates. The council’s white chief executive was subsequently forced from his post.

Since Mr Rahman became leader, more council grants have been paid to a number of organisations which our investigation established are closely linked to the IFE.

Funding for other, secular groups was ended or cut. In the borough’s well-known Brick Lane area, council funds were switched from a largely secular heritage trail to a highly controversial “hijab sculpture”, angering many residents who accused the council of “religious triumphalism”.

Schools in Tower Hamlets are told by the council should close for the Muslim festival of Eid, even where most of their pupils are not Muslim.

Mr Rahman refused to deny that an IFE activist had canvassed councillors on his behalf. He said: “There are various people across Tower Hamlets who get excited, who get involved.”

He would not comment on concerns about infiltration, saying they were “party matters”. He said: “If you look at our flagship policies, like investing £20 million to tackle overcrowding, you can see that we are working for everyone.”

The IFE said it did not seek to influence the council and had not lobbied for Mr Rahman. “If anything, existing members of the Labour Party have joined the IFE, rather than the other way round,” it said.

The group insisted it was not a fundamentalist or extremist organisation and did not support violence.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

"The group insisted it was not a fundamentalist or extremist organisation and did not support violence."

Such assurances are meaningless. Political/Demographic jihad requires neither violence or extremism to achieve Islamists goals.

Ray Boyd said...

You beat me to it Pasto!! This is an important story as a general election is imminent. I just wish it could go viral in the UK.

Most people scoff when told of the Islamic threat saying that most Muslims are good people. That may be so but this shows that the extremist tail wags the dog here in Tower Hamlets and anywhere else in the world where muslim extremists thrive i.e. Taliban dominated Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The extremists threaten and subjugate ordinary muslims and eventually rule over the mass.

Everyone in the UK should know that a vote for Labour is a vote for sharia law, and ultimate domination by Islam.

I doubt the main political parties will go with this - they don't do dirty like they do in the states - but I do hope the BNP do their best to get the message across. Someone has to tell the man in the street to wake up, smell the coffee.

Pastorius said...

What do you think of the UKIP?

Ray Boyd said...

I agree with them on Europe i.e. we should get out, and they are now more upfront on immigration and Islamism.

I just want a political party to take up this issue of Labour infiltration by Islam, but I know that the Tories and Libs won't so it needs a fringe party such as UKIP or BNP. I don't care which one.

The objective is to make voters realise what voting labour will ultimately mean.

jeppo said...

The goal for all British patriots and conservatives would seemingly be to defeat the treasonous Labour Party at the next election, and defeat them badly.

But this only opens the door for the slightly-less-dhimmified Tories of David Cameron. How this pathetic man ever became leader of the party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher is beyond me. Problem is, right now they seem to be the only plausible alternative government to Gordon Brown's nation-wreckers.

Of course the UKIP and BNP are both far, FAR better on the two defining issues of our day, immigration and Islamization, than Cameron's Tories. But enough votes for these two parties might weaken the Tories enough for Labour to squeak through with a fourth straight election victory, which would be an absolute disaster for Britain.

And not only would the UKIP and BNP take votes away from the Tories, but they would effectively cancel each other out. Even with, say, 20%-25% of the vote combined, the two parties would be hard-pressed to win even a single seat between them in the House of Commons.

So British voters are faced with a conundrum: Should they rally behind the Tories to ensure that Labour is defeated? This would only lead to a Cameron government that would continue to allow mass immigration and continue kowtowing to radical Islam at home and abroad.

Or should they stick to their principles and vote for one of the two patriotic parties, UKIP or BNP? This might lead to yet another Labour government which, thus emboldened, might accelerate their nation-destroying policies.

There are no easy answers.

Ray Boyd said...

I agree with you anonymous, I was just stating what the majority would say: "Most muslims are good people"

Jeppo: I'm not saying vote for UKIP or BNP I'm saying that I hope they play dirty and go for this issue of Labour/Islam infiltrators and bring it to the attention of potential Labour voters.

I will have to vote Conservative because another 5 years of Labour will be the end of us.

Mark @ Israel said...

"Most muslims are good people." I would rather say: Muslims have the tendency to be good people to some extent. I have studied Islam at one time and I found their doctrine practiced but I cannot see those principles translated into action.