The big British Left-Liberal blind spot

Nick Cohen is about the only leftish journalist of note who constantly warns about the pernicious, seditious, effective and entirely non-accidental Islamist entryism in British politics and social life, and the aid and comfort enthusiastically and suicidally supplied to murderers by the Left, in Britain, the USA and elsewhere. Cohen's name and heritage assist his enemies (and Britain's) in dismissing his writings as predictable prejudice despite his assiduous adherence to verifiable evidence.

Melanie Phillips is also routinely sneered at as 'Mad Mel' when she covers this subject, even though she, too, is diligent to a level which shames most of her peers. But then, she's just another Jew, so that's all right. If only she were a Muslim, she'd get a hearing instead of sneering.

The latest news on this front, though, on which the British media, including the mighty Murdoch empire and 'the world's greatest news gathering organisation', are all utterly silent, is noteworthy.

The Muslim Brotherhood has declared war on America and now explicitly endorses the extremist jihadist program of Al Queda and its affiliates.

In case you've just landed from Planet Tharg, the Muslim Brotherhood is probably best known as the progenitor and banker of Hamas, those lovable trainers of their own children as suicide bombers. Sorry, I mean, those poor 'victims of Israeli oppression'.

(The emphasis throughout this post is mine.)

This is one of those obscure Middle East events of the utmost significance that is ignored by the Western mass media, especially because they happen in Arabic, not English; by Western governments, because they don't fit their policies; and by experts, because they don't mesh with their preconceptions.

Which should matter enormously to us, because...

... there is barely an aspect of British life today in which Muslim Brotherhood and/or Hamas supporters lack influence. From the academic world, including student organizations, through politics and government, trades unions, the media, the legal system and even some Christian churches, they have succeeded in re-writing the prevailing narrative by means of the employment of the language of charity and human rights.

Skillfully, they deflect criticism by the use of anti-racism laws and social mores and manage to market themselves as the face of ‘moderate Islam’ so successfully that they are often invited to act in an advisory capacity to decision makers and are even able to secure government funding .

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... the Muslim Brotherhood has been allowed a free rein in British society and has slowly and patiently promoted an atmosphere of ideological extremism not only within sections of the Muslim community, but also within the host society, to a point where terrorism is so acceptable that many ordinary British people find nothing exceptional in thousands of people marching through their capital city under the flags and banners of terrorist organizations.

And, I would add, to the point where the authorities simply dare not throw Muslim Brotherhood seditionsist out, so well embedded are they in 'the communities'. There would be riots not to mention am interntaional slapping from the now wholly pernicious European Court of Justice.

Read the whole thing here for worrying examples from Leeds to Exeter, but if you're short of time, here are a few snacks for thought.

... operating in the UK are several organizations set up by the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) which is the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella organization in Europe, established in 1989. The Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO) for example enjoys links with the European Union, the Council of Europe and the United Nations as well as close links with the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) in British universities.

Another example is the ‘European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza’ (ECESG) which is a body set up in 2007 by the FIOE and, among other activities, is behind flotillas attempting to reach Gaza, including the one which ended in violence aboard the Mavi Marmara due to the actions of members of the IHH; a member of the ‘Union of Good’ – the collection of charities providing funding for Hamas (and chaired by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi of the Muslim Brotherhood) which was designated a terrorist entity by the USA and banned in Israel.

The head of the ECESG is Dr. Arafat Madi, who is also executive director of the Palestinian Return Centre with which the ECESG shares offices and a telephone number in North London. Not only has Dr. Madi reportedly had the ear of the President of the European Parliament, but the ECESG organized a delegation of European MPs to Gaza in January 2009 to meet with Hamas representatives there.

British supporters of the ECESG include Lord Nazir Ahmed, Baroness Jenny Tonge ( also a patron of the Hamas supporting Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Lord Richard Harries, former MPs (until 2010) Clare Short and Brian Iddon and current MP Roger Godsiff, as well as various members of the Scottish Parliament. This in effect means that a Muslim Brotherhood organization has influence at the highest levels of British politics and legislation.

The Palestinian Return Centre’s board of trustees includes another Hamas operative named Zaher Birawi, who is also the spokesman for ‘Viva Palestina’ and is considered by some to be the liaison between George Galloway and Hamas. From 2001 to 2003 Birawi was the chair of the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the de facto branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Another MAB leader, Mohammed Sawalha, was a member of the steering group of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s ‘Coalition to Defend Freedom of Religious and Cultural expression’ as a representative of the British Muslim Initiative (BMI) – a MAB offshoot run by Anas Al Tikriti -, of which Birawi is also a member.

Do read it. Bear it in mind when you read about the Labour Party's acclaimed (sic) candidate for the London Mayoralty elections or electoral news from Minaret Tower Hamlets. Or when you watch the news or look around the audience on Question Time, or read the Guardian. And of course when you wonder why none of the above ever gets a mention outside the columns of Cohen, Phillips and the heroic Andrew Gilligan.

Of course, all the quotes above are from an Israeli journalist so we can just all go back to sleep, knowing that it's nothing but vicious propaganda aimed at stirring up hatred against the religion of peace. Coffee, anyone? Salaam.