UK: Muslim spokesman Mohammed Shafiq blames British government for Manchester jihad massacre

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Mohammed Shafiq is the Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which claims to be dedicated to combating “extremism.” In this interview with Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan after the Manchester jihad massacre, he does his best to equate jihad terrorist killers with the forces who oppose them (which he smears as “far right”), dissembles about Islamic teaching, and blames the Manchester attack on the British government’s foreign policy.

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“We’re not going to let the terrorists succeed, and we’re not going to let the far-right, also, come to our city and divide us.”

Note the moral equivalence: there are the terrorists on one side, the “far-right” on the other, both seeking to divide people, and here is good old Mohammed Shafiq smack in the middle, the voice of sanity, the voice of reason, the voice of peace, the voice of unity. Shafiq doesn’t mention one all-important fact, and Murnaghan doesn’t challenge him on it: the “far-right” in Britain hasn’t killed anyone, isn’t plotting to do so, and isn’t condoning any violence. The death toll from Islamic jihad terrorism is 22 in Manchester, plus other violent attacks and plots in Britain, as well as 30,000 murderous jihad attacks around the world since 9/11. So Shafiq’s equivalence between the two is ridiculous. What is he trying to do? He is trying to defame and discredit those who are calling attention to the reality of jihad activity in Britain, and its motivating ideology. If he succeeds, jihad activity will go on in Britain while everyone is too afraid of being labeled “far-right” or “Islamophobic” to raise their voices in protest. And that is exactly what is happening now.

“No faith in this world encourages the brutal massacre of children as we saw Monday night. No faith! And if that was what my faith was teaching, I wouldn’t want to be in it, either.”

In reality, a hadith depicts Muhammad reacting with savage indifference to the killing of children by the Muslims: “It is reported on the authority of Sa’b b. Jaththama that the Prophet of Allah (may peace be upon him), when asked about the women and children of the polytheists being killed during the night raid, said: They are from them.” (Sahih Muslim 4321)

These children were collateral damage of the raid, just as they today might be collateral damage of a jihad bombing such as the one we saw in Manchester Monday night— and Muhammad allows for that.

“My faith teaches compassion, and they’ve distorted our faith, we’ve gotta take them on. But more importantly, as a community, we’ve still not done enough. When we’ve got young people who are so disconnected from our society that the moment we talk about what’s happening in Libya, in Syria, in regards to our foreign policy, we get accused of being apologists for terrorism. Let’s have an honest and open debate about these issues, and above all, let’s not let people divide us.”

Shafiq says: “We’ve gotta take them on, but more importantly” — and shifts into a critique of British foreign policy. The subtext here is that the jihad attack was the fault of British actions in Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq. If only the U.K. would adopt a foreign policy that was to the liking of the global umma, then there wouldn’t be jihad attacks such as the one in Manchester. If the British government stops fighting against jihadis, then the jihadis will stop fighting them. This view sounds reasonable and has many advocates inside Britain, but it ignores the fact that the jihad imperative to “fight until religion is all for Allah” (Qur’an 8:39) remains even against compliant infidels. It also ignores the fact that Britain only got involved in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq because of jihad attacks that predated those interventions and thus cannot reasonably be blamed on them.

Murnaghan then asks Shafiq if Muslims feel oppressed in some way, and so get the idea that they have to fight back, even in extreme form? Shafiq agrees, and continues to blame jihad terror upon British foreign policy:

“Yeah, so you look at what happened in Libya, we went in, we bombed Libya, and then we left, and ISIS was on the rise in Libya. The same in Afghanistan, the same in Iraq. So I’m arguing that because of our military adventures in these countries, we have allowed the terrorist narrative to take hold, we’ve allowed people to be brainwashed, and then we have what we saw here on Monday. There’s no justification –“

When Murnaghan asks Shafiq what he says to Muslims who want to go to Syria to join the jihad, Shafiq ends up blaming Sky News itself:

“Well, first of all, I think we’ve gotta take on the narrative. So they’ve got in their mindset this ideology which says you can use violence to make political points, and Islam sanctions that. And we’ve gotta use the edicts that we’ve seen from scholars like Tahir ul-Qadri or Sheikh Hamza Yusef, American, they’ve produced real strong evidence from the Qur’an and the sayings of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, why terrorism is wrong. And that’s what we’ve got to promote, do that, and grass roots, and actually give young people a voice and give them a platform. Cause Dermot, no disrespect to you and Sky News, on these panels, how often do we actually give young people a chance to speak up, and talk about their issues?”

“Edicts that we’ve seen from scholars like Tahir ul-Qadri or Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, American, they’ve produced real strong evidence from the Qur’an and the sayings of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, why terrorism is wrong.” Murnaghan doesn’t ask him at that point to explain what he means by “terrorism,” and that’s a shame, since all too often in such contexts sly Muslim spokesmen are referring to the supposedly “terrorist” actions of the U.K., the U.S., and Israel, and not to the actions of Islamic jihadists.

Murnaghan should have asked him to clarify that point especially since the reformers Shafiq mentions are anything but. Tahir ul-Qadri issued a massive fatwa against terrorism that is really just a gigantic exercise in deception: it never even mentions, much less explains away, the Qur’an passages that jihadis use to justify violence and terrorism. Moreover, Tahir ul-Qadri himself is the framer of Pakistan’s blasphemy law that has been used to persecute countless Christians and other non-Muslims. Some reformer! Hamza Yusuf is no better: he ridicules the idea of Islamic moderation and said that the victims of the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre “knew what they were doing” — i.e., they had it coming once they blasphemed Muhammad.

That Shafiq is also taken for a moderate and given such a platform on Sky News and elsewhere is evidence of confused and complacent, if not complicit, the media elites in the U.K. and all over the West really are.

 

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

To be fully expected, muslims are always the victims, it will surprise them to no end ehe that actually are. Right now, they are playing the stupid liberal socialists for all they can, eventually they will overplay the victim card, becoming genuine victims, no one will care. In this case, the murder of little girls by a muslim coward is defining what islam is all about, criminally insane murderous violence, when it is not all about rape.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Playing the left like the cheap banjo it is.

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Joanjolea
6 years ago
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dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

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dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

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They murder little girls because others may defend themselves

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Well said, they’re just very sick and mentally deranged lunatics. And that, friends, is the logic of a Muslim! If we roll and play dead to Muslims then we won’t be responsible for a Muslim murdering 22 and maiming many more. Anyone who takes seriously such stupid logic is not fit to out on the street, but just watch the liberal-dominated media suck up this drivel.

TDD
TD
6 years ago

“Foreign Policy” is code-word for ISRAEL and JEWISH conspiracy theories.

Scapegoating Jewish people, Israel, and American/UK policies for every terror attack that occurs is something we need to call out Muslims on. bec. their community thrives on it.

RADICAL ISLAM is the culprit – not Israel or America.

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

TRUTH: Muslims benefit from American/NATO policy by a factor of at LEAST 4 to 1.

How? We help only one Jewish State (Israel) but help 4 or more Muslim countries maintain their sovereignty and independence!
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MORE below if you want to continue reading:

Israel (Jewish State)
Bosnia (Muslim State) (would not exist if it wasn’t for America/NATO)
Kosovo (Muslim State) (would not exist if it wasn’t for America/NATO)
Kuwait (Muslim State) (would not exist if it wasn’t for America/NATO)
Turkey (Muslim State) (member of NATO when Israel should be instead)

The score is 1 and 4 in favor of Muslim states; but could be even as high as 1 and 6! if you include Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan during the Russian invasion of 1980s (BEFORE Bin Laden hi-jacked it much later).

Muslims OWE their existence to America/NATO foreign policy!

The idea that Muslims do not benefit from American foreign policy is the biggest lie that the Muslim community and liberal community has been teaching for decades! and it is partly at the heart of modern day terrorism today and Judeo-phobia today! and is used by so-called moderates to promote Jewish Conspiracy theories which is a problem in many muslim communities, including Manchester!

Correct these people where ever you find them. The SCORE is 1 and 4 at least!

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

PS. When they say “beware of the right-wing”; we need to rebuke them and tell that it is “the RIGHT-WING in the Muslim community” that causes the terror!

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
6 years ago

Burn Theresa Maggot and Angela Murder at the stake.

Lou
Lou
6 years ago

As usual, everybody, except the Muslim killer, is guilty.
Nobody is allowed to criticize Islam,and Muslims never have to question, or reform, their own beliefs, including the violent teachings of their ”holy” books. How can they blame those who act on them ?
The Ummah can rest, and (quickly expand), in peace, Under the globalists’ protection and supervision – the ”extremists” as well as the ”moderates”.
The West needs a very good medicine to heal its immune system … And fast !

harman1
harman1
6 years ago

Sweden hasn’t taken part in any bombing but they are being murdered and raped at an alarming rate.Any comeback Shafiq??

Julian Farmer
Julian Farmer
6 years ago

Mohammed Shafiq…Where’s my 10 litre bucket? The stuff of nightmares.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

I agree.. all muslims should have been deportedcomment image

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

And this guy is a “12 year-old survivor”? Pull the other leg! If I had my way more fully laden boats and ships with violent and vile Muslim immigrants would sink when a torpedo from some ‘friendly’ submarine struck them.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

The UK government will have to get in line to take the blame since there are those already blaming Trump.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
6 years ago

Spokesman for Rama-lama-ding-dong is a jihadi. Imsgine that. They’re so predictable too. Blame everyone else for what happened. SMH.

Steve
Steve
6 years ago

That’s “allah” of crap. Hes just playing the muslamist card.

joc22D
joc22
6 years ago

This guy is so full of crap his eyes are brown

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
6 years ago
Reply to  joc22

Just look at the shape of his head and you know that his origins are either Somalia or Eritrean, inbred and a walking moron given to talking utter crap.

Mack Pooh
Mack Pooh
6 years ago

To the entire non-muslim world:

WASTE EACH AND EVERY MUSLIM FROM BIRTH TO ELDER, MAN WOMAN AND CHILD..

Oh wait, most of you will think it is murder or inhumane or not christian like or better yet, un-American…. Maybe you folks should go with islam…..

ENOUGH WILL SOON BE ENOUGH. Write and post all you want, a that does nothing but exercise thumbs and fingers….

Badger
Badger
6 years ago
Reply to  Mack Pooh

Well, rather than repeat the scenes of 1942 – 45 of cattle trucks and gas chambers, I would rather Islam be classified as a terrorist movement and all muslims deported to their roots countries. Every single one.

Badger
Badger
6 years ago

These fake moderates and their NGOs and so-called charities should be swept up and closed down.

Only ex-muslims ike Ibn Warraq or Ayaan Hirshi Ali who live in fear for their lives should be trusted.

Islam should be banned. It is not a religion, it is a political movement, a danger to the state, and treated as such.

Menseisvolstrond
Menseisvolstrond
6 years ago

And why not! Like the leftists, they always blame someone else for their evil deeds. That way they don’t have to change.
“You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge”.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

Typical muslum monkey: “it’s your fault we’re killing you.”

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