UK: Muslim Groups ‘Undermining Fight Against Terror’, Leading Prosecutor Warns

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This could only come as a surprise to Theresa May and other self-deluded Brits who still think that if they appease and accommodate “moderate” Muslim groups long enough, they will drop the jihad. They should read the Quran. That’s the key to the entire conflict, and they discount its importance out of hand.

“Muslim Groups ‘Undermining Fight Against Terror’, Leading Prosecutor Warns,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, June 3, 2017:

“Islamist” Muslim groups and community leaders hinder the fight against terror and are interested only in presenting Muslims “as victims” Britain’s most prominent Muslim lawyer has said.

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In an interview with the Times, Nazir Afzal warned that British Muslim organisations are “undermining” attempts to counter terrorism in the UK by spreading misinformation to discredit Prevent, the government’s anti-radicalisation programme.

Section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 201 compels teachers and some healthcare workers “to take due regard to preventing people being drawn into terrorism”, yet Prevent has been repeatedly slammed by Labour MPs and large parts of the left – including major unions – for its “disproportionate” focus on Muslims.

But Afzal, a deradicalisation expert and former chief crown prosecutor who has successfully prosecuted Islamists, credits Prevent with having “stopped at least 150 people from going to Syria”.

Afzal warned that its “phenomenally good work” was being undermined by what he called an “industry” of Muslim groups, some of which have Islamist leanings, pushing “myths” about the programme.

He also took aim at “self-appointed” community leaders whose sole agenda was to present Muslims “as victims and not as those who are potentially becoming radicals,” singling out Britain’s largest Muslim umbrella group — the Islamist dominated Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) as an example.

The 54 year old, who resigned last week as chief executive of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said he was shocked that the agenda at the group’s annual general meeting last year contained “nothing about radicalisation and nothing about the threat of people going to Syria”.

Among groups Afzal accused of lying about Prevent to discredit the counter-radicalisation programme are Islamist support group Cage, which has been described as a “terrorism advocacy group” by veteran journalist Andrew Gilligan, and Prevent Watch, a “community-based initiative” that supports “communities impacted by Prevent”.

Cage’s outreach director Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who signed a confession admitting to having been an al-Qaeda recruiter, likened Islamic extremists to the Suffragettes at a 2015 event opposing the Prevent programme….

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Lee Hicks
Lee Hicks
6 years ago

This is because all of Islam is base on Jihad, which can be pursued through lies, violence, politics, and the culture. The fact is that every genuine Muslim on the planet is obligated to pursue Jihad (warfare for Allah), though their tactics can vary. Too many out there are still pretending that there is a peaceful version of Islam, and those on the right are just as guilty as those on the left. Very few public figures and radio commentators have this right still, and are only condemning the violent “extremist” Jihadis. Ignorance of the true corrupt and vile nature of the entire religion, is only fueling the lies, cultural Jihad, and Political Jihad, as described in the article. The evidence is plain to see in the documents of Islam (Hadith, Sira, and Koran), yet the clueless continue to keep their proverbial eyes tightly shut, all the while calling for resistance to violent Jihad. It would be laughable, were it not so deadly serious.

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6 years ago
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6 years ago

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6 years ago

He should write a book of how he gets called hypocritical for calling himself Muslim by both Islamic terrorists & anti-Islam-activists.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

What a surprise, muslims who’s stated intention is the overthrow of the government of britain, then replacing it with a caliphate and shari’a law, are not playing by the conventional rule of law? Who ever would have guessed? Does the quote from the qur’an ” have become victorious by terror” mean nothing to the simple minded fools that govern england?

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

The left is also guilty of undermining the war against extremism by using deflection tactics to victimize Islam, sadly enough.

Bruce Atchison
Bruce Atchison
6 years ago

Of course Muslim groups block and obstruct investigations. They are like the people Christ mentioned in John 3:19 who don’t want the light to reveal their evil deeds. If Joe Sixpack and his family knew how wicked these Islamist groups truly are, there’d be such a hew and cry that the government would try to stifle it.

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