... Praising the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at’s motto of ‘Love for All,
Hatred for None’ the Mayor said that such a message ‘ought to be the
foundation for London’. Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said that it ought
to be the basis not only for London but for the ‘entire world’. ...
“This year has been
amazing for Britain due to the Olympics. We saw Muslims of all ages took
part in these games as London team ambassadors, game-makers, volunteers
who helped us to deliver the greatest Olympics games ever. There were
Muslims everywhere.
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Boris said the greatest moment of the games came when Mohammad Farah won two medals for Britain
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he is now a national hero, he’s a Muslim and it’s a fantastic thing.
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He said that lot of work needs to be done to fight Islamophobia and improve attitudes towards Muslims
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He
said the arrears around the Olympics venue, where thousands of
Pakistanis live, is undergoing a massive regeneration will result into a
cohesive culture, improved transport and better services
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Senior
Foreign Office minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi told the audience that
Muslims had played their role in Britain’s national life starting from
the World War 1 and continue to do so with passion. She said Pakistanis
were prominent in the wars that were fought for Britain but they were
also instrumental in reviving and rebuilding Britain’s economy in late
60s and 70s.
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She
pointed to the problems of Islamophobia and racism for Muslims in
Britain and thought that this country can become a better place for
muslims when these challenges can be dealt with. She said she “fought”
for her job in the FCO
Two “cold-blooded” sexual predators from Plaistow who took turns raping a
student after plying her with booze have each been jailed for 10 years.
Ebrima Dampha, 33, and Amadou Bah, 34, targeted the 22-year-old after
spotting her drunkenly leaning against a shop front in Brick Lane,
Shoreditch.
The pair, both of Barking Road, Plaistow, offered to
accompany her in a taxi home but then stopped at an off-licence to buy
more alcohol.
They persuaded her to allow them into her flat
before encouraging her to continue drinking, then raped her while she
was barely conscious, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
The duo then stole the woman’s iPhone and cash after the attack on January 6.
The woman had suffered significant trauma as a result of her ordeal, the court was told.
Both men insisted she invited them home with the promise of sex and denied rape.
But a jury convicted them of rape following a trial.
Sentencing,
Judge John Lafferty told them: “This young woman unfortunately had far
too much to drink than she was able to cope with.
“She was quite clearly, when you saw her leaning against a shop front, not capable of looking after herself.”
“You
both formed a plan which you carried out to get this woman back to a
place where you could have sex with her against her will.
“You encouraged and persuaded her to take more alcohol when you could see she was far from capable of looking after herself.”
“When she took so much alcohol she was semi-conscious or unconscious, you both took turns to rape her.”
“Upon leaving the flat, you stole her property.
“You
acted together and took advantage of a young woman who by virtue of her
intoxication was extremely vulnerable, when any decent man would seek
to assist her.
“You put forward an entirely spurious account
suggesting this perfectly respectable young woman wanted to have sex
with both of you.
“At one point you said that was both at the same
time, a thoroughly outrageous suggestion which the jury had no
hesitation in rejecting.
“The young woman was vulnerable because of her extreme intoxication and you took shameless and coldblooded advantage of that.
“These
sentences are the shortest that mark the gravity of the offence you
committed, taking into account what little mitigation either of you
have.”
Dampha, a ‘‘small scale’’ drug dealer, was also handed a
further six months for possessing 11 bags of cannabis with intent to
supply, breaching a community order.
Both will have to sign the sex offenders register for life on their release from prison.
Andrew
Cohen, defending Dampha, said: “He was not the principal within this
particular offence. It was not him that approached the complainant or
engaged in conversation and got in the position of being invited back to
her flat.
“He followed on and appeared to take advantage of a situation that came into existence.”
The court was told Bah suffers from a long-term drink problem.
IPSWICH: Three men accused of raping a 13-year-old girl are due to go on trial in January.
The trio are said to be among four men who
allegedly brought the teenager from Chingford in east London to Ipswich
in a van on the night of July 6.
At a plea hearing at Ipswich Crown Court on
Friday Abdul Hammed, 46, of Wellington Street, Ipswich and Surin Uddin,
28, of Bethnal Green, London, each denied two offences of raping a girl
under the age of 16, conspiracy to traffic in the United Kingdom for
sexual exploitation and conspiracy to cause a child to engage in sexual
activity.
Hamza Ali, 38, of Chingford Road, London, pleaded
not guilty to conspiracy to traffic in the United Kingdom for sexual
exploitation, conspiracy to cause a child to engage in sexual activity,
one offence of rape and one of sexual assault.
The alleged sex assaults are said to have occurred at a house in Chevallier Street, Ipswich.
A fourth man, Mohamed Sheikh, a 31-year-old of
Seaton Point, London, did not enter any pleas yesterday and his case was
adjourned until a later date.
The defendants are due to go on trial at Norwich Crown Court on January 14.
The main complex measures 165 meters by 140 meters with a floor space
of 20,000 square meters. That is almost the equivalent of three
football pitches.
The mosque itself will be 20 meters high, 120 meters wide and 90 meters long, and it will feature two 55-metre minarets.
Only 264 parking spaces.
The mosque has been scaled back from holding 12,000 to 9,350 people, including a segregated space for nearly 2,000 women.
I nearly got arrested for filming this police asked if i found what they
were doing offensive muslims praying in Westminster Abby grounds yes i
did find it offensive can you imagine what would happened if we done
this in a mosque . our kings and queen are buried in this cathedral
wonder what they think of it all.
An independent review of the annual Mela street festival in London’s East End has been called after allegations that it’s being used again for “people trafficking” to get illegal immigrants into Britain
The call by Tower Hamlets councillors follows the arrests of 19 men by the UK Border Agency in Bangladesh earlier this year.
Meanwhile, protesters from the East End’s own Bengali community picketed the Town Hall on Wednesday demanding cancellation of the nine-year contract Mayor Lutfur Rahman has given the Baishankhi Mela Trust.
Protest organiser Gulam Chowdhury handed a petition to the council meeting claiming the Mela was being used for trafficking.
He told councillors: “The event has become subject of scandals and allegations of abuse and misuse.
“There are repeated incidents of arrests of those linked with the Mela.”
Mr Chowdhury called for regular open tendering to run the Mela.
He had earlier told the Advertiser: “A nine-year lease is too long. It should be open to tendering at least every three years.”
Councillors then voted to call on Mayor Rahman to carry out a review of the 2012 Mela to make sure all obligations were met and make the findings public.
Labour’s deputy leader Motin Uz-Zaman said: “People are saddened by activities which have tarnished the reputation of this council and the Mela.
“There are questions of accountability and the way the Mayor has given out a contract for nine years—I cannot recall any organisation getting such a contract.”
Tory group leader Peter Golds warned he would have “no hesitation to go to the District Auditors” if there were problems with the Mela.
Allegations of ‘trafficking’ were being taken seriously by Mayor Rahman’s own cabinet.
Cllr Oliur Rahman said: “Trafficking is not acceptable under any circumstances. Whoever is responsible must face full punishment, whoever they are.”
But Culture lead member Rania Khan insisted there was transparency over the way the Mela was being run. The accounts would be available through Companies House at the end of the year, she pointed out. Top accountants had also been brought in to audit the books.
Opposition councillors called for the Mela to be taken over by the Town Hall—like it was when trafficking and corruption allegations emerged five years ago.
Former council leader Denise Jones said: “We took it in-house for two years and worked well. It’s sad this issue has come back to the council.”
The turbulent history of the Brick Lane Mela goes back to 2007 when the Town Hall cut links with organisers after the-then Bethnal Green MP George Galloway called for an inquiry over whether it had been used to smuggle illegal immigrants.
It was cancelled the following year when the council refused to allow any public park to be used, then taken over in 2009 before being handed back to the community.
But trafficking allegations resurfaced this year, with the arrests of 19 men in Bangladesh on May 24 trying to get visas with forged bank statements pretending to get work at the Mela. The UK Border Agency and British High Commission had been tipped off by the Mela Trust.
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Socialist MEP Richard Howitt has demanded an investigation after right-wingers allegedly “hijacked” parliament’s facilities.
It comes following what the deputy called a “clandestine” meeting of European far-right groups on Monday.
[TT: Clandestine, well, the
meeting took place without any fanfare because of the political climate
totalitarians like Howitt and like ilk, like to foment. ]
The British member has now raised the issue with parliament’s president Martin Schulz.
[TT: Martin 'Sargent' Schulz is another dull blade totalitarian on the socialist left, that UKIP's Nigel Farage uses as a verbal punching bag when it suits him.]
On Monday afternoon, Tommy Robinson of
the English Defence League (EDL) spoke to the meeting and described
himself as the president of the British freedom party.
[TT: It never happened. The claim has the consistency of pure helium]
The meeting was hosted behind the
“cover” of the launch of a new front organisation called the
International Civil Liberties Alliance.
[TT: Cover? The ICLA organization organized and sponsored the event, the minutes to the event is for all eyes to see, nothing covered there.]
The gathering was publicised on parliament’s internal TV screens, but only as a “meeting by non-attached”.
Far right members from organisations in Germany, Sweden and the UK attended the meeting, and literature was sold to attendees.
[TT: Anyone not allied with the
multicultural totalitarian left are labeled with the infamous
''far-right'' term. It's really getting boring at this point.]
One keynote speaker said that the mainstream media represented “a threat to life and liberty”.
Adding, “A society which becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else.”
[TT: Finally some substance]
Howitt has, in the past, criticised EDL attempts to form different European ‘defence leagues’ by using their Facebook page.
Five-star hotels, secret locations, crucifixion, persecution ... where better to seek asylum than in the land of the Kuffar ...
Princess Sara, 38, accuses senior Saudi officials of
plotting to kidnap her and smuggle her back to Riyadh, having subjected
her to a “well orchestrated and malicious campaign of persecution”.
She currently occupies a suite and several rooms in a five-star London
hotel with her four children and two dogs, guarded by a private security
team.
Me thinks Chief Whip Lord Bassam needs a good
whipping. But we all know that complicity and stupidity, connivance and
cowardice before Islam paralyzed UK elites long ago. This is a
country where Islamic headbangers like ‘lord’ Ahmed literally get away
with murder.
Ahmed found the Lords had been “very sympathetic” while the
suspension was in place. He never said what he said, it was all ‘lies’-
and we all know that good muslims like him would never lie to kafirs.
A peer suspended by the Labour Party for allegedly offering a £10m bounty on the head of US President Barack Obamahas had the suspension lifted.
Lord Ahmed, who denied the accusationspublished in a Pakistani newspaper theExpress Tribune,
thanked Chief Whip Lord Bassam for a “fair” investigation. Lord Ahmed
said he was “delighted” the suspension had been lifted as he had been a
member of the Labour Party for 34 years.
He told BBC Asian Network said his colleagues in the Lords had been
“very sympathetic” while the suspension was in place. The story was
“lies” and he said he was considering taking legal action against the Express Tribune newspaper, he added.
In April this year the Express Tribune quoted Lord Ahmed
saying: “If the US can announce a reward of $10m for the captor of Hafiz
Saeed, I can announce a bounty of £10m on President Obama and his
predecessor George Bush.” They later corrected the article.
In response to the article, Lord Ahmed said: “I’m shocked and
horrified that this whole story could be just made up of lies. I never
mentioned President Obama, I never mentioned the word bounty.
“It was a discussion about people investing in Pakistan and yes, I
did talk about illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Bush and Blair
involved in it. But I did not mention any bounty or President Obama and
the sort of rubbish that’s been on the media.”
It’s a sorry reflection on the Labour Party that it ever suspended Lord Ahmed in the first place, on the basis of a story that was quickly exposed as
false, and without bothering to check its accuracy or even ask him for
an explanation. That didn’t prevent certain anti-fascists from using the
suspension to attack Lord Ahmed. But then, he is a supporter of the Palestinian cause and as such has inevitably been a target for Zionists.
Brit is suspected of involvement in a deadly grenade attack in Kenya last week that killed three
Wanted: Samantha Lewthwaite's husband was a suicide bomber in the deadly 7/7 attack
The widow of one of the 7/7 bombers is writing a chilling web diary
while on the run from police after being named as the prime suspect for a
deadly terror attack in Kenya.
In the haunting blog, Samantha
Lewthaite, whose husband Jermaine Lindsay blew up a Piccadilly Line
train during the London attacks in 2005, says “fear can make you do many
things” and warns she faces “many more challenges” in the months ahead.
Her
blog Fears and Tears: the Confessions of a Female Muhajid is the first
time Lewthaite, 28, has made any attempt to communicate with the outside
world since she fled to Africa.
Its emergence comes amid a
worldwide search for Lewthwaite – dubbed the “White Widow” – as she is
hunted over claims she took part in a grenade attack in Kenya which
killed three football fans watching the Italy versus England Euro 2012
game in a bar last Sunday.
Just three days before the blast she
posted a lengthy message on her blog admitting she had “no regrets”
about converting to Islam and waging Jihad.
She wrote: “My decision to revert to Islam is the most precious gift that my maker has bestowed upon me.
Party snap: Samantha with a friend before she became an Islamic extremist
“From a previous life of sin and worshiping of worldly things
I have lived for many years now as Muslim content with serving Allah
with the knowledge that I have a place in Jannah [Paradise].”
Her
rambling message goes on: “Like many revertees I have been tested and
challenged but each time Allah has guided me towards the right path and
ensured my faith in my religion remains constant.
“During the
month of April and May I faced a great challenges (sic). Some friends
have told me I have over-reacted because I’m a woman and weak.
“Yes, I am woman but I am woman who believes in Jihad and supremacy of Islam.
“With
all this pressure I broke down in tears... Jihad is an obligation that
we must accept – so today I’m over my fear and my tears are dry.”
The
extraordinary diary has appeared on the website of the Muslim Youth
Center – the Kenyan arm of Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab. On the
morning of the attack in Kenya a message was posted on the site saying:
“BOOM!!! Mujahideen making music.”
Hints about an attack were also
posted on the MYC’s Twitter account, saying: “Tick tock there goes the
count-down for the kuffar...”
It appeared alongside an image of a woman Hamas fighter brandishing an assault rifle.
Lewthwaite,
originally from Aylesbury, Bucks, has been on the run since last year
when police foiled a plot to blow up Western hotels in Mombasa.
She
was charged in December with plotting to kill hundreds of British
tourists after police found weapons and a bomb-making factory in her
safe house, which also acted as a makeshift bank for the group.
Lewthwaite
was released and is thought to have taken refuge in Somalia before her
return to Kenya. In March the MYC announced that they were helping to
shield her. Then, last week, officials in Africa said the mother of
three was spotted near the nightclub targeted in the bomb attack.
A
grenade was thrown into the Jericho Beer Garden, which was packed with
tourists watching England play Italy. A young boy was among the three
dead.
University dropout Lewthwaite is being hunted by the CIA,
Kenyan police and Scotland Yard, which has a team in Nairobi to assist
with the search.
Before her arrest in December, she had been travelling in Kenya on a false passport.
Lewthwaite
was born in Northern Ireland, where her solider father Andrew met her
mother Christine. She is the youngest of three children.
Her
parents separated when she was 11 years old – the trigger for her
seeking solace in Islam, and converting to the faith at the age of 15,
say pals.
She met King’s Cross bomber Lindsay in an Islamic
internet chatroom when she was studying religion and politics at the
School Of Oriental And African Studies in Central London.
She married the Jamaican-born carpet fitter in an Islamic ceremony in 2004.
When
her 19-year-old husband blew himself up in 2005, claiming 26 lives, she
was eight months pregnant with their second child, a daughter. She had a
second son by an unknown father in 2009. Her family in Aylesbury have
not had any contact with her for years.
Britons are increasingly heading to the Middle East for terrorist training in preparation for attacks in the wake of the Arab Spring, the head of MI5 has said.
Jonathan Evans, the director-general of the Security Service, warned that parts of the Arab world were becoming a more permissive environment for al Qaida and Britons were travelling there to "seek training and opportunities for militant activity".
Some will return to the UK and pose a threat and the situation "could get worse as events unfold", he said. It is believed that up to 200 British residents and nationals are currently in the Arab world and either involved in training camps, being radicalised or operationally active with terror groups.
In a rare public speech just a month before the Olympic Games begin in London, Mr Evans said the Arab world was in "radical transition".
"Today parts of the Arab world have once more become a permissive environment for al Qaida," he said. "A small number of British would be jihadis are also making their way to Arab countries to seek training and opportunities for militant activity, as they do in Somalia and Yemen.
"Some will return to the UK and pose a threat here. This is a new and worrying development and could get worse as events unfold. So we will have to manage the short-term risks if there is to be a longer-term reward from the Arab Spring."
Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and Egypt are all understood to pose a risk.
Speaking at Mansion House in central London, his first public speech since September 2010, Mr Evans said Britain had experienced a "credible terrorist attack plot about once a year since 9/11".
Despite the perception in some quarters that, with terror mastermind Osama bin Laden dead and al Qaida's senior leadership under serious pressure in Pakistan, the terrorist threat to the UK has evaporated, in reality it will outlast the Olympics, he said.
Mr Evans also warned about the astonishing scale of cyber attacks, "with industrial-scale processes involving many thousands of people lying behind both state-sponsored cyber espionage and organised cyber crime".
Mohamed Sadiq Hussein Hassan, aged 19, of Aylesford Road,
Handsworth, was arrested on October 22 last year on suspicion of a
committing a rape in London.
Following advice from the Crown Prosecution Service he was released
on bail but failed to return to a London police station on December 23.
... Praising the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at’s motto of ‘Love for All, Hatred for None’ the Mayor said that such a message ‘ought to be the foundation for London’. Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said that it ought to be the basis not only for London but for the ‘entire world’. ...
