ISLAMIC 'TAIL' SLAMMING (NOT WAGGING) THE WESTERN "DOG"

A SAMPLE OF ISLAM IN ACTION

Down below, I mention Islamic religious declarations called Hadith, some of which are posted on the Multilingual Page (in Farsi). Now added is a video (again Farsi only) of entertainer Farrokhzad laughing at some of them - more specifically - 12 places where it is not a good idea to have sex. One of these is officially identified as "under a fruit tree". Having correct sex with a camel is also discussed.

Farrokhzad, who was reputedly gay, was assassinated by the Mullahs as an enemy of the islamic Republic.

A-Z of Muslim organisationsAssociation of Muslim Lawyers
Web address:

http://www.aml.org.uk/

Date established: 1993

Founders: Mahmud al-Rashid, Ifath Nawaz

Other key members: Ahmad Thomson (deputy chairman)

Summary:

The Association of Muslim Lawyers (AML) has been active since 1993 but was only officially founded in 1995. It organises regular seminar, lectures and social events for its several hundred members.

Since its creation the group has campaigned for UK laws to be changed to become compatible with the Sharia - arguing that failure to do so will breach the human rights of Muslims.

(Alan note: however the demand for the minority rights breaching the rights of everyone else is ignored or papered over).

In addition, the group’s members have said that they also wish for Sharia to become the dominant law-code in the UK, laying out a rough three-step strategy to impose Islamic law in the UK (on everyone there):

Step 1 - To make UK’s laws compatible with the Sharia (on issues such as polygamy and inheritance laws for instance).

Step 2 - To set up a network of parallel sharia courts (ruling initially on personal and family law for Muslims) whose authority is recognised by the government.

Step 3 - To help sharia courts to gradually supplant existing secular courts as the Muslim population increases to the point that they become a majority.

The group’s plan to gradually Islamicise the UK is approximately consistent with the policies of other groups which its members have associated with. These include the Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic Foundation, the Islamic Society of Britain and the Murabitun.

The organisation has also supported the campaign for criticism of Islam to be outlawed as well as campaigning on behalf of Muslims detained for plotting attacks or supporting Muslim militants in Afghanistan or Chechnya.

Ahmad Thomson, the group’s most high-profile member and its deputy-chairman, has said that he believes the world is run by Jews and Freemasons. He has also said that the Iraq war was caused by Jews.

(Alan note: the anti-Semitic "binding glue" in Islam creates the anomaly of virulently anti-Mullah Iranian activists hating Jews more than they hate the Mullahs and finding themselves in a Catch 22 situation).

Thomson, a white convert born in Rhodesia, is also a member of al-Murabitun, a small Sufi group that has been accused of having neo-Nazi sympathies.

Thomson has advised the government and ministers on Islamic issues. He also sat on the government taskforce ‘Preventing Extremism Together’ which was set up after the 7 July bombings in 2005.

Funding:

The Association of Muslim Lawyers is not a registered charity and replies for funding on an annual membership fee paid by its members, donations and revenue from advertising on its website and in its magazine.

The membership ranges from £40 per annum for barrister, solicitors or judges to £15 for law students and legal trainees.

At present, the AML is run by volunteers and its operating costs are likely very low. It has no full-time staff and its postal address is a PO Box in High Wycombe. However, the organisation says that it is expanding and its website contains a page appealing for more donations which will enable it to hire two full-time staff.

Islamicisation of UK laws (administering slow poison?)

The Association of Muslim Lawyers has campaigned for Islamic Sharia law to be gradually incorporated into UK law while also advocating the creation of parallel legal system of Islamic Sharia courts.

The AML members have told parliamentary committees that UK laws should be altered to incorporate Islamic elements in order to protect the human rights of British Muslims.

(But protection of the human rights of other philosophies or religions is irrelevant and not a consideration in the attempt to force Islam on the British - and as a simultaneous aim in every country in the world. It must be remembered it is the holy duty of every Moslem to convert non-believers to Islam - by force in need be - and even to kill them for not obeying).

However at the same time they have told Muslim audiences that the incorporation of Sharia into UK law is an important step towards the UK becoming a nation governed primarily by Sharia law.

- Campaign for outlawing “incitement to religious hatred”

The Association for Muslim Lawyers has supported the proposals to criminalise “incitement to religious hatred” while also seeking to make legal definitions of “bone fide” religions compatible with Islamic teachings.

(Alan note: Boy that puts Islam between a rock and a hard place as it is virtually impossible to find any aspect of Islam that does NOT preach and encourage religious hatred - of anything non-Islamic - hoist with their own petard - as the Bard would say? Can you hear them squeal in protest when this is applied to them?)

The group has urged the government to alter the definition of religion in UK law to include “bona fide” religions based on the worship of “God and His Messengers and of those who seek to obey Him and follow them” but to exclude faiths made up of “animists” and “idol-worshippers” (or prefereably everything non-Moslem).

In October 2002, the Association of Muslim Lawyers, claiming to act “on behalf of all Muslims in the UK” made a submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences.

The AML told the committee that existing Blasphemy laws should be re-defined to protect religions. However it only advocated protecting religions which are compatible with Islamic beliefs and said that faiths such as “idol-worship” by Muslims should not be given similar protection:

(Alan note: a bit like Born Again Christians insisting "my Jesus is better than your Jesus, only my version of Jesus will get you to Heaven!" - You cannot Believe the number of times I have had this thrown at me. Question: what makes the person saying this any different from the Moslem saying the same type of thing but about Allah?)

“Since the offence of blasphemy is inextricably linked to protection from vilification of God and His Messengers and of those who seek to obey Him and follow them, it follows that this protection cannot be extended to afford protection to those whose beliefs and practices involve whether explicitly or implicitly rejection of God and His Messengers.”
In addition, the AML said the law should specifically define a “bona fide religion” as “any religion based partly or wholly on a revelation from God and whose principal purpose is the worship of God”

It also said that the law should define as God as “the Creator, the Sustainer and the Destroyer of all that exists”.

The AML further suggested that “animists”, “idol-worshippers” and “druids” should be legally categorized as “individuals or groups who formulate or fabricate a ‘religion’ out of beliefs and practices which derive from other than a bona fide religion.”

Through these measures, the AML effectively proposed that UK law should adopt an Islamic definition of God.

The AML definition of a “bone fide religion” would exclude faiths such as Taosim which believe in multiple gods and others such as Zoroastrianism which are not based on a revelation from God.

It could also potentially categorise Hindus as idol-worshippers - in accordance with the mainstream Islamic view of Hinduism as idolatry.

AML’s intention to make UK laws compatible with the Sharia is made clear towards the end of the group’s submission to the House of Lords when the group said that:

“Wise laws are laws which are in harmony with divine laws.”

- Calls for recognition of Muslim Marriage

The Association of Muslim Lawyers has campaigned for UK laws to be changed to recognise Muslim Nikah marriages (the product of Islamic ceremonies which currently have no legal standing in UK law).

The group has said that Muslims who marry in a Nikah Islamic marriage but do not register the wedding are being denied the same rights and benefits as people who do register their marriages.

On 2nd October 2006 Nazia Rashid and Ahmad Thomson, acting as representatives of the AML, attended a discussion on the government’s proposals to reform the law on co-habitation.

They said that the AML’s proposals to legally recognize Nikah marriages could help “women who are unaware that their religious marriage is not recognised in this country and as a result, have few financial remedies available to them if their religious marriage breaks down …. Quite often, ‘wives of religious marriages’ are left in very vulnerable positions when the marriage breaks down.”

The AML warned that the government’s failure to grant full legal recognition to Nikah marriages “will trigger the loss of support from the Muslim community.”

If the government took the AML’s advice, this would effectively grant legal powers to Muslim community leaders and Islamic clerics and allow them to act independently of the UK legal system.

However the AML has rejected compromises which would give Muslims married in nikah marriages the same legal status as co-habiting couples regarding issues such as the division of couple’s assets in the event of separation or death:

“The belief that extra-marital sexual relations and same-sex sexual relations are not permitted for Muslims is strongly held by a large number of Muslims in England and Wales and therefore, accordingly many Muslims will have no desire to be placed in the same category as hetero, gay or lesbian co- habitees.”

The AML has also opposed plans to grant homosexual couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples:

“We do not agree that opposite sex couples and same sex couples should be subject to the same regime. We feel that not only will large sections of the Muslim community object to this, but other members of the wider community.”

- Calls for recognition of polygamy

The Association of Muslim Lawyers has said that the UK should recognise polygamous marriages and that a failure to do so will breach the human rights of Muslims by not allowing them to fully practice their religion.

The group has suggested that the problem can be solved if the government creates a two-tier legal system under which Muslims cannot be charged with polygamy but members of other religions can be.

In March 2004, the Ahmad Thomson (acting as a representative of the AML) told the Union of Muslim Organisations of the UK and Eire that once Muslim marriages were recognised in the UK, it would easy to amend UK law to include other aspects of the Sharia:

“If Muslim marriages conducted in the UK are to be recognised as valid marriages in the eyes of the law, this means that the laws affecting bigamy will have to be amended to permit a Muslim man to have up to four wives at any one time without being charged with and convicted of a criminal offence - even if the number of men who actually exercise this right are relatively few. “

Thomson added that a parallel legal systems should be set up, allowing Muslims to marry up to four wives but ensuring that members of other faiths could still be prosecuted for bigamy if they took more than one wife:

“As regards those Christians and secularists who believe that a man should only have one wife, as well as any other bona fide religious group (such as for example the Ashkenazim) who think the same, the law can continue to be applied as it is at present, including liability to a charge of bigamy where a person is legally married to two partners.”

Thomson also suggested that if more people became Muslims (and therefore entitled to practice bigamy), many high-profile celebrity scandals would be avoided:

“We live in a society where princes, prime ministers and football managers are given a hard time in the media for committing adultery, whereas if they had been Sephardhic Jews or Muslims they could have been married to both women with-out any need for secrecy or dissimulation and without having to divorce or reject one in favour of the other - and without attracting salacious media attention.”

- Call for Sharia courts

The Association of Muslim Lawyers has told its supporters that in addition to incorporating Sharia Law into UK law, it also wants to see Sharia courts established whose judgements are legally binding under UK law.

The group said that initially these courts would only deal with personal law. It said that the present system of giving primacy to secular law unfairly favours Christians over Muslims.

Speaking to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists on 22 February 2004, Ahmed Thomson said:

“What is being proposed is the recognition by the law of not only the personal law of the bona fide religious groups but also legal recognition of the decisions and rulings of their religious courts.

The Christians have their Ecclesiastical Courts, the Jews have their Beth Din, the Muslims have their Shari’a Council, but their judgments are not usually recognised as binding or enforceable in the secular courts.

“There should be a system of registration of bona fide religious courts, including civil Shari’a Courts for the Muslims, in order to ensure that standards are maintained and imposters are excluded.

Once registered as a religious court, the decision of any of these courts should be recognised as legally binding on the parties and legally enforceable in the County Courts and High Courts.

“Given the differences between Sunni and Shi’a fiqh, and also the differences of fiqh between the different madhhabs within these two main groupings, ideally it should be possible to have Shari’a Courts which represent all the madhhabs.”

The AML has also sought to defend its proposals for Sharia courts against accusations that Sharia laws’ intrinsic discrimination against women will end the UK tradition of making all people equal before the law:

“At the moment the UK legal system favours Christians and secularists over and above members of the other religious minorities. If everyone is equal before the law, then this biased imbalance should be redressed.”

- Technique of introducing Sharia into UK

The Association of Muslim Lawyers’ policies are deliberately aimed at introducing increasing levels of Sharia law into the UK - through changing existing laws and setting up a system of parallel Islamic courts.

Ahmed Thomson, the group’s deputy chairman, is one of the few Muslims in Britain who have openly described how Sharia law could become the dominant law in the UK.

In ‘Muslim in Europe - Religious freedom in a secular society’ an article published in the AML’s April 1998 newsletter, Thomson wrote that the government could be forced to introduce Sharia law if Muslims could prove that being judged under Islamic law was an essential part of their religious observances.

To support his argument, Thomson quoted the second clause of Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights:

“Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”

He then explained that if it could be proven that the UK government had breached Muslims’ human rights - as defined by the EU - in preventing them from voluntarily judging each other in Sharia courts, then the way to setting up official sharia courts would be open:

“It follows that if the British government does not secure inter alia the rights to have religious belief, put that belief into practice, and educate one’s children in accordance with that belief - and if it does not ensure that there is an effective remedy for anyone whose rights, including inter alia these rights, are violated - then clearly the British government will be in violation of its duties under the Convention, and in effect it will also itself by default be guilty of religious discrimination.”

The EU’s human rights convention, Thomson said, states that if the UK government is found to be in breach of the convention, it is legally obliged “to ensure that there is an effective remedy … for everyone whose Convention rights are violated.”

In other words, the EU would then force Britain to set up a national system of Sharia courts.

In September 2005, speaking at a conference in London Central Mosque in Regent’s Park, Ahmad Thomson explained why it was necessary to Islamic laws to be incorporated into UK laws:

“At present Muslims in the UK face hardship in that their personal law is not recognised by the secular civil courts… [in addition] as regards commercial transactions generally, Muslims are often obliged to follow practices and accept terms in their contracts which are contrary to the Shari’a. In other words, Muslims find themselves following a deen which is not Islam. One way of overcoming these difficulties will be to incorporate Muslim personal law into UK domestic law.”

However, Thomson has elsewhere said that the introduction of Sharia law is part of the transformation of the UK into an Islamic state.

Speaking to Emma Newton, another convert to Islam, in the summer 2005 edition of Ar-Risaalah, the publication of the University of Cambridge Islamic Society, Thomson said:

“We are attacked by the kafirun because we have an alternative way of life to them and we do not worship what they worship … there is some of Allah’s humour in Islam’s continual rise in Europe and America, because everything that’s happening now is a direct result of the colonial era.

If you look at history, the people who colonise, in the end are always themselves colonised by the peoples they once colonized … I look forward to the day when the majority of British people have voted in favour of being governed in accordance with the Sharia of Islam.’

Stance on key issues:

The Association of Muslim lawyers usually only involves itself on legal issues related to Muslims in Britain. However this has brought it into conflict with the government over issues such as the detaining of terror suspects.

At the same time, the group has worked hard at a grassroots level to promote the idea that Muslims in the UK are both entitled and obliged to live under Sharia law - an stance bound to increase religious segregation and sectarianism.

- Condemnation of suicide bombings

The Association of Muslim Lawyers has also strongly condemned suicide bombings against civilians - even in Israel.

A fatwa entitled ‘Shahid or Suicide - Martyr or Murderer? The Muslims’ Rules of Engagement’ written by Ahmad Thomson and published on the AML website said:

“As in the case of most legal systems, the Shari’a of Islam permits Muslims to fight in self-defence if they are attacked - but even in times of war, it is forbidden to kill non-combat-ants, especially women and children and old men.”

Thomson also said that he did not believe that Islamic texts could justify suicide bombings:

“I cannot see, in the light of these verses of Qur’an and hadith, how any well-informed Muslim can believe that blowing him or her self up and killing and maiming anyone in the vicinity will take him or her to the Garden.”

He also said that even carrying out a suicide bombing as an act of desperate revenge was not acceptable from an Islamic perspective:

“I can understand how someone whose home and family and friends have been annihilated by laser precision bomb or rocket attacks may be driven in anger to carry out such a nihilistic act against civilian targets - using the rationale, “If they are killing our families, we will kill their families,” - but both indiscriminate bombing (whether by land, sea or air) and suicide bombing remain nevertheless unacceptable from a balanced Islamic perspective and neither course of action can be condoned.

They have nothing to do with the Sunna. They cannot possibly have positive consequences either in this world or in the next.”

- Guide for Muslims affected by anti-terror raids

The Association of Muslim Lawyers has also produced a booklet for Muslim communities affected by police anti-terror raids.

The booklet’s advises Muslim groups that following any police raids they should form ‘contact groups’ to co-ordinate the community’s response to police, media and neighbours.

The booklet suggests stock phrases that Muslims can say when questioned by media, local people and police, advising them to “set out the local Muslim immediate response to the events e.g. shock, sadness etc.”

Other parts of the report focus on the danger allegedly posed by a non-Muslim “backlash” and of the dangers posed by ‘Islamophobia’.

The report however makes almost no mention of the need for Muslims to co-operate with police or to pro-actively offer information which can help wider society understand Islamic extremism.

- Campaigns for imprisoned terror suspects

Several prominent members of the Association of Muslim Lawyers have played an active role in campaigning against the detention of terrorism suspects.

Saghir Hussein, a member of the Association of Muslim Lawyers, is an active member of the ‘Stop Political Terror’ campaign and has represented the group at numerous rallies for imprisoned terror suspects.

In October 2004, Hussein, representing the AML, spoke at a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (Campacc) at Belmarsh prison where Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada are imprisoned.

Hussein has also been involved in campaigns to stop the extradition to the US of Babar Ahmad, a British Muslim who is accused of organizing the transport of funds, equipment and volunteers to the Taliban and militant groups in Chechnya.

Mahmud al-Rashid, the AML spokesman, has also been involved in campaigns on behalf of imprisoned Islamic militants.

In 1999 al-Rashid represented five British Muslims who were
arrested in Yemen for their involvement in the kidnapping of tourists and an attempt to blow up a hotel in Aden. One of the men was the stepson of Abu Hamza al-Masri.

Al-Rashid is also senior member of the Islamic Council of Britain and the Muslim Council of Britain. He is also publisher (and main funder) of Emel magazine.

In 2005 Ahmad Thomson, the AML’s chairman, successfully defended the Dar al-Taqwa bookshop (near the Regent’s Park London Central Mosque) against accusations made in the Evening Standard that it had sold books and DVDs promoting violence jihad.

Following a ruling by the Press Complaints Commission, the Evening Standard agreed to print an article by Ahmad Thomson of equal length to the original article which had defamed the bookshop. The article - a long rambling lecture - ended saying:
“In case you’ve been wondering,

‘Dar’ means ‘house’ and ‘Taqwa’ means ‘awe and ‘wonder’ - not because of the terrifying impact of deadly daisy-cutters, bunker busters and napalm bombs exploding all around you with laser precision, nor because of the malignant cancers caused by the haphazard use of armour piercing radioactive depleted uranium tipped shells - but because of the dawning realisation that the One Who created the entire cosmos and everything in it including you is closer to you than your jugular vein. Peace.”

Links to other groups:

Although the Association of Muslim Lawyers has only a few members it has extensive links to the Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic Society of Britain and the Islamic Foundation. As a result the AML at times acts almost as an adjunct to these larger groups whose aims it shares.

In addition the AML is linked to the Muirabitun, a fringe Sufi movement, whose leader has repeated praised Hitler and who is an enthusiastic advocate of the Islamification of Britain.

- Jamaat-e-Islami

The AML has numerous links to Jamaat-e-Islami, a Pakistani Islamist organisation whose members helped set up many of the UK’s most influential Islamic organisations.

The group’s primary link to the Jameet-e-Islami are through Mahmud al-Rashid. Al-Rashid is the AML’s spokesman but he also works with the Islamic Foundation, the Muslim Council of Britain and the Islamic Society of Britain.

Al-Rashid is also married to Sara Joseph, the editor of Emel magazine which he part-finances.

The AML is also linked to the Jamaat-e-Islami through Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, one of the group’s activists who was an active member of the Jamaat-e-Islami before migrating to the UK.

In a 1995 Channel Four documentary, Mueen-Uddin was accused of committing war-crimes on behalf of the Pakistani army during the 1971 war of independence - when the Jamaat-e-Islami fought against Bengali separatists.

The documentary produced eye-witnesses who said that Mueen-Uddin had organized assassinations and massacres during the war.

Following the documentary, the Bangladesh Anti-War Criminal Committee, the Bangladesh Youth Movement and the Shapla Youth Force urged the Scotland Yard War Crimes Unit to investigate Mueen-Uddin and two others named in the programme.

Scotland Yard however was unable to take action because its war crimes unit could only address crimes committed during the second world war.

In 1998, Mueen-Uddin, who has also worked with the Islamic Foundation, Muslim Aid and the Leicester’s Islamic Foundation, wrote a pamphlet for the AML defending the ritual slaughter of animals against charges of cruelty made by animal rights activists:

Mueen-Uddin said that the charges of cruelty were “a campaign to slaughter Islam itself” and added:

“If the issue is to spare unnecessary pain while killing animals for food, then there is little doubt that al-zabah and the Jewish shachita are the most humane.”

In January 2003, Prince Charles praised Mueen-Uddin during a visit to the Islamic Foundation’s Markfield Institute in Leicester, saying:

“A little over a year ago, Mr Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin welcomed Prince Muhammad Al-Faisal and me to East London Mosque with the remark that royal princes are like London buses: you wait for ages for one to come along, then two turn up at once.”

- Murabitun

Through Ahmed Thomson, the Association of Muslim Lawyers’ deputy chairman, the group is linked to the Murabitun, a fringe Sufi group for white converts, whose leader has praised Hitler and advocates the replacement of global currencies with gold dinars.

The Murabitun movement is led by Abdalqadir al-Sufi (also as-Sufi, al-Murabit), a failed Scottish actor who has reinvented himself as a Sufi sheikh. Abdalqadir first introduced Thomson to Islam - an act which lead directly to Thomson’s conversion in 1973.

Since then Abdalqadir and other members of the Murabitun have exerted considerable influence over Thomson - and via him over the Association of Muslim Lawyers.

As a result, many of the AML’s policies seem to derive from the Murabitun such as their simultaneous rejection of jihadist violence in favour of the peaceful Islamisation of the UK through immigration and dawa (proselytization).

For example, Abdalqadir wrote in April 2005 that:
“If people come to you, Christians, presenting themselves as Muslims claiming tolerance and dialogue, just remember that ‘Tolerance’ is an atheist doctrine as bent on destroying you as it is bent on destroying us, and therefore you are holding discourse with our Munafiqun [hypocrites]. There is no dialogue - only da’wa.”

Both Thomson and Abdalqadir have also advocated replacing international currencies with the gold dinar, which they both regard as the only form of currency which is acceptable to Muslims.

For example, Abdalqadir wrote for the foreword to ‘The Return of the Gold Dinar’, a book by Umar Vadillo, a Murabitun member. The book is promoted on the AML website as a recommended book on Islamic finance and economics.

Abdalqadir has also reportedly referred to the Holocaust as a “romantic notion”.

According to the mainstream Sunni website livingislam,org he has also said that “Hitler was the only mujahed of the century”.

Thomson has reportedly made similar remarks. According to a September 2005 article in The Daily Telegraph, in 1994 he wrote in a book ‘The Next World Order’ that Jews and Freemasons controlled European governments.

In the same book he also wrote that the Holocaust was “a big lie”.

The Daily Telegraph also reported that Thomson had said that the war in Iraq was caused by Jews. The paper quoted him as saying:

“Pressure was put on Tony Blair before the invasion. The way it works is that pressure is put on people to arrive at certain decisions. It is part of the Zionist plan and it is shaping events.”

Similar reports that the Murabitun have praised Hitler have provoked substantial debate - and some praise - on white-power and neo-Nazi internet forums. The Sunday Times has also said that Abdalqadir is a friend of Omar Bakri (Sunday Times, 29 June 2003).

In Norwich white British members of the Murabitun have also reportedly prevented Middle Eastern and Asian Muslims from entering one of their mosques. In 1995 this led ethnic minorities in the city to set up ‘The Save the Ihsan Mosque Committee’.

The Murabitun have also built a mosque in Granada - the first constructed in the city since the Reconquista.

Links to British government

The British government has repeatedly turned to the Association of Muslim Lawyers for advice on how to approach Muslims in the UK.

Ifath Nawaz, the head of the AML and one of its founders, sat on the government’s Muslim taskforce ‘Preventing Extremism Together’ which was established in August 2006. She was deputy convenor on the Working Group on National Security, Policing and Islamophobia.

Nawaz is also a member of the Independent Advisory Group to the London Criminal Justice Board and Co-Chair of the Independent Asylum Commission set up in November 2006.

Ahmad Thomson, the AML’s deputy-chairman (born Martin Thomson in Rhodesia), has also been a consultant on Muslim issues by UK government officials and ministers