We pointed out in this Creeping Sharia post that the founders of the Quilliam Foundation, self-proclaimed reformed Islamic terrorists, did not name or address the Islamic ideology which they were renouncing. While refusing to name it, and attempting to placate British and U.S. government officials, it appears our observation was quite accurate. Then didn’t name the ideology when speaking to the U.S. Senate and Homeland Security, and revert to that ideology in inciting Muslims/Arabs around the world to fight Israel. Ed Husain is director of the Quilliam Foundation, and here are his recent comments:
“After Israel’s massacre of innocent Palestinians in Gaza, out on the streets of Cairo and Damascus it would be impossible to find credible voices that condemn suicide bombings in Israel.”
“Israel has just helped create a new generation of suicide bombers, prepared to stop at nothing. The ideology that justifies and advocates suicide bombings already exists. Israel though, through its recent actions, has just provided the fire that will now re-ignite this poisoned gas. Prevented for now by Israel’s wall and heavy security, the suicide bombers’ will to kill, to avenge will not calm. And where there is a will, victims will always find a way to lash out.”
Apparently this includes Husain and the “counter-terrorism” organization he is part of, who fails to condemn them in his op-ed. He even goes so far as to incite Arabs to action:
An attack on Gaza is being seen as an attack on the Arab people as a whole: from Yemen to Morocco, Arab anger and sense of powerlessness is palpable. How much more can the Arabs take?
His Quilliam Foundation then lays blame for future Islamic terrorism on the UK and US:
Perceived double standards from our Government and the current green light (from Washington and London) to Israel’s killing machine will strengthen Al Qaeda’s metanarrative and radicalize yet another generation of young Muslims.
This is a prime example of why the U.S. and U.K. governments should thoroughly vet purported former terrorists who work for and with the government (and immigrants) and hold them accountable for their words and actions.
Melanie Philips (hat tip to you), refutes all the propaganda and untruths in Husain’s op-ed, read her entire piece here. Here is a snippet:
There is only one way to de-radicalise people who are being brainwashed by murderous lies, and that is to tell them the truth. If Ed Husain were really interested in de-radicalising Britain’s Muslims, he would tell them that they have been fed a diet of incendiary lies and blood libels about Israel and the Jews, and that justice demands they are taught instead the truth. But instead, he has now adopted the very narrative and rhetoric that are driving Muslims to mass murder.
The issue of Israel sits at the very apex of the fight to defend civilisation. Those who wish to destroy western civilisation need to destroy the Jews, whose moral precepts formed its foundation stones. The deranged hatred of the Jews lies at the core of the Islamists’ hatred of America, the ‘infidel’ west and modernity, and is the reason why they wish to destroy Israel. Unless people in the west understand that Israel’s fight is their own fight, they will be on the wrong side of the war to defend not just the west but civilisation in general.
The British government has invested huge hopes in Ed Husain as an attractive and plausible antidote to Islamist extremism in Britain. But how can anyone now believe anything he has ever said when he promulgates such a gross libel as the canard of Israel’s ‘massacre’ of hundreds of ‘innocent’ Gazans? How can the government believe that Ed Husain will de-radicalise British Muslims when through articles such as this one he is inciting them to yet more hatred of Israel, the west’s forward salient against Islamist aggression?
Read it all.
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