Cage/ Cage Prisoners

25.05.2015 La rédaction

Cage is an organization supporting the victims of the “war on terror”.

Its director is Moazzem Begg who was detained in Guantanamo, then released without any charge being brought against him.

In 2010, Cage launched a campaign against Gita Saghal, Amnesty International‘s Head of Women’s Section. The campaign titled “The Problem with Gita” was taken up by all pro-Islamist left-wingers who accuse Gita it of being pro-American, following her repeated appeals to Amnesty to clarify its ties with Moazzem Begg, whom she accuses of supporting Talibans. She ended up quitting Amnesty International. However, history will prove her right when Moazzem Begg returned to jail in March 2014 for funding terrorist groups. He was later released.

Cage was recently criticized for supporting Mohamed Emwazi, aka Jihadi John. The latter was described by Asim Qureshi, Cage’s Research Director as “a handsome and sweet young man, the humblest person I know.”

The sponsors of the association include: Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law who converted to Islam, as well as Massoud Shajeree of the Human right Commission. But also the Rowntree Charitable Trust, a non-violent Quaker fund (£ 305,000), or the Roddick Foundation. Both foundations have since declared that they are reconsidering their support for Cage.

On June 18, 2016, a conference with Tariq Ramadan was announced.

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“Work is on us, and success is for God”

15.05.2015 La rédaction

“Work is on us, and success is for God” said Hasan al-Banna on a day of March 1928, according to his first disciples. “Let us make an oath of obedience to God, whereby we are the soldiers of Islam message, a message containing the life of our country and the strength of the Muslim nation. (…) Our grouping will be first and foremost, and fundamentally, an idea, with all its implications and all actions resulting therefrom. We are brothers in the service of Islam. We are the “Muslim Brotherhood”.”

Hasan al-Banna, Memoirs of the Message and the Messenger

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Australian National Imam Council

09.05.2015 La rédaction

The Australian National Imam Council is almost completely controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Created in 2006, the Council seeks to mediate between the State and the Muslims.

250 imams are part of this Council which publishes Fatwa and appoints the Mufti of Australia. The first Mufti was Taj al-din al-Hilali. He was elected in 1988 to avoid being expelled by the Australian government. He is known for his extremist sermons, and has compared unveiled women with unwrapped meat.

“If you place unwrapped meat and leave it on the street, in a garden (…) without any cover on it and cats come and eat it, whose fault is that? Cats or unwrapped meat? Unwrapped meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her house, wearing her hijab, there would have been no problem.” (Sermon, October 2006)

Taj al-Din al-Hilali then decides to go into politics without much success. He will mostly be remembered for authorizing the concept of “Burkini”.

Following his resignation, the Australian National Imam Council replaces him by Fehmi Naji who will resign in turn for health problems.

Elected in 2011, the current great mufti is Ibrahim Abu Mohamed who is known for being a man of dialogue and peace. At least until 2012, when he starts to defend the Hamas movement, which is considered by Australia as a terrorist organization.

During his stay in the Gaza Strip in 2012, he said

“I am happy to be on a land of Jihad and to learn from its sons.”

Or

“We came to learn from Gaza … We will make stones, trees … to learn sacrifice and the right to defend ourselves.”

During the terrorist attacks in Sydney, the Council and its representatives repeatedly appear on all televisions. They explain that terrorism has no connection with Islam, and condemn “unequivocally” the murder of innocent people. Due to this type of intervention, the Council appears as a peaceful body for the Australian population.

Yet one of the Council main activities is to delay anti-terrorist measures.

The Australian National Imam Council mobilizes against anti-terrorism laws, which it deems dangerous for freedom of expression. Ibrahim Abu Mohammad thus explains that the criminalization of the “defense of terrorism” is an infringement of his freedom of expression. According to the Mufti, reading certain excerpts of the Koran can be seen as “defense of terrorism”. He also mentions jihad in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.

When the Australian government decides to penalize hate preachers like the Hizb ut-Tahrir group, the Council of the Australian Imams and Ibrahim Abu Mohammad rush to their rescue.

“Hizb ut-Tahrir is not against the freedom of expression. On the contrary, they are strong supporters of the freedom of expression. They are even exercising this freedom. Those who are against freedom of expression are those who try to prevent Hizb ut-Tahrir from expressing their opinions. “

This position was described by the Australian Prime Minister as “not very useful”.

The Council is also up against anti-terrorism laws. It is heard by various governmental and parliamentary committees. On several occasions, the Muslim Brothers even went so far as to read excerpts from the Koran to convince decision-makers that banning the apology for terrorism can result in forbidding faith.

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An Nour Mosque (Montigny-Lès-Cormeilles)

28.04.2015 La rédaction

The An Nour mosque is expanding. Officially, it is under construction, but since 2010, it has regularly organized conferences, some of which were attended, among others, by executives of the UOIF.

On the site of the mosque, whose page is followed by more than 4000 fans on Facebook, one can read:

“The mosque of Montigny-Lès-Cormeilles is under construction, Inchallah. It will be located in a wooded environment, on an area of approximately 1700 m², near the Esperance district. This important project for our community will be examined by the architect J.SKALLI. (…) This dignified and ambitious project that we want to develop on Montigny is also yours! It represents our spiritual and cultural heritage. This new place of worship will be a place of spirituality, of prayer but also of encounter, sociability and exchange … Everyone must participate in it, so as to create a concrete, solid and effective project. For that purpose, you can support us in different ways: by helping the mosque volunteers during functions or by making donations.”

Concerning the attacks of January 2015, it read: “An Nour Mosque associates itself with the national solidarity movement spreading across the country since yesterday, with the gathering in tribute to the victims of 7 and 8 January attacks.

Except that the attacks lasted from 7 to 9, and claimed the lives of 9 Jewish victims at Hypercasher.

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