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June 20, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
08:54
Radical Islamists Target Mosques
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I don't know about you, but I am really tired of people blaming terrorist attacks on mental health issues.
Whether it's a radical jihadi in a truck of peace or a radical right-winger.
I don't know what this guy's political persuasion was, so I'm just going to assume that he is as they say he is for now.
Whether it's radical right-wing terrorism, I don't buy the narrative that it's mental health, especially when he's saying things like, I did my part, I want to kill all Muslims.
I'm sorry, that's clearly ideological.
He's clearly a reaction to the terror attacks, and I think it's obvious why he chose the Finsbury Park Mosque.
He drove 150 miles to get to it in a rented van.
And I think it's because the Finsbury Park Mosque is responsible for producing dozens of terrorists.
Well, not dozens.
Well, actually, I think it might actually be in the dozens at this point.
But loads, there was a network of radical Muslims who used the Finsbury Park Mosque as a nexus point.
For example, we have Abu Hamza.
We have Abu Izzadin.
And then we have Andy Chowdhury.
And these people are just the worst people you can imagine.
These are the most hardcore jihadi preachers.
And they use this mosque to preach constantly.
Look at the number of terror plots that Chowdhury alone was involved in.
I mean, you can just look through this article and see all of the different plots that he and the Finsbury Mosque were connected to.
I mean, it just doesn't stop.
These people are radical jihadis.
And this was where they were planning what they were doing.
You had Bakri Muhammad organising a seminar at the Finsbury Park Mosque entitled September 11, 2001, A Towering Day in History.
Chowdhury was among those who attended and the hijackers were praised as the magnificent 19.
It's obvious that they are using these mosques to coordinate.
There's no doubt about it.
Now, that's not to say they can't change.
After Chowdhury and his gang of Islamist thugs and cronies had been found out and arrested and whatnot, the Finsbury Park Mosque was forced to change.
Don't get me wrong, the Finsbury Park Mosque changed hands over a decade ago, and I'm sure that the people in charge now are doing everything they can to dispel the image of them being a hotbed of radicalism.
I'm sure the people there now are well aware that terrorism is wrong.
They shouldn't be trying to overthrow the West or any of the nonsense that Abu Hamza and the rest of them were preaching.
I'm sure they've really turned it around.
But you can't say that Darren Osborne didn't have reasons for doing what he did.
And unfortunately, that is what people are trying to say.
And then you've got this sort of crap.
Finsbury Park Mosque attack.
Right-wing commentators upset after being accused of radicalization.
It's them radicalizing people, is it?
It's them doing it.
It's not the terror attacks that are radicalising people.
And it's not the government's weak response to these terror attacks.
We know that there are preachers in these mosques preaching a form of Islam that is either Diobandi or Wahhabi.
And we know that a lot of these mosques are like this.
And these are very fundamentalist.
And they end up teaching things that are completely counter to anything we believe and actively encourage people to be radical Islamists and end up becoming jihadis.
We know they do this.
And then you've got some dipshit in the Huffington Post going, don't blame radicalization on Britain's mosques.
Bitch, shut the fuck up.
Don't sit there going, well, I'm a Muslim and I don't want my local mosque to be targeted.
Unfortunately, your local mosque has to be supervised.
Because unfortunately, I hate to say this, but there is a long track record of mosques radicalizing people in Britain.
This is just the fucking facts.
I don't like it.
You don't like it.
So why don't we all work together to make sure that your mosques aren't radicalizing people?
But look at this.
In particular, things are pointed at mosques across Britain, which risk being viewed as breeding grounds for extremism and terrorism.
I'm sorry if they have been used as breeding grounds for extremism and terrorism.
And hey, hey, not all mosques, not every mosque, but about half of our mosques are currently being controlled by fundamentalist Islamic ideologues who literally do think that the West is evil.
They literally think this.
It's baked into their ideology.
So you can try and get rid of that.
I mean, I'm more than happy for like Sufi or Shia versions to be taught in these mosques.
But are the people who go to the mosques?
Probably not.
I mean, they accept it.
They go to it.
Why do they do it?
Why do they go to mosques that are controlled by fundamentalists?
The sort of fundamentalists that produce the Taliban and ISIS.
And I know you say, well, that's not very fair.
No, that's entirely fucking fair.
It's the same ideology.
Okay?
It's the same one.
But again, we do need to be discriminatory in this.
We need to discriminate between different mosques.
The ones that are actually filled with radical hate preachers and the ones that aren't.
And I am more than willing to accept that many of them are not.
But that is not an excuse not to check.
We should check.
We should keep tight rein on them.
There is a good reason that we are investigating the mosques in Britain and we may well have to force them, the imams in them, to preach in English.
Because we need to know they are actually not preaching radical bullshit and just not lying to us about it.
And we need to check the literature.
We need to check what's in them.
And this is a real problem.
And having bleeding heart left wingers going, well, I mean, it's not all the mosques.
Well, you won't know until we check.
And there's no harm in checking.
And because we've had so many radicals coming out of these mosques, I think it's worth it, don't you?
I mean, why aren't Muslim communities begging for the authorities to say, no, dude, come in.
Open.
We're totally open.
Come in.
Officials, check everything.
Read everything we have.
We're not radical preachers.
And you can put an official stamp on our mosque, say, nope, every year we do a check, we read through the literature, find nothing radical in it.
It's completely sound.
It's fine.
This is a legitimate mosque teaching a legitimate form of Islam.
I mean, when I say legitimate to us, it's legitimate.
That is not going to inspire terrorism.
Because, and it's important to remember that not, you know, it is a specific type of thought within Islam that inspires terrorism.
It's not most Muslims.
And I hate to say this.
And I know it sounds like a huge get-out or something, but it genuinely isn't.
It genuinely is a specific breed of Islamic thought, fundamentalist, definitely anti-Western.
In fact, the very premise of it is anti-Western.
And there are several strains of it, but they all essentially overlap on almost every point.
That we genuinely need to keep an eye on.
These mosques must be tracked.
And I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that this is the case.
But if you're going to have these people operating in your communities, and they do, then what are we going to do?
What option do we have?
Just wait around for people to get killed?
Spend ever increasing amounts of money on police and surveillance?
Violate everyone else's rights just to keep a few jihadis in check?
What are your options?
I think we really should have these mosques very well regulated.
And it is on the premise that sometimes some of these mosques get taken over by radical hate preachers.
And unfortunately, that has to be stopped.
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
And hey, you know what?
If there is an alt-right or like neo-Nazi or white supremacist version of these mosques, like a radical Westboro-style church, check the churches too.
I don't give a shit.
Check any organization that you think might be producing radicals of any political stripe and pumping them out into the general public.
I do not care.
I care that terrorist attacks are happening.
I care that people are dying.
I care that people are going outside of democracy itself.
Because this is the thing.
There is no justification for violence in a democratic system.
That's the point of the democracy.
That is the very basis of democracy.
You do not need violence to get what you want done done.
You just have to persuade other people.
If you can't persuade other people, you don't deserve to have it.
So no, I've got no sympathy for Darren Osborne.
I've got no sympathy for the Finsbury Park.
Well, not the Finsbury Park mosque now, but for any mosques that have radical preachers preaching against the West.
I've got no sympathy for either of these groups.
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