Hizb Awarded £113,000 of Public Money
This is a guest post from Effendi of The Spittoon
This article in the Sunday Telegraph made my blood run cold:
Accounts filed at the Charity Commission show that the Government paid a total of £113,411 last year to a foundation run by senior members and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir — a notorious Islamic extremist group that ministers promised to ban.
The article focuses attention on three Hizb-ut-Tahrir dominated schools in which pupils are being indoctrinated into Hizbi ideology from the age of three. The Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, which runs the three schools in question, has been responsible for securing the public funding. The foundation’s lead trustee is Yusra Hamilton, a leading Hizb activist who is married to Taji Mustafa (real name Urutajirinere Fombo), the group’s chief spokesman in Britain.
At least three of the four trustees are Hizb members or activists, including Farah Ahmed, the head teacher of the Slough school, who has written in a Hizb journal condemning the “corrupt Western concepts of materialism and freedom”.
The three schools — in Tottenham, north London, and Slough, Berks — are run by the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, a registered charity. The foundation’s lead trustee is Yusra Hamilton, a leading Hizb activist who is married to Taji Mustafa, the group’s chief spokesman in Britain.
At least three of the four trustees are Hizb members or activists, including Farah Ahmed, the head teacher of the Slough school, who has written in a Hizb journal condemning the “corrupt Western concepts of materialism and freedom”.
On their website, the schools say their “ultimate goal” and “foremost work” is the creation of an “Islamic personality” in children The creation of an “Islamic personality” is a key tenet of Hizb’s ideology.
The schools’ history curriculum states that children are taught that “there must be one ruler of the khilafah [caliphate]”. The schools’ website says that “in the glorious history of Islam… the Sharia was the norm”.
Children learn Arabic from the age of three. A spokesman for the foundation insisted that it was not a Hizb ut-Tahrir operation but involved “Muslim women from a wide variety of backgrounds”.
Members of the Hizbut Tahrir are free to indoctrinate their children in the confines of their own homes in any way they see fit. And if they wish to delude themselves into thinking that a predominantly religious education based on a doctrine of supremacism and non-integration with the wider community offers their children adequate preparation for a competitive world, that is certainly their right. But it is difficult to know how this clerical-fascist fringe, which is largely reviled and discredited in the British Muslim community, has managed to secure such huge amounts of public funding without recourse to subterfuge. Certainly the Department for Children, Schools and Families has been “played”.
These facts, uncovered in a report authored by the Centre of Social Cohesion, which is out next week, says that Hizb is creating a number of similar “front organisations” to win public funding and enlist support from mainstream politicians. We look forward to more revelations in the forthcoming report.
Comments
| 26 October 2009, 1:34 pm |
Please get this straight;
Every MP and aspiring MP is mindful of the ‘abracadabra’ vote in these electorally uncertain times and knows it is far easier to make bitter and resolute enemies than to make trustworthy and loyal friends.
Sucking up to fanatics by being instrumental in throwing public money in their direction might well prove money well spent but will never be gratefully acknowledged in an appropriate manner:
THE SHOWING OF THIS JIHADI BEHEADING VIDEO WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES FOLLOWING THE INTERCESSION OF ARTHUR GRUDGE M.P.
| 26 October 2009, 1:45 pm |
“Certainly the Department for Children, Schools and Families has been “played”.”
Really? I can’t help thinking that they knew exactly what they were doing and did it anyway. Any bureaucrat denying funding to a Muslim school is going to be looking for a new job *without* Diversity in the title pretty soon afterwards, and that kind of bureaucrat tends to view the private sector like the rest of us view shark-infested waters.
| 26 October 2009, 2:18 pm |
What DSD said.
The problem in this country is not just the presence of tranches of unreconstructed medievalist anti-enlightenment primitives, but also of liberal self-loathing and appeasement. Until liberalism is expunged, root and branch, from all branches of government, the enemies of the enlightenement will continue to gain.
| 26 October 2009, 2:20 pm |
I agree with DSD. This was known two years ago:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article2199245.ece
| 26 October 2009, 2:28 pm |
I can imagine what synergy they bring concerning needlework classes and chemistry.
“Certainly the Department for Children, Schools and Families has been “played”.”
If you turn down a grant to a Muslim Schools group then you are an Islamaphobe and maybe Lord Ahmed will mobilise 10,000 Muslims to ask again, politely!
| 26 October 2009, 2:35 pm |
And if they wish to delude themselves into thinking that a predominantly religious education based on a doctrine of supremacism and non-integration with the wider community offers their children adequate preparation for a competitive world, that is certainly their right.
It may be their right to think that, but it shouldn’t be possible for them to inflict that on their children – it’s tantamount to abuse. These schools should be closed immediately. All faith schools should be abolished.
| 26 October 2009, 2:36 pm |
Depressing beyond measure. Well done to Your View for bringing this to light.
Can Harry’s Place furnish me with an e-mail address so I can ask for someone in government to explain its financial largesse towards this clique?
The only slight (fleeting) comfort I draw from this is the sum involved might easily been much greater. Please don’t tell me there is more …?
| 26 October 2009, 2:44 pm |
Well its been alleged that Labour are meant to have to rely on bloc vote’s for 20 or so seats.
| 26 October 2009, 3:15 pm |
Can Harry’s Place furnish me with an e-mail address so I can ask for someone in government to explain its financial largesse towards this clique?
That’s kind of you, Larkers. Thanks. There is some buck passing going on between the central government and the councils. So I think your best bet in this case is to write to your MP.
| 26 October 2009, 3:29 pm |
Why is anyone surprised? Part of a Labour plot to impose multiculturalism and ‘rub the noses of the Right in it’.
You chaps at HP might someday realise that nothing changes unless people vote against Labour.
| 26 October 2009, 3:30 pm |
I suppose Clare Short would be happy:
| 26 October 2009, 3:47 pm |
I suppose Clare Short would be happy:
http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=278
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi
| 26 October 2009, 4:05 pm |
“I suppose Clare Short would be happy:”
So will Nick Griffin.
| 26 October 2009, 4:18 pm |
HT hate British values, they hate democracy, they tell Muslims not to get involved in the mainstream etc
They say Britain is at war with Islam and Muslims yet they are quiet happy to take their cash!!!
Hypocrites!
| 26 October 2009, 4:52 pm |
@Effendi
Thanks for raising this. Couple of things:
1 – Even if the schools’ administrators (possibly teachers too?) weren’t HuT activists, the fact that the organisation running the schools is called the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation should leave our readers in no doubt. What with shakhsiyyah (شخصية) being Arabic for ‘personality’, the name of the foundation just happens to coincide (shock! horror!) with Taqi ud-Deen an-Nabhani’s famous 3 volume treatise, ash-Shakhsiyyah al-Islaamiyyah [here, here, here, here and here] (الشخصية الإسلامية). Who is an-Nabhani? Oh, only the founder of HuT, and this treatise was written as a kind of instruction manual corresponding to HuT’s ‘3 steps to Khalifah methodology/programme’:
Hizb-ut-Tahrir has also determined its method of progress in view of the fact that Islam is an idea and a method, i.e. a host of tangible rules that preserve the idea and bring it into existence. Its method of progress is in fact the method of the Messenger of Allah (saw), for it is a group of clear and defined Shari’ah rules. The party proceeds in the three periods which the Messenger of Allah (saw) proceeded in order to achieve his objective:
1- The period of study and culture in order to generate the party culture and incorporate the ideology in groups of individuals, i.e. in order to form the bloc.
2- The period of interaction with the Ummah and the struggle for the sake of making her adopt the ideology of the party as her own, make it her raison d’être and work towards establishing it.
3- The period of attaining and seizing the reins of power through the Ummah in order to implement the ideology in a comprehensive manner, because it is forbidden to seize partial power. Hence, the arrival at the ruling must be total and the implementation of Islam must be comprehensive.
The Shakhsiyah Foundation is obviously part of step one (”…incorporate the ideology in groups of individuals”), where people or, in this case children, are brainwashed with HuT ideology.
2 – If you go to their website and go to the ‘Teacher Training Services’ section, you’ll notice that they’ve been holding classes at Regent’s Park. Download their pdf info. pack and you’ll notice Abdul Hakim Murad is due to speak at one of their sessions in December. Someone should tell him.
| 26 October 2009, 5:35 pm |
Yet another in the long list of questions beginning “What is wrong with the British Government….”
The future for England looks a lot like a choice between the BNP and some amalgam of pro-Muslim/Sharia Labor type party (or Conservatives).
| 26 October 2009, 6:17 pm |
I had a dream that all the criminals and terrorists in the country moved to one constituency and took it over. They were all given free accomodation, and free food. Loads of money, free guns and Semtex on demand. Never had to get off their arses and do anything. Free porno movies, immunity from council tax and income tax. They could be as crooked as they wanted, no problem. Here, have some more money old thing, and keep up the anti social behaviour, it’s part of yer culcher…
Just so long as some conniving, bent, twister in a morality free office could count upon their votes.
Then I woke up and realised it’s already happened, and they are all in a place called Westminster.
| 26 October 2009, 6:24 pm |
And people wonder why one in five would be willing to vote BNP?
There is no excuse IMO for voting for the BNP, but many people today have either little historical understanding of fascism or have fallen for Griffin’s cosmetic make-over of a racist party.
But when stories like this emerge, the narrative of a liberal elite who support radical Islamism’s growth in the UK gains credibility.
Who-ever took this decision should be made to appear before a Select Committee and justify state funding for such a divisive and anti-democratic organisation.
| 26 October 2009, 6:38 pm |
Suffolk Booy:
“Who-ever took this decision should be made to appear before a Select Committee and justify state funding for such a divisive and anti-democratic organisation.”
I don’t disagree with that. But I think the readiness of our pols to attend, and speak, at gatherings of divisive and anti-democratic extremists requires just as much censure and punishment. And that has been going on for a very long time, as exemplified by many threads on this website.
| 26 October 2009, 6:40 pm |
The best articles are the ones that tell you what you knew already.
Sleep walking into a nightmare.
A mad man at the wheel.
“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy—they first make mad”
Enoch Powell
| 26 October 2009, 6:59 pm |
@ Monty
Government officials appear before Select Committees to be held to account for their actions by Parliament. It is a fundamental part of our democracy, which groups like HuT are seeking to destroy…
@ Journeyman
Powell was quoting from an ancient Greek text – I think it is Homer describing the hero Ajax, or one of the tragedians – Sophocles or Euripides.
| 26 October 2009, 8:44 pm |
It may be their right to think that, but it shouldn’t be possible for them to inflict that on their children – it’s tantamount to abuse. These schools should be closed immediately. All faith schools should be abolished.
My proposal is that any faith school that can’t maintain a student population that has at least 30% of its students from other religous groups should be closed.
If a school can attract diverse students and keep them, then that’s proof that the school is not promoting hatred and separatism. That is proof that they are not, on the whole, an antisocial force.
And 1/3 of students is enough provide a genuinely diverse social experience and to insure that the non-faith students aren’t totally marginalized.
| 26 October 2009, 9:30 pm |
“The Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation” are extremists?
Extremist in cleaning! Just one Islamic Shiksayah can completely clean three houses each day. And cook halal food for all the family.
| 26 October 2009, 10:43 pm |
“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy—they first make mad”
Enoch Powell
Also used by Karl Marx to describe Bakunin, if memory serves.
It is wrongly attributed to Euripides.
| 27 October 2009, 12:59 am |
The sooner the Tories get in and ban those fuckpigs, the better.
| 27 October 2009, 8:12 am |
Disgraceful, but not surprising. The Left, don’t you just love em.
| 27 October 2009, 11:55 am |
The Focus seems to be on schools run by people with links to HT. However, there are many Jewish school run with taxpayers money too, these school are indoctrinating their student with racist ideology of Zionism. This hypocrisy of one rule for the racist Zionist and another for the rest of the nation needs to end! The Times, The Telegraph and Harry’s place is silent on the issue of Zionist schools around the county, it is time these schools were investigated too!
Ijaz
| 27 October 2009, 11:55 am |
The Focus seems to be on schools run by people with links to HT. However, there are many Jewish school run with taxpayers money too, these school are indoctrinating their student with racist ideology of Zionism. This hypocrisy of one rule for the racist Zionist and another for the rest of the nation needs to end! The Times, The Telegraph and Harry’s place is silent on the issue of Zionist schools around the county, it is time these schools were investigated too!
Ijaz
| 27 October 2009, 12:02 pm |
silent on the issue of Zionist schools around the county
Leaving aside the fact that there are NO SUCH THINGS as Zionist schools, can you explain why public anger should be directed at these made-up entities, which don’t exist, rather than at schools ideologically linked to an extremist organisation and run by members of a this group? Can you, Ijaz?
| 27 October 2009, 3:07 pm |
Ijaz is right!
Zionist schools should be closed down wherever they can be found, as should Scientologist schools, Satanist schools and Jedi schools.
Let the search begin!
| 27 October 2009, 4:02 pm |
There are plenty of Jewish schools out there which teach Zionism to Jewish children. These Jewish schools are linked to Zionist organisations; these are Zionist schools in reality which are funded by the taxpayers.
We all know what Zionist stands for, the ideology of racism based on a superior race. Nick Griffin is a supporter of Zionism and racism the Zionist preach but the pro-Zionist press will never report on these schools or the mutual supprot Zionists and fascist express for each other’s racism.
| 27 October 2009, 7:08 pm |
Tis funny though, it always seems to be Muslims that neo-Nazis and the like choose to appear on the same platform as, and never ever Jews. It’s almost as if your point is, well, utter bullshit.
As is the old ‘Zionist media not talking about the eeeeeevil Jewish school’ one. I don’t think you could have timed that load of old bollocks worse if you’d tried, lol.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3354149.ece
Ooopsy!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3354149.ece
| 27 October 2009, 7:15 pm |
*meant to say ‘Right after one of your Zionist enemies read about that very thing’. Ah well.
| 28 October 2009, 2:54 pm |
Zionists did turn up at the EDL rallies, so they do share the platform with Nazis.
| 28 October 2009, 2:54 pm |
Zionists did turn up at the EDL rallies, so they do share the platform with Nazis.
| 28 October 2009, 2:54 pm |
Zionists did turn up at the EDL rallies, so they do share the platform with Nazis.
| 28 October 2009, 2:54 pm |
Zionists did turn up at the EDL rallies, so they do share the platform with Nazis.
| 5 November 2009, 7:56 pm |
I agree with Ijaz, there are Jewish schools that teach Zionism (which has nothing to do with Judaism) and are state funded. These schools have links to individuals who give money to a racist Israeli state, which means, UK tax payers are supporting an ideology that created a terrorist/ racist state because its adherents believed Jews should live exclusively with Jews. So much for Harry’s, and all those who commented in the negative on the funding given to this foundation disgust, how do you feel now? if you are not a Jew, by the way that would mean if you converted you to not enjoy the same rights as those born into the belief, you would not be welcomed to live in that state, yet your money funds schools supporting/ advocating that racist view.
Many Jewish schools support Zionism Ideology of racism and terrorism (which HT does not according to many independent reports i have read)which would mean: if Thadeus Beaumont logic was applied, which says: a foundation which has activists of HT and non HT activists in decision making posts, which runs a school for children where parents are free to send their children irrespective of their affiliation to HT or not, means it is extremist because ’some’ parents or ’some’ of those running the school are HT activists. In other words Muslims agree to set up a school, some happen to be HT activists, maybe they were best suited for certain roles and the school becomes a HT school and all must be HT by association, hence funding gone to HT extemists?
Lets apply the logic to Jewish schools and see the outcome? anyone supporting the Zionist entity and teaching that Israel is the homeland or a Jewish land, by the same logic is a school advocating racist/ terrorist view by virtue of the fact that the Israeli entity was established so Jews can live exclusively with Jews and this is taught by the schools explicitly or implicitly. The parents sending their children there are also implicated by association, would you agree Mr Beaumont or does the logic not apply when it against your favoured views?
Bangladesh has just banned Hizb, while we give them money.