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The End of Tolerance: Statement Discussing the Labour-ConDem Witch-Hunt against the Muslims of Britain

When I read the news earlier today that Umar Uthman, more commonly known as Shaikh Abu Qatada, had been arrested pending deportation on the basis of “diplomatic assurances” from the torturers haven of Jordan, I could scarcely believe my eyes. How far down the road of racism and bigotry has this country gone, MPs seeking to satisfy a baying conglomerate of media and public, eager to take their frustrations of a declining country out on a 52 year old disabled man who they wish to suffer in the most despicable ways.

Not enough was it for them to keep a man without charge for 11 years in captivity, denying him the most basic rights and freedoms, simply because of a despotic government seeking to blame him for their peoples anger against so-called “King Abdullah”. Shaikh Abu Qatadah spent years in a small unit of eight people for no crime or charge, but instead because a foreign dictator demanded his deportation. Britain has now it seemed pandered to a man whose prisons torture 66 in 100 prisoners (Human Rights Watch, 2008). Worse is that this so-called Government of the United Kingdom seems to be encouraging it.

Now, there are those in the blackshirts who might say that he deserves it, where were the rights of the victims, and all the rest of the claptrap that the media likes to wheel out. In the midst of a drunken haze, it could look like a half-point, until we look at the history of the man called Abu Qatada and we see that he has never been involved in any crime.

The solitary charge, for which Theresa May now takes Torturer-in-Chief Abdullah’s words at face value, is one of conspiracy to attack civillians in Jordan in 2000. The only evidence in this Al Qaeda plot (which I am sure will come out in that bastion of virtue, the Jordan Military Court) is an alleged intercepted conversation between Abu Zubaydah and one other individual. The fact that Abu Zubaydah (who still remains without charge in Guantanamo Bay) has been declared by the USA NOT to be a member of Al Qaeda is irrelevant to the wheels of justice in the paranoid terror state of Jordan. More importantly, there is no record of Abu Qatadah knowing any of these individuals, of speaking to these individuals, or indeed any evidence whatsoever of his involvement in any plot (and it is extremely spurious there was never a plot in the first place).
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Eastern Europe: Accommodating America’s Illegal Extraordinary Rendition

02 Oct

On 7 March 2003 a CIA Gulfstream Jet landed at a remote airstrip in north-eastern Poland. Human rights officials and campaigners are convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the most senior al-Qaeda suspects, was on board.

American agents took him to a secret facility where, he says, he was tortured before being eventually transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

The secret transfer of CIA prisoners is said to have taken place in both Poland and Lithuania – a region where,
only a generation ago, people were subject to arbitrary detention and torture at the hands of Communist secret police. Now, seven years on, the full story of Poland’s secret detention site is emerging.

Dick Marty, the Council of Europe’s former Rapporteur on Torture, told the BBC: “If I use the judicial standard of proof – and I used to be a magistrate – then I say ‘Yes, Mohammed was in Poland. Yes, he was tortured.‘ Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner on Human Rights, said he now believed detainees had been subjected to “intense torture” and called for prosecutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Abu Zubaydah: September 3, 2010

03 Sep

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Praise be to Allah and all prayer and peace upon the Prophet of Allah, Ameen.

[From Zain al-Abideen ibn Muhammed ibn Hussain Abu Zubaidah al-Zubaidat (Abu Zubaidah al- Filastinee)].

To the respected, and honourable and hospitable brother Moazzam Begg,

[From the American (Bastille) prison which is called Guantanamo prison in Cuba]

I send to you my honourable brother, and to all the brothers around you who I know and those I don’t know and to anyone who says no and refuses the humiliation which America, (the mother of injustices) and its allies who tries to impose on us, a letter rejecting (baraa – freedom from all obligations) them and their allies, as well as those who fail to resist them whether with their tongue, pen, [or] heart and accept their humiliation.

I send you this letter with pride even if I am in their captivity – and the captivity is a humiliation in itself. Obviously my enemy is trying to humiliate me but I stay proud as long as I don’t humiliate myself to my enemy and give in to them.

I didn’t surrender to them, they only managed to capture me after they shot out one of my eyes and they shot out most of the left hand side of my body to the point where that part of my body is paralysed, but Allah (SWT) had Mercy on me and saved my body and I didn’t give in to their terrorism.

Even though they tortured me they only extracted from me that of which I am proud of doing or that of which I was going to do, insha-Allah, or give in to their ideas and [did not] agree[d] to their injustice and oppression and commit hypocrisy with them. Even during the worst time of their torture I was always telling them that killing our brothers is martyrdom for the sake of Allah for them, [and] in fact they have given life to their (brothers) ideas. And its beginning is their resistance and as you know, killing ideas and beliefs (aqeedah) is harder a thousand times than killing people and, [that] we only fight you because of your injustice and oppression, not because you reject the message of Islam. Allah will deal with you appropriately and [even if] among you there are Muslim[s] who don’t truly know [the meaning] of Islam .

If defending my religion, family, honour, land and my money is considered terrorism then let the whole world witness that I am a terrorist, and if I kill you to take your land or money or rape your women, then this is terrorism indeed and this is not what I represent, but it is what you represent worldwide and internationally.

And this American (Bastille) will fall the same way the as the French Bastille fell after the French revolution. The difference is that the French one was a symbol of injustice and control by those who thought they were the elite [the French royalty] over the masses (populace). As for the Americans, they are the symbol of injustice and the attempt of state control (takeover) [by those] who falsely consider themselves elitist over countries with less modernisation, science, or progression or wealth will fall with the revolution [brought about] by Islam insha-Allah.