Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Two Faces of Abdullah al-Andalusi

The British government is finally catching on to the extremist views of Abdullah al-Andalusi. Britons should be disturbed that their own security specialists took so long to figure this out, especially since I wrote an article on Abdullah's radical views more than five years ago. The article is titled: "Abdullah al-Andalusi Defends Terrorism, Tries to Cover-Up His Words, Condemns Muhammad, and Threatens Legal Jihad!"
The Telgraph—The Government watchdog which inspects police forces’ readiness for terrorism admitted that it employed one of Britain’s most notorious Islamic extremists.

For almost two years Abdullah al Andalusi, led a double life, the Telegraph can reveal.



The disclosures will be intensely embarassing to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, who has criticised parts of Britain’s Muslim communities for “quietly condoning” Islamist extremism.







The inspectorate insisted that he did not handle classified material but former friends of Mr al Andalusi said he had done so.

“His work did involve security areas. He said he had a role in overseeing the police response to terrorism and there were areas he couldn’t talk about,” said one former colleague at the Muslim Debate Initiative, who asked to remain anonymous.

“He would discuss the reports that HMIC were working on and the data they needed to present.

“His story is so odd and so scandalous in many respects. He had these two completely incompatible lives that went on for years. He despised Britain, yet worked for the British government. He would talk about the right of oppressed people to take up arms against the oppressor and yet he was overseeing the police.


One anti-extremism activist, who knew said Mr al Andalusi, said: “[Al-Andalusi] admitted it to a few people. It is the hypocrisy of it that surprises me.”

MPs have called for a full investigation into how someone with as long a record of extremism as Mr al Andalusi had survived vetting and been appointed to his post.

Under the name by which he was known to HMIC, Mouloud Farid, his links with the Muslim Debate Initiative were a matter of public record.

He was registered as a director of the organisation at Companies House, though he earlier this year changed to yet a third name, Wazir Leton Rahman, on the companies register.

“This man’s unsuitability for sensitive work should have been obvious from the start,” said Khalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr.

“There is a lack of understanding of different strains of Islam in the civil service. I will be asking why the systems designed to prevent this did not work.”

Mr al Andalusi, a prominent figure on the extremist lecture circuit, is closely associated with the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, which believes that voting and democracy are un-Islamic.

He is also a strong supporter of the terrorist lobby group Cage, which sparked outrage earlier this year when it defended the Isil hostage-killer Mohammed Emwazi, “Jihadi John,” as a “beautiful” and “gentle” man who had been radicalised by MI5. Like Cage, Mr al-Andalusi fiercely supports the right of British citizens to travel to Syria to fight.

He spoke at a Cage rally outside his own employer’s parent department, the Home Office, to demonstrate against the arrest of the former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg, on Syria-related terror charges, later dropped. Alongside him were other high-profile extremists and hate preachers including Haitham al-Haddad and senior figures in Hizb ut Tahrir.

Mr al Andalusi has spoken at at least three other Cage events in the last ten months, including on September 20 last year when he claimed that, as part of its “war against Islam,” the British government wanted to force Muslims to eat non-halal meat.

He says that Western liberal society is committed to the “destruction” of all Muslim belief and shows on his Facebook page a picture a concentration camp with a Nazi swastika and “21st century” written on the watchtower.

In the foreground is a gallows with a short route to the hangman’s noose for “Islamists” and a longer route for “Muslim moderates.”

A spokesman for HMIC said: “Mr Farid was investigated for gross misconduct by taking part in public activity that compromised his impartial service to government, thereby breaching the Civil Service Code. He was suspended immediately whilst investigations were ongoing.”

The HMIC accepted Mr Farid’s resignation in July last year, the spokesman added. But the security lapse has only just emerged – coinciding with the government putting a new statutory duty on public bodies, including schools, to monitor and root out extremism.

In a talk at Queen Mary University, in East London, on 16 January, he asked why the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, was treated as a terrorist organisation by the West while the moderate Free Syrian Army was not.

He condemned memorials to 9/11, describing the terror attacks as “the day a vicious world empire [the US] found a publicly-acceptable excuse to bomb others, invade non-threatening nations, torture political dissidents and kill at least 300,000 innocent people.”

After Isil took over large portions of Iraq last year, he wrote that “most Muslims would be jubilant at the return of the caliphate [Islamic state], which is a vital obligation upon Muslims that has been conspicuously missing for so long.”

He condemned the group for killing civilians but said that the West had “no basis to judge Islamic State” because “IS are no different to Western armies and even some of the ‘founding fathers’ of Western nations… IS’s crime is being actually a good student of the West, right down to their corporate structure and organisation and ability to use social media.”

He said that “those who reject IS merely because IS’s school of thought is disagreeable to them should remember that Islam permits difference of opinion. To reject something as outside the fold of Islam, due to it being a different school of thought to one’s own, makes one a purveyor of disunity among Muslims.”

The former friends of Mr al Andalusi said they had left the Muslim Debate Initiative when it became increasingly extreme and dominated by donations from a wealthy Saudi businessman. (Continue Reading.)
To understand why Abdullah claims to support and defend Great Britain during the day while promoting extremism at night, watch this video on taqiyya:


Unknown said...

LOL the author of the article uses "sources" close to Andulusi even someone who left MDI. Since a lot of this is just a rehash of the public fighting between Andulusi, Homosexual Muslim Paul Williams and Adam Deen. My bet those latter two are the inside sources.

Amy Hodgkins said...

Hello David,

Thank you for your articles, they are so useful and may the Lord bless you always. One question I have for you is, what do you think of the sources that portray Muhammad in a positive light? Do you think they are lies or that maybe he did do some good things?


Unknown said...

I like how people like this guy leave out the war crimes the Islamic State commits on a regular basis, such as raping & torturing young girls & women all day, every day. I'm infuriated at the double standard: Muslims such as our case in point hate having their own people treated this way but love treating others this way.

Keith said...

Hey Amy,

I'd like to just add my two cents to your question. I will not question sources that highlight the positive things Muhammad has said or did. I'm sure he, just like all of us, have done some good things and some bad things. The issue however is this. You and I, and everyone else in this world, did not claim prophethood, did not declare ourselves to be the model of behaviour for human beings, and did not try to start new religions by reviling other existing ones. When we do such things, we are setting a higher plane of behaviour by which we would be judged. The purpose of websites like this I believe is to examine Muhammad's claims to prophethood and the truth in the religion he professed, and therefore it may seem we focus on the negative elements of his life. Compare him with Jesus, of whom we can find nothing negative at all. This is the level that he has set himself on.

Just my thoughts.

Unknown said...

Dress code of Abdullah al-Andalusi reveals his two faces, Islamic cap on head and western suits, a typical munafiq (hypocrite).

psykojojo said...

So he was practicing some straight-up taqiyya in your debate. Astonishing man

John 8:24 said...

Hi David,

Normally I wouldn't ask you to do a video but I guess this time it would be a missed opportunity. Abdullah Andulusi is a very popular debator and a common guest on TV channels like BBC who appeared number of times defending Islam and stating how peaceful it is. In his appearances he stated how horrific ISIS, that it is not Islamic and is not a true caliphate! It would be great to take a few snippets from his TV appearances (there are hundreds of videos of him on Youtube) and debates to expose his bold faced lies and deception.

Paige said...

Hi Amy,

This is a very important question and Keith has given you excellent advice.

You will often find people referring to this good thing or that good thing that Mohammad did to validate his claims. Likewise, you'll sometimes hear people who say it is impossible for him to have done anything good. Both positions are incorrect.

The list of leaders who did things to improve social issues and show kindness and mercy at times include people like Al Capone (opened first soup kitchen and donated money to charities); Pablo Escobar (Colombian drug lord who builds schools, hospitals, etc.); Mussolini (gave the vote to women); Ghengis Khan (opened trade routes and protected traders as well as promoting religious tolerance); Cortez (who is definitely a mixture of the black and white legends); and the list goes on...including even people like Stalin.

As humans we like to posit people as totally evil or totally good, but people are not like that because we are made in the image of God which gives us moral choice. If all bad people were uniformly bad it would be very easy to spot them, wouldn't it?

Some people think that if we accept that Mohammad did some good, then we'll be approving everything else he did. This is, of course, nonsense and would mean that we would also be validating all of the other people I've mentioned.

I'm sure that Mohammad did at times show mercy. I'm sure that he was at times kind to certain people, and there's a very good chance that he improved some aspects of society, but, as Keith pointed out, this does not validate Mohammad's claims. It simply means that he was human.

Many people begin witnessing to Muslims by thinking they have to assassinate Mohammad's entire character, this is not so. We only have to look at his claims and ask "Was what he claimed true of himself and his behaviour?" Though many Muslims will answer "Yes", you can go to the most reliable sources and show them that the answer is just as firmly, and sometimes more correctly, "No".

I hope this helps alongside Keith's comment. Again, this is a great question.

Unknown said...

So can we get rid of choudary next?

Ken said...

Paul Bilal Williams gives even more problems with Abdullah when he was with MDI:


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