The New Faces of British Youth

An indepth study revealed the growing domination of Britain’s mosques by the radical Deobandi Islamic movement.

By de Andréa

This study exposes extensive links between what the Muslims prefer to be known as, the moderate British Deobandis Muslims, and the sect’s radical leadership in Pakistan.

Here is a tale of two young British Muslims who traveled to Pakistan.

Yasir 19, was born and raised in Rotherham England, he is studying Islam in a Pakistani madrassa that will teach him to hate the West.

There are two reasons why he should not be in a Deobandi seminary in the teeming, dusty backstreets of Karachi. The first, is that Pakistan has banned all foreign students from its religious schools in 2005 after it emerged that two of the bombers responsible for the July 7 attacks on London that year had spent time in the country.

And the second? Yasir is miserable. He said last month that he was desperate to “get home”, (meaning England) he was struggling to cope with life in Karachi and uncomfortable with the seminary’s anti-Western agenda.

Yasir was seven months into an eight-year course of study when he met a journalist from a western publication. During the brief interview, his eyes were continually darting from side to side as if in fear that his words might be overheard. He was at first hungry for news of home — what were Liverpool’s coming fixtures, how was England doing in the cricket? — But his strong Yorkshire accent often dropped to a barely audible whisper.

Why was he here? “I don’t know that myself.” What was wrong with Karachi? “It’s crap.” What did he miss about Britain? “Everything, it’s too hard for me here. I don’t like to live here, man. You can’t do anything here. It’s not England. It’s Pakistan.”

The former engineering student gave no explanation as to why he was at Jamia Binoria, whose principal, Mufti Mohammad Naeem, challenged the journalist to inspect the seminary to “see if you can find any terrorists”. There were no bomb factories, but as for the incendiary rhetoric, there was Muhammed, a young man from Manchester England who was visiting a friend in the seminary’s fatwa (religious edict) department.

Muhammed, who would not give his full name, teaches English to asylum-seekers and, in stark contrast to Yasir, exemplifies the Deobandis’ deep hostility towards the West. He was eager to tell the journalist that the public had been entirely misled about the real perpetrators of the July 7 attack on London.

According to Muhammed,
The Government, Mossad, assorted Jews, freemasons and Scotland Yard had conspired to commit mass murder to demonise Muslims. “These are not my opinions. These are facts. The aim was to create terror in the hearts of the British people in order to control them,” he said.

The media was also part of the cover-up. “Why don’t you tell the public that they are being brainwashed and that there is a conspiracy to destroy Islam, as the Prophet told us? Why don’t you tell them that Jews control the media, and that the word ‘British’ is a Jewish word?

“If someone attacks your house, you have a right to defend what is rightfully yours. We follow the way of the Prophet. We will defend Islam. We will defend the Koran.”

Yasir and Muhammed illustrate the complex challenge that Britain’s security services face in countering the threat posed by Islamic radicals. More than 400,000 people travel from Britain to Pakistan each year. The great majority of them go for innocent reasons but some young Britons do go to study in jihadi madrassas and train in terrorist camps. Then they return to Britain. Jamia Binoria has 3,000 students, 500 of them foreigners from 29 countries, including Britain and the US. In the crowded halls of the madrassas children as young as five years old sit in groups on the floor, rocking back and forth, as they recite the Koran.

Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani of Pakistan said that his seminary “extended some help to those who fought in the jihad” against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but denied aiding the Taliban in its fight against the US and Britain.

Both seminaries were named this year in a report that describes Karachi as “a factory for violent extremism”. The report, by the International Crisis Group, notes, “the vast majority of Karachi’s sectarian, jihadi madrassas follow the Deobandi sect”. It says that the leaders of Jamia Binoria have “publicly adopted a pro-jihadi, anti-Western stance”.

Millions of pounds are raised by British and American mosques and sent to support terrorist groups in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir. One, Jaish-e-Mohammed, is thought to get £5 million a year from British donors. Close ties also exist between JuB, the representative body of Deobandi scholars in Britain, and JuI, a powerful Deobandi political party whose leader has been called Pakistan’s “patron of jihad”.

The JuB (Jamiat Ulama e Britain, or Council of Muslim Theologians in Britain) claims to have 500 affiliated institutions, including mosques and schools. Its general council includes Deobandi scholars from Bradford, Leeds, Dewsbury, Rotherham, Wakefield, Oldham, Burnley, Nottingham, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cardiff, Crawley, Luton and London.

The JuB’s general secretary, Sheikh Mohammad Ismail, who lives in Sheffield, is a graduate of Jamia Uloom Islamia, in Binori Town, the same Karachi seminary that spawned Jaish-e-Mohammed. The International Crisis Group calls it “the fountainhead of Deobandi militancy countrywide” and says, “a generation of former students has spread a web of similar jihadi madrassas across Karachi and beyond”.

Mr. Rehman, a regular visitor to Britain, said that although his party and the JuB were not affiliated organizationally, “we have unanimity of thought and ideology”.

Khalid Masud, the chairman of Pakistan’s widely respected Council of Islamic Ideology, says that medieval thinking dominates Islam. He was “not surprised” to read a sermon in which Riyadh ul Haq, a leading Deobandi preacher, urged British Muslims not to make friends with Jews or Christians. “This is a very normal thing that you hear in sermons here as well. He is not in a minority. This is in the Koran and in our literature.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Some how we think that if we just go about our own business and don’t get involved, terrorism will not touch us here in the US. This just shows how blind or ignorant we are, terrorist Islam has been attacking us for over 100 years, 911 wasn’t the first, remember how we fought back in Tripoli? Moreover, it hasn’t stopped since then.

Today’s subtle surreptitious infiltration of Europe isn’t unique either, 800 years later it is just a little more sophisticated. Nevertheless, we Americans ignorantly believe that we are some how shielded from all this jihad nonsense, this could be because we are blind deaf and lazy, with a little self-centered concentration thrown in. Americans absorb instead of seek out, as in fast food, it is fast news or nothing, as a result, if we are in earshot of information true or not, we just suck it up, with out seeking and searching for the truth.

The cultural jihad of Europe Britain and America is going on right under our noses; it is even in our military, we may be even contributing to it without realizing. Today Islam has the capability of shutting this country down, so why don’t they? Simply because they have not yet completed their infiltration into every aspect of our society. They know that if they jump the gun so to speak, they will lose the opportunity to take control of this country for the sake of a little fun watching us run helter-skelter trying to figure out what happened and what we did this time to antagonize the warm fuzzy peaceful Muslims. In the meantime no need for Americas youth to go to Pakistan, they are being indoctrinated with Islam right here in our own public schools.

de Andréa