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Schools run by members of the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have had their public funding suspended and will be placed under investigation after the payments were exposed by The Sunday Telegraph.

Government grants totalling £113,000 were paid last year to the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, which runs a nursery and a primary school in Tottenham, north London and a primary in Slough, Berkshire. The grants continued this year, although no figures are available.

The foundation’s lead trustee and “proprietor” of the Slough school is Yusra Hamilton, a leading member of Hizb ut-Tahrir and wife of the group’s main press spokesman, Taji Mustafa.

The public money – from the Government’s Early Years Fund – was paid to help run the nursery school and two Islamic primary schools where children are taught key elements of Hizb’s ideology from the age of five. It was administered by the local authority, Haringey.

In a statement, the Home Office said: “Haringey Council has decided to suspend its allocation of Early Years Funding, to the schools concerned, pending an investigation.”

Hizb regards integration as “dangerous”, says that British Muslims should “fight assimilation” into UK society and opposes all involvement with the “corrupt” state. It wants to create a global Islamic superstate, or “caliphate”, initially in Muslim-majority countries and then across the rest of the world. The former prime minister, Tony Blair, proposed to ban the group and the Conservatives have said that they will do so if they win power.

Other trustees of the Shakhsiyah Foundation who are Hizb members or activists include 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 are taught Arabic from the age of three.

Center for Social Cohesion reports:

Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy

The CSC published a new report on Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), a radical Islamist group that Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling MP recently promised to ban. Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy, by CSC researchers Houriya Ahmed and Hannah Stuart, reveals how HT uses front groups to embed itself into communities and deliberately downplays its intolerant beliefs. Members of HT in the UK have founded schools to propagate the party’s ideology and even received government funding.

Based on extensive interviews with former leading members, over a year of fieldwork and previously unpublished internal strategy communiqués from HT’s global leadership, the report is the most comprehensive study of the group’s activities in the United Kingdom to date. The report concludes with a detailed analysis of the policies the government could adopt to limit the influence of HT in the UK.

Covering the report’s findings, the Sunday Telegraph revealed that the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation, an HT charity that runs two primary schools – one in Haringey, North London and another in Slough, Berkshire – received £113,411 of government funds. Stuart is quoted as saying:

“Young people who get involved with Hizb ut-Tahrir’s fronts are tricked into believing its radical agenda represents true Islam.”

A week later, the Sunday Telegraph revealed that Haringey Council has now suspended government funds to the Foundation. Ahmed is quoted as saying:

“This suspension of funding is very welcome. It is quite wrong for the British state to be funding groups that want to destroy it.”

Michael Gove MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, asked

The report’s findings were covered by the Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Jewish Chronicle, Haringey Independent, National Secular Society, charity newsletters and numerous online blogs. The report has also been covered by leading press in Pakistan, such as the a parliamentary question regarding how much funding the Foundation has received in the last three years from the Government. Daily Jang. Ahmed and Stuart were also quoted in Pakistan’s News on Sunday about HT’s activities:

“Ideologically HT is no different to al-Qaeda. It is a dangerous and divisive organisation that aims to implement a totalitarian dictatorship that will use violence to spread its rule. HT’s strategy is to propagate its ideology amongst all levels of society and to indoctrinate the population with its extremist belief system, which it presents as ‘true’ Islam. The party’s claim is a lie. Its ideology must be challenged and totally rejected.”

Ahmed spoke about the report’s findings on LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari, and about HT’s activities on the US chat show, Secure Freedom Radio.

Other Reports on Hizb ut-Tahrir Organization:

White House Adviser Joins UK Interview with Anti-Democratic Hizb ut-Tahrir Group

Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Event Promoted with Beheaded Statue of Liberty

UK: Press Reports of “Furious Residents” over Extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference

Canada: Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) Group to Meet in Govt-Managed Community Center

UK: Hizb ut-Tahrir Group Claims Thousands Attend London Conference, Plans August 2 Birmingham Conference

Chicago – IPT News: “Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian Propaganda on Display at Caliphate Conference”

Chicago’s Moment of Freedom: Chicagoans Stand Up for Freedom Challenging Hizb ut-Tahrir

Black Flag of Extremist Caliphate — Black Flag of Caliphate

Bangladesh – CDN Report: “Court Impedes Effort to Rescue Kidnapped Girl in Bangladesh”

Compass Direct News reports:

Court Impedes Effort to Rescue Kidnapped Girl in Bangladesh

Muslim men abduct Christian eighth-grader, force her to convert and marry.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, November 3 (CDN) — A bail order in Bangladesh has impeded police from rescuing a young Christian girl who was abducted and forced to convert to Islam and marry one of her kidnappers, according to police.

Four Muslim men abducted eighth-grade student Silvia Merry Sarker on July 30 as she made her way home from school in west Sujankathi village, under Agoiljhara police jurisdiction, in Barisal district in southern Bangladesh, according to her father, Julian Sarker.

Sarker filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Act against Al-Amin Faria, 24, Shamim Faria, 22, Sahadat Faria, 20, and Sattar Faria, 50.

“My daughter was abducted by Faria with the help of his cousins and other relatives,” said Sarker.

Sarker filed a First Information Report (FIR) charging that the men abducted his daughter initially to “indulge Al-Amin Faria’s evil desire.” Later she was forced to convert to Islam and marry Al-Amin Faria, which Sarker said was part of an attempt to take over his land and property.

Local police inspector Ashok Kumar Nandi told Compass that police were continuing efforts to arrest the kidnappers but had yet to find them, as the unusually early bail order had blocked their efforts.

“There are four names as prime suspects in the case,” Nandi said. “We arrested three of them, but the court released them on bail. If the court had given them to us on remand, we might have found the girl, or at least we would get much information to rescue the girl.”

Generally suspects in cases under the Women and Children Repression Act are not granted bail so early for the sake of investigations, Nandi said.

“We do not know why they were released on bail,” he said. “Those released persons are moving freely in the village. We cannot arrest them again without an order.”

Attorney Rabindra Ghosh, president of Bangladesh Minority Watch and an activist for Dutch human rights organization Global Human Rights Defense, told Compass that the granting of bail to the suspects also poses threats to the victim’s family.

“They are threatening the victim’s family to withdraw the case,” said Ghosh. “Release of the abductors on bail so early is a travesty – the abductors got impunity due to the early bail order. For the sake of the girl’s rescue, the court could have sent the arrestees to police on remand to find more information about their hideout.”

Gnosh concurred that an accused person under the Women and Children Repression Act case does not get bail so early without first getting necessary information from them.

False Document
A few days after the kidnapping, Sarker said, the abductors provided Nimchandra Bepari, a Hindu neighbor, an affidavit claiming that Sarker’s daughter was 19 years old. Bepari gave the affidavit to the local police inspector. The kidnappers also contacted sub-district chairman Mortuza Khan.

“My daughter is 13 years old, but the abductors made an affidavit of her age showing 19 years old,” Sarker said.

The headmaster of Agoiljhara Shrimoti Matrimangal Girls High School, where the girl is a student, issued a certificate denoting that Silvia Merry Sarker is even younger than 13 – born on Dec. 24, 1997, which would mean she is not yet 12 years old.

The fabricated affidavit provided by the kidnappers states that she accepted Islam and has married, said Sarker.

“I am shocked how a minor girl is shown as an adult in the affidavit,” Ghosh said. “It is illegal, and there should be proper action against this kind of illegal activity.”

Al-Amin Faria had tried to get the girl’s two older sisters to marry him, but their early marriages saved them from falling prey to him, Sarker said.

“I married off my two elder daughters at an early age immediately after finishing their schooling,” said Sarker.

Before they married, Sarker said he felt helpless to keep Faria and his family from accosting and harassing his other daughters.

“I could not take any legal action against them since we are the only Christian family here,” he said. “I tolerated everything. I did not inform it to police or they would get infuriated.”

When Faria “targeted” his second daughter for marriage, Sarker informed the headmaster of the school and its managing committee, and they warned the Muslim not to disturb the family, Sarker said. Nevertheless, he said, he felt he couldn’t send his older daughters to school because he feared Faria would harm them.

“The relation of us with those Muslim neighbors is ‘predator-and-prey,’” he said. “I saved my other family members from his lechery, but I could not save my youngest daughter.”

Sarker said he felt alone and helpless as a Christian minority but that he doesn’t understand how the entire justice system also can be so helpless.

“Why and how can the court, law enforcement agencies, police, administration, society and the country be helpless against him? Why can’t they rescue my daughter?” he said.

Dilip Gabriel Bepari, an activist for Bangladesh Minority Watch, told Compass that the group had informed national and international officials in seeking help to find the girl.

“We informed it to various ministers, political leaders and police high officials,” Bepari said. “We also informed it to the Vatican ambassador in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, the girl is still missing.”

Archbishop Paulinus Costa of Bangladesh said the Catholic Church’s impassioned plea to the government is to rescue her as soon as possible and bring the kidnappers to justice.

“It is unfortunate that the girl is not rescued yet in three months,” Costa said. “There must be negligence and indifference to the Christians from the government, otherwise the girl would be rescued.”

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) this year removed Bangladesh from its “Watch List” of countries requiring close monitoring of religious freedom violations, but it urged the new Awami League administration to strengthen protections for all Bangladeshis.

USCIRF also indicates that it hopes the government of Bangladesh will investigate and prosecute perpetrators of violent acts against members of minority religious communities.

Pakistan fashion week defies Taliban with non-Islamic dress

(Pakistan) Karachi: Pakistan fashion week defies Taliban with non-Islamic dress

Daily Telegraph reports:

Sonya Battla, the first designer to show, presented a collection that she said celebrated strong women. She dismissed the fact that in more conservative parts of the country, her designs might get women driven out of town or stoned to death.

“I’m a very brave woman,” said the 38-year-old designer. “I’m not going to be scared and no one’s going to judge me.”

Taliban militants have killed more than 300 in the past month in a bloody campaign of bombings and assassinations. Attacks on markets, universities, the army general headquarters in Rawalpindi and police stations in Lahore show the Taliban can reach seemingly ever corner of the country.

But the fashion world was determined to stage its shows.

“Life has to go on,” said Samar Mehdi, 35, another young designer who studied fashion at Bristol University. “And this is a way to tell the people want our lives to stop that ‘No, we won’t let you.'”

The shows were held at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s financial capital under strict security. The event – originally scheduled for October – planned to introduce designers and models from abroad, but the fragile security situation has left organisers counting on local talent.

A model presents a creation by Pakistani designer Aiesha Varsey during the Pakistan Fashion Week in Karachi on November 4, 2009. Pakistan's fashion week began on November 4 with an opulent opening ceremony, against a backdrop of militant violence and secu Photo: AFP

Pakistan: Human rights group hails new law for Pakistani women

Pakistan: Islamic Political Parties Reject Plans to Amend Blasphemy Law

Pakistan Daily Times: Religious parties reject plans to amend blasphemy law

— “LAHORE: Rejecting any changes to the Namoos-e-Risalat Act — or the blasphemy law — religious parties have warned the government that they will not accept any move to repeal or amend the law.”
— “The Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadith Pakistan and the Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Haqooq Ahl-e-Sunnat — which hold more sway in Lahore, Multan and southern Punjab compared to other areas of the province — organised religious conventions on Saturday to ‘condemn’ suggestions by the government to amend the act.”
— “Addressing one of the conventions, Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadith Pakistan chief Hafiz Abdul Guffar Ropari and leaders Hafiz Abdul Wahab Ropari and Maulana Muhammad Abdullah refused to accept any changes to the law. They said the government must not amend the law ‘if it wants to remain in power.’ They said those who believed in Islam would come out onto the streets if a single change was made. The Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Haqooq Ahl-e-Sunnat also organised a conference, and central party leaders — including Haji Abdul Majeed Saifi, Mufti Muhammad Asif Naumani, Mufti Muhammad Afzal Chishti and Mian Ghulam Shabbir Qadri — censured the government the government for sending the Blasphemy Act to a National Assembly standing committee for revision.”

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ICC: Pakistan’s Islamic Political Parties Warn Government Not to Amend Blasphemy Law

ICC reports:

— “Washington, D.C. (November 3, 2009)–International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on October 31, two prominent Islamic political parties warned the government of Pakistan not to amend or repeal the blasphemy law. The law has been a major cause of violence against Christians.”
— “According to The Daily Times, Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadith Pakistan and the Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Haqooq Ahl-e-Sunnat, mainstream political parties with large supporters, threatened to call for protests if the law is altered. The Daily Times quoted Hafiz Abdul Guffar Ropari, the leader of Jamaat Ahl-e-Hadith Pakistan, as saying that the government of Pakistan must not amend the law ‘if it wants to remain in power.’ ”
— “Pakistan’s blasphemy stipulates that defaming the Islamic prophet Mohammed or desecrating the Qur’an is punishable by death and life imprisonment respectively.”
— “Muslims have used the law to repeatedly incite violence against Christians. In August, a Muslim mob killed 11 Christians and burned down over 40 Christian homes following false allegation of desecration of the Qur’an in the Pakistani city of Gojra.”
— “Muslims also have been the victims of the blasphemy law. According to the State Department’s report on International Religious Freedom, in 2008 alone, 17 Muslims and 25 Ahmedis were arrested for allegedly violating the blasphemy law.”
— “ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa and South Asia, Jonathan Racho said ‘It’s unfortunate that political parties stand in the way of repealing the blasphemy law which has been misused against Christians, Muslims, and Ahmedis. We urge the government of Pakistan to end the misuse of blasphemy laws by repealing it once and for all.’ “

Arizona: Woman in Suspected ‘Honor Killing’ Dies — 20 Year Old Noor Almaleki

— Arizona Republic reports: “A 20-year-old Peoria woman has died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an ‘honor killing.'”
— “Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, is accused of running over his daughter, Noor Almaleki, and another woman in his Jeep Cherokee because he was infuriated with his daughter for becoming ‘too Westernized.'”
— “Noor Almaleki died Monday of injuries she received during the Oct. 20 attack.”
— “Peoria police said charges against Almaleki, who is in a Maricopa County jail on two counts of aggravated assault, will be upgraded, though a spokesman wasn’t sure what the exact charges would be.”
— “Social experts say honor killings are an accepted practice in Iraqi tribal society, where family members feel they must kill a woman who shames them by not adhering to traditional Muslim or Iraqi values.”
— “Speaking before a Maricopa County judge over the weekend, state prosecutor Stephanie Low said Almaleki has admitted purposefully running down his daughter.”
— ” ‘By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,’ Low said. ‘This was an attempt at an honor killing.’ ”
— “Almaleki did not address the accusations and spoke only to ask the judge about getting a court-appointed attorney.”
— “Low said additional family members are suspected of assisting Almaleki in his escape.”
— ” ‘We can’t be naive and ignore that there’s a cultural aspect to this and there may be people who would support him, including his family, but also others who share his beliefs,’ she said.”
— “Citing Almaleki’s flight, Low asked the judge to take special precautions to prevent him from running again. Bail was set at $5 million.”

Other Reports (most recent to earliest):

Arizona — Noor Almaleki Case: Arizona Jails Father in ‘Honor Killing’ Try

Arizona: Noor Almaleki Case — Father in “Honor Killing” Attempt Captured in UK — Extradited Back to US

Arizona — Noor Almaleki case: Family Says Noor Almaleki “Failed to Live by Traditional Muslim Values” — Woman in Critical Condition in Alleged “Honor Killing” Attempt

Arizona: Noor Almaleki’s Lifestyle may have put woman in hospital

Arizona: Father runs down daughter in Peoria parking lot — Noor Faleh Almaleki attacked for being “too westernized”

UK – Tulay Goren “Honor Killing” Trial: Sister Testifies Father Threatened to Kill Tulay — Screams at Father “I Have No Fear”

Metro UK reports two stories on Tulay Goren sister’s testimony on her “honor killing” by her father:

Metro UK reports: Metro UK: “‘Honour killing’ Dad threatened to kill daughter”
— “Mehmet Goren threatened to kill daughter Tulay days before she disappeared”
— “The London father of a schoolgirl allegedly murdered for falling in love threatened to kill her the day before she disappeared, a court heard.”
— “Mehmet Goren, of Woodford Green, flew into a ‘rage’ after he caught 15-year-old Tulay trying to escape from the family home, her older sister, Nuray Guler, told the Old Bailey.”
— “She said later that evening she heard Goren on the phone saying: ‘Don’t worry, I won’t allow her to shout.'”
— “Mrs Guler, 28, wiped tears away as she described her younger sister as a ‘child looking for happiness.'”
— “She told the court that her father previously made her own life ‘hell’ and tried to kill himself when he heard she had been holding hands with her fiance.”
— “Tulay Goren, who disappeared in January 1999, is alleged to have been the victim of an ‘honour killing.'”
— “Her father Mehmet is said to have killed her after consulting with his brothers Ali and Cuma. Tulay’s body has never been found.”

Metro UK: “Daughter screamed at ‘honour killing’ Dad in court”
— “The sister of an alleged ‘honour killing’ victim screamed with anguish at her father as she faced him across a courtroom today.”
— “Nuray Guler shouted in Turkish and gesticulated wildly at Mehmet Goren during an outburst as she gave evidence at his murder trial.”
— “Mrs Guler, 28, let out a prolonged and piercing wail before walking out of the court in tears.”
— “Mrs Guler today told the court that her father had threatened to kill Tulay the day before she disappeared.
— “Cross-examining her later, Michael Turner QC, for Mehmet, asked her why she had not said this to police.”
— “Mrs Guler, speaking through a Turkish interpreter, became emotional and turned to face her father as she replied: ‘I did not think that this would be possible.'”
— “‘I still can’t think that it is possible, because a father could not do such a thing. I never believed, not even…'”
— “Mrs Guler stretched her arms out in front of her and shook her fists as she shouted at her father in the dock, without leaving the interpreter time to translate the rest of what she said.”
— “She ended the outburst with a prolonged scream before Mr Justice Bean ordered her to be taken out.”
— “He told the interpreter not to translate what she said.”
— “After a brief adjournment, she again turned to face Mehmet from the witness box and addressed him in Turkish.”
— “But the judge stopped her, saying while he appreciated giving evidence was a “stressful experience” for her, she must not ‘make speeches’ and only ‘answer counsels’ questions.'”
— “During further cross-examination, Mr Turner asked whether her mother Hanim – who has also given evidence against Mehmet in the trial – had told her what to say.”
— “‘Never,’ replied Mrs Guler. ‘My mother wants me to be kept away from everything. She wants me not to get involved in anything but I am not my mother. I am not scared as she is. I have no fear.'”

Malaysia State Committee Head Says Muslim Men Entitled to Four Wives

— New Strait Times – “Marriage plan won’t work”: “Wan Ubaidah Omar, the Women, Family and Health Committee chairman in Kelantan, made her attention-grabbing suggestion at the Kelantan assembly for men to be given awards for increasing their quota. Incidentally, quota is her definition for Muslim men’s religious entitlement to four wives.”
— “Unsurprisingly, all who agreed with her were men.”
— “It is a fact that there is an inordinately high divorce rate among Muslim men when compared with the other races.”
— “The reason for this is the Muslim man’s unilateral right to divorce his wife at will and for any reason. His right, as far as he is concerned, is to have four wives, to demand obedience, to beat his wife, to have sex on demand and to divorce his wife at will.”

Philippines: Kidnappers urged to start talks on kidnapped priest Fr. Sinnott

Philippines: Kidnappers urged to start talks on kidnapped priest Fr. Sinnott
— UCAN News reports: “The crisis committee in charge of the bid to rescue Father Michael Sinnott issued a plea to his kidnappers on Nov. 2 to start negotiations.”
— “Officials of Pagadian diocese remain concerned about the priest’s health despite receiving a video of the man along with a US$2 million ransom demand.
— “‘I am naturally happy to see him alive on video,’ Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar of Pagadian told UCA News. However, the video arrived five days after it was taken on Oct. 24, so ‘we do not know how he is right now.'”
— “‘I’m hoping to see a more recent video of Father Mick,’ the Redemptorist bishop said on Nov. 2 after an All Souls’ Day Mass at the diocesan cemetery.”
— “He added that he would like to see how the 79-year-old priest was holding up without medication for a heart condition.”
— “The bishop said he hopes negotiations on getting medicines to the priest would start soon and “in the long run” address the issue of his freedom.”
— “Crisis Management Committee spokesman June Allan Molde told UCA News that his committee on Nov. 2 appealed to the kidnappers to contact the committee and start negotiations.”

Photo of Fr. Michael Sinnott from Missionary Society of St. Columban

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