Storm Track Infiltration: Sedition Laws – Where Art Thou

Does a house have to fall on the Brits? When will they act against the Islamic insurgency in their country? There is an avowed and self-identifying enemy to their country in their midst and they refuse to apply sedition laws to the perpetrators?

The leading preacher of a hard-line Islamic sect which controls almost half of British mosques delivers a message filled with anger at non-Muslims.

His target is the kuffar, the nonMuslim, whether Jewish, Christian, Hindu or atheist, and the message is simple: their designs are evil, their ways corrupting. Stay away from them.

Mr ul Haq, 36, who is charismatic, intelligent and British, seems to share Osama bin Laden’s stated conviction that America and its allies are seeking to destroy Islam. Both men regard this as the fulfilment of a prophecy made by the Prophet Muhammad, and both find justification in the Koran for the use of militant jihad to attack and kill those nonbelievers who have incurred Allah’s displeasure.

Each preaches the glories of martyrdom, yet while bin Laden hides somewhere near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Mr ul Haq lives in Leicester and is fêted internationally as a leading scholar of Islam. His views would be cause enough for concern were he merely a maverick cleric with a small group of followers whose austere, rejectionist agenda was isolated from mainstream Islamic thought.

When Mr ul Haq speaks of his contempt for British ways and Western values, however, it carries the authority of the ultra-conservative Islamic movement whose views are preached in hundreds of mosques and madrassas in Britain. The Deobandis run more than 600 of the 1,300 mosques in Britain and their seminaries – known as darul uloom – produce the vast majority of British-trained Islamic clerics.

Walk into a British mosque, particularly outside London, and the chances are that it is the voice of Deoband that you will hear.

Isn’t that wonderful. Sedition being preached at the core mosque and British authorities do nothing.

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.