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I am sure most readers will be familiar with the views of Haitham al Haddad. He has been banned from more than one university, and has also been the target of a Hope not Hate campaign.  Now it seems that he has been invited to speak at City University’s Islamic Society’s annual dinner. I’ll remind [...]

Question: Where do you think you’d find Rabbi Natan Levy – apparently “an adviser to the Board of Deputies of British Jews” – signing a protest letter along with the jihadist hate preacher, Haitham Al Haddad?
Answer: Here:

Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders have signed a letter to the Prime Minister, pleading with him to [...]

This has been an extraordinary week.
First of all, following the “Homosexuals would be executed” rant from the Manchester University Hizb ut Tahrir front, the “Global Aspirations of Women Society”, the society has been suspended and disbanded:
“Following the incident at a meeting of the Global Aspirations of Women Society last week, the society was suspended from [...]

This is a guest post by Ahmed Rushdi.
As the new university term is just around the corner, Britain’s Islamist-dominated student umbrella group FOSIS is keen to stir the anti-western pot.
On the 23rd September 2012, the ‘Justice for Aafia coalition’ is holding a protest at the US Embassy to demand she be freed. Readers should note [...]

This is a guest post from Hasan Afzal of Stand for Peace
On the 8th of July 2012, the Grand Connaught Rooms in London will host a conference featuring several hate preachers. Their repertoire includes justifying suicide bombings, glorifying jihad, promoting venomous homophobia, spreading crude antisemitism, and encouraging reprehensible bigotry against Shia Muslims.

Stand for [...]

Recently an HP commenter linked here – pointing out that it seemed to show Haitham Al Haddad recommending, in a slippery, ‘plausible deniability’ way, underage marriage/sex.  The original has now been removed, but it showed Haddad at a meeting answering questions. He was asked whether there was a particular teaching in Islam about the right [...]

The hate preacher Haitham Al Haddad and his politics will be well known to readers of Harry’s Place.
However, this poster – advertising a talk to students at Roehampton University ISOC – really sums the man up.

There is no mistaking this message.
Yet Haddad is significantly unchallenged in this country. He is allowed to address students, without [...]

While more and more senior Labour backers express their horror at the prospect of Ken Livingstone’s victory in the forthcoming mayoral elections – Lord Winston is the latest – extremists and hatemongers have come out in force for the man.
Here’s Jeremy “Inquiry into Jewish Influence” Corbyn in the Morning Star – the Stalinist rag – [...]

It is rather difficult to work out exactly who is speaking when and where at the FOSIS Qur’an Camp, currently taking place in Cambridge.  However, according to the schedule produced by the Cambridge Mosque (see the screenshot at the bottom of this post), it would seem that Haitham al-Haddad is giving a whole series of [...]

Readers of Harry’s Place will be familiar with the strange phenomenon of the hospitality extended by The Quakers – a small religious sect which eschews violence in all its forms – to a variety of hate preachers and theocratic Islamist political movements, all of which explicitly sanction the most horrific violence, backed by religious injunction, [...]