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A review of some of the main stories involving the rise of Islam in June 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n

A Month of Islam in Britain: June 2014<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 15, 2014<\/p>\n

Islam and Islam-related issues were omnipresent in Britain during the month of June 2014. They can be categorized into three broad themes: 1) The British government\u2019s growing concern over Islamic extremism and the domestic security implications of British jihadists in Syria; 2) The continuing spread of Islamic Sharia law in all aspects of British daily life; and 3) Ongoing questions of Muslim integration into British society.<\/p>\n

1. Islamic Extremism and Syria-Related Threats<\/strong><\/p>\n

British Prime Minister David Cameron warned<\/a> on June 17 that British citizens and other Europeans fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Iraq and Syria posed the biggest threat to Britain\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s top counter-terrorism officer, Cressida Dick, on June 22 told<\/a> the BBC that roughly 500 Britons have now gone to fight in Syria. Speaking to BBC Radio 4\u2019s The World This Weekend<\/a>, Dick warned that British jihadists represent a \u201clong-term\u201d terrorist threat that British police will be dealing with for \u201cmany years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, Richard Barrett, on June 22 told Sky News\u2019s Murnaghan<\/a> program that as many as 300 radicalized young men had already returned to the UK. He said it was an \u201cabsolute nightmare\u201d for security agencies because they do not have the resources to track all of them.<\/p>\n

On June 17, the Daily Mail reported<\/a> that more British citizens signed up to fight in Iraq and Syria than joined the Army Reserve during the past 12 months. Only 170 extra reservists enlisted over the past year, despite a government target to boost the stand-by force by 11,000 by 2018.<\/p>\n

On June 22, the Financial Times<\/em> reported<\/a>: \u201cThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office has halved its counter-terrorism budget even as officials warn of the most severe threat to the UK from overseas terror groups since the London bombings in 2005.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on June 22, the Sunday Times<\/em> reported<\/a> that British jihadists are faking their deaths on the battlefield in Syria in an attempt to return to the UK undetected. In one instance, the martyrdom of a fighter in Syria was announced by his colleagues on social media, only for police to arrest the \u201cdead\u201d individual at the port town of Dover.<\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> also reported that a British jihadist using the nom de guerre Abu Rashash Britani recently posted a message on Twitter that said: \u201cWhen we establish khilafah [an Islamic state], a battalion of mujahideen shud head to UK & capture David Cameron & Theresa May n behead them both :)\u201d<\/p>\n

Another jihadist from Birmingham named Junaid Hussain tweeted that the \u201cblack flag of jihad\u201d will soon fly over Downing Street. He also tweeted: \u201cImagine if someone were to detonate a bomb at voting stations or ambushed the vans that carry the casted votes. It would mess the whole system up.\u201d Hussain re-tweeted a warning from a like-minded countryman for British people to \u201cwatch out,\u201d because \u201cwe\u2019ll come back to the UK and wreak havoc.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 19-year-old jihadist from Portsmouth named Muhammad Hassan promised a \u201ckilling spree\u201d of British citizens if he were ever to return to Britain.<\/p>\n

In a June 22 interview<\/a> with the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1, former British Defense Secretary Liam Fox said that given the increased threat to national security, the British state should be given more power to intercept the communications of Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Theresa May, speaking at the annual Lord Mayor\u2019s Defense and Security Lecture in London on June 24, called<\/a> for a change to British law that would hand the security services more powers to scrutinize online communications, a bid that has previously been blocked by the Liberal Democrats due to privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

May also defended the government\u2019s use of surveillance powers. She said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no program of mass surveillance and there is no surveillance state. The real problem is not that we have built an over-mighty state but that the state is finding it harder to fulfil its most basic duty, which is to protect the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May\u2019s denial of the existence of a British \u201csurveillance state\u201d was contradicted by a senior official from her very own office.<\/p>\n

A London-based group called Privacy International<\/a> on June 17 published a 50-page document<\/a> in which Charles Farr, the Director General of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (a directorate within the Home Office which leads work on counter-terrorism in the UK), revealed a secret government policy justifying mass surveillance of UK residents.<\/p>\n

In the document, Farr detailed how the Government Communications Headquarters<\/a> [GCHQ], a British intelligence agency that works closely with the US National Security Agency, justifies the indiscriminate intercepting all online searches and electronic communications over Internet services such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Farr\u2019s statement marked the first time the government has openly commented on how it exploits the UK\u2019s existing legal framework for surveillance to intercept communications.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the government said it was stepping up efforts to work with the Internet industry to remove Islamic extremist propaganda that is hosted in the UK or abroad. During a briefing<\/a> on June 24, a government spokesperson said: \u201cSince December [2013] we have removed over 15,000 pieces of terrorist-related content from the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move came after three British jihadists appeared in a recruitment video urging their fellow countrymen to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The 13-minute English-language video entitled \u201cThere Is No Life Without Jihad<\/a>\u201d features one jihadist from Scotland and two others from Wales describing the life and mission of a jihadist.<\/p>\n

The imam of the South Wales Islamic Center, Sheikh Zane Abdo, said he feared that the video would encourage other British Muslims to travel to Syria to fight. The imam said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI guarantee that many young people who are very susceptible to this type of message will have watched that video and maybe have been encouraged to now go and follow in the footsteps of Nasser and his brother, which is a real problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scottish authorities reacted<\/a> to the news that the jihadist from Scotland\u2014a former prayer caller at a mosque in Aberdeen\u2014had appeared in the recruitment video by announcing they would take a \u201czero tolerance\u201d approach to any attempts to demonize Scottish Muslims.<\/p>\n

On June 24, the Daily Mail<\/em> published<\/a> a map showing how Cardiff, the capital of Wales, has become a hotbed for Islamic extremism. The article says Islamic hardliners are leafleting Muslim communities in the city with propaganda encouraging young men to become jihadists in Syria, Iraq and the UK.<\/p>\n

Some of these meetings were allegedly organized by groups linked to Anjem Choudary, a Muslim hate preacher who wants to turn the United Kingdom into an Islamic state.<\/p>\n

The Home Office said<\/a> on June 26 that it was banning three groups linked to Choudary. The groups Need4Khilafah, the Shariah Project and the Islamic Dawah Association are all aliases of al-Muhajiroun<\/a>, a Salafi-Wahhabi extremist group that was banned in 2006 but has continued to operate ever since then by using different names.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> published by the Times of London<\/em> on June 27,Choudary\u2019s network \u201chas now been proscribed as a terrorist organization operating under 11 different names, but neither he nor any one of his associates has so far been prosecuted for membership of an illegal group.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. Sharia Law in Britain<\/strong><\/p>\n

On June 25, Britain became the first Western nation to issue Islamic bonds, completing a plan that was more than seven years in the making. Investors placed \u00a32.3 billion ($3.9 billion) of orders, more than 11 times the amount of bonds on offer.<\/p>\n

Islamic bonds, known as sukuk<\/em><\/a>, are structured to comply with Sharia law, which forbids interest payments. In practice, this means the bonds are backed by assets or cash flows that allow Muslim investors who are prohibited by Sharia law from buying traditional debt to share in profits or receive rental income.<\/p>\n

This sukuk<\/em> is using an ijara<\/em><\/a> structure, a Sharia-compliant sale and lease-back contract, allowing the rental income of three central government offices to underpin the transaction. In an ijara sukuk<\/em>, a party leases equipment, buildings or other facilities to a client for an agreed rental price.<\/p>\n

The sukuk<\/em> is the centerpiece of Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s bid<\/a> to turn London into a \u201cworld capital for Islamic finance.\u201d<\/p>\n

But critics say that Cameron\u2019s ambition to attract investments from Muslim investors is spurring the gradual establishment of a parallel global financial system based on Sharia law.<\/p>\n

On June 24, the Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, said<\/a> that a Sharia-compliant alternative to the conventional student loan could become available in the UK beginning in 2016.<\/p>\n

Willetts said a cooperative system called takaful<\/em><\/a> was being examined as a way of enabling Muslim students to fund their studies according to Sharia law, which prohibits Muslims entering into interest-bearing loans.<\/p>\n

Rather than borrowing money and paying it back with interest to a third party, which is prohibited by Sharia law, students would sign a contract promising to pay the takaful<\/em>, perceived as a charitable donation. Willetts said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a tragedy if any student, particularly a Muslim student because of concerns about so-called interest rates, were put off from going to university. This does not mean we are introducing Sharia law in the UK.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On June 10, Willis Group Holdings PLC, a multinational insurance brokerage company based in London, launched<\/a> the UK\u2019s first Sharia-compliant commercial real estate insurance. The policy will retain price neutrality, meaning the premiums are equivalent to a like-for-like non-Sharia policy.<\/p>\n

The Managing Director of the Willis Real Estate Practice, John Dilley, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cHand in hand with the growth in Islamic finance is the demand for Sharia-compliant insurance cover, in particular for real estate investors. Access to underwriting capacity, which is compliant with Islamic law for major risks, has not previously been available in the UK. Willis has responded to the needs of real estate investors by developing the UK\u2019s first Sharia-compliant real estate insurance solution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On June 6, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD), in response to a Freedom of Information<\/a> request, admitted that soldiers are unknowingly being fed halal (Arabic for lawful according to Sharia law) meat on military bases.<\/p>\n

Also in June, an investigation found<\/a> that all of the chicken and lamb meat being served at the University of Warwick is halal. A first-year economics student, Saveena Mangat, said she concerned about the provision of halal meat with regards to her Sikh religion:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should have an option, why make all the meat Halal? In my religion [Sikhism] we\u2019re not actually allowed to eat halal meat. By providing halal meat, you are excluding a whole religion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Christian first-year student commented:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disgusting that only Islamic meat is provided and no others. How is it acceptable for me to eat blessed meat of another religion that is different to my own? To effectively impose a monopoly on my choice leads me to question whether their religion (Islam) is prioritized over my own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On June 4, Gardner Asset Management and Shariyah Review Bureau<\/a> [SRB], a Sharia advisory firm, announced<\/a> the creation of an Enterprise Investment Scheme<\/a> [EIS] that will allow Muslims to investment in a renewable energy project in a manner that complies with Sharia law.<\/p>\n

The scheme will use an Islamic finance structure known as a wakala<\/em><\/a>, whereby an agent is appointed by investors to manage and run the investment on their behalf, without using conventional interest-bearing debts within the company.<\/p>\n

The CEO of London-based advisory firm Simply Sharia<\/a>, Faizal Karbani, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be the first certified Sharia-compliant green energy EIS offered to UK investors and we think the structure of the investment fits well with the values and principles of Sharia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the Islamic Bank of Britain<\/a> [IBB], the UK\u2019s only wholly Sharia-compliant retail bank, on June 23 named<\/a> a new CEO. IBB\u2019s longest-serving employee, Sultan Choudhury, is being tasked with \u201cdelivering a strategy designed for growth and profitability.\u201d IBB has never made a profit since its founding in 2004.<\/p>\n

3. Muslim Integration<\/strong><\/p>\n

British regulators placed<\/a> five Muslim-dominated state schools in Birmingham under \u201cspecial measures\u201d after inspectors found that pupils there were being systematically exposed to radical Islamic propaganda.<\/p>\n

Ofsted, the agency that regulates British schools, carried out emergency inspections of 21 primary and secondary state schools in Birmingham after a document surfaced in March 2014 that purported to outline a plot\u2014dubbed Operation Trojan Horse<\/a>\u2014by Muslim fundamentalists to Islamize state schools in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

The inspection reports<\/a>, which Ofsted made public on June 9, show that Muslim hardliners are indeed seeking to run at least five state schools in Birmingham according to a \u201cconservative Islamic perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sky News reported<\/a> on June 3 that senior leaders at three schools in Birmingham alerted the government more than two decades ago about the rising influence of Muslim extremists in the school system, but that their concerns were dismissed because of political correctness.<\/p>\n

Separately, the BBC reported<\/a> on June 2 that Birmingham officials were warned that hardline Muslims were trying to extend their influence in Birmingham schools as early as 2008. Again, no action was taken.<\/p>\n

In other inspections in Luton, a town just north of London, Ofsted discovered<\/a> that some of the library books at Olive Tree Primary School contained books suggesting that stoning and lashing are appropriate punishments according to Sharia law.<\/p>\n

Books available to children included \u201cThe Ideal Muslim\u201d by Muhammad Ali Al-Hashimi, which advocates parents hitting children if they do not pray by the age of 10, Ofsted said. Another book, \u201cCommanders of The Muslim Army\u201d by Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar, was said to praise individuals who \u201cloved death more than life in their pursuit of righteous and true religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ofsted said such views have \u201cno place in British society.\u201d School officials responded: \u201cWe are the victims of the extreme politics of [Education Secretary] Michael Gove whose ignorance of Islam is matched by his hostility. Many Muslims will feel alienated and victims of state Islamophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n

On June 16, a new law<\/a> entered into effect that makes forced marriage a criminal offense in England and Wales and is punishable by up to seven years in prison. The law also makes it a crime to breach a so-called Forced Marriage Protection Order (issued by courts to prevent people from being married against their will). This crime now carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

In addition, the law makes it a crime to take British nationals overseas with the intention of forcing them to wed, even if the forced marriage does not ultimately take place. It is estimated that every year, hundreds of British girls are being taken out of school and flown abroad to be married, sometimes to men who may be two or three times their age.<\/p>\n

Research commissioned by the UK Department of Education estimates that between 5,000 and 8,000<\/a> young women in Britain are the victims of forced marriages each year. But some charities say the actual number is far higher:many victims are afraid to come forward.<\/p>\n

The BBC reported<\/a> on June 12 that some Muslim families have begun hiring bounty hunters to track down the victims of forced marriage who try to run away. In one instance, parents in Scotland paid a gang to trace a 17-year-old woman who ran away from home after she was told she had to marry in Pakistan. The bounty hunters eventually found her and fearing for her life, she went through with the wedding in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a radical Islamic group edged closer to building in London one of the world\u2019s largest mosques after a star Muslim opponent of the controversial mega-mosque was intimidated<\/a> into silence.<\/p>\n

Tablighi Jamaat\u2014a fundamentalist Islamic sect opposed to Western values such as democracy and equal rights for women, but committed to \u201cperpetual Jihad\u201d to spread Islam around the world\u2014is fighting a no-holds-barred battle to build a massive mosque complex in West Ham, a neighborhood in the East London Borough of Newham.<\/p>\n

A public hearing was convened on June 3 to determine whether the mosque will be built. On the first day of the inquiry, however, Tehmina Kazi, the only Muslim brave enough to give evidence against the mosque, abruptly withdrew from giving testimony after being \u201cpersuaded\u201d by Muslim hardliners to remove her objections.<\/p>\n

By successfully silencing Kazi, Tablighi Jamaat removed a highly effective obstacle to making the mega-mosque a reality. All eyes will now be on Eric Pickles, a cabinet minister, who will take the final decision on whether the mosque project goes ahead.<\/p>\n

In Scotland, the Glasgow City Council has authorized<\/a> the Glasgow Central Mosque to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer\u2014known as the adhan<\/em><\/a>\u2014during the Commonwealth Games<\/a>, to be held in the city from July 23 to August 3.<\/p>\n

The adhan<\/em> will be broadcast once a day from July 10 to August 4 at approximately 10 pm. There will be some overlap with Ramadan, which began on June 28 and runs through July 27.<\/p>\n

The general secretary of the mosque, Nabeel Sheikh, said he wants to cater to Muslims visiting the city for the Games. He also said the broadcast of the adhan<\/em> would help to highlight the \u201copen outlook\u201d of Glaswegians. Sheik added:<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of our non-Muslim friends who have visited Dubai, Tunisia or Turkey and have heard the adhan have told me the positive impact it has had on them. The world\u2019s media will also be in Glasgow and they can leave with a positive impression of the city and emphasizing the tolerance and open outlook of Glaswegians.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A new television channel aimed<\/a> exclusively at British Muslims, British Muslim TV<\/a> (BMTV), was launched in June. The channel, operating under the slogan \u201cConfidently Muslim, Comfortably British,\u201d is airing on the British Sky digital platform and the program content is being exclusively funded and made in the UK.<\/p>\n

BMTV will compete with Islam Channel<\/a>, one of the UK\u2019s most prominent and popular English language Muslim satellite channels, as well as other channels such as Noor TV<\/a>, Peace TV<\/a> and Iqra TV<\/a>, all of which have a South Asian focus and are usually broadcast in Urdu or Bangladeshi, in addition to Shia Muslim focused channels such as Hidayat TV<\/a> and Ahlebait TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Al Arabiya<\/em> news, the marketing director for BMTV, Wasim Akhtar, said<\/a> that BMTV aims to be different from the other Muslim channels by being \u201cinclusive of all different views and open to all different types of Muslims. So the channel isn\u2019t just about issues of faith, it\u2019s about practical Muslim life here in Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a bid to reverse negative stereotypes of Muslims in the UK, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in Devon and Cornwall in southwestern England launched<\/a> an advertising campaign in June to promote \u201cpositive awareness of Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

The campaign involved banners displaying Muslim messages of peace on a fleet of more than 100 city buses. Under the slogan of \u201cloyalty, freedom, equality, respect, peace\u201d the community also launched a website: LoveForAllHatredForNone.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A regional president of the group, Muhammad Noman, said<\/a>: \u201cA true Muslim can never raise his voice in hatred against his fellow citizens, nor against the ruling authority or government of the time. He should remain loyal and fully abide by the laws of the land of which he is a subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police in London launched<\/a> an investigation into the origins of a sign telling dog owners to stay out of a park because it is \u201can Islamic area now\u201d and \u201cMuslims don\u2019t like dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Edinburgh, a Muslim immigrant from Iran was found guilty<\/a> on June 3 of murdering his wife because she refused to submit to his authority. Ahmad Yazdanparast, 61, was found guilty of the October 2013 murder of Ahdieh Yazdanparast, 46, the mother of his three children.<\/p>\n

During Yazdanparast\u2019s trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, the court heard how he doused his wife with gasoline and set her on fire. Yazdanparast\u2019s defense attorney told jurors: \u201cHe wasn\u2019t being listened to, he wasn\u2019t being obeyed. He lost control of his wife and he murdered her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yazdanparast, who identified himself in court as a \u201cBritish Muslim,\u201d said that in Iran the man was superior to the woman and had authority over her, but in Britain his wife had become too Westernized and was acting as if she were superior to him.<\/p>\n

At the Woolwich Crown Court in Greenwich, a 20-year-old Muslim man, Farooq Shah, was found guilty<\/a> on June 26 of stabbing to death a pregnant Romanian prostitute, allegedly because she was plying her trade near a mosque in Ilford, a town in Essex. He was sentenced to life in prison and will serve a minimum of 29 years.<\/p>\n

Also at the Woolwich Crown Court, Zafar Iqbal, 67, was sentenced<\/a> on June 9 to seven and-a-half years in prison on charges of sexual abuse of three girls under the age of 14. Iqbal was the chief executive of the Southwark Muslim Women\u2019s Association, a charity operating in South London that aims to improve the quality of life for Muslim women, children and the elderly.<\/p>\n

At the Snaresbrook Crown Court in north London, the trial began<\/a> on June 24 for five Muslim gang members accused of beating a 23-year-old American student, Francesco Hounye, over the head with a bottle. Prosecutors say the Muslims were angry that Hounye, who had been on a night out and was walking home with a friend in Shadwell, east London, was drinking alcohol on the street.<\/p>\n

At the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales [Old Bailey] in London, a 32-year-old Islamic radical from Luton, Abu Rahin Aziz, was found guilty<\/a> on June 19 of punching, kicking and striking a football fan named Andrew White and leaving him covered in blood.<\/p>\n

The court heard how a group of nine Muslims were handing out Islamic literature and shouting \u201cF*ck the Queen\u201d as White lay bleeding on the ground. Aziz, an associate of firebrand cleric Anjem Choudary, fled the UK before his trial and is thought to have joined jihadists in Syria.<\/p>\n

In a separate but related trial at the Old Bailey, nine members of the so-called Muslim Patrol<\/a> were found guilty<\/a> of promoting sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims at a protest march led by Choudary in central London. The brawls, which took place in May 2013, are believed to be the first Iraqi-style Muslim infighting on British streets.<\/p>\n

In yet another trial at the Old Bailey, a jury heard<\/a> how police found 38-year-old Tahira Ahmed after she was decapitated in her west London home, allegedly by her husband, 41-year-old Naveed Ahmed. Tahira had been stabbed and had both her arms broken, and her head cut off. The couple, who have two children between six and 12, had been married for 14 years.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> published by the Daily Telegraph <\/em>on June 17, <\/em>the former head of the anti-immigrant English Defense League, Tommy Robinson, described the omnipresence of Islam at Woodhill Prison, a maximum security prison where he was serving an 18-month sentence for mortgage fraud.<\/p>\n

Robinson, who was released in early June, says many prisoners are converting to Islam in order to become part of a Muslim gang, which gives them some degree of protection. He also says radical preachers are enforcing Sharia law in the prison wings. According to Robinson, \u201cThe guards don\u2019t run the prison, Islam does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, a Christian health worker launched<\/a> a legal challenge after being disciplined by the National Health Service [NHS] for \u201cbullying\u201d a Muslim colleague by praying for her.<\/p>\n

The saga began when the Muslim woman asked her colleague, a 37-year-old occupational therapist named Victoria Wasteney, about the anti-human trafficking community work being carried out by her church, located in East London, home to a large Muslim community.<\/p>\n

Wasteney later invited the Muslim woman to a community sports day organized by her church. She also prayed for the Muslim woman, who was in tears over the many problems in her personal life.<\/p>\n

Wasteney was issued a written warning and forced to accept a range of requirements designed to stop her from discussing her faith and beliefs with colleagues. She was also suspended on full pay for nine months.<\/p>\n

Wasteney said she was challenging her employers in court because political correctness in the NHS was stifling ordinary conversations about faith. \u201cI believe in tolerance for everyone and that is why I am challenging what has happened to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Soeren Kern<\/em><\/a> is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based <\/em>Gatestone Institute<\/em><\/a>. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a> and on <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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