It looks as if the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
“Father of man charged with Amess murder defended attacks on Israel,” by Nic North, Jewish Chronicle, October 22, 2021:
The father of the man charged with the murder of Tory MP Sir David Amess posted a series of inflammatory tweets about Israel including one in which he defended Palestinian rocket attacks.
Harbi Ali Kullane, the father of Ali Harbi Ali, also responded to the clashes on Temple Mount in 2009 with a warning that Israel did “not know what it is meddling with”.
The posts, which were uncovered by the influential think tank Policy Exchange, have prompted extremism experts to question whether his son may have been motivated to murder the pro-Israel MP by a “grievance culture” against Israel and the West.
In other controversial messages, Mr Kullane, a former diplomat for the Somali government, in 2015 compared the Islamist terror attacks in Paris to the West’s aerial bombing campaign in Syria and posted a tweet in 2017 criticising “the misery inflicted by British colonialism”.
Mr Kullane was a one-time adviser to the former Prime Minister of Somalia, Hassan Ali Khaire, and a director of the then-government’s media and communication department.
According to Mr Kullane’s friends in North London, where he has a home in Bounds Green, he is a committed anti-extremist who has risked his life to thwart hate groups.
They say he worked on projects against extremism in Mogadishu. One friend, Abdirachid Fidow, who works for not-for-profit organisation Anti-Tribalism Movement, said this week: “(Mr Kullane) worked for a lot of anti-terrorism projects in Mogadishu, fighting against al-Shabaab. He was someone who endangered his own life in public service fighting against extremism.”
Other friends in North London described him as “a liberal”.
But tweets posted by Mr Kullane emerged that cast doubt on those credentials.
On July 19, 2014, he posted a photograph of a hand-written note apparently written by a Palestinian which told how its author’s father had been imprisoned and mother killed by Israel. The note continues: “Bomb my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
Mr Kullane tweets alongside the image: “#Gaza How long can this distorted logic be justified #PalestineUnderAttack”.
In another anti-Israel tweet, written on October 25, 2009, he wrote: “Al-Aqsa: This will be turning point in the map and current state of Middle East. Israel does not know what it is meddling with.”
In another tweet, written in November 19, 2015, following the Paris terror attack, he said: “The terrorist bombs in the Western streets are indiscriminate but the aerial bombs in Syria are – #Muslimlivesmatter #ParisAttacks #Somalia”….
Dawne says
His “home in Bounds Green, North London” is of course a council house – paid for by the taxpayer – and in an extremely expensive area of London.
The man is also a total liar. He said that his son’s murder of David Amess was totally out of the blue, and yet the son had previously attended the “Prevent” anti-terror programme. So the father is saying he didn’t know that his son was engaging in terrorist talk? So total and absolute lies. But what else would we expect?
The UK really just needs to deport all Muslims and ban the religion entirely.
maria says
The father and the son and the whole clan should be deported thoug it would still be better if the son would be executed
gravenimage says
Good point, Dawne. The son had already been identified as a Jihadist.
Jim says
The man suffers from cognitive dissonance, that is for sure. Such people have to convince themselves that it was not all in vain and his son died for a good cause. That is how many people console themselves for a loss like this, even Americans. The problem is, of course, a good person would perhaps admit that jihad ism is wrong. A good person would try to do something to stop future families from losing members to senseless attacks on other people. This is built into Christian ethics, but Islam is just the opposite. It has a different ethical principle, which tends to encourage lack of compassion for the other side. So, it would seem better not to make one’s country into a Muslim country. Better to move to such countries if one wants to be Muslim.
mortimer says
Cognitive dissonance? Or taqiyya … rather he is not telling us what he truly believes.
Here are too men (Harbi Ali Kullane and Ali Harbi Ali) who both bear the name ‘HARBI’ (Arabic: ‘warriror’).
How likely is it that jihadism runs in the blood of this family?
gravenimage says
Jim, I agree with Mortimer here. This is almost certainly Taqiyya aimed at the credulous Infidels.
Michael Copeland says
“senseless attacks on other people….”
Not quite senseless: in compliance with the instruction “Kill them wherever you find them”.
James Lincoln says
Michael,
Correct.
But certainly “senseless” from the point of view of infidels…
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Michael.
Dhimmi says
This means moderate muslim in fact. Most moderate muslims hold these views. Only who has no a real experience could claim the moderate muslims are different. They have a different world view than the English, this is clear. Only the utopians think in a different way . Moderate muslims do not support Israel and of course I do not claim they have any duty to support that state. I have known moderate muslims, some were even heavy drinkers at some tables
mortimer says
Reply to dhimmi: Watch out for the Muslims who are heavy drinkers. They are just as likely to be secret jihadists struggling to get out. You can usually smoke them out by asking their views on Israel. The jihadic rage usually comes out at this point … ah, those enemies of Allah and the Muslims. Few Muslims have learned that the Koran commands Jews to live in Israel.
Moderation? 65% of Muslims want sharia law to be imposed somehow magically without jihad. They are unrealistic, and they generally prefer to be non- violent, but they will not rat out the kinetic jihadists if they discover them. They look the other way if they know something and then they pretend to denounce the violence after it happens or they say nothing about it.
Deep down, all Muslims ‘know’ that the kafirs are getting what they deserve, because Allah hates them … and so, they mostly don’t feel sorry for kafirs.
gravenimage says
+1
Roland says
Jihad has existed long before the Zionist state. . Without Israel, the Jihadist crowd finds other pretexts and enemies. It’s just that the British Left approves the targeting of Israeli assets in the United. Kingdom.
gravenimage says
UK: Father of Muslim who murdered MP defended jihad attacks against Israel
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No surprise there. And Harbi Ali Kullane is not some sort of crank, but an advisor to a former Prime Minister of Somalia. Mainstream Islam.
This thug has said he is “traumatized” by his son’s arrest–not, apparently, by his son stabbing a good man to death…
https://apnews.com/article/uk-stabbing-mp-david-amess-suspect-father-e2551554fcd86feb17b7e7552d300438
PRCS says
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