The British government’s support for the Islamic Human Rights Commission provides a handy new illustration of what it means to be a “useful idiot.”
“Chairman of a British-based Islamic Human Rights Commission — that has has received more than £1.4 million in charity cash — praised the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie less than a year ago,” by Max Aitchison, Mail On Sunday, August 20, 2022:
The chairman of a British-based human rights organisation which has received over £1.4 million in charity cash praised the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie less than a year ago, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Massoud Shadjareh, founder and chairman of the controversial Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), spoke fondly of the death sentence imposed on the writer in 1989 following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.
The IHRC, which has been described by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as representing ‘all that’s best in Islam’, is closely aligned with Iran and its leaders have previously declared the West as ‘the enemy’.
It has shown support for terrorists detained in the UK and the US, including hate preacher Abu Hamza.
Addressing an Islamophobia conference last December, Mr Shadjareh said: ‘I am old enough to remember what was happening at the time of the Rushdie affair.
‘We weren’t organised as a Muslim community. We didn’t even have any huge national umbrella organisations.
‘But ordinary Muslims from all different backgrounds, even those who were not fully practicing, they came with the understanding that this was wrong and they supported the fatwa against this.’
Mr Shadjareh, 70, has previously described Iran’s infamous supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeni, who issued the fatwa, as a ‘torch of light for the whole of mankind’.
The IHRC is primarily funded by its charitable arm, the Islamic Human Rights Commission Trust, which shares the same address in Wembley, North London.
The charity has funnelled more than £1.4 million in donations to the IHRC and has benefited from over £300,000 in taxpayer-funded gift aid donations over the last six years.
The IHRC Trust charity also received over £20,000 in Government grants during the pandemic.
The Charity Commission conducted a two-year investigation into the relationship between the IHRC and its trust, but did not order any changes….
john smith says
Whats going on here in the UK is deplorable. Such organizations should be defunded not funded by the British tax payer and the government.
And for once in his life the treacherous Jeremy Corbyn did get one thing right when he said, “as representing all the best in islam” because islam certainly isn’t representing the none muslims of Britain. It represents those that intend to kill us.
We certainly are living in an age of absurdity, as Wellington puts it.
Gregory D. says
There are no such things as Islamic human rights.
This vile doctrine was established by a bloodthirsty, illiterate, schizophrenic, cave-dwelling animal which dressed in makeshift fig-leaf diapers when not exposing itself to passing children.
I’m through with saying good things about him.
gravenimage says
UK: Islamic charity with leader that supports jihadis and Rushdie fatwa gets $1,650,000 in government funds
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What kind of “charity” do you suppose this organization funds?
Note that with Zakat–often mistranslated as “charity” in English–that funding *Jihad terror* is just as valid as schools or hospitals.
And now the British taxpayer is funding this–suicidal madness.
Infidel says
Zakat is the muslim tax on muslims. Jiziya is the muslim tax on non-muslims
Andrew Blackadder says
How much did the UK Government hand over to Jewish Charities, Buddhist Charities, Sikh Charities, Catholic Charities, Protestant Charities, Hindu Charities.or any other off shoot religious Charity?.
What will this 1.4 Million Quid be used for I wonder?.
I guess that may be an islamowhatsit kind of question…
Inquiring minds want to know.
Meanwhile muslims in the UK and around the World laugh and laugh at the infidel bowing to and kissing their areses.
Jamie James says
Governments around the world, even the UK, are funding the very terrorism they are trying to protect us from. Can we please have a Government with some commonsense? Probably not in my lifetime.
Michael Copeland says
It is not quite the case that the £1.6m is “government” funds.
The ” Islamic Human Rights Commission” receives funds from the IHRC Trust.
Who funds the IHRC Trust is not disclosed.
As a registered Charity the IHRC Trust can claim donors’ income tax on “Gift-Aided” donations.
Under Gift-Aid if a donor is a taxpayer the Government foregoes the Income Tax paid on the sum given: this goes to the Charity.
The IHRC has, over the last six years, benefitted by some £300,000 of Gift-Aid, some £50,000 per year.