UK: Former ‘race and equality officer’ wears Hamas-style headband at pro-jihad rallies

Hussain is playing games. He insists that the headband simply states the Islamic profession of faith, and that’s true. But so does the ISIS flag, yet the distinctive style of that flag is instantly recognizable as an expression of support for the Islamic State. And so it is with this headband. Hamas jihadis wore headbands in this style as they massacred 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023. Hussain wears it at rallies for Hamas’ cause. His claims of ignorance of the Hamas connection, and indifference to it, ring hollow.

“Meet the ex-charity boss leading a ‘Muslim Army,’” by Jane Prinsley, The JC, September 12, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A man who claimed to be a former GMB union race and equality officer and who has chaired a children’s charity wore a Hamas-style Islamist headband at Gaza rallies and celebrated a “Muslim army” of protesters.

But he claims it has nothing to do with Hamas.

A key organiser of Gaza rallies in Bradford, Chaq Ashiq Hussain has worn Hamas-style garb at numerous demonstrations, and led chants of “Israel is a terror state”.

Hussain’s bandana – which he claims to have worn for decades – bears the same Islamist declaration to Allah and Muhammad as those worn by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

In one of Hussain’s posts on social media featuring an image of him wearing the infamous white and green slogan, he wrote about a “Muslim army” taking to the streets of Britain.

“We came out in our thousands,” he commented.

Hussain told the JC that he had worn the green headband at religious and political events for the past 20 years and claimed it had nothing to do with Hamas. The message on the headband translates as “There is no god except for Allah and Muhammad is the messenger”, and is the same phrase used on flags and sashes paraded by the terror group.

Interviewed by telephone, Hussain insisted that the headband was unrelated to Hamas and said the message is a fundamental tenet of Islam.

“Every Muslim believes in this message. Otherwise, you cannot call yourself a Muslim,” he explained.

When asked if he had intentionally worn a headband like those worn by the terrorists who murdered Israelis on October 7, Hussain said: “I have not seen Hamas’s uniform. I don’t know what the uniform attire is.”…